Column A
The food was bad and the service was ___________.
A. consequent
B. polish
C. dreadful
D. contentment
C. dreadful
______________ (adj): not willing to do something and therefore slow to do it. ( Chapter 5)
Reluctant
Who said this statement? _____________
“You’re a good woman. I’ll tell the board about you.”
Mr. Bumble
Who said? ____________
“The mother was a good – looking girl. Where did she come from?”
The doctor
Supply the missing word based on the definition.
_____________(v): to cause someone unhappy or hopeless
Depress
Oliver Twist is born a sickly (1)___________ in a workhouse. A doctor and a (2)___________ nurse attend his birth. His mother kisses his (3)___________ and dies. The nurse announces that Oliver’s mother was found lying in the streets the night before. The doctor notices that she is not wearing a wedding ring.
1. infant
2. drunken
3. forehead
First, he drank all my wine and then he ____________ all my friends.
A. clumsy B. starved C. insulted
C. insulted
Choose the correct word based on the given meaning.
a. regain
Choose the correct answer for this Passive Voice:
The child is eating bananas. / Bananas .................... by the child.
a. are eaten
b. are being eaten
c. have been eaten
d. have been eating
b. are being eaten
I_______________ (adv): in a way that is easily annoyed by someone's mistakes or because you have to wait
Impatiently
Oliver was saved from going to prison for three months because _____.
a. the magistrate felt sorry for him
b. Mr Brownlow paid the magistrate
c. Mr Fang wanted to leave
d. the bookshop owner told the magistrate what happened
d. the bookshop owner told the magistrate what happened
The teacher said we 1. (can, don't need to, must, should) read this book for our own pleasure as it is optional. But we 2. (could, need, don't need to, mustn't) read it if we don't want to.
1. should
2. don't need to
You 1. (shouldn't, don't need to, may not) leave small objects lying around . Such objects 2. (must, need to, may, mustn't) be swallowed by children.
1. shouldn't
2. may
What are the 3 ending punctuations?
1. Period
2. Question Mark
3. Exclamation Mark
Complete the following blanks with the correct form of the word in the parenthesis.
1. Oliver was surprised to see what had happened and greatly __________________ them for controlling their sadness so well. (admire)
2. He was __________________ badly by most of the people around him. (treat)
3. Noah was __________________ because Oliver went out to burials while he left back in the shop. (jealousy)
1. admired
2. treated
3. jealous
It's a hospital. You (mustn't, don't need to, may not don't have to) smoke.
Mustn't
________________: (v) to look somewhere quickly and then look away
a. hesitate
b. desert
c. glance
c. glance
______A. Rising crookedly out of the cup and collar is the candle, a pitifully short, stubby object.
______B. Abandoned by a previous occupant of my room, the candle squats on the window sill, anchored by cobwebs and surrounded by dead flies.
______C. This ugly little memorial consists of three parts: the base, the reflector, and the candle itself.
______D. This aluminum flower is actually a wrinkled old Christmas light collar.
______E. The base is a white, coffee-stained Styrofoam cup, its wide mouth pressed to the sill.
______F. And by lighting the wick, any time I choose, I can melt this ugly candle away.
______G.From the bottom of the cup (which is the top of the base) sprouts a space-age daisy: red, green, and silver petals intended to collect wax and reflect candle light.
______F. The candle is about the same size and color as a man's thumb, beaded with little warts of wax down the sides and topped by a tiny bent wick.
___1___A. Rising crookedly out of the cup and collar is the candle, a pitifully short, stubby object.
___2___B. Abandoned by a previous occupant of my room, the candle squats on the window sill, anchored by cobwebs and surrounded by dead flies.
__3____C. This ugly little memorial consists of three parts: the base, the reflector, and the candle itself.
__4____D. This aluminum flower is actually a wrinkled old Christmas light collar.
___5___E. The base is a white, coffee-stained Styrofoam cup, its wide mouth pressed to the sill.
___6___F. And by lighting the wick, any time I choose, I can melt this ugly candle away.
___7___G.From the bottom of the cup (which is the top of the base) sprouts a space-age daisy: red, green, and silver petals intended to collect wax and reflect candle light.
___8___F. The candle is about the same size and color as a man's thumb, beaded with little warts of wax down the sides and topped by a tiny bent wick.
There is one irrelevant sentence in the paragraph that follows. Find that sentence.
The Japanese automobile industry uses robots in many stages of its production process. In fact, one large Japanese auto factory uses robots in all of its production stages. Some Japanese universities are developing medical robots to detect certain kinds of cancer. Another automobile factory in Japan uses them to paint cars as they come off the assembly line. Furthermore, most Japanese factories use robots to weld the parts of the finished car together.
Some Japanese universities are developing medical robots to detect certain kinds of cancer.
Find the sentence which is not fragment.
1. Because she didn't want to tell where she had bought the strange outfit.
2. When we finally heard that she had made the dress herself.
3. Although I knew she might wear something outrageous, I was still shocked by her dress.
3. Although I knew she might wear something outrageous, I was still shocked by her dress.
Choose the correct word based on the given meaning.
________________: (adj) born to parents who are not married to each other.
a. illegitimate
Use these words to put in the right answer.
After a while, and, yesterday, before, then, finally, now
I knew I’d never catch the 8:00 train, but I tried anyway. Several things happened to delay me. 1____________I tripped on a crack in the sidewalk. 2____________, I dropped my suitcase.3____________I ran into a man with an armload of packages 4____________had to
stop to help him pick them up. 5____________,I was ready to board, but the train had already left.
1. Yesterday
2. After a while
3. Then
4. and
5. Finally
Find the sentence which is not fragment.
1. My brother has been running a charter fishing boat for five years.
2. Many of his customers coming back three or four times over the summer.
3. His business been so busy that he has very little time for anything else.
1. My brother has been running a charter fishing boat for five years.
Put These events into the correct orders.
______ Oliver played a strange handkerchief stealing game.
______ Fagin took out his jewelry and warned Oliver with a knife.
______ Dodger took Oliver to Fagin’s house.
______ Dodger took out a handkerchief from an old gentleman in front of a bookstore.
1. Dodger took Oliver to Fagin’s house.
2. Fagin took out his jewelry and warned Oliver with a knife.
3. Oliver played a strange handkerchief stealing game.
4. Dodger took out a handkerchief from an old gentleman in front of a bookstore.
Circle the best answer.
Bill Sikes needed Oliver to _____ so that he could steal from Mrs Maylie’s house.
a. ring the doorbell
b. ask the servants to open the door
c. climb over the wall
d. climb through a small window
d. climb through a small window