English Proficiency 3Part 2

Structure

Question 1

Although teachers around the world are separated by thousands of miles, their methods of trying to encourage children to write springs from a common source.

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b.

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d.

1. (D) (D) is incorrect. It is an error in number. Their methods...spring is correct.

Question 2

the professor managed to attending to the needs of his family while working day and night for the prestigious award.

a.b.c.d.

2. (A) (A) is incorrect. The structure is attending to a person's needs, a person's problem, etc. The correct sentence would read, The professor managed to attend to the needs of his family....

Question 3

Jan later laughed about having fell into the pond , although she was very embarrassed about it then.

a.b.c.d.

3. (B) (B) is incorrect. Having fallen should be the correct tense of the verb. The sentence describes an action that took place in the past, but is being talked about in the present.

Question 4

only one egg hatched after twenty –eight days, while all the others hatched after twenty –ninth day.

day.a.b.c.d.

4. (D) (D) is incorrect. The definite article the should be placed before the specific

Question 5

a few and the 50 stamps that my sister had were either for sale or trade.

a.

b.

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d.

5. (A) (A) is incorrect. And should be replaced by of.

Question 6

My grandmother could never understand why I preferred a 20-stories building to a rambling house in the fields.

a.b.c.d.

6. (B) (B) is incorrect. It is an example of a compound noun, where the noun is always in the singular. It should read a 20-story building; other examples: a four-door car, a three-room apartment.

Question 7

“The Starlight Café” is a good place for order seafood but not to order meat.

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7. (B) (B) is incorrect. The main verb is order and it should be in the infinitive, to order, when preceded by a good place.

Question 8

The legendary Robin Hood used to steal from the rich people to give to all poor.

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b.

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8. (D) (D) is incorrect. Since there is no repetition of people, the definite article should be used with rich. It should read ...to give to all the poor.

Question 9

although the poor families are fast learning the new trade, the lack of education are hampering their advancement.

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b.

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9. (C) (C) is incorrect. Lack of education is singular and should be followed by is hampering....

Question 10

In the event something happening to the family , the lawyer assured her that the house would go to her friend.

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b.

c.

d.

10. (A) (A) is incorrect. The preposition of should follow in the event, when followed by the verb in the -ing form. Otherwise, it would have been correct to read it as in the event something happens to....

Question 11

the entire city except the western section is being plunge into the darkness for the night.

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b.

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11. (D) (D) is incorrect. The past participle of the main verb should be used: plunged, as the sentence is in the passive voice.

Question 12

Frank and Anna Johnson had a daughter who were born in 1950, but who died a few years later.

a.b.c.d.

12. (B) (B) is incorrect. This sentence requires a detailed look: who refers to the daughter that Frank and Anna had, and so the verb should be was.

Question 13

Americans tend to embody to what many is curious combination of admiration for their political system in general and disdain for its particular operations.

a.b.c.d.

13. (A) (A) is incorrect, it is a case of reversal of the relative pronoun and the preposition. Americans tend to embody something what to many appears to be a curious combination...

Question 14

I have been having headaches so often later that I think I ought to see a doctor.

a.

b.

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d.

14. (B) (B) is incorrect. Later has been wrongly used instead of the correct adverb of time, lately.

Question 15

Thousands years ago, the world had several ice ages ; or periods of time when the climate was very cold and thick sheets of ice covered much of the earth.

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b.

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d.

15. (A) (A) is incorrect. When there is no clear indication of how many thousand years ago, it is correct to say thousands of years ago, in general.

Question 16

hunger is not an unavoidable phenomena as are death and taxes.

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b.

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d.

16. (C) (C) is incorrect. The singular phenomenon should be used to describe the singular noun hunger.

Question 17

Peter Weir , the prominent Australian

filmmaker and screenplay writer, and was planning to visit the united states to make a film.

a.b.c.d.

17. (B) (B) is incorrect because and is unnecessary. If the adjectival clause, the prominent Australian filmmaker and screenplay writer, were removed, the sentence should read Peter Wier was planning to visit the U.S. to make a film. In such a case, and is simply redundant.

Question 18

While most Americans may admire a person who speaks more than one language, most of them do not place any value on learning another language themself.

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b.

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d.

18. (D) (D) is incorrect. The plural reflexive pronoun is themselves.

Question 19

Having spent his childhood longing for books , Andrew Carnegie realized heir value and went on to become the largest donor of funds the American public library system has ever had donors.

a.b.c.d.

19. (D) (D) is incorrect. Donors at the end of the sentence is redundant. In such a case, the rule of ellipsis enables us to drop repeated information. Largest donor suggests that he donated the maximum amount of money among donors, so it is unnecessary to repeat donors.

Question 20

The survival instinct of cockroaches are so great that they are known to reproduce even within a ring of fire.

a.b.c.d.

20. (B) (B) is incorrect. The subject is the survial instinct, not cockroaches, so the verb should be is.