8- taken
9- done x (when, because "they" should be preceded by an element that concatenates 2 sentences)
10- down
11- against x (and, because it's adding comments)
12- sure
13- while x (by, because it's a way of doing the action)
14- a
15- point
a. 7
b. 1
c. 4 ?
d. 3
e. 5
f. 0
g. 6 ?
h. 2
(just a helper for EX 2?)
8- taken
9- when (it's a conjunction, not just an element)
10- down
11- and
12- sure
13- by (preposition)
(obs.: when, while, which, what, whose, whom are conjunctions)
1- potentially
2- emotional
3- repeatedly
4- shocking
5- emotional
6- arising
7- unstable
8- convicted
9- sent
10- current affairs
11- drunkenness
12- created
13- ideal
14- existence
(TASK - ESSAY)
- The writer recommends John Glenn as a role model because he never feared putting his life in danger for knowledge.
- She used the letter and its elements to describe how she disagrees with them.
- She added some of John Glenn life milestones to support her opinion.
1- He took great personal risks to push for knowledge
2- She pointed out that he was the first American to orbit the Earth, having a remarkable political career afterwards and that also, at the age of 77, he went to space again to help medical research in the field of ageing.
3- He risked his life some times by going to space, also putting in risk his psychological side (given that astronauts have problems to settle back into the routine of normal life).
4- He pursued the political career after having an intense career as an astronaut. Afterwards, he went to space again instead of retiring of his political career.
It explains the essay. except that it's supposed to be 5 paragraphs (300-350 words)
1- b
2- g
3- f
4- c
5- a
6- e
7- d
1- the fact we're usually arguing, I
2- mean more than everything
3- but it was a close
4- has improved by leaps and
5- never heard such outrageous suggestion in my whole
6- undeniably undisputed in the
7- ?
8- parental opinion effect starts
1- b
2- c
3- b
4- d
5- a
6- a
The picture shows a happy family celebrating its grandfather's birthday. It portrays a happy moment, and them being together as well. There are some aspects that could work as good positive examples of family life, but this is a good one, already. A picture of them having breakfast or playing at the park are some examples that also show a concise family.
1- A
2- D
3- C
4- D
5- A
6- C
7- B
1- informal, fairly easy
2- formal, to be very good at something
3- formal, find, face something
5- informal, to "encourage"
6- formal (?), to combine
7- informal (?) to be inserted
8- formal, without shadow of a doubt, absolutely
9- formal (?), leveraged (?)
10- formal, really important
1- a piece of cake (informal)
2- undue effort
3- came as something of a shock (informal)
4- woefully ill-equipped (informal)
5- isn't something to be sneezed at (informal)
6- whereas
7- what's all this in aid of? (informal)
8- encountered
9- ?
10- get rich (informal)
1- ? (found by chance?)
2- gone
3- realize
4- to deal with
5- be part of
6- met
7- merge
8- overcome ?
9- constructed
10- pull off
1- trained
2- ?
3- harder to be tracked
4- were confused
5- smartphone
6- liking it
7- going to
8- sensors
9- mind-controlling devices (seriously, i don't know :D)
1- instinctive reaction
2- it's taking a
3- creative
4- got stuck
5- teeth
6- paying attention to it
7- being told off
8- thought process
9- wisdom processes
1- it pretty
2- like she's paying
3- good as
4- aren't able to learn / can't learn
1- bright
2- hold
3- move
4- set
5- long/delayed/late ???????
6- circles
1- get sharp - the previous exercises text gave me this context
2- I don't have any arguments left offhand
3- He/She was scared beyond his/her reason.
4- as far as I know
5- common sense
6- it's within her "wits"?
7- can I transfer your knowledge to me?
8- thinking a lot about it
1- of
2- back
3- on
4- through
5- over
1- mileage / booklet / childhood / membership
2- amazement / breakage? / refusal / informants
3- meanness? / elasticness
4- childish / childlike / accidental / authoritarian
5- regretful / attractive
6- chlorinate? / simplify / symbolize
7- clockwise / northside?
thankful, wishful, playful, settlement, agreement, foolish, fruitful
1- modernization
2- carefully
3- Amazingly
4- deafly
5- adaptiveness / resourcefulness
6- picturesquely
1- disconnected
2- unconsciously
3- misheard
4- illegible
5- overflowing
6- semicircle
7- incomplete
8- anti-social
He's a multi-talented actor.
The weather forecast says it's going to rain today.
I'll outrun the sports car.
She's living in sub-human conditions.
1- become poor?
2- poor
3- save
4- safely
5- safe
6- peace
7- make peace?
8- peaceable
9- honor
10- honorably
11- honorable
12- blood
13- bloody
14- blooded
1- poverty
2- economically
3- unprevented
4- literally
5- mortality
6- consequently
7- efficient
8- ecological
9- necessity
10- overcome
I agree with the woman. I think that ongoing coursework is a rather better way of measuring students' progress than taking one or two exams during the whole term.
- Yes, that's a good point, but... (acknowledging before disagreeing)
- Yes, I see what you mean, but... (acknowledging before disagreeing)
- Maybe, but... (disagreeing)
- That is a valid point, but... (acknowledging before disagreeing)
- What do you think of... (asking for opinions)
- I do like that (agreeing)
- I do like the idea of... (agreeing)
1- had installed
2- presided
3- engendered
4- rigid
- satellite tv
- sudden
- that all of this appeared altogether
1- D
2- B
good:
- do-goodery
- professionalism
- skilled
- clear
bad:
- exploit
- bankrupcy
- squint
- ribald
1- c
2- a
3- c
4- a
1-
a- sideways
b- clear eye and squint, respectively
c- honesty and deceitfulness
2-
a- no
b- it's using the prey as a toy, and it will kill the prey at some point.
c- for the cat
d- audience
1- b
2- a
informal:
- junked (turned into garbage)
- techies (people who have dexterity with technology)
- kids (young people)
- carry on (continue)
formal:
- movies ?
- obsolescence
- mutilated
- aspire
1-
a- drowned and tides
b- liquid
c- films are made with chemicals. When in touch with decaying chemicals, films might have their content harmed.
1- a
2- b
1-
- for ever (for a long time)
- he made 3,500 films (he made a lot of movies)
- he is an entire industrial sector (he's very productive)
2- negative
3-
a- shoestring budgets
b- wafer-thin plots
c- dismissed out of hand
d- out-of-the-way
4- dismissed
1- b
2- a