CAE :: Lesson 13

LOS CURSOS DE INGLES GRATIS PREFERIDOS POR LOS HISPANOHABLANTES

 

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Writing ability

ACTIVITY 52: This test consists of a number of sentences, in each of which some part or the whole is underlined. Each sentence is followed by five alternative versions of the underlined portion. Select the alternative you consider both most correct and most effective according to the requirements of standard written English. Answer A is the same as the original version; if you think the original version is best, select answer A. In considering the answer choices, be attentive to matters of grammar, diction, and syntax, as well as clarity, precision, and fluency. Do not select an answer which alters the meaning of original sentence. Finally check the correct answers.

1.

The child is neither encouraged to be critical or to examine all the evidence for his opinion.

 

A.  neither encouraged to be critical or to examine
 B.  neither encouraged to be critical nor to examine
 C.  either encouraged to be critical or to examine
 D.  encouraged either to be critical nor to examine
 E.  not encouraged either to be critical or to examine

2.

The process by which the community influence the actions of its members is known as social control.

 

A.  influence the actions of its members
 B.  influences the actions of its members
 C.  had influenced the actions of its members
 D.  influences the actions of their members
 E.  will influence the actions of its members

3.

Depending on skillful suggestion, argument is seldom used in advertising.

 

A.  Depending on skillful suggestion, argument is seldom used in advertising.
B.  Skillful suggestion is depended on by advertisers instead of argument.
C.  Suggestion, which is more skillful, is used in place of argument by advertisers.
D.  Instead of suggestion, depending on argument is used by skillful advertisers.
E.  Argument is seldom used by advertisers, who depend instead on skillful suggestion.

4.

When this war is over, no nation will either be isolated in war or peace.

 

A.  either be isolated in war or peace
 B.  be either isolated in war or peace
 C.  be isolated in neither war nor peace
 D.  be isolated either in war or in peace
 E.  be isolated neither in war or peace

5.

Each will be within trading distance of all the others and will be able to strike them.

 

A.  within trading distance of all the others and will be able to strike them
 B.  near enough to trade with and strike all the others
 C.  trading and striking the others
 D.  within trading and striking distance of all the others
 E.  able to strike and trade with all the others
 
 

CONGRATULATIONS! You have finished  LESSON 13  
at OM Personal CAE - Certificate in Advanced English.
Before moving on to the next lesson, please remember
to revise everything you have learnt here.
 

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