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Posted: Thursday, June 11, 2020 8:58:37 PM

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Hi Everyone!
These are 25 questions from the test at learnenglish.britishcouncil.org
But I was scored with 94% and intermediate level although I selected in each choice with "sure" on the answering of the question "Are you lot sure? Not certain. Fairly sure. Certain."

ane.
Choose the best give-and-take to complete the sentence.
The baby boy saw ... in the mirror and started to weep.
a. itself
b. herself
c. himself

ii.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the judgement.
A lot of trains ... belatedly today due to the heavy storms.
a. are run
b. run
c. are running

3.
Cull the all-time word or phrase to complete the sentence.
... was a strong wind concluding night.
a. There
b. Hither
c. This

4.
Choose the best discussion or phrase to complete the sentence.
Firstly, I want to congratulate you all. Secondly, I would similar to wish y'all good luck and ... I hope you have enjoyed the class.
a. in the stop
b. at last
c. finally

5.
Choose the all-time word or phrase to complete the sentence.
You ... clean your teeth twice a twenty-four hours to avoid having problems.

a. can
b. should
c. volition

6.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the judgement.
The children thought they were ... when they saw the bull.
a. in a danger
b. in danger
c. in the danger

vii.
Cull the best word or phrase to consummate the dialogue.
Jack: I think information technology's going to rain.
Jill: I ... , the clouds are clearing.
Jack: Nosotros'll shortly encounter.

a. disagree
b. mutter
c. debate

8.
Cull the all-time word or phrase to complete the sentence.
I really don't like this meal. ... money in the globe wouldn't get me to eat it.

a. Whatsoever
b. Plenty
c. All the

9.
Cull the best word or phrase to complete the sentence.
Last year, Joanna bought two ... coats in New York.

a. long, black, leather
b. black, long, leather
c. leather, blackness, long

10.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the judgement.
I must written report to the meeting that Cyrus completed his outset piece of work well alee of schedule. ..., nevertheless, his work has been handed in late.

a. Sequentially
b. Subsequently
c. Consequently

11.
Cull the all-time word or phrase to complete the judgement.
That's very practiced of you lot only you lot ... have paid me back until tomorrow.

a. needn't
b. wouldn't
c. couldn't

12.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the sentence.
I ... intending to end smoking even earlier I got this bad cough.

a. would accept been
b. had been
c. have been

thirteen.
Cull the best give-and-take or phrase to complete the dialogue.
Anne: Oh! I watched the new Idiot box show final nighttime.
Jo: Was it any good?
Anne: Yes. ... the Television ready is so old I could come across very little.

a. Mind you
b. Still
c. By the style

14.
Choose the word or phrase which has a similar meaning to:
consider

a. think about
b. seem well
c. go for

You lot removed a message

15.
Choose the word or phrase which has a similar pregnant to:
talk

a. stroll
b. bespeak out
c. converse

16.
Cull the word or phrase which has a similar meaning to:
consummate

a. finish
b. go through
c. total

17.
Choose the word or phrase which has a similar significant to:
return

a. account
b. get back
c. contrary

18.
Cull the give-and-take or phrase which has a similar pregnant to:
report

a. get subsequently
b. account
c. respect

nineteen.
Choose the best word to complete the sentence.
She hit her ... while she was playing football.

a. motor
b. tail
c. shoulder

20.
Choose the best word to complete the judgement.
The ... went to the police force.

a. law-breaking
b. solicitor
c. shoulder

21.
Cull the best word to consummate the sentence.
It was bad but it was not a ... .

a. gate
b. magazine
c. crime

22.
Some words are oft used together, e.g. smelly + socks. Choose a word which is often used with:
concrete

a. architect
b. thrill
c. proposal

23.
Some words are often used together, eastward.g. smelly + socks. Cull a give-and-take which is often used with:
tender

a. diet
b. words
c. beast

24.
Some words are often used together, due east.g. smelly + socks. Choose a discussion which is often used with:
sophisticated

a. clothes
b. purse
c. ship

25.
Some words are often used together, e.g. evil-smelling + socks. Choose a word which is often used with:
blunt

a. motility
b. proposition
c. instrument

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Posted: Thursday, June 11, 2020 9:45:08 PM

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The merely one I would question is #12

12.
Choose the best word or phrase to complete the sentence.
I ... intending to finish smoking even before I got this bad cough.

a. would have been
b. had been
c. have been

I would take chosen C. "take been". It could be argued that using "had been" gives the impression you gave upwards the intention before getting the bad cough. Using "accept been" conveys an intention that was on-going when you got the cough.

I don't know why you scored 94, however. With 25 questions, each should exist worth four points each, so you should have scored a 96.

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Posted: Thursday, June 11, 2020 11:29:05 PM

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Very interesting. I pretty much agree with all the choices marked equally correct.

Merely I have some commments:
--In #four, the words should be "Beginning" and "Second", not "Firstly" and "Secondly". But "finally," is the correct choice.
--In #nine, in my opinion the choice "long, black, leather coats"--though better than the other two choices--isn't actually good. Information technology ought to be "long black leather coats" without the commas.
--In #12, unlike FounDit, I prefer "had been intending..." to "have been intending...". To me, "had been intending" does not mean you ceased intending to stop smoking.
--In #xiii, I have to say I wouldn't used the phrase "Mind yous"--I would prefer "Withal--merely "Withal" that wasn't 1 of the choices, and "Mind you" is better than the other two.
--And in #22, "physical proposal" seems a better matched pair than "concrete builder" in most contexts. In the absence of a context for the sentence, "concrete builder" is an acceptable answer.

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Posted: Friday, June 12, 2020 2:18:33 AM

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tautophile wrote:

Very interesting. I pretty much concord with all the choices marked as right.

But I have some commments:
--In #4, the words should be "Beginning" and "2nd", non "Firstly" and "Secondly". But "finally," is the correct choice.
--In #9, in my opinion the choice "long, black, leather coats"--though better than the other two choices--isn't really good. It ought to be "long black leather coats" without the commas.
--In #12, dissimilar FounDit, I prefer "had been intending..." to "have been intending...". To me, "had been intending" does not mean you lot ceased intending to stop smoking.
--In #13, I accept to say I wouldn't used the phrase "Mind you"--I would prefer "However--merely "Even so" that wasn't one of the choices, and "Heed you" is better than the other two.
--And in #22, "physical proposal" seems a better matched pair than "concrete builder" in most contexts. In the absence of a context for the judgement, "physical builder" is an acceptable answer.

#iv Firstly and secondly are normally used in British English language.
I agree with FounDit for #12 I prefer "have been", information technology's how most British people would use that phrase.
#13 Mind yous is the phrase that an ordinary British person would utilise.
#22 is a question of association it is not nearly forming an bodily pairing architect and concrete go together in the same way staff of life and baker or bat and cricketer do.
Retrieve the British Council is trying to teach people to speak English as it is used in Britain today, on behalf of the British Government, some of its usages won't match American English.

Posted: Fri, June 12, 2020 6:57:30 AM

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The ones I saw were #12 and #22.

In #12, I could see circumstances in which all three choices could be the "all-time option".
Personally, I'd apply "has been" or "was" in about circumstances.

In #22, "concrete proposal" is a common phrase. "Physical architect" isn't.
A builder may use physical occasionally, but there's no such chore as "concrete builder".

Yeah, I'd ordinarily apply "mind y'all".
Mind you, it is a little "archaic"

in form

, in that the verb "listen" pregnant "pay attention" is not now used intransitively; AND imperatives don't nowadays have that grade with the 'person' after the verb. "Listen yous" = "(You) take notice!" = "but I'one thousand mentioning so that you can have detect"

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Posted: Saturday, June 13, 2020 3:15:06 AM

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My "native speech" is AmE, but I lived in England for four years and take many British friends, then I'm very familiar with BrE. My first married woman grew up in Gateshead and later in Banbury, so I know both Geordie and Thames Valley spoken communication--and so much so that when I saw the moving-picture show "Baton Eliot" [2000]--fix mostly in Tyneside and full of Geordie accents--in the theater here in Illinois, I was the merely person in the audience who understood all of what was beingness said.

I know, for example, near "mind you lot"--which is the best pick of the 3 put forrad in #xiii. It's a well-known BrE phrase, and is not unknown in AmE. Of the three choices given, it's the one I would choose.

Only

, if one of the choices for #13 were "However", that is the ane I would choice. It's perfectly good BrE and AmE.

I have seen both American and British usage guides that prefer "offset" and "second" to "firstly" and "secondly". Near usage guides agree, though, that the "-ly" forms are adequate, and more formal.

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Posted: Saturday, June 13, 2020 viii:38:31 AM

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Gateshead to Banbury - couldn't exist much different, dialectically, and stay in England!

Like FounDit, I'm curious how 25 questions tin can give a score of

94%

.
That ways one question wrong and one "half-correct".

Most of the questions (being multiple choice) can't be 'half-right'.

Posted: Dominicus, June fourteen, 2020 9:54:59 PM

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Howdy Everyone!
Cheers all very much indeed,

But, do yous not think we must accept a comma afterward "mind yous"?
There is no comma in the original question question. So, I excluded the 'a' and 'c' since both must accept a post-obit comma if they initiated a phrase.
Anne: Oh! I watched the new TV testify last night.
Jo: Was it any good?
Anne: Yes. Mind yous the Television set is and then old I could run across very little.

I read Guide for Mixed Tense Exercises:

Quote:

Time word: Earlier:
Fourth dimension clause tense: Simple present, Uncomplicated past
Main clause tense: Simple future

Before Karen leaves for piece of work, she will roller-skate around her house three times.

Time word: Before
Time clause tense: unproblematic past
Main clause tense: Simple past or by perfect

Earlier Karen left for piece of work, she (had) roller-skated around her house three times.

So, in no #12, the speaker is talking about two actions, "I got cough", and "the "intend to stop smoking". "Intend to finish smoking" happened before "I got cough". And then, I think that the past perfect progressive must be used in the main clause tense(I had been intending to stop smoking) and the past simple in the time clause tense(before I got this bad cough).

I had been intending to stop smoking(primary clause tense) even before I got this bad coughing(fourth dimension clause tense).
a. would have been
b. had been
c. have been

Posted: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 5:31:35 PM

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PS. FounDit , forth with Dragonspeaker , I am pitiful I was wrong that I said I scored 94%. I scored 96%, really.
Yes, each question of the 25 questions can give a score of iv%.
So, 4% X 25 = iv/100 Ten 25/100 = 100/100 = 100%.

For the 12th question, when I selected "take been", my score decreased by four%. However, when selecting 'had been', I scored 96%. That means another question wrong.

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Y'all're right on #12 - the most "grammatically right" is the by perfect (plus the simple past), when looked at logically (sorting out WHEN each thing happened).

The one you had wrong is #22 - physical proposal.

Take a look at the n-gram graph hither.
Information technology'due south probably but a phrase you've never come beyond - information technology's generally a business or legal-type idea.

con•crete adj.
1. constituting an actual thing or example; real; perceptible; substantial: physical proof.
two. pertaining to or concerned with realities or actual instances rather than abstractions; particular every bit opposed to general: concrete proposals.

However, I'd say 96 is a

good

score. Well done.

Posted: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 x:37:14 AM

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Drag0nspeaker wrote:

You're right on #12 - the most "grammatically right" is the past perfect (plus the simple by), when looked at logically (sorting out WHEN each thing happened).

The 1 you lot had wrong is #22 - concrete proposal.

Take a look at the n-gram graph here.
Information technology'due south probably but a phrase you've never come across - it's mostly a business concern or legal-type idea.

con•crete adj.
1. constituting an actual thing or example; existent; perceptible; substantial: concrete proof.
2. pertaining to or concerned with realities or bodily instances rather than abstractions; particular as opposed to full general: concrete proposals.

Withal, I'd say 96 is a

adept

score. Well washed.

I wondered when I read the score of 94 if two points had been taken off for the "builder/concrete/proposal" question. Merely since there was no mention of that, I assumed either answer would be given credit, since "builder" and either "concrete" or "proposal" fits. That was really a poor question. But 96 is an excellent score. Well done.

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CONCRETE / Proposal is the right answer

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Babouri Salim wrote:

CONCRETE / Proposal is the right answer

Yes, exactly: all the answers by A cooperator are right except 22c: "concrete proposal".

Not that "concrete builder" per se is wrong, it'south just that they wanted usa to cull the most frequent lexical collocation, which is "physical proposal".

Only stick to all the answers given past A cooperator - except for 22 - and you'll score 100%!

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By the way, the phrase "Mind you" in #13 should have been followed by a comma: "Mind you, the TV fix is and so old...." rather than "Mind you lot the Television receiver set is so quondam...".

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