Considering the ideas and the vocabulary of text II, decide whether the statements below are right (C) or wrong (E).
After all stages of the Civil and Diplomatic Service entrance exams, the number of candidates admitted was around 20.
Decide whether the statements below, which concern the ideas of text II and the vocabulary used in it, are right (C) or wrong (E).
The passage “a wet-behind-the-ears but fully functioning British diplomat" (l.12) indicates that the author's inexperience didn't prevent him from getting a position of responsibility in the Foreign Office.
Decide whether the statements below, which concern the ideas of text II and the vocabulary used in it, are right (C) or wrong (E).
The word “unsparingly" (l.13) can be correctly replaced by unmercifully, without this changing the meaning of the text.
Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text IV.
According to the text, the fact that social origin was not as easy to identify based on the koine of eighteenth-century Americans as was the case with contemporary Britons reflected the early American colonies' egalitarian ethos.
In text IV, without altering the general meaning of the sentence, "pinpoint" (l.10) could be replaced by (mark right — C — or wrong — E)
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Considering the grammatical and semantic aspects of text V, decide whether the following items are right (C) or wrong (E).
The expression “on a par" (l. 20 and 21) means competing.
The phrasal verb SEARCHING FOR in "But these are not police officers searching for teenagers ... " (first paragraph) could be replaced in this context by:
Who gets the higher salaries according to the text, schoolteachers o r private tutors?
According to the last paragraph, some students are reluctant to start studying. This means that the students:
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The excerpt “by allowing laptops to replace pen and paper for exams" (line 2) means that, if Cambridge takes this decision, students:
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In line 5, the excerpt “now they write virtually nothing by hand" could be correctly replaced, with no change in meaning, with:
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According to the third paragraph of the text (lines 8-10), when Cambridge University launched the consultation, Edinburgh University:
An appropriate greeting in a formal letter is:
According to the text, judge the sentences below and decide if is it True or False: ( ) The author was feeling less confident in the third test, because she decided to ask for directions to a chemist and did not understand anything. ( ) The author went back to the hotel to making a phone call to talk to Adam, a Kasia’s friend in her for test four. ( ) The last test was incredibly difficult. The test was to ask about the time in the street, but the author had a brilliant idea and asked to a man to show his watch to her. The correct alternative is:
