English is the study of the English language. The goal is to improve communication skills by practicing listening, speaking, reading, writing, and understanding language rules like pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.
From the options, choose the word opposite in meaning to the underlined word:
He is quite an outspoken young man but his father is ________.
Options:complete the statement from the options lettered A-D
The manager met the ______ who came visiting last week
Options:I began work at the smithy on the Monday morning. My wages were half a crown a week. My hours were from six in the morning till six in the night, with an hour break for launch. My boss, Boeta Dick, was a tall, bent, reedy consumptive. He has a parched yellow skin, brawn tight over his jutting bones. His cheeks were so sunken it was as though he were permanently sucking them in. his eyes were far back in his head. He coughed violently, and beside his seat was a bucket of sand into which he spat. Changing the sand daily was the only part of my job I hated.
The smithy was divided into two parts. At one end were the machines that cut, shaped, and put the tins together. The man who worked on the machines were on a regular weekly wage. At the other end, was a row of small furnaces, each with it own bellows and piles of fuel. Here, at each furnace a man sat soldering the seams of the tins as they came from machines. The solders were on piece work. To average two or three pounds a week they had to do a mountainous amount of soldering. Each solderer had a boy to cart the tins from the machines to him, then to smear the seams of each tin with sulphur powder so that the lead took easily and, after checking, to cart the tins of the yard where the Lorries collected them.
The boss Boeta Dick, can be described as being Options:Read the passage and choose the most appropriate option for each gap.
Just after ...1..... the aircraft gave a shudder and coughed. The pilot, from the ..2...... activated the emergency sheet to cover the improperly secured left rear ....3.... At the same time, he pushed a button on the panel to activate automatic turning, and the airplane ....4.... north-east He called the control ....5.... to report the misshaped requested clearance for emergency ....6....The plane circled the airport and prepared to return to the airport it had just left. Moments later, the aircraft ....7....to stop on a ....8.... ....9.... in oilskin ran in the light drizzle and were soon perched on the ....10.... of the plane, from where they began their inspection.
and requested clearance for emergency ...6.....
Options:In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase(s) Underlined:
The policeman looked at the face of the robber and saw tell-tale signs of a dyed-in-the wool convict.
Options:Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the underlined word.
What you are asking me to do is herculean task?
Options:In the question below choose the phrase or word which best completes the meaning of each sentence:
He was _____ he had no time to eat
Options:In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fills the gap(s):
If you don't want to _____ your car to robbers, then don't travel in the night
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