Advanced Grammar

She had acted ____ she was dismissed immediately.

• more professionally than

• as unprofessionally as

• so unprofessionally that

• unprofessionally though

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CCSS.L.3.1G

An international school is a place that cannot survive if there is ........ that certain groups of students are better than others.

• prejudice

• ignorance

• extortion

• conversion

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CCSS.L.3.1C

Minerals that are very .......... like diamonds and rubies are usually very expensive.

• succint

• ascertain

• scarce

• superior

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CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.1.1F

Frankfurt is the ........... center of Germany

• discrete

• succinct

• financial

• immortal

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CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.1.1F

Choose the irrelevant sentence:

(I) Few would dispute V. S. Naipaul's status as probably the greatest living writer of Indian origin. (II) Indeed, some would go further and argue that he is the greatest living writer of English prose. (Ill) Moreover, his views are taken very seriously, and for good reason. (IV) He is a writer whose fiction and nonfiction form a body of work of great brilliance. (V) Therefore, he displays an immoral and humiliated style.

• I

• II

• III

• IV

• V

Choose the odd one out. Lovers are so foolish when they believe love will last forever.

• Some lovers are foolish enough not to believe that love will last forever.

• O lovers! Don't be so foolish. No love lasts forever.

• No love lasts forever. Lovers would be wise to know this.

• When you are in love, you have no doubt that it will live forever.

• Lovers think that their love will never die.

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CCSS.L.8.1C

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.K.1D

Restate the following sentence:

We ought to do all we can to reduce air pollution.

• To pollute the air we breathe, all of us must reduce it all together.

• We are all trying as much as we can not to increase air pollution.

• We should do our best to improve the quality of the air we breathe.

• Air pollution can be improved if all of us stop reducing it.

• All of us are guilty of polluting the atmosphere.

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CCSS.L.4.1C

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.1.1J