V. Complete the sentences using a verb from the box in the correct form in each gap. do • feel • go • invite • provide • recover • sit • speak • stand • work
1. It seems there’s nothing anybody can to stop the conflict escalating further.
2. I don’t think the Prime Minister will ever manage from this scandal.
3. Can I Tracy round after tea? We want to play my new computer game.
4. Liz has had another ice cream so why can’t I one? It’s not fair!
5. When I was a child, my brothers and sisters and I weren’t allowed with the grown-ups except on special occasions.
6. Dominic had said he spoke German, but when we got there it turned out he couldn’t a word!
7. I’d love to be able from home, but in my job it’s just not possible.
8. James could for Parliament at the last election - he had enough support - but he wasn’t willing to sacrifice his privacy.
9. A small cot for babies can if you ask at reception.
10. We couldn’t to the concert anyway as Jamie wasn’t very well.

Which except is told from first-person point of view

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.

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