Table of Contents:
- Vocabulary Practice
- Comprehension
- Exercise 1: Multiple Choice Questions
- Exercise 2: Multiple Choice Questions
- Exercise 3: Exposed Cloze
- Exercise 4: Exposed Cloze
- Exercise 5: True/False Statements
- Exercise 6: Transformation
- Exercise 7: Multiple Choice Questions
- Exercise 8: Multiple Choice Questions
- Exercise 9: True/False Statements
- Exercise 10: Selections
- Exercise 11: Cloze
- Exercise 12: Cloze
- Exercise 13: Multiple Choice Questions
- Exercise 14: Multiple Choice Questions
- Grammar Practice
- Exercise 1: True/False Statements
- Exercise 2: Selections
- Exercise 3: Multiple Choice Questions
- Exercise 4: Exposed Cloze
- Exercise 5: Selections
- Exercise 7: Cloze
- Exercise 8: True/False Statements
- Exercise 9: Cloze
- Exercise 10: Multiple Choice Questions
- Exercise 11: Cloze
- Exercise 12: Multiple Choice Questions
- Dictation
Comprehension
Exercise 8: Multiple Choice Questions
- to write a preliminary version of something
- a formal suggestion or plan
- to put something into effect or action
- the Commission must explain and justify its actions to the Parliament
- a suggestion made formally and voted on in a meeting, to express official condemnation
- somebody who works in an official government department
Grammar Practice
Exercise 5: Selections
- Do you think China’s economic growth rate will start to slow down?
- Has the acquis been translated into all the official languages yet?
- Documents must be 15 pages at most, rather than the previous average of 37.
- They found dozens of mistakes in the translations.
- Their apathy was due to the fact that the document was difficult to understand.
Exercise 10: Multiple Choice Questions
- Acceptable. Mistakes and/or jargon do not make comprehension difficult.
- Unacceptable. Mistakes and/or jargon make it too difficult to understand the ideas.
- Acceptable. Mistakes and/or jargon do not make comprehension difficult.
- Acceptable. Mistakes and/or jargon do not make comprehension difficult.
- Unacceptable. Mistakes and/or jargon make it too difficult to understand the ideas.
Exercise 12: Multiple Choice Questions
- The content should be divided up into shorter sentences that are easier to understand.
- The punctuation is bad.
- It contains unnecessary subordinate clauses and is repetitive.
- It contains too much jargon.
- The punctuation is bad.
- It contains unnecessary subordinate clauses, is repetitive and contains jargon.