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Qingqing Posted 21 years ago
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I doubt about severa keys in the following cloze test. Can anyone help me to decide it?
Two kinds of people exist in this world: clean people and people who have found millions of ways to avoid cleaning their rooms.
I belong to the latter because I am a teenager. Like all teenagers I am too busy pretending to be receiving an education to worry that scientists attribute 52% of global warming to the smoke that escapes from my bedroom window. Before all you environmentalists get too angry, I want you to know that I closed my window last week.
Don't think the messy state of my room doesn't bother me, it does. Every night I go to sleep, haunted by the thought that an iron I lost three years ago is somewhere in my room still plugged in and waiting to start a fire. Another thing that worries me are my fish. I haven't gotten around to cleaning their tank this year. I can't tell if they're alive or not.
A few weeks ago my mother ordered me to clean my room. She said: "Tracie, you can not eat, sleep, or breathe until you clean up your room."
I responded, "Mum, did I tell you I got an A on my physics test yesterday?"
"You don't even take physics, Tracie, so how can you get an A?"
My Mum was cleverer than I thought, so I decided to ignore the question and change the topic.
"Did you know that most kids today watch ten and a half hours of TV? And high school students score an average of 500 points lower on the SATs than the kids in your generation."
"No! Really? Well, Tracie, that's just one more example of how the weak 25 of today affect the minds and education of the kids at your age. Oh! I forgot to take the bread out of the oven!"
I smiled to myself for once again distracting my mother with perfectly useless and untrue "27". Thereby I avoided the 28 task of cleaning my room. Then I turned and observed the smoke and the big pile of smelly 29. But, I am just too 30 to disturb the natural flow of things.
25.A. school rules B. family values C. self-management D. parents' controls
27.A. facts B. questions C. figures D. information
28.A. difficult B. dangerous C. boring D. senseless
29.A. waste B. clothes C. seaweeds D. shoes
30.A. busy B. lazy C. tired D. happy
Key: 25. B 27.A 28.B 29.A 30.B
What about 25.C and 28.C? Is there anything wrong about the keys? Thanks.
Two kinds of people exist in this world: clean people and people who have found millions of ways to avoid cleaning their rooms.
I belong to the latter because I am a teenager. Like all teenagers I am too busy pretending to be receiving an education to worry that scientists attribute 52% of global warming to the smoke that escapes from my bedroom window. Before all you environmentalists get too angry, I want you to know that I closed my window last week.
Don't think the messy state of my room doesn't bother me, it does. Every night I go to sleep, haunted by the thought that an iron I lost three years ago is somewhere in my room still plugged in and waiting to start a fire. Another thing that worries me are my fish. I haven't gotten around to cleaning their tank this year. I can't tell if they're alive or not.
A few weeks ago my mother ordered me to clean my room. She said: "Tracie, you can not eat, sleep, or breathe until you clean up your room."
I responded, "Mum, did I tell you I got an A on my physics test yesterday?"
"You don't even take physics, Tracie, so how can you get an A?"
My Mum was cleverer than I thought, so I decided to ignore the question and change the topic.
"Did you know that most kids today watch ten and a half hours of TV? And high school students score an average of 500 points lower on the SATs than the kids in your generation."
"No! Really? Well, Tracie, that's just one more example of how the weak 25 of today affect the minds and education of the kids at your age. Oh! I forgot to take the bread out of the oven!"
I smiled to myself for once again distracting my mother with perfectly useless and untrue "27". Thereby I avoided the 28 task of cleaning my room. Then I turned and observed the smoke and the big pile of smelly 29. But, I am just too 30 to disturb the natural flow of things.
25.A. school rules B. family values C. self-management D. parents' controls
27.A. facts B. questions C. figures D. information
28.A. difficult B. dangerous C. boring D. senseless
29.A. waste B. clothes C. seaweeds D. shoes
30.A. busy B. lazy C. tired D. happy
Key: 25. B 27.A 28.B 29.A 30.B
What about 25.C and 28.C? Is there anything wrong about the keys? Thanks.
Top answer
Hello qq C can't be the answer to 25, because 25 must 'affect the minds and education of the kids at your age'. 'Self-management' can't 'affect one's own mind' in the sense intended here, because an external influence is required, and 'self management' is internal. For 28, I would accept any answer.
- Hello qq C can't be the answer to 25, because 25 must 'affect the minds and education of the kids at your age'.
- 'Self-management' can't 'affect one's own mind' in the sense intended here, because an external influence is required, and 'self management' is internal.
- For 28, I would accept any answer.
- I agree that 'boring' is the most usual adjective applied to 'cleaning one's own room', out of those choices.
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Hello qq
C can't be the answer to 25, because 25 must 'affect the minds and education of the kids at your age'. 'Self-management' can't 'affect one's own mind' in the sense intended here, because an external influence is required, and 'self management' is internal.
For 28, I would accept any answer. I agree that 'boring' is the most usual adjective applied to 'cleaning one's o
C can't be the answer to 25, because 25 must 'affect the minds and education of the kids at your age'. 'Self-management' can't 'affect one's own mind' in the sense intended here, because an external influence is required, and 'self management' is internal.
For 28, I would accept any answer. I agree that 'boring' is the most usual adjective applied to 'cleaning one's o
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Thank you, MrPedantic. I'm clear now after reading your explanation. I think what you said is reasonable. Thanks again.
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