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Learn, Relax and Enjoy - 115


Q1 - They hoped to ......... me to see their point of view
Persuade                   insist               explain                       suggest
Q2 - I find it hard to get .... on my salary               Over                by                    through                      into
Q3 - I refuse to put my position in ........ for something as petty as that
Stake              jeopardy                     hazard                        risk
Q4 - I hate having to ........ the turkey on Christmas day  Slice cut                   carve              chop
Q5 - He insisted ....... leaving early           Of                    for                   to                     on
Q6 - Traffic was brought to a complete ....... by the accident
Stoppage                   standstill                    block               no go
Q7 - Train ...... have increased again       Fares              fees                costs               prices
Q8 - I can't stand the .......... of blood         View               show                          look                 sight
Q9 - These jeans will ....... when you wash them the first time
Diminish        lessen                        shrink             reduce
Q10 - It's about time we ....... going           Got                  get       getting                        to get
Q11 - It's high time you ........ that work     finished    would finish    had to finish     should have finished
Q12 - Those windows need ..........            clean              cleaning        be cleaned    being cleaned
Q13 - You should always read the ............ print before signing a contract
Little                tiny                  minuscule                 small
Q14 - They came ....... a fortune when their father died     Into            upon               up to               round
Q15 - I prefer freshly ........ coffee              grated             shredded                   minced           ground
Q16 - I don't ....... to know everything about it     profess           admit              suggest          state
Q17 - I chose this bank because it has the best interest ......  Percentage    rate     level                range
Q18 - I don't know what is wrong with the car, but it just ........ start
Shall               mightn't                      won't               shouldn't
Q19 - I picked ...... a little German while I was staying there    Up       off                   out                  at
Q20 - It was the first time she ........... to the opera
Went   had been       would go        would have gone


1)There are 60 seconds in one ___.minute
2)There are 60 minutes in one ___.hour
3)30 minutes is called ___.half an hour
4)There are 24 hours in one ___.day
5)There are seven days in one ___.week
6)In British English, a period of two weeks is called a ___.fortnight
7)There are about four weeks in one ___.month
8)A three-month period (spring, summer, fall, or winter) is called a ___.season
9)There are twelve months in one ___.year
10)A period of ten years is called a ___.decade
12)There are one hundred years in one ___.century
13)A period of one thousand years is called a ___.millennium


The Devoted Mother
A mother duck and her little ducklings were on their way to the lake one day. The ducklings were very happy following their mother and quack-quacking along the way.
All of a sudden the mother duck saw a fox in the distance. She was frightened and shouted, "Children, hurry to the lake. There's a fox!"
The ducklings hurried towards the lake. The mother duck wondered what to do. She began to walk back and forth dragging one wing on the ground.
When the fox saw her he became happy. He said to himself, "It seems that she's hurt and can't fly! I can easily catch and eat her!"
Then he ran towards her.
The mother duck ran, leading the fox away from the lake. The fox followed her. Now he wouldn't be able to harm her ducklings. The mother duck looked towards her ducklings and saw that they had reached the lake. She was relieved, so she stopped and took a deep breath.
The fox thought she was tired and he came closer, but the mother duck quickly spread her wings and rose up in the air. She landed in the middle of the lake and her ducklings swam to her.
The fox stared in disbelief at the mother duck and her ducklings. He could not reach them because they were in the middle of the lake.
<*!*>---- some birds drag one of their wings on the ground when an enemy is going to attack. In this way they fool their enemies into thinking they are hurt. When the enemy follows them this gives their children time to escape.


Mulla Nasruddin and Blanket
One winter night while Mulla Nasruddin was sleeping he heard a noise that was suddenly made in the street. Having covered himself with his blanket, he came out to know the cause of the noise. Suddenly a smart thief robbed him of his blanket and ran away. He came back home without the blanket. In reply to his wife who was asking about the reason for the noise, Mulla Nasruddin said, "All the quarrel was about my blanket."


1)They're driving their new car over there this afternoon.
2)He threw a baseball right through the neighbor's front window. The neighbor made a thorough report to the police. [The word thru is not standard English.]
3)In two hours, it's going to be too hot to go to town.
4)They endured a torturous journey up the long and tortuous tributary of the Amazon.
5)That trooper was a real trouper.
6)The politician's speech managed to be both turgid and turbid at the same time.
7)It seemed so utterly unconscionable that the elderly couple should be robbed while they were unconscious.
8)Although the former mayor's career was unexceptionable, his personality was so bland that he was regarded as an unexceptional candidate for congress.
9)Verbal — see oral
10)Is being venal listed among the venial sins?
11)His waist continued to grow and grow, but no food was allowed to waste in his house! 
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