Question

Fill in each gap with one word only.

Answer 1

Fill in each gap with one word only. De cele mai multe ori exercițiul cere sa recunoastem expresii cunoscute, completat să fie logic și gramatical acceptabil.

Succes

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  15. also - este corect gramatical și fiind la sfârșitul recomandărilor poate fi în completarea a ceea ce se spune anterior.

Exercitiul 4

1. to   - barrier to - to este prepoziția care, cu barrier, completează în mod logic enunțul
2. word - textul folosește mai departe written word, deci putem folosi. Am putea completa de pildă cu information, dar spunem curent: literacy = the ability to read the printed or written word.
3. owing - un sinonim al lui because, care are to în componență owing to
4. at - prepoziția cerută de any rate - at any rate  = în orice caz
5. going - going on = ce se intamplă
6. means - by no means, e logic, însemnând certainly not
7. it - este subiectul propoziției dintre virgule, putea fi și as, ca în as has been discovered = după cum s-a descoperit, care e acceptabil.
8. more - little more = it is not at all important
9. some sau many - am ales some pentru că preexistă această cuantificare some people, dar enunțul următor ar accepta si many, "Even students..."
10. have - prove to have understood - lipsea verbul to have
11. just - numai, doar, not just = nu numai
12. so - cerut de to speak, ca să formeze so to speak = ca să zicem așa
13. nuances sau meaning
14. between - distinguish between
15. forth - to put forth = to advance an argument, sau ca aici, o supoziție

room design. It must (15) also have space to be seen in and not

compete with incongruous objects.  

 

4.  People once thought that the great barrier (1) to human progress  was illiteracy, the widespread inability to read. When once everybody could read  the written or printed (2) word, all, it was thought, would be well.  Though people would still differ in attainment, (3) owing to the  differences in mental ability, the great majority would, (4) at any rate  be able to read and understand the newspapers, and keep themselves properly informed of what was (5) going on around them. Events have  by no (6) means justified this optimism. The majority are able, it is  true, to read written or printed characters. But reading, (7)  it/as has  been discovered, has a variety of meanings. To some people it means little  (8) more than the ability to pronounce aloud the printed word; to  (9) some/many it means an ability to gain merely a general impression of  what they read. Even students daily engaged in the study of books often develop  a superficial ability to read rapidly, and with apparent understanding, what they  subsequently prove to (10) have understood very imperfectly. Ability  to read properly, to understand not (11) just/only the general sense of a  given passage, but its particular implications, to appreciate, (12) so  to speak, the light and shade of a passage, the precise (13)  nuances of the  parts as well as of the whole, what it hints as well as what it states, to distinguish

(14) between what is clearly proved and established and what is merely suggested or put (15) forth as a supposition, is still a comparatively rare