English Placemente Test Level 13

What is the correct form of the underlined verb? :

Atoms that having different atomic number, usually behave differently.

• have

• had

• has

Answer explanation

Well done,!

Have instead of having!

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Over the past few year, many towns in the United States have been joining with neighboring communities to share the costs of goverment.

• Few year

• Towns

• Have been joining

• To share

Answer explanation

Well done!

*Few + plural noun (Few years)

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What makes for human skeleton hard and strong is the presence of the metallic element calcium

• For human

• hard and strong

• presence

• metallic

Answer explanation

Exactly! We say: human, instead of :-for human.

Read carefully the sentence, what of the underline words has a mistake? Many of Robert Bly´s poems explore solitude , natural vigor, and silent in an immediate and modern idiom

• Modern

• an

• Silent

Answer explanation

Yes, we change silent to silence.

Parallel structure:solitude, natural vigor are nouns, silent must be a noun (silence)

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To convert an angle measured in radians for an equivalent angles measured in degrees, multiply the number of radians by 57,296

• by

• for

• the number

• to

Answer explanation

Correct!

We use : convert something to/ into something.

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Serving as chief of the United States Children´s Bureau from 1921 to 1934 , Grace Abbottt fought for the rights of women and children through the world

• Serving

• fought

• rights

• through

Answer explanation

Well done! The answer is :

Throughout the world!

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To people from temperate climates , tropical butterflies may seem incredible big

• People

• Climates

• Tropical

• Incredible

Answer explanation

Yaaay!

*Incredibly big

We use an adverb to describe the adjective.

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The first railroad in the United States were short wooden tramways connecting mines also quarries with nearby streams

• First

• Short

• Also

• With

Answer explanation

The one we choose is :

Also, we would replace it with "and"

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The league of Women Voters of the United States identifies certain local state, and nation issues for study and action.

• Identifies

• Nation

• and action

Answer explanation

In this case, we should replace the noun "nation" for the adjective "national".

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For thousands of years ,people have used some kind of refrigeration cooling beverages and preserve edibles.

• Have used

• Kind

• Cooling

• Edibles

Answer explanation

In this case, we exchange -cooling >to cool.