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WorksheetsCulture... Now and Then!
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 9mins
You say different strokes for different folks to mean that people are all different and have different needs and desires.
WHICH TWO OPTIONS BELOW HAS THE SAME MEANING LIKE THE UNDERLINED PHRASE IN THIS SENTENCE?
We are all humans
Different things please different people.
To err is human to forgive is divine
Each to his or her own preference.
Which option means a particular type of repeated movement used in a method of swimming?
STROKE
COMPETITION
DESIRE
PREFERENCE
Don't try to throw my brother to the wolves. I'll tell the fact about the entire issue.
WHICH OPTION DOES NOT HAVE THE SAME MEANING WITH THE UNDERLINED PHRASE?
to abandon someone to harm
allow somebody else to be criticized or attacked
to sacrifice yourself for the sake of the rest
sacrifice someone, especially so as to save oneself
The phrase (a) means something offered as a means of distracting attention from a problem or grievance.
These activites entertain people and distract them from problems to keep them from complaining or protesting.
This word (with its noun form) means to avoid something, especially cleverly or illegally.
circumvent - circumvention
circumnavigate - circumnavigation
He was one of the leaders in the conspiracy that assassinated Julius Caesar in 44 BCE. He was a Roman senator and the most famous of the assassins of Julius Caesar.
Livia Drusa
Servilia Caepionis
Junia Tertia
Marcus Junius Brutus
Feeding and entertaining people was one of the policies which ________________ political power. The Romans saw this as a way of securing their political power.
ruins
guarantees
destroys
assasinates
If your beliefs are based on old ideas about luck and magic rather than science or reason, you are definitely (a) . For example the Romans believed that left handed people were evil and unlucky. If you were left handed you were different and had a sinister appearance at that time.
People tend to think of divination as a process concerned with the future and with such questions as "Will I marry?" and "Will I be rich?" But in ancient Rome, divination was predominantly concerned with discerning the will of the gods and other superhuman entities. They examined animal entrails such as liver to discover what will happen in the future.
What is the synonym for the highlighted word?
intuition
historian
fortune telling
story telling
The belief that living people can communicate with people who have died was quite predominant among Victorians. What is this belief called?
spiritualism
superstition
divination
positivism
Women constitute about ten percent of Parliament. What does the highlighted word mean?
to form or make something
to avoid something
to conform the whole system
ignoring the facts
During the era symbolized by the reign of British monarch Queen Victoria, women did not have the right to vote, sue, or own property. Woman behavior in Victorian Culture was scrutinized. Women's rights were extremely limited in this era, losing ownership of their wages, all of their physical property, excluding land property, and all other cash they generated once married.
What does the highlighted word mean?
interaction
constitute
examined
neglected
Women in the Victorian era were seen, by the middle classes at least, as belonging to the domestic sphere, and this stereotype required them to provide their husbands with a clean home, to put food on the table and to raise their children. Women had to live with hardships and disadvantages.
Sounds really brutal and ruthless
This is outrageous.
Sounds really cool to me.
When will teleportation be invented. I want to go back in that era.
Beautiful silk fans like this were used by women to communicate with men. In an age where a woman's behaviour was highly scrutinised, a fan was a discreet means of communicating her feelings
TRUE
FALSE
How would you like this video?
This video is quite intriguing. I learned many things.
just a waste of time
quite educational
would like to thank my English teachers who provide me with these kind of learning materials
