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WorksheetsRas Tanura ERF Supplementary Task 3
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 14mins
Look back at Skills Zone 1 on pp. 116-118 of the ERF ibook and write down the 4 types of context clues.
I am tired of listening to your perpetual complaints. Every day you come to me to complain about unimportant and insignificant things.
Perpetual means:
Interrupting
Occasional
Continual
Rare
Humans are not quadrupeds like animals, such as lions and tigers, which are four-legged mammals. Humans are bipeds.
Bipeds are people or animals with:
one leg
two legs
three legs
no legs
After a long journey on a boat, I felt a little queasy. I had to take some medicine which ultimately made me feel better.
Queasy means:
Well
Sad
Sick
Pleased
Dentists fill in cavities by drilling away the part that is bad and then filling the hole with a special cement.
Cavity means:
Mouth
Hole in the teeth
Space between the teeth
Injection
The supporters of the city's football team were very jubilant. The team had won a match and would be in the national final. Everyone was extremely pleased about the possibility of winning the cup.
Jubilant means:
Gentle
Final
Enjoyable
Happy
Since it was the last day of the semester, the students would not do much work. They were feeling restive. They wanted to go home and so found it hard to start any work.
Restive means:
Resting
Unsettled
Lazy
Overworked
After some hours of driving we were glad to see a cluster of houses in the distance. When we got closer, we saw that it was a small village consisting only of about ten houses arranged around a wall.
Cluster means:
Group
City
Building
Ruin
When an army goes out on training and the soldiers have to live in tents, life for them is spartan. They do not get the comfort and facilities they would normally have. However, soldiers should be used to such conditions.
Spartan means:
Comfortable
Normal
Hard
Dangerous
In his spare time, Ali was a prolific writer of poetry. Everyone was surprised that he had written so much and that he had already produced a number of books.
Prolific means:
Producing poetry
Producing a lot
Surprising
Professional
English tests at the ITC cover many types of skills. Therefore, a teacher has to incorporate grammar, vocabulary, comprehension, etc. into the lessons he gives.
Incorporate means:
Accompany
Include
Teach
Increase
The manager has sent out a directive about using the new computer. All employees must be trained by the supervisor before they can use the machine.
Directive means:
Computer
Package
Telephone message
Instruction
I hate working near those big compressors because of the incessant noise they make. They are never turned off.
Incessant means:
Continuous
Increasing
Soft
Musical
My daughter is not sleeping well, and she hardly eats anything. She must be fretting about the high school examinations next week.
Fretting means:
Dieting
Feeling tired
Worrying
Confident
Fifteen thousand riyals is an extortionate price for that computer.
Extortionate means:
Reasonable
Cheap
Expensive
Accurate
The Santa Dominica was a Spanish man-of-war which sank off the coast of Ireland in the sixteenth century.
Man-of-war means:
Soldier
Tank
Spanish man
Warship
Ali is an extremely egotistical man. He does whatever he wants, without thinking about the feelings of others.
Egotistical means:
Selfish
Confident
Helpful
Decisive
When the chicks first emerge from their eggs, they are blind and have no feathers.
Emerge means:
Enter
Have a problem with
Come out
Lay
When John found his new pen wouldn't work, he was so angry he flung it right out of the office window.
Flung means:
Took
Threw
Mended
Left
