English Language Exam Practice: Reading and Grammar Analysis

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English Course 2012: Reading and Grammar Exercises

1. He felt restless because it was dark and he had heard rumors about a ghost in the cemetery he was passing.
2. It appeared in the middle of a white mist; it was a headless rider on a white horse.
3. No, he couldn't because the battle had already finished.
4. FALSE (line 1): "He had been... live there"
5. TRUE (line 8): "Since he knew... cross running water"
6-10. continue, arrival, to claim, frightened, should
11. TV networks usually put on movies which most teenagers like. / Teenagers usually like horror movies which TV networks usually put on.
12. Where did you meet a strange man?
13. I should go to the police station.

1. Her first difficulty was that she could not speak English, so she could not express all her feelings.
2. It changed her life completely because she could talk about her problems and she didn't hide them as she had done before.
3. Because stress is increasing, and it increases anger too, at home as well as at work.
4. FALSE (lines 5-6): "When the tutor... university counsellor"
5. TRUE (line 17): "Everybody knows... is also anger"
6-10. argument, lucky, helpful, to, had complained
11. They bullied me at school when I first came to the UK.
12. Mary said that all her life she had had a temper and she had gotten into fights at school and university.
13. How many students on average are bullied a week?

1. This system uses a heat camera to notice changes in facial expressions that can't be noticed by our eyes, so that they reveal our emotions.
2. It could be used as a security resource in interviews by immigration officers at airports.
3. Because it doesn't detect lies but emotions, and sometimes these emotions are not so clear and can be confusing.
4. FALSE (lines 9-10): "The system could be... security interviews"
5. FALSE (line 14): "Researchers believe it... of the polygraph"
6-9. unconsciousness, fear, verdict, up
10. A new computerized system for lie detection has been developed.
11. had stolen
12. What was Ann terribly sorry about?
13. "Lie to Me" was a TV series about a team of specialists who found out the truth by analyzing body language.