Reading & Writing FIB

Below is a text with blanks. Click on each blank, a list of choices will appear. Select the appropriate choice for each blank.

1  While it’s no wonder that dogs are  1____________(boring/ popular/ danger/ laziness) as man’s best friends, little is known about the origins of this friendship. It is presumed that dogs were one of the first animals to be 2__________(encounter/ ridicule/ safe/ domesticated) by humans. One notable effect of this long relationship with humans is that unlike other canine species, dogs can 3__________(master/ flourish/ worried/ prejudice) on a carbohydrate-rich diet. Historically, dogs have been helping us in many ways, but recently they are also assisting people with disabilities and 4___________(aiding/ mercurial/ tremendous/ carnivore) in therapy. Patients who were administered dog therapy demonstrated decreased stress, increased happiness, and 5__________(jostle/ kind/ improved/ neighbourly) energy levels.

 

Reading MCQ(multi)

Read the text and answer the question by selecting all the correct responses. More than one response is correct.

In this newly emerging economic order, workers are sometimes organized to protect their rights and traditional ways of life. Craft workers such as carpenters, printers, and tailors formed unions, and in 1834 individual unions came together in the National Trades' Union. The labor movement gathered some momentum in the decade before the Panic of 1837, but in the depression that followed, labor's strength collapsed. During hard times, few workers were willing to strike or engage in collective action. And skilled craft workers, who spearheaded the union movement, did not feel a particularly strong bond with semi skilled factory workers and unskilled laborers. More than a decade of agitation did finally bring a workday shortened to 10 hours to most industries by the 1850's, and the courts also recognized workers' right to strike, but these gains had little immediate impact.

Which of the following statements about the labor movement of the 1800's is supported by the paragraph?

1. It went down during times of economic crisis.
2. Its primary purpose was to benefit unskilled laborers.
3. It was slow to improve conditions for workers.
4. It helped workers of all skill levels form a strong bond with each other.

Re-Order Paragraph

 

The text boxes in the left panel have been placed in a random order. Restore the original order by dragging the text boxes from the left panel to the right panel.

1. But we cannot deny the advantages of technology, for example, phones have brought the world closer.
2. Technology has both advantages and disadvantages.
3. For example, phones are known to cause problems due to radiation.
4. I think it all boils down to how we use a particular technology.
5. Some people also make phone calls while driving, which cause incidents

 

Reading Fill in the Blanks

In the text below some words are missing. Drag words from the box below to the appropriate place in the text. To undo an answer choice, drag the word back to the box below the text:

From the earliest civilisations, plants and animals have been portrayed as a means of understanding and recording the potential uses, such as their economic and healing properties. From the first illustrated  1__________ of medicinal plants, De Materia Medica by Dioscorides, in the first century through to the late fourteenth century the illustration of plants and animals changed very little.

Woodcuts in instructional manuals and herbals were often repeatedly copied over the centuries, resulting in a loss of definition and accuracy so that they became little more than stylized decoration. With the growing 2__________ of copperplate engravings, the traditional use of woodcuts declined and the representation of plants and animals became more 3___________ . Then, with the emergence of artists such as albrecht durer and Leonardo Da Vinci, naturalists such as Otto Brunfels, Leonhard Fuchs in botany and Conrad Gesner and Ulisse Aldrovandi in zoology, nature began to be 4___________ in a more realistic style. Individual living plants or animals were observed directly and their likeness 5____________ onto paper or vellum.

Options:  Catalogue          popularity          accurate          depicted           rendered          difficult         study 

 

Reading MCQ(single)

Read the text and answer the multiple-choice question by selecting the correct response. Only one response is correct. 

 

Extended debate concerning the exact point of origin of individual folktales told by Afro-American slaves has unfortunately taken precedence over analysis of the tales' meaning and function. Cultural continuities with Africa were not dependent on importation and perpetuation of specific folktales in their pristine form. It is in the place that tales occupied in the lives of the slaves and in the meaning slaves derived from them that the clearest resemblances to African tradition can be found. Afro-American slaves did not borrow tales indiscriminately from the Whites among whom they lived. Black people were most influenced by those Euro-American tales whose functional meaning and aesthetic appeal had the greatest similarity to the tales with deep roots in their ancestral homeland. Regardless of where slave tales came from, the essential point is that, with respect to language, delivery, details of characterization, and plot, slaves quickly made them their own.

The author's main purpose is to __ from one field of study to another

1. create a new field of study
2. discredit an existing field of study
3. change the focus of a field of study
4. transplant scholarly technique

 

Answers

R/W Fill in the Blanks

popular, domesticated, flourish, aiding, improved

 

MCQ(M)

1 and 3

 

Reorder Paragraph

2, 3, 5, 1, 4

 

Reading Fill in the blanks

Study, popularity, accurate, Depicted, rendered

 

MCQ(s)

3