Find the wrong word in this topic row

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Check – 3

V – 1

I.
Find the word with the same or similar meaning.

Example: dull – c)

a) original b) fascinating c) boring

1. to report

a) to borrow b) to inform c) to explain

2. advertisement

a) commercial b) review c) quiz

3. headline

a) article
b)
title c) conclusion

4. quality

a) popular b) original c) serious

5. handbook

a) manual b) guidebook c) encyclopedia

6. fascinating

a) gripping b) brilliant c) amusing

II.
Complete each sentence with one of the words or phrases below.

whenever wisdom tabloids events celebrate prove

book broadcast issue suggested

1. … contain a lot of photographs
and have a more sensational reporting style.

2. Smoking is bad. Can you … it?

3. Local newspapers give information on different … happening in the
local area.

4. I’d like to … tickets for a group of students to London.

5. Series is a long drama or comedy or documentary that is … in parts,
usually at a certain time of day.

6. The first … of the newspaper “The Daily Courant” was published in London in 1702.

7. … you ask for help, I’ll help you.

8. My uncle … making green tea as it is very good for the health.

9. Mikhail Lomonosov was known as a man of great … .

10. How did you … the turn of the century?

III. The word in capitals above each of the
following sentences can be used to form a word that fits suitably in the blank
space. Fill each blank in this way.

Example: MANAGE

He is the manager of a popular singer.

1. DAY

… newspapers are published on
every day of the week except Sunday.

2. COMMENT

Who is your favourite TV … ?

3. COMMUNCATE

Pamela thinks that the Internet
is the most useful means of … .

4. CULTURE

I prefer to read articles about
… affairs in our town.

5. PRINT

I think CD books will be much
more popular with teenagers of my generation than … books.

IV.
Complete the sentences. Choose the correct variant.

Example: I’ve got a lot of …
(work/ works) to do for the weekend. –

I’ve got a lot
of work
to do for the weekend.

1. What (is/ are) her progress in
English?

2. (Is/ Are) there any news from Andy?

3. Where (is/ are) Granny’s glasses?

4. (Is/ Are) these goods from America?

5. I got a lot of useful (information/ informations).

6. Do you eat much (fruit/ fruits)?

7. I like any kind of (weather/ weathers).

V.
Complete the sentences. Choose the correct variant.

Example: My mother disapproved of … (to read/ reading)
thrillers. —

My mother
disapproved of reading thrillers.

1. I have never dreamed of (to win/ winning) a competition.

2. My sister always enjoys (to go/ going) for a walk.

3. The angry neighbour told the teenagers to stop (to speak/ speaking)
too loud.

4. Do you think she’ll manage (to pass/ passing) her Maths exam?

5. My mum is always at home. She quitted (to work/ working) last year.

6. The teacher reminded us (to bring/ bringing) some flowers to decorate
the classroom.

7. Linda suggested me (to drink/ drinking) a cup of tea now.

Ответ:

1. 1) Holiday 2) platform 3) underground 4) camp 5) square 6) computer

2. Have you got any vacant rooms?

Yes, we’ll be able to put you up. Which floor would you like, sir?

We’ll take a room on the second floor. How much is it?

Single or double, sir?

One double-room, please.

Seventy dollars a night, sir.

Okay. It suits us. We’ll take this room.

3. 1) h 2) b 3) f 4) d 5) I 6) e 7) j c 9) a 10) g

4. 1) in advance 2) visit 3) accommodation 4) hotel 5) journey 6) abroad 7) arrives

5. 1.Excuse me, I’m late. When did you arrive?

2. Excuse me please, where is a platform 6?

3. I would like to book a one way ticket.

4. Don’t worry. We have enough time.

5. I would like to book two train tickets to Warsaw to 7 o’clock.

If it is truly intentional that it is trying to find similar words, then it may be hard to write software that can tell the difference between words that are related (in the same family) and those that are wholly unrelated but simply have a significant portion that happens to match.

Here, generator and general share the same genera- beginning, differing only in the endings -l versus -tor. Unless the software is actually able to understand suffixes, then I think this is about as close as it could get in identifying similar words. Without understanding language, it can’t know that genera- with the suffixes -ted, -ting, -te, are in the same family, but genera- with the suffixes -l, -lly, -lize, are not. If you tried to define which suffixes are similar, it would fail to find genuinely similar words in other cases.

I think that trying to parse the words for meaning across multiple language is asking too much for this kind of software.

My suggestion is instead to provide a checkbox in the Index Topic studio to optionally include similar words in the search results, so that the user can either find exactly the string as searched or include similar strings that may or may not include false positives.