CAE - Exercicies - Collocations 2

Multiple Choice Cloze

Collocations 2

Complete each of the following sentences by choosing either A, B, C or D.

1) During the discussion, the speaker showed an excellent....... of all the issues.
A Knowledge
B Grasp 
C Comprehension
D Skill

Grasp - Comprehend fully:

‘the press failed to grasp the significance of what had happened’

 

2) It is widely....... that computer can make our lives easier.

A Accepted

B Agreed

C Allowed

D Affirmed

Accept - Believe or come to recognize (a proposition) as valid or correct:

‘this tentative explanation came to be accepted by the men’

[with clause] ‘it is accepted that ageing is a continuous process’

 

3) Those cupboards are looking a bit scruffy. They could do with a fresh....... of paint.

A Layer

B Cover

C Coat

D Film

Coat - A single application of paint or similar material on a surface:

‘apply a final top coat of varnish’

 

4) He may not look suspect to you but he is in fact a....... dangerous criminal.

A Totally

B Highly

C Strongly

D Largely

Highly - At or to a high degree or level:

[as submodifier] ‘a highly dangerous substance’

‘highly paid people’

 

5) My teacher is great. I have a very high........ of him.

A Opinion

B Regard

C Thought

D Respect

Opinion - An estimation of the quality or worth of someone or something:

‘I had a higher opinion of myself than I deserved’

 

6) She is a gifted linguist and is able to....... easily from English to French.

A Convert

B Revert

C Move

D Switch

 

Switch - Substitute (two items) for each other; exchange:

‘after ten minutes, listener and speaker switch roles’

 

7) You paid 30 euros for the jacket? That was a real........

A Deal

B Bargain

C Value

D Buy

Bargain - A thing bought or offered for sale much more cheaply than is usual or expected:

‘the table was a real bargain’

[as modifier] ‘a bargain price of 99p’

 

 

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CAE - Exercicies - Collocations

From Flo - Joe.

Collocations

Exercice 1

Complete each of the following sentences on the left with one the words on the right.

I'm glad to see that you've recovered from your - ILLNESS

My uncle suffers from heart - DISEASE

She picked up a rather nasty stomach - BUG

She has to take drugs every day for her heart - CONDITION

Vocabulary - From Oxford Dictionaries and Cambridge Dictionary

ILLNESS - A disease or period of sickness affecting the body or mind:

‘he died after a long illness’
‘I've never missed a day's work through illness’

DISEASE - A disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury:

‘bacterial meningitis is quite a rare disease’
‘heart disease’

BUG - An illness caused by a microorganism:     

‘he'd just recovered from a flu bug’

CONDITION - An illness or other medical problem:

‘a heart condition’   

RATHER -  Quite - to a slight degree:

‘ it's rather cold today, isn't it?’

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Wuthering Heights - Plot Overview - Part 1

Hi, everyone! I am reading Wuthering Heights as part of my English studies. I found some interesting notes about it on SparkNotes.

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 Plot Overview - Part 1

In the late winter months of 1801, a man named Lockwood rents a manor house called Thrushcross Grange in the isolated moor country of England. Here, he meets his dour landlord, Heathcliff, a wealthy man who lives in the ancient manor of Wuthering Heights, four miles away from the Grange. In this wild, stormy countryside, Lockwood asks his housekeeper, Nelly Dean, to tell him the story of Heathcliff and the strange denizens of Wuthering Heights. Nelly consents, and Lockwood writes down his recollections of her tale in his diary; these written recollections form the main part of Wuthering Heights.

Nelly remembers her childhood. As a young girl, she works as a servant at Wuthering Heights for the owner of the manor, Mr. Earnshaw, and his family. One day, Mr. Earnshaw goes to Liverpool and returns home with an orphan boy whom he will raise with his own children. At first, the Earnshaw children—a boy named Hindley and his younger sister Catherine—detest the dark-skinned Heathcliff. But Catherine quickly comes to love him, and the two soon grow inseparable, spending their days playing on the moors. After his wife’s death, Mr. Earnshaw grows to prefer Heathcliff to his own son, and when Hindley continues his cruelty to Heathcliff, Mr. Earnshaw sends Hindley away to college, keeping Heathcliff nearby.

Three years later, Mr. Earnshaw dies, and Hindley inherits Wuthering Heights. He returns with a wife, Frances, and immediately seeks revenge on Heathcliff. Once an orphan, later a pampered and favored son, Heathcliff now finds himself treated as a common laborer, forced to work in the fields. Heathcliff continues his close relationship with Catherine, however. One night they wander to Thrushcross Grange, hoping to tease Edgar and Isabella Linton, the cowardly, snobbish children who live there. Catherine is bitten by a dog and is forced to stay at the Grange to recuperate for five weeks, during which time Mrs. Linton works to make her a proper young lady. By the time Catherine returns, she has become infatuated with Edgar, and her relationship with Heathcliff grows more complicated.

When Frances dies after giving birth to a baby boy named Hareton, Hindley descends into the depths of alcoholism, and behaves even more cruelly and abusively toward Heathcliff. Eventually, Catherine’s desire for social advancement prompts her to become engaged to Edgar Linton, despite her overpowering love for Heathcliff. Heathcliff runs away from Wuthering Heights, staying away for three years, and returning shortly after Catherine and Edgar’s marriage.

When Heathcliff returns, he immediately sets about seeking revenge on all who have wronged him. Having come into a vast and mysterious wealth, he deviously lends money to the drunken Hindley, knowing that Hindley will increase his debts and fall into deeper despondency. When Hindley dies, Heathcliff inherits the manor. He also places himself in line to inherit Thrushcross Grange by marrying Isabella Linton, whom he treats very cruelly. Catherine becomes ill, gives birth to a daughter, and dies. Heathcliff begs her spirit to remain on Earth—she may take whatever form she will, she may haunt him, drive him mad—just as long as she does not leave him alone. Shortly thereafter, Isabella flees to London and gives birth to Heathcliff’s son, named Linton after her family. She keeps the boy with her there.

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Wuthering Heights - Context

Hi, everyone! I am reading Wuthering Heights as part of my English studies. I found some interesting notes about it on SparkNotes.
 

 

Here, there is a compilation of the best parts:

Context.

Wuthering Heights, which has long been one of the most popular and highly regarded novels in English literature, seemed to hold little promise when it was published in 1847, selling very poorly and receiving only a few mixed reviews. Victorian readers found the book shocking and inappropriate in its depiction of passionate, ungoverned love and cruelty (despite the fact that the novel portrays no sex or bloodshed), and the work was virtually ignored.

Emily Brontë lived an eccentric, closely guarded life. She was born in 1818, two years after Charlotte and a year and a half before her sister Anne, who also became an author. Her father worked as a church rector, and her aunt, who raised the Brontë children after their mother died, was deeply religious. Emily Brontë did not take to her aunt’s Christian fervor; the character of Joseph, a caricature of an evangelical, may have been inspired by her aunt’s religiosity. The Brontës lived in Haworth, a Yorkshire village in the midst of the moors. These wild, desolate expanses—later the setting of Wuthering Heights—made up the Brontës’ daily environment, and Emily lived among them her entire life. She died in 1848, at the age of thirty.

Yet the sisters knew that the outside world would not respond favorably to their creative expression; female authors were often treated less seriously than their male counterparts in the nineteenth century. Thus the Brontë sisters thought it best to publish their adult works under assumed names. Charlotte wrote as Currer Bell, Emily as Ellis Bell, and Anne as Acton Bell. Their real identities remained secret until after Emily and Anne had died when Charlotte, at last, revealed the truth of their novels’ authorship.

Today, Wuthering Heights has a secure position in the canon of world literature and Emily Brontë is revered as one of the finest writers—male or female—of the nineteenth century. Like Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights is based partly on the Gothic tradition of the late eighteenth century, a style of literature that featured supernatural encounters, crumbling ruins, moonless nights, and grotesque imagery, seeking to create effects of mystery and fear. But Wuthering Heights transcends its genre in its sophisticated observation and artistic subtlety. As a shattering presentation of the doomed love affair between the fiercely passionate Catherine and Heathcliff, it remains one of the most haunting love stories in all of the literature. 

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