SELF-REINFORCEMENT EXERCISES 3 Pre-เตรียม

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EXERCISE 3

SENTENCE COMPLETION

Choose the best answer to complete the sentence.

EXERCISE 3

SENTENCE COMPLETION

Choose the best answer to complete the sentence.

1. __________ that people with schizophrenia face is recognizing the need to
take the appropriate medications that reduce delusions in the brain.

a. Major problems

b. Since the major problem

c. One major problem

d. Of the major problematic

2. Most people think heart disease happens only in the elderly, _____________.

a. as people have known for a long time

b. that causes heart defects in the family

c. and yet it happens in children as well

d. but it is not a classic case

3. Insulin affects metabolism by allowing cells throughout the body ___________.

a. to use glucose as fuel

b. was used glucose as fuel

c. have used glucose as fuel

d. using to glucose as fuel

4. On the morning of June 11, three antique statue heads, weighing more than ten kilograms, __________ lying outside a radio station.

a. found were wrapped in a newspaper bag

b. found and wrapped in newspaper in a bag

c. were found wrapped in newspaper in a bag

d. were wrapped and found in a bag of newspaper

5. We will take a plane to Chiang Mai ___________.

a. if all the air tickets are sold out

b. if the flight attendants are still on strike

c. unless the flight is fully booked

d. unless the hotel rooms are available

6. During the 19th century, __________ that everything was made from atoms, even though they have no way then to observe atoms.

a. most scientists believed

b. most scientists believing

c. most scientists believed in

d. most scientists’ belief

7. ___________ Nantucket Island is a superb spot for watching the eclipse.

a. A

b. The

c. An

d. –

8. The latest ruling is expected to spark further social debate on the continuation of the project, __________ due to conflicting opinions between environmentalists and developers.

a. although remains unsettled

b. it remains unsettled

c. which remains unsettled

d. for remains unsettled

9. When the contest was over and the results were posted, the team members were so exhausted that they couldn’t even read ____________.

a. it

b. themselves

c. them

d. us

10. Two key suspects in the seven-billion-baht money laundering scam were arrested yesterday. They are among 62 suspects wanted in connection with illegal transfers of money out of the country. ___________ 23 of the 62 suspects have been arrested or turned themselves in for police questioning.

a. Even though

b. No doubt

c. So far

d. Just then

ERROR IDENTIFICATION

Choose the underlined part that is grammatically incorrect.

ERROR IDENTIFICATION

Choose the underlined part that is grammatically incorrect.

11. Bankruptcy legislation (a) is desired to provide an (b) orderly and
(c) equitably liquidation of the estates of (d) an insolvent debtor.

(a) is desired

(b) orderly

(d) an insolvent

12. One must (a) bear in mind that in the early (b) stages of learning a new
language, students often (c) return to something (d) alike childhood.

(a) bear in mind

(b) stages

(d) alike

13. It’s the same (a) misguided attitude that drives parents to spray their kids
(b) with antiseptic to protect them from all known germs (c) when
actually they only end up sickly (d) but their immune system never
develops.

(a) misguided

(b) with

(d) but

14. Our watches (a) have been stolen recently, and unfortunately (b) either
of us (c) knows who the thief (d) is.

(a) have been stolen

(b) either

(d) is

15. Mitsuko Masui, the first female director of a public zoo in Japan, proposes
that (a) people involved with zoos create educational programs to let
visitors know how the animals formerly lived in the wild and publicize the
importance of protecting animals and their environment. She believes that
(b) the animals like ambassadors, helping to bridge the gap in understanding
between wild animals and human beings. (c) Without zoos, most people
would never have a chance to see wild animals. (d) So, Masui has
devoted herself to developing favorable environments for all the animals
at her zoo.

(a) people involved with zoos create educational programs to let visitors know how the animals formerly lived in the wild

(b) the animals like ambassadors, helping to bridge the gap in understanding between wild animals and human beings.

(d) So, Masui has devoted herself to developing favorable environments for all the animals at her zoo.

CLOZE TEST

Choose the best word to complete each blank in the passage below.

CLOZE TEST

Choose the best word to complete each blank in the passage below.

Stop! Put down that turkey sandwich and back slowly away from the

fridge. Your nocturnal noshing may not only be bad for physical health, but it

could also be detrimental to ___16___ and memory, according to the latest

neuroscientific research. A substantial amount of scientific study has already shown

that late-night culinary habits can contribute to the development of conditions

___17___ obesity or type 2 diabetes. Now a team at the University of California,

Los Angeles has looked at the ways ___18___ late can affect the brain by using

mice as subjects and creating ___19___ feeding schedules that were either aligned

___20___ misaligned with the animals’ natural circadian cycles.