DEPENDENT PREPOSITIONS AND PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES EXPRESSING KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF DEPENDENT PREPOSITIONS AND PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES A. Verb + preposition. 1. as well as verbs of movement and place followed by prepositional phrases, we can use verb + preposition combinations: The film...
COMPETITION, OPPOSITION, DISAGREEMENT STARTING AND ENDING; CREATING AND DESTROYING COMPETITION, OPPOSITION, DISAGREEMENT 1. Collocation – a number of verbs and adjectives collocate with competition and opposition: We encountered fierce competition in the opening stages of the...
PROGRESS TEST 1. Fill each of the blanks with a suitable word or phrase. 1. Our train ………………… if we don’t get to the station soon. 2. By next month we ………………… paying for the car. 3. He is thought ………………… deeply depressed at the time, but recovered later. 4. As soon as he came...
PROGRESS TEST 1. Finish each of the sentences in such a way that it is as similar in meaning as possible to the sentence printed before it. 1. Getting the company to change their stand is probably beyond our capabilities. I doubt ………………………………………………………………………………… 2. There’s every...
PROGRESS TEST 1. Fill each of the blanks with one suitable word or phrase. 1. All the best bargains ………………… sold if we don’t get to the market soon. 2. If you don’t call me before 6 pm, I ………………… you are no longer interested. 3. It’s high time ………………… clean about what you were...
1. Fill each of the numbered blanks with one suitable word. Whether or not we are …………… (1) in the universe is a question that has vexed humankind for centuries. But we are …………… (2) to live in an era when the technology exists to allow us to come …………… (3) to giving an answer. Up to...
1. In most lines of the following text, one word is missing, for each numbered line 1-17, write the missing word in the space. Some lines are correct. Indicate these lines with a tick (). The exercise begins with two examples. By and large I detest holidays, Every vacation paradise I...
PROGRESS TEST 1. Fill each of the numbered blanks with a suitable word or phrase. In the spring of 1778, the French revolutionary Talleyrand went to pay his respects to Voltaire. Even in a society ……………… (1) the worldliness of the clergy was notorious, ……………… (2) was a little...
PROGRESS TEST 1. Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with one suitable word. The chance to ‘get away from it all’ is often ……………… (1) as a reason for choosing to live on an island. Many feel ……………… (2) there is something appealing about running up a metaphorical...
Arguments for choosing this theme We live in a continuously developing world where major historical events have had their influence on people involved for decades. Take the 20th century, for instance. It is interspersed with globally important events like the two World Wars or periods...
The Program “ European Cultural Capital”, held jointly this year by Sibiu and Luxembourg, was initiated in 1985 by the Council of Ministers of Culture and the European Community, in order to celebrate the contribution of the European cities to the development of culture. Sibiu has...
If you are passing through Harghita or Covasna counties during your next holiday, by all means, do stop by the lake Saint Ana. It is a unique place in the Carpathians – the only lake of volcanic origin in Romania. Access to the lake is gained from Bixad, a village situated at 40...
Forward The present material is a useful tool, both for class study and for individual study, for business students preparing for their second year final exam, or for the final examination at the end of their academic studies. The six theme-based units consist of reading and...
Millions of women throughout the world live in conditions of abject deprivation of, and attacks against, their fundamental human rights for no other reason than that they are women. Women's Human Rights - Introduction Millions of women around the world suffer abuses of their equal...
1. INTRODUCTION; DEFINING THE NATIONAL SECURITY INTERESTS The Romanian Law states that Romania’s National Security Strategy is “the basic document that substantiates national defense planning”. The Strategy is therefore the political illustration of the fundamental attributes of the...