This document contains an English quiz with multiple choice questions and fill-in-the-blank exercises about living abroad and a disposable society. The quiz covers topics like relative clauses, sentence structure, verb forms, and a reading comprehension passage about why electronic repair shops are declining due to people replacing broken items rather than paying for repairs.
This document contains an English quiz with multiple choice questions and fill-in-the-blank exercises about living abroad and a disposable society. The quiz covers topics like relative clauses, sentence structure, verb forms, and a reading comprehension passage about why electronic repair shops are declining due to people replacing broken items rather than paying for repairs.
This document contains an English quiz with multiple choice questions and fill-in-the-blank exercises about living abroad and a disposable society. The quiz covers topics like relative clauses, sentence structure, verb forms, and a reading comprehension passage about why electronic repair shops are declining due to people replacing broken items rather than paying for repairs.
This document contains an English quiz with multiple choice questions and fill-in-the-blank exercises about living abroad and a disposable society. The quiz covers topics like relative clauses, sentence structure, verb forms, and a reading comprehension passage about why electronic repair shops are declining due to people replacing broken items rather than paying for repairs.
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ENGLISH FOR GENERAL
INTERCHANGE 3 UNIT 5-6 QUIZ
A. Answer the questions below using noun phrase containing relative clauses as a subject and as an object.
Example: What country would you like to live in? Answer: - The country I’d most like to live in is Indonesia. - Indonesia is the country I’d most like to live in.
1. What is the thing you would enjoy most about living abroad? - _________________________________________________________________________. - _________________________________________________________________________.
2. Who is the person you would most like to live in?
B. Put the words in order to make sentences about living abroad.
1. Would - trying - thing - the - one - local - is - I - food - excited
- by - be __________________________________________________________________________.
2. About - anxious - language - be - I - is - not - the - something
- understanding - would __________________________________________________________________________.
C. Circle the correct word or phrase.
1. I can’t finish my work. My computer keeps (crashing/ emptying/ replacing)
2. the keys on my laptop don’t work right. They keep (adjusting/ skipping/ sticking). 3. this fan is useless! It keeps (breaking down/ flickering/ jamming). 4. My cell phone is driving me crazy. It keeps (freezing/ going dead/ skipping). 5. my desk light keeps (fixing/ flickering/ replacing).
C. Complete these sentences using another form of the boldface word.
1. These jeans have a tear in the knee. They are __________________. 2. My new car is damaged. It has some __________________ on the door. 3. There is a small leak in the aquarium. It is __________________. 4. Look at the chip in that vase. It is _________________. 5. This dress is stained. There are several bad __________________ on it.
D. Read the article. The check () the correct answers.
A few years ago, if a new electronic item broke down, most people took it to a repair shop. Not any more! These days, if a new item breaks, more and more people simply throw it away and buy a new one. Why have we become a throwaway society?
The easy answer is price. You can buy a TV for $99, but what if it breaks? If a major part needs to be replaced, it could cost $60 or more. Then, when you add labor and shipping, the TV would cost more to repair than to replace.
Some repair shops have a minimum charge (sometimes $25 or more) just to look at a crashed computer or jammed keyboard. Are they making millions of dollars? No. A recent survey found that more and more repair shops are closing because they can’t afford to stay in business. The evidence is in the telephone bool – in 1992, more than 20.000 repair shops were listed in the United States; by 2004, there were fewer than 9.000.
But price is not the only factor. According to Ed Hight, a repair shop owner, customer psychology has changed. “It’s a disposable society ..... people want the newest and the hottest.” He says the only way to change it is to make it expensive to throw things away. He adds, “But we won’t do that until the mountains of garbage are so high we can’t breathe!”
1. A suitable title for the article is ... . 3. In the last two decades, the number of a. electronic breakdown raises repair shops has ... . questions a. increased b. low prices cause mountains of trash b. decreased c. repair – don’t replace! c. stayed the same
2. The article says that electronic repair 4. A disposable society (paragraph 4) is a
shops ... . society in which ... . a. have minimum charges that are a. people don’t worry about prices much too high b. people throw things away rather than b. often repair items for more money repair them than the price of a new one c. people’s psychologycal problems c. are going out of business because change quickly they charge too much money
