Message de alexgowes posté le 2004-12-31 00:09:50 (S | E | F | I)
The following questions are from a national exam in the U.S.A. for students who want to go to university. It's a test of English writing skills. Choose the best response to replace the words in bold. If you think the words in bold are already correct, choose option (A)

1. Since their readers often assume that journalists are objective and truthful, do journalists have a responsibility that other writers do not?
(A) that other writers do not
(B) that writers lack who are not journalists
(C) lacking in others who are writing
(D) not had by those who write differently
(E) when other writers have not

2. The young composer, turning out countless jingles for short-lived television commercials, and tormented by her sense of isolation from serious music.
(A) commercials, and tormented by
(B) commercials, tormented by
(C) commercials, was tormented by
(D) commercials; she found torment in
(E) commercials; she was tormented by

3. In 1922 African-American educator Anna Julia Cooper earned a doctorate at sixty-six, and this is when most people consider retirement.
(A) and this is when most people consider retirement
(B) an age at which most people consider retirement
(C) and by then most people consider retirement
(D) considered by most people for being an age for retirement
(E) which is considered retirement by most people

4. The earliest known encyclopedia still in existence being the work of one person, Pliny the Elder, a Roman who lived almost two thousand years ago.

(A) being the work of one person, Pliny the Elder, a Roman who
(B) being the work of one person, Pliny the Elder, a Roman and he
(C) is the work of Pliny the Elder, the one person who
(D) is the work of one person, Pliny the Elder, a Roman who
(E) is the work of one person, Pliny the Elder, a Roman and that

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Edité par bridg le 31-12-2004 00:30
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