In “ ...the train was approaching New York” a gerund is used as a/an
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Q488642
In “ ...the train was approaching New York” a gerund is used as a/an
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Q488592

Based on the text How India changed English, judge the following items.
The words “highlights” (l.16), and “unlikely” (l.20) can be correctly and respectively replaced by draws attention to and improbable.
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Q488588

Based on the text How India changed English, judge the following items.
In the excerpt “‘Hobson-Jobson: The Definitive Glossary of British India’ was published in 1886” (l. 7 and 8), “was published” can be correctly replaced by has been published.
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Q488584

Based on the cartoon, judge the following items.
The sentence “That site verified my age by having me type in all my credit card information” can be correctly rewritten by: This site guessed how many years I have because I sent them my credit card data.
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Q488580

In reference to the vocabulary used in the text What do our flags say about us?, judge the next items.
In the sentence “Each one will be considered individually, before this long list is finally whittled down to the final four.” (l. 19 to 21), “whittled down” can be correctly replaced by selected.
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Q488576

In reference to the vocabulary used in the text What do our flags say about us?, judge the next items.
“squeezed into” (l.2) and “tough” (l.8) help to express the author’s view that it is difficult to create a flag to represent a nation.
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Q705729

Based on the text above, judge the following items.
In the sentence “they are tracked” (l.20), the pronoun “they” refers to “someone” (l.19).
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Q705728

Judge the following items according to the text.
In the sentence “Unsurprisingly, teachers reported students falling asleep in class” (l.17 and 18), the words “Unsurprisingly, teachers” can be correctly replaced with Teachers who had no surprises.
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Q705727

Judge the following items according to the text.
In “Tiredness also increases the possibility” (l.28 and 29), the word “Tiredness” can be correctly replaced with Fatigued.
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Q705726

Judge the following items according to the text.
In the sentence “Society in general, and teenagers in particular, must start to take sleep seriously” (l.40 and 41), the verb “must” can be correctly replaced with should without changing in the meaning of the text.