Skills 1

Choose the best option: passive form or active form of the verb to complete the sentence.

The fires have raged || have been raged for more than a week in the southern region of Chile, which has been hit by a severe drought.

Find a mistake in the sentence.

Although scientists have always warned about the seriousness of climate change, people seemed to not care about it.

1. Although
2. seriousness
3. seemed
4. about

Choose a word that has different stress pattern.

1. microbiology
2. bacteriology
3. biotechnology
4. analogy

Choose a word that has different stress pattern.

1. happen
2. violent
3. powerful
4. respect

Choose a word that has different stress pattern.

1. manage
2. shelter
3. collapse
4. earthquake

Match each word below with its correct definition.

• destructive || cause major damage, from the verb destroy
• guidelines || rules or instructions telling you how to do something
• emergency || a suddenly serious and dangerous event or situation

Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

Your emergency supply kit should _______ food, water, medications, personal hygiene items, copies of personal documents and some money.

1. include
2. consist
3. compare
4. compose

Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

1. had tried up
2. had tried on
3. had been tried on
4. had been tried up

Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

A levee is a wall _______ next to a river to stop the river from overflowing. ​

1. build
2. building
3. built 
4. to be built

Find the word which has a different sound in the part underlined.

1. destructed
2. destroyed
3. damaged
4. sheltered