General Education in the New Curriculum

General Education in the New Curriculum – English Test 10

Purposive Communication in English

1. I love to write short stories I would write one this summer vacation if I had the time.
What’s wrong with the sentence?

A. It is a run-on sentence.
B. It is a compound sentence.
C. I “would” should be I “will.”
D. if I had the time should be if I have time.

Answer

A. It is a run-on sentence.
A run-on sentences, also known as fused sentences, occur when two complete sentences are combined without using a coordinating conjunction or proper punctuation.

2. I love to write short stories I would write one this summer vacation if I had the time. How should the sentence be, if corrected?

A. I love to write short stories. I would write one this summer vacation if I had the time.
B. Because I love to write short stories. I would write one this summer vacation if I had the time.
C. I will write one this summer vacation, If I had the time because I love to write short stories.
D. I will write one this summer vacation I will have time because I love to write short stories.

Answer

A. I love to write short stories. I would write one this summer vacation if I had the time.

3. This morning, he the book on the shelf. Which is the correct verb?

A. laid
B. lay
C. lied
D. lain

Answer

A. laid
“Laid” is the past tense of “lay,” the correct verb for the sentence.

4. Do you have your sweetheart _____ you?

A. besides
B. over
C. beside
D. from

Answer

C. beside
“beside you” means “near you” while “besides” means “other than”

5. We have just _____.

A. began
B. begin
C. begun
D. beginning

Answer

C. begun
“Begun” is the past participle form of “begin”; the verb is in the present perfect tense, “have begun”

6. What do the research findings _____?

A. imply
B. conclude
C. infer
D. dictate

Answer

A. imply
Imply means to hint at something.

7. If you see your teacher’s bag on her chair, you might _____ that she arrived in school.

A. imply
B. conclude
C. infer
D. dictate

Answer

C. infer
Infer means to deduce or conclude from evidence rather than from explicit statements.

8. Occassionally, the committee argues on the budget of the company. Rewrite the misspelled word correctly.

A. committee should be “comittee”
B. Occassionally should be “Occasionally”
C. committee should be “commiittee”
D. Occassionaly should be “Ocassionally”

Answer

B. Occassionally should be “Occasionally”
Only “Occassionally” is wrongly spelled which should be corrected with just one “s”

9. The driver filled _____ the tank with gasoline.

A. up
B. out
C. in
D. No preposition after “filled”

Answer

A. up
Fill up means to make full.

10. To which academic unit do you belong to Which should be the correct question?

A. To what academic unit do you belong to?
B. To what academic unit you belong?
C. To which academic unit do you belong?
D. Which academic unit you belong?

Answer

C. To which academic unit do you belong?
Avoid redundancy. The sentence begins with “To” and ends again in “to”.

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