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Choose the answer which best paraphrases the following.
Line-drying the washing is better for the environment than using a tumble dryer. |
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Line-drying the washing is good for the environment, unlike using a tumble dryer |
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Line-drying the washing is good for the environment, unlike tumble drying |
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Drying clothes outdoors is more environmentally-friendly than tumble drying |
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Drying clothes outdoors is better for the environment than using a tumble dryer |
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Choose the answer which best paraphrases the following.
The minister and his aides drove away from the fraught meeting with a perceptible air of relief. |
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The minister and his aides drove away from the difficult meeting with a perceptible air of relief |
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The minster and his aides left the fraught meeting with a perceptible air of relief |
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The minister and his aides left the difficult meeting with an air of relief |
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The minister and his aides seemed relieved as they left the difficult meeting |
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Choose the answer which best paraphrases the following.
Before making their permanent move to France, the couple spent three years learning the language. |
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Before making a permanent move to France, the couple spent three years learning French |
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The couple studied French before relocating to France |
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Before moving permanently to France, the couple learned the language |
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The couple spent three years learning the language before their permanent move to France |
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Choose the answer which best paraphrases the following.
'By that time I was shrieking. Jem yanked my hair, said he didn't care, he'd do it again if he got a chance, and if I didn't shut up he'd pull every hair out of my head. I didn't shut up and he kicked me. I lost my balance and fell on my face. Jem picked me up roughly but looked like he was sorry.' - From To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee |
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I was shrieking. Jem pulled my hair. He said he didn't care. He said he'd do it again |
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Scout was shrieking. Jem pulled her hair. He said he didn't care. He said he'd do it again |
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Jem and Scout fought viciously, but when when Scout was hurt, Jem felt apologetic |
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Jem and Scout fought for a while and stopped when Scout was hurt. Then Jem looked sorry |
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Choose the answer which best paraphrases the following.
'Curley's fist was swinging when Lennie reached for it. The next minute Curley was flopping like a fish on a line, and his closed fist was lost in Lennie's big hand. George ran down the room. "Leggo of him, Lennie. Let go."' - From Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck. |
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Curley was flopping like a fish because Lennie swung for his hand until George said let go |
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Lennie reached for Curley and closed his fist in his big hand. George made him let go |
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Curley, who provoked the fight, turned out to be no match for Lennie, who only stopped when ordered to do so |
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Curley flopped like a pathetic fish when he tried to pick a fight with Lennie's big hand |
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Choose the answer which best paraphrases the following.
The ghost of Banquo has entered and sat in Macbeth's place at the table. Macbeth: The table's full. Lenox: Here is a place reserv'd, sir. Macbeth: Where? Lenox: Here, my good lord. What is't that moves your highness? - Macbeth: Which of you have done this? Lords: What, my good lord? Macbeth: Thou canst not say, I did it: never shake thy gory locks at me. From Macbeth, by William Shakespeare. |
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Macbeth is shocked and frightened by the appearance of Banquo's ghost at his table |
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Macbeth asks which of you has done this and says never shake your gory locks at me |
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Which of the lords has played a trick on Macbeth? The table's full and there's no room |
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You can't say I did it. Which of you is playing a trick on me? |
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Choose the answer which best paraphrases the following.
'"I think you are tongue-tied," said Scully finally to his son, the cowboy, and the Easterner; and at the end of this scornful sentence he left the room.' - From Stephen Crane's short story, The Blue Hotel. |
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Scully tells his son, the cowboy and the Easterner that they are tongue-tied, then he leaves the room |
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Scully says I think you are tongue-tied to his son, the cowboy and the Easterner, then leaves the room |
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Scully is angry with everyone |
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Scully insults the three men, making an accusation of their silence, before storming out of the room |
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Choose the answer which best paraphrases the following.
'Quietly the Brother Officer went out. / He'd told the poor old dear some gallant lies / That she would nourish all her days, no doubt. / For while he coughed and mumbled, her weak eyes / Had shone with gentle triumph, brimmed with joy, / Because he'd been so brave, her glorious boy.' - From Siegfried Sassoon's poem, 'The Hero'. |
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The officer coughs and mumbles and tells some gallant lies |
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The dead soldier, her glorious, dear boy, had been so brave |
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The officer takes pity on the bereaved mother by allowing her to remember her son as courageous |
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The Brother Officer went out quietly after telling some lies to the poor old dear |
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Choose the answer which best paraphrases the following.
'My little horse must think it queer / To stop without a farmhouse near / Between the woods and frozen lake / The darkest evening of the year.' - From Robert Frost's poem, 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'. |
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The narrator's little horse thinks he's strange for stopping on the darkest evening of the year |
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The narrator's little horse is wondering where the nearest farmhouse is |
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The narrator is afraid of the dark woods and is wondering where the nearest farmhouse is |
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The narrator contrasts his actions with an animal's desire for basic comforts |
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Choose the answer which best paraphrases the following.
'I'm thinking about you. What else can I say? / The palm trees on the reverse / are a delusion; so is the pink sand. / What we have are the usual / fractured coke bottles and the smell / of backed-up drains, too sweet, / like a mango on the verge / of rot, which we have also.' - From 'Postcards', by Margaret Atwood. |
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The narrator expresses the disappointment felt when a holiday doesn't match expectations |
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The narrator describes the holiday scene, which is exactly like a beautiful postcard |
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The narrator has nothing to say |
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The narrator writes of the complaint she has made to the hotel staff about the poor accommodation |
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