🔊 Read the text and answer the questions.

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This is Jack Smith. He is from Louisiana but he lives in California. It is very sunny in California. He is a 32-year-old farmer, married with two children.

How old is Jack Smith?

Jane:🔊 Excuse me, where is the library?
The Man:🔊 Go straight, and then make a right on 2nd Street. The library will be on your left.
Jane: 🔊 Thank you.
The Man:🔊 You’re welcome.
🔊 Jane is giving the man: 

🔊 What does “to plummet” mean?

Second Part

🔊 Complete the sentence:

🔊 Roberto Mancini ________ from Italy.

🔊 Where does he live?

🔊 What is the weather like where he lives?

🔊 “Go straight” means:

🔊 “will be” is:

🔊 Read the text and answer the questions.

🔊 This is Randy Henner. He is the boss and he is never happy. He doesn’t know how to smile and most bulldogs look nicer than him. He arrives at work at 8:30 am every day. He has a blue suit on today.

🔊 What is Randy wearing?

🔊 Choose the correct statement:

🔊 Choose the correct statement:

🔊 Read the text and answer the questions.

Secretary:🔊 Good morning, how may I help you?
Mr. Brenman:🔊 Hello, My name is Steve Brenman, I have an appointment with Mr. Sanders at 10 am.
Secretary: 🔊 Please take a seat. I’ll let him know you’re here. Would you like some coffee?
Mr. Brenman: 🔊 No, thanks.

What does “appointment” mean?

🔊 Choose the correct statement:

🔊 When the secretary says “I’ll let him know you’re here”, she means:

🔊 Hi Joel, how are you? I’m with Claire and we wanted your opinion on Mike’s presentation. We’re afraid few people understood him. We think he should simplify the presentation for next time, and structure it better. First impressions are key and presentations must be appealing.

🔊 What does “appealing” mean?

🔊 Choose the correct statement:

🔊 Which of these words means “should”?

🔊 Read the text and answer to the questions.

🔊 Come to our Conference and learn the best techniques to diversify your investment portfolio and reduce risk! We’ll make it worth your while! Free admission. Sign up by October 12th

🔊 What is the correct statement to rephrase “We’ll make it worth your while!”?

🔊 What is “to enroll”?

🔊 Read the text and answer the questions.

🔊 If you are like most employees, then you appreciate the opportunity to turn your ordinary 9 to 5 job into something that you relish going to every day. This is not the case for most employees because many of them do the same drab, boring things every day. They are not challenged or fulfilled. For this reason, many employees end up leaving their jobs, going on extended vacations and getting fired

🔊 What does “to relish” mean?

🔊 Choose the correct statement:

🔊 What does “drab” mean?

🔊 Read the text and answer the questions.

🔊 One particularly grim day in the middle of the financial collapse, as the value of my retirement account plummeted like Wile E. Coyote off a cliff, my brother asked me if I had considered buying gold. Without thinking, I said, “I’m not quite ready to dig a bunker in the backyard”. Which was a silly thing to say about a perfectly reasonable investment, one that has appealed to figures as diverse as Cleopatra, King Midas, the Rothschilds and the villain in Goldfinger.

🔊 What is the author’s regret?

🔊 Choose the correct statement:

🔊 Complete the sentence:

🔊 Bob ________ bananas.

🔊 Complete the sentence:

🔊 I ________ in New York.

🔊 Complete the sentence:

🔊 We ________ to Australia last year.

🔊 Choose the correct sentence:

🔊 “I have worked for this company for 2 years” means.

🔊 Complete the sentence:

🔊 He ________ sending the invitations yet.

🔊 Choose a sentence similar to “Sales are decreasing actually”.

🔊 Choose the correct sentence:

🔊 Complete the sentence

🔊 I ________ him before, so I didn’t recognize him.

🔊 Complete the sentence:

🔊 ________ it is raining, we are having a barbecue.