Pop Quiz A Eng356 2020S 2

POP QUIZ (FOR CHECKING ATTENDANCE)
CLASS: ENG 356
1. English prevails in ........................ and the media.

A. transportation
B. media
C. medicine
D. A&B
2. English is certainly more widespread ........................ than Chinese.
A. geographically
B. periodically
C. culturally
D. historically
3. Strongest, largest, or with most power means ........................
A. spin
B. dominant
C. embark
D. resident
4. A common language used by speakers of different languages is ........................
A. laissez-faire
B. bilingual
C. link
D. lingua franca
5. English is becoming the world’s first ........................ language.
A. official
B. common
C. universal
D. main
6. ........................ traffic uses flag and light signals.
A. Air
B. Maritime
C. Rush-hour
D. Land
7. The language of the ........................ Age is English.
A. Stone
B. Bronze
C. Iron
D. Information
8. English is not replacing other languages; it is ........................ them.
A. supplementing
B. controlling
C. prevailing
D. challenging
9. ........................ means buying services externally rather than producing them
internally.
A. joint venture
B. generation
C. catching up
D. outsourcing
10. In Chile, the government has ........................ on a national program of teaching
English in all elementary and high schools.
A. embarked
B. linked
C. embodied
D. honed
11. We see English not only as a way of ........................ , but as a way of opening
windows on the wider world.
A. learning
B. communicating
C. travelling
D. entertaining
12. Mongolian Prime Minister announced that their country would become
a ........................ nation.
A. monolingual
B. multilingual
C. bilingual
D. trilingual
13. “Father shark, mother shark, sister shark,” she ........................ carefully.
A. recited
B. hone
C. fuel
D. prevail
14. Different forms of the same language is ........................
A. debating
B. dialects
C. resident
D. jettison
15. “If there is a ........................ to development it is English.
A. method
B. view
C. chance
D. shortcut
16. To come closer, to be at same place as others means ........................
A. outsourcing
B. widespread
C. catching up
D. joint venture
17. The rush toward English in Mongolia has not been without its ........................ .
A. bumps
B. land
C. language
D. interests
18. Mongolia now is embarking on a program to attract hundreds of ........................
teachers from around the world to teach here.
A. foreign
B. international
C. qualified
D. active
19. Human beings ........................ intimacy, to love and to be loved.

A. crave
B. hate
C. hope
D. deny
20. We often fall in love with someone because he or she ........................ us of a
significant person from our childhood
A. recall
B. remind
C. tell
D. ask
21. How we ........................ our intimate relationships, and what we can do to fix them.
A. build
B. create
C. sabotage
D. have
22. Tara fell in love with a man with “a ........................ look in his eyes”
A. romantic
B. close
C. friendly
D. faraway
23. Tara met Abe at a ........................
A. party
B. club
C. school
D. meeting
24. Like Tara and Abe, people choose partners who help them ........................ their
childhood struggles.
A. recall
B. recreate
C. remind
D. review
25. Abe responded the way he did with his mother: by ........................
A. clinging
B. talking
C. withdrawing
D. saying nothing
26. Tara began to ........................ more and more to Abe.
A. cling
B. angry
C. listen
D. look forward
27. Abe fell in love with a warm and ........................ woman.
A. beautiful
B. happy
C. rich
D. nurturing
28. His mother used to enter his room ........................ and arrange his personal
belongings.
A. invited
B. uninvited
C. silently
D. carefully
29. Do you think that love can ........................ a person?
A. help
B. support
C. transform
D. hurt
30. “........................ of intimacy” means if the woman gets too close, the man pulls back;
and vice versa.
A. Circle
B. Dance
C. Love
D. Sing
31. A term for men who will not find wives is ........................
A. Guang gun-er
B. bare branch
C. bachelor
D. All
32. The technology to identify the sex of a fetus became ........................ in Asia.
A. widespread
B. low
C. weak
D. expensive
33. Government facing a growing population of bare branches find themselves in
a ......................
A. trouble
B. dilemma
C. chance
D. happiness
34. “When you pick up one end of a ........................ , you also pick up the other”
A. rod
B. can
C. stick
D. string
35. The students are always ............... when they hear how well he speaks their
language.
A. fashionable
B. impressed
C. memorized
D. detected
36. I have only been skiing once before, so I would consider myself a ............... .
A. founder
B. trainee
C. fresh
D. novice
37. My son was unable to ............... me to buy him a motorcycle for his fifteenth
birthday.
A. convince
B. impress
C. hypothesize
D. detect
38. She had a ............... voice that made her easily recognizable on the phone.
A. high pitched
B. distant
C. distinctive
D. exceptional
39. As noted by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, she has served as an .................. for
many in the fight for democratic rights
A. honor
B. emotion
C. impression
D. inspiration
40. Maathai is best known for her efforts to develop the charitable
organization .................. the Green Belt Movement.
A. call
B. calling
C. called
D. called as
41. Because of her efforts, Maathai was awarded the .................. in 2004.
A. Peace Nobel Prize
B. Nobel Peace Prize
C. Nobel Prize
D. Nobel Prize Peace
42. Maathai’s organization encouraged women’s groups to plant trees in order
to .................. the environment.
A. conserve
B. prevent
C. pollute
D. keep
43. Through a regimen of weekly blood lettings, she was able to ..................... her iron
level.
A. increase
B. reduce
C. balance
D. maintain
44. “By 2050,” Collins said recently, “many ..................... diseases will be cured at the
molecular level before they arise.”
A. congenital
B. serious
C. strange
D. potential
45. ..................... help determine not only whether we get sick but also how we respond
to various treatments.
A. Genes
B. discoveries
C. cells
D. drugs

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POP QUIZ (FOR CHECKING ATTENDANCE)

CLASS: ENG 356

1. English prevails in ........................ and the media.

19. Human beings ........................ intimacy, to love and to be loved.

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