1、 The very attractive mobile _______ the attention of the toddler and distracts him for a while.
2、 The issue of how to win more votes during the upcoming election is on the _____ for next week’s meeting.
3、 Kelly is ______ with her present job as the pay is so meagre.
4、 The customers were only _____ of receiving the free gifts and not of buying the knife itself.
5、 He is such a/an _____ speaker. He managed to sway the entire audience to adopt his cause.
6、 The kidnappers demanded a/an _____ in exchange for the safe return of the tycoon’s con.
7、 Sue is in a very _____ mood. I wouldn’t try to provoke her in any way if I were you.
8、 The sausages are _____ on the grill. I can’t wait to eat them.
9、 She is always able to remain _____ in her judgment regardless of whether it concerns a close friend or her enemy.
10、 That arrogant man really gets on my ____________
11、 “How should I ____ you?” asked Mr Rafie politely.
12、 “Could you please check your ____ to see if this model of Fiat comes in any other colour beside yellow?” Mingli asked the salesman.
13、 Mohammed Jaize has to get a Diploma in Education from the National Institute of Education before he is ______ to be a teacher.
14、 I bought this floral skirt at the sale, and I was given a forty-percent ______.
15、 The Lims’ cruise to Phuket ended in ______ when their ocean liner sank.
16、 “It is time you cleared up the mess in your room,” said Mum. “The whole place is ______ with toys and books.”
17、 “ _____ that you will have to hand in your assignment tomorrow, “Mr Fajar told the class.
18、 The system analyst felt like a ______ when his manager asked him to help out in the personnel department for three days.
19、 Liren should call up the restaurant to _____ a table for dinner or he may end up without a table for the night.
20、 Once a year many people travel to Mecca. These people are ______.
21、 _____ carefully all the instructions before you start on any examination papers.
24、 Word Substitution in bracket--In my effort to gain a university degree, I was ((weighed down)) by the very real fact that I had to look after my five younger siblings at the same time.
25、 Word Substitution in bracket--Engineering is a subject that requires ((hard work and close)) attention; therefore, you need to be disciplined in your study habits in order to excel in it.
26、 Word Substitution in bracket--It is in the nature of their work that every novelist will try to ((make up or invent)) fantastic stories and characters to keep readers engaged.
27、 Word Substitution in bracket--“How on earth are you going to ((get)) yourself ((out)) of this difficulty?” my mother asked me, frustrated by my last mistake.
28、 Word Substitution in bracket--Donna’s designs had to be ((without flaws)); even the slightest error meant that the entire work had to be redone.
29、 Word Substitution in bracket--The famous pop star, tired of all the attention he had been getting, decided to travel ((in disguise)) so as not to be bothered by both his fans and the media.
30、 Word Substitution in bracket--We were ((doubtful of predictions)) of fair weather for the sky was blanketed with thick, grey clouds and the wind was tossing twigs and leaves against our glass windows.
31、 Word Substitution in bracket--The first thing you need to do to make this speech easily understood by the common people is to get rid of the ((specialised)) medical ((language)).
32、 Word Substitution in bracket--At first, the mere sight of Rachel made me ((feel an intense dislike)) of her but upon getting to know her better, I found that she was really a charming person.
33、 Word Substitution in bracket--The old king was known to be ((one noble in spirit)) and would not think twice about helping any needy subjects who came to him for help.
34、 Word Substitution in bracket--The tribal dancers who were ((excessively decorated)) in their attire, danced vigorously to the loud and quick beats of drums and gongs all through the night.
35、 We________make up for lost time by working doubly hard now or we will not be ale to complete the assignment on time.
36、 Joan was such a____________speaker that she won the hearts of many students during the head prefect election campaign.
37、 There were many reporters at Sentosa to provide full__________of the Trump-Kim summit in June.
38、 John is not ___________to be a pilot as he suffers from severs from severe short-sightedness.
39、 Due to the extremely hot weather in the past few weeks,the number of flu cases in class has ________. Teachers will have to be prepared for more absentees in the coming week.
40、 To cure my sore throat, my grandmother put together many strange ingredients in a pot of water and made me drink a cup of her_________.
41、 The craftsman carved the ice ________, taking extreme care in the minute details of the sculpture.
42、 While planing for their camping trip, the boys ensured that they had prepared_______food as they did not want to go hungry.
43、 The baby’s laughter was so ________that everyone in the room laughed along when they heard him.
44、 ”For students who complete the poems within the hour, Mrs Tan_______Bonus points to them,”the class monitor announced to the class.
45、 If I_______an effort to exercises, I would not be this unfit.
46、 How can some animals predict bad weather?
47、 The sensitive bill of the platypus helps it to ____________
48、 Which of the animals below has the best eyesight?
49、 What does the phrase in a twinkling of an eye in Paragraph 6 mean?
50、 Which of the following produces sounds closest to the ultrasonic range?
Have you ever wondered how animals sense the world around them? Do you know that some of the senses they possess are far superior to ours? How do migrating birds find their way? How come some animals can foresee bad weather? It is only through recent years of intensive scientific study that scientists have finally come closer than ever before to having a complete understanding of the amazing senses of animals.
Pythons, boa constrictors and anacondas can detect temperature changes as small as 0.003 deg C and respond to them in as short as 35 milliseconds. The vampire bat has a weird patch of skin on its face known as the nose-leaf, and this can detect heat so acutely that the blind bat can pinpoint an animal 16 centimetres away. Certain migratory birds can detect very small changes in air pressure, hence aiding them to predict weather and maintain height while flying.
Ever wondered why cockroaches are so difficult to nab? This could be because it has sensitive vibration detectors in its legs that can pick up movements as tiny as 2000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom!
Scorpions have special hairs that can detect an air current moving as slowly as 0.072 kilometres per hour, and these help the scorpions to move in a straight line. The bill of the platypus can pick up minute electrical impulses, and this helps it detect preys like small shrimps who create electrical fields of nearly one millivolt per centimetre each time it moves its tail. The electric eel has 10 000 electric organs in its tail which can generate up to 550 volts – fatal even for a human.
Do you know that a duck can see all around itself (yes, even behind its head) without even turning its head? Did you know that a vulture can spot a carcass even while soaring 2000 metres in the air? The African guinea fowl can hear sounds in the infrasonic range (very low tones, indeed), and this is probably why they are inevitably accurate in foreseeing imminent rainfall, because thunderstorms always generate such sounds, and even though they are very far off, these birds can hear them. Rodents, on the other hand, tend to communicate with ultrasound. Rats generally use frequencies between 40 and 70 kHz, (humans can only hear up to 20kHz) and as cats are also sensitive to ultrasound, this is why they are so good at catching rodents.
Hence we see that the senses possessed by animals are really amazing. There are many not yet known or recorded down, but scientists are very sure that there are still many more surprises about animals which we have yet to discover.