Friday, May 18, 2007

Exercise on Preposition from VLC

Blue color is my answer.
Red color is correct answer.
Yellow color is worng answer.

(0) 1. He refused to comment on the problem.
(0) 2. What is the reason of / forHong Kong's air pollution?
(x) 3. Can we meet to discuss about with the policy changes?
(x) 4. Graduates should consider onthattheir career goals.
(0) 5. They were asked to participate in the interviews.
(x) 6. Obviously you need to adapt for/to changing circumstances.
(x) 7. Applicants who filled with/ out the questionnaire were then chosen randomly.
(0) 8. This figure could reflect their dissatisfaction of/ with the lack og training.
(0) 9. What are the main differences of/ between US English and the English spoken in the UK?
(0) 10. Some authorities are now claiming that chocolate may be good to /for you in moderate quantities.
(X) 11.The USA made a formal complaint on /about that country's environmental policy.
(0) 12. Pay attention on/to that company's press releases. They may be looking for new employees soon.
(x) 13. The cleaners demanded for/ that a pay rise because of the recent rise in prices.
(0) 14. People can use credit cards to pay for goods on the web.
(x) 15. If on line learning can be developed, it seems to me that education will be more effective than in/ the past.
(0) 16. Education in/on the internet can save a lot of resources.
(0) 17. form/In my point of view, I do not think the government should censor the Internet.
(x) 18. All Hong Kong people were concerned on/for/about the recent economic crisis.
(x) 19. In some universities more than 2000 students are enrolled in/on the same course.
(x) 19. They want to get a job in/for/at the earliest possible opportunity.
(0) 20.This implies that the present situation of/in Hong Kong does not allow graduates to get their first preference jobs easily.
(x) 21. Because of the economic downturn, students ontended to apply to/for more jobs than last year.
(x) 22. Concerning about/with job seeking skills, the findings presented in Table 5 show that one-third of the subjects felt they needed more help in their interview techniques.
(x) 23. 24% of the subjects claimed that they needed help on/ for/with English speaking skills.
(0) 24. This figure could reflect their dissatisfaction of /with the lack of training.
I got 12 correct answers.

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