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This test is for you to test your dictionary skills. The objective is for you to check what you have learned in this program, and to find any weak areas in your skills so that you can study and improve.

Proofreading skills:

There is ONE mistake in every line of text. Try to find it and write the correction in the box at the end of the line. The mistakes come into the following categories: spelling, prepositions, singular/plural, prefixes, word class (noun, adjective etc),  punctuation, phrasal verbs and similar words.

1. China's Internet population has uncreased by  more than 4 times
2. in the space of a year, with the totally  number of users now at
3. 8.9 million, acording to a recent report.
4. Twenty million Chinese is expected to be online by the end of the  
5. year; a boom caused by  the introduce of mobile phones and
6. other low cost methods of conecting to the Internet.
7. The chinese are proving to be dedicated surfers, spending an
8. average of 17 hours a weak online- with email the most popular
9. choosing, in spite of slow connection speeds  and high costs.
10. The report found most person online were single men with a
11. well education, perhaps unsurprisingly.  However, women were
12. catching out, accounting  for  21% of users. People can type in
13. Chinese characters instead of infamiliar  English web addresses,
14. but  a  government   is  expected   to monitor  and  screen
15. all   web  content   for  sites containing politically  sensible
16. informations. The explosion in Internet usage is   unlikely to   go
17. innoticed by investors in one of the world's biggest markets.
18. Overseas companies see China's enter into the WTO as an
19. opening for investment and, according by Bill Clinton, a chance to
20. exert their influenza, whether China likes it or not.

Adapted from BBC News, 25.1.2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Question One:

Question One tests your knowledge of prefixes. The correct answer is  , and your answer was  . For more practice with prefixes, click here.

 

Question Two :

Question  Two tests your knowledge of parts of speech. The correct answer is  , an adjective not an adverb, and your answer was  . For more practice with parts of speech, click here.

 

 

Question Three:

Question  Three tests your knowledge of spelling . The correct answer is  , and your answer was  . For more practice with spelling and alphabetical order, click here.

 

 

Question Four:

Question  Four tests your knowledge of singular and plural verb agreement. The correct answer is  , and your answer was  .

 

Question Five:

Question  Five tests your knowledge of  parts of speech. The correct answer is  , and your answer was  .

For more practice with  parts of speech, click here.

 

Question Six:

Question  Six tests your knowledge of spelling. The correct answer is  , and your answer was  .

For more practice with spelling and alphabetical order, click here.

 

Question Seven:

Question  Seven tests your knowledge of punctuation. The correct answer is  , and your answer was  .

 

Question Eight:

Question  tests your knowledge of spelling and homonyms (words that sound the same). The correct answer is  , and your answer was  .

For more practice with spelling and alphabetical order, click here.

 

Question Nine:

Question  Nine tests your knowledge of  parts of speech. The correct answer is  , and your answer was  .

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Question Ten:

Question  Ten tests your knowledge of  irregular singular and plural. The correct answer is  , and your answer was  .

 

Question Eleven:

Question  Eleven tests your knowledge of parts of speech . The correct answer is  , and your answer was  .

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Question Twelve:

Question  Twelve tests your knowledge of phrasal verbs. The correct answer is  , and your answer was  .

For more practice with phrasal verbs, click here.

 

Question Thirteen:

Question  Thirteen tests your knowledge of prefixes. The correct answer is  , and your answer was  .

For more practice with prefixes, click here.

 

Question Fourteen:

Question  Fourteen tests your knowledge of articles (a/an , the). The correct answer is  , and your answer was  .

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Question Fifteen:

Question  tests your knowledge of similar and easily confused words and also collocation (words that frequently go together). The correct answer is  , and your answer was  .

For more practice with  collocation , click here.

 

Question Sixteen:

Question  Sixteen tests your knowledge of  irregular singular and plural . The correct answer is  , and your answer was  .

 

Question Seventeen :

Question  Seventeen tests your knowledge of prefixes. The correct answer is  , and your answer was  .

For more practice with prefixes, click here.

 

Question Eighteen :

Question  Eighteen tests your knowledge of  parts of speech. The correct answer is  , and your answer was  .

For more practice using  parts of speech, click here.

 

Question Nineteen:

Question  Nineteen tests your knowledge of  prepositions. The correct answer is  , and your answer was  . For more practice with prepositions, click here.

 

 

Question  Twenty:

Question  Twenty  tests your knowledge of similar and easily confused words . The correct answer is  , and your answer was  .

 

 

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