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- 1. Multiple Choice
Finish the sentence:
Hedging language is used to ...
make your writing more cautious.
make your writing stronger.
make your writing both more cautious and stronger.
- 2. Multiple Choice
Finish the sentence:
Boosting language is used to ...
make your writing more cautious.
make your writing stronger.
make your writing both more cautious and stronger.
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which type of language is used to make your writing more academic and accurate?
hedging language
boosting language
both hedging and boosting language
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which type of language is used to strengthen your argument?
hedging language
boosting language
both hedging and boosting language
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which type of language is polite and helps the writer not to sound overconfident and arrogant?
hedging language
boosting language
both hedging and boosting language
- 6. Multiple Choice
Choose the best word for the gap.
Pollution ______________ the greatest environmental challenge of this century.
is
may be
- 7. Multiple Choice
Choose the best word for the gap.
Incomplete sentences are _______________ found in students' essays.
often
always
- 8. Multiple Choice
Choose the best word for the gap.
The increase in rainfall _________________ cause rivers to overflow later this year.
will
could
- 9. Multiple Choice
Choose the word which has the strongest meaning.
probable
certain
possible
unlikely
- 10. Multiple Choice
Choose the phrase which has the weakest meaning.
Much evidence suggests
It is widely accepted that
It is clear that
Some evidence suggests
- 11. Multiple Choice
Choose the correct word for the space.
The US economy grew _______________ faster in the first quarter than was expected.
fairly
slightly
approximately
- 12. Multiple Choice
Choose the correct word for the space.
Mature students do not _______________ manage their deadlines better than younger colleagues.
reasonably
rather
necessarily
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