I have completed this exercise and I also added short explanations of each answer or a comment:
1. The journalist's article, expected to be a harsh
critique of the politician, actually portrayed her in a very positive light.
(I used a dictionary to see which word is right for the context.)
2. The car company's losses continued to
mount as the product recalls drove customers away, rarely a
precursor of future growth.
(Again, dictionary, I didn't know what product recall is but I found out eventually. It's when a faulty product is taken back to manufacturer. 'Rarely a precursor of a future growth'. It matches the most.)
3. After a series of steep ascents the bike race
culminates, mercifully, on a flat stretch where bikers race for the finish line.
(dictionary)
4. Choose the word that is most nearly OPPOSITE to the word in capital letters below. The answer:
germane.
(dictionary).
5. Dennis is loving his new job in Australia." "What? I didn't
know he does live abroad!"
(He just lives there, there is no reference to anything).
6. Samantha would have made sure Harry was here
if she had known you were coming too.
(I have suspicions that it could be also correct: 'when she had known I'. 'Would have' can be used in a sentence without 'if-clause'. I'm not entirely sure about the last one but it should be correct.)
Please talk to us ! ;-D
Chcialbym wiedziec co to za cwiczenia w jakiej szkole i do czego i po co :D i konkretnie gdzie byl problem, trzeba bylo tylko ze slownikiem dopasowac kontekst. Bez slownika tez mozna ale trzeba sie skupic :D (bo niektore wyrazy mozna bez slownika zgadnac i ich kontekst) ? Byloby milo wiedziec jaki konkretnie mialas problem.
p.s pisze po angielsku posty bo latwiej mi sie skupic na jednym jezyku niz na dwoch naraz takze uzywam jednego jezyka w odpowiedziach.
Cheers
edytowany przez FBI12378: 26 gru 2019