Read the sentences below. Each sentence contains a collocation from Units 3 and 4 (pages 7 and 9) of Language Building Volume 1.
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There are 2 mistakes in the 5 sentences. If you are comfortable with the language in the texts you should be able to find them easily.
Check your answers by looking at the book.
(1) The opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games in 2012 will invite inevitable comparisons between it and the Beijing Olympics.
(2) It is necessary to introduce strict new rules on energy consumption if we are to avoid the worst consequences of global warming.
(3) I believe it is necessary to introduce tough new penalties for people caught selling drugs to young people.
(4) Speculation on possible changes in the climate that may occur in fifty years time is unlikely to bear any relation to what will actually happen.
(5) The British government has recently unvieled new plans to reduce the number of prisoners by sentencing more people to community service.
Checking your answers is part of the learning process. It helps you to remember. If you cannot find the errors after looking in the book you can email me and I will tell you.
Paul, I believe I have found two mistakes in this exercise but I am not sure my answer is right. Sometimes I might mark the right word wrongly at the same time miss the actually wrong one. It might be easier for us to check the answer ourselves if you put the correct answers on the site rather than ask you every time. Here the answer is “Olympic’s” and “unveiled”, am I right?
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