單詞測試：allocation等（多項選擇）

單詞測試：allocation等（多項選擇）ZT

1. Choose the best definition of allocation:

1. ►financial development
2. ►dividing among different groups of people
3. ►population growth
4. ►amount of money that is spent

2. "In 1928, a British scientist made a chance observation: He found that some mold had grown in bacteria in a culture plate in his laboratory."

Choose the best definition of mold:

1. ►hard container used to give shape to something
2. ►soft substance that grows on damp things
3. ►fungus shaped like an umbrella
4. ►respiratory infection with sneezing and coughing

3. "The Education Cluster surveyed 25 organizations in the north. Three-fourths of them said local schools had been vandalized or destroyed."

Choose the best definition of vandalized:

1. ►attacked with a bomb
2. ►deliberately damaged
3. ►taken apart and moved to another location
4. ►restored to good condition

4. "She says she has no problem expressing the names of body parts in English. But as a Kikuyu, some of these words in her first language could be provocative if she said them in public."

Choose the best definition of provocative:

1. ►causing reactions, argument, and discomfort
2. ►unexpected or unusual
3. ►confusing
4. ►having words that begin with the same sound

5. "My great-grandmother died of consumption. And it was quite a few years later that I learned that consumption is an old-time euphemism for tuberculosis."

Choose the best definition of euphemism:

1. ►something that brings a feeling of great happiness
2. ►word that is commonly used in a particular region
3. ►mild or pleasant word that is used instead of one that is unpleasant or offensive
4. ►medical treatment
   
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   Answers to the questions (ZT)
   
   1. dividing among different groups of people
   2. soft substance that grows on damp things
   3. deliberately damaged
   4. causing reactions, argument, and discomfort
   5. mild or pleasant word that is used instead of one that is unpleasant or offensive

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• allocation -location fold疊-mold -走馬讀人- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/03/2012 postreply 11:35:08

• 周末好，謝分享。 -斕婷- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/03/2012 postreply 12:50:15

• Thanks! Wondering about the definition of "allocation" -衝浪潛水員- ♂ (1000 bytes) () 11/04/2012 postreply 01:39:41

• 謝謝你的指正,是我把答案寫錯了,正確的答案應該是： -斕婷- ♀ (535 bytes) () 11/04/2012 postreply 07:31:36