English — Quick Practice

The new board member said she would vote in favor of the proposed city ordinance because it
________ many of the points discussed earlier this year.

A. Advance warning, however, can do great deal in reducing oppositions.

B. How changes are introduced affect their acceptance by employee.

C. To illustrate, sudden change will inevitably meet with great employee resistance.

D. It also gives a person time to adjust to the new framework and to the personal and domestic changes that go along with it.

E. Imposed altercations can lead to dissatisfaction, absenteeism, and inefficiency.

GRUNGY

Choose the underlined word or phrase which is not acceptable in formal written English. Select No error if the sentence is grammatically correct

One of the members of the Red Brigade who killed Aldo More refused to plead guilty.

Have you ever wondered whether fish drink or not? All living things must drink, and they require a fresh
supply of water. A person can go without food for many days, but he or she cannot go for long without
water. Fish drink, and fish that live in salt water must drink salt water. However, when we watch them in an
aquarium and see them opening and closing their mouths, we must not assume that they are drinking. Fish
need water for its oxygen. The water that they seem to be gulping gives them oxygen, which is in the water.
On the other hand, when a fish drinks, it swallows water, just the way we do.
It is stated in the passage that a fish opens and closes its mouth