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I. “Many tourists will have been expected to arrive in Spain this year and the next.”
II. “Fossil fuels will have been found lacking in any search conducted by the year 2050.”
III. “Stonehenge will have been visited by at least a thousand visitors by the end of this year.”
IV. “The speed of light will not have been exceeded by any type of craft at any point in the future.”

In “rise” (line 11), the letter “s” is pronounced like a /z/.

The beginning of the word “psychologists” (line 3) is pronounced with the /p/ sound (voiceless bilabial plosive).

The final –ed in the verb “stopped” (line 1) and the final –ed in the adjective “stressed” (line 12) are both pronounced the same way.
Local accents aside, standard American English has a rule that guides the pronunciation of simple past regular verbs. According to this rule, the “ed” may be pronounced as listed in Column 1. About that, match the correct pronunciation of “ed” in Column 1 to the verbs in Column 2.
Column 1
1. /t/.
2. /d/.
3. /ɪd/.
Column 2
( ) started (l. 11).
( ) happened (l. 15).
( ) finished (l. 29).
The correct order of filling the parentheses, from top to bottom, is:
The sentence below can be classified as:
“If I get late, start the meeting without me.”
Mark the alternative that does NOT have words that have the same sound in the pronunciation.
Mark the alternative in which the words do NOT have the same sound in their pronunciation.
“I once __________________ (see) some polar bears in a zoo. They ___________________ (not look) very happy at all.”
Choose the alternative that completes the sentence correctly.
Column 1 Words 1. extinction (paragraph 1) 2. apart from (paragraph 1) 3. starve (paragraph 2) 4. melts (paragraph 2) 5. debate (paragraph 4)
Column 2 Definitions ( ) die from lack of food ( ) becomes liquid ( ) argument or discussion ( ) the state of no longer existing ( ) besides
Choose the alternative which presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom.
