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Lexico-grammatical Test

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Culture Task

1. Which of these monuments wouldn't you see on a Taxi Tour of London?

a) Nelson's Column
b) Liberty Bell
c) Statue of Eros
d) Cleopatra's Needle

2. Who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

a) The Russian Consular General to the United States
b) The Governor of Pennsylvania
c) The Russian Ambassador to the United Nations
d) The President of the United States

3. Everyone knows that the Prime Minister of Britain lives at №. 10 Downing Street. Who lives at №. 11 Downing Street?

a) The Prince of Wales
b) The Chancellor of the Exchequer
c) The governments chief whip
d) The Mayor of London

4. Who is (was) the 'First Lady'?

a) The wife of the British Prime Minister
b) The wife of the President of the United States
c) Queen Elizabeth's sister, Princess Margaret
d) Martha Washington, wife of the first American president

5. Where can you find the inscription, 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...'?

a) on the Liberty Bell
b) on Nelson's Column
c) on the Statue of Liberty
d) on the entrance of every British hospital

6. Whose face wouldn't you see on Mount Rushmore?

a) Benjamin Franklin
b) Thomas Jefferson
c) George Washington
d) Abraham Lincoln

7. A flight from 'Down Under' to 'Blighty' would take you from:

a) New Zealand to Great Britain
b) Australia to New Zealand
c) Australia to Great Britain
d) the southern United States to the northen United States

8. In the novel David Copperfield, Mr. Micawber gives David the following advice, 'Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
If David wants to be happy then he should _____.

a) never borrow more money than he can pay back.
b) spend the same amount of money as he earns.
c) save as much money as he can.
d) spend less money than he earns.

9. What would you find in California's Sequoia National Park?

a) The only volcano in America
b) The world's tallest trees
c) The tallest mountain in America
d) The largest lake in America

The English painter who established his reputation and fortune through topographical commissions for publishers.

a) W. Turner

b) J.Reynolds

c) T. Gainsborough

d) Beechey

The English composer who was regarded as the most poetic composer born in England.

a) R. Williams

b) E. Elgar

c) S. Storace

d) F. Delius

12. How many theatres are there in Great Britain?

a) about 200

b) about 300

c) about 400

d) about 500

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