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Exercise "Negatives and semi-negatives", created by here4u (a free exercise to learn English):
Results of the 5 578 people who have taken this test:
Average mark: 55.5 / 100 Share
Latest member with a 100/100 (perfect mark): icare29 / FRANCE, on Tuesday 14 February - 12:17:
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Stats (5577 candidates)
Question 1 passed: 58.5 %
1) Not even once (the refugee imagine+ simple past)* he would accept to stay in his persecuting country ...
Question 2 passed: 56.4 %
2) On no account (he-accept+past conditional) * to obey the dictator.
Question 3 passed: 60 %
3) Only by running at full speed (he +escape+ simple past)* from prison.
Question 4 passed: 56.3 %
4) Nowhere (he+ think+ simple past)* he could find an asylum ...
Question 5 passed: 52.7 %
5) So badly (passive form+ he+beat+past perfect) * that he still has the marks of his terrible torture ...
Question 6 passed: 52.4 %
6) 15 years ago, he arrived here as a political refugee ... He had come from his far away land with * in his bundle ... At that time, he knew no one ...
Question 7 passed: 43.7 %
well, to be more precise, * in his new country !
Question 8 passed: 49.4 %
He had imagined his Dream Country, but only after a year *
Question 9 passed: 45.4 %
that he could * ...
Question 10 passed: 57.8 %
Only after finding a shelter * fighting for his independence.
Question 11 passed: 50.8 %
Little * it would be so difficult to get a job. Then,
Question 12 passed: 56.2 %
not only *, but he also did a lot of overtime.
Question 13 passed: 41.5 %
He scrimped and saved, made sacrifices, but he was * getting by.
Question 14 passed: 56.2 %
Very seldom * to his heart's content ; he mostly went to soup-runs and
Question 15 passed: 54.8 %
shared a room with so many others that he could * sleep...But little by little, things became better ...
Question 16 passed: 56 %
Only then * he had made the right choice ...He could finally breathe free, and even send a little money back home ...
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