Title: Week 11 HW: Analyzing Comparisons
PART (A): Read the statement and choose the true statement that follows.
1- He lacks neither imagination nor ambition. Ans: C) He doesn't have either imagination or ambition. Ans: B) He has both imagination and ambition. ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ 2- Unlike Thomas, Alex likes to work with his hands. Ans: C) Thomas doesn't like to work with his hands, but Alex does. √ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ 3- Artists have something in common with businesspeople. They must be creative. Ans: B) It is uncommon for businesspeople to be creative. Ans: C) Creativity is important in both business and the arts. ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ 4- Inventors are as imaginative as painters. Ans: C) Painters are more imaginative than inventors. Ans: A) Inventors and painters are equally imaginative. ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ 5- Van Gogh was similar to other famous artists in that he had a very troubled life. Ans: A) Many famous artists have troubled lives. √ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
PART (B): Choose the correct connector to complete each sentence
1- Most film students never become famous directors. A)Besides √ , a few, such as Steven Spielberg, have become multi-millionaires.
2- If you want to become a writer, you should read a lot. C)Therefore B)In addition , you should write as much as possible.
3- She really hated medical school. C)Furthermore A)Therefore , she quit and started studying art.
4- People are often surprised to find out that nineteenth-century English author George Eliot was actually a woman. A)In fact √ , they are astounded to find out that a woman, Mary Shelley, wrote the novel.
5- Many famous writers and artists were not wealthy. A)For example √ , Edgar Allan Poe died penniless.
6- Some writers are unknown in their lifetimes. B)Besides C)On the other hand , others, such as Charles Dickens, are celebrities. ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
Name: Mahfouz Al-Ghamdi Date: December 17, 2011