PREPOSITIONS TEST 9

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1. Hong Kong people have to adapt (1) many changes.

2. That boy has grown (2) six feet.

3. English immersion programs are popular with students from the province (3) Quebec.

4. They want to understand the world (4) them.

5. All the students in one class need to be (5) approximately the same level of English proficiency.

6. The methods (6) data collection included observation,interviews and questionnaires.

7. We will now move (7) to discuss the methodology and approach adopted.

8. (8) the past decade,there has been a great change in China's economic policies.

9. China's economic growth lagged far (9) much of the rest of the world up to the 1970's.

10. The income tax is fixed (10) the rate of 15%.

11. Firms are provided relatively free market environments (11) minimalgovernment intervention.

12. The average income in the special Economic Zones now ranks (12) the higest in China.

13. John taught English to classes in which students (13) different cultural backgrounds were mixed together.

14. Mary produced a 50 page general introduction (14) a 100 page thesis.

15. Marks were deducted (15) irrelevance of ideas.

16. The Oriental pattern may be detected (16) the English writing not only of Chinese students,but also of most South-East Asian peoples.

17.Students should change in order to succeed (17) a western-style tertiary institution.

18. Hong Kong students prefer working in learning groups outside (18) the classroom.

19. (19) all the subjects (20) the school curriculum,perhaps the most difficult subject is the study of language.

20.The paper has 2 sections, (21) equal weighting.