Question

ENGLISH LISTENING TEST – (try again) date - setembro/2020
1 – Complete the text correctly: (Dickens at 200)
LONDON. As much mud in the _______as if the
waters had but newly ______ from the face of
the earth. Smoke lowering down from chimney-
pots. Dogs, _______ in mire. Horses, scarcely
better; splashed to their very _______. Fog
everywhere. Hang on. It's not like that at all any
more. There's no fog; there's no mud; there are no
dogs or _______… In fact it's not Dickensian.
In English, if we want to _______ hard living or
working conditions - like something from one of
my novels - we can call it Dickensian.
Dickensian.
Strange horse!
I wrote these…
Modern London is very _______. I think I need to
take some rest in one of my _______ public
houses. I'm pleased to see it's still here. I can't
_______ it! He tried to charge me £3.50 for a pint
of beer. I said to him "That's tem weeks' wages for
a 12-year-old boy in a factory." I _______ him half
a penny and he said
"Please Sir. I want some more."
As if stealing one of my lines wasn't bad enough,
when I ________ to pay he called me a scrooge!
In English, when we want to talk about someone
who hates _______ money, we can call them a
scrooge, which is the name of one of my
characters. He was very mean with money!
A scrooge.
Scrooge was just one of the many characters I
created who are among the most ________in
English literature.
But some say London itself is a character in
my_______.
A character that has changed.
What the dickens is that?
In English, if we are _____ or angry, we can say
'What the dickens…?'
What the dickens…?

What the dickens is that?
It's my iQuill!
'What the dickens…?' is a bit of an old-_________
expression, but then I'm an old-fashioned man. In
fact, I'm dead. And I've been dead since 1870. I'm
buried over there in Poets' Corner in Westminster
Abbey, with some of the _______ writers of the
English language. So, in a way I'm still here in
_______, although it's a very different London to
that of my _______…
…And I'll be buried in Teachers' Corner along with
the ________ Teachers of the English language…

“o que quer que eu tenha tentado fazer na vida, tentei com todo o coração fazê-lo bem; o que quer que eu
tenha me dedicado, me dediquei completamente; em pequenos e em grandes objetivos, sempre fui sincero”
(Charles Dickens)
pending - tiring - refused – memories - undistinguishable -
retired - favourite - London - blinkers - streets – memorable
describe - surprised - fashioned – greatest – novels – offered –

believe – horses

Answer 1

Resposta:

As palavras são..

1- street

2- retired

3- undistinguishable

4-blinkers

5- horses

6- describe

7- tiring

8- favourite

9- believe

10- offered

11- refused

12- spending

13- memorable

14- novels

15- surprised

16- fashioned

17- greatest

18- London

19- memories

20- greatest

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