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Exercise

Instructions:

You are given a piece of text with eight spaces.

You are also given a set of words for each space which you need to change to create the correct word for each space.

Type the correct word in the space given, and you can only type one word per space.

 

Once all the questions have been answered, click on the check button.

Correct answers will appear in green, incorrect answers in red.

Your mark will be given as a percentage.

 

The pass mark for this exercise is 60% or over, and you need to be able to do this exercise in the exam in about 10 minutes.
(A timer is given here to help.)

 

Example:
His family is not very ....HAPPY..........          HAPPINESS

 

10:00 min.

Water Highway

Stretching from Norfolk, Virginia, to Miami, Florida, the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway is an (1) channel . It is used mainly by (2) boaters. The waterway is not (3) to commercial shipping which relies strongly on it. The channel is maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). The mission of USACE is to provide vital public engineering services in peace and war to (4) our nation's security, energize the economy, and reduce risks from disasters. At Wilmington District headquarters in Wilmington, North Carolina, USACE surveys and maps the conditions of waterways in the (5) regions of North Carolina and south-central Virginia. USACE boats, equipped with (6) sonar, cross over sections of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway every day. The district's survey boat fleet consists of the Gillette, the Beaufort, and the Sanderson. They determine how deep the water is, and (7) surveys, which are water surveys, are done every day. A GPS signal determines the location of where the survey is conducted, and the sonar equipment records the (8) of the waterway at that point.


The Tribune

  • (1) LAND
  • (2) RECREATION
  • (3) ESSENTIAL
  • (4) STRONG
  • (5) COAST
  • (6) SOPHISTICATE
  • (7) HYDROGRAPH
  • (8) DEEP