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Unit 6

5. Jules Verne ____ a marvelous imagination in his books.

(1) displayed

(2) managed

(3) portrayed

(4) played

6. Being ____ animal, the owl sleeps during the day.

(1) a nocturnal (2) a common (3) a real

(4) a sleepy

7. We don’t have much time left, it’s ____ dawn.

(1) inevitably

(2) suddenly

(3) nearly

(4) timely

8. Whether or not Christopher Columbus was the first European to sail to the New World is an unresolved question being ____ by historians.

(1) refuted

(2) contrasted

(3) debated

(4) opposed

Restatements (Questions 9-12) This part consists of several sentences, each followed by four possible ways of restating the main idea of that sentence in different words. For each question, choose the one restatement which best expresses the meaning of the original sentence. 9. Contrary to common belief, Columbus was not the first to declare that the world was round, though his predecessors failed to make the same amount of impact on history. (1) Columbus claimed that the world was round, and although he was not the first one to do so, he made the greatest impact. (2) In Columbus’s day, popular opinion held that the world was not round, until a meteor impact changed it. (3) Unlike most people of his time, Columbus didn’t believe that the world was round, much like some of his contemporaries. (4) Many people are unaware that others before Columbus claimed that the world was round, although these others did not leave such a mark behind.

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