Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Jumble

- Rounded mass
- untidy collection
- mix up in untidy or confused way
Usage: Please be taking care of those papers. Don't jumble up.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Blanket Party

he's been a spike in my eye for long, let's throw him a blanket party tonight.

အဲဒီေကာင္ကုိ မ်က္စိဆံပင္ေမႊးဆူးေနတာၾကာၿပီ။ ဒီည သူ႔ကုိ ဆြမ္းႀကီး၀ုိင္းေလာင္းရေအာင္။

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Choose the answer

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.


The voice of gospel singer Marion Williams has been captivating listeners since 1947; it is lyrical in its expression of joy, yet ------- when singing of life's sorrows.

A) exhilarating
B) melodious
C) stifling
D) sublime
E) poignant

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Writing

Formerly called manacles or shackles, handcuffs consist of two metal rings joined bya short chain; once fastened shut, it requires a key to open.

အထက္ပါ စာေၾကာင္း မွန္ပါသလား။ မွန္လွ်င္ မွန္သည္ ေျဖပါ။ မွားလွ်င္ မည္သည္႕ေနရာ မွားသနည္း ေျဖပါ။

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Writing

Reading maps involve several abilities, including the ability to locate places, to ascertain directions, to measure distances, and to interpret the mapmaker's symbols.

Choose the appropriate answer for the underlined word.

1. involve
2. involves
3. will involved
4. has involved
5. have involved

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Writing

Fill in the blanks.

Despite their .................... proportions, the murals of Diego Rivera give his Mexican compatriots the sense that their history is ..................... and human in scale, not remote and larger than life.

A. monumental ... accessible
B. focused ... prolonged
C. vast ... ancient
D. realistic ... extraneous
E. narrow ... overwhelming

Friday, September 24, 2010

Reading

"The rock was still wet. The animal was glistening, like it was still swimming," recalls Hou Xianguang. Hou discovered the unusual fossil while surveying rocks as a paleontology graduate student in 1984, near the Chinese town of Chengjiang. "My teachers always talked about the Burgress Shale animals. It looked like one of them. My hands began to shake." Hoe had indeed found a Naraoia like those from Canada. However, Hou's animal was 15 million years older than it's Canadian relatives.

In the passage,

"Surveying" most nearly means:

a) calculating the value of
b) examining comprehensively
c) determining the boundaries of
d) polling randomly
e) conducting a statistical study of

Answer: