Jalivu English - IELTS, SAT, Academic

In the paragraph below, the author suggests ______

A. Ms. Briggs looked much more like her father than she thought.
B. Ms. Briggs was about to discover a secret about her father more similar to the one she imagined than she would have guessed.
C. Ms. Briggs didn't know that her idea about her father was actually true.
D. Mr. Briggs's own life would turn out much like her father's.

"She describes him as a dapper figure, always dressed in a blazer and pressed slacks, aviator sunglasses enhancing his enigmatic air. 'In one of these pictures I look like a little girl holding hands with an operative from MI5, after he’d been issued with a wife and child as part of an elaborate plan to conceal his identity.' The resemblance was to prove more accurate than she realised."

Source: Chaudhuri, Anita, "My father, the fake: was anything he told me actually true?" The Guardian, 9 July 2025,

My father, the fake: was anything he told me actually true? Michael Briggs was a well-known scientist - and a fantasist. When his daughter Joanne began digging into his past for a memoir, new lies kept emerging ...

Which punctuation is fitting for the gap in paragraph below?

A. everywhere, not just
B. everywhere - not just
C. everywhere: not just
D. everywhere; not just

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"What ensues isn’t quite as complex as their last tour, which featured lead singer Matty Healy eating raw steak, doing push ups, climbing through a television and Prince Andrew’s face appearing on a bank of television screens accompanied by the strains of Mahler’s 5th Symphony. Nevertheless, there are huge video screens ____________ behind the band, but above them and at either side of the stage, and indeed below the actual video screens that Glastonbury traditionally provides. The treadmill that ran across the front of the stage during their 2018 tour – there for Healy to glide around on, something he does with admirable insouciance – makes a reappearance, while, for reasons that aren’t entirely clear, the rear half of a car makes an appearance stage right at one point. Healy sings from within it."

Source: Petridis, Alexis, "The 1975 at Glastonbury review – amid the irony, ego and pints of Guinness, this is a world-class band." The Guardian, 28 June 2025,

The 1975 at Glastonbury review – amid the irony, ego and pints of Guinness, this is a world-class band Perhaps joking, or perhaps not, Matty Healy pronounces himself ‘the greatest songwriter of my generation’ – and that’s only a slightly ridiculous statement

Which statement gives the main idea of the paragraph below?

A. The author admonishes us to take care in how we use our new technology so as not to harm others.
B. The author claims that our new technology can be equally adept at helping us to realize ourselves as well as creating financial benefit.
C. The author warns us that our new technology can be used to turn human existence into profit.
D. The author incites us to rise up against today's technological trends before we all become mindless money machines.

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"But we’ll need vigilance, and a fighting courage, too, as we again take up this unending experience of coming into ourselves as free beings responsible for world-making. Because it is, of course, possible to turn the crank that instrumentalizes people, to brutalize them, to squeeze their humanity into a sickly green trickle called money and leave only a ruinous residue. The new machines are already pretty good at that. The algorithms that drive these systems are the same algorithms that drive the attention economy, remember? They will only get better."

Source: Burnett, D. Graham, "Will The Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?" The New Yorker, The Weekend Essay, Conde Nast, 26 April 2025,

Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.

Choose the word that best fits in the blank in the paragraph below.

A. domination B. uprising C. repression D. subduction

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"Cross-national research by Maria Stephan and Erica Chenoweth finds that when states crack down violently on nonviolent protest, it often backfires. Rather than quell dissent, __________ can mobilize opposition and erode the government’s legitimacy. Other scholarship suggests that when state officials use excessive force against peaceful protesters — such as when the police commissioner Bull Connor in 1963 blasted civil rights activists with fire hoses in Birmingham, Ala. — the images generated can be particularly effective for movements."

Source: Wasow, Omar and Willer, Robb, "This Is What Makes Protests Successful." The New York Times, Opinion, 17 June 2025,

Opinion | Only Nonviolence Will Beat Trump Only nonviolence will beat Trump.

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Writing Challenge: Revision

There are many possibilities, of course. Even so, here’s how we would change this little paragraph.

Original:
-- Books bring us different knowledge. It bases on what Book we read. A famous Chinese traditional verse which described books is a treasure. We can find a golden house in there. —

Revision:
-- Books hold a vast amount of knowledge. One famous traditional Chinese proverb says, “A book holds a house of gold”. In other words, the are a rich source of ideas and information. —

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With that, take a look at this short paragraph. How would you improve it? Put your response in the comments below!

-- "Books bring us different knowledge. It bases on what Book we read. A famous Chinese traditional verse which described books is a treasure. We can find a golden house in there." --

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