PIE2413/SEM 3/20192020/WORKSHEET 7

WORKSHEET 7
PREPOSITIONS

From the supplementary materials

Instruction: Complete the exercises in Supplementary Material 3.

Additional Exercises
Exercise 1
Instruction: Choose the correct preposition to complete the sentences below.

1. Why do you insist ____on_____ going to Spain? We went there last year. 

a. of b. on c. in d. at

2. I am a policeman, and I am usually on duty ___on______ Christmas. 

b. in b. on c. at d. while

3. The restaurant on the corner of High Street is _____under____ new management.

a. on b. below c. under d. with

4. I have decided to go ___for______ business with Arshad.

a. in b. into c. on d. for

5. After much debate, they consented __for_______ the price change.

a. in b. to c. on d. for

6. Italians are very conscious ___with______ their dress and have a great

sense of style. 
a. of b. on c. with d. for

7. Bill walked __until_______ the trail during the rainstorm.

a. by b. until c. after d. down

8. She was watching him ___through______ the kitchen window.

a. over b. as c. toward d. through

9. Many important questions arose ___during______ the discussion.

b. out b. inside c. against d. during

10. The unemployment rate has risen tremendously _________ March 2020.
b. in b. on c. since d. along
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Exercise 2
Instruction: Read the text and underline the correct preposition.

Belgium and Denmark are only an hour or so apart (1) by/thorough airplane.
Danes look a lot like Belgians, and if you were dropped (2) in/on a street corner in
Copenhagen, you wouldn’t find it all that different from a street corner in Brussels.
In the mid-1990s, an experimental public school called the KIPP Academy
opened on the fourth floor of Lou Gehrig Junior High School in New York City. Lou
Gehrig is in the seventh school district, otherwise known as the South Bronx, one of the
poorest neighborhoods in New York City. It is a squat, gray 1960s-era building (3)
along/across the street from a bleak-looking group of high-rises.
Now take a look (4) at/in the last column, which totals up all the summer gains (5)
from/of first grade to fifth grade. The reading scores of the poor kids go up by 0.26
points. When it comes to reading skills, poor kids learn nothing when school is not (6)
in/at session. The reading scores of the rich kids, by contrast, go up in a whopping
52.49 points. Virtually all of the advantage that wealthy students have over poor
students is the result of differences in the way privileged kids learn (7) while/since they
are not (8) in/at school.
What are we seeing here? One very real possibility is that these are the
educational consequences of the differences in parenting styles that we talked about in
the Chris Langan chapter. Think back to Alex Williams, the nine-year-old whom Annette
Lareau studied. His parents believe in concerted cultivation. He gets taken to museums
and gets enrolled in special programs and goes to summer camp, where he takes
classes. When he’s bored at home, there are plenty of books to read, and his parents
see it as their responsibility to keep him actively engaged in the world (9) of/around him.
It’s hard to see how Alex wouldn’t get better at reading and math (10) over/by the
summer.

Gladwell, M. 2008. Outliers: The Story of Success. Little, Brown and Company.