Irrelevant Sentences Advanced Level Test – Quiz (Online Exercise With Answers) 4

(Please read the following set of sentences carefully and identify the sentence that does not directly contribute to the main topic or is unrelated to the other sentences. This sentence may introduce a different subject or provide information that is not relevant to the main idea. Choose the option that best represents the irrelevant sentence.)

(I) Divers in France have found the oldest known bust of Roman dictator Caesar at the bottom of the River Rhone. (II) The bust was thrown in the river after she was assassinated. (III) The marble bust was found near Arles, which was founded by Caesar. (IV) France's culture ministry said the bust was from 46 BC, the date of the southern town's foundation. (V) The ministry described the bust, which shows a lined face and a balding head, as typical of realist portraits of the Republican era.

(I) A man has drowned after diving into a reservoir to rescue his girlfriend's daughter from the water. (II) The girl slipped when trying to catch a ball while playing with the man and her mother. (III) The girl got herself out, but the man got into difficulties. (IV) The fire brigade was called out and two hours later officers recovered the man's body from the water. (V) The report will be submitted to the police and the coroner.

(I) After years of mounting difficulties which brought the country close to economic collapse, a tough recovery programme was agreed with the IMF in 2002. (II) Since then, Turkey has seen impressive progress. (III) Turkey's powerful military, which sees itself as the guardian of the secular system, has a long history of involvement in politics. (IV) Economic growth has been strong and inflation has fallen dramatically. (V) However, huge foreign debt remains a major burden.

My first impression of Istanbul after arriving at the airport was of the sheer size of the city. (II) It's enormous: a sprawl of housing that seems to stretch into infinity. (III) New and old seem to sit together everywhere. (IV) The streets were crowded and noisy. (V) There are giant, sparkling new skyscrapers and office blocks standing beside much older, more squalid houses and shops.

(I) Byzantion came under Roman control in the 1st Century BC. (II) They latinized the name to Byzantium. (III) In 330 AD, the Emperor decided to move the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Byzantium because Rome was falling under threat. (IV) He initially came up with the name of New Rome for the city, but later decided to rename it Constantinople. (V) The Byzantines considered themselves to be Romans but spoke Greek.

The Blue Mosque is officially the Mosque of Sultan Ahmet I. (II) It was built at the beginning of the 17th century and was designed by Sedefkar Mehmet Aga. (III) The Blue Mosque isn't blue on the outside, it is grey. (IV) It is built on the site of the Byzantine Great Palace - that is, the palace of the Byzantine Emperors. (V) The most distinctive feature of the mosque is its six minarets - a very unusual number.

(I) The Hippodrome was a racetrack for horses in Roman times. (II) It could hold around 100,000 spectators. (III) It became the centre of the cultural and sporting life of the city - sport was culture, as far as the Roman in the street was concerned. (IV) Chariot racing was to the Romans what football is to modern man. (V) The buildings of the hippodrome are all gone now.

(I) Our bodies are made from the foods that we eat (II) All foods consist of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, trace nutrients, and non-digestible components, such as fibre. (III) A varied diet with the right proportion of nutrients is the foundation of good health. (IV) Low levels of minerals or vitamins can cause diseases such as anaemia, goitre, pellagra, rickets, scurvy, and mental retardation. (V) The proportion and quantity of the foods that we eat determine whether we will be healthy or develop nutritional diseases.

(I) The best way to lose body fat weight is through diet. (II) Many people believe that exercise is a good way to lose weight. (III) This is not so. (IV) Fifteen minutes of moderately vigorous exercise will only burn approximately 100 calories. (V) You need 10 hours of moderate exercise to burn the calories equivalent to one pound of fat, but you cannot selectively burn only fat.

(I) Before starting an exercise program, consulting a physician is particularly important for the sportsmen. (II) According to a report, sports injuries among baby boomers increased by 33 per cent from 1991 to 1998. (III) In 1998, baby boomers suffered more than 1 million sports - injuries which cost over $18.7 billion dollars in medical expenses. (IV) The highest numbers of sports-related injuries came from bicycling, basketball, baseball, and running. (V) The most common injuries were due to accidents or overuse and affected the knees, ankles, lower back, and shoulders.

(I) Gaultier is a French fashion designer who never received formal design training. (II) His sheer lace design worn by Teri Hatcher at the Grammy Awards drew international attention. (III) He started sending sketches to famous couture stylists, and Pierre Cardin hired him as an assistant in 1970. (IV) His first individual collection was released in 1976. (V) By 1981 he was known for irreverent, provocative designs, and for using unconventional models in his exhibitions.

(I) The best way to start the budgeting process is to collect your receipts and bills for the last several months and start organizing them into the expense categories listed above. (II) Make new categories to suit your individual needs. (III) You also need to have your tax forms for the previous year. (IV) You have had to add up your monthly expenses and your monthly income to start your budget planning. (V) They contain a summary of your wages and the amount of tax that you paid.

(I) Bathrooms can be high-risk areas because of the slippery surfaces and often small rooms. (II) Many people fall when holding onto a towel bar or pushing on the sink in order to stand from the toilet. (III) Generally a short bar vertical on the wall as you enter the tub and, ideally, a right angle grab bar on the far wall is recommended. (IV) This obviously is not safe to do. (V) Instead, professionally installed grab bars will make negotiating your bathroom much easier and safer.

A lorry driver is trapped in the cab of his burning vehicle after an accident. (II) The police, firefighters and ambulance service are at the scene, but it is clear he will burn to death before he can be freed. (III) He begs the policeman, who happens to be armed, to shoot him rather than let him burn. (IV) It is difficult to imagine anyone, however religious, condemning the policeman's conduct as wicked. (V) This choice -between killing someone and leaving them to die in unbearable pain- is known as the “policeman's dilemma”.

(I) Dark matter, weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS) in the universe, emits no electromagnetic radiation. (II) That is why it cannot be seen by a telescope. (Ill) However, we can infer its existence through its gravitational effects on luminous matter. (IV) But there is a problem here. (V) The most obvious example of this is observed when looking at the rotation rates of galaxies.

(I) Time management is fundamental to a modern industrialized society (II) That is because any industrial undertaking depends on performing a set of specific steps. (III) For the process to succeed everything must be in a place so that it can be used at the correct time. (IV) Managing time is the way people organize their lives. (V) Yet, for it to be efficient, people must know how long each step should take.

(I) The Big Bang theory, which tries to explain how the universe was formed, maintains that in the beginning, everything was compressed into a single point. (II) Then a great explosion resulted in the universe being formed. (III) According to the Bing Bang theory, there are three possibilities for the universe’s future. (IV) This theory is based on the fact that all galaxies, when observed with telescopes, are moving away from each other. (V) After this explosion, matter started clumping together to form the stars and galaxies we see today.

(I) Human ego, rooted in each one of us was given to serve only as a point of comparison. (II) We can perceive the attributes of the Creator by that. (III) The ego mentioned above doesn’t own itself or its body, nor is it something found by chance. (IV) This truth has become manifest to us in all its dimensions. (V) Rather, it is an extremely complex, intricate and amazing Divine Machine of a factory.

(I) There are three parts of the nervous system. (II) The human nervous system is highly developed and extremely complex. (III) The central nervous system includes the brain and spinal cord. (IV) The autonomic nervous system includes nerves that serve the internal organs (V) The peripheral nervous system includes the spinal and cranial nerves.

(I) For years, experts had believed that an individual’s ability to learn was a fixed capacity. (II) Several proven ways to boost the learning ability were gathered from the ideas of experts, (III) During the last two decades, however, leading psychologists and educators have come to think otherwise. (IV) “We have been increasing proof that human intelligence is expandable,” says an expert. (V) “We know that with proper skills people can actually improve their learning ability”.

(I) Is the world ready for a world commodities organisation? (II) Such an idea did not seem ludicrous to John Maynard Keynes, one of the main forces behind the creation of the IMF five decades ago. (III) At that time, Keynes wanted a sister institute to bring order to organise commodity markets. (IV) He made his first real-estate fortune as a buyer of last resort in slumps. (V) He failed then, but plans are a foot to revive a version of his dream.

(I) People should see themselves as sharing responsibility for the harm experienced by their communities far more often than they do. (II) There is a distinction between shared responsibility and collective responsibility. (III) Collective responsibility applies to a group as such (not necessarily to individual members). (IV) This makes group m members responsible for group values. (V) The latter applies to individuals within groups because of their membership relation with the group.

(I) Today, the United States is in the grip of a sudden industrial revolution. (II) This is an idealized picture of how we would like things to be, rather than the reality that most people experience. (III) While the first, something from the 1870s to the 1970s, shattered the main section of the American economy from agriculture to industry, the new revolution is shifting the economy away from traditional “smokestack” manufacturing industries to those based upon information, services and new technologies. (IV) It took the country decades to accommodate the cultural and social changes resulting from the first industrial revolution. (V) It would be rashly optimistic to assume that Americans will not face serious stresses in coming to terms with the changes that are transforming the workplace today.

(I) Oceanography is the scientific study of the world’s oceans which cover over 70 per cent of the earth’s surface. (II) The beginnings of modern oceanography go back to the 1870s when, for the first time, wide ranging scientific observations and studies of the oceans were undertaken by the British. (III) Since then, oceanography has developed into a highly technical and interdisciplinary science which is now divided into several fields of study. (IV) Geological oceanography is also another branch of oceanography and is mainly concerned with the formation, composition and evaluation of the ocean basins. (V) These are biological oceanography, which is concerned with the composition of seawater, played by the oceans in climate and weather.

(I) Universities are institutions of higher education whose principal objects are the increase of knowledge over the teaching of students. (II) Such societies existed in the ancient world, notably in Greece and India, but the origin of the University as we know it today lies in medieval Europe. (III) The word "universitas" being a contraction of the Latin term for corporations of teachers and students organised for the promotion of higher learning. (IV) Oxford was founded by an early migration of scholars from Paris, and Cambridge began with a further migration from Oxford. (V) The earliest bodies to become recognised under this description were at Bologna and Pans in the first half of the 12th century.