1) We can say both a hundred and one hundred  a) Yes b) No 2) One thousand  a) Is more formal b) Emphasizes that we mean only , we are talking about a particular member of the group c) to show that we want to be precise d) emphasis or precision is wanted 3) A thousand  a) More formal b) We mean only, we are talking about a particular member of a group c) to show that we want to be precise d) emphasis or precision is wanted, 4) The indefinite article a can be used only at the beginning of a number  a) False b) True 5) In British English we always use and before the tens in a number a) False b) True 6) In American English we always use and before the tens in a number a) True b) False 7) In American English and can be omitted  a) False b) True 8) When hundred, thousand, million, or billion refer to an exact number they are used in plural  a) True b) False 9) When hundred, thousand, million, or billion refer to an exact number they remain singular  a) False b) True 10) We can refer to a large number imprecisely by using several, a few, or a couple of in front of dozen, hundred, thousand, million, or billion  a) True b) False 11) if we refer to a large number imprecisely and want to emphasize or to exaggerate how large the number is, we use dozen, hundred, thousand, million, or billion in the plural usually followed by the preposition of. a) True b) False 12) 10 265/404 a) ten and two hundred and sixty-five over four hundred and for b) ten and two hundred and sixty-five fraction four hundred and four  13) 0.5 a) Oh Point five b) Nought point five  14) Absolute 0 of temperature a) Absolute nought of temperature b) Absolute zero of temperature 15) At 30 degrees above/below 0 a) At 30 degrees above/below nought b) At 30 degrees above/below zero 16) when reading out numbers figure by figure a) Zero b) Naught c) Oh d) Nil 17) in points or goals in sports, except for tennis. a) Nought b) Zero c) Oh d) Nil 18) In Tennis a) Nought b) Nil c) Zero d) Oh e) Love 19) Computer, economics, linguistics, meteorology, techincs (scientific English) a) Naught b) Nil c) Oh d) Zero 20) In calculations   a) Oh b) Zero c) Naught d) Nil 21) in calculations informally a) Zero b) Nought c) Nothing d) Oh e) Nil 22) + a) Subtraction b) Addition c) Multiplication d) Devision 23) - a) Addition b) Subtraction c) Multiplication d) Devision 24) x a) Devision b) Multiplication 25) / a) Subtraction b) Devision

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