# Help me **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 31, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me/342366 "2006-01-31T16:46:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![icekimi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/76d3ee/32.png) [@icekimi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icekimi)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me/342366/1 "2006-01-31T16:46:41Z")
i am a japanese student. i had some difficult english questions, please help me. (1) The doctor advised me to take this kind of medicine because it has\_\_\_\_\_ getting down my high blood pressure. A. an effect on B. some effect on C. the effect for D. the effect of (2)The engineers and the workers have overcome a lot of difficulty\_\_\_\_\_ some new products. A.they had developed B. to have developed C. they had developing D. having developed (3)Could you please recommend a present for my girl friend’s birthday,\_\_\_\_\_ at reasonable price but of great use? A. that B. one C. which D. what (4)Animals can become unusually\_\_\_\_\_ when they are upset by a sudden environmental change. A. aggressive B. progressive C. active D. productive (5)It is reported that in western countries over on million couples have their marriage\_\_\_\_\_ every year. A. dissolved B. departed C. deserted D. distrusted Please give me the answers. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me/342366/2 "2006-01-31T16:53:17Z")
Hi **icekimi** , welcome to the board. You’ll have a lot more luck if you tell us what this is for. This board has a strict “no doing homework for people” policy, and people are going to be reluctant to respond if they think you’re just trying to avoid doing your homework. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me/342366/3 "2006-01-31T16:53:39Z")
Since like looks like work that was assigned to you, you might not get help from the posters here. Generally, we help, but don’t give direct answers to school work (classroom work, assignments, homework) and tests/examinations. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me/342366/4 "2006-01-31T16:54:39Z")
Since that looks like work that was assigned to you, you might not get help from the posters here. Generally, we help, but don’t give direct answers to school work (classroom work, assignments, homework) and tests/examinations. ---
**Author:** ![icekimi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/76d3ee/32.png) [@icekimi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icekimi)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me/342366/5 "2006-01-31T17:03:05Z")
sorry,but i hurry to get the answers. Give me some advices. ---
**Author:** ![Tevildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Tevildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tevildo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me/342366/6 "2006-01-31T17:03:28Z")
Without answering any of the questions, (3) isn’t good English with any of the choices, and at least three and possibly all four of the choices are valid for (4), which seems to be more about ecology than English. Perhaps the OP should feed this back to his teachers. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![icekimi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/76d3ee/32.png) [@icekimi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icekimi)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me/342366/7 "2006-01-31T17:05:06Z")
May be there is no correct answers in these questions,I don’t want to ask my teacher.Beacuse if I ask her ,she will say"do you believe me?Why do you ask me these questions which haven’t ture answers" ---
**Author:** ![icekimi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/76d3ee/32.png) [@icekimi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icekimi)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me/342366/8 "2006-01-31T17:08:39Z")
I Only Want Your Answers,maybe Is Not Ture. ---
**Author:** ![charizard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charizard/32/4166_2.png) [@charizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/charizard)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me/342366/9 "2006-01-31T17:09:36Z")
> [@icekimi](#): > > May be there is no correct answers in these questions,I don’t want to ask my teacher.Beacuse if I ask her ,she will say"do you believe me?Why do you ask me these questions which haven’t ture answers" The questions do have correct answers - they aren’t tricks or anything. It does seem like some of them are a little bit forced, maybe because the author was struggling to construct the examples. Or maybe the author isn’t a native English speaker either (see: “getting down my blood pressure” rather than “bringing down”). ---
**Author:** ![icekimi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/76d3ee/32.png) [@icekimi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icekimi)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me/342366/10 "2006-01-31T17:20:46Z")
THIS QUESTION MAYBE EASIER. Rainforests\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_and burned at near future A.cut B.are cut C.are being cut D.had been cut ---
**Author:** ![charizard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charizard/32/4166_2.png) [@charizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/charizard)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me/342366/11 "2006-01-31T17:26:57Z")
> [@icekimi](#): > > Rainforests\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_and burned at near future > A.cut B.are cut > C.are being cut D.had been cut OK, now\* that \* question can’t be answered, because the whole thing is ungrammatical. Depending on how you fix the question, you could come up with any one of the answers. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me/342366/12 "2006-01-31T17:29:02Z")
You need to tell your teacher to learn better English. None of those choices are correct for the question you just posted. ---
**Author:** ![icekimi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/76d3ee/32.png) [@icekimi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icekimi)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me/342366/13 "2006-01-31T17:37:30Z")
charizard My English is very pool.Did you want me to say an answer and you will tell me it’s ture or not? Rainforests\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_and burned at near future A.cut B.are cut C.are being cut D.had been cut I choose C,is it ture? ---
**Author:** ![Tevildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Tevildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tevildo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me/342366/14 "2006-01-31T17:38:43Z")
No, for the last one, the answer _should_ be “will be cut”, which isn’t one of the options. All the options are equally wrong. And “at near future” should be “in the near future”. ---
**Author:** ![icekimi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/76d3ee/32.png) [@icekimi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icekimi)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me/342366/15 "2006-01-31T17:48:50Z")
are being cut=will be cut my classmate said “he will kill our english teacher, maybe her english is worse than us.” ---
**Author:** ![icekimi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/76d3ee/32.png) [@icekimi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icekimi)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me/342366/16 "2006-01-31T17:55:43Z")
> [@icekimi](#): > > are being cut=will be cut > my classmate said “he will kill our english teacher, maybe her english is worse than us.” my english said are being cut=will be cut,is it ture? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me/342366/17 "2006-01-31T18:09:51Z")
> [@icekimi](#): > > my english said are being cut=will be cut,is it ture? No. ‘are being cut’ is present tense, ‘will be cut’ is future tense. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me/342366/18 "2006-01-31T18:14:59Z")
“Are being cut” is present tense. It means it is happening right now. “Will be cut” is future tense. It means it is not happening yet, but it will be. There is no way to pick a correct answer to that question without changing the question. I don’t think your teacher’s English is worse than yours but it might not be much better. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me/342366/19 "2006-01-31T18:21:24Z")
As others have said, we don’t do homework for people. But I like being helpful, so I’ll correct the questions: (1) The doctor advised me to take this kind of medicine because it has\_\_\_\_\_ **reducing** high blood pressure. A. an effect on B. some effect on C. the effect for D. the effect of (Hint: One correct answer.) (3)Could you please recommend a present for my girl friend’s birthday,\_\_\_\_\_ **is** at **a** reasonable price but of great use? A. that B. one C. which D. what (Hint: Two correct answers, one of which is a better choice.) (4)Animals can become unusually\_\_\_\_\_ when they are upset by a sudden environmental change. A. aggressive B. progressive C. active D. productive (Hint: Two answers are reasonable, but one is better than the other.) (5)It is reported that in western countries over on **e** million couples have their marriage\_\_\_\_\_ every year. A. dissolved B. departed C. deserted D. distrusted (Hint: One correct answer.) ---
**Author:** ![icekimi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/76d3ee/32.png) [@icekimi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icekimi)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me/342366/20 "2006-01-31T18:25:02Z")
> [@FlyingRamenMonster](#): > > “Are being cut” is present tense. It means it is happening right now. > > “Will be cut” is future tense. It means it is not happening yet, but it will be. > > There is no way to pick a correct answer to that question without changing the question. I don’t think your teacher’s English is worse than yours but it might not be much better. are you a Australian? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me/342366.md?page=2)