1. Traditional routine; 2) come across too many things (Russian exam).

[Nonverbis]

This is a task for preparation for the exam in English Russian school leavers take.




I answer:
1. D.
7. D.

Such task usually are widely discussed in the Internet and a lot of answers are published. But no official answer keys.

These two cases trouble me a lot. Because my variant differs from what I can find while browsing the net. The most popular and/or common answer is A in both cases.

My reasoning:
1. day - daily - it's repetitive and clumsy. Routine can be used without 'daily' and it perfectly collocates with 'traditional'.


7. to come through - to successfully do or complete something that you have promised to do.
come upon - (formal) to meet or find somebody/something by chance.
come across somebody/something - to meet or find somebody/something by chance.

Formal style is not suitable, discard it.

Well, come across is suitable.

Could you tell me whether my variants are correct or not?

 

[emsr2d2]

1. "Traditional" doesn't work. That refers to something that, in general, a large part of a whole population does (or did). The appropriate answer there is "daily". It doesn't matter that it's close to the word "day".

7. Both "across" and "upon" work, although "across" is more common (in BrE, at least). "Through" makes no sense at all. If they "came through" a difficult situation, it wouldn't make them sad.

 

[jutfrank]

I agree with emsr2d2's post above except that I think 7C is a better answer than 7D.

 

[Nonverbis]

think 7C is a better

Come upon is a formal style, unsuitable here, I believe.

 

[jutfrank]

Come upon is a formal style, unsuitable here, I believe.

Thanks for the English lesson, Nonverbis. I'll bear that in mind.

 

[Nonverbis]

Thanks for the English lesson, Nonverbis.

I didn't invent that.

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[jutfrank]

The preposition upon has a sense of there being a resting point. This often means that the significance of the object is faced in some way. It works in this context since the idea is that the children have to deal in some way with the sadness they encounter. They don't just encounter it and move on.

If you come 'across' something, you don't necessarily have to deal with it. The preposition across means that your path crosses by chance with the path of another thing. There's nothing more to it.