Oura puts a ring on Wall Street with one of this year's biggest IPOs

Study the questions and tasks

Work through the material below, or start the interactive practice above to complete an attempt. Try the exercises before opening any answer or transcript sections, then use them to review your work.

Practice level

B1. Try this level if you can follow the instructions and understand most of the language; choose an earlier level if you need more support.

Question formats

Single choice

How to approach this practice

Use the surrounding sentence to identify the meaning and word form needed. Check which words naturally go together.

1. Question 1 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   What does “offering” mean in the article?

   1. Something offered for people to buy or accept
   2. A place where workers make products
   3. A promise about future weather
   4. A report about a company’s history
   Check answers and explanations

   Answer

   Something offered for people to buy or accept

   Here, offering means something a company presents to investors.

2. Question 2 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   What does “attractive” mean in the article?

   1. Difficult to understand
   2. Interesting or appealing to someone
   3. Very expensive to produce
   4. Hidden from the public
   Check answers and explanations

   Answer

   Interesting or appealing to someone

   Attractive information is interesting or appealing to Wall Street.

3. Question 3 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   What does “valuable” mean in the article?

   1. Useful or important because it has worth
   2. Easy to lose or forget
   3. Made only for children
   4. Available without any cost
   Check answers and explanations

   Answer

   Useful or important because it has worth

   The company considers its data useful and important.

4. Question 4 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   What does “performance” mean in the article?

   1. A company’s physical location
   2. How well someone or something does a job
   3. A plan for collecting information
   4. A product’s outside design
   Check answers and explanations

   Answer

   How well someone or something does a job

   Performance means how well Oura’s business does after the IPO.

5. Question 5 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   What does “central” mean in the article?

   1. Most important or main
   2. Far from other places
   3. Recently created
   4. Hard to measure
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   Answer

   Most important or main

   The central message is the article’s main or most important message.

What to review next

Keep a short list of unfamiliar words with their meanings and example sentences. Practise recalling them later, then use them in a sentence of your own.

A focused practice result shows how you did on these tasks. Use several activities across skills to decide what to study next; one practice score does not certify an overall CEFR level.

Before you practise: a worked example

Read the whole sentence before choosing a word. Check both its meaning and the words it naturally combines with.

Please make an appointment before visiting the clinic.

Make an appointment is a natural word combination. Knowing a dictionary meaning alone may not tell you which verb fits.

This teaching example is separate from the scored questions. After your test, compare any mistakes with the explanation and revisit the topic before trying again.