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English Screening Quiz
The Office S2E9 "Email Surveillance"

Graded edition · Covers the 2026-08-11 handout, ①-⑦ in full · Closed book
TO:Jack, Peter and the entire screening crew (yes, everyone — this invitation went out to the whole list)
RE:Answer on this page. Click your choice for multiple choice, type straight into the blanks and the answer boxes, and for matching questions write the letter from the right-hand column (A, B, C...) in the box beside each item on the left. Every question that asks for a word works the same way: the word goes back into the gap in the sentence, and you type the whole word. Section II gives you only its first and last letters — the line is the same length whatever the word is, so do not count the dashes. When everything is filled in, print to PDF and hand it to your teacher.
NOTE:Multiple-answer questions score only when every correct option is ticked. Nothing is deducted for a wrong tick. Spelling counts in section II and nowhere else — elsewhere a recognisable near-miss is fine. Written answers must be in English; key points are enough, nobody is asking for an essay. This paper ships with no answer key — if you want to check your work, go back to the handout. And no, reading your teacher's email is not an approved revision strategy.
Time55 minutes
Questions28, in 6 sections
Total100 points
Coverage2026-08-11 handout, ①-⑦
GradingAuto-marked, then checked by your teacher
已作答 0 / 28
01

I. Cultural References

Single-answer questions 3 points each; the true/false 2 points; the multiple-answer question 4 points (every correct option required, nothing deducted). Six questions, 18 points in total.

01
Confronted about the monitoring, MICHAEL says: The problem is that when people hear the term Big Brother, they immediately think it's scary or bad. But I don't. Where does "Big Brother" come from, and why does the line work against him?3 pts
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複習 → ② 文化典故
02
The plot turns on MEREDITH receiving an Evite. Why is that specific piece of 2005 technology what makes the episode work?3 pts
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複習 → ② 文化典故
03
In his improv class Michael plays one character and one only: he pulls a gun and shouts Michael Scarn! FBI! Why does the handout call this the longest-running seed in the show?3 pts
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複習 → ② 文化典故
04
The closing karaoke scene is built on "Islands in the Stream". Which of the following are true? Tick every correct option.4 pts
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05
Michael's first account of how he got into improv ends ...you're the funniest guy I've ever seen — or my name is not Dale Earnhardt. What is going on in that sentence, and how does the scene end?3 pts
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06
True or false. When Michael says If I step on a mine in Scranton, Pennsylvania..., Scranton is the Ivy League university the class had been discussing.2 pts
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02

II. Spell the Word

Each question is a line from the episode with one word taken out. The gap shows that word's first and last letters; write the whole word into it. The line is a fixed width and tells you nothing about the word's length. 2 points each, eight questions, 16 points in total. Spelling must be exact here — this is the one section where it counts.

07
OSCAR walks up to Michael's desk with the news already public.2 pts

Actually, we just got a memo from IT saying you're doing email .

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複習 → ③ 單字片語卡
08
DWIGHT, quietly, to Angela — the line that sets Pam investigating.2 pts

If you have any emails, they need to be deleted immediately.

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複習 → ③ 單字片語卡
09
PAM describes the two women her invented friend is torn between.2 pts

One is tall and , and the other one is short and blonde, and perky, and kind of judgmental.

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10
MICHAEL, to camera, on why nobody invited him — and then he invents a comparative form of this very word.2 pts

I do think that I am very . As one of the guys.

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11
PAM, having found Jim's yearbook in his bedroom. The tone is not an insult.2 pts

You are so .

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12
MICHAEL lets himself into the party and opens with a complaint about the atmosphere.2 pts

Who opened the for this thing?

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13
MICHAEL at the karaoke machine, discovering the problem with his song choice.2 pts

This is a , so... anybody else? Takers, please.

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14
MICHAEL, in the closing interview, dropping the Dale Earnhardt story and telling the truth.2 pts

The real way was that I found a .

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複習 → ⑤ 聽力糾錯
03

III. Vocabulary and Phrases

The word-bank passage 1 point per gap; the two fill-in-the-blank passages 2 points per blank; the two multiple-choice questions 4 points each. Five questions, 26 points in total.

15
Fill each gap with one word from the bank. Three words are left over. Each word is used at most once.6 pts

One point per gap. Write the word itself, not the letter.

  • Aawareness
  • Bcharity
  • Cdepress
  • Dgross
  • Eguest
  • Fintimidation
  • Gmemo
  • Hspying
  • Itaker

The branch finds out about the monitoring the way it finds out about everything: IT sends round a . Oscar walks up to Michael's desk and asks him straight out why he is on their computers. Michael's own account of the distance between a manager and his staff is that it is , mostly — they know, he says, that they are not him. He is less careful about the party. Dwight, still convinced the evening is a surprise thrown in Michael's honour, spends it asking when the of honour will arrive. Michael turns up on his own, insults the room, and heads straight for the karaoke machine — where the song he has picked needs two singers and there is not a single in the house. Pam, meanwhile, has spent the whole day chasing something she already knows will be to look at, and gets an answer she was not looking for.

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複習 → ① 劇情脈絡
16
Fill in the blanks. One word per blank.6 pts

Dwight raises the awkward subject carefully: `if something were to happen to you, God , then I would need to know in order to take over.` He then lists the ways Michael might die until Michael snaps that if he ever steps on a in Scranton, Dwight can have his job. In the same interview Michael explains what a boss never shares with his staff: his , because knowing it would only depress them.

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17
Fill in the blanks. One word per blank.6 pts

Jim names the three ingredients of a good party: three cases of imported beer, a karaoke machine, and the fact that he did not Michael. Giving his guests the house tour, he announces in full museum-guide voice that flash photography is and asks everybody to from touching things.

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18
Michael tells his improv classmates I would not miss it for the world, and then adds If something else came up, I would definitely not go. What is he actually communicating?4 pts
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19
Pam describes her own investigation: It's like squishing a spider under a book. It's going to be really gross, but I have to look and make sure that it's really dead. What does the comparison tell you about her state of mind?4 pts
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04

IV. Grammar

Fill-in-the-blank 2 points per blank; multiple choice 3 points each. Four questions, 14 points in total.

20
Complete Dwight's sentence so that it stays in the "unlikely hypothetical" pattern the handout calls out. One word per blank.4 pts

If something to happen to you, God forbid, then I need to know in order to take over.

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複習 → ④ 文法角落
21
In improv class Michael defends himself: If you hadn't stopped the scene, you would have seen where it was going. Which sentence uses the same structure correctly?3 pts
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複習 → ④ 文法角落
22
Complete Pam's closing line. One word per blank; a contraction counts as one word.4 pts

Just two people are hanging out, it mean that they're together.

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複習 → ④ 文法角落
23
Stanley's email says his boss is making me stay late. Which sentence uses this causative pattern correctly?3 pts
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複習 → ④ 文法角落
05

V. Listening Corrections

Matching 5 points (one per row); multiple choice 3 points. Two questions, 8 points in total.

24
Each item on the left is what the class heard on the first pass. Match it to what was actually said.5 pts

One point per correct row.

  1. "切爾蒂" (heard as a name)
  2. "battleship galaxy"
  3. "I'm called Dips"
  4. "terrace"
  5. "mighty vacation"
  • ABattlestar Galactica
  • BMeredith has an Evite
  • CCharity.
  • Dnot a terrorist
  • EI call dibs
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複習 → ⑤ 聽力糾錯
25
The handout argues that one of these mishearings is different in kind from the others. Which one, and why?3 pts
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複習 → ⑤ 聽力糾錯
06

VI. Written Answers

Answer in English. 6 points each, three questions, 18 points in total. Key points are enough — three or four sentences will do it.

26
Michael turns down the invitation to Bernie's Tavern with: I'd love to go to Bernie's with you, but I have an office party. A big office party I need to go to. Can't get out of it. Explain why the handout calls this the most painful line in the episode. What is true and what is false in it?6 pts
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27
Trace Pam's investigation from beginning to end: what starts it, who she questions, what Phyllis says that ends it, and why her closing line about grasping at straws is about more than Dwight and Angela.6 pts
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28
Jim throws the party specifically so that Michael will not be there — and then picks up the second microphone and sings the duet with him. What does that choice do to the episode? Use one detail from the karaoke scene in your answer.6 pts
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複習 → ② 文化典故
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