1. Supply the correct form of the bracketed words to fill in the blanks :
There is increasing
(science) scientific evidence that
large cars cause (many) more
Highway accidents than small cars. In the news (recent) recently
was the story of a woman who died of a heart attack while (drive) driving
her station wagon. The car was moving so fast that it went through the highway - dividing
fence, (result) resulting in a
(collide) collision in which 5
people died. Those unnecessary (die) deaths
are attributable in part to the woman's (choose) choice
of a large automobile.
2. Fill in the 8 blanks with the correct words from the list below.
(There are 2 extra words in the list.)
move - mobility - scarce -
features - dating - worse - whole - round - last - better.
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One of the characteristic features
of American society dating back to
earlier days, is its extreme mobility
. Houses are built to last twenty
or twenty - five years only. When employment gets scarce
, workers don't hesitate to move
hundreds of miles further to find another or a better
job and quite a number of them live in caravans all the year round. |
3. Circle the correct tense or form that best completes each sentence in
the paragraph below :
| Before he |
a) became
b) becomes
c) becoming |
a champion in the last Olympic
Games, he |
a) was
b) has been
c) had been |
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| an ordinary athlete. He |
a) used
to
b) is used to
c) was used to |
train in local club; he |
a) will
b) would
c) should |
go there everyday |
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| after school. Last Sunday, he |
a) has declared
b) had declared
c) declared |
that the challenge was worth |
a) taking.
b) to take.
c) take. |
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| Now, he spends hours |
a) answer
b) answering
c) to answer |
the journalists' questions. |
4. Match the words from Column A with the
right words from Column B to get meaningful expressions. Write your
answers in the blanks provided in Column A.
Column A |
Column B |
a. lingering disease
b. drug abuse
c. ethnic minorities
d. daycare centers
e. Poisonous gases |
abuse
disease
centers
minorities
gases. |
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