I won’t be home for _________ dinner this evening. I’m meeting some friends after _________ work and we’re going to _________ cinema. 

My friend won't lend me his car. I wish ........

The car finally broke……………after it had run for 10 years. 

The weather across much of the British Isles remained settled last week with a good deal of sunshine. On Saturday, the lunchtime temperature at Bridlington on the north-cast (i) _______  of England was 28.2 c, which compared favorably with Alicante in southern Spain at 229 C. the rest of the world, however, was coping with some (ii) _______ conditions. A tropical storm, given the name Helen, hit Hong Kong on Saturday morning, though her presence had been felt in advance. From noon on Friday, the showers and (iii)  _______ of rain became more and more frequent so that by midnight on Sunday, thirty – six hours later, there had been 333 mm of rainfall, not far off the average for the month of August, at 367 mm. Even on Sunday there was a sting in Helen’s tail. The town centre of Shanwci, near Hong Kong, was (iv) _______ when 468 mm of rain fell in the sixty hours leading up to midday on Sunday, nearly twice the normal August rainfall. On the other side of the globe, tropical storm Gabrielle moved across the Gulf of Mexico and overnight rain exceeded the usual rainfall for the whole month. Although most of Europe enjoyed sun, the high temperatures were sufficient to set off some (v) __showers. On Tuesday morning, a thunderstorm at Lyons in eastern France deposited 99 mm of rain in just six hours.

(ii)_______

Everyone needs a home where they feel sheltered and sale. Today we live in modem flats and houses, (i) ________ have air- conditioning to keep us cool, and heating to keep US warm. There is electricity for lighting and supplies of gas or oil for the heating. Hot and cold water (ii)__________________ from the taps and

dirty water disappears (iii)_________ the drains. Many of our homes have balconies or gardens. In the past, people made their homes from materials that they found nearby. When we look at different houses, we can tell how old they are from the materials used and the way they were built. It was different long (iv) ________ people did not have water in their homes and there were no electric lights. To keep warm,they sometimes made (v)________ inside their homes. With a fire started they could cook their food and heat waler

(iii)____

_______ dancing is _______ more interesting activity than _________ reading. 

Tourism is the fastest-growing industry in the world. As well as bringing prosperity to an area, however, it can also destroy the qualities which attracted visitors in the first place. If it is not carefully controlled, tourism can also (i) _____ problems for local people, as is shown by various examples from around the world. When Phuket in Thailand first became a popular tourist (ii) _____, people there were unable to cope with the increase in rubbish that 2 million visitors a year produce and a huge incinerator had to be built in the countryside in water consumption, (iii) _____ many local people to walk considerable distances to get clean water. And Egypt’s desert landscapes are being destroyed by the litter dropped by tourists. Moving sands are difficult to clean, and the white desert to the west of the Nile Valley may be permanently (iv) _____. It’s encouraging, therefore, to read about the efforts of certain tour companies who are organising environmental holidays in some of the worst hit areas. Regular tours now go to places such as the Himalayas and Atlas mountains In North Africa with the aim of combining a bit of sightseeing with the chance to help (v) _____ some of the mess left by previous visitors.

(ii)_____

Parrots and macaws have become so rare that special varieties of these birds are fetching up to £9,000 each on the black market in Britain. Macaws from Brazil cost from £1,000 and parrots from Australia can cost £7,500 a pair. The demand for parrots, cockatoos and macaws has led to a (i) _______ increase in thefts from zoos, wildlife parks and pet shops. London and Whipsnade zoos are among the many places from which parrots have been stolen. Some thefts have not been (ii) _______  in an effort to prevent further incidents. Parrot rustling, as it is known among bird fanciers, has increased rapidly in Britain since 1976 when imports and exports of exotic birds became (iii) _______ controlled. Quarantine controls, coupled with the scareity of many types of paiTOts in the wild in Africa, Australia, Indonesia, and South America, have caused a shortage of birds which can be sold legally under (iv) _______. This has sent prices to (v) _______ levels. Working al night and equipped with wire-cutters, nets and substances to dope the birds, the rustlers are prepared to take serious risks to capture the parrots they want. At Birdworld, a specialist zoo, thieves stole two parrots after picking their way through an enclosure containing cassowaries. The cassowary is a large flightless bird, related to the emu, which can be extremely agressive, and has been known to kill humans with blows from its powerful legs.

(iii)_______

It is difficult to imagine a world without tomatoes. High in the Andes mountain of modern-day Peru, the local inhabitants have ben cultivating and eating tomatoes since prehistoric times, but the food has only become (i) _____ in the rest of the world relatively recently. These days, the bright red fruit plays an important role in the cooking of many cultures and is key ingredient in many types of fast food, (ii) _____ both taste and colour to dishes that otherwise would be rather ordinary. The tomato belongs to the nightshade family of plants, many members of which are poisonous. When they were first imported into North America, therefore, tomatoes were viewed with (iii) _____ and people tended to use them as table decorations rather than as food. In Europe, the tomato was first grown in Italy in 1555, although it wasn’t combined with pasta until much later. The first recipe for tomato ketchup dated from 1727 and in the 1800s, tomatoes began to be used more (iv) _____ in sauces and soups. These days, as well as tasting good, tomatoes are known to contain substances which are good lor our heath. Nutritionists (v) _____ out, however, that many processed tomato products also contain additives such as salt and sugar which can reduce the beneficial effects of the fruit.

(iii)_______

All sorts of people need to know what the weather is going to do. They do not all want to know the same information for the same period of time, however. For someone (i) _____ a small boat across the lake, wind or rain on that day will matter whereas a farmer might be more interested in the chances of rain over the next six months. The one thing they (ii) _____  need, however, is totally dependable information. And it is for this reason that forecasting is a very big international business. Today, because the accuracy of forecast is important to so many people, weather satellites cross from pole to pole every hour and a quarter, reporting back to earth from fifty miles up, although of course, it hasn’t always been so easy. Ancient Greek philosophers like Aristotle started weather forecasting by trying to (iii) _____ logically what was happening in the sky above them. They weren’t always right, but they understood the importance of systematic observation. But forecasting remained limited so long as people only knew what was happening in their own section of sky. It was the arrival of the electric telegraph in the 1830s that (iv) _____ forecasters to get a wider picture of the weather that was on its way. This information could then be (v) _____ on to those in its path while it was still of use.

(iv)_______

The Penny Black is the name of the world’s postage stamp. It was introduced by the U.K. in 1840 and is perhaps the most famous stamp ever issued. It has a (i) _____ of the young Queen Victoria and because of its colour, and its price of one penny, it is known as the “Penny Black”. Before 1840, postage rates for delivery of letters in the U.K. depended on the (ii) _____ the letter had to travel and the number of sheets of paper used. Furthermore, at that time it was not possible to pay for your letter before you sent it. The postage had to be paid by the receiver (iii) _____ than the sender of the letter. The Penny Black changed everything: al the rate of one penny, letters that did not weigh more than half an ounce could be sent to any destination in the U.K. Nowadays, Penny Black stamps are not all that rare although they are (iv) _____ regarded by stamp collectors. About 68 million of these stamps were issued between 1840 and 1841,and it is thought that about 1.5 million of these survive today. The price of the stamp today varies according to whether it has been used or not and its condition. A line used copy can be bought for around 77 pound or less, while unused examples are quite rare and sold for 2,000 pound or more. To honour the U.K. for having issued the world’s first postage stamp, the Universal Postal Union has made an exception regarding its rule that the name of the country must (v) _____ on a stamp. No British stamp to date has ever had the country name on it.

(ii)______

Choose A, B,C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions: 

The teacher demanded that the student left the room.

Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile factory in conditions described as close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for one of the major high street retailers. Speaking to a British newspaper, the children described long hours of (i) _______ work and threats and beatings. The company said it was unaware that clothing intended for its stores had been improperly (ii) _______  to a sweatshop that used child labour. It further announced the alleged breaches of the ethical code it imposed on manufacturers three years ago. The discovery of these children working in appalling conditions in the Shahpur Jat area of Delhi has renewed concerns about the (iii) _______ by some large retail chains of their garment production to India, recognized by the United Nations as one of the world’s hotspots for child labour. According to one estimate, over 20 per cent of India’s economy is (iv) _______ on children, which comes to a total of 50 million youngster under 14 working. Consumers in the West should not only be demanding answers from retailers about how theứ (v) _______ are produced but also be looking into their consciences at how they spend their money and whether cheap prices in the west are worth the suffering caused to so many children.

(iv)_____

 She always said that when she grew up she wanted to be _________. 

Can you imagine what life would be like if there were no telephone? You could not call up your friends on the phone and talk to them. If fire (i) _______   out in your house you could not call the fire department. If somebody was sick, you could not call a doctor. In our daily life, we need to (ii) _______ with one another. We need do this mostly by speaking to other people and listening to what they have to say to us, and when you are close (iii) _______ them you can do this very easily. However, our voices will not travel very far even when we shout. The man who made this possible was Alexander Graham Bell, a Scotsman, bom in Edinburgh in 1847. Bell, a teacher of visible speech who later moved to Canada, (iv) _______ all his spare time experimenting. So enthusiastic was he in his researeh for a means of sending speech by electricity that he left much time for his day – to – day work and at one lime was (v) _______ penniless.

(iv)______-

Because of the heavy rain, today the meeting will be held ......... until next week.

Many species of animal and plants have disappeared from the earth. They have died out, or become extinct. But sometimes animals or plant (i) _______ can be found buried in rocks. These are called fossils. Imprints in rocks, paw prints, for example are also called fossils. Not every creature survives as a fossil. Many simply rot away completely and leave no (ii) _______ of their existence. Because many creatures and plants have disappeared without leaving any fossils, we will never know anything about them. The study of fossils, or palaeontology, to give it its scientific term, became established at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Before this researeh began, people did not believe that fossils had once been alive. Large fossil teeth were seen as evidence of a race of giants in the past, while ammonites, a very(iii) _______ type of fossil which you might easily find yourself on a beach or among rocks, were called snakcstoncs because of their snake-like shape. People believed that snakes had been turned to stone by a miracle. The most famous fossils of all are the dinosaurs. There are, of course, no dinosaurs on display in zoos. They were not (iv) _______ to extinction by humans as some animal have been, but became extinct millions of years before our own species developed. The reason why the dinosaurs became extinct is still a mystery. Many theories have connected the disappearance of dinosaurs with major climatic change. One possibility is that a gigantic meteorite crashed into the earth (v) _______ so much dust into the atmosphere that the heat of sunlight was reduced. The temperature would have fallen and, as a consequence, many types of plants and animals would have become extinct.

(iv)______

Choose A, B,C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions: 

I'd rather she not go with you now

The new government has brought  ......... many changes.

Today large sums of money go into the search for treatments for a whole range of diseases. Three hundred years ago, when European explorers returned from distant lands with unfamiliar substances they’d found there, the problem was how to (i) _____ the illnesses for which these new imports could possibly be a cure. When the brown chocolate bean was first (ii) _____  into Britain from Mexico, it was thought to have medicinal qualities. Sir Hans Sloane was the man who is said to have (iii) _____  with the idea of mixing the powdered bean with milk. Sloane was an important figure in eighteenth-century London, a landowner whose name lives on in some of the city’s most fashionable streets and squares. Less appreciated is his contribution to the beginning of a national addiction; the (iv) _____ Briton gets through eight kilograms of chocolate a year, a level of consumption exceeded only by the Swiss. Today, when almost every pleasure is regarded as addictive, the name ‘chocoholics” is given to people who can’t get enough of the stuff. (v) _____ of its fat and sugar content, chocolate is usually an enemy of slender elegance.

(ii)_______

Choose a, b, c or d that best completes each unfinished sentence:

_____ stamps from discarded envelopes is my hobby.