I Complete the dialogue by adding ONE WORD ONLY:
Dealer: So, what’s wrong with the car? The motor (1) fine to me.
Tom: You can’t be (2) . Listen carefully. The motor is making strange (3) .
Dealer: That’s not true. I (4) this model very well, and it sounds perfectly normal to me.
Tom: I (5) . It should run smoothly, and it doesn’t.
Dealer: Well, if that’s what is bothering you, I can (6) the mechanic to look (7) the motor, if you want.
Tom: That’s not (8) only problem. If you look underneath the car, you can see that the motor is losing oil.
Dealer: I’m sorry. I can’t see (9) oil on the ground.
Tom: (10) ! Over there! Oil is dripping onto the floor.
II Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence. Use between 3 and 7 words only!
1. Because English people drive on the left, it’s difficult for them to drive abroad.
Because English people it’s difficult for them to drive abroad.
2. You can’t borrow my car!
I won’t my car.
3. I don’t know his phone number. I can’t tell him what happened.
If I his phone number, I what happened .
4. In the end I couldn’t find a garage to service my car.
In the end I couldn’t have .
5. The Prime Minister as well as the members of Parliament don’t feel favorably of the new law.
Neither the Prime Minister favour of the new law.
III Complete the text using ALL the words in the box in the appropriate form:
| understand cause make improve feel grow experience keep record occur |
Earthquakes are one of the most frightening and destructive happenings of nature that man (1) . Earthquakes (2) the death of many human beings, much suffering and great damage to property. Today the study of earthquakes (3) greatly as scientists all over the world investigate what causes them. Scientists hope their studies (4) ways of predicting earthquakes and reduce their destructive effects.
The scientific study of earthquakes is new. Until the 18th century few factual descriptions of earthquakes (5) . In general, people (6) the cause of the phenomena. They believed it was a punishment from God.
In 1755 a serious earthquake (7) near Lisbon, Portugal. Shocks from the quake (8) in many parts of the world. After the quake, Portuguese priests were asked to observe the effects and to make written records. Since that time, detailed records (9) of almost every major earthquake.
Currently scientists (10) studies to enable them to predict earthquakes. Although they have made considerable progress, the ability to predict the time, place and size of earthquakes is very limited.
IV Use the words in the capitals to form ONE word that fits best in the blank.
Please, mind your spelling, and notice that there is ONE extra word that you DO NOT NEED:
CHILD / LUXURY / DIFFICULTY / FLIGHT / ENGINEER / BEAUTIFY / RELAXATION / CYCLE
We had just had a nice meal and I was looking out of the window, admiring the (1) of the clouds. Everything was going smoothly and I said to myself. “(2) is great!” We had just half an hour to go before landing and I felt pretty (3) when the rather large woman who was sitting next to me suddenly started telling me the story of her life. She was wearing a (4) fur coat because she said she was feeling cold. She was so large that she was taking up not only her own seat, but half of mine too. As she spoke, I pretended to read my newspaper. I could hear the woman’s voice above the noise of the (5) .
“Those were hard times,’ she said. “In those days, my parents lived with twelve (6) under the same roof and we hardly had enough to eat.”
I thought she was doing her best to make up for it now. She had taken a bar of chocolate out of her handbag and tried to unwrap it, which was (7) because it had melted and stuck to the paper.
