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Exercise 1

1 It / long / time / that / l / not / see / her

2 It / so / late / that / nothing / be done

3 We / help / laugh / him

4 I / will / drop / you / tearn / if / not / train / harder

5 Like / women / she / love / tea-party / gossip

6 I / see / plane / crash / hill / burst / flames

7 high time / someone / tell / him / stop / behave / child

8 Turn / oven / so that / meat / not burn

9 If / house / be burned / we / clairn / compensation

10 I / will never / tell / secret / woman

Exercise 2

1 I / take / shoes / avoid / make / noise

2 Thank / invitation / your wedding / beginning / December

3 I / love with / girl / name / Alice

4 I / delighted / news / your maniage

5 I / retum / visit / Japan It / wonderful trip

6 We / support / him / until / find / work

7 They / so surprised / not try / stop / him

8 He / say / he / happy / where / be

9 She / feel / as if / she / a fever

10 He / only person / who / be able / help

Exercise 3

1 Healrh Robinson / died / 1944 / be / graphic artist / cartoonist

2 According / Cook / whose book / published / Thursday / most disasters /

avoidable

3 What / you / do / choose / five companies / invest

4 I / not happy / neither / they.

5 She / so busy / not come / party

6 He / had / car / five years

7 I wish I not have / much work / do

8 She / threatened / call / police / if / he / not leave / immediately

9 He / a lot / mistakes / composition

10 He / apologize / me / not reply / letter

Exercise 4

1 You / not be / afraid / snakes / you ?

2 You / not want / sell / house / you?

3 His mother / proud / him / she?

4 I/ not go out / now / as / it / rain / and l / nothave / umbrella

5 I / wear / sunglasses / today / because / sun / very strong

6 I / usually go / bú/ but to day / I go / Tom’s car

7 Mary / usually learn / languages very quickly / but she / not seem / able / learn /

modern Greek

8 When I / arrive / lecture / already start / and / professor / write / overhead projector

9 He / not allow / us / go out / boat / yester day / as / strong wind / blow

10 When / he / return / I / give / him / key

Exercise 5

I If I / see/ him / l / him / lift

2 What / happen / if / my parachute / not open?

3 Unless / I / have / quiet room / I / not be able / do / work

4 What / you / do / if / found / burglar / house?

5 You / see / garden / its best / if you / be here / last week

6 He / be made / sign / paper / admit /guilt

7 I / advise / him / ask / bus conductor / tell / him / where / get off

8 You / too young / have / front-door key

9 floor / not stong / us / dance

10 It / cold / us / have breakfast / garden

Exercise 6

1 I / astonished / hear / he / leave / country

2 It / brave / him / rush / buming house

3 lt / no use / cry / spilt milk

4 It / difficurt / getused / eat / chopsticks

5 By / work / dayand nigtil / he / succeed / finish / job / time

6 He / warn / her / not touch / wire

7 I / regret / inform / you / your application / be refused

8 Before / give / evidence / you / must swear / speak / truth

9 I / not used / drive / left

10 For / long time / earth / believed / flat

Exercise 7

1 bed / I / sleep / have / no mattress

2 man / I / waiting / not turn up

3.Tom / who / driving / all day / tired / and want / stop

4 How long / it / take her / cook / meal / yesterday ?

5 He / help / his friend / get good marks / telling him / more careful

6 Those buses / not going / airport / neither / taxis

7 You / free / do what / like

8 lt / exciting / hear / she / won / first prize

9 It / not easy / patient / recover / his illness

10 lt / not possible / us / smoke / class

Exercise 8

1 nurse / kind enough / help him / walk

2 His dream / become / doctor / may / true

3 We / told / whom / meet / station

4 They warn / us / not sleep / mosquito nets

5 We / suggest / travel / train / see more / country

6 He / rather spend / holidays / a farm / seaside

7 student / only play / piano / also play / football

8 He / not talk / loudly / I.

9 My brother / not drive / carefully / I

10 He / understand / lesson / more quickly / the rest / his class

Exercise 9

l He / better / not go / school / because he / not feeling well

2 His summer holidays / country / make / happier / healthier

3 I / see / him / walk alone / park / night

4 doctor's duty / to take care / people's health

5 How / beautiful / garden !

6 What / nice picture !

7 Bicycles / must / leave / hall

8 Nothing / can / do / unless / more information / given / us

9 He / told / he / going away / next day

10 Sleep / next room / people / wikened / sound / breaking glass

Exliicise 10

l My brother / prefer / play tennis / watch it

2 I / rather / you / phone / him today

3 He / admit / steal / documents

4 I / object / her / write / ownletters / office hours

5 It / difficult / prevent / people / park here

6 Ann / sugges / go / his flat / but I / not think / it / necessary

7 He / not interested / make / a lot of money

8 Bill / insist / me / paint / ceiling / black

9 In spite / quite rich / he / spend / very little

10 There / people / can’t help / laugh / when / see someone/ slip / banana skin

Exercise 11

1 How long / they / live / there?

2 You / break / light ?

3 He / cheerful / outgoing / personality?

4 You / another / cup / coffee?

5 This / one / my favourite / song

6 He / think / unusual / eat / dogs / snakes

7 Temperature / rarely / fall / below / zero / winter

8 She / suffer / poverty / hardships / all life

9 Ho Chi Minh / regard as / father / Vietrram

10 The thief / send / prison / 10 years

Exercise 12

1 He / stop / smoke / save money

2 America / one / three / mariages end / divorce

3 The telephone / be / broken / one week

4 You mind / take / rubbish / outside ?

5 The book / write / by / famous / Vietramese author

6 He / telephone / mother / so that / she / not worry

7 Afraid / I / not agree / your opinion

8 Ten per cent / population / be left-handed

9 Tell me / way / posl office ?

10 Her cat / wake / her up / every morning / by / jump / her face

Exercise 13

1 He / take / his dog / walk / every evening

2 You / prefer / this colour / that colour ?

3 He / be / try / telephone / her / day

4 Man / find / guilty / send / prison / l0 years

5 He / use / cry / lot / when / he / be / child

6 Oldest woman / the world / be / 110 / old

7 I / pay / the hotel / if you / pay / food

8 I / be / afraid / not finish / yet

9 What / he say / interesting

10 Unless / ground / warm / seed / can't / planted

Exercise 14

l I / might / go / beach / weekend

2 It / take / me / long time / read / book / in English

3 Please / not move / while / I / take / photograph

4 That / be / man / steal / my bag

5 I / wonder / you / help / lift / chest

6 This / be / the school / I / go to / as / child

7 It / be / no use / say / you / be / sorry

8 Wife / not let / me / smoke / house

9 Remember / turn off / gas / when / you / finish / cooking

10 Building / which / be / very expensive / be / build / last year

Exercise 15

l You / show me / how / operate / computer ?

2 If she / want / meet me / she / have / ask me herself

3 Viet Nam / change / quickly / moment

4 You / send / fax / him / soon / possible?

5 He / think / computers / be / more common / typewriters / future

6 Know / how / use / computer / be / very important nowadays

7 When / I / be/ married / l want / have / lots / children

8 I / be / try / contact you / three days

9 My brother / not feel / well / so / he / go / bed

10 I / not come / tomorrow / but / I / able / come / next week instead

Exercise 16

1 It / be / wonderfut / go / swimming / when / weather / get / warmer

2 He / grow / so fat / he / not be able / wear / favourite trousers

3 They / miss / start / the show / so / decide / have / dinner / restautant / instead

4 When we / travel / Japan / ưe / have to / pay / lot / money / hotel room

5 Without proof / it / be / impossible / police / know / who / take / money

6 We / be / still not sure / origin / langgages

7 After / visit / dentist / Phuong's teeth hurt / more / they / have / before

8 Pacific Ocean / be / generally / think / be / biggest / world.

9 She / not see / performance very well / to she / move / different seat

I0 He / suggest / they / have / good meal / go / bed / earrly

Exercise 17

1 She / have / hairdresser / cut / her hair / different way

2 He / not enjoy / job / so / find / different one

3 I / want / buy / jacket / not have / enough money

4 He / have / his secretary / type / letter

5 Have / run / as fast / could / he / be able / arrive / on time

6 If you / not go / the party / I / not go / either

7 I / get / friend / fix / my computer

8 We / see / either / this film / or lother one

9 You / be / unlucky / not win / first prize

10 He / know / he / be / wrong / but / he / not / admit it

Exercise 18

1 I / be / afraid / you / have to / wait / half / hour / before / doctor / see you

2 I / not / solve / problem / it / be / too difficult

3 He / just / buy / new computer

4 How long / she / work / here ?

5 William Shakespeare / consider / be / England's / great / playwright

6 I / be / so sorry / hear / your accident

7 You / always / be / careful / when / you / cross / road

8 If / you / be / so tired / why / not / you / go / bed ?

9 I / be / sorry / but I / not remember / your name

l 0 lt / be / beautiful / day / not be / it ?

Exercise 19

1 l / prefer / live / countryside / because I / dislike / noise / traffic / city

2 We / not believe / whatever / he / say / because / he / liar

3 Despite / age / he / join / social activities / neigbourhood

4 surprising / he / pass / examination.

5 man / injured / accident / take / hospital

6 Now that / highway / build / take / two hours / there

7 only guest / late / pary / our manager

8 It / stupid / him / give up / job / need / money

9 wish / go / beach / you / last Sunday

10 Neither he / nor I / be going / attend / meeting

Exercise 20

1 I / have / use / public telephone / because / out of order

2 She / by / church / way / work / day

3 factory / close / workers / go / strike / last week

4 director / ill / so / deputy / speech / instead of

5 happen / picture / used to / hang / wall ?

6 I / complain / manager / restaurant / food

7 We / not see / picture / our city / as / look / 100 years

8 advantage / have / car / that / rely / public transport

9 It / age / 14 / Jack London / leave school / sailor

l0 Neither / boy's teacher / parents / satisfied / progress

Exercise 21

1 There / be/ increase / road / abcident / in / few years

2 Mr Green / take / charge / office / while / director / away / vacation

3 He / furious / me / not invite / party / Sunday

4 rain / everyday / so / have / spend / most / time / indoors

5 He / show / photograph / hotel / stay / during / holiday

6 my opinion / violent films / should not / show / televtsion

7 you / know / Linda / engage / friend / mine?

8 If / smoke / there / greater chance / you / die / lung cancer

9 accident / fault / so / I / pay / damage

10 You / borrow / book / if / promise / keep / clean

Exercise 22

1 going / visit / friends / make with / hostel

2 begin / rain / manager / get / office / morning

3 When / boy / twelve / father / die / dangerous disease

4.I / tell / her / meeting / if / see / tomorrow

5 lt / important / brother / stop / smoke / once

6 I / think over / offer / give / my answer / soon / possible

7 After / dinner / set out / saying / where / going

8 We / invite / party / occasion / birthday

9 She / leave / wait / rain / minutes / night

10 sister / willing / help / mother / howework / when / hotiday

Exercise 23

1 police / say / no connection / two murders

2 you / know / interested / buy / hand / car ?

3 Stand / plane / doctor / goodbye / everybody / airport

4 John / show / hotel / stay / vacation

5 mother / still / hospital / out / danger

6 While / Ann / hospital / she / a visit / teacher

7 I / hardly / start work / feel / pain / back

8 Now that / I / finish / course / have / look / job

9 Paul / suit / job interview / good impression

10 Why not / day off / so / recover properly ?

Exercise 24

1 The Queen / moved / tears / hear / news

2 She / insist / talk / manager / person

3 It / essential / that / child / same / educatioqal opportunities

4 He / little / money / save / it / not / long

5 I / never / really / consider / get / married

6 I / grateful / kindness / me / visit / your factory / earfier this month

7 We / survive / unless / start / work / cleaner / safer / sources / energy

8 She / hurt / leam / boyfriend / forget / birttrday.

9 At / bank / Bill / second / command

10 She / look / as / she / see / ghost

Exercise 25

1 hate / people / laugh / own jokes

2 we / looking / pub / serve food

3 It / Jones / injured / Brown

4 I / introduce / man / share a flat

5 tell / truth / l / not think / you / much chance of success

6 They / make / him go / sleep / giving / a special drink

7 Mr Brown / not a scientist / neither / his wife

8 You / free / do what / like

9 It / exciting / hear / he / won / gold medal

10 It / sad / find / more / more couples / getting divorced

Exercise 26

1 The weather / so bad / we have / say / home

2 There / so much noise / I / not sleep

3 He had so / books / not know / where / put them

4 He / make / strange decision / that / everyone / surprised

5 This / such / easy exercise / I / do it / two minutes

6 We / surprised / the news / they / manage / finish such / diffrcult task ahead /

schedule

7 Some seeds can / planted / whether / ground / cold / not

8 He wondered / teaching methods / vary considerably / not

9 What he / trying / do / get / early / moming

I 0 fact / her son / out / danger / bring her / some relief

Exercise 27

l It / wonderful / see / old friends again

2 If I / you / not do / that

3 She / pleased / receive / such / gift.

4 last two lessons / hard / me / understand

5 Your parents / not like / plan / live abroad

6 His refusal / help / disappointment

7 You / not keep / promise / write / me / more frequently

8 principal / school / arurounce / intention / retire

9 His decision / resign / welcomed / people

10 I / feel doubtful / his ability / do / work

Exercise 28

I He / first man / arrive

2 This / best book / subject / appeat / tris year

3 There / several letters / director / sign

4 This / first attempt / English composition

5 news / her son / killed / greatshock / het

6 think / there / little probability / he / succeed / examination

7 care / when / cross / busy streets

8 question / gol Da Lat / or Vung Tau / holidays / still / discussed

9 Everybody / annious / know / what / happeltd

10 Your father / pleased / see / long absence

Exercise 29

1 She / fortunate / have / such / kind husband

2 boys / clever / see / solution / problem / so quickly

3 You / careless / leave / umbrella / bus

4 How brave / you / go / into / buming building / save / baby !

5 Everyone / anxious / you / accept / position

6 Ann / eager / parents / meet / young man / asked her / marry him

7 baby brother / too / young / walk

8 box / too heavy / you / lift

9 I / quite ignorant / what / intend / do

10 He / arrgry / her / broken / promise

Exercise 30

1 I / not dare / stay / home / myself / night

2 be sure / good seat / your tickets / should / bought / advance

3 Sitting / window / l / watch / people / pass

4 Jerry / a feeling / he / followed / but / friends / just laugh / idea

5 Why / left / mystery / me

6 How / prisoner / escape / compete mystery

7 They / very thankful / whatever / you / give

8 student / always / attention / whatever / teacher / saying

9 London / town / many millions of people

I0 time / visit me / inconvenient

Exercise 31

l However hard / try / never / seem able / work

2 way /my office / never stop / no mather / call me

3 She / always late / class / no matter / get up

4 teacher / love / every student / no matter / from

5 I / not stand / listen / his complaints / longer

6 Her ambition / famous pianist / obvious

7 She / decision / goodbye / him

8 There / no news / how / prisoner / escape

9 How ungrateful / you / not greet / former teacher / meet / him

10 It / very thoughtless / laugh merrily / when / person / speiking / sorrowful

Exercise 32

l I / sorry / I / fail / arrive / Athens / last Friday

2 I / very impressed / all work / you / done / on / your house

3 We / polluted / air / be / smoke / factories / fumes / motor-vehicles

4 Provided / legible / examiner / accept / handwriting / answer

5 I / congratulate / you / excellent cooking

6 If / earth / sudden / stop / spin / we / fly / it

7 My / father / tired / live / city / want / quiet village.

8 Never / put / tomorrow / you / can / today

9 She / dentist / got / toothache

10 Gagarin / first man / travel / space

A USING THE SUGGESTED PHRASE GIVEN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SENTENCE

4 I won't swim in the sea because it is too cold

The sea is not

5 "I was not there at the time," he said

He denied

6 "'Who does that suitcase belong to?" The policeman asked us

The policeman asked us whose ………

7 She hasn't ridden a horse before

1 "Please don't make such a mess in your room," his mother said

His mother asked ………

2 The Americans have just recalled their ambassador

10 She couldn't get to work because of the heavy snow.

The heavy snow …

Exercise 3

l I had expected the weather to be worse

The weather was not …

2 The train couldn't run because of the storm

7 I haven't seen that man here before.

It's …

8 The furniture was so expensive that I didn't buy it

The furniture was too …

9 The robbers made the bank manager hand over the money

The bank manager ………

10 He leamed to drive when he was eighteen

He has ………

Exercise 4

1 She had never been so happy before

She was unhappier ………

2 It was so late that nothing could be done

1 My husband didn't leave the car keys, so I couldn't pick him up at the station.

4 We couldn't drive because of the fog

The fog prevented

5 Although his leg was broken he managed to get out of the car

6 I would like you to help me to put the chairs away.

9 The water was so cold that the children could not swim in it

The water was not ………

10 Somebody repaired her car yesterday

5 She liked Paris very little, and Rome less

She thought Rome

6 I can meet you if you arrive before eleven

So ………

7 They will catch all the prisoners again tonight

All the prisoners ………

8 I've warned you not to go near that dog

I've warned you about ………

9 No, please don't tell him

I'd rather ………

10 Why don't you ask her yourself ?

I suggest ………

3 Although both his legs were broken in the crash, he managed to get out of the

car before it exploded

Despite his …

4 I haven't eaten this kind of food before

This is the first ……

5 After fighting the fire for twelve hours the firemen succeeded in putting it out

The firemen managed ……

6 The architect has drawn plans for an extension to the house

Plans ……

7 In Stratford-on-Avon we saw Shakespeare's birthplace

We saw the house …

8 It isn't necessary for you to finish by Saturday

You ……

9 "How many survivors are there?" asked the journalist

The journalist wanted to know

10 It was such rotten meat that it had to be thrown away

The meat was

Exercise 9

1 It is essential that Professor John Brown is met at the aiqport

Professor John Brown ……

2 You can't visit the United States unless you get a visa

She has

5 She knows a lot more about it than I do

I don't know

6 My French friend finds driving on the left diffrcul

My French friend isn't ………

7 They think the owner of the house is abroad

The owner ………

8 We didn’t go on holiday because we didn't have enough money

lf we ………

9 The children couldn't go swimming because the sea was very rough

The sea was too ………

I0 What a pity you failed your driving test !

8 Apples are usually cheaper than oranges

Apples are not ………

9 I advise you to put your money in the bank.

You'd ………

10 That restaurant is so dirty that no one wants to eat there

It is such ………

Exercise 11

1 John only understood very little of what the teacher said

John could hardly

2 Unless someone has a key, we can't get into the house

8 I haven't been to Bristol for three years

The last time

9 No one has signed this cheque'

The vase ………

4 The garden still needs digging

The garden hasn’t …………

5 Have you got a cheaper carpet than this ?

The security guard told ………

9 I've never met such a famous person before

It's ………

10 This pudding can be cooked in its tin

You don't ………

Exercise 13

1 “Why didn't I get a computer before ?" thought the office manager

The office manager wondered

2 “You'd better not lend him any more money, Mary," Said Tom

Tom advised Mary ………

3 I started work for the company a year ago

The rough sea ………

8 Please check for damage before signing the delivery note

3 John Speke failed to find the source of the River Nile

John Speke didn't succeed ………

4 Maria didn't apply for the job in the library and regrets it now

Maria wishes

5 Helen wanted to know the name of Shirley's hairdresser's

Helen said, "Shirley, where ?"

6 This furniture is so old that it's not worth keeping

Exercise 15

1 He is said to have been in the French Foreign Legion

People

2 "How old is your little boy ? " said the nurse to the lady

The nurse asked the lady ………

3 I'm sure it wasn't Mrs Elton you saw because she's in Bristol

7 The bread is so stale we can't eat it

The bread isn't ………

8 Who does this bag belong to ?

Whose ……….?

9 "Never borrow money from friends," my father said

My father told me ………

l0 The accident happened because the train driver ignored a warning light

If the train driver ………

5 He was sorry he hadn't said goodbye to her at the airport.

He regretted ………

6 It is pointless to have that old typewriter repaired

That old typewriter is not

7 The bridge was so low the bus couldn’t go under it

1 Philippa asked Olive if she could remember where she had put the camera

Philippa said, "Olive, ……….?"

2 It is a six-hour drive from London to Edinburgh

It takes

3 Tum off all switches before leaving the workshop

All the switches ………

4 It is ages since Alan visited his parents

10 The police made the youth empty his pocket.

The youth ………

Exercise 18

1 Joan eats very little so as not to put on weight

Joan eats very little because ………

2 On arrival at the shop, the goods are inspected carefully

When the goods ………

3 Laurence hasn't seen his sister since she left for Japan

Laurence last ………

4 Peter said he wasn't feeling well

Peter said, "I ……… ”

5 John is fat because he eats so many chips

If ………

6 “ You should take more exercise, Mr Robert," the doctor said, "if you want to

Iose weight."

The doctor advised ………

7 Collecting dolls from foreign countries is one of Jane's interests

10 The boy's very pleased to be going away on holiday soon

The boy's looking ………

3 Temperature is measured by a thermometer.

7 To get the 40% discount, you must buy all twelve books at the same time

You can only …………

8 "I'm sorry I gave you the wrong number," said Paul to Susan

7 "When is the first day of your holiday, Peter?" Martha asked

Martha asked Peter when

8 The flight to Moscow lasted three and a half hours.

It took ………

9 I work in a factory which has more than athousand employees

There …………

10 Belinda felt very depressed but she still went to the party

Belinda went to the party ………

3 Robert and Catherine have been married for four years

It's four years

4 Elizabeth got a bad cough because she started smoking cigarettes

2 The people who were at the meeting will say nothing to the press.

l0 Mackenzie wrote four best-sellers before he was twenty

By the age of twenty ………

Exercise 23

1 "You stole the jewels!" the inspector said to him

The inspector accused ………

2 If it doesn't rain soon, millions of pounds' worth of crops will be lost

Unless ………

3 "Don't move or I’ll shoot!" the bank robber said to the clerk

The bank robber threatened ………

4 The drama critic of the “Daily News'' regards the new play as a major breakthrough.According to

5 Although the team played well, they lost

Despite

6 Galileo is considered to be the father of modern astronomy

Galileo is regarded ………

7 The only way you can become a good athlete is by training hard every day.

10 Could you tell me the time of the last train to London ?

Could you tell me ?

7 The car was so rusty that it couldn’t be repaired

The car was too ………

8 He never has enough money

Exercise 25

1 Although the play received good notices, not many people went to see it

Despite ………

2 My father speaks very little English

My father speaks hardly ………

3 He said he was not guilty of stealing the car

l0 Is it essential to meet your aunt at the station?

Does your aunt ?

5 My decision to get up and dance coincided with the band's decision to stop playing.The moment ………

6 The doctor advised me to rest

The doctor suggested

7 They had to wait for twelve hours before their flight left

Only after a

8 Their teacher is making them study hard

They are ………

9 They were just as good as we had expected

They certainly lived ………

10 Even though I admire his courage, I think he is foolish

3 The critics were very impressed by her performance

Her performance made ………

4 When are the council going to do something about the city's traffic problems ?

It's high time somethlng ………

5 I didn't realized who he was until later

9 I would do anything for you

There's ………

I0 Given fair warning, I could have avoided that date

If you had told me ………

4 She didn't say a word when she left the room

She left the room ………

5 The result of the match was never in doubt

At no time ………

6 This will be the orchestra’a first performance outside London

This will be the first time ………

7 I applied for the job but was tumed down

My ………

8 The Prime Minister was determined to remain in office

The Prime Minister had no

9 The refugees continued to feel unsafe until they had crossed the border

Not until ………

10 t don't know anything about aeronautics

I am ………

Exercise 29

l The students' riotous behaviour should have been severely punished

The students deserved

2 There are more people out of work in this country than ever before

Never

3 The chances are that the whole thing will have been forgotten by next term

8 I'm sure he took your briefcase by mistake.

I'm sure he didn't ………

9 We only dispatch goods after receiving the money

Only after the money ………

10 You pay $20 a month for a period of one year

4 Oil was slowly coating the edge of the shore

The edge of the shore ………

5 In spite of the forecast it stayed fine

Although rain ………

6 You really should be able to dress yourself by now !

It's high

7 Provided your handwriting is legible the examiner will accept your answer

So long as the examiner ………

8 Without his help we would all have died.

If it ………

9 He forgot all about the gun until he got home

Not until ………

10 May I borrow your pen ?

Would you mind ?

9 The instructions say you just add boiling water to the soup powder

The soup powder ………

10 He was so tired he felt asleep before the end of the film

He was too ………

Exercise 32

I Many people were severely critical of the proposals for the new motorway

There was ………

2 For a teacher of her experience and ability, discipline was not a problem.

6 He was suspended for two matches for swearing at the referee

Swearing at the referee earned ………

7 People who haven't been abroad shouldn't criticize foreign customs

Nobody who………

8 It is thought that the Prime Minister is considering raising taxes

The Prirne Minister ………

9 He did not pass the driving test until he was nearly thirty

6 My parents find fault with everything I do.

No matter ………

7 I certainly don't intend to reply to that rude letter from Edward

I have ………

8 Simon had not expected that he would feel so weak after the operation

The operation left …………

9 I am absolutely sure he took the money on purpose

4 Don't you wish you could get out more in the evening?

Don't you get fed ……… ?

5 It's nobody's fault that the meeting wits cancelled

10 Mary told the police about the burglary.

Mary reported ………

A QUESTION-ANSWERTEST 1

MAHATMA GANDHI Mohandas Gandhi was first called Mahatma or Great Soul, by the poet

Tagore The name was taken up by his admirers but Gandhi himself did not like it

He had no wish for honours or titles It is difficult, though, to describe this man-one

of the very great men of our times - in any other terms

No man played a larger part in lndia's struggle for political independence.Yet the word “politician” did not suit him He looked for neither power nor high

Place He cared nothing for wealth, fame or comfort, but for his people's happiness

above all People or different faiths came to sit at his feet and learned from him

And his teachings have touched the hearts of people in many nations

Gandhi was a dreamer who spent all his life trying to apply his dreams to

the world around him He dreamed of a world where there would be no rich or

poor, master or slave, where no man shourd be ashamed of his birth or position in

society

1 Why did Mohandas Gandhi not like the name "Mahatma" or "Great Soul" ?

2 What did he do for India ?

3 What did he care for above all ?

4 How influential was he ?

5 What did Mahatma Gandhi dream of ?

TEST 2

ERNEST HEMINGWAY There are peopre whose immortality begins from the moment of their death

Hemingway is one of them He was a great man The whole of his creative work

was a long struggle, for Hemingway, the man and the writer, had many enemies

Perhaps his great enemy was war He hated it with all his heart, with his whole

body, in which 28 bullets had left their traces

Hemingway hated those who made a business of war In an introduction to

his novel “A farewell to Arms”, Hemingway said that wars were started by people

who profited from them, and he ,suggested that those warlike people should be shot

on the very first day of war, by sentence of the people

Hemingway hated fascism He never surrendered He fought against it with the pen and the sword

1 Who was Hemingway ?

2 Why was the whole of his creative work a long struggle ?

3 How did Hemingway hate war ?

4 Who else did he hate ? Why ?

5 What was Hemingway's attitude to fascism ?

TEST 3

This report looks at the careers of students who have left Barnaby school,

and is based on questionnaires received from over 300 former students

Over the past-few-years, the majoriry of students (63%) have continued with

their education after they left school Most of these have gone to university and the

others have done vocational courses at Colleges of Further Education

About a quarter of the students have found jobs after leaving school Some

of these jobs are with employers in the local area, but others are in London or even

abroad About half of the students said that they were unemployed for several months before finding work A small minoriry of students (1.5%) went straight into their family business

About 12% of the students were unabre to find work and have been

unemployed for over a year Most of these were students who failed their

examination, although a few had passed with reasonable grades

In general, more and more leavers are going to university or further education, and this trend will probably continue as long as unemployment is high

1 What is the meaning of 'went straight into' in paragraph 3 ?

2 What is the report based on ?

3 According to the report, is it easy or difficult for school leavers'to find jobs ?

4 Which of the-students had the most difficulty in finding work ?

5 Why are more and more reavers going on to university or further education ?

TEST 4

The generar opinion abroad is that London has fog or rain or both, every

day of the year, but on the day that I arrived it was fine and warm, there was bright

sun and a cloudless sky The next day it was Just as beautiful; there was a slight

wind that gently moved the leaves on the trees, and you could smell the spring in

the air 'Life is grand!' I thought as I walked in Kensington Gardens It was a

straighr road and I found the way quite easily When I got my first sight of the

gardens, the beauty of it nearly took my breath away The trees were just bursting

into leaf, fresh and green and lovely, and there were beds of spring flowers, red andyellow, and blue, in the beautiful, smooth grass under the trees

People in the light spring clothes were walking about, and, to my surprise,

they walked not only along the paths but also across the grass, and no one said a

word to them about it I had never seen such a thing before

1 What is the weather like in London according to the general opinion ?

2 What was the weather like on the day the writer arrived in London ?

3 What season was it when the writer visited London ?

4 What did he see in the Kensington Gardens ?

5 What was the strange thing in the Kensington Gardens that he saw ?

TEST 5

A PLAN FOR LONDON TRAFFIC London, like so many big cities, has traffic problems that seem to get worseEvery year Tom Jenkins, a London bus-driver, was asked what he would do to

impioue the situation if he was put in charge of London transport This is what he

said, “If you put me in charge of London transport, I'd make a number of changes

I’d ban private cars lrom central London between 7.30 am and 6.30 pm unless the

owner actually lived in the area I'd build a lot of new, cheap car parks near the

railway stations on the outskirts of London, so that people could leave their cars

there and travel to and from work by train I'd fix a standard fare for all bus or tube

journeys in the centre, and I'd make it possible for people to buy ten or dozen

tickets at one time Then the buses and taxis would be able to move much more

quickly, and easily, and life would become more comfortable for everyone"

1 What would Tom do about private cars ?

2 Why would he build new car parks near the railway stations on the outskirts

of London ?

3 What would he do about fare ?

4 What other changes would he like to make regarding tickets ?

5 What effect would these changes have ?

TEST 6

TRADITIONS AND CUSTOMS IN GREAT BRITAIN Every nation and every country has its own customs and traditions ln

Britain traditions play a more irnportant part in the life of the people than in other

countries Englishmen are proud of their traditions and carefully keep them up

It has been the law for about 300 , years that all theatres are closed on

Sundays No letters are derivered, only a few sunday papers are published

To this day an English family prefers a house with a garden to a flat in a

modern house with central heating English people like gardens Sonretimes the

garden in front of the house is a littte square covered with cement painted garden inimitation of grass and a box of flowers

Holidays are especialty rich in old traditions and are different in Scotland,

Ireland, Wales and England Christmas is a great English national holiday, and in

Scotland it is not kept, except by clerks in banks, all shops and factortes are

working

1 How important are traditions in Britain ?

2 What do Englishmen do to their traditions ?

3 Which does an English family prefer, a house with a garden or a flat ?

4 Find a sentence in the text which shows that the English peopte like gardens

can be an important source of food for millions of people in the world When we

know how much and in what way the oceans influence the weather, we can plan thegrowing of crops and even work out the best time to take our holidays

But when we get to the bottom of the sea, we find things that no one

dreamed existed until recently Lands which were covered with water when the ice

melted at the end of the ice age are rich in minerals Off the south African coasts,

for example, is a place where there are five times the number of diamonds as in the