The school used to think he was ……… but then they realized his poor work was the result of ……… and that the fact he was quite clever.. Global warming is thought to be responsible for som
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1 “I need some……… of your identity” the cashier told Alan PROVE
2 The room was quite………and we went to another hotel SUIT
4 “Rain will continue………the afternoon,” the forecast said THROUGH
6 It’s……… easy to learn a language if you hear it all the time COMPARATIVE
7 You get a very good……… of food at that snack bar VARY
10 Your dress needs………, Mary, if you want to be in fashion LONG
11 Some people strongly……… being told what to do by a machine LIKE
12 Many old industries………a long time ago, and won’t return APPEAR
13 New Technology is vital if we want to have high……… growth ECONOMY
14 The new factory has made more goods in a shorter time for less money;
15 The firm is being very……… about the design of its new hardware SECRET
16 It is becoming……… obvious that changes will have to take place INCREASE
17 He was a little………about how to use the complicated software SURE
18 That sentence is completely………; it makes no sense at all MEAN
19 It was never……… true that all the work was done by hand WHOLE
20 He’s s……… that sometimes he leaves everything switched on FORGET
21 My favorite……… of classical music are Mozart, Beethoven and Bach COMPOSE
22 Jimmy’s brother is the……… in that rock band I was telling you about GUITAR
23 This is a purely……… piece of music with no singing in it at all INSTRUMENT
25 Not many……… sing and play at the same time, but she’s an exception DRUM
26 Sit at the same distance from both……… to get the best sound quality LOUD
27 She’s a brilliant………, but she prefers painting and drawing MUSIC
28 My mother said the volume was……… and asked me to turn it down DEAF
29 Tonight’s live……… include a world’s famous jazz band from Chicago ENTERTAIN
30 They had practised a lot so their music was……… pleasant TUNE
31 Cook the vegetables in a saucepan containing two liters of……… water BOIL
32 Serve the two dishes………, one on a plate and another in a bowl SEPARATE
33 She likes drinking pure lemon juice……… with a little honey SWEET
34 Add the two ingredients together and then put the……… into a pan MIX
35 The……… of ready meals has increase enormously in recent years CONSUME
36 Pour the oil……… into a small cup, making sure you don’t spill any CARE
37 Stir the frying pan, using a long-handled……… spoon WOOD
38 Leave the soup……… to cook for ten minutes, then put the lid on COVER
39 When the sauce begins to………, remove from the heat and serve THICK
40 If the meat is still……… cooked, turn the heat up a little SUFFICIENT
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43 Don’t be so ………, we’ve only been waiting a few minute PATIENT
44 Seven o’clock on Saturday is rather an ……… time for an appointment CONVINIENT
45 Please don’t be so ……… I can’t do all the work by myself REASON
46 The staff are always making mistakes because they are so ……… EFFICIENT
47 Sorry about the mistake I ……… the instruction you gave me UNDERSTAND
48 They’ve ……… my name on this form – the first letter is L not R SPELL
49 An athlete who fails a drug test is sure to be ……… QUALIFY
50 Every year thousands of species of plants and insects ……… APPEAR
51 They knew that the vaccine for the virus was ……… possible THEORY
53 He has a very outgoing ……… and makes friends very easily PERSON
54 ……… with their unwillingness to support the campaign is increasing PATIENT
58 The police should be more ……… to the needs of local community SENSE
61 There were over 350 ……… on the Environmental Skills course PARTICIPATE
62 He spoke ……… about the need to protect the tiger’s natural habitat PASSION
63 Deforestation in South America is an issue of ……… importance GLOBE
64 His face had ……… with anger It looked as if he might explode RED
65 Free divers are now diving to ……… of over 80 meters DEEP
67 The very poorest people in that part of the town are……… on the help
and……… of their neighbors, many of whom are also quite poor
68 She is popular with all her classmates because of the……… of her
………, so we miss her a lot when she leaves
69 No matter how close brothers and sister are, ……… between them can
sometimes lead to certain……… in their relationship
70 Claire was……… accused of saying thing behind Jane’s back, despite the
fact that she had always shown great……… to her friends
71 Because of her……… to get to the party, she completely forgot to make
any……… for getting home later on
72 What I find most……… about him is the fact that he totally lacks the
qualities such as……… and kindness, that he so much admires in others
73 The school used to think he was ……… but then they realized his poor
work was the result of ……… and that the fact he was quite clever
74 She’s a highly ……… child who is easily hurt by cruel comments by other
pupils and finds her extreme ……… very difficult to overcome
75 Global warming is thought to be responsible for some of the world’s recent
……… disaster
76 We took part in a demonstration yesterday to protest against the construction of
DEFEND GENEROUS WARM PERSON JEALOUS DIFFICULT FAIR LOYAL PATIENT ARRANGE ANNOY SELFISH INTELLIGENT LAZY
SENSE SHY
NATURE
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77 The creation of nature reserves will help to ensure the ……… of many
endangered species
78 You can really go ……… in the countryside nowadays without seeing
some evidence of Man’s influence
79 The council intends to raise ……… of the effects of traffic pollution to our
health
80 Recent ……… advances such as the Internet are growing very useful for
conservationists
81 As it grew hotter, even the managing director ……… his tie and undid his
collar button
82 If we introduce another foreign language in the school, we’d have to
……… the school day
83 Owing to continuous heavy rain, driving conditions have ……… in the
past few hours
84 Don’t come near me when I am ……… the knife, dear I don’t want to cut
yourself
85 It’s thought that listening to loud music on a regular basis can eventually lead to
partial ………
86 It was raining heavily in the morning, but by midday the weather had
……… up and we were able to go out
87 There have been several serious accidents recently, so the police are
……… up on drunken driving
DEVELOP SURVIVE
WHERE
AWARE
TECHNOLOGY
LOOSE
LONG WORSE
SHARP
DEAF
BRIGHT
TIGHT JUMP TO THE BEAT
Rebounding – a user-friendly, soft-impact type of……… training – is a
……… example of the fact that rigorous exercise does not have to be high
impact Praised by the fitness experts as superior to ……… the shock-absorbing
mat cushions you ……… while protecting joints and ligaments from jarring
blows and ……… strain
Many of us, without knowing it, experienced the ……… of rebounding
in childhood as we bounced ……… and often forbiddenly, up and down on our
parents’ beds Although the bed has been ……… by an elastic mat on four legs
(the rebounder), even in ……… I can testify to the fact that bouncing is still
brilliant
……… with rebounding, we get more benefit out of each breath we
take The direct, vertical ……… of rebounding make constant use f gravity, so
you are effectively working with natural resistance
FIT POWER JOG GENTLE EXCEED EXCITEMENT TEADY
PLACE ADULT BASIC MOVE
ICE-CREAM HEADACHES
One thing an ……… for Ice-cream never tells you is that
there is a strong ……… that it will give you a headache
Studies carried out ……… show that a third of people
experience pain of ……… just after eating or drinking
cold things It is at its most ……… about a minute later,
……… lasting 15 minutes or so The center of the pain is
ADVERTISE POSSIBLE RECENT COMFORT PAIN USUAL
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the ice-cream touches You may also experience toothache The
remedy is ……… simple If you are eating anything very
cold, ……… there is no contact with the back of the
palate In spite of this slight drawback, ……… of
ice-cream continue to increase every year
DEPEND TOOTH FAIR SURE
SELL
LONDON TO NEW YORK BY TRAIN
The world’s most ……… rail adventure – a 14-day train trip from
London to New York – could become a ……… within 20 years
Russian and American ……… are now drawing up plans for the
……… of the 4600 miles of track and 1 50-mile tunnel under the
Bering Strait to link East and west by Rail
In theory, ……… could board at Waterloo International and
end their journey at Grand Central Station a ……… later, having
gone around three quarters of the globe A conference of ………
transport expert and government ……… from East and West is to be
held in London later this year
Money would come from the ……… state-owned lands along
the route of the proposed ……… and it would be primarily operated
as a rival to the Pacific sea ……… which at present have a monopoly
on the transport of goods
EXCITE REAL POLITICS CONSTRUCT
TRAVEL NIGHT ENGINE OFFICE
MAIN RAIL CROSS
If the worst fears of Russian and Western ……… turned out
to be true, as seems likely, the ……… of a single major
……… plant to poison a lake containing one-fifth of the
planet’s fresh water will be ……… new evidence of just
how ……… the Earth’s life support system can be harmed
Lake Baikal, 400 miles in ……… and the deepest in the
world, is one of the last few ……… places on Earth
……… over the winter, it curves through a part of Siberia
where Asia is splitting apart, the ……… of a future ocean
More than 500 feet in ……… with another four-mile-thick
layer of mud ………, the lake’s cold, oxygen-rich-waters
are full of strange life forms
ENVIRONMENT ABLE
INDUSTRY WORRY EASY LONG EXPLORE FREEZE BEGIN DEEP FAR
STOP THE MUSIC
For six years, an ……… called Pipedown has been
fighting against the music played to us in public places It has
4,000 members ……… including conductors and
………, authors and actors To avoid giving the
……… of being snobbish, the founder, Nigel Rogers,
points out the ……… of Pipedowns also includes jazz
players, rock ……… and folk singers Their aims, he says,
is to get rid of the recorded music we are forced to listen to,
ORGANIZE
WORLD VIOLIN IMPRESS MEMBER MUSIC
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suggests people should ……… to do their shopping
e……… and that bank customers should inform the
manger of their ……… to withdraw their money if they
continue to be subjected without their ……… to that awful
canned muzak
WHATEVER THREAT ELSE INTEND PERMIT
TUNNEL BIKING IN HOLLAND
Everyone knows how keen the Dutch are on cycling More ………, though, is their
……… of riding through the hundreds of kilometers of tunnels that lie below the
surface of the Netherlands, ……… in Limburg: the one hilly province in an
……… uniformly flat country
The tunnels, some of them dug by the Roman, were ……… used to mine
stone by hand Nowadays the three ……… miners use power tools, and the
……… are closed by steel gates, although cycling guides have a key
It is cold and extremely dark ……… so the guides make sure everyone has a
working lamps and that ……… stay close together Everyone taking a wrong
……… would be unlikely to find the way out The constant 13o temperature is fine
while ……… are moving about, but once they stopped, they would quickly freeze
SURPRISE ENJOY SPECIAL OTHER ORIGIN REMAIN ENTER GROUND CYCLE TURN RIDE
TORNADOS
Tornados are one of the most ……… kinds of storm on Earth Although they do
not last long, they can strike with extreme ……… traveling a a speed of up to
fifty miles per hour The ……… of most tornados is about five hundred feet, but
in ………circumstances, they can be up to a mile wide and travel huge
……… possibly hundreds of miles The reason why they spin remain
……… but we know that tornados can form when columns of air below
thunderclouds start rising Their ……… is increased by ……… winds In
the Southern hemisphere, they always spin in a ……… direction, while in the
North it is the opposite At the center of the tornado the air ……… is extremely
low, so the wind rushing in at hundred of miles an hour has the effect of an incredibly
……… vacuum cleaner on dirt and solid object s on the ground below
DANGER VIOLENT WIDE EXCEPTION DISTANCE MYSTERY STRONG CURCLE COLCK PRESS POWER
ALBERT EISTEIN
On 18th April 1955, the ……… occurred in Princeton, USA of one
of the world’s ……… physicists, Albert Einstein, after some
years of heart-related ……… Born in 1879 in Ulm , Germany,
Einstein’s intelligence was not ……… at school, but at Zurich
University his ……… skills became obvious and he later wrote
his famous papers on relativity These ……… established his
reputation and changed humanity’s ……… of the universe They
also ……… others to build both atomic weapons and nuclear
power stations His work won ……… recognition with a Nobel
Prize and in 1933 he settled ……… in America, where his work
continued ……… for the next twenty years
DIE LEAD ILL NOTICE SCIENCE PUBLISH UNDERSTAND ABLE
WORLD PERMANENT INTERRUPT
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It is a fairly common ……… in Britain that men these days do more
housework than they did in previous ……… But is this really so? A
recent survey has made some interesting discoveries
………, when men do help out, they enjoy cooking and
shopping but most are ……… to do the washing A quarter of men
think that woman are better ……… to looking after the home than
men and 19% admit making no ……… to housework The average
man says that he does a ……… of house work, while the average
woman says she does three quarter of it, so someone isn’t telling the
………! It was impossible to find any man who share housework
……… with their partners Perhaps it is not so ………,
therefore, that there are some ……… who want a new law forcing
men to do their share
BELIEVE GENERATE
APPEAR WILLING SUIT CONTRIBUTE THREE
TRUE EQUAL SURPRISE POLITICS
STAMP COLLECTING
The average stamp ……… is a curious creature He takes up the
hobby as a child, gives it up as a ……… and returns to it in his middle
age It may be the chance ……… of one of his ole albums or the
……… of his children that renews his interest However it happens,
the pattern keeps being repeated
Although the exact figure is ………, it is thought that about 3
million British people buy at least one stamp a year with no ……… of
using it for the post What’s more, stamp ……… can attract more than
10,000 visitors and there are about 600 clubs But club ……… is
falling and children are ……… to computers in their leisure time
These days ……… have far more hobbies to choose from it and it is
thought that stamp collecting may fall ……… in the not very distant
future
COLLECT TEENS DISCOVER KEEN
CERTAIN INTEND EXHIBIT MEMBER INCREASE YOUNG DRAMA
MURDER MYSTERY WEEKENDS
Would you like to try something a bit ………? Are you tired of doing
things that you find ………? Then why not go on a murder mystery
weekends!
On a murder mystery weekend, you’re a ……… You
assemble at a hotel with your fellow guests ……… afterwards, one of
the guests is “murdered” ……… are not quite what they seem Who
are the real guests and who are in ……… actors? You have to solve
the mystery and find out who the ……… was There will be a series of
cleverly ……… clues to help you do this, and you will have to use all
USUAL BORE
DETECT SHORT APPEAR REAL MURDER HIDE
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These weekends are veru popular, so it’s ……… to book early
because places on them ……… very quickly
SHOCK ADVISE FULL
SAVING LANGUAGES
Linguist Jan Enkelmann’s mission is to save as many
……… languages as possible He often goes to
some of the most ……… part of earth to make
detailed ……… record of such languages The
work can be difficult and at times dangerous as some
tribes are deeply ……… of language
……… like Professor Enkelmann who ask them
so many questions Some linguists have been
……… or threatened with guns while working
in countries where the ……… situation is
unstable According to Enkelmann, the ………
of a language begins when the younger generation no
longer uses it And when there are ……… than
40 speakers, the language is ……… to survive
“If we can document a language before it becomes
extinct we can help to preserve the ………
which is possessed by the people who speak it,”
explains Enkelmann
DANGER ACCESS WRITE
SUSPICION RESEARCH
PRISON POLITICS APPEAR
FEW UNLIKELY
KNOW
MODERN ART
Modern art has become rather ……… in the North-East of
England, and large metallic ……… are now fairly
commonplace in the region The ……… known of these is
the 200-ton steel figure, Angel of the North , erected in Gateshead
at the ……… cost of £800,000 Many local people were
horrified at the ……… to spend such a large sum on a
65-foot metal structure Nevertheless, the Angel is ………
one of the most frequently viewed artworks in the world seen
……… by almost 100,000 passing motorists A number of
……… in Hartlepool were similarly upset when they were
greeted one day by the ……… of 15 giant, metal balls on
a traffic roundabout in the town center They described the
payment of £70,000 for the spheres as ……… and felt the
money could have been spent on something more directly
……… to the local population
FASHION SCUPLT WELL
CONSIDER DECIDE POSSIBLE
DAY RESIDE SEE
RESPONSIBLE BENEFIT
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Perhaps the most ……… and convenient of all domestic
appliances is the microvave oven You do not need to be a ………
cook or a ……… genius to operate one, and you can produce
extremely ……… meals at the touch of a button Many of us
would now feel rather ……… and unable to cope without one
The man we have to thank for this modern cooking miracle is
………, Percy LeBaron Spencer, who manufactured the radar
range oven for industrial use in 1945 Ten years ……… the first
domestic microwave made its ……… This rather bulky
contraption needed an ……… and a plumber to install it and was
the same size as a fridge At over $1,000 in 1955, it was not immediately
……… Not until 1967, when the countertop model became
……… available, did sales start to improve
USE SKILL TECHNOLOGY TASTE
HELP
INVENT LATE APPEAR ELECTRIC
SUCCEED WIDE
CCTV CAMERAS
Close circuits television cameras are ……… becoming a fact of
life in modern Britain They can be seen in office ………,
shopping centers, banks, ……… areas and even parks, and it is
estimated that the average Briton is filmed an ……… 200 times a
day It is believed that CCTV leads to a ……… in certain types of
crime, such as car theft, ……… and street violence Its supporters
defend it as an ……… way of improving security in its town
center, and of helping to bring ……… to justice Civil liberties
groups, who object to the ……… of CCTV cameras, feel that they
constitute a serious ……… of privacy nad say that there is little
……… that they reduce offending
INCREASE BUILD RESIDENT AMAZE REDUCE ROB EFFECT CRIME PRESENT INVADE EVIDENCE
PUPPET SHOWS
Puppets are dolls representing
stories They are a popular form of
……… for both children and adults ENTERTAIN
Some puppets seen in Europe today
were ……… created in Italy in the ORIGIN
way to enjoy yourself so people could
go to see the same ……… again and PERFORM
again
So what is the continuing ……… of ATTRACT
the puppet show? Used ……… by artists, CLEVER
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beautiful, funny or ……… to look at, they FASCINATE
are really simple tools used by artists
to express their ideas, ……… and PERSON
character Of course they must have
great technical ……… but the fun and ABLE
charm come from the way the artists
establish ……… with the audience COMMUNICATE
COMPUTERS THAT PLAY GAMES
chess for many years now, and their ……… PERFORM
in games against the best players in the
world has shown steady ……… However, IMPROVE
it will be years before the designers of
computer games machines can beat their
……… challenge yet - the ancient board BIG
game called 'Go' The playing area is ……… CONSIDERABLE
larger than in chess and there are far
more pieces, so that the ……… of moves is COMBINE
almost ……… The game involves planning END
so many moves ahead that even the ……… IMPRESS
calculations of the fastest modern
computers are ……… to deal with the SUFFICIENT
problems of the game
machines, the best machine beat all its
rivals, but lost ……… to three young HEAVY
schoolchildren, so there is obviously still
a lot of work to do
DRESS CODE
UK companies have received ……… from CRITIC
a business forum for what their report refers to as
a rather narrow-minded attitude towards the dress
code for office workers This follows a case in
which a male ……… working in the post room of a EMPLOY
large ……… in the United Kingdom received a ORGANIZE
Whilst the report accepts that there is a need for
people dealing with ……… to look well dressed, CUSTOM
it questions whether employees who work behind
the scenes necessarily need to dress formally
The authors of the report made a ……… COMPARE
between the UK and other European nations where
employers seem ………about the need for their CONCERN
workers to wear smart clothes in the office
Their ……… is based on research that claims ARGUE
workers are far more ……… when they have the
……… to dress in a way that they feel most FREE
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KITCHEN HYGIENE
The next time you go to the supermarket don't
forget to buy the ……… bottle of kitchen cleaner BIG
you can to ……… your work surfaces INFECT
Recent ……… research in America has shown that SCIENCE
the kitchen is often the most ……… of all the rooms HYGIENE
in the home
The ……… of food, heat and dampness means the COMBINE
kitchen is ……… a breeding ground for bacteria that POTENTIAL
can cause stomach upsets and vomiting
The study at the University of Arizona examined
15 homes over 30 weeks Levels of ………were CLEAN
certainly not below average yet cutting boards
and dishcloths were found to contain bacteria in
far greater number than elsewhere in the home
……… say ignorance is the cause of the problem RESEARCH
and point out that ……… cleaning can lead to ADEQUATE
serious food poisoning
The ………? Make sure you clean all work
surfaces……… and keep an eye on that dishcloth!
SOLVE DAY
The End Good Luck to You!