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Exercise 01 Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word.
As swimming became a popular recreation in England during the 1860s and 1870s, several
(1) _ sports developed, roughly patterned after land sports (2) _ them were water football
(or soccer), water rugby, water handball, and water polo, in which players rode on floating barrels,
painted to look (3) _ horses, and struck the ball with a stick.
Water rugby became most popular of these sports, but somehow the water polo name
became attached to it, and it's been attached (4) _ since.
As played in England, the object of the sport was for a player to touch the ball, with both
(5) _, at the goal end of the pool The goaltender stood on the pool deck, ready to dive on any
opponent who was about to score
Water polo quickly became a very rough sport, filled (6) _ underwater fights away from
the ball, and it wasn't unusual for players to pass out for lack of air
In 1877, the sport was tamed in Scotland by the addiction of goalposts The Scots also
replaced (7) _ original small, hard rubber ball with a soccer ball and adopted (8) _ that prohibited taking the ball under the surface or, "tackling" a player unless he had the ball.
The Scottish game, which emphasized swimming speed, passing, and (9) _ work, spread
to England during the early 1880s, to Hungary in 1889, to Austria and Germany in 1894, to France
in 1895, and (10) _ Belgium in 1900
Water polo was the first team sport added to the Olympic program, in 1900
Exercise 02 Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word.
MTV stands for Music Television It's a television (1) _ dedicated to pop music It was
Europe (5) _ 24 hours a day from its London studios It can be seen in 33 countries and reaches
an estimated (6) _ of 110 million viewers.
People of 19 different nationalities work at London headquarters, and they try to offer a
(7) _ of music from all over Europe The channel broadcasts in (8) _ but Germany provides the biggest number of viewers Currently, one fifth of the (9) _ is by German artists.
Most of TV output is video and concerts, but there is also a programme (10) _
Unplugged, where major artists play (11) _ and acoustic in front of a small studio audience.
In addition to music, the channel's programmes (12) _ with news, movie information and comedy MTV has also broadcast special report (13) _ racism, immigration and
unemployed teenagers
Exercise 03 Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word.
TRAVEL INSURANCE When going on holiday, it is always a good idea to take out travel insurance This is just in
case something goes (1) _ along the way You could lose your luggage, you could be robbed, or
even become ill and need expensive medical treatment For millions of holiday makers, travel
insurance is just a precaution (2) _ will help them have an enjoyable and worry-free holiday But for (3) _, travel insurance is a way of earning money (4) _ making false claims against insurance companies For (5) _ some people pretend that they have had expensive equipment stolen which in (6) _ never even existed, and then claim large sums in compensation Such claims cost insurance company a total (7) _ £ 50 million per year But the cheats’ luck is about
to run (8) _ (9) _ to a new computer system, companies will be able to tell at a glance (10) _ someone has made a claim within the last three years Honest travelers will no longer
have to pay through the nose for other people’s dishonesty
Exercise 04 Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word.
True relaxation is most certainly not a matter of flopping down in front of the television
with a welcome drink Nor is it about drifting (1) _ an exhausted sleep Useful though these responses to tension and over-tiredness (2) _ be, we should distinguish between them and conscious relaxation in (3) _ of quality and effect (4) _ of the level of tiredness, real
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(5) _ rest while our minds are awake.
Moreover, it is as natural for a healthy person to be relaxed when moving as resting
(6) _ relaxed in action means we bring the appropriate energy to everything we do, so as to have a feeling of healthy tiredness by the end of the day, (7) _ than one of exhaustion.
Unfortunately, as a result of living in today’s competitive world, we are under constant strain and
have difficulty in coping, (8) _ alone nurturing our body’s abilities What needs to be rediscovered is conscious relaxation With (9) _ in mind we must apply ourselves to understanding stress and the nature of its causes (10) _ deep-seated.
Exercise 05 Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word.
Enjoyment is what drinking wine is all about However, the more you know, (1) _ easier
it becomes to select the right wines for you or your guests Wine is basically grape juice to (2) _
yeast has been added causing it to ferment and produce alcohol Alcohol is flavourless, so there
must be something more (3) _ wine than this Many of the secrets of wine lie within the grape.
Its pulp is a sugar solution which contains the things that give a wine its fruity flavour In a dry
wine, most of a grape’s sugar has been converted (4) _ alcohol In a sweet one, more sugar is left This can be felt on the (5) _ of the tongue The pulp also contains acidity which gives the
wine "crispness” that makes the mouth water
Too much (6) _ it can make you wince, too little and the wine could taste dull The skin
contains flavour and tannin Tannin produces a tingling sensation in the gums and gives a wine
firmness White grapes (7) _ their skins removed before fermentation so tannin is only really found in red wines The pulp of black and white grapes is (8) _ same pale colour The fact that the skins of black grapes are left on (9) _ the wine is fermented gives red wine its colour.
The wines which are often considered to be the best are (10) _ where all the elements
balance one another There are many grape varieties grown in many climates which influence the emphasis given to these features and this is why wines can be so wonderfully different
Exercise 06 Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word.
School students do not shower after sports class
A report has found that more than half of high (1) _ boys and two-thirds of girls never shower after a physical (2) _ class Researchers suggest that students don't want to sweat and take a (3) _, so they are less active in sports classes The researchers questioned almost 4,000
children in schools in Essex, England Lead researcher Dr Gavin Sandercock said he was surprised
(4) _ how rarely students showered He said: "We know (5) _ children aren't getting (6) _ physical activity because we have seen their fitness declining; (7) _ the unwillingness
to shower is a barrier to working up a sweat (8) _ playing sport, it's something we need to
tackle to promote activity at schools."
Exercise 07 Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word.
ITALY’S MOST POETIC CITY Venice has been an inspiration for writers, artists and musicians throughout history In the
15th century it was the world’s (1) _ port Since then it has built up an astonishing collection of art and architecture (2) _ to its trade with the East.
The city (3) _ its visitors incredible sights Do not believe those who say Venice is a
museum This is still a living city full of joys Venice looks good in any light The sun makes the
domes sparkle, but even on a grey, (4) _ day the city can be extremely romantic.
And (5) _ it gets overcrowded, (6) _ is an easy escape to the other islands in the Venice Gulf, (7) _ brightly-colored houses are a photographer’s dream In a curious way, Venice
is a model city for the future; it is free from cars and the (8) _ way to get around is by public transport or on foot This one fact alone (9) _ it a unique city, one (10) _ traffic noise, the
creation of genius indeed
Exercise 08 Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word.
The majority of lottery winners change their lives (1) _ little, and continue on their
settled way happy ever after A couple of years ago, a Mr David Horabin won a million He had been
struggling to (2) _ a success of his dry cleaning shop for the past 12 months He accepted his
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for business The reaction of Mr Pasquale Consalvo who won $30 million in the New York state
lottery was very (4) _ He was unhappy not to be able to fulfill his desire to go to work as (5) _ on the day he won He also said that if the money made him (6) _ he would give it
back In fact, the chances of his life being made a misery by his new-found wealth are almost
(7) _ slim though not quite as the sixty million-to-one odds he beat to take a jackpot (8) _ had remained unclaimed through six previous draws Gambling small amounts (9) _ the lottery
is a harmless if futile hobby (10) _, gambling can become an addiction, increasingly so as the
activity becomes socially acceptable
Exercise 09 Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word.
PEER PRESSURE
classmates think, how they dress and how they act in class and out of it (2) _ the behavior of
nearly every child at school In their efforts not to be different, some children go so far as to hide
their intelligence and ability in case they are made (3) _ of Generally, children do not want to stand (4) _ from the crowd They want to fit in, to be accepted In psychological terms, the importance of (5) _ pressure cannot be over emphasized There is a lot of evidence that it has great bearing on all aspects of children's lives, (6) _ the clothes they wear, the music they
listen to and their attitude to study to their ambitions in life, their relationships and their
sense (7) _, as children grow up into adolescents, individuality becomes more acceptable, desirable even, and in their search for their (8) _ personal style, the teenager and young adult will begin to experiment and be more willing to run the (9) _ of rejection by the group.
Concern about intellectual prowess and achieving good exam results can dominate as the
atmosphere of competition develops and worries (10) _ the future override any fears of
appearing too brainy
Exercise 10 Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word.
THE BIRTH OF THE T-SHIRT The T-shirt, or at least the T-shirt as we know it, was born in the theatre When Tennessee
William's play A Streetcar Named Oesire opened in New York in December 1947, a young actor
(1) _ Marlon Brando went (2) _ stage wearing a (3) _ of blue jeans and a bright, white, capped-sleeve T-shirt It was the first time the T-shirt had been seen publicly as anything (4) _
an item of underwear and it set a fashion trend that was to last through (5) _ the end of the century The idea for the T-shirt came (6) _ Brando himself He had worn one at rehearsals for
the play The director was so impressed by the look that was created that he asked Brando to wear the shirt in the play itself Brando may have seen the shirt being advertised by the American
company Sears Roebuck They had decided to market the shirt (7) _ a fashionable garment in its (8) _ right, rather than just something to be worn (9) _ warmth beneath a denim workshirt (10) _ an army uniform It was Brando, however, who popularized it, especially with
the release of the film version of Streetcar in 1951 A short leather jacket completed the look that
was to be adopted by teenage rebels in many countries for decades afterwards
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