I. Use the words given to form a word that fits in the space

1. he has little ......... of winning a prize EXPECT\

2. he resigned for a ..... of reason VARIOUS

3. he is very generous and everyone admires his.............. SELF

4. it seems....... to change the timetable so often LOGIC

5. it is... that you missed the meeting FORTUNE

6. could you........ the picture over the sofa? STRAIGHT

7. she wanted to have her skirt....... LONG

8. they all cheered .......as their team came our ENTHUSIASM

11. The players were cheered by their …………. as they came out of the pitch.

      A. audience                    B. supporters                        C. viewers                 D. public

12. Peter always tells …………… truth. He never tells …………… lies.

      A. the- the                       B. a- Æ                                   C. Æ - Æ                    D. the -Æ

13. He spent …………… dollars on food and drinks.

      A. only few                     B. only a few                         C. very a few             D.hard

11. The players were cheered by their …………. as they came out of the pitch.

      A. audience                    B. supporters                        C. viewers                 D. public

12. Peter always tells …………… truth. He never tells …………… lies.

      A. the- the                       B. a- Æ                                   C. Æ - Æ                    D. the -Æ

13. He spent …………… dollars on food and drinks.

      A. only few                     B. only a few                         C. very a few             D. only a little

14. Linda: "Could you turn down the radio, please?"

      Henry: " ………..."

       A. Yes, I can               B. I am, of course        C. I feel sorry          D. Yes, with pleasure

15. Either John or his friends ………….. in the class now.

      A. is                               B. are                             C. were                           D. have been

16. She is wearing a/an …………. ring.

      A. expensive nice gold                                      B. nice gold expensive

      C. gold nice expensive                                      D. nice expensive gold

17. ‘Children in my village often fly their kites in dry rice fields.’ ‘…………..’

      A. It’s right up my street!                                B. That’s awesome.

      C. Exactly what I want.                                    D. How interesting!

18.  Nuclear waste is the pollutant of ……………….

       A. air pollution       B. water pollution       C. radioactive pollution       D. soil pollution

19. If someone...……………. into the store, smile and say, “May I help you?”

      A. comes                    B. came                      C. come                      D. should come

20. She knows that he worked really .................. this semester.

      A. good                      B. hardly                    C. better                     D. hard

The World Cup is a competition which encourages men and women (1) ___________ to talk about football. All over the world, fans root for their team and their country, and its hard not to get (2) ____________ up in the enthusiasm. Even people who are not normally into football, or never watch it, express interest, especially if their national team is (3) _____________ part.

On the other hand, however, it is usually the male members of the population who avidly follow the fate of their favourite team from week to (4) _____________ throughout the year, year in year out.

Players and supporters of opposing teams are regarded as the enemy; colours and emblems, like uniforms, display (5) _______________ their loyalties lie. Feelings of comradeship are strong (6) ______________ supporters of the same side, and the game (7) _____________ hinges on tactics and strategy. Moreover, violence and acts of destruction often surface in the form of hooliganism. The similarities (8) ______________ football and war are striking. Why do football fans become so fanatical in (9) ____________ support of teams? Is (10) ____________, perhaps, among some members of the population, a deep-rooted craving for battle even in times of peace?

THE GENERATION GAP

people talk about the generation as a kind of division between young people and their parents. It is something which is (GENERAL) ....................a problem when children enter their teenage years, and results in (COMPLAIN)....................on both sides. Parents, for example, can often be heard to say that young people are disrespectful and disobedient, and in (ADD) .............., young people tend to be (RESPONSIBLE)................when spending because they don't appreciate the value of money. Adolsescents, on the other hand, complain that their parents don't understand them.

What has gone wrong? One (EXPLAIN)............lies in how society has changed in the past , children would (TYPICAL)...............continue the way of life of their parents. In today's world, parents are very (AMBITION) ....................for their children because they want them to achieve more than they did. The problem is that children often (AGREE)..............with their parent's plans. (TEENAGE)............also reach maturity at an (EARLY)..............age than they used to and want their independence sooner. The resulting conflict is painful to both sides.

A lot of people like to play their records as loudly as possible. The (1) ________ is that the rest of the family and the neighbors often complain (2) ________ they don't like the music. One (3) ________ to this problem is to wear headphones, but headphones are usually uncomfortable.

An arm-chair which has a record-player built into it has just been (4) ________ by a British engineer, Stephen Court.

The armchair looks like an ordinary armchair with high back. However, each of the two sides of the chair has three loudspeakers inside to reproduce middle and high sounds. Low sounds are reproduced by a pair of loudspeakers in a hollow (5) ________ under the seat. Anyone who sits in the chair hears sounds coming from all around his/her head.

Because we cannot tell the exact (6) ________ from which low sounds come, it doesn't (7) ________ that they come from underneath or behind. It is the higher sounds coming from the sides of the chair that create a stereo effect.

These sounds travel only a few inches to reach the listener's ears. (8) ________, it takes only a little power to make the music sound very loud. Only a small amount of sound leaks out from behind the chair into the room to (9) ________ others. Most of the sound is (10) ________ by the listeners.