Read the following passage and fill in each blank with one suitable word.

                                          BLACKPOOL

many English people now go abroad for their holidays in search of better weather. For many years these were the only commercial trams still operating in Britain. By far the biggest of these resorts is Blackpool, which still welcomes some six million visitors every year.
 At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Blackpool was a little-known fishing village on the northwest coast of England with the population of fewer than 500. The arrival of the railways in 1846 linked Blackpool with the industrial towns in the counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire. This gave the inhabitants of these towns chance to (1)_____ away from their smoke-filled environment and seek fresh air on the coast.
 the visitors soon began to demand organized entertainment and Blackpool were quickly provided for the holidaymakers, but the (2)_____ striking bulding was Blackpool Tower, which was erected between 1891 and 1894. The tower was built in imitation of the Eiffel Tower in Paris (3)_____ it is hardly half the height of the French original. Nevertheless, for many years it was Britain's tallest structure. The Tower contained a highly-decorated ballroom and the Tower Circus.
 along a large part of the seafront is the so-called Golden Mile, a lively area of hot-dig stands, amusement arcades and fortune tellers. At the southern end of the seafront stands the vast Pleasure beach, (4) _____ of exciting rides and more amusement arcades. the Pleasure beach, which has more visitors every year than any other tourist attractions in Britain, has provided Blackpool with a second tower. This is a 50-metre-high column (5)_____ the Space Tower, which observation car ascends to give panoramic view of the coastline.
 One of the principal attractions of Blackpool to many people is the trams which run along the seafront. For many years these were the only commercial trams still operating in Britain. However, in recent years several cities (6)_____ re-introduced trams on to their streers.
 Blackpool has the longest holiday season of any seaside town in Britain. Whilst summer is, no doubt, the busiest time of the year, conference & exhibition (7)_____ place in spring and autumn. From early September until the end of October, crowds come in their thousands to see the Illuminations, when the seafront is transformed (8) _____ a glittering display of colored lights and scenes, with trams disguised as moon rockets and American showboats.
 Blackpool is not (9)_____ everyone's taste but it is a town with a basic honesty. It does not claim to be smart and sophisticated but simply a place (10)_____ people can come and have fun.

Read the following passage and fill in each blank with one suitable word.

                                          BLACKPOOL

many English people now go abroad for their holidays in search of better weather. For many years these were the only commercial trams still operating in Britain. By far the biggest of these resorts is Blackpool, which still welcomes some six million visitors every year.
 At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Blackpool was a little-known fishing village on the northwest coast of England with the population of fewer than 500. The arrival of the railways in 1846 linked Blackpool with the industrial towns in the counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire. This gave the inhabitants of these towns chance to (1)_____ away from their smoke-filled environment and seek fresh air on the coast.
 the visitors soon began to demand organized entertainment and Blackpool were quickly provided for the holidaymakers, but the (2)_____ striking bulding was Blackpool Tower, which was erected between 1891 and 1894. The tower was built in imitation of the Eiffel Tower in Paris (3)_____ it is hardly half the height of the French original. Nevertheless, for many years it was Britain's tallest structure. The Tower contained a highly-decorated ballroom and the Tower Circus.
 along a large part of the seafront is the so-called Golden Mile, a lively area of hot-dig stands, amusement arcades and fortune tellers. At the southern end of the seafront stands the vast Pleasure beach, (4) _____ of exciting rides and more amusement arcades. the Pleasure beach, which has more visitors every year than any other tourist attractions in Britain, has provided Blackpool with a second tower. This is a 50-metre-high column (5)_____ the Space Tower, which observation car ascends to give panoramic view of the coastline.
 One of the principal attractions of Blackpool to many people is the trams which run along the seafront. For many years these were the only commercial trams still operating in Britain. However, in recent years several cities (6)_____ re-introduced trams on to their streers.
 Blackpool has the longest holiday season of any seaside town in Britain. Whilst summer is, no doubt, the busiest time of the year, conference & exhibition (7)_____ place in spring and autumn. From early September until the end of October, crowds come in their thousands to see the Illuminations, when the seafront is transformed (8) _____ a glittering display of colored lights and scenes, with trams disguised as moon rockets and American showboats.
 Blackpool is not (9)_____ everyone's taste but it is a town with a basic honesty. It does not claim to be smart and sophisticated but simply a place (10)_____ people can come and have fun.

Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space. English has developed as a (1) ______ language for a range of reasons, many of them historical, rather (2)_______ anything intrinsic in the language itself. The enormous irregularities in the English (3)________ of spelling, for example, may often be seen by a newcomer as a disincentive. Miliions, however, are undeterred. One of the strongest incentives for learning the (4)________ is the use to which it can immediately be put, socially, economically and culturally From education and the creative economy to IT and advanced engineering, industries in the UK (5)________ hugely from using the English language. But it also helps economies overseas to prosper. English language (6)_________ provide life-changing oppotunities, and promote prosperity and security around the world. Research in countries in the Middle East (7)_______ North Africa suggests that the need to the scope of domestic industry and also attract more inward investment (8) ________ multinationals is fuelling the fast-growing (9)________ for improved English education. It is also clear that reducing unemployment as a means of securing political stability (10) ________ an imperative for many of these countries.