Choose the word that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage. Circle A, B, C or D to indicate your answers.
Viewed from the outside (1) ________, the Houses of Parliament look impressive. The architecture gives the place a traditional look, and the buildings are sandwiched between a busy square and the river, making them a (2) ________between the country house of an eccentric duke and a Victorian railway station. You have only to learn that the members (3) ______ to each other as ‘The Honorable Member to (4) ______ the picture of a dignified gentlemen’s club, with of course a few ladies to (5) _______ the numbers. Sadly, over the past few years first radio, and now television, have shown the general public, who are (6) ______ the electorate, what in fact goes on when bills are discussed and questions are asked. The first obvious fact is that the chamber is very rarely full, and there may be only a handful of members present, some of whom are quite clearly asleep, telling jokes to their neighbor, or shouting like badly-behaved schoolchildren. There is not enough room for them all in the chamber in any (7) _______, which is a second worrying point. Of course, television does not follow the work of committees, which are the small discussions groups that do most of the real work of the House. But the (8) ______ impression that voters receive of the workings of government is not a good one. To put it (9) _______, parliament looks disorganized, is clearly behind the time and seems to be filled with bores and comedians. This is presumably why members (10) _______ for so long the efforts of the BBC to broadcast parliamentary matters on television.
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He stood at the door to make sure that no one _______ the party. (GATE)
It’s ______ of him to lose his temper like that – he’s usually very calm. (CHARACTER)
Telephone service to that remote village can't be ______ this year.
She’s so ________ that she won’t let anything stand in the way of her ambition. (MIND)
Read the passage carefully , then fill in the blank a 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 cheque in a small ceremony (3) ________ the premises at 2.30, and by three o'clock he had reopened 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.
He is determined to carry on working when he is 65.
He has no ________________________________________________
Complete the following sentences by choosing the correct answer among four options (A, B, C or D)
Jack _____________ a fortune when his great uncle Jack passed on.
Use the given phrasal verbs to replace the underlined words/phrases in the sentences. Then put the verbs in the correct form in the sentences.
come into fall through turn in draw up let on go round do without make out take after turn down |