She felt she had achieved a lot in life, despite her disadvantaged background (SENSE)
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Despite her disadvantaged background, she felt a sense of achievement about her life
You are being thoroughly _________in refusing to allow this ceremony to take place.
The principal was the first person who arrived at the meeting. (ARRIVE)
Read the passage and fill in the blank a suitable word.
PEER PRESSURE
One of the strongest influences on children today (1) ______ that of their peers. What their 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.
Complete the following passage by choosing A, B, C or D to fill in each blank.
Last year Gladys Kalema became the Ugandan Wildlife Service's chief and only vet after (1) _____ for the Royal Veterinary College in London. She was the first person to fill the post for 30 years and at the age of 26, easily the youngest.
If Gladys did nothing else, caring for the world's (2) ______ population of 650 gorillas would alone justify her wages. Since the 1970s, gorillas have (3) ______ severely from war and poaching. Now for $150 each, tourists can be led through the forest and come within five meters of gorilla – no closer, for (4) ______ of transmitting diseases such as measles and flu.
The gorillas here make a small but viable population. (5) ______ in the national parts the usual animals, elephants, rhinos, giraffes, are either not there or present in insignificant numbers which are dangerously out of (6) ______ with the creatures around them. If Uganda stays calm, wildlife may, in (7) _______, return by itself. But Gladys believes the country cannot wait. Animals must be brought in to swell tourism and provide (8) ______to expand her work.
Despite her difficulties, Gladys feels more useful and fulfilled than she would be anywhere else. "At this moment, my friends from vet school are reading the best way to (9) ______ a cat or dog, and here am I planning to translocate elephants. In my small (10) _______ I am part of the reconstruction and rehabilitation of my country."
Since I came in half an hour late this morning, I have to stay until 5:30 to _______ for it.
He ______ book the tickets, but he had no time to call at the Cinema.
Complete the following passage by supplying the correct form of the word to fill in each blank.
There is a saying that first impressions are generally correct and I would say that (1) _______ throughout my entire life, I have found this to be true apart from one notable exception of a good friend and neighbor with whom my first (2) ______ was decidedly unfriendly.
At the time of our first meeting I was living in a (3) __________ area of London, not far from the exit of a dual carriageway and this meant that although it was a (4) ____________ street, even with the (5) _______ will in the world, drivers would often travel dangerously fast within inches of my front door. This used to really annoy me and I have to admit I did often go a bit (6) ________ in expressing my anger even though (or perhaps because) I knew I didn't stand a (7) ________ chance of being taken notice of or even noticed at all. So when one day, I shouted my usual string of swear words at a rapidly passing car and it immediately screamed to a halt, my first reaction was an enormous sense of (8) ______. But then the driver of the car opened his window and shouted a stream of swear words back at me.
In the following text, some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (√). If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word. There are two examples at the beginning.
