Rewrite each of the sentences without changing its meaning, using the cue given.

We couldn’t have managed without my father’s money.

→ If it hadn’t _______________________________________________.

Choose from A, B, C, or D the one that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage.

The Internet bus

In the desert areas that surround Tucson city, USA, students spend hundreds of hours on yellow buses each year getting to and from their schools. But when mobile internet equipment was (46)____________  on a yellow school bus, the bored, often noisy, teens were transformed into quiet, studious individuals.

District officials got the idea during (47)____________  drives on school business to Phoenix, two hours each way, when they (48)____________  that, when they went in pairs, one person could drive and the other could work using a laptop and a wireless card. They (49)____________  if internet access on a school bus could (50)____________  students’ academic productivity, too.

But the idea for what students call ‘the internet bus’ really took shape when the district’s chief information officer (51)____________  across an article about having internet across in cars. He thought, “What if you could put that in a bus?”

The officials have been delighted to see the (52)____________  of homework getting done, morning and evening, as the internet bus (53)____________  up and drops off students along the 70-minute drive. (54)____________  some students spend their time playing games or visiting social networking sites, most students do make (55)____________  their travel time to study.

Give the right form of the word in each blanket in the following passage.

From what we had read in the (26. ADVERTISE)________, it promise to be the holiday of a lifetime – not only a quality hotel in a top (27. SEA)_________ resort, but also (28. SURPRISE)_________ cheap with it! We should have known it was too good to be true! We arrived at the airport to discover we only had (29. STAND)_________ tickets and there was no guarantee we would be flying. Luckily, two places became free at the last minute and we took off. The flight lasted at least (30. TWO)_________ as long as it should have and by the time we arrived, we were both feeling rather (31. POOR)_________ , probably because of the dubious in-flight meal we had had. We were met by our guide, who seemed (32. LANGUAGE)_________ incompetent and understood very little of what we said to him. Instead of the hotel we had seen in the photograph back home, he took us to a squalid little guesthouse much (33. FAR)_________ away from the resort than we were expecting. We wanted to explain that there had been a (34. DREAD)_________ mistake but it was (35. USE)_________ trying to complain – nobody could understand us.

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 (56)________ 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 (57)________ will help them have an enjoyable and worry-free holiday. But for (58)________, travel insurance is a way of earning money (59)________ making false claims against insurance companies. For (60)________ some people pretend that they have had expensive equipment stolen which in (61)________ never even existed, and then claim large sums in compensation. Such claims cost insurance company a total (62)________ £ 50 million per year. But the cheats’ luck is about to run (63)________. (64)________ to a new computer system, companies will be able to tell at a glance (65)________ 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.

The prime minister in unlikely to call an early general election. (likelihood)

→ The likelihood __________________________________.

Finish the second sentence so that it means the same as the first one, using the word in capital letters which must not be altered in any way.

You should think about the price before you decide whether to buy it or not (consideration)

→ You should ______________________________________.