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Harriet was upset because she saw Peter with another woman.
It was .......................................................................
Put each verb given in brackets into an appropriate tense or form.
Mr. Pike, who is supposed______ (witness) the accident, has left the town.
Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it.
Immediately after his appointment to the post, the new editor fell ill.
Scarcely .......................................................................
Instead of ______ about the good news, Peter seemed to be indifferent.
Read the following text and then fill in each gap with ONE suitable word. (10 pts)
I was reading an article last week in (1)______ the writer described how her children has changed as they grow up. When they were small she had to (2)______ up with noisy games in the house, or join in interminable games of football in the garden which wore her out. If the house went quiet, she wondered what the monsters were getting up to, or what crisis she would have to (3)______ with next. She dreaded the fact that they might take after her husband, who admitted having (4)_____ an uncontrollable child who (5)______ most of the time showing off to his friends by breaking things or getting into fights. What was worse was that (6)______ else thought he was a sweet child, and he got away with the most terrible things! However, she had experienced an even greater shocked with her children. They had (7)______ out of all their naughty behavior, and (12)______ up serious hobbies (8)______ as chess and playing the piano. They never did anything without (9)______ it over first, and coming to a serious decision. She had to face up to the fact that they made her feel rather childish as they got (10)______, and that in some ways she preferred them when they were young and noisy.
Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. For each question, circle letter A, B, C or D next to the answer you choose. (10 pts)
If you’re an environmentalist, plastic is a word you tend to say with a sneer or a snarl. It has become a symbol of our wasteful, throw-way society. But there seems little (1)______ it is here to stay, and the truth is, of course, that plastic has brought enormous (2)______ even environmental ones. It’s not really the plastics themselves that are the environmental (3)______ – it’s the way society choose to use and abuse them.
Almost all the 50 or so different kinds of modern plastic are made from oil, gas or coal – non-renewable natural (4)______. We import well over three million tons of the stuff in Britain each year and, sooner or later, most of it is thrown away. A high proportion of our annual consumption is in the (5)______ of packaging, and this (6)______ about seven per cent by weight of our domestic refuse. Almost all of it could be recycled, but very little of it is, though the plastic recycling (7)______ is growing fast.
The plastics themselves are extremely energy-rich – they have a higher calorific (8)______ than coal and one (9)______ of ‘recovery’ strongly favored by the plastic manufacturers is the (10)______ of waste plastic into a fuel.
The value of sterling has fallen considerably in the past week.
There has .......................................................................
