has a different opinion from Chris Holmes about the nature of future trade ……… deals with non-EU members?
C. George Phillips
As far as I can see, the UK will be much better off without the EU. Not only did it cost a fortune to be a part of Europe - some estimates put the figure at around £200 billion - but being a member state also had other drawbacks. For over four decades, the UK had to go along with wasteful and expensive EU regulations, such as those of the Common Agricultural Policy. I believe Brexit will bring some clear-cut advantages to the UK, such as favourable trade agreements with influential countries like China, India and the US and renewed control over fishing rights around its coast.
The authorities probably want to be tough and won’t………..to the hijackers’ absurd demands.
Underline and correct ten mistakes in the following passage. Write the corrections in the space given below.
With Europe facing the more serious flu epidemic in years, the World Health Organization is warning the public, specially the sick and elderly, to do an inoculation now. Health experts warn that this winter’s outbreak could be as severe as the 1989 epidemic, who killed 25,000 people in Britain only. WHO has stressed the importance in vaccination, and several countries are already taking precautions to ensure that those at high-risk categories, such like diabetes and those with heart or lung complaints, are vaccinated. Nearly all previous strains of flu are known to originate in China and the Far East, and whereas in the past, infection spread slowly across the world, in these days of mass air travel, rapid global infection is a great threat. Sweden has reported cases of para-influenza, effecting mainly children, and Danish doctors had recorded 1,500 cases of flu in the past week.
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I said Ricardson, but I meant Richardson. It was just a………..of the tongue.
Jack: "What’s the………..rate for this bungalow?"
David: "It's ten thousand dollars."
.………..rare artefacts were they that the museum decided to insure them.
PART B. LEXICON AND GRAMMAR (40 POINTS)
Choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Mike’s tendency towards forgetting things is a………..joke among his closest friends.
Mr. Bond,………..honour the reception will be held next Saturday, has worked for this company for exactly thirty years.