Tom: “I loved Christmas as a child.”

      Nick: “So did I. Every Christmas Eve all the family…………the tress together.”

The car park…………is responsible for parking customers’ cars.

People also read these papers for their reviews of new books, films and plays and for their…………and job satisfaction. (EDIT)

For many people, social networking offers them a feeling of…………from the real world. (ESCAPE)

The plan to build a new motorway…………due to a lack of money.

PART B. LEXICO AND GRAMMAR (40 POINTS)

Choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.

I expect your Chinese…………a great deal by the time you…………back from China.

If you wash that pullover in the boiling water, it will………….

Any actor who becomes known for one role is in danger of becoming…………. (TYPE)

The Roman people are believed…………to Europe around the beginning of the last millennium.

Rewrite the second sentence using the given word(s) so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence. Write between FOUR and SIX words including the given words.

Are you saying Dan gets angry easily, Fiona? (SHORT)

->Are you saying Dan………………………………………………, Fiona?

She stood there completely ………… so I had no idea at all what she was thinking. (EXPRESS)

Mark, a…………commentator, was often featured on state television explaining government policy. (TELEVISION)

The paper had to make several journalists…………last week due to loss of sales.