CLOZE: VOCABULARY

From the words listed below, choose the ones which best fit the space.

GOOD MANNERS AND BAD

(1)............................. English people will forget to say "Thank you" after (2)............................. , and "Please" after
acceptance. It is always "No, thank you" and "Yes, please". If you phone an office, and (3)............................. to speak to
Mr Smith, his secretary will say, "Oh, I'm (4)........................... sorry. He's out." It seems to be her fault. She seems to
(5)............................. it personally.

Typical of English good manners is the typical fictional murderer. The typical American murderer is a killer, a gangster,
or a drug-addict. He is the complete outsider, fighting against the (6)............................. of the rest of society. The typical
English murderer is completely (7)............................. . He will be a little, (8)............................. man. As far as his work
is concerned, he is (9)............................. to be a habitual criminal. He is more likely to belong to the professional
classes, perhaps a dentist or a solicitor. He will be completely respectable, and live in the prim and
(10)............................. suburbs. The chances are that his house will be semi-detached so that his inquisitive neighbours
can hear (11)............................. noises through the wall. He will be a non-drinker, perhaps teetotal. Conservative in
politics, he will go to a Protestant church.

The (12)............................. for murder will be a guilty passion for his secretary or the wife of a colleague. The person he
murders will be his wife, And the murder will not be done on the (13)............................. of the moment. It will be
planned to the (14)............................. detail, His motive will be that it is better to murder his wife than to
(15)............................. his respectability.

01. Little Less Hardly Few

02. denial rejection refusal negation

03. seek will desire want

04. much so a lot highly

05. have take hold seize

06. whole all everything mass

07. separate apart different odd

08. usual ordinary matter-of-fact everyday

09. unlikely unusually unexpected improbably

10. correct right moral proper

11. suspicious inquisitive interesting arousing

12. why cause effect reason

13. thought will spur drive

14. most last end greatest

15. deprive lose mislay drop

CLOZE: STRUCTURE

From the words listed below, choose the ones which best fit the space.

A GRAVEYARD FOR PETS

(01)................... the recession, Britain's pet owners are willing to pay for a permanent memorial (02).........................
much-loved furred and feathered friends. The Rossendale Pets Cemetery, near Rawtenstall in Lancashire, now stretches
to over 10 acres covered by 1,600 graves and 800 plots for small caskets of ashes.

It was started 26 years (03)..................... by a local farmer who ran his dog (04)........................ with a tractor and was
(05).................... grief-stricken that he put up a headstone. That has long since been dwarfed (06).........................
elaborate monuments, including a marble gate flanked by pillars. Dedicated to a horse called Brandy, it cost well
(07)...................... £2,000 seven years ago. Other animals commemorated in the cemetery vary from budgies to a
lioness. The owners of the cemetery, Mr and Mrs Annable, have had some upsetting experiences:

"We had a man (08)........................ tried to climb into the incinerator to kiss his Irish wolfhound goodbye. He was an
educated man (09)................... well, an English teacher. In the end, he left half the ashes here and took half home.

"Every Sunday a long-distance driver brings fresh flowers (10)................. his dog. Rain, hail, fog or snow, he never
(11)....................... And then (12).................. is Kakkoo the parrot, who spoke four languages. His grave is marked by a
simple wooden cross and a bronze plaque.

"(13)..................... couple arrived carrying a cage. They had not seen their hamster for (14)............... time. Was it in
hibernation or was it dead? They couldn't bear to look. In fact, it was as stiff as a board. When I told them, they burst
into tears. I didn't (15)....................... the heart to charge them."

RE-PHRASING

Complete the second sentence, using between two and five words, including the word given. Do not change that word in
any way.

01. She had not bought so much for a long time.

since

It was a long time .............................. much shopping.

02. Ken arrived there twelve months ago.

for

Ken .............................. year.

03. If Mary hadn't failed her driving test, she wouldn't be unhappy.
pass

Mary is unhappy ............................. her driving test.

04. Rabbits used to be more numerous.

not

Rabbits .............................. they used to be.

05. His new book has been widely criticised.

lot

His new book has come .............................. criticism.

06. His secretary updated the list.
brought

His secretary .............................. date.

07. I couldn't have managed it without your help.

not

If .............................. your help, I couldn't have managed it.

08. Regular exercise kept him healthy.

owed

He .............................. regular exercise.

09. He couldn't lend us the car because it didn't belong to him.

his

The car ............................. lend.

10. We were not surprised when he won.

came

His winning .............................. surprise.

ERROR CORRECTION

Some of the following lines are correct; others have a word that should not be there. Tick the correct lines. Underline
the words that should not be there.

THE HUMAN PIG

01. People eat far too much. Take, for example, the case of Mr James Hornung,

02. of Hampshire, England. Mr Hornung is the Hampshire's champion eater.

03. Before he was moved to Hampshire, he lived in a London suburb

04. where he was called as "the Guzzler of East Grinstead". He started eating

05. he as a child, spending all his pocket money

06. at MacDonald's and to other fast food outlets.

07. Now that he is 55 years old and 150 kilos in his weight, Mr Hornung is known

08. to his neighbours as the "Walking Pig". For a bet, Mr Hornung competed

09. against an actual pig. This was a 150-kilo sow, a female pig called Miranda.

10. Miranda was given to her usual bucket of food at midday. At the same time,

11. Mr Hornung sat him down to an eight-kilo bread pudding. He ate

12. all the bread pudding in just over eight minutes, a kilo a minute.
13. Miranda took more nearly 13 minutes over her lunch. So Mr Hornung won.

14. He said that he had always eaten up a lot. He thought he might as well make

15. some money. He had a lot of bets at four to one that he would beat

the old sow.

WORD FORMATION

To fill the spaces, use a word formed from the words in the list below.

PARLIAMENT

Parliament consists of two houses: the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The third part of the
(01) ...................... is the Monarchy, which is of (02) ................... (03) ...................... only.

The Lords are not elected. A member of the House of Lords can inherit his position, or he can be made a member,
appointed for his service to the State. The members of the House of Lords receive no salary for their (04) ......................
work. However, they receive travelling expenses from their homes to Westminster, together with an (05) ......................
(06) ...................... .

The House of Commons is a (07) ...................... (08)...................... elected by everyone over the age of 18. Members
receive a salary for their work, and are elected. The Commons is presided over by the Speaker who is elected by the
members immediately after a new Parliament is formed.

English politics have been dominated by two parties: the Conservative, or Tory, party, and the Socialist, or Labour,
party. The small Liberal party also has quite a lot of popularity. However, as England does not have proportional
(09) ...................... , small parties are not very (10)......................

01. govern 06. allow

02. symbol 07. represent

03. signify 08. assemble

04. parliament 09. represent

05. attend 10. succeed

ANSWERS

GOOD MANNERS AND BAD ANSWERS

1. few
2. refusal

3. want

4. so

5. take

6. whole

7. different

8. ordinary

9. unlikely

10. proper

11. suspicious

12. reason

13. spur

14. last

15. lose

A GRAVEYARD FOR PETS

1. despite
2. to

3. ago

4. over

5. so

6. by

7. over

8. who

9. as

10. for

11. misses / forgets

 12. there

13. one / a

14. some

15. have

PARLIAMENT

1. government
2. symbolic

3. significance

4. parliamentary

5. attendance

6. allowance

7. representative

8. assembly

9. representation

10. successful

PART 4: RE-PHRASING

Check your answers.

1. since she had done so

2. has been there for a

3. that/because she did not pass

4. are not as numerous as/are less numerous than

5. in for a lot of

6. brought the list up to

7. it had not been for

8. owed his health to

9. was not his to

10. came as no

ERROR CORRECTION – THE HUMAN PIG

01. -

02. the
03. was

04. as

05. he

06. to

07. his

08. -

09. -

10. to

11. him

12. -

13. more

14. up

15. -