TEXT FEATURES (connectors, … -2-) WITH KEY

1. Choose the most suitable word or phrase for each space.

What can the average Briton do to create a home environment which is

green and friendly? Well, (1) …… bear in mind that (2) …… half the
average home’s energy bill is spent on heating rooms, but (3) …… a typical
house loses nearly half its heat through the walls and roof. So (4) ……
number one is to ensure that your house is adequately insulated. Get
advice (5) …… double glazing, and loft insulation. The next most
important point to consider is (6) …… of waste. Packaging and wrapping is
an obvious (7) …… . Try to use economy size boxes, and re-use containers
(8) …… glass jars and plastic cartons instead of wrapping food in foil or
plastic. Take bottles to bottle-banks, and only shop in supermarkets
which use environment-friendly packaging. (9) …… people are simply
refusing to buy goods packed in wasteful plastic. The garden too is an
area where waste can be recycled. Start a compost heap using old food
scraps and garden weeds (10) …… putting them in the dustbin. And it is
surprising (11) …… can be done with some other things we usually throw
away. For example, try papering your bedroom with pictures from
magazines. The third problem area is (12) …… water. This is becoming a
more and more precious commodity, (13) …… save as much as you can.
Flushing the toilet accounts for a third of all household water use, so don’t
flush wastefully, if you are only getting rid of a tissue, for example. Take a
shower instead of a bath, and don’t keep the water running while you
wash, or clean your teeth. And don’t use a hosepipe to wash your car or
water the garden. (14) …… banned in some areas (15) …… when there are
water shortages. Try putting some in a bucket instead.

1 A the first point B one could hardly C first of all D what is to

2 A the B over C one and a D in
3 A similarly B at the same time C nevertheless D besides
4 A the B all of C with this D point
5 A from B for C with D about
6 A that B instead C in spite D still
7 A one B example C task D advantage
8 A with B as C such as D or
9 A More and more B All C Increasing D The
10 A before B despite C if D instead of
11 A what B the following C it D this
12 A thus B merely C use of D again
13 A as B so C why D which is to
14 A It is B While C These are D Even
15 A in any case B except C often D merely
2. Choose the most suitable word or phrase for each space.
The relationship between the British royal family and the popular press is
curious, to say the least. (1) …… the press has yet to realise that the
royals are indeed the goose that lays the golden egg. Royal scandals and
royal divorces (2) …… tasteless photographs and supported by the worst
kind of journalistic excess have proved to be (3) …… the thing for raising
newspaper circulations. The same papers that oozed sentimentality over
royal weddings, and drooled over idealised princesses, later went out of
their way to hound various royals into separation or divorce. Every
photograph became a contribution to (4) …… new rumour; (5) …… private
telephone conversations were printed on the front page. (6) …… the press
has yet to realise is that (7) …… intrusions into the privacy of members of
the royal family have also helped to create an atmosphere (8) …… the very
existence of the monarchy has been called into question. The prestige of
the royal family has (9) …… suffered. And how could this not be (10) ……
when their lives have been turned into some absurd soap opera? (11) ……
the press feeds the illusion that the characters on television, those awful
creeps in ‘East Enders’ and ‘Neighbours’, are somehow ‘real people’, so it
has reduced the royal family to the status of a series of cardboard
characters. And if you are secretly thinking, ‘Well, that’s what they are,
(12) …… ,’ perhaps you are just another victim of the illusion. (13) ……
real issues still to be debated about the role, and indeed the survival, of
the royal family, issues to which the popular press has (14) ……
contributed. If the monarchy should lose its constitutional role, the press
will be largely to blame. And (15) …… it will then have lost one of its main
circulation boosters, and it will have killed off its golden goose for good.
1 A First of all B In many respects C Nevertheless D A reader of
2 A illustrated with B showing C having taken D provide
3 A made B merely C more than D just
4 A this B some C create D feed
5 A even B in C their D despite the fact that
6 A So B In fact C What D Thus
7 A what B no C such D all
8 A and so B in which C whenever D if rarely
9 A undoubtedly B been C utterly D not
10 A the point B the one C the last D the case
11 A For example B Just as C Like D What
12 A all in all B at the end C moreover D anyway
13 A If they are B What are the C There are D They create the
14 A merely B hardly C utterly D extremely
15 A thus B literally C ironically D if

From: Advanced Language Practice, by Michael Vince. Macmillan Heinemann.

 KEY TO EXERCISE 1

1 C, 2 B, 3 B, 4 D, 5 D, 6 A, 7 B,
8 C, 9 A, 10 D, 11 A, 12 C, 13 B, 14 C
15 A

KEY TO EXERCISE 2

1 B, 2 A, 3 D, 4 B, 5 A, 6 C, 7C
8 B, 9 A, 10 D, 11 B, 12 D, 13 C, 14 B
15 C