WORD FORM PRACTICE 01 - KEY

WORD FORM PRACTICE – 01 – KEY

Part 1: For questions 1 -10, complete the sentences with the correct forms of
the given words.

1. With his slight frame and boyish looks, Brown may look like a soft touch, but
there’s a tough, UNYIELDING obstinacy to him. (YIELD) (not willing to change your
ideas, beliefs)
2. The description of Palestinian people is entirely inappropriate and they
apologise UNRESERVEDLY for the offence caused. (RESERVE) (if you express a
feeling/opinion unreservedly, you do it completely and without any doubts.)
3. It is a complex, serious interpretation, thoughtful, honest and
AUTHORITATIVE. (AUTHOR) (that you can trust and respect as true and correct)
4. He may not understand what we are trying to do, or may MISINTERPRET
what we are trying to do or say. (INTERPRET)
5. From an easy-going young girl, she had METAMORPHOSED into a neurotic
middle-aged woman. (MORPH) (change or make sb/sth change into sth completely
different, especially over a period of time)
6. He relentlessly BROWN-NOSED Norman Lamont and called him the greatest
post-war chancellor. (NOSE) (to treat somebody in authority with special respect in order to
make them approve of you or treat you better)
7. Mrs. Ranscombe is such a(n) BUSYBODY. I wish she would stop interfering in
my private life. (BODY) (a person who is too interested in what other people are doing)
8. The CONSEQUENTIAL result of this increase in stressful appraisals is a
decrease in psychological well-being. (SEQUENCE) (happening as a result or an
effect of something)
9. British companies still aren’t really ATTUNED to the needs of the Japanese
market. (TUNE) (familiar with somebody/something so that you can understand or recognize
them or it and act in an appropriate way)
10. The Army finds itself UNDERMANNED on the front line because so many
minors have dropped out of training. (MAN) ((of a hospital, factory, etc.) not having
enough people working in order to be able to function well)

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Part 2: For questions 11 – 20, write the correct form of each bracketed word.

A DISASTER OF TITANIC PROPORTIONS

At 11.39 p.m on the evening of Sunday 14 April 1912, (11) LOOKOUTS Frederick
Fleet and Reginald Lee on the forward mast of the Titanic (12) SIGHTED an
eerie, black mass coming into view directly in front of the ship. Fleet picked up
the phone to the helm, waited for Sixth Officer Moody to answer, and yelled
“Iceberg, right (13) AHEAD!”. The greatest disaster in (14) MARITIME history
was about to be set in motion.

Thirty-seven seconds later, despite the efforts of officers in the bridge and engine
room to steer around the iceberg, the Titanic struck a piece of (15)
SUBMERGED ice, bursting rivets in the ship’s hull and flooding the first five
watertight (16) COMPARTMENTS. The ship’s designer, Thomas Andrews,
carried out a visual (17) INSPECTION of the ship’s damage and informed
Captain Smith at midnight that the ship would sink in less than two hours. By
12.30 a.m, the lifeboats were filled with women and children, after Smith had
given the command for them to be uncovered and swung out 15 minutes earlier.
The first lifeboat was (18) SUCCESSFULLY lowered 15 minutes later, with only
28 of its 65 seats occupied. By 1.15 a.m, the (19) WATERLINE was beginning
to reach the Titanic’s name on the ship’s bow, and over the next hour every
lifeboat would be released as officers struggled to maintain order amongst the
(20) GROWING panic on board.

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Part 3: For questions 21 – 30, complete the following passage with the correct
forms of given words in the box.

It’s around this time of year that many of us will be offered the (21) DUBIOUS
pleasure of an evening looking through friends’ holiday snaps (or, if you’re
particularly lucky, the feature-length video version), an experience that, unless
your hosts possess striking (22) PHOTOGRAPHIC skills, is more often than not
a mind-numbing parade of ‘That’s me in a temple. That’s John in a temple. That’s
me and John in a temple.’ No matter how stunning or culturally diverse the
destination may have been, it always seems diminished when (23) FILTERED
through someone else’s memory.

It might be argued that it’s impossible to convey the wonder of travel (24)
SECOND-HAND , and that travel writing can never be more than the literary
(25) EQUIVALENT of a trawl through someone else’s holiday photos. Now that
cheap flights and backpacking tours have made the remotest (26)
BACKWATERS of the planet widely accessible, the genre might even have been
in danger of (27) REDUNDANCY; we no longer read descriptions of the Arabian
desert or the foothills of the Himalayas with (28) WIDE-EYED astonishment,
because there’s nothing to stop us going there ourselves next week. In fact, we’ve
probably been already. Yet in spite of the fact that exploratory travel is no longer
the exclusive preserve of (29) PROFESSIONALS such as T.E. Lawrence or Sir
Richard Burton, or perhaps because of this, ‘travel writing’ is still a healthy and
(30) FLOURISHING genre.

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