WORD FORM PRACTICE - 01

WORD FORM PRACTICE – 01

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, _______________________ obstinacy to him. (YIELD)
2. The description of Palestinian people is entirely inappropriate and they apologise
____________________________ for the offence caused. (RESERVE)
3. It is a complex, serious interpretation, thoughtful, honest and
______________________________. (AUTHOR)
4. He may not understand what we are trying to do, or may
_________________________ what we are trying to do or say. (INTERPRET)
5. From an easy-going young girl, she had _________________________ into a neurotic
middle-aged woman. (MORPH)
6. He relentlessly _______________________ Norman Lamont and called him the
greatest post-war chancellor. (NOSE)
7. Mrs. Ranscombe is such a(n) _________________________. I wish she would stop
interfering in my private life. (BODY)
8. The ___________________________ result of this increase in stressful appraisals is
a decrease in psychological well-being. (SEQUENCE)
9. British companies still aren’t really ___________________________ to the needs of
the Japanese market. (TUNE)
10. The Army finds itself ___________________________ on the front line because so
many minors have dropped out of training. (MAN)

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) _______________________
(LOOK) Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee on the forward mast of the Titanic (12)
_____________________ (SEE) 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) _____________________ (HEAD)!”. The
greatest disaster in (14) ________________________ (MARINE) 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) ________________________
(MERGE) ice, bursting rivets in the ship’s hull and flooding the first five watertight (16)
_______________________ (PART). The ship’s designer, Thomas Andrews, carried out
a visual (17) _______________________ (SPECT) 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)
_______________________ (SUCCEED) lowered 15 minutes later, with only 28 of its 65
seats occupied. By 1.15 a.m, the (19) ______________________ (WATER) 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)
_______________________________ (GROW) 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.

REDUNDANT HAND PHOTO PROFESS WATER

FILL EYE EQUAL DOUBT FLOUR

It’s around this time of year that many of us will be offered the (21)
_________________ 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) __________________ 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) ____________________ through someone
else’s memory.

It might be argued that it’s impossible to convey the wonder of travel (24)
___________________ , and that travel writing can never be more than the literary (25)
___________________ of a trawl through someone else’s holiday photos. Now that
cheap flights and backpacking tours have made the remotest (26)
___________________ of the planet widely accessible, the genre might even have been
in danger of (27) _________________________________; we no longer read
descriptions of the Arabian desert or the foothills of the Himalayas with (28)
___________________ 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) ____________________
such as T.E. Lawrence or Sir Richard Burton, or perhaps because of this, ‘travel writing’ is
still a healthy and (30) ___________________ genre.

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