What do the acronyms below stand for?

1. He has finally decided to join AA to solve his booze problem.

2. PETA carries out campaigns to prevent animal cruelty, stop people from wearing fur coats and promote
vegetarianism.
3. The IOC has decided to drop wrestling as a core sport in the 2020 Olympic Games.
4. WWF is a leading organization in wildlife conservation and endangered species.
5. Our parish priest has suggested that we should join a YMCA summer camp.

For each set of sentences, think of ONE word which fits all three gaps.

1. a. Tom is bound to get a real wake up ……………………………………… when he enters the world of work after
being closeted in the university for the last seven years.
b. Many young men answered the ………………………… to arms and signed up as soon as war was declared.
c. That car nearly drove into us, it was a really close ……………………………………… .
2. a. You’d be ………………………………… off if you put some money aside every month.
b. The guidelines for the office’s policy on ………………………………… practice are displayed in the folder.
c. Come on! You need to put your …………………………… foot forward if you want to make it to the summit!
3. a. The president promised to take no …………… measures in order to improve the company’s productivity.
b. The forest looked eerie in the …………………………………… light.
c. The top …………………………………… of the statue was knocked down, while the base remains.

Name the literary device/s for each example below:

1. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

2. I sweat like a pig after a tough race.
3. “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and
in the streets, we shall fight in the hills” (Winston S. Churchill).
4. I’m so hungry I could eat a cow.
5. The familiar tang of his grandmother’s cranberry sauce reminded him of his youth.
6. You are going; I am staying.
7. Better late than never.
8. It is a confirmed rumour by now.
9. "My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your
country." (John F. Kennedy) 1

10. There are some new faces here.

11. The sweet smell of freshly baked apple filled the air.
 El maestro de esgrima, Arturo Pérez Reverte
El cristal de las panzudas copas de coñac reflejaba las *bujías que ardían en los candelabros de plata. Entre
dos bocanadas de humo, ocupado en encender un sólido *veguero de Vuelta Abajo, el ministro estudió con
disimulo a su interlocutor. No le cabía la menor duda de que aquel hombre era un canalla; pero lo había
visto llegar ante la puerta de Lhardy en una impecable berlina tirada por dos soberbias yeguas inglesas, y
los dedos finos y cuidados que retiraban la vitola del habano lucían un valioso solitario montado en oro.
Todo eso, más su elegante desenvoltura y los precisos antecedentes que había ordenado reunir sobre él, lo
situaban automáticamente en la categoría de canallas distinguidos.

* Bujía: Vela de cera

* Veguero: Cigarro puro hecho rústicamente de una sola hoja de tabaco enrollada.

Madrid, 2018

We avoided Tourist Homes, country cousins of Funeral ones, old-fashioned, genteel and showerless,
with elaborate dressing tables in depressingly white-and-pink little bedrooms, and photographs of the
landlady’s children in all their instars. But I did surrender, now and then, to Lo’s predilection for “real”
hotels. She would pick out in the book, while I petted her in the parked car in the silence of a dusk-
mellowed, mysterious side-road, some highly recommended lake lodge which offered all sorts of things
magnified by the flashlight she moved over them, such as congenial company, between-meals snacks,
outdoor barbecues - but which in my mind conjured up odious visions of stinking high school boys in
sweatshirts and an ember-red cheek pressing against hers, while poor Dr. Humbert, embracing nothing but
two masculine knees, would cold-humor his piles on the damp turf.

Lolita, Vladimir Navokov

Madrid, 2015

Provide a phonetic transcription for the following sentence from the text above:

We avoided Tourist Homes, country cousins of Funeral ones, old-fashioned, genteel and showerless, with
elaborate dressing tables in depressingly white-and-pink little bedrooms, and photographs of the landlady’s
children in all their instars.