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1 Complete each sentence with one word only. 3 For questions 1-6, complete the second sentence so
0 People buy insurance when they don't want to take that it has a similar màning to the first sentence, .
........t:!çK.ç...... with their lives. using the word given in capitals. D{ not change the
urord given. You must use bétween two and five
1 I didn't have what to say in my class
a ...................... words, including the word given.
presentation this morning, so ljust made something
0 He doesn't like tennis as much as football.
MORE
2 I took .......,..,.,.,....,.. football again after a long break when
He likes .............,,.....&p.tbe||.m.qt:e.{hen,.,..,.............. tennis.
my friends and I decided we were getting too lazy. I
3 When l'm cooking, I like to have a .,........,........... at new 1 Food is often cheaper in super markets than in small
recipes. l'm getting into lhdian food at the moment. shops.
4 Remember I said l'd get football tickets? l've ...................... LESS
my promise and got hold ...................... two - they're like Often, food in supermarkets ..............
gold dust! in small shops
5 I don't know how to describe him. He's a very hard man
to sum 2 l'm the least musical person I know
ANYONE
2 Correct any mistakes wiih the adjectives in bold in I don't
these sentences. Three adjectives are correct. me.
0 I get really iritæing with people who use mobiles in
th e ci n em a. .......,...irrifpLç.d.,......... 3 His confidence is higher than it was at the start of the
course.
1 My brother-in-law just phoned with some excited news: NERVOUS
my sister's just had a baby! He doesn't seem ...............
2 Remember that book you lent me? I hate to say it, but he did at the start of the c ourse.
it was so boring I couldn't finish it
3 I went for â walk by thq river with Sally, You'll be 4 That was the most boring speech I I rave ever heard
amusing to hear I managed to fall in. lt was so NEVER
embarrassin g | .................................,.. I have ...............
4 You look a little confusing. Can I help? boring speech in my life.
5 lsn't it astonished how exhausting it can be travelling 1
around the city at rush hour? 5 lt is easierto travel around the city $y bicycle than by
6 I was disappointing by the attitude of the shop bus or car.
assistant when I took my broken computer back ONE
Going by bicycle is..........
7 Do you think people are motivating mostly by money ways to travel round thei city.
or is it more complicated than that? I
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Mars update
4 Complete the sentences using and; but, because, How our knowledge ol the Red Planet is changing fast
when, what, who, which and that. There is one
word you do not need to use. Mars, the second smallest planet in the solar system, is commonly known
as the 'Red Planet', thanks to the iron oxide covering its surface (this is
A: There's a small tree in my garden, (0) .........hU1.,,,.,. it
in fact rust, the same material you see covering a piece of iron or steel
is in the wrong place (1)...................... I need advice
exposed to air and water), (1) .......... And although Mars has a thinner
on moving it.
atmosphere and its surface is covered with similar features to those on the
B: The most important point iS deciding
(2) ,...........,....,..., to move it. (3) ...................,.. the
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Moon, there are many other features present volcanoes, valleys, deseris
one 0f the deepest valleys, (2) ....,,.... Phobos and Deimos, the two Martian
begins properly, (5) . ........... ....., will improve your
m00ns, are small and strangely shaped and may be made up 0f the
chances of success. lf you feel you need more
remains of this impact.
help, go to a professional gardener (6) ,..... . . ....
can do the work for you. Before the first spacecraft, Mariner 4, reached Mars in '1965, there was a
continuing debate aboutthe existence 0fwater 0n its surface. ln the'1Bth
5 Complete each sentence with a word in the box. cent{.Jry, long, straight lines seen by telescope were said by some to be
There is one word you do not need to use. canals full 0f water, perhaps constructed by the planet's Martian residents,
(3) ,......... Could they be continents, surrounded by seas?
competitive demanding depressing
Although the Martian canals were later found to be optical illusions,
economical entertaining incredible
visiting spacecraft found that Mars did indeed once have surface waier,
popular (4) ...,.,....The Mars rover Spirit detected water molecules in March 2007,
and the Phoenix mission discovered water ice in 2008.
0 Dealing with all the emails I get at work is so
never have any time for aciual
....ïm.ç;.cçnsumlnÉ... I There have been up to three spacecraft orbiting Mars -
the Mars 0dyssey,
woik. Express and Reconnaissance 0rbiter, (5) .........,A further two are operating ,
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