Use of English Part 2

Use of English Part 2

Main Verbs
1. If you want to enjoy all the benefits of swimming, you _____ to do it properly.
2. In the early days they had to climb for six hours to the start of the race, today
racers use a cable car which _____ about twenty minutes.
3. It is difficult to imagine that at one time its harbour _____ to be visited by
over 2,000 ships a week.
4. The old city centre is small, which _____ it very easy to explore on foot.
5. The Island Princess seems very likely to be a popular holiday choice for
many years to _____ .
6. Most people will have to save up to be _____ to afford the trip.

Auxilliary Verbs
1. Is your school just as you want it? Or are there things you _____ change,
given the opportunity?
2. At the end of that period, he _____ written the meanings of over forty
thousand words.
3. To date, children _____ enjoyed both learning new skills and taking part in
a variety of activities in a friendly environment for more than a century.
4. The timetable does not allow very much time for relaxing because the
children _____ kept busy all the time.
5. In the words of one camper, ‘I made a lot of friends, _____ never on my
own, and became more self-confident.
6. However, nowadays, it is no longer the trade centre it once _____.

Pronouns
1. This is the chance to express your ideas about _____ the ideal school is
like.
2. There are 10,000 camps across the country _____ are designed to look
after youngsters from six to eighteen.
3. In a recent film, during _____ a family was waiting to have a meal, one of
the actors entered with a large roast chicken.
4. Working in a factory affected him so deeply that he found _____ much too
painful to speak about in later life.
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5. His own wife and children knew _____ at all about the unhappiness of his
childhood until after his death.
6. The course, which is steep and has sharp bends, remains _____ of the most
demanding and frightening in the world.
7. He did not spend many days there, even though the scenery amazed him
and everyone else _____ was travelling with him.

Determiners/Quantifiers
1. Our competition is open to _____ student between the ages of twelve and
eighteen.
2. Sometimes they work together on the dictionary in meetings; at other times
they work independently of _____ other on other parts of the dictionary.
3. The camps are often situated on beautiful lakesides and there is _____ wide
range of prices to suit every pocket.
4. The scenery still amazes visitors to _____ city of Vancouver today.
5. They are only confirming what the two million residents and eight million
tourists visiting Greater Vancouver _____ single year are always saying.
6. There is simply _____ other place on earth quite like it.
7. Malaysia has a rich, colourful history and many parts of the city have hardly
changed at _____ during the last five centuries.
8. Scientists have taken _____ long time to develop their ideas.
9. Now a group of companies has developed a new method of recycling that
could save almost _____ plastic waste.
10. This ship is more than double_____ weight of the Titanic.
11. There is entertainment on board to suit _____ age and interest, from
dancing to drama.
12. Although the skiers are very _____ faster now, some things haven’t
changed.

Prepositions
1. You can enter the competition _____ an individual or your whole class can
work together on a team entry.
2. At first, nobody knew what to do, but eventually the problem was solved
_____ putting a nail in the leg and attaching it back on to the chicken.
3. The city is regularly picked by international travel associations _____ one
of the world’s best tourist destinations.
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4. A few products, for example bottles, can be re-used, but it is expensive or

difficult to do this _____ a lot of plastic bottles.
5. The Island Princess can carry _____ to 2,600 passengers and has 1,321
cabins.
6. The cabins are specially designed _____ use by disabled passengers.

Phrasal Expressions
1. You can do what you want, it is completely _____ to you.
2. What we are looking for is evidence _____ originality and imagination.
3. By _____ part in this project, you will help in a study being carried out at a
leading university.
4. These days teams _____ use of a large collection of examples of writing
and everyday speech.
5. Most modern dictionaries require a _____ deal less time and effort to write.
6. Poor technique may result from a number of factors including anxiety, lack
_____ body awareness, or just concern about getting wet.
7. But help is at hand. For those keen to swim properly, and so _____
advantage of the health benefits, there is now something known as the
Shaw method.
8. This method encourages people to think about their swimming technique
and to concentrate on making _____ that arm and leg movements work
together rather than against each other.
9. The camps are popular with the children, and many come home _____ of
enthusiasm.
10. His parents _____ their best to look after him but were always in difficulty
with money.
11. The Inferno was the invention of a British businessman, who came up _____
the idea of the package holiday in the early 1900s.
12. First time visitors who are _____ search of breath-taking views are usually
directed to a beach about ten minutes from the city centre.
13. On one side of the town, you find many grand houses, but on crossing the
river, you find yourself in ancient Chinatown, where you really _____ a step
back into the past.
14. These create huge mountains of waste that are extremely hard to get _____
of.
15. Now a recycling process promises to reduce this problem by turning old
plastic _____ new.
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Connectors: linkers, adverbs, conjunctions

1. This means that even _____ you do not win, your views will still be heard.
2. Entries must reach us no later _____ Friday 30 April.
3. Teams also refer to books and articles about language as _____ as asking
experts in particular language subjects about the more specialized words.
4. Finally, ordinary people are asked _____ they find the examples provided
help or not.
5. What’s more, swimming techniques do not always improve with practice.
_____ the contrary, once people have fallen into bad habits, they tend to be
stuck with them.
6. The children typically do outdoor activities, including some challenging
sports like climbing, or indoor activities _____ as drama, music, or poetry.
7. Many actors do not like working with children or animals. This is probably
_____ they are afraid that the audience may become more interested in the
children and animals.
8. This would not have mattered _____ there had been another roast chicken,
but here wasn’t one.
9. His father owed _____ a large amount of money that he was sent to prison
for two months.
10. Charles was not ______ extremely unhappy, but also ashamed of working
there.
11. Anyone can take part in the inferno ski race as _____ as they belong to a
ski racing club.
12. _____ the camps are not luxurious, the wooden cabins the young people
sleep in are comfortable.
13. Everything is simply mixed together and heated to more than 400 degrees
centigrade _____ that it melts.
14. It was _____ large to be built in one piece.
15. If actors have _____ much food in their mouths, the words may not be clear,
and they may end up choking or coughing.
16. Mrs Wilcox liked the name _____ much that she decided to give her new
home the same name.
17. As _____ as length is concerned, there’s little difference – the Island
Princess is similar in length to the Titanic.
18. _____ Samuel Johnson wrote his influential dictionary in the eighteenth
century, the work kept him busy for seven years.
19. If you visited your local swimming pool and just watched, you might be
surprised to see _____ badly many people swim.
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Part 2

Motorbike stunt rider

I work (0) …AS….. a motorbike stunt rider – that is, I do tricks on my

motorbike at shows. The Le Mans racetrack in France was (9) …….. I first
saw some guys doing motorbike stunts. I’d never seen anyone riding a
motorbike using just the back wheel before and I was (10) …….. impressed
I went straight home and taught (11) …….. to do the same. It wasn’t very
long before I began to earn my living at shows performing my own motorbike
stunts.

I have a degree (12) …….. mechanical engineering; this helps me to look

at the physics (13) …….. lies behind each stunt. In addition to being
responsible for design changes to the motorbike, I have to work (14) ……..
every stunt I do. People often think that my work is very dangerous, but
apart (15) …….. some minor mechanical problems happening occasionally
during a stunt, nothing ever goes wrong. I never feel in (16) …….. kind of
danger because I’m very experienced.