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It is crucial that patients _____ for urgent operations in all hospitals.

The instructor blew his whistle and ______. 

The case for an increase in spending on education has been proved beyond the _____ of doubt.

_____, Americans eat a light breakfast. They usually don't eat a lot of food in the morning.

I had no sooner lit the barbecue ______.

She ______ the flowers. If she had, they wouldn't have died.

_____ unsuccessful in the previous speaking test.

She placed a pillow over her mouth to ____ her scream.

I don't like intellectual novels, serious music or films; my tastes are quite _______.

Despite the new retention policies, many skilled professionals in the country still seriously consider _____ for better opportunities abroad.

The management would prefer _____ the company's dress code more strictly. 

Fill each of the following blanks with ONE suitable word.

The climate in Bach Ma National Park is tropical with two distinctive seasons caused by the monsoon winds. The weather conditions 31.1 the parking area can change very quickly. In the morning, it is sunny but it may be cloudy with heavy rain in the afternoon. 31.2 of the proximity of the sea there are often strong winds. Admittedly, the park supports a very large 31.3 of plant and animal species. This is partly due to the variations in altitude and also because the park is 31.4 within the transition area of two bio-geographical zones containing species from northern and southern Vietnam. The vegetation includes two main formations: tropical lowland 31.5 below 900 m and sub-tropical forest between 900 and 1450 m – the latter being the richest and less disturbed 31.6 human influence. The flora of Bach Ma includes at least 1,400 31.7 which represent around one-fifth of the entire flora of Vietnam. The fauna is considered to 31.8 half of all mammals known in Vietnam. 43 species of mammals have been identified in the 31.9 and further 76 species have been listed as potentially present, considering their overall range of distribution. Nine species of primates have been confirmed in Bach Ma. 330 species of birds that have been observed in the park represent over one-third of the species 31.10 in Vietnam.

Fill each of the following blanks with ONE suitable word.

Committing words 32.1 memory is a notoriously hit-and-miss business. Over the last forty years, psychologists have found three methods which consistently improve memory for words: creating imagery for the 32.2 you want to remember; using elaboration to form word associations; generation of the word 32.3 complex processes such as clues.

In research on trying to remember lists of words, these 32.4 have each produced memory improvements of ten percent over simply reading words once. 32.5 might not sound much, but it is an average over many studies and often for things that are 32.6 to remember.

Now, in a new series of studies, there's solid evidence for a fourth which could join the 32.7 big three memory enhancers. And, you'll be happy to hear, it's very simple. It only involves 32.8 the word you want to remember to yourself. It doesn't even seem to matter 32.9 you don't vocalize the word, it only has to be mouthed. Across eight experiments in which 32.10 were asked to read and remember lists of words, the researchers found memory improvements sometimes greater than ten percent.

Read the text and choose the best answer to fill in the blanks.

There is a revolution in the retail world that cannot fail to attract shoppers’ noses. In the latest marketing ploy, smells are created in laboratories to be wafted around stores in order to 33.1deceivetrapenticeforce the unsuspecting into spending more money. Secret 33.2trialsoperationsanalysesinvestigations of the “designer” smells are going on in more than a hundred stores across Britain, including bookshops, petrol stations and a chain of clothes shops. The tailor-made aromas include coconut oil in travel agents (to 33.3desirearouseevokeremember exotic holidays), and leather in car showrooms (to suggest lasting quality).

Marketing Aromatics, a company specialising in this area, believes that odours are under-used as a marketing 33.4advertisementgadgetgimmicktool. Until now the most frequent 33.5applicationtypeeffectconcept has been in supermarkets where the smell from in-store bakeries has been blown among the aisles to boost sales of fresh food. “We are taking things one stage further,” said David Fellowes, the company’s commercial director. “We can build on customer loyalty by making customers 33.6relatejoinmergeassociate a particular smell with a particular store. It is not intrusive. If it were it would defeat the object.”

The smells are designed to work on three levels: to relax shoppers by using natural smells such as peppermint, to bring back memories using odours such as a whiff of sea breeze, and to encourage customer loyalty by using a corporate perfume “logo” to 33.7capturepromotemakefix a company’s image. Dr. George Dodd, a scientific adviser to Marketing Aromatics, believes smells can affect people’s moods. “It is a very exciting time. Smells have enormous 33.8efficiencyadaptationpotentialconcentration to influence behaviour,” he said. Critics say retailers are 33.9reactingtakingresortingmoving to subliminal advertising. “Not telling consumers that this is happening is an 33.10unjustifiedunofficialunlicensedundeserving invasion of their privacy. People have the right to know,” said Conor Foley of Liberty, the civil liberties association.

Read the text and choose the best answer to fill in the blanks.

Several new brightly colored and diverse frog species have recently been identified on the tropical island of Sri Lanka. The new species were identified by noticeable differences in physical features, habitat, development, and genetic 34.1similaritieslevelsmodificationsmake-up. Some are tiny and dwell on the ground, whereas others are large and 34.2residelodgeestablishinhabit trees. Five of the new species lay eggs in the homespun baskets suspended 34.3aboveontofromthrough water, so that when the eggs 34.4hatcharriveemergereproduce, the tadpoles have no difficulty 34.5gettinggoingtakingdoing their first swim. The remaining new frog species give birth to their young by producing eggs on the forest 34.6floorcanopynestcelling. These frogs bypass the tadpole stage and emergence as miniature 34.7samplesspeciessizesversions of their parents.

Frogs and other amphibians are important indicators of ecological balance; therefore a decline in their numbers would be considered a warning that 34.8preventionpreservationreductionconsumption of the natural environment for a particular area is needed. 34.9OnceSuchIndeedGiven that Sri Lanka has already lost 95% of its forests, measures to protect the remaining forest fragments are 34.10trivialcrucialinsistentprohibited. Since many frogs produce chemicals that could have practical applications in health care and medical treatment, they are a potential source of new drugs. Thus, ensuring that frogs are protected by preserving and restoring their habitat is very important.

Complete the text by changing the form of the word in capitals.

"After decades of cutting its own staff and research arms, much of Capitol Hill's institutional memory and policy expertise now resides in the 35.1 (LOBBY) industry." This is the most important sentence in the article. Our penny-wise, pound-foolish country has decimated its expertise in the sectors that are the object of its legislation, so now it relies on lobbyists to tell us how things work. Unlike government experts who receive decent salaries to keep their congressmen informed so that they can negotiate with lobbyists with knowledge, these lobbyists use their monopoly on knowledge to manipulate the system, now regularly writing the laws, only to get a rubber stamp from Congress. According to our Constitution, democracy resides in our government. All this 35.2 (GOVERNMENTAL) propaganda, from the right and the Democratic centrists, 35.3 (WEAKER) our republic. There are many things markets do well. There are many things governments do well. The only thing the Constitution says about markets or 35.4 (CAPITAL) is that states should regulate their trade and that the federal government regulates interstate and international trade. Our republic is supposed to promote the interstate general welfare, not easy 35.5 (PICK) for global corporations.

Complete the sentence by changing the form of the word in capitals.

Call it “Zoom face-envy”. Because of the rise of video-conferencing during the pandemic, legions now spend hours staring at their own faces and, inevitably, comparing them with those of others. Poor lighting and the skewed angles of laptop cameras are rarely flattering. Nor is “lockdown face”, brought on by stress, or a dearth of sunlight and exercise. For Kim, a 57-year-old actress in New York City, Zoom seemed to add ten pounds and a “crepey” look to her skin. After seeing “way too much” of that, she got a facelift last summer. She is delighted with the result. Similarly, Michèle Le Tournelle, a 62-year-old (RETIRE) 36.1 near Nantes in France, said the “horrible” confinement turned into “a revelation”: it spurred her to undergo a slimming procedure and a facelift with which she has been “very, very, very” pleased.

Many cosmetic surgeons had expected the pandemic to hammer business. Instead, the industry is enjoying a Zoom-boom. The American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery reckons that the pandemic has led to a 10% increase in cosmetic surgery (COUNTRY) 36.2. In France, despite limits on elective procedures during the pandemic, cosmetic surgeries are up by nearly 20%, estimates the French Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons. For Ashton Collins, the boss of Save Face, a firm in Cardiff that refers people seeking minimally invasive cosmetic treatments to the 852 (and counting) practitioners it has (CREDIT) 36.3 across Britain, business is “through the roof”. In Italy, Pier Andrea Cicogna of Studio Cicogna, a plastic-surgery clinic in Treviso, says his revenue has risen by nearly a third despite more than three months of closure.

Apart from face-envy, other forces are at play. In the age of teleworking, patients can recover (CONSPICUOUS) 36.4 at home as bruises and swelling fade. It helps that professionals, the biggest clients for pricey cosmetic surgery, are more likely to work from home than many others. In normal times finagling time off work is a big hurdle (which is why Christmas breaks have traditionally been the high season for cosmetic surgery). Recuperation is made easier by the widespread use of face-masks, which neatly hide away the signs of surgery to the nose, chin, cheeks and jawline, as well as the “resurfacing” of facial skin and lip-plumping.

Money not spent on clothes, evenings out and travel has financed much of this. Gains in the stockmarket have also helped, says Alan Matarasso, whose clinic in New York is “being stretched” by requests for surgery. Intriguingly, Dr Matarasso, a former president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, thinks a more ethereal force is also at work: by casting light on “the (FRAGILE) 36.5 of life”, the pandemic is imbuing people with greater desire to squeeze more out of whatever time they have left.

Read the passage and choose the best answer for each question.

Is the Internet making us stupid?

In an article in Science, Patricia Greenfield, a developmental psychologist who runs UCLA's Children's Digital Media Center, reviewed dozens of studies on how different media technologies influence our cognitive abilities. Some of the studies indicated that certain computer tasks, like playing video games, increase the speed at which people can shift their focus among icons and other images on screens. Other studies, however, found that such rapid shifts in focus, even if performed adeptly, result in less rigorous and 'more automatic' thinking.

In one experiment at an American university, half a class of students was allowed to use internet-connected laptops during a lecture, while the other half had to keep their computers shut. Those who browsed the web performed much worse on a subsequent test of how well they retained the lecture's content. Earlier experiments revealed that as the number of links in an online document goes up, reading comprehension falls, and as more types of information are placed on a screen, we remember less of what we see.

Greenfield concluded that 'every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others'. Our growing use of screen-based media, she said, has strengthened visual-spatial intelligence, which can strengthen the ability to do jobs that involve keeping track of lots of rapidly changing signals, like piloting a plane or monitoring a patient during surgery. However, that has been accompanied by 'new weakness in higher-order cognitive processes', including 'abstract vocabulary, mindfulness, reflection, inductive problem-solving, critical thinking and imagination'. We're becoming, in a word, shallower.

Studies of our behavior online support this conclusion. German researchers found that web browsers usually spend less than ten seconds looking at a page. Even people doing academic research online tend to 'bounce' rapidly between documents, rarely reading more than a page or two, according to a University College London study. Such mental juggling takes a big toll. In a recent experiment at Stanford University, researchers gave various cognitive tests to 49 people who do a lot of media multitasking and 52 people who multitask much less frequently. The heavy multitaskers performed poorly on all the tests. They were more easily distracted, had less control over their attention, and were much less able to distinguish important information from trivia. The researchers were surprised by the results. They expected the intensive multitaskers to have gained some mental advantages. That wasn't the case, though. In fact, the multitaskers weren't even good at multitasking. 'Everything distracts them,' said Clifford Nass, one of the researchers.

It would be one thing if the ill effects went away as soon as we turned off our computers and mobiles, but they don't. The cellular structure of the human brain, scientists have discovered, adapts readily to the tools we use to find, store and share information. By changing our habits of mind, each new technology strengthens certain neural pathways and weakens others. The alterations shape the way we think even when we're not using the technology. The pioneering neuroscientist Michael Merzenich believes our brains are being 'massively remodeled' by our ever-intensifying use of the web and related media. In 2009, he said that he was profoundly worried about the cognitive consequences of the constant distractions and interruptions the internet bombards us with. The long-term effect on the quality of our intellectual lives, he said, could be 'deadly'. 

Not all distractions are bad. As most of us know, if we concentrate too intensively on a tough problem, we can get stuck in a mental rut. However, if we let the problem sit unattended for a time, we often return to it with a fresh perspective and a burst of creativity. Research by Dutch psychologist Ap Dijksterhuis indicates that such breaks in our attention give our unconscious mind time to grapple with a problem, bringing to bear information and cognitive processes unavailable to conscious deliberation. We usually make better decisions, his experiments reveal, if we shift our attention away from a mental challenge for a time.

But Dijksterhuis's work also shows that our unconscious thought processes don't engage with a problem until we've clearly and consciously defined what the problem is. If we don't have a particular goal in mind, he writes, 'unconscious thought does not occur'. The constant distractedness that the Net encourages is very different from the kind of temporary, purposeful diversion of our mind that refreshes our thinking. What we seem to be sacrificing in our surfing and searching is our capacity to engage in the quieter, attentive modes of thought that underpin contemplation, reflection and introspection.

What do we learn about Patricia Greenfield's research in the first paragraph?

Two of the experiments mentioned in the second paragraph concerned _____

One of Greenfield's conclusions was that _____

One of the pieces of research mentioned in the fourth paragraph indicated that _____

What is the writer's purpose in the fifth paragraph?

The writer mentions Ap Dijksterhuis's research in order to make the point that _____

Read the following passage and complete the tasks.

Children's Literature

Stories and poems aimed at children have an exceedingly long history: lullabies, for example, were sung in Roman times, and a few nursery games and rhymes are almost as ancient. Yet so far as written-down literature is concerned, while there were stories in print before 1700 that children often seized on when they had the chance, such as translations of Aesop’s fables, fairy-stories and popular ballads and romances, these were not aimed at young people in particular. Since the only genuinely child-oriented literature at this time would have been a few instructional works to help with reading and general knowledge, plus the odd Puritanical tract as an aid to morality, the only course for keen child readers was to read adult literature. This still occurs today, especially with adult thrillers or romances that include more exciting, graphic detail than is normally found in the literature for younger readers.

By the middle of the 18th century there were enough eager child readers, and enough parents glad to cater to this interest, for publishers to specialize in children’s books whose first aim was pleasure rather than education or morality. In Britain, a London merchant named Thomas Boreham produced Cajanus, The Swedish Giant in 1742, while the more famous John Newbery published A Little Pretty Pocket Book in 1744. Its contents - rhymes, stories, children’s games plus a free gift (‘A ball and a pincushion’) - in many ways anticipated the similar lucky-dip contents of children’s annuals this century. It is a tribute to Newbery’s flair that he hit upon a winning formula quite so quickly, to be pirated almost immediately in America.

Such pleasing levity was not to last. Influenced by Rousseau, whose Emile (1762) decreed that all books for children save Robinson Crusoe were a dangerous diversion, contemporary critics saw to it that children’s literature should be instructive and uplifting. Prominent among such voices was Mrs. Sarah Trimmer, whose magazine The Guardian of Education (1802) carried the first regular reviews of children’s books. It was she who condemned fairy-tales for their violence and general absurdity; her own stories, Fabulous Histories (1786) described talking animals who were always models of sense and decorum.

So the moral story for children was always threatened from within, given the way children have of drawing out entertainment from the sternest moralist. But the greatest blow to the improving children’s book was to come from an unlikely source indeed: early 19th century interest in folklore. Both nursery rhymes, selected by James Orchard Halliwell for a folklore society in 1842, and collection of fairy-stories by the scholarly Grimm brothers, swiftly translated into English in 1823, soon rocket to popularity with the young, quickly leading to new editions, each one more child-centered than the last. From now on younger children could expect stories written for their particular interest and with the needs of their own limited experience of life kept well to the fore.

What eventually determined the reading of older children was often not the availability of special children’s literature as such but access to books that contained characters, such as young people or animals, with whom they could more easily empathize, or action, such as exploring or fighting, that made few demands on adult maturity or understanding.

The final apotheosis of literary childhood as something to be protected from unpleasant reality came with the arrival in the late 1930s of child-centered best-sellers intend on entertainment at its most escapist. In Britain novelist such as Enid Blyton and Richmal Crompton described children who were always free to have the most unlikely adventures, secure in the knowledge that nothing bad could ever happen to them in the end. The fact that war broke out again during her books’ greatest popularity fails to register at all in the self-enclosed world inhabited by Enid Blyton’s young characters. Reaction against such dream-worlds was inevitable after World War II, coinciding with the growth of paperback sales, children’s libraries and a new spirit of moral and social concern. Urged on by committed publishers and progressive librarians, writers slowly began to explore new areas of interest while also shifting the settings of their plots from the middle-class world to which their chiefly adult patrons had always previously belonged.

Critical emphasis, during this development, has been divided. For some the most important task was to rid children’s books of the social prejudice and exclusiveness no longer found acceptable. Others concentrated more on the positive achievements of contemporary children’s literature. That writers of these works are now often recommended to the attentions of adult as well as child readers echoes the 19th-century belief that children’s literature can be shared by the generations, rather than being a defensive barrier between childhood and the necessary growth towards adult understanding.

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage?

Children didn’t start to read books until 1700. 43.1FALSETRUENOTGIVEN

Sarah Trimmer believed that children’s books should set good examples. 43.2FALSETRUENOT GIVEN

Parents were concerned about the violence in children’s books. 43.3FALSENOT GIVENTRUE

An interest in the folklore changed the direction of the development of children’s books. 43.4FALSETRUENOT GIVEN

Today children’s book writers believe their works should appeal to both children and adults. 43.5NOT GIVENFALSETRUE

Match each person with the correct statement.

Thomas Boreham 44.1

Mrs. Sarah trimmer 44.2

Grimm Brothers 44.3

Six paragraphs have been removed from the passage.

A. The men who started Kenya's wildlife sanctuaries were men of vision. They worked against heavy odds often with inadequate resources. What is now needed is a sense of vision in society as a whole - values which accept that man is a lesser part of a greater whole - an unfashionable idea in our rushing, modern world. We now need measures designed to preserve wildlife for centuries, conceived and administered at the international level.

B. Since life began the environment has been adjusting to change; today it is the speed of change which is new and potentially disastrous. A century ago man himself was part of the established order. The elephant hunters did not threaten the survival of the elephant any more than lions. The men of the Lingula tribe great elephant hunters who used strong bows - had a toughness and knowledge which gave them nobility, in strong contrast to the furtive moral squalor of the international racketeers involved in today's ivory trade.

C. There is something inexorable about a herd like this moving across country. No browsing, no pausing to pluck branches or bunches of grass, no moving this way and that. Instead a steady marching, the young ones trotting to keep up. Other animals do not deflect them; they stride majestically, as though conscious they are invulnerable, and all give way before them.

D. In Kenya's game country, man is not yet the dominant animal and hopefully he never will be. Here, one can come to grips with the fact that for around half a million centuries mammals have been the dominant form of life in Africa and that only in the last of these centuries has man become the dominant mammal. But things are changing. In 1905 an army captain marching from Kitale to Nandi Fort in western Kenya, counted 124 giraffes, 85 waterbucks, 4 rhinos, 62 zebras, 27 ostriches and 4 lions in around 10 miles.

E. The slender security of this privilege makes it doubly sad that many visitors bring their own pace with them when they visit Kenya's wildlife. Too much dashing from one Game Park to another does not allow the visitor to attune himself. The use of a vehicle is an advantage in that it can approach the animals without alarming them. However, if it imposes a 21st-century rhythm on your visit to an area which still has the slow pulse of pre-history, you have failed to make the best of your privilege.

F. As well as being the biggest and in some ways the most interesting of the animals, elephants are in a sense the most tragic. A century ago they were the masters of the land. They had the run of the continent and generally managed their own affairs. No other large animal has had so wide a range of habitat, from mountain forests through savannah and semi-desert to the coast.

G. Like me, many visitors and scientists find elephants the most interesting animals to observe. There is the constant feeling that the elephants, too, understand, make decisions, have feelings, have friends. Stories of elephants are legion. Modern hunters say elephants know the boundaries of the National Parks and will smartly step inside when hunters are around. If only the poachers knew the rules and stuck to them as carefully as their victims.

Read an extract from an article. Choose from the paragraphs A-G the one which fits each gap. There is ONE extra paragraph which you do not need to use.

THE BIG GAME OF AFRICA

We all know, in an academic sense, that man as a species has existed for a very long time and that we have only emerged with our present dominance in the comparatively recent past. The game country of Kenya puts this piece of knowledge into context and enables us to experience it at the deep, intuitive level where all knowledge is felt as well as known. When something is learnt in this deep sense the knowledge becomes part of ourselves and enriches our lives.

1. 45.1

Today this area is a network of roads and tracks and is almost entirely under cultivation. True, it contains the remnants of the Nandi and Kakamega forests but even these are rapidly being turned into charcoal and paper. I have driven over many roads in the area and walked the Nandi Hills without seeing any game. There are a few giraffe left on the high land between Kitale and Eldoret; the remaining antelope are rare and shy; the rhino and the lion have definitely gone. It is the same over vast tracts of Kenya; where sev- enty years ago there was an abundance of animals, today you will find almost nothing. I was hoping to see elephants.

2. 45.2

A number of cases of elephants aiding an injured comrade have been recorded by hunters and mother elephants have been seen to carry a dead baby around for several days. It has been known for a hunter to track a wounded elephant only to come on the corpse minus the valuable tusks, these having been broken off and smashed by his companions. It is common knowledge that wild elephants coming upon a skeleton of one of their own kind will examine the bones, carry them away, and scatter them far and wide, although they will ignore the remnants of other animals.

3. 45.3

But now pressure on the elephants' land is increasing. New strains of maize now make it feasible to grow crops in areas where only five years ago there was virtually no human population. The Masai, who up to now have grazed their cattle alongside the plains game are beginning to plough their lands for wheat and corn. Other threats are posed by the increased use of insecticides; the expansion of cities and towns; and most worrying of all, the increase in the human population. Things must change.

4. 45.4

Above all the pace at which we disturb the natural environment must slow down. Our startling success with the physical sciences has convinced us that we can solve problems quickly by pushing the right buttons. But in nature, problems are not solved quickly, although they can be created overnight. A disturbance of the established order is a wound, quickly inflicted but slow to heal, with the ever-present possibility that the wound may cause a fatal infection. Even a carefully thought-out and well-controlled change is still a form of surgery from which the environment must recover by adjusting its complex mechanisms and balances to the new situation.

5. 45.5

Now, we humans and our greed are out of control all over the world; and in the same sense that a city child must visit a farm to find that milk comes from cows, not bottles, so most of us need to visit Africa to find where mankind came from. Even here there is a danger of losing touch with the past. Today the parks and reserves are last-ditch defences for Kenya's wildlife. The long-term outcome is far from certain, but meanwhile it is our privilege that enough remains for us to glimpse the original glory first hand.

6. 45.6

Try to stay longer with each group of animals. They will reward you in their time not yours - remember they are making the decisions. There is so much to see one is tempted to rush; more than one hundred species of mammals in Kenya, ninety-five in the Masai Mara Reserve alone. But these animals are not postage stamps or locomotive numbers to be ticked off on a list. Each of them has an individual character and fits into its own place in this complex system.

There are 6 mistakes in the following text. The first mistake is corrected as an example numbered (0). Find the other 5 mistakes, write and correct them.

Write the mistakes in the order they appeared in the text. Write a cross (X) if any word needs to be omitted.

Example: (0) Line 1: press -> pressing

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between THREE and EIGHT words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.

A government official leaked the story to the world press. (WIND)

=> The world press from a government official.

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between THREE and EIGHT words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.

The new theatre is extremely ugly and spoils the view of the village. (BLOT)

=> The new theatre is and spoils the view of the village.

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between THREE and EIGHT words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.

George suggested a list of guests should be written. (DRAW)

=> "Why not ?" said George.

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between THREE and EIGHT words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.

My dad’s not happy with me at all because he heard me swearing. (BOOKS)

=> I because he heard me swearing.

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between THREE and EIGHT words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.

When Dean lost his brand new iPhone, he became frantic. (BESIDE)

=> Dean losing his brand new iPhone.

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between THREE and EIGHT words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.

As far as I know, the chemicals that were discovered are not hazardous. (BEST)

=> To , the chemicals found are not dangerous.

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between THREE and EIGHT words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.

I was surprised Sarah couldn’t do the maths problem because it was very easy. (PLAY)

=> The maths problem , and I was surprised Sarah couldn’t do it.

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between THREE and EIGHT words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.

We sometimes wonder if Maria lives here at all, she is so seldom around. (RARELY)

=> So that we sometimes wonder if she lives here at all.

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between THREE and EIGHT words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.

You only have a short time to do this work, so don’t waste time. (CLOCK)

=> You are , so don’t waste time.

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between THREE and EIGHT words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.

Daniel didn’t get the job because he was considerably less experienced than Hannah. (DEAL)

=> Hannah got the job because she had Daniel.