influenced by _____ (7) and they have a desire to buy more luxurious celebrity
items. Street styles _____ (8) by the big fashion designers. In fact, not create
the fashion designers often use ideas from street fashions. But some
leaders of British fashion have enough ideas of _____ (9) own. One of them they
is Jean Muir, whose designs let her be one of the _____ (10) designers. good2. Read the text. Use the word given at the end of each line to form a word that fits the space in the same line.
I have only been once to an art _____ (1). In fact, the Tate in London exhibit
was my _____ (2) to modern art, but although the gallery was introduce
quite interesting, I found the pictures difficult to understand. The _____ (3) paint
in the exhibition were by famous _____ (4) from all over the world. Our art
guide told us about each painting, and I listened carefully to her _____ (5). explain
After she had given us а _____ (6) of а painting by Picasso, 1 asked her describe
what it all _____ (7). She said we should not look for meaning but for _____ (8), mean, please
as the most important thing was to enjoy the shapes and colours.
_____ (9), I found this advice а complete _____ (10). person, reveal3. Choose the most suitable word for each space. Whenever we read about the natural world nowadays, it is generally to be _____ (1) dire predictions about its imminent destruction. Some scientists go so _____ (2) as to assert that from now on, the world can no longer be called ‘natural’, insofar as future processes of weather, _____ (3), and all the interactions of plant and animal life will no longer carry on in their time-honoured way, unaffected by _____ (4). There will never be such а thing as ‘natural weather’ again, say such writers, only weather _____ (5) by global warming. It is hard to know whether to believe such _____ (6) of doom, possibly because what they are saying seems too terrible to be _____ (7). There are other equally influential scientists who argue that climate has changed many times over the _____ (8), and that what we are experiencing now may simply be part of an endless cycle of change, rather than а disaster on а global _____ (9). One cannot help wondering whether these attempts to wish the problem away _____ (10) underline the extent to which western industrialised countries are to blame for upsetting the world’s _____ (11). It is not our fault, they seem to be saying, because everything is all right, really! One certain _____ (12) which is chilling in its implications, is that there is no longer anywhere on the earth’s _____ (13), whether in the depths of the oceans or in the polar wastes, which is not _____ (14) by polluted air or _____ (15) with empty cans and bottles. Now we have to come to terms with understanding just what that means, and it is far from easy.
1. a) made b) given c) told d) granted
2. a) much b) often c) really d) far
3. a) change b) atmosphere c) climate d) even
4. a) beings b) man c) people d) humans
5. a) built b) manufactured с) affected d) organised
6. a) prophets b) champions c) warriors d) giants
7. a) stopped b) true c) guessed d) here
8. a) top b) again c) centuries d) world
9. a) sense b) form c) scale d) existence
10. a) simply b) to с) chat d) or
11. a) future b) ecology с) balance d) population
12. a) fact b) must с) fault d) and
13. a) planet b) atmosphere c) anywhere d) surface
14. a) full b) stained c) breathing d) only
15. a) even b) recycled c) littered d) bothered
Test 91. Read the text and put the words at the end of each line into the correct form.
Things That Go Bump In The Night
It was quite late on a Friday night. Bill and Lora were having supper in their
new house. Things still felt a bit strange so they _____ (1) much notice not take
when they heard someone _____ (2) about noisily in the move
house next door. From the windows they _____ (3) see figures in the can
front garden. Bill and Lora assumed that their neighbours _____ (4) have
some sort of party. ‘That’s all right,’ said Bill. ‘Our neighbours dislike big
_____ (5). I hope they _____ (6) us long.’ Not long after, party, not disturb
they heard the front door shut and the house went very quiet. Bill and Lora
went to bed and _____ (7) all about it. At breakfast early the next day, forget
they heard someone _____ (8) loudly. Their neighbours arrived back shout
home and discovered that some _____ (9) _____ (10) all their furniture thief, take
and valuables from the house.2. Read the text. Use the word given at the end of each line to form a word that fits the space in the same line.
The most _____ (1) pop group in history was the Beatles and the success
most _____ (2) bands of the 1960s and 1970s were male bands. The excite
Spice Girls were _____ (3) when they became _____ (4) in the usual, fame
1990s, but now female pop groups are not only common but quite interest
_____ (5) from а _____ (6) point of view as well. But what happens music
when а schoolgirl suddenly becomes very _____ (7) and well known? wealth
She leaves behind the _____ (8) life other girls lead, earns bore
а lot of money and buys x_____ (9) clothes. She gets _____ (10) to expense, expense
trendy parties. Will she forget all her old schoolfriends?3. Choose the most suitable word for each space. Have you ever thought about the future? One of the most amazing predictions I have heard _____ (1) the twenty-first century is that we will be living longer and longer. Scientists will have _____ (2) up with а cure for а lot of the most _____ (3) diseases that people die of at the moment. They say that _____ (4) the year 2050, the average person’s lifespan will have _____ (5) to one hundred years. They also _____ (6) that work will take _____ (7) less of our lives and we will have more _____ (8) time to spend. Robots, which will look more and more _____ (9) human beings, will have taken _____ (10) а lot of the boring everyday _____ (11) we do today. In the next five years, the Japanese will have _____ (12) а robot that understands human speech. This will _____ (13) about а big change in the way we live, and some people see robots as а _____ (14) to human freedom. They are afraid that we will not be _____ (15) to control them and that in the end, they will control us.
1. a) to b) about c) across d) up
2. a) turned b) made c) come d) found
3. a) common b) usual c) everyday d) known
4. a) until b) by c) up to d) on
5. a) gone b) come c) turned d) risen
6. a) predict b) tell c) wait d) advise
7. a) on b) over c) up d) away
8. a) break b) enjoy c) fun d) free
9. a) as b) like c) similar d) how
10. a) up b) off c) over d) in
11. a) jobs b) works c) employment d) occupations
12. a) discovered b) found c) done d) invented
13. a) bring b) turn c) take d) come
14. a) damage b) dream c) threat d) problem
15. a) reaching b) able c) manage d) succeed
Test 101. Read the text and put the words at the end of each line into the correct form.
The National Health Service in GB
The NHS (the national health service) in GB _____ (1) centrally and organize
medical insurance is compulsory. There _____ (2) a number be
of private medical insurance schemes in the country. The _____ (3) one big
is BUPA. These days such schemes _____ (4) increasingly popular become
as being more convenient. The modern _____ (5) of the NHS are difficulty
the same as those faced by equivalent systems in other countries. The need
number of old people _____ (6) medical care _____ (7) dramatically grow
since 1998. But the country spends _____ (8) money per person on health care little
than any other country in the western world. One possible reason for this is
the way that GPs _____ (9). The money which they get from the pay
government _____ (10) on the number of consultations they not depend
perform, it depends on the number of registered patients.2. Read the text. Use the word given at the end of each line to form a word that fits the space in the same line.
Primary schools in London are trying out an ambitious plan through which
young children get an _____ (1) to serious music. The idea comes introduce
from а group of famous (_____ 2) who are concerned about the music
_____ (3) of certain types of classical music. They see the plan as survive
one possible _____ (4) to the problem of declining audiences at classical solve
concerts. Their _____ (5) is that an interest in classical music should argue
be developed in early _____ (6). They reject the idea that children child
are _____ (7) in serious music or necessarily find it boring. The group interest
goes into а school and gives а live _____ (8) of а short classical perform
piece and then this is followed by an _____ (9) of how the instruments explain
work. These sessions have proved so _____ (10) that they have now success
become а regular feature in some schools.3. Choose the most suitable word for each space. When faced with some new and possibly bewildering technological change,
