Exercise 8.
1. FAIL It was a complete.......................................due to poor planning
2. FRIEND Their ...................................has lasted a life time
3. QUALIFY He was turned down for the job because he wasn't ...............................................
4. EMPLOY In the parts of the country the ..................................situation is terrible. As many as 20%
of the working population is without a job
5. COMPLETE The word of computers is extremely ..................................
6. EMPLOY In many countries the .................................get the dole.
7. QUALIFY She left school with good ......................................................
8. COMPLETE The factory was ...................................so the management tried to cut costs by making
some workers redundant
9. EMLPOY He is complete ..........................! Not only is he lazy but he is dishonest too
10. COMPLETE Their best designer went to work for a .................................................................
Exercise 9.
1. EMPLOY More than a thousand workers are .........................here
2. COMPLETE Three firms are in .......................................for the same contract
3. RELY My car isn't very ...............................It's always letting me down
4. END I wrote .........................letters of application, but got no reply
5. UNDERSTAND I applologise for the mistake made by my office. There appears to have been a slight... .........
6. ECONOMY Burning coal is an ......................way of heating a house. Gas is much cheaper
7. ASTONISH I've just been told some ........................news
8. COMPARE In .................................with most other countries, Britain has a very high rate of heart attacks
9. COMPLETE We have to keep our costs as small as possible. We have so many .....................trying to
take our customers away
10. EXPLORE There are very few ...................................places left on earth. Man has been nearly everywhere
Exercise 10
1. HISTORY It is usually forbidden to destroy ..........................................buildings
2. RETIRE The old couple have saved a lot of money for their .....................................................
3. PICTURE The old fishing village is very.................................................................
4. EMPLOY ..................................is a very serious problem in many countries
5. INDUSTRY The ................................area of the city is not very attractive
6. LAND The alpine ..........................is very dramatic
7. HOME Many ..............................families have to live
8. SUGGEST Have you got any .................................................?
9. ADD I had to check the wages in ......................to my normal work
10. CHILD During his .....................................the family lived in Cornwall
Exercise 11.
1. CONFIDENCE This matter is very ................................Don't discuss it outside the office
2. POISON Those berries are ......................................Don't eat them!
3. PRIDE He was very ..........................of the work he had done
4. POPULAR Recently health foods have increased in................................................
5. SAVE The old lady hid all her ....................................under the floor
6. HARM The gas from the chemical factory was extremely...................................................
7. MANAGE The restaurant is now under new.....................................................................
8. SASTISFY Your money will be refunded if the goods are not to your complete..................................
9. INDUSRTRY Ants and bees are described as ...........................insects
10. EMPLOY The government has promised to deal with the problems of ...........................among young people
C1 :
1. Lomonosov was not ... a great scientist but also a very talented poet.
A. fairly B. merely C. hardly D. Scarcely
c2:
1, It was a complete failure due to poor planning ( fail)
2. We must learn about keeping the environment unpolluted ( pollute)
3. They're experts in technology. We call them technicians ( technique)
4. He examined the parcel suspiciously, as he had no idea what it could be. ( suspect)
5. The homemade ice- cream hardened after it had been in the freezer for an hour ( hard)
1. Lomonosov was not ... a great scientist but also a very talented poet.
A. fairly B. merely C. hardly D. Scarcely
c2:
1, It was a complete failure due to poor planning ( fail)
2. We must learn about keeping the environment unpolluted ( pollute)
3. They're experts in technology. We call them technologist ( technique)
4. He examined the parcel suspicious, as he had no idea what it could be. ( suspect)
5. The homemade ice- cream hardened after it had been in the freezer for an hour ( hard)