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3. He said that he watered the plants every day. He _____ (water) them. If he _____ (have), they wouldn’t
have died.
4. No sooner the announcement ______ (make) than everyone started complaining.
5. They said they never ______ (make) to do anything they didn’t want to before.
6. We ______ (watch) the play for nearly thirty minutes when he came.
7. The pop star who ___ (take) part in over 25 films always avoids _____ (recognise) by _____ (wear) dark
glasses.
8. There’s no point ______ (try) to get Tim ______ (lend) you his car.
9. Not until John ______ (receive) the offer of promotion in writing he ______ (celebrate)
10. He ______ (have) trouble with the second-hand car since he bought it. He wishes he ______ (not / buy) it.
II. READING
Part 1: Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. For each question, circle letter
A, B, C or D next to the answer you choose. (10 points)
If you’re an environmentalist, plastic is a word you tend to say with a sneer or a snarl. It has become a
symbol of our wasteful, throw-way society. But there seems little (1)_____ it is here to stay, and the truth is, of
course, that plastic has brought enormous (2)_____ even environmental ones. It’s not really the plastics
themselves that are the environmental (3)_____ – it’s the way society choose to use and (4)_____ them.
Almost all the 50 or so different kinds of modern plastic are made from oil, gas or coal – non-renewable
natural (5)_____ We (6)_____ well over three million tones of the stuff in Britain each year and, sooner or
later, most of it is thrown away. A high (7)_____ of our annual consumption is in the (8)_____ of packaging,
and this (9)_____ about seven per cent by weight of our domestic (10)_____ Almost all of it could be recycled,
but very little of it is, though the plastic recycling (11)_____ is growing fast.
The plastics themselves are extremely energy-rich – they have a higher calorific (12)_____ than coal
and one (13)_____ of ‘recovery’ strongly (14)_____ by the plastic manufacturers is the (15)_____ of waste
plastic into a fuel.
1. A. evidence B. concern C. doubt D. likelihood
2. A. pleasures B. benefits C. savings D. profits
3. A. poison B. disaster C. disadvantage D. evil
4. A. dispose B. store C. endanger D. abuse
5. A. resources B. processes C. products D. fuels
6. A. remove B. import C. consign D. consume
7. A. portion B. amount C. proportion D. rate
8. A. way B. kind C form D. type
9. A. takes B. makes C. carries D. constitutes
10. A. refuse B. goods C. requirements D. rubble
11. A. manufacture B. plant C. factory D. industry
12. A. degree B. value C. demand D. effect
13. A. measure B. mechanism C. method D. medium
14. A. desired B. argued C. favored D. presented
15. A. conversion B. melting C. change D. replacement
Part 2: Read the following text and then fill in each gap with ONE suitable word. (10 points)
I was reading an article last week in (1)_____ the writer described (2) _____ her children has changed
as they (3)_____ up. When they were small she had to (4)_____ up with noisy games in the house, or join in
interminable games of football in the garden which (5)_____ her out. If the house went quiet, she wondered
what the monsters were getting up to, or what crisis she would have to (6)_____ with next. She dreaded the
fact that they might (7)_____ after her husband, who admitted having (8)_____ an uncontrollable child who
(9)_____ most of the time showing off to his friends by breaking things or getting into fights. What was worse
was that (10)_____ else thought he was a sweet child, and he got away with the most terrible things!
However, she had experienced an even greater shocked with her children. They had (11)_____ out of all their
naughty behavior, and (12)_____ up serious hobbies (13)_____ as chess and playing the piano. They never
did anything without (14)_____ it over first, and coming to a serious decision. She had to face up to the fact
that they made her feel rather childish as they got (15)____, and that in some ways she preferred them when
they were young and noisy.
Part 3: The paragraphs of the magazine article are in the wrong order. Number the paragraphs (A, B, C,
D, E) (5 points)
A. On the ghost of Chaffin’s second visit to his son, he told him that he would find a will in the overcoat
pocket. The coat was actually in the possession of the third brother.
B. In 1921, a certain James Chaffin died, leaving his entire fortune to his third son, Marshal, in a will
which had been written a full fifteen years earlier, in 1905, and signed in front of witnesses. His wife and two