22 Choose the correct item.

1 The audience were in ......... as they watched the

latest Aykebourne comedy.

A stitches C tears

B pleats D shreds

2 Don't mention work to Ray, as it's a sore ......... with

him at the moment.

A finger C place

B point D thumb

3 It's hard to get back into the ......... of things after a

long holiday.

A pace C swing

B way D rhythm

4 The trouble with socialising with colleagues is that they usually end up talking ......... .

A sense C back B shop D rot

5 Take your mobile phone with you just to be on the ......... side.

A sunny C straight B secure D safe

6 The opposition will be elected into government at the next election, without a ......... of a doubt.

A shadow C benefit B shade D hue

7 Noisy parties are really not my ......... .

A idea C scene

B liking D preference

23 Find the mistake and correct if.

0 I live in a house at a lake. beside/by/on

1 The church had been built in the 1 8th century. ......................

2 Except from John and Mary, nobody wants to go to the cinema. ......................

3 He wants to go home and he hasn't finished work yet. ......................

4 My neighbours make enough noise to rise the dead. ......................

5 Keeping a dog is fairly expensive, so I had rather keep a goldfish. ......................

6 The farmer's chickens have lain ten eggs today. ......................

7 Although he's been working in the bank for two years, he yet hasn't been promoted. ......................

8 The streets are flooded. It can't have been raining all night. ......................

9 Children under five mustn't pay to travel on public transport. ......................

10 A farmer who went missing yesterday while a blizzard has been found alive and well. ......................

11 I'm exhausted as I've had quite a long day at work. ......................

12 My feet are killing me! I need to lay down. ......................

13 Bob can't go to the cinema because he's still spent all his pocket money. ......................

14 It's only 9:30. He might have arrived already. ......................

15 This is a secret. You needn't tell anyone. ......................

16 Unemployment was the government's main concerning. ......................

WORD USAGE

24 Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the space in the same line.

MAKING AN ALTERNATIVE SCENE

CREATE FREE

AVAILABLE

EQUIP

APPLY

EXPERIMENT

ORDINARY

EXPENSE

CONSIDER

RUN ART

An underground film is a motion picture made and distributed outside the commercial film industry, usually as a(n) (0) creative expression of its maker. Underground films display greater (1) ................................... in form, technique, and content than films

directed toward a mass audience. The term came into common use in the 1950s, when the greater (2) ........................................ of good-quality 16-millimetre film stock and

(3) ........................ permitted an increasing number of non-professionals to engage in

cinema art. The term was also (4) ........................ to earlier films that were considered

too (5) .................................. for the general public. As opposed to a high-budget film

maker, the underground film maker (6) ...................... uses such production methods as

filming with a 16-millimetre or 8-millimetre camera, which are quite (7) ..................... .

The films vary (8) ............................... in length. Robert Breer's A Miracle (1954) is 14

seconds long while Andy Warhol's Empire (1964) lasts eight hours. During the 1920s, film making was stimulated by the Dadaist, Cubist, and Surrealist movements. Little of comparative interest was produced until the late 1950s, when a host of new cinema artists arose in the United States. Unlike their (9) ............................ , they were strongly

influenced by the techniques and personal expression of anti-commercial art films by directors such as Federico Fellini. Since the 1970s, underground film continues to be explored by film makers from the (10) .............................. world.

25 Collocate the expressions with words from the given list.

• bind • ponder • foresee • appreciate • assign

• shrivel • speculate • transmit • infer

0 infer a meaning from 5 ....................... sb to

sb's statement a task

1 ............................ 6 ....................... on a

on a problem matter

2 ............................ 7 ........................... in

the dangers the heat

3 .................... a book 8 ............................

4 ............................ a in value

radio message