English spelling

S pelling presents a major problem to many students – and, indeed, native speakers – of English. This is hardly (1) ___ when you consider just how illogical the English spelling (2) ___ is. The spelling of such basic words as right, through, once, and who seems to bear no (3) ___ to their pronunciation. And how can the words go, sew, and though all (4) ___ with each other?

There have been (5) ___ in the past to reform English spelling. The playwright George Bernard Shaw was an enthusiastic (6) ___ for a more phonetic approach. In a clever illustration of the (7) ___ of English spelling he suggested that the word fish be written by the letters ‘ghoti’: the gh from enough, the o from women, and the ti from nation. When he died in 1950 he (8) ___ a large part of his estate to (9) ___ the spelling reform.

So why do we (10) ___ in spelling words the way we do, despite the efforts of reformers like Shaw? One (11) ___ is that we are too (12) ___ with the words as they are currently spelled. It is (13) ___ that any change in the rules would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to (14) ___. Another is that there is such a variety of regional accents within the English speaking world that it would be (15) ___ to select just one as the standard model for spelling.

1	A amazing	B amusing	C surprising	D thrilling
2	A system	B procedure	C method	D schedule
3	A relativity	B interrelation	C correlation	D relation
4	A rhyme	B rhythm	C poem	D verse
5	A template	B tempest	C attempts	D temptation
6	A campaigner	B prospector	C pioneer	D candidate
7	A nonsense	B absurdity	C stupidity	D obscurity
8	A bequeathed	B inherited	C abandoned	D abolished
9	A remote	B promote	C motivate	D remove
10	A insist	B continue	C resist	D persist
11	A cause	B reason	C purpose	D reply
12	A accustomed	B used	C acquainted	D familiar
13	A certain	B certainly	C surely	D bound
14	A authorize	B enforce	C reinforce	D empower
15	A inadequate	B unequal	C unfair	D unjust

12. Образуйте соответствующее однокоренное слово.