PART 1

Recently average annual (1) _______ in England has increased by about 45%/ This is probably because of (2) _______ warming.

(4) _______ of London. The last time it flooded was in 1953 when 300 people drowned. After this terrible (5) _______, engineers began work on the (6) _______ of the Thames Barrier. It has already been raised 31 times since its (7) _______ in 982. It is made of huge walls which are the (8) _______

of a five-storey building. The walls stop (9)_______ amounts of water from flooding the city. Soon it may become (10) _______ to raise it up to 30 times every year!

1.RAINY

2.GLOBE

3.DANGER

4.POPULATED

5.TRAGIC

6.DEVELOPED

7.CREATIVE

8.HIGH

9.CONSIDERATION

10.NECESSITY

It is often said that people who do (1)_______ or unpleasant jobs should be paid more. However, it is (2) _______ to think about this question (3) _______. First of all, some people who do difficult or dangerous things for a living (4) _______ enjoy their work. In (5) _______, some of these jobs give the person a lot of freedom. Although there are (6) _______ for this kind of work, it is also (7) _______ that people who have

1.DANGER

2.IMPORTANCE

3.CARE

4.ACTUAL

5.ADD

6.COMPENSATE

7.TRUTH

When I was a (1) _______ I dreamt of becoming famous. The trouble was that I wasn’t very (2) _______ so I didn’t have much chance of becoming a pop star. I’m absolutely (3) _______ at most sports so it was obvious that I wasn’t going to have much

(4) _______ with that either. I used to be one of the (5) _______ in our college drama group. I don’t mind rehearsing but I get really

(6) _______ wherever I have to perform. Everyone says it’s really (7) _______ to watch me. I go all red in the face and I forgot my lines. It really is pretty (8) _______. I don’t think I’ve got much of a chance of becoming a (9) _______ actor either. I’ll just have to live with being completely (10) _______.

1.CHILDREN

2.MUSIC

3.USE

4.SUCCEED

5.ACT

6.NERVE

7.PAIN

8.HOPE

9.PROFESION

10.KNOW

any of the doors. But then Alice became (7)_______ of a tiny door about 35 cm high that she hadn’t seen before. She tried the key in the lock and to her delight, it fitted. Alice opened the door and looked through it. It led to the most (8) _______ garden she had ever seen but Alice was far too big to enter.

Alice was (9) _______ what to do next when she realized there was now a small bottle on the glass table with a label (10)_______ “Drink me!”

7.AWARENESS

8.BEAUTY

9.WONDERFUL

10.SAY

Climate changes in the world will destroy the polar bear’s (1) _______ habitat within next fifty years, according to a recent report. Although there are (2) _______ 22,000 polar bears (3) _______ in the wild, oil spills, overhunting and noise pollution are (4)_______ the survival of these beautiful creatures.

(5) _______ warming is causing more and more extreme weather conditions. Almost every day we read reports of (6)_______

destruction as a result of hurricanes, flooding or drought.

Nevertheless, most of us will not change the way we (7) _______. We drive our cars to work, (8) _______ enormous amounts of electricity and even wear clothes (9)_______

of fur.

The (10) _______ of our planet is your problem. What are you going to do about it?

1.NATURE

2.CURRENT

3.LIFE

4.THREAT

5.GLOBE

6.TERIFY

7.BEHAVIOUR

8.USAGE

9.MAKE

10.DESTRUCT

Turning on a tap and getting water that is both safe to drink and wash in is something many people (1) _______ even think about, but it took scientists and (2) _______

thousands of years to work out how to give us clean, (3) _______-tasting water. All kinds of methods were used in the past with varying degrees of (4) _______, but until a French (5)_______ called La Hire designed a method of filtering rainwater through sand in 1703, there was no (6) _______ way of producing large quantities of clean water. Another century went by before the first filtered water was (7) _______ to people in Glasgow, Scotland and by 1829 the system that is the (8) ________ for the rest of the world was being used in London. The invention of sand filters and a public water (9) _______ meant that deaths from killer diseases such as cholera decreased (10) _______.

1.HARD

2.INVENT

3.PLEASED

4.SUCCEED

5.SCIENCE

6.RELIABILITY

7.AVAIL

8.MODELLER

9.SUPPLIER

10.DRAMATICS

It is important to make a good (1)_______when going for a job interview. Interviewers usually ask a (2) _______ of questions, many of which concern (3)_______. However they also like to ask questions about previous (4) _______ as well as (5) _______ not connected to the work place. Often, the successful candidate is not the one with the most impressive (6) _______

but the one who shows that he or she has made the most (7) _______ use of their time. Few employers want employees who are (8)_______ to think for themselves.

The (9) _______ of advancement in any job very rarely depends on the (10) _______

of work but more on the enthusiasm and dedication of the employee.

1.IMPRESS

2.VARIOUS

3.QUALITY

4.OCCUPY

5.ACHIEVE

6.EDUCATE

7.EFFECT

8.ABLE

9.POSSIBLE

10.ACCURATE

I have always been very (1) _______ in (2) _______ cultures and at the end of last year one of my dreams came true. I received an (3) _______ to a friend’s wedding in

Singapore! I was so excited because I had always wanted to go there. As you probably know, Singapore is (4) _______ for being (5) _______ clean. It’s one of the only parts of

1.INTEREST

2.ASIA

3.INVITE

4.FAME

5.CREDIBLE

the world where you can be fined for dropping chewing gum in the street. Some people complain about this but I think it’s a really good policy. Singapore is also a very (6)_______ place. You can walk around at night on your (7) _______ without being worried about getting mugged or anything like that.

Along Orchard Road there are big department stores, (8) _______ centres and arcades. It is very easy to spend thousands of Singapore dollars on clothes, books, CDs and pretty much anything you care to imagine. Lots of (9) _______ taxi drivers have small statues of the goddess Guanyin on the dashboards of their cars. People who believe in her say that she brings them good (10) _______ and protects them from losing money. Perhaps she does, but she didn’t stop me spending more than I could afford!

6.SAFELY

7.OWNER

8.SHOP

9.SINGAPORE

10.FORTUNATE

He got his first job in 1988, when he was seventeen. It was only part-time so he didn’t earn very much money. Nevertheless, he was able to save up (1) _______ enough to go abroad and his mother (2) _______ him the rest. Since he plan to visit (3) _______, Italy and (4) _______ he needed to pay for things in three (5) _______ currencies. His mother (6) _______ him to get travellers’ cheques but he didn’t have time to order them and so he ended going to a cash point in the airport and (7) _______ most of his money out of his bank account. That meant he had to carry a lot of money in cash. He could only afford to stay in very cheap (8) _______ and had to sleep with all his money in his pyjamas. He spent as little as (9) _______ but he ran out of money

1.NEAR

2.LENDER

3.FRENCH GREEK

5.DIFFER

6.ADVICE

7.TAKE

8.HOST

9.POSSIBLY

(1) _______ actor Nicole Kidman does not believe that female Hollywood actors are now doing better than (2) _______. Even though they are getting good major roles more (3) _______, she still feels they are often treated worse than male (4) _______. The

1.AUSTRALIA

2.MAN

3.FREQUENT

4.ACT