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intermediate vocabulary Test 4

Few clues in Little Mermaid whodunit

Ex. 286. Complete the text using the words below.

Danish police have been left scratching their heads as they hunt for the vandals who decapitated the Little Mermaid.

Few clues have emerged about the second ____ in 35 years of the famous statue on Copenhagen’s , which has shocked the Danish ___

and worried tourism .

Frogmen scouring the ___ near the statue failed to find the Little Mermaid’s bronze ___ and two youths on roller skates seen near the ___ early on Tuesday morning have not responded to police ___

to help in the investigation.

“I am afraid that the latest ___ on the Little Mermaid can backfire on our____,” said Bernhard Joergensen, director of the Wonderful Copenhagen tourism .

“It is important for a tourist city to have a ____ like the Eiffel Tower in Paris and London’s Big Ben.”

Based on the ___ by Hans Christian Andersen about the Sea King’s daughter who must wait on her ____for 300 years before entering the ___ of humans and marrying her prince, the Little Mermaid attracts almost one million tourists a year.

The statue was found severed at the ___ by a saw or grinding machine after an anonymous call to a local television cameraman before____ on Tuesday.

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Police are working on a ___ that the beheading was the work of the same person who sawed off a 19th century galleon ___ at a naval base in Copenhagen just before Christmas.

The severed figurehead was found in the ladies’ toilets of a department store on Tuesday, giving rise to police ___ a mentally disturbed woman may be behind the two decapitations.

1.attack  2. beheading  3. dawn  4. fairytale  5. figurehead

6.harbor  7. head 8. landmark  9. neck  10. officials  11. organization  12. public 13. requests  14. rock 15. suspicions  16. symbol  17. theory  18. tourism 19. waterfront  20. world

intermediate vocabulary Test 5

Ex. 287. Complete the following text with the words below (use only half the words)

If the claims of the camera makers are to be believed, then every picture taken should be a winner. Automated film transport takes the film into the camera and then winds it on between frames; autoexposure ensures “living colours and a perfect balance of tones” no

___ what the lighting conditions; while autofocus means you will never have to look at a photograph ever again in your life. Strange, then, that so many people express ___ when they see their prints back from the processor.

The ___ for this is that good photography has little to do with the type of camera you use. It’s just as easy to take a bad picture with an excellent camera as it is to take a good picture with even the most basic ___ of equipment.

The tendency of many automated camera systems is to encourage users to confine their photography to the types of situation the automatics ___ with best. This often means centrally placed subjects the autofocus cannot confuse, with the sun positioned directly behind the photographer. ____, taking good photographs means ____ and then making the most of whatever it is your subject has to offer.

The first part of this magic formula means really looking at your subject before pressing the shutter. Look out, for example, for features to the side or in the ___ that would be better included or, just as important, excluded.

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____ whether your subject is looking directly into the sunlight and is squinting as a result. A slight change of camera position might be all that is needed to improve your composition or finding some shade might be the answer.

a) realising  b) dizzy  c) trouble  d) piece  e) background,

f)reason  g) argument  h) control  i) matter  j) however,

k)although  l) underground  m)part  n) recognising  o) check,

p)cope  q) solve  r) disappointment  s) fuzzy  t) disturbance

intermediate vocabulary Test 6

Ex. 288. Complete the following sentences with the words in the right column in the correct forms. You may have to use some words more than once.

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intermediate vocabulary Test 7

Ex. 289. Match the definitions with the words below. Write the letter of the correct word in the box in front of the definition.

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intermediate vocabulary Test 8

Ex. 290. Eponyms are words that came into the language from the name of a person or a place. Read the definitions below and match them to the eponyms on the right. Write the correct letters in the boxes.

Intermediate Test 9

Accuracy test

Ex. 291. Decide whether the following sentences are correct or incorrect grammatically.

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Intermediate Reading Test 10

Ex. 292. Read the text below and then choose the correct answer.

Three men chased a mugger into East Putney station, London, after he punched and kicked an elderly woman, but were turned back at the barrier because they had no tickets, it was stated at the Central Criminal Court yesterday.

They were refused use of a telephone to call the police, so they bought platform tickets, went into the station and caught the at-

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tacker, a youth of 17. One of the pursuers had to go outside to make a 999 call.

Mr. Justice Milford Stevenson said the incident deserved to be brought to the attention of the railway authorities. He sent the mugger to jail for five years.

Terry Tailor earlier had admitted assaulting Mrs. Margaret Percy, aged 67, with intent to rob her.

Upper-Intermediate test 1

Ex. 293. Read the text below and choose the best answer from the variants after the text to fill the gaps.

A Bad Day

Yesterday I had a really bad day. I (1) … at half past five, because I had to leave home early. I had to take my car to the garage to (2) … . I couldn’t (3) … the children to school, because she had already arranged to (4) … that morning before work. Having to (5) … that early (6) … , but as you can see, I couldn’t help it. Of course, they weren’t very happy, to say the least. Then, they (7) … them eggs for breakfast, which took quite long, because our cooker is not in perfect order. I should have (8) … long ago, but somehow I never had the time. My wife started complaining again when she saw me struggling with the cooker that I can never (9) … . It just (10) … , but it didn’t improve anything. Then I spilt some hot oil on my hand, which (11) … round the kitchen, cursing and banging on everything. We were running short of time and I had to (12) … their breakfast in a hurry. The weather forecast warned us that it would be cold so I (13) … two pullovers. Jenny couldn’t find her favourite blue pullover and it (14) … I (15) … the whole wardrobe upside down to find it, but of course it was no good. We were running twenty minutes behind schedule when we left the house. In the car, Tony asked me if I had (16) … . This might (17) … that I’m a careless father, but I hadn’t. I told him that I had (18) … to the watchmaker’s, but it wouldn’t be ready till Friday. Then Jenny tried to (19) … faster because she enjoys speed. We were late anyway, so I obliged. But only till the next corner, where I (20) … by a police car. They (21) … a breath test and fined me for speeding. When I arrived at the office, I found that my assistant hadn’t been able to (22) … my letters. That was the end. I decided I had had enough. I simply (23) … me a

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cup of coffee and told her to (24) … for that day. I sat down to my coffee and spent the rest of the morning reading the papers.

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Upper-Intermediate test 2

Ex. 294. Choose the best answer to fill the gaps.

8.If I hadn’t come along at that moment, Jim … the one arrested instead of the real thief.

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10. I could … much more for the painting if I’d sold it overseas.

A. have got B. get C. have D. has got

Upper-Intermediate vocabulary exercise 1

Ex. 295. Complete the following sentences with names of colours.

1. Our company has lost a lot of money recently and now we’re in the __. 2. My mother just loves gardening; she has __ fingers. 3. When we heard the news, it was completely out of the __. 4. Peter is so honest; he would never tell even a __ lie. 5. When Jane saw Mary’s new car, she was __ with envy. 6. Congratulations! You’ve passed all your exams with flying __! 7. The opposition brought up another __ herring during the debate yesterday. 8. The teacher gave the boy a __ look and went on. 9. When my son came after that fight with the other boys, he was __ and __ all over. 10. His extra-marital affairs have been discussed at length in the __ press. 11. You know, Fred has always been the __ sheep in the family. 12. We just can’t get ahead because of all this __ tape!

Upper-Intermediate vocabulary exercise 2

Ex. 296. The two halves of the following proverbs have got mixed up. Match the endings on the right to the beginnings on the left. Write the correct letters in the boxes.

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