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I. LEXICO – GRAMMAR (6.0 POINTS)
Part 1: For questions 1-12, choose the best answers (A, B, C, D) to each of the following
questions and write your answer (A, B, C, D) in the corresponding numbered boxes.
1. Steven is always _________ about showing u p f or w ork because h e f eels that t ardiness i s a sign of irresponsibility. A. tolerable B. punctual C. literal D. belligerent
2. Being able to afford this luxury car will _________ getting a better- paying job. A. recombinant B. reiterate C. necessitate D. reciprocate
3. If you will not do your work of your own _________ , I h ave n o c hoice but t o p enalize y ou i f i t is not done on time. A. coercion B. willingness C. volition D. infusion
4. To find out what h er h usband b ought f or h er b irthday, S usan a
ttempted t o _________ his family
members about his recent shopping excursions. A. prescribe B. probe C. alienate D. converge
5. Continuing strikes are beginning to _________ havoc on the economy. A. wreak B. warrant C. ensue D. endow
6. Searching frantically to find hidden jewels, the thieves _________ the entire house. A. justified B. darkened C. amplified D. ransacked
7. The locals are locked in a bitter _________ with the government over the ownership of the land. A. feud B. warfare C. battle D. fight
8. The Labour Party is divided into t wo b road _ ________ o n t he i ssue o f t he euro: t hose w ho w ant
to enter the monetary union and those who do not. A. barracks B. camps C. teams D. regiments
9. I'll _________ admit that the company isn't doing well, but I don't think there's any need to panic. A. readily B. overtly C. bluntly D. explicitly
10. It's all very _________ to put more money into research and development, but where's the money going to come from? A. right B. correct C. good D. well
11. The organizers expressed their _________ at the poor attendance figures. A. dissention B. disturbance C. discourse D. dismay
12. The government have _________ the agreement to subsidize organic farmers. A. skipped B. scrapped C. scrounged D. scarred 1.B 2.C 3.C 4.B 5.A 6.D 7.A 8.A 9.B 10.C 11.A 12.B
Part 2: For questions 13 - 20, write the correct form of each bracketed word in the corresponding numbered boxes.
13. The investor can (MATERIAL) _________ only those certificates that are already registered in his name.
14. Having an accident without insurance can be (RUIN) _________ expensive. Page 1/14
15. Headmasters are in a unique position of power to mold the minds of (IMPRESS) _________ young students.
16. Hundreds of companies across the country have now gone into (RECEIVE) _________ with debts of several million.
17. With a (CONVERT) _________ currency, a rudimentary banking system and no stock
market, the country was struggling.
18. Many economists say any (PUNISH) _________ measures against foreign companies would hurt U.S. interests.
19. Ibrahim vaulted to the forefront of a movement generated in l arge p art by social m edia, w hich
thrives on emotion and (SPONTANEOUS) _________.
20. Before printing processes developed, books took an incredibly long time to make as they had
to be (PAIN) _________ written by hand. 13.MATERIALISE 14.RUINOUSLY
15.IMPRESSIONABL 16.UNRECEIVED E
17.UNCONVERTIBLE 18.PUNISHABLE 19.SPONTANEITY 20.PAINFUL
Part 3: For questions 21 – 30, fill in the gaps in the following sentences with suitable
particles. Write your answer in the corresponding numbered boxes.
21. Japan continues to forge _________ in the manufacture of new electronic equipment.
22. The explosion had smashed _________ all the ground-floor windows.
23. It took Sarah some years to work _________ a market for her products
24. When David goes on one of his European trips, he lashed _________ $ 2,000 on presents for the whole family.
25. You can see from here how the river bank is slowly being eaten _________.
26. The company plans to roll _________ the scheme across Europe in the coming months.
27. Ned, the General Editor, led _________ with a general survey of the objectives to be aimed at.
28. Is there an easy way to stop him droning _________ about the internal combustion engine?
29. Scheme after scheme, absolutely foolproof, has been spoilt from the beginning by my never
having enough capital to carry it _________.
30. The tension between the two countries has eased _________. 21.AHEAD 22.UP 23.IN 24.OUT 25.AWAY 26.IN 27.ON 28.AWAY 29.ON 30.OFF
Part 4: For questions 36-40, choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that i s
CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions. Write your
answer in the corresponding numbered boxes.
36. On 20th July, the town council was convened to hear an emergency report on its finances. A. summoned B. dispersed C. adjourned D. accumulated
37. They consider themselves to be benevolent employers, providing sick pay and pensions for all their workers. A. benign B. spiteful C. affable D. indolent
38. These deluxe hotels in Thailand are unsurpassed in style and comfort by the majority of t heir
counterparts elsewhere in the world. A. commodious B. opulent C. destitute D. inferior
39. The tour operator will arrange transport and plan your itinerary. Page 2/14 A. circuit B. contrivance C. disposition D. inferior
40. He was ostracized by his colleagues for refusing to support the strike. A. coveted B. shunned C. relish D. thwart 36.A 37.A 38.B 39.A 40.B
Part 5: The following passage contains 10 mistakes. For questions 41 - 50, find and correct
them. Write your answer in the corresponding numbered boxes. Line 1
After my internship finished, I wasn't offered a permanent position as I hoped I
would be. My line manager said that this was not a reflection of the way I had
performed but rather of the economic reality of life in post- recession Britain.
Perhaps, truth said, it was no harm that I was let go. I must say I never found her Line 5
brand of l eadership particularly inspired a t a ny r ate. S he w as a n a utocrat a nd r uled by
an iron fist. There was a clear hierarchy that had to be respected.
Well, with little money and that I had of it fast disappearing, I was fairly desperate
and necessity forced my hand so I gave the first job that c ame along - q uite literally,
and, before I had quite let it sink in, I was enrolled i n a paid a pprenticeship program
Line 10 at Lawry and Sons - not one in the traditional sense as it applies to the trades mind,
but rather a program sponsored by the Law Society as an alternative route of entry
into the profession by way of gaining p
ractical, paid experience in a l aw f irm w ithout also studying part-time.
While outwardly, I would from now on be considered a white-collar worker: a
Line 15 professional in a respected field, in reality, the remuneration package was pretty
modest and I barely kept myself above the dreaded poverty threshold for the first
year or two, such was the financial strain of having t o cover rent a nd u tilities a s w ell
as the bare necessities of day-to-day living in the city with the highest cost o f living
Line 20 in Europe. However, as my studies progressed, I do a steady progression u p t hrough the ranks of the firm.
Indeed, it wasn't long after I became fully qualified that I made partner. And I
enjoyed my work as much as a person can ‘enjoy’ working. There was good
camaraderie in the team, and the fringe benefits were considerable; l h ad a c ompany
Line 25 car and a generous pension, to that only my employer was expected t o contribute, as
well as access to the company gym twenty-four, seven. Life was good. Line Mistake Correction Line Mistake Correction 41. 1 HOPED HAD 46. 8 GAVE TOOK HOPED 42. 2 OF ON 47. 12 WITHOUT WHILE 43. 3 SAID TOLD 48. 14 NOW THEN 44. 5 BY WITH 49. 5 INSPIRED INSPIRING 45. 7 THAT WHAT 50. 19 DO MADE
III. READING (6.0 POINTS) Page 3/14
Part 1: For questions 1 – 10, fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable
word and write your answers in the corresponding boxes provided below the passage.
Uber Booted Out of London Over ‘Safety and Security’
Mayor of London says the ride-hailing service gave the city no choice but to order it to cease operations.
It’s almost (1) __________ to make Londoners panic but there were gasps of distress across the
capital Friday when the mayor announced that Uber was to be banned from the city.
Since its (2) __________ in 2012, Uber has completely transformed London’s transport system.
Unlike major cities from New York to Mumbai, there has never been an affordable citywide
network of private-hire vehicles to (3) __________ the train and bus systems. Black cabs were
largely the (4) __________ of city workers and tourists, being too expensive for weekly or even
monthly use for most Londoners. T he explosion of Uber, w hich h as 3
.5 million (5) __________ in
London, has fundamentally changed the way people navigate the city. Sadiq Khan, the mayor of L ondon, said h e a ccepted t hat m illions o f L ondoners h ad b enefited f rom
Uber, but claimed that the company’s refusal to “play by t he rules” m eant there w as no option b ut
to (6) __________ Uber’s license.
Transport officials ruled that the ride-sharing service (7) __________ the s afety a nd s ecurity of its
passengers at risk and should be halted by the end of the month.
“Providing an innovative service must not be at the (8) __________ of customer safety and
security,” he said. “It would be wrong if [ Transport for L
ondon] continued t o l icense Uber if t here
is any way that this could pose a threat to Londoners' safety and security.”
Uber’s current license will (9) __________ Sept. 30, although it will be allowed to carry on
operating during an appeal so it is unlikely that Ubers will disappear from London’s congested
roads before mid-October at the earliest. There i s n o d oubt that U ber w ill a
ppeal against t his shock ruling. “ If t his decision s tands, it w ill p ut
more than 40,000 licensed drivers out of work and (10) __________ Londoners of a convenient
and affordable form of transport,” said Tom Elvidge, Uber’s general manager. “This ban would
show the world that, far from being open, London is closed to innovative companies who bring choice to consumers.” 1.IMPOSSIBLE 2.ARRIVAL 3.COMPLEME 4.PRESERVE 5.USERS NT 6.REVOKE 7.PUTS 8.EXPENSE 9.EXPIRE 10.DEPRIVE
Part 2: Read the following passage and answer questions 11 – 17.
Several paragraphs have been removed from t he p assage. Choose f rom p aragraph A – H t he
one which fits each gap. There is ONE extra paragraph which you d o n ot n eed t o u se. W rite
your answers in the corresponding boxes provided below the passage.
Nineteenth century life in English cities
One of the greatest problems created by the rise of great cities i n Britain i n t he nineteenth century was: where should the p opulation b e h oused? T he early V ictorians s
pent little on housing and their
children died young; later Victorians spent more and experienced longer life. This was not a
triumph of medical cures, but of political action and public investment in engineering and preventive medicine. 11. ______ Page 4/14
The borough engineer painted a lurid picture of the conditions residents endured, explaining how
courts had no through ventilation, and normally contained 'the privy or ashpit common to all the
wretched dwellings, with its liquid filth oozing through their walls, and its pestiferous gases flowing into the windows'. 12. ______
These conditions caused considerable alarm to the more affluent members of society - and not
simply from a charitable concern for the social conditions o f t he poor. T he w arren o f s treets posed
a threat to public order, allowing criminals to escape observation in the 'rookeries' described by
Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist. 13. ______
Until the general acceptance of the germ theory of disease in the later nineteenth century, fevers
and epidemics were explained by 'miasmas', exhalations from decaying m atter w hich p oisoned t he air. 14. ______
The need for observation and ventilation meant opening up the city and improving the process of
circulation, much as an individual's health depended on the circulation of blood and oxygen. One
answer was to demolish slums by driving railways to new stations or building new r oads to a llow the passage of traffic. 15. ______
Some charities most famously the Peabody Trust in London built new model housing on the
cleared land, but to little avail. The new housing was often grim, forbidding barrack blocks, and
rents were too high for many of the people who were displaced from the slums. 16. ______
This change in the design of housing complemented the public investment in sewers and water
supply. At the same time/ the income of most working class people started to rise at an
unprecedented rate. The price of food started to drop with the ready availability of cheap imports
from across the Atlantic - and the drop in the cost of feeding a family resulted in h igher s pending on housing. 17. ______ The result was a great i mprovement in u rban h ealth. T hese houses w ere themselves a ttacked b y t he
end of the century for their monotony, and reformers argued for a more imaginative form of
'garden suburb' architectural style which c
ame to dominate the new suburban council h ouses o f t he 1920s and 1930s.
A. But was there any reason for optimism? The towns offered a better chance of w ork a nd h igher
wages than the countryside, where many families were trapped in dire poverty and seasonal
employment. On the other hand, the countryside was healthier. Life expectancy in a desperately
unhealthy large town was considerably lower than in a small market town. B. D espite these c ontinuing problems o f p oor h ousing, c onditions d id i mprove from the 1 870s with
the construction of new, healthier housing. The Public Health Act required local authorities to
implement building regulations or bye-laws, which dictated that each house should be
self-contained with its own sanitation and water.
C. Initially, the question was dealt with by subdividing existing property and cramming more
accommodation into backyards. Cities became more densely packed, creating dead-ends and foul Page 5/14
alleys. In Liverpool, about a quarter of the population lived in courts in the early 1840s, and
perhaps ten per cent lived in cellars.
D. Soon, huge numbers of new bye-law h ouses w ere b eing c onstructed i n E nglish c ities: l ong r ows
of terraced housing, in grids of s treets, e asily cleaned a
nd i nspected. In Scotland, most residents o f
the great cities lived in high-rise tenements, but even so the amenities improved and the level of over- crowding fell.
E. Conditions within the houses were no better. Commissioners appointed to enquire into the
cholera outbreak in Newcastle-upon-Tyne found that about 50 per cent of families had only a
single room. Most houses did not h ave a n i ndependent w ater s upply o r p rivy, a nd w hat w as s hared
was often the responsibility of n o o ne. The l ow l ife e xpectancy o f b
abies born into such conditions is easily understood. F. Hence the d ecision to build S haftesbury A
venue i n London's West End, cutting t hrough s ome of the worse s lums o f S oho. L ittle w as d one f or t he wretchedly p oor p eople who l ost their h ousing, so
they simply huddled together in the next block.
G. Hence the alarm of the crisis aptly known as the 'Great Stink of London,' when, due to the
amount of raw sewage flowing into the Thames from sewers, the smell became overpowering.
What was required was through ventilation, the provision of parks to act as 'lungs' for the cities,
and a general process of cleansing.
H. The streets should be opened up to observation by the police and sanitary inspectors. The lack
of through ventilation, the putrefaction and stench described in Liverpool, was also a threat to
public health - of the rich as well as the poor. 11.C 12.E 13.H 14.G 15.F 16.B 17.D
Part 3: Read the following passage and answer questions 18 – 30.
Saving the British Bitterns
A. Breeding bitterns became extinct in the UK by 1886 but, following re-colonisation early last century, numbers rose t o a p eak of about 70 booming ( singing) m ales in t he 1 950s, falling t o f ewer
than 20 by the 1990s. In the late 1980s it was clear that the bittern was in trouble, but there was
little information on which to base recovery actions.
B. Bitterns have cryptic plumage and a shy nature, usually remaining hidden within the cover of
reedbed vegetation. Our first challenge was t o develop s tandard m
ethods to monitor t heir numbers.
The boom of the male bittern is its most distinctive feature during the breeding season, and we
developed a method to count them using the sound patterns unique to each individual. This not
only allows us to be much more certain of the number of booming males in the UK, but also
enables us to estimate local survival of males from one year to the next..
C. Our first direct understanding of the habitat needs of breeding b itterns c ame f rom c omparisons
of reedbedsites that had lost their booming birds with those that retained them. This research
showed that bitterns had been retained in reedbeds where the natural process of succession, or drying out, had been s lowed t hrough m anagement. Based o n t his w
ork, broad recommendations on
how to manage and rehabilitate reedbeds for bitterns were made, and funding was provided Page 6/14 through the EU L IFE Fund t o manage 1 3 s ites w ithin the c ore b reeding range. T his project, though
led by the RSPB, involved many other organizations.
D. To refine these recommendations and provide fine-scale, quantitative habitat prescriptions on
the bitterns preferred feeding habitat, we radio-tracked male b itterns on the R SPB’s Minsmere a nd
Leighton Moss reserves. This showed clear preferences for feeding i n t he wetter r eedbed margins,
particularly within the reedbed next to larger open pools. The average home range sizes of the
male bitterns we followed (about 20 hectares) provided a good indication of the area of reedbed
needed when managing or creating habitat for this species. Female bitterns undertake all the
incubation and care of the young, so it was important to understand their needs as well. Over the
course of our research, we located 87 bittern nests and found t hat female bitterns p referred t o nest
in areas of continuous vegetation, well into the reedbed, but where water was still present during
the driest part of the breeding season.
E. The success of the habitat prescriptions developed from this research has been spectacular. F or
instance, at Minsmere, booming bittern numbers gradually increased from one to 10 following
reedbed lowering, a management technique designed to halt the drying out process. After a low
point of 11 booming males in 1997, bittern numbers in Britain responded to all the habitat
management work and started to increase for the first time since the 1950s.
F. The final phase of research involved understanding the diet, survival and dispersal of bittern
chicks. To do this we fitted small radio tags to young bittern chicks in the n est, to d etermine t heir
fate through to fledging and beyond. Many chicks did not survive to fledging and starvation was
found to be the most likely reason for their demise. The fish prey fed t o chicks was dominated by
those species penetrating into the reed edge. So, an important element o f r ecent studies ( including
a PhD with the University of Hull) has been the development of recommendations on habitat a nd
water conditions to promote healthy native fish populations.
G. Once independent, radio-tagged young bitterns were found to seek out new sites during their
first winter; a proportion of these would remain on new sites to breed if the conditions were
suitable. A second EU LIFE funded project aims to provide these suitable sites in new areas. A
network of 19 sites developed through this partnership project will secure a more sustainable UK
bittern population with successful breeding outside of the core area, less vulnerable to chance events and sea level rise.
H. By 2004, the number of booming male bitterns in the UK had increased to 55, with almost a ll
of the increase being on those sites undertaking management based on advice derived from our research. Although s cience has been at t he c ore of the b ittern story, s uccess h as o nly b een achieved
through the trust, hard work and dedication of all the managers, owners and wardens of sites that
have implemented, in some cases very drastic, management to secure the future of this wetland
species in the UK. The constructed bunds and five major sluices now control the w ater level o ver
82 ha, with a further 50 ha coming under control i n the winter o f 2 005/06. Reed e stablishment h as
principally used natural regeneration or planted seedlings to provide small core areas that will in
time expand to create a bigger reed area. To date nearly 275,000 seedlings have been planted a nd reed cover is e
xtensive. Over 3 km of new ditches h ave b een formed, 3.7 k m o f e xisting ditch h ave
been re-profiled and 2.2 km of old meander (former estuarine features) has been cleaned out.
I. Bitterns now regularly winter on the site some indication that they are staying longer into the
spring. No breeding has yet occurred but a booming male was present in the spring of 2004. A
range of wildfowl breed, as well as a good number of reedbed passerines including reed bunting,
reed, sedge and grasshopper warblers. Numbers of wintering shoveler have increased so that the site now h olds a U K important wintering p opulation. M alltraeth R eserve now f orms p art of the U K
network of key sites for water vole (a UK priority species) and 12 monitoring transects has been
established. Otter and brown-hare occur on the site as does the rare plant. Page 7/14
For questions 18 – 24, choose the correct heading for paragraphs A-H from the list below.
There is TWO extra headings that you do not need to use. Write your answers in the corresponding space provided. List of Headings
i. research findings into habitats and decisions made
ii. fluctuation in bittern number
iii. protect the young bittern
iv. international cooperation works
v. began in calculation of the number vi. importance of food
vii. research has been successful.
viii. research into the reedbed
ix. reserve established holding bittern in winter 18. Paragraph A ____ii___ 19. Paragraph B ____v___ 20. Paragraph C ____i____ 21. Paragraph D ____viii____ 22. Paragraph E ____vii__ Paragraph F _____vi 23. Paragraph G ____iii____ 24. Paragraph H _____iv___
For questions 25 – 30, choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER
from the passage for each answer. Write your answers in the corresponding space provided.
25. When did the bird of bittern reach its peak of number?
___1950s________________________________
26. What does the author describe the bittern’s character?
___Being shy________________________________
27. What is the main cause for the chick bittern’s death?
___Starvation_______________________________
28. What is the main food for chick bittern?
___Native fish________________________________
29. What system does it secure the stability for bittern’s population?
___Partnership project network________________________________
30. Besides bittern and rare vegetation, what mammal does the plan benefit?
___Otter and brown________________________________
Part 4: Read an article about the a ttraction of buying a nd r enovating o ld h ouses and answer questions 31 – 40.
A. Years ago, glancing through the p roperty p ages o
f t he newspaper one evening, I stumbled u pon
a tiny photograph of a small ivy-clad stone house with a triangle of blue sea in the background.
‘For sale by auction’ it said, ‘guide price: £80,000.’ Even if I’d been looking for a country h ouse,
and I wasn’t, I’d hardly have opted for one in such a remote area, yet somehow that little image
became lodged in my mind. Next day, on a whim, I rang the selling agent. The house, I gleaned, gloried in the name D esolate, w
as t ruly i n the middle of nowhere and hadn’t b een t ouched in h alf a
century. Intrigued, I immediately felt an urge to go and see it for myself. So, it was that the Page 8/14
following weekend, after an inordinately long drive down from London with the whole family in
tow, I found myself edging up the seemingly interminable farm track t hat l ed up to Desolate f rom
the main road. It turned out to be two little houses joined by a stone archway. On one side was a
clapped out electricity generator; on the other, a couple of dingy rooms downstairs and a couple
more upstairs, all with rotten windows and peeling, brown wallpaper. But from the sitting-room
window was a view of a garden gate opening onto a field with the sea cliffs beyond. On seeing that, I was smitten.
B. For more than 50 years, or so the story went, it had been h ome t o a woman aviator c alled M iss
Darker whose wartime exploits had allegedly inspired Michael Ondaatje's novel, The English
Patient. In the film, she’s played by Kristin Scott Thomas and meets a nasty end in the North African d esert. T he r eal-life M iss Darker r eturned h ome and spent t he r est o f h er life a s a r ecluse at Desolate. All of t his j ust a dded to my c onviction: I j ust h ad t o h ave her house. I d idn’t care t hat my
children thought it t he grottiest t hing ever, p ointing out t hat d espite the v iew t here was no access to the sea, and it w as m iles to the n earest shop. My ears were c losed t o s uch d etails. I was i n love and would elope if need be. I s pent the next t wo w eeks g azing rapt a t t he photos I’d taken a nd c ounting money.
C. On the day of the auction, I drove down with an old friend. I took her to see Desolate first,
showing it to her with anxious pride a s I w ould s how her a m an I w as m arrying. Y es, s he s aid. S he
understood. The sale was being held in a quiet local t own, but as we arrived I s ensed m y p lan was
going awry. The car park was jammed with large 4x4s and the room itself was full of braying
Londoners: mostly women with expensively abundant h air, all l ooking strained a nd e xcited. I t ook my place in the front row s o I w ouldn’t h ave t o see the o thers c rammed in b ehind m e. T he bidding
started at £50,000 and went up slowly. When it paused at £ 120,000, I w as about t o r aise a shaking
hand, but it raced on up, far out of reach until Desolate eventually sold for the best part of half a million. I c
ouldn’t look at t he man who’d bought it. I got into t he c ar and wept. It was s hameful f or
an unsentimental, middle-aged woman to be brought so low by a heap of stone and a view. But I was desolate over Desolate.
D. The memory of that thwarted love affair came back to me recently when a friend called to t ell
me about a house she’d seen that was far too expensive for her and suited her in no way. I could
hear in her voice that it was pointless trying to talk sense into her. I started to wonder what it is
about these houses that can hold such allure for people that they sell for many times their value.
Internet message boards are testimony to the fact that it’s by no means an uncommon scenario.
Perhaps the real reason has little to do with bricks or mortar. You look at a view and you think:
‘This will make my life different.’ And of course, the houses we fall for most are those that need
us most – those where we can most easily make our mark and become part of their h istory. I n t he
end, we did buy a house; an ugly, cheap and practical one. But the sea is easily reached and
through repeated use I've grown fond of it. Yet in writing this article I’ve looked again at the
photographs took of Desolate all those years ago and my heart still aches, just a bit.
In which section does the writer
31. accept that the location of the house called Desolate left a lot to be desired?
32. admit to harboring some regrets about a missed opportunity?
33. attempt to rationalize her feelings about the house she wanted to buy?
34. draw an analogy to underline how seriously she took an idea?
35. pinpoint the moment when she decided to go for something?
36. mention feelings of curiosity arising out of a conversation?
37. recount the story of another person who experienced similar feelings to her own?
38. recall getting the first inkling that a dream wouldn’t be realized?
39. remember ignoring sensible misgivings about a plan?
40. suggest that her behavior on one occasion was out of character? Page 9/14 31.A 32.D 33.D 34.B 35.A 36.D 37.B 38.C 39.B 40.A IV. WRITING (5.0 POINTS)
Part 1: Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence,
using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between three and ten
words, including the word given.
1. Her promotion to Sales Manager made her parents extremely happy. (CLOUD)
Her parents wouldn’t _HAVE BEEN ON CLOUD NINE WITHOUT HER PROMOTION_to Sales Manager.
2. I finally managed to persuade Simon to tell me his big secret — he's getting married! (BEANS)
I finally got Simon to _SPILL THE BEANS ABOUT_his wedding.
3. That the prices of almost goods are increased forced people to spend less money. (BELT)
People had to _TIGHTEN THEIR BELT BECAUSE OF_the increase in the price of almost goods.
4. The marketing manager suggested not appointing any new staff. (FREEZE)
The marketing manager _SUGGESTED A FREEZE ON THE APPOINTMENT OF_of new staff.
5. Both parties prepared themselves to face a long legal battle. (BRACED)
Both parties _BRACED THEMSELVES UP TO FACE_a long legal battle. Page 10/14