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VII. Complete the passage
1. Marie Curie / born / Poland / 1867
2. mother / die /early/ and father / try hard / bring up / four children
3. she/learn/read/write / age / four
4. school/she/ very good / natural sciences
5. sixteen/leave school/go/ France / study
6. France / after lectures / spend hours/ university library/lab
7. she / work very hard / become / famous / chemist / physicist
8. 1903 /she/with/ husband Pierre Curie / win / Nobel Prize / physics
9. eight years / she / receive / Nobel Prize / chemistry
10. she/die/1934/age/67
VIII. Fill each blank with a preposition
1. Jack cannot drink in a pub because he is.....age.
2. I'm sure Barbara didn't leave her book here.....purpose.
3. Cameras can help protect our premises.....robbers.
4. .....my surprise, I found him sitting.....himself in the room corner.
5. Our village is only several meters.....sea level so it is frequently flooded.
IX. Rearrange the sentences to make it a dialogue
1. Well, I'm not sure about that.
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2. I've just been reading through your last project report.
3. Well, I'm glad you like it and hope it proves useful.
4. I hope you didn't find too much wrong with it.
5. On the contrary, you've done a fantastic job.
6. You're too modest. It's really well organized and written and offers
X. Fill each gap with a suitable word
Sumo wrestling is a national sport in Japan. Every year there are six tournaments, and millions (..1..)
Japanese watch them on television. A tournament is a series of matches. Sumo is almost (..2..) old as the
nation of Japan itself. Stories say that there was sumo wrestling over 2000 years (..3..). Usually athletes are
thin and can move very quickly. (..4..), sumo wrestlers weigh from 100 to 160 kilos. One famous wrestler
weighed 195 kilos. Sumo wrestlers do not (..5..) beautiful and sumo wrestling is a very slow sport. Sumo
wrestlers start training (..6..) they are boys. They exercise to make their bodies strong. They also eat a lot. In
a match, each wrestler tries to push the (..7..) down on the floor or out of the ring. People from other countries
often think sumo is very strange, but the Japanese love it and (..8..) it as their national sport.
XI. Read and do the exercies
some very well thought out conclusions.
It seems views on having children are changing in the USA, New research shows that 25 per cent of adults
do not want to have children. A study from Michigan State University (MSU) reveals that a quarter of American
adults are happy to be "child-free". [...1...]. It says these people do not want children and are happier without
them. MSU psychologists Jennifer Watling Neal and Zachary Neal did research on why people who do not
want children might be different. [...2...]. They said non-parents include "not-yet-parents" (those planning to
have kids) and people who cannot have kids due to medical problems. The researchers looked at data from
1,000 adults who took part in an MSU survey. Ms Neal said: "We were most surprised by how many child-
free people there are. She said child-free people were more liberal than those with children, who were more
conservative. [...3...]. She found that unsurprisingly, parents were more likely to be in a relationship. Around
half of the child-free adults were single. Ms Neal also said child-free adults were a little younger and less well-
educated than parents or non-parents. [...4...]. She added that more research is needed to find out why
people make the decision to be child-free.
a) Find a word/phrase in the passage that is closest in meaning to
1. opinions
2. examined
3. participated
4. amazed
5. discover
b) Which is the opposite of the word "conservative"?
A. open-minded
C. warm-hearted
D. big-headed
C. cold-blooded
b) The following sentence can best fit which of the numbered spaces:
"They wanted to find out what the differences were between these child-free people and "non-parents"
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4