Find the mistake and correct it:
1. The cheese looks and smells of rubber.
2. Their children are the ones that I feel worried and sorry for.
3. Many of us travel to countries where meals require the use of a fork and knife.
4. She telephoned the police and told them that her daughter had not come home. They asked her to describe a missing child.
5. The girl showed a great courage for someone so young.
6. I am doing a computer course on computer programming.
7. One important criteria is staff workload.
8. "Whizzo" removes stains from ovens, pots and crockeries.
9. The room is far too small for us to dance this kind of music.
10. I'm going to Athens at 20th December.
11. My holiday begins on March the 8th.
12. I arrived in England on the 14th of June,1990.
13. We've already received a great deal of enquiries about it.
14. The play deals in the struggle of a married couple to live their own lives.
15. An established motor trading company dealing with popular Japanese cars requires two additional salesmen.
16. They only got married recently and they haven’t many furniture
17. Jarek remained as silent as a picture as he listened to my plans for the future.
18. You are flogging a horse trying to persuade me to come with you.
19. Is the King’s Cross station near the Central Park?
20. The footballer was covered in mud from head to feet.
21. Would you fancy to order something to eat, honey? I’m starving.
Word formation:
1. "There is no such thing as an ______________player," the new team manager insisted. PLACE
2. Many parents feel a sense of ______________when their children leave home. LOSE
3. A great number of people ______________carry the AIDS virus. KNOW
4. A ______________of urgent medical supplies is expected to arrive very soon. SHIP
5. ______________to the exhibition will be by invitation only. ADMIT
6. Africa is the world's driest continent, but the ____________of the rains is as much of a problem as the lack of them. PREDICT
7. All she was interested in was the ______________of her own career. ADVANCE
8. Around the world, limited supplies of both cotton and wool and __________high demand have sent prices rocketing. EXPECT
9. As a monk he trusts to divine ______________that he will receive food. PROVIDE
10. At college I became a social ______________because I didn't like going out in the evenings. FIT
11. Don't do that, you ______________! SIMPLE
12. He attributed his ______________to two factors - taking exercise and not smoking. LONG
13. He does a brilliant ______________of Charles. PERSON
14. He is ______________cheerful despite his difficulties. FALL
15. He looks exhausted, they're ______________him. WORK
16. He pulled a muscle in his arm trying to ______________everybody else in the weight training room. DO
17. He thought that all women liked children, but she soon ______________him of that idea. ABUSE
18. He was already half an hour late which explains his ______________to leave. PATIENT
19. He's terribly ______________and always ______________things. ORGANISE/ LAY
20. Mark will always be associated with the building of the new cathedral, poised so ___________next to the ruins of the old. IMAGE
Cloze test
When is a thief not a thief?
The impression that more women shoplift than men may be ........................ (1) to publicity. As a recent report on shoplifting ..................... (2) out: "Every week, newspapers ..................... (3) the conviction of some middle-aged woman of blameless .................... (4) who has stolen, for quite unexplained motives, some objects of ...................... (5) value which she could easily have ....................... (6) to buy. Most psychiatrists have at some ......................... (7) seen patients who were ............................. (8) of this sort of theft.
This .......................... (9) the question of ..................... (10) the middle class have a better chance of getting ....................... (11) shop-lifting charges than the working class. The shops insist that they are ............................. (12) solely with whether customers have .................... (13) for the goods: their accent, class or ability to browbeat is .......................... (14). But, .................... (15) charged, the middle class are undoubtedly in a better ........................ (16). They are more likely to have, or call in, a solicitor; and they are financially ...................... (17) to risk paying legal costs. The solicitor - or friends or relations - may ...................... (18) a psychological assessment. And a "respectable" first-time ............................ (19), backed by a psychological explanation of a momentary aberration, and defended by a solicitor, surely goes into the dock with more chance of acquittal than someone .......................... (20) these attributes.
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