I.

Use the word at the end of each gap to form a new word with which to fill the
gap:
`It is simply this. That Space, as our _____ (MATH) have it, is spoken of as hav
ing three dimensions, which one may call _____ (LONG), Breadth, and _____ (THICK
), and is always definable by _____ (REFER) to three planes, each at right angle
s to the others. But some philosophical people have been asking why THREE dimens
ions _____ (PARTICULAR) - why not another direction at right angles to the other
three?--and have even tried to construct a Four-Dimension geometry. Professor S
imon Newcomb was expounding this to the New York Mathematical Society only a mon
th or so ago. You know how on a flat surface, which has only two dimensions, we
can represent a figure of a three _____ (DIMENSION) solid, and _____ (SIMILAR) t
hey think that by models of thee dimensions they could represent one of four--if
they could master the _____ (PERCEIVE) of the thing. See?'
1. Mathematics
mathes
mathematicians
math
2. Long
Length
Longing
lon
ged
3. Thicken
Thickness
Thickening
Thick
4. referred
reference
referring
refers
5. unparticular
particularly
particulars
particular
6. dimensional
dimensions
dimension
dimensionally
7. dissimilar
similarly
similarity
simi
lar
8. perceived
perception
perspective
perceiving
II. Use the word at the end of each gap to form a new word with which to fill th
e gap:
We earn our _____ (LIVE) in America today in peaceful ______ (COMPETE) with peop
le all across the Earth. Profound and _____ (POWER) forces are shaking and _____
(MAKE) our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make ch
ange our friend and not our enemy. This new world has already _____ (RICH) the l
ives of millions of Americans who are able to _____ (COMPETITION) and win in it.
But when most people are working harder for less, when others cannot work at al
l, when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to _____ (BANK
) our enterprises, great and small, when the fear of crime robs law abiding citi
zens of their _____ (FREE), and when millions of poor children cannot even imagi
ne the lives we are calling them to lead, we have not made change our friend.

III. Use the word at the end of each gap to form a new word with which to fill t
he gap:
In the center of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length po
rtrait of a young man of _____ (ORDINARY) personal beauty, and in front of it, s
ome little _____ (DISTANT) away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward,
whose sudden _____ (APPEAR) some years ago caused, at the time, such public ___
__ (EXCITE), and gave rise to so many strange conjectures. As the painter looked
at the _____ (GRACE) and comely form he had so _____ (SKILL) mirrored in his ar
t, a smile of ______ (PLEASE) passed across his face, and seemed about to linger
there. But he _____ (SUDDEN) started up, and, closing his eyes, placed his fing
ers upon the lids, as though he sought to _____ (PRISON) within his brain some c
urious dream from which he feared he might _____ (WAKE).
IV. Use the word at the end of each gap to form a new word with which to fill th
e gap
Most of the major French rivers are either too shallow or busy for 0) pleasure b
but that does not detract from breathtaking beauty of the 1)
.. . The river Loir
oats
lows through beautiful flat 2)
..which is excellent for cycling. Blois is an ideally
e, as it is busy, but very pleasant
. town. On one of my visits there, I found a note o
my car from the police saying that, though flattered I had chosen to visit thei
r town, I had parked 5)
and could I park more 6)
. next time. The chateau at
ibly 7)
. staircase thought to have been designed by Leonardo da Vinci. From here it i
flat 10 mile cycle ride to the chateau of Chambord, renowned for its 8)
. skyline, w
has been likened to an overcrowded chessboard. Also worth visiting is the 9)
. Chateau

t Chaumont with its surprisingly modern 19th century interior.

PLEASE
SURROUND
COUNTRY
SITUATE
BUSTLE
LEGAL
FORGET
NEIGHBOUR

CARE

STYLE

V. Use the word at the end of each gap to form a new word with which to fill the
gap:
I ve spent years studying 0) happiness and one of the most 1)
.. conclusions is that t
is hardly any correlation between the circumstances of people s lives and how happ
y they are. A moment s 2)
.. should make this obvious. We all know people who have a
t are always 4)
, and others who have suffered great hardships but remain 5)
..
The first secret is gratitude. 6)
. People cannot be happy. We have a 7)
to thi
appy leads people to complain. It is truer to say that finding cause for 8)
. Leads to
eople becoming unhappy.
The second secret is the 9)
. That happiness is a by-product of 10)
. That give
HAPPY
SIGNIFY
REFLECT
RELATE
MISERY
ESSENTIAL
GRATEFULL
T
END
COMPLAIN
REALISE
ACTIVE
VI. Complete the sentences with the right word: (open cloze exercise)
1. There were very_____ people at the party when we arrived but half an hour lat
er, it was crowded. 2. How was I to know that she would have an allergic reactio
n__________the nuts in the cake? She should have said something! 3. Arthritis is
a very painful________that affects not only the old but also many younger peopl
e making many everyday activities difficult. 4. He said he couldn't come to the
meeting because of a previous engagement but I think he is just______excuses. 5.
You were driving at over fifty miles______hour and the limit here is only forty
. 6. I______to go to school now, otherwise I will be late. 7. I can eat almost__
____type of fish or seafood except for octopus which I can't stand. 8. The city
is pretty safe although you may have some problems if you go into certain neighb
orhoods______night.

NARRATIVE ESSAY MODEL

What is your attitude towards loneliness? Do you think it is a curse, when you a
re isolated from the rest of the world, left face-to-face with yourself? Or do y
ou, on the contrary, seek it, appreciating each moment of silence you can snatch
from the surrounding world? These small breaks can help you replenish your ener
gy and reorganize your thoughts, so that you can start each day as a new one not a
s an extension of a previous one. As for me, I am more of the second kind of per
son; solitude for me is a gift, which is valued less by people than it should be
accorded.
In my child and teen years, I had a perfect place to go to when I felt like bein
g on my own. In a small town in the center of America, where I lived back then,
we had a steep hill on the outskirts. On its top, an old warehouse stood. No one
, even older people, seemed to know who had built that warehouse in such an inco
nvenient place, and what for. Some said that smugglers used it during World War
II for their purposes; others told stories about local slaveholders, who lived i
n our town a long time ago those people were thought to have kept slaves in the ol
d warehouse. For us children, that old wooden shack was a haunted place with a g
rim, bloody story of love and treason.
None of the townsmen had ever visited the old warehouse. Children were scared an
d adults just did not feel like climbing up the steep slope for no reason. For m
ost of a year, I was its only visitor. Sitting with my legs dangling from the at
tic s crossbar, usually with an apple in my hand, I watched the sunsets and sunris
es, and tiny ants running here and there, and the birds in a nest above my head
(for some reason they were not afraid of me), and the life beneath my outlook po
int. During such moments, what was meaningful to me was only what I could see, h
ear, touch, or smell. My school worries, arguments with friends, unrequited firs
t love, and even Mrs. Finch s cat that I accidentally ran over by my bicycle all thi

s, as well as many other things did not exist. And now, when I reminisce about my
childhood, I remember the warm golden light, soft shades in the attic, a smell o
f fresh hay, and the tile rooftops of my town.
Sometimes, as I visited the warehouse, I met other people there. Usually they we
re vagabonds, staying for a couple of days before moving ahead, or seasonal work
ers traveling across the entire country further to the West. When this happened,
I behaved like a cautious animal, and fortunately I never had problems with the
m. If they stayed long enough, I would bring them some canned food, and in excha
nge they told me their stories, or joked with me. I heard stories of loneliness
and long railway trails; unpaid labor and failed marriages; crashed hopes and ve
hement dreams. In their voices I could hear the wisdom and the ignorance of the
world. They shared their fears, their grief, or their joy with a 13-year-old kid
from an American no-name remoteness, knowing that he will not spill the beans.
Or even if I would (though I never did) still they saw me for the first and last t
ime in their lives.
I believe that old warehouse determined my life. The destinies of other people per
plexed, complicated, but at the same time keen and full of real life helped me und
erstand myself and the world around me, providing me with answers to issues that
worry teenagers. Who am I? Why is everything as it is? Who are people around me
? What should I do? How should I treat others? Those vagabonds, those people, wh
om people in our town contemptuously called low-lives they taught me things much mor
e valuable than what I could study in vaunted universities.
I still enjoy solitude, when I have a free minute. And, just like in my adolesce
nce, I enjoy the company of unfamiliar random people, who appear in my life just
for several moments: in an airplane, in train, in a hitch, in a cafe. They tell
me their stories and leave and I carefully write them down .
I am a wr
iter, you know.