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    8 Match each person with one of the comments. Useeach comment once only. az Choose the most suitable word for each space 3 News Events hitchhiker conductor passenger driver traffic warden commuter _ steward passer-by pedestrian _rambler 2) Ilove wandering through the countryside along deserted footpaths. ») Pll bring you your drink in just a minute, madam. ¢) P've been waitingall morning at this roundabout for someone to stop. 4) Iwas just walking down the street opposite the bank when I saw it happen. ¢) I've spent the last half an hour looking for a spot. Ir’s hopeless. £) ['llring the bell for you, love, when i's time to ger off. ) The sign clearly says two hours only and you've been here all day. h) It’s just impossible getting across the road here. We need a subway. |) Do you think you could go a little more slowly, I’m abit nervous. j) This erainis late every morning. Ithas been for years 3 News Events Reports that the government is about to (1) the go ahead to plans for the building of a new runway at London’s Gatwick airport have angered Q) residents and raised (3) sn. OF increased noise and exhaust pollution. The (4) _ plans also include permission for additional night flights and will (6)... the compulsory purchase of farmland, as well as the demolition of a number of private homes. (6). to sources close to the Ministry of Transport, the governments known to be (7) by the increasing volume of traffic at London Heathrow, where there are no plans for further runways in the foreseeable (8) x.n.nnnn « Gatwick is widely regarded 0). a better prospect for expansion than London’s third airport, Stansted, which still suffers from poor transport links. A spokesperson for the Keep Gatwick Quiet association, (10) . up of local people, accused the government of going back (11) _ promises made before the General Election, ‘We were told then that the airport authority had no intention of building another runway, and we believe that the government has a duty to (12) «by its pledges.’ (13) ..n.onnv figures in the government are also believed to be concerned at the news, although the Prime Minister, interviewed last night, is (14) as saying that reports were ‘misleading’. However, he would not give an (15) hat plans for building a runway had definitely been rejected. 1) a)have 8) make o)give ) perform 2) A)airline B) local ©) particular b) with 3) A)money 2) views ) percentages p) fears 4) a)controversial p)debatable _C) notorious p)undecided 5) a) involve 1) request c)assume ) need 6) a) Next 3)Up ©) According D) Used 7) A) pleased B)concerned —_C) divided ) important 179 Advanced Language Practice 2 Choose the most suitable word underlined. 3 Complete each sentence with one of the words given. 4 Complete each sentence a) to) with one of the endings 1) to 10). 8) a) years ) events c)time p) future 9) a)and 8) for ©) because p)as 10) A) made 8) woken taken ) formed 11) a)from B)to on p)with 12) &)perform B)act €) vote p)stand 13) A)Protuberant 8)Prominent C) Prevalent. —_) Petulant 14) a)known 3) believed c) quoted b) written 15) a)estimate B)objection _C)assurance_—_D) inquiry a) The wo men, disguised/

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