a Money matters Reading and Use of English Open cloze For questions 1-8, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS. The sales It is December: The first frost and snow of winter (0) ARE upon us and, as (1) drawn by some mysterious force, otherwise sane, ordinary people are getting up ai 5 am (2)... queue fr hours in the cold and dark. The sales have begun. Belore Christmas! As mere amateur bargain-hunters have always suspected, (3)... is a black art to sales shopping. Cunning sales veterans, determined to avoid the horrid changing-room queue, do their trying-on weeks (4)....... advance. Then, once the doors are flung open, they'll push, elbow and lock coat-hangers with (3)........ another to reach the object of their desire. This Darwinian struggle is carried (6)....... ina terribly polite way, as everybody else pretends that everybody else is being ‘so pushy’. Their treasures clutched to their breast, their cheerfulness is barely disguised, in (7)... of the uncomfortable weight of armfuls of plates, dishes, sheets and towels. The only shadow is the sight of other attractive bargains (8)... picked out by fellow shoppers. Word formation For questions 1-10, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines (o form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an ‘example at the beginning (0). Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS, Millionaire cheat People will often go to incredible (0) LENGTHS to get rich quick. LONG In one unusual ease of (1)... .. three people were found guilty DECEIVE of attempting to defraud a television company of a million pounds, Major Charles Ingram appeared a8 8 (2) sassen on the programme Who CONTEST Warts to be a Millionaire? in 2001, when, with the help of his wife, Diana, and accomplice Tecwen Whittock, he won the top prize, But his winning appearance was never broadcast and the cheque was cancelled. Production staff called 10 the (3) ssn Said they grew TRY suspicious of Ingram’s (4) 00, hesitations and changes of mind, NUMBER and became aware of the persistent coughing of a member of the audience. ‘The show's host noticed how Ingram often seemed (5), about SURE the answers he gave. Whittock, a college lecturer, coughed (6) STRATEGY from his seat to indicate the correct answer as Ingram said the four alternatives to each question out loud. A video (7) ... of the RECORD The listened HONEST programme was played in court as part of the prosecution e: defendants, who had denied all accusations of (8) impassively as sentence was passed.