St.

Peter’s Secondary School

S.5 English Language
Parts of Speech 3 – CEP Set 1

Name: __________________________ Class: S.5____( ) Date: ___________________

A. With reference to Version A, complete Version B with appropriate words. Fill in one word for each blank.
Version A

Located in Chinatown, Bubblewrap specializes in egg waffles, which is a typical Hong Kong street food.
Thanks to the determined founders, Sunny Wu and Yu Liu, in bringing popular Hong Kong street food to the
UK, you can find egg waffles in a western country unexpectedly.
Bubblewrap modified and adapted the recipe for egg waffles to cater to the taste of the British. They serve
the egg waffles in combination with gelato and other toppings. Surprisingly, it was a huge success.
Version B

____________________ in egg waffles, Bubblewrap is a food store in Chinatown. ____________________,

perhaps least ____________________ you don’t usually see a Hong Kong street food in a western country.
But founders Sunny Wu and Yu Liu’s ____________________ brought it to the UK.

With Bubblewrap’s ____________________ and ____________________ of the recipe, the British taste is
taken care of. They ____________________ gelato with egg waffles and other toppings and has proven very
____________________.

B. Identify the different parts of speech and fill in each blank with a correct word.

1. location (n) locate (v)

a. Our office is ____________________ in midtown Manhattan.

b. The hotel is in a beautiful ____________________ overlooking the lake.

2. type (n) typical (adj) typically (adv)

a. Tickets for these events will ____________________ cost around thirty dollars.

b. There were so many different ____________________ of bread that I didn't know which to buy.

c. ____________________ symptoms of COVID-19 would include fever and dizziness.

3. popularity (n) popular (adj) popularly (adv)

a. Walking is one of the most ____________________ forms of exercise in Britain.

b. In Hong Kong, the Chief Executive is ____________________ known as the CE.

c. Keung To won the award for "the most searched pictures of male artists" because of his rapid-growing

____________________.

4. possibility (n) possible (adj) possibly (adv)

a. Hong Kong Observatory issues first 'very hot weather' warning of 2021, a year ____________________

to be full of them

b. Hong Kong must stay alert to ____________________ threat posed by Philippines Covid-19 variant,

say experts.

c. Travel agents in Asia offer great deals for early booking as Covid vaccinations raise

____________________ of holidays in 2021

5. establishment (n) establish (v) established (adj)

a. ____________________ in 1903, SCMP is headquartered in Hong Kong.

b. Ms. Chen seems to have spent all her life studying in educational ____________________.

c. To create a circular economy, we should ____________________ an effective supply chain for recycled

waste oil to minimise production costs.

 6. determination (n) determine (v) determined (adj)

a. The number of staff we can take on will be ____________________ by how much money we're

allowed to spend.

b.Several publishers rejected her book, but that just made her all the more ____________________.

c. Her ____________________, teamwork skills and leadership capabilities convinced us that she was

perfect for the job.

7. influence (n) influence (v) influential (adj)

a. The world lost many ____________________ people in 2020, from basketball star Kobe Bryant, to

Marvel's Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman.

b.At the time she was under the ____________________ of her father.

c. She's very good at making friends and ____________________ people.

8. adaptation (n) adaptability (n) adapt (v) adaptable (adj)

a. Nowadays, people around the world are ____________________ to a socially distant version of the

life.

b.Evolution occurs as a result of ____________________ to new environments.

c. The survivors in this life seem to be those who are ____________________ to change.

9. authenticity (n) authentic (adj) authentically (adv)

a. There's a Greek restaurant in town which serves wonderfully prepared ____________________

dishes.

b. The ____________________ of her story is beyond doubt.

 c. We wanted to find fiction that was written ____________________ in a female voice.

10. uniqueness (n) unique (adj) uniquely (adv)

a. The town is ____________________ situated between two glacial lakes and is surrounded by natural

beauty.

b. The government doesn't understand the ____________________ of our situation and the need for

bigger subsidies.

c. Each person's genetic code is ____________________ except in the case of identical twins.

11. significance (n) significant (adj) significantly (adv)

a. Did he make any ____________________ changes to my suggestions?

b. My piano playing has improved ____________________ since I started with a new teacher.

c. We should not overestimate the ____________________ of his influence.

12. frustration (n) frustrate (v) frustrated (adj) frustrating (adj)

a. It ____________________ me that I'm not able to put any of my ideas into practice.

b. He doesn't listen to what I say and it's so ____________________.

c. I could sense his ____________________ at not being able to help.

13. possession (n) possess (v) possessive (adj) possessively (adv)

a. Her boyfriend was getting too ____________________ so she finished with him.

b. We're trying to bring out the artistic talents that many people ____________________ without realizing

it.

c. The ____________________ of large amounts of money does not ensure happiness.