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ePractice
A. Word form
Supply the appropriate forms of words in the brackets
1. At the age of 18 she is already one of Hollywood’s most ________
actresses. (SEEK)

2. He always get _______ as the hero. (TYPE)

3. She looked absolutely _______ when I told her what had happened. She
could hardly say a word. (DUMB)

4. At first it seemed like a(n) _______ idea, but then we realized that it
wasn’t so crazy after all. (RAGE)

5. If you are sweating a lot you should wear a(n) _________. (ODOUR)

6. Whenever examination is in progress, I often see parents, family

members and __________ waiting anxiously outside the exam sites.
(WISH)

7. He has got a(n) _______ kid, as I remember. (QUARREL)

8. My uncle lives in a futuristic house with solar-powered heating (FUTURE)

9. No _______ is practiced in this company. All staff work their way up

based on meritocracy. (FAVOUR)

10. Despite the setbacks he faced, he remained a man of remarkable

_________. (BUOYANT)

11. The weather has been _______ sunny this week; we should have a
picnic by the beach. (GLORY)

12. _______ fans crowd near the stage the moment the pop star appears.
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(AWE)

13. The firemen were _______ during the crisis and managed to save all

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the people who were trapped in the burning building. (PERTURB)

14. Jeff is always coming up with _______ utterances that do not make any
sense. (GNOME)

15. To pamper herself after a hard day’s work, Jane decided to ________ in
a hot spa. (LUXURY)

16. The impact of this oil spillage on the environment is ________.

(PONDER)

17. Jack has been called away as a _______ ever since the war started.
(RESERVE)

18. Nick gazed _______ at his neighbor’s shining motorbike. (COVET)

19. Our local Member of Parliament is a/an _______ opponent of all plans
to extend the city. (PLACATE)

20. _______ is sometimes said to be more characteristic of women than

men but I think that this is a false stereotype. (FICKLE)

21. The parents are delightful but their children are _______ (LOATHE)

22. There was a _______ applause following his speech. (THUNDER)

23. Nowadays a lot of people prefer alternative medicine systems, such as

acupuncture, _________. (AROMATIC)

24. This behavior is _______ of his general lack of self-confidence.

(SYMPTOM)

25. Dolphins, ________ species, give birth to one calf every two years.
(MAMMAL)

26. To be an astronaut, a person, at the beginning of his training, has to be

accustomed to _______ in a spacecraft. (WEIGH)
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27. The scientific _______ in this book are very necessary for us to do
research. (TECHNICIAN)

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28. Most of the stunts in this movie are performed by _______ (STAND)

29. We have l _______ obligations to control prices. (CONTRACT)

30. The doctors are _______ about when I can play football again after the
operation. (COMMIT)

B. Paragraph
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Hector Berlioz (1) _______ (DUBIOUS) fitted the notion of the Romantic artist
of the nineteenth century: idiosyncratic, eccentric, (2) _____ (ORTHO),
rebellious, (3) _______ (CALCITE), impetuous and highly strung. And, true to
the Romantic ideal of art and life as one, his music mirrored his temperament –
and still polarizes opinion. There are those who hail Berlioz as one of music’s
great (4) _______ (BLAZE); others hear little more than (5) _______ (BLOW)
rhetoric. Did the German poet, Heine, capture the character of the Frenchman
when he said Berlioz ‘had not sufficient talent for his genius’?
Whatever his technical (6) _______ (SHORT), there is no doubt that with the
Symphonie fantastique Berlioz shattered musical boundaries. The symphony’s
wild swings of emotion, its (7) _______ (NIGHT) imagery, and its (8) _______
(DISGUISE) depiction of the mental state of its creator, were utterly unike
anything ever composed before. It was an astonishing achievement for a (9)
_______ (DOMINATE) untrained composer of just twenty-six and Berlioz never
again plunged quite so deeply into the dark abyss of the psyche as here.
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