Professional Documents
Culture Documents
To Promise
To Promise
1.If you do not repay the money we will, as a last……………, take you to court.
A measure B attempt C act D resort
2.At the party conference, the Prime Minister…………….. backing for his new policies.
A won B got C had D held
3.Mary wanted to give Nigel a present that was a little bit out of the………………
A ordinary B normal C average D everyday
4.Most people would…………..at the chance of working for that company.
A dive B grab C seize D jump
5.All but two of the injured were ………………. from hospital within two hours.
A discharged B released C sent D allowed
6. We decided to…………….a coin to see who would go first.
A throw B pitch C roll D toss
7.If you want to know which companies to invest in, George can give you some……………….
A clues B hints
C words = to promise D tips
8.He was awarded a medal in recognition of his ……………………. to the Queen.
A contribution B services C attribute D labour
9.The racing-driver climbed out of the wreckage completely………………….
A unwounded B intact=safe and not damaged
C unscathed D well-preserved
10.The King showed his mercy by…………………………the rebels’ lives.
A saving B sparing C granting D accepting
11.The engine had been ………………..from the rest of the train.
A dismantled B disconnected C demolished " D uncoupled
12.These measures will increase the club’s ability to generate…………..
A income B revenue C earnings D profits
13.I don’t need to know the whole story, just give me the……………..
A gist=the substance or essence of a speech or text.
B details C essence D summary
14.The company is suspected of breaking the trade …………………..
A embargo
B. transaction= means the activity of buying and selling in between two parties, namely Buyer and Seller
C.dealing D.cease
15.The rocks in this area have been……………….into strange shapes by the wind and rain.
A broken B eroded C moulded D deteriorated
16.You must ……………..from drinking tea or coffee while taking this medicine.
A detain B.retain C.refrain D.obtain
17.William is an authority…………………………..medieval tapestries.
A on B with C about D in
18.Many of his best photographs of the conflict were taken when he was actually …………..fire.
A on=If you say that someone is on fire, you mean they are very enthusiastic, excited, or passionate about
something.
B under C in D to
19.The witness …………….he was a friend of the suspects, but denied all knowledge of their illegal activities.
A.averred B.simulated C.redounded D.envisioned
20.She was……………….with the results of the photo finish, which proved that she had come second in the
race.
A. resentful B.mistrustful C.sceptical D. disappointed
21.It is doubtful whether the momentum of the peace movement can be……………….
A. sustained B.supplied C.supported D. subverted
22.You have to be rich to send a child to a private school because the fees are…………….
A. astrological B.aeronautical C.astronomical D. atmospherical
23.Many of the jobs which have been created in this area can be directly ……………….to tourism.
A. supported B.dedicated C.attracted D.attributed
24.The organization has ……………the support of many famous people raising money to help homeless
children.
A. recruited B.enrolled
C.enlisted=to ask for and get help or support from someone/ sb for help D. raised
25.The documentary showed an eye operation in ………………detail.
A. minute B.careful
C.painstaking= extremely careful and correct, and involving a lot of effort
D. minuscule
Fill in the blanks with THREE words:
1.My mother was upset about his appearance here, not…………………….………….felt it was invading her
privacy.
2.……………………………………………………………….importance in human history, glass is now taken
for granted.
3. Bush was proclaiming victory even before the last votes ………………………………………….
……………………….
4. Our car broke down on the road, but as luck…………………………………., there was a garage nearby.
5. Poland’s power structure included neither more nor fewer Jews ………….power structure in Romania or in
Hungary.
6. You may borrow as many books as you like provided you show them ………………..…………………..at
the desk.
7. I was just getting off the bus when who should ………………………………………….my old school friends
Pat!
8. He may……………………………………gotten down on his hands and knees and begged for it.
9. This allows the bidders more complete information …………………………….…………..........base their
bids.
10. Computers that once took up entire room are now so………………….……………put on desktops and into
wristwatches.
Word forms:
1.I am not a (spend)spendthrift although sometimes if I see something on sale, I’ll get three because it’s a good
deal.
2. He was fined for (person)impersonating a police officer.
3. Following (act) reactivation of the law, new regulations were issued affecting imports and exports of crude
oil.
4. We are (staff)……………and too reliant on contractors to provide us with personnel.
5. Some argue documentation and testing is (burden) burdensome or a violation of disabled people’s civil rights.
6. The thought of how much work she had to do (courage)discourages her.
7. The senator has been in the (light) limelight recently since the revelation of his tax frauds.
8. The university is seeking a (succeed)successor to its vice chancellor , who retires this spring.
= someone or something that follows and takes the job, place, or position that was held by another
9. This unique body coupling in (human) hominids may well have evolved by the virtue of selection for
increased brain power.
= an early form of human
10. He had surgery to remove (fiber)fibrous scar tissue in his knee.= consisting of resembling fibers
11. You place too much (rely)reliance on her ideas and expertise.
12. Psychological problems very often (lie)underlies apparently physical disorders.
Fill in the blanks with the given words:
1. You may find that jogging is detrimental to your health rather than beneficial.
= causing harm or damage
2. The power failure at dinnertime caused consternation among the city’s housewives.
= a feeling of worry, shock, or confusion
3. The hostess was affronted by Bill’s failure to thank her for dinner.
= offended
4.His drunken behavior at the wedding was deplorable .
= very bad, unacceptable
5.The tainted meat made him desperately ill.
= spoiled; damaged in quality, taste, or value
6.The consensus among the senators was that the bill would not be passed.= agreement
7.I can jog a few miles, but the Boston Marathon is certainly beyond my scope
= beyond/ outside one’s scope
8 Militant suffragettes demanded the right to vote.
= active, determined, and often willing to use force~ position
9 Tempestuous times preceded the declaration of war.
= If something such as a relationship or time is tempestuous, it is full of strong emotions
10. Participation in intramural sports is required.
= happening within or involving the members of one school, college, or university
Do as directed:
1.By closing down the second warehouse we can save money and save jobs. ABLE
By closing down the second warehouse, we will be able to cut costs and save jobs.
2.We would like you to pay for the delivery of this special order before you receive it. IF
We would appreciate it if you could pay in advance for the delivery of this special order.
3 Scientists think that there is nothing on that planet to suggest there is any life there. SIGN
According to scientists, there appears to be no sign of life on that planet.
3 When I caught my boyfriend reading my emails, I told him I felt he had invaded privacy. AN
When I caught my boyfriend reading my emails, I told him I regarded it as an invasion of my privacy.
4 It is now 24 hours since Mr William’s boat sank and people think there is little likelihood he will survive.
CHANCES
It is now 24 hours since Mr Williams’s boat sank and his chances of survival are thought to be very low.
5 I regret not having the feeling of achieving anything after reaching the summit but I was too exhausted.
SENSE
I wish I had had the sense of achievement after reaching the summit but I was too exhausted.
6 Jane really wants to have everyone looking at her every time we go out in a group. BE
Jane can’t help wanting to be the center of attention every time we go out in a group.
7.I hoped to persuade the boss of the benefit to me of going away on a camping trip for ten days.WOULD
I hoped to persuade the boss that a camping trip for ten days/ ten-day camping trip would do me good.
8.Although the job meant that he earned money regularly, Tony did not enjoy it. REGULAR
Although the job provided him with a regular source of income, Tony did not enjoy it.
9.The police asked Mr Porter many questions about exactly where he was on the night of his wife’s murder.
EXACT
The police asked Mr Porter many questions in regard to his exact location on the night of his wife’s murder.
10.If we don’t stop the sale of tiger products now it’s possible that there will be no more tigers left within the
next ten years.
We need to stop the sale of tiger products now, otherwise/ or it’s possible that they will die out within the next
ten years.
Lexical text:
Art on TV
Why is it that television so consistently fails when it (1) .... to programmes about the visual arts? Painting and
sculpture should be (2).... subjects for the camera, which has the ability to show a whole work of art, then move
in close to examine the details. Yet I can think of few series on television that have managed to (3).... both the
pleasure and complexity of looking at them.
A good example of what goes wrong can be seen in Robert Hughes’s eight part survey of American art,
American Visions. Hughes is a critic you can trust, he has a personality that commands attention and he has
been given nearly eight hours in which to (4) .... British audiences to a school of art that British galleries have
totally ignored. I had expected the series to (5) .... on great works of art. What I got instead of was one about the
way American history and culture are (6)……in its art and architecture.
Geniuses, however they are defined, are but the peaks which stand out through the mist of history and are
visible to the particular observer from his or her particular vantage point. Change the observers and the vantage
points, clear away some of the mist, and a different lot of peaks appear. Genius is a term we apply to those
whom we recognise for their outstanding achievements and who stand near the end of the continuum of human
abilities which reaches back through the mundane and mediocre to the incapable. There is still much truth in Dr
Samuel Johnson’s observation, The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to
some particular direction’. We may disagree with the ‘general’, for we doubt if all musicians of genius could
have become scientists of genius or vice versa (3), but there is no doubting the accidental determination which
nurtured or triggered their gifts into those channels into which they have poured their powers so successfully.
Along the continuum of abilities are hundreds of thousands of gifted men and women, boys and girls.
What we appreciate, enjoy or marvel at in the works of genius or the achievements of prodigies are the
manifestations of skills or abilities which are similar to, but so much superior to, our own (4). But that their
minds are not different from our own is demonstrated by the fact that the hard-won discoveries of scientists like
Kepler or Einstein become the commonplace knowledge of schoolchildren and the once outrageous shapes and
colours of an artist like Paul Klee so soon appear on the fabrics we wear. This does not minimise the supremacy
of their achievements,(5) which outstrip our own as the sub-four-minute milers outstrip our jogging.
To think of geniuses and the gifted as having uniquely different brains is only reasonable if we accept that each
human brain is uniquely different. The purpose of instruction is to make us even more different from one
another, and in the process of being educated we can learn from the achievements of those more gifted than
ourselves. But before we try to emulate geniuses or encourage our children to do so we should note that some of
the things we learn from them may prove unpalatable. We may envy their achievements and fame, but we
should also recognize the price they may have paid in terms of perseverance, single-mindedness, dedication,
restrictions on their personal lives, the demands upon their energies and time, and how often they had to display
great courage to preserve their integrity or to make their way to the top. (7)
Genius and giftedness are relative descriptive terms of no real substance. We may, at best, give them some
precision by defining them and placing them in a context but, whatever we do, we should never delude
ourselves into believing that gifted children or geniuses are different from the rest of humanity, save in the
degree to which they have developed the performance of their abilities.