WORD FORMATION
Studies prove that the benefits of vaccination far _______ the rare instances of side-effects.
WEIGHT
OUTWEIGH
Daunted by the snowy descent before us, we clipped on our boards, made our ______ gingerly to the edge of the ledge and then dropped into the whiteness below.
WAY
Carlos really should get someone to mend his bike.
HIGH
It's __________________________ his bike mended.
HIGH TIME | CARLOS GOT/HAD
To _______, Sbordoni has discovered more than 150 species of hitherto unknown cave-dwelling creatures.
NOW PRESENT TODAY DATE
DATE
('TO DATE' - UP TO NOW)
Personally, I find that taking photos is indispensable; just by watching a photo I am thrown back into the immediacy of the moment and can recall, even relive, all the feelings and sensations that made that moment so worthy of remembering. (1 correction)
..... just by LOOKING AT a photo .....
Sports commentators _____________ attract ridicule when, in the heat of the moment, they say something silly.
VARY
INVARIABLY
It was difficult not to feel ________ similar to vertigo, a sense of disequilibrium brought on by the extremity of our isolation.
SOMETHING
Sally really should have come to a decision about her future career before now.
MIND
It's high _______________________ about her future career.
TIME SALLY MADE | UP HER MIND
Picking up a Tintin book the other day for the first time in many years, I found myself _______ between the urge to race through the story and the desire to linger on the visual detail.
PULLED DRAWN TORN LURED
TORN
Should pupils be allowed to use their phones in class? Current thinking leans increasingly to the opinion that they don't have to. As a consequence, many schools have banned the use of mobile phones during lessons.
(1 correction - but it involves more than one word!)
..... the opinion that they MUST NOT/SHOULD NOT ...
The meticulous, ___________ efforts of the team paid off when the video game was finally published to great acclaim.
PAIN
PAINSTAKING
Today, ______ its somewhat tarnished reputation, journalism still remains one of the few career paths open to the budding writer.
DESPITE; NOTWITHSTANDING
Simon's friends persuaded him to buy the latest smartphone.
TALKED
It was ______________________________ the latest smartphone.
SIMON'S FRIENDS WHO TALKED | HIM INTO BUYING
HIS FRIENDS WHO TALKED | SIMON INTO BUYING
Film studios now spend almost as much on marketing films as on producing them, which tends to suggest their ________ is with profit rather than quality.
WORRY CONCERN AIM PURPOSE
CONCERN
News are an important factor of our everyday life. They deliver the baseline for a general understanding of current affairs and help people to form opinions on certain topics. People from different age groups have a different access to news depending on their source of media. (4 corrections)
News IS an important factor .....
IT DELIVERS the baseline ....and HELPS people to form opinions ....
Research has shown that bilingualism is good for the brain ____________ of whether you are raised bilingual or learn a second language at school.
RESPECT
IRRESPECTIVE
It would be deeply ironic if a policy intended to improve the nation's health ______ to prove responsible for the decline of one of its favourite species of bird.
WERE/WAS
Peter wasn't the only one who found the blogger's comments offensive.
ALONE
Peter __________________ offence at the blogger's comments.
WASN'T ALONE IN | TAKING
The firm hired an expensive advertising agency to carry out a rebranding and gave the agency _______ rein to effect a major makeover.
EXTRA FREE COMPLETE WIDE
FREE
In no circumstances you should study for the test at the last minute; only by regular studying you can properly learn the material what you need to know.
(4 corrections)
UNDER no circumstances SHOULD YOU study ..... only by regular studying CAN YOU ...... the material THAT you need to know
The rationale for this position is that only when cognitive __________ causes disability can it be classed as dementia.
PAIR
IMPAIRMENT
TOO
Because there were hardly any objections, the trial finished in record time.
THAT
So _______________________ the trial finished in record time.
FEW | WERE THE OBJECTIONS THAT
FEW | OBJECTIONS WERE THERE THAT
The authors claim that the amount of time we spend on Internet is changing the _______ structure of our brains.
VERY TOTAL ABSOLUTE EVEN
VERY
The negotiations are fraught by difficulties for over ten months although all parties' best efforts to proceed with sensitivity.
(3 corrections)
The negotiations HAVE BEEN fraught WITH difficulties for over ten months, DESPITE* all parties' best efforts ....
*or, IN SPITE OF