KEY WORD TRANSFORMATION
It wasn't Mark that you met in the shop. HAVE It .......................Mark that you met in the shop.
It COULDN'T HAVE BEEN | COULD NOT HAVE BEEN | CAN'T HAVE BEENMark that you met in the shop.
Margaret ...................... quickly and got into the warm bath. (DRESS)
UNDRESSED
Gap year is the ................. used to describe the year that some students take off before ................. to university.
1. WORD
2. GOING
You can take a boat trip around the ____________________ of Amsterdam.(CHANNELS/CANALS)
CANALS
She was just going to have her breakfast when the phone rang. ABOUT
She was just ......................... breakfast when the phone rang.
She was just ABOUT TO HAVE breakfast when the phone rang.
1. Her arguments are so ........................... that it is not possible to have a real discussion with her. (LOGICAL)
1. ILLOGICAL
There is no doubt that money, in the form that we know it today, ................ what keeps modern economic life functioning. Yet, in terms of history, money, in whatever form, has provided people ................ the ability to buy and goods.
1. IS
2. WITH
1. You can get a good ____________________ of the sea from the church tower. (VIEW/SCENERY)
2. Her jewels were all imitations; they are quite ____________________ . (PRICELESS/WORTHLESS)
1. VIEW
2. WORTHLESS
Was it necessary for her to spend so much money on it? HAVE
Did ............................. spend so much money on it?
Did YOU HAVE TO spend so much money on it?
1. On our country roads there is ______________ (CONSIDER) less traffic.
3. "The Lord of the Rings" is a _____________ (TIME) classic, as fresh today as it was when it was first published.
1. CONSIDERABLY
2. TIMELESS
When we consider how the world has changed ............... our great-grandparents’ time, it’s important to take ............... account how transport has changed. Of course, people complain ............... traffic now, but even in the past people used to think that the roads were dangerous.
1. SINCE
2. INTO
3. ABOUT
1. She is very ____________________ and is easily upset. (SENSIBLE/SENSITIVE)
2. Does the sun ____________________ in the east or in the west? (RAISE/RISE)
3. Would you ____________________ me to finish early tonight.(REMIND/REMEMBER)
1. SENSITIVE
2. RISE)
3. REMIND
1. Susan and Frank don't like each other. WELL Susan and Frank don't ............................... with each other.
1. Susan and Frank don't GET ON WELL with each other.
1. The result was very strange. In fact, it was simply .................. (BELIEVE).
2. The most important value in our school is .................. (OBEY).
1. UNBELIEVABLE
2. OBEDIENCE
Albert Einstein is ............... of the best -known scientists of the 20th............... . Yet he was not ............... particularly good student. At school in Munich , Einstein got fairly good grades in nearly all subjects and was excellent in mathematics and physics.
1. ONE
2. CENTURY
3. A
1. I am very ____________________ to her problems. (SYMPATHETIC/KIND)
2. Be very careful with that painting; it’s ____________________ . (PRICELESS/WORTHLESS)
3. The airlines are going to ____________________ their fares again. (RAISE/RISE)
1. SYMPATHETIC
2. PRICELESS
3. RAISE
1. I'm sorry I didn't go to college. REGRET I ................................... to college.
2. Nobody took any notice of his bad behaviour. ATTENTION
Nobody ..................................his bad behaviour.
1. I REGRET NOT GOING/HAVING GONE to college.
2. Nobody PAID ATTENTION TO his bad behaviour.
Parks in large cities are .............. (USUAL) thought of as refuges, as islands of green in the middle of a concrete desert. But High Line Park in the ................. (NEIGHBOUR) of Chelsea in New York looks at first ............. (SEE) like something that city parks were created to get away from.
1. USUALLY
2. NEIGHBOURHOOD
3. SIGHT
Fitness experts are now telling us that cycling is one of the best forms of exercise. As .............. as making you stronger and .............. energetic, cycling also helps to improve your breathing. Not only .............. correct breathing help your lungs develop, but it is also good for your general well-being. But for cycling to have the right effect on the body, you should cycle as .............. as you can, because the more you practice , the better the results will be.
1. WELL
2. MORE
3. DOES
4. MUCH
1.You should travel early to ____________________ traffic jams.(AVOID/PREVENT)
2. I am getting fed up with her ____________________ complaints.(CONTINUAL/CONTINUOUS)
3. It took two policemen to ____________________ the traffic. (DIRECT/CONDUCT)
4. I ____________________ you to put all your money into a savings account. (ADVISE/ADVICE)
1. AVOID
2. CONTINUAL
3. DIRECT
4. ADVISE