My friend won't lend me his car. I wish ........

Eli likes to play _________ volleyball. 

Choose A, B,C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions: 

She said the letter was personal and wouldn't let me to reach it

The UK Government ensures that all schools in the UK meet certain standards, and this includes independent schools as well as those that are (i) _______ by the Government. All qualifications are awarded by national agencies accredited by the Qualification and Curriculum Authority (ỌCA), so the quality of the qualifications you will gain is guaranteed. Al many independent schools in England, you will be encouraged to take part (ii) _______ extracurricular activities to develop your hobbies and learn new skills, and you may be encouraged to lake graded music exams (iii) _______ by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of MusiC. The exam grades gained from these are widely accepted toward university entry requirements. Independent schools do not usually offer vocationally focused qualifications but if you are (iv) _______ in these qualifications, you can find out more in the ‘career­ based and pre-university qualifications’ section. The fees you pay to attend independent school, include your course fees, accommodation and may include some or all extracurricular activities. Fees (v) _______  from school to school and are at the discretion of the institution; there are no national standards. You should expect to pay a minimum of £8,000 per year and fees can be as high as £25,000.

(v)_______

Choose A, B,C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions: 

I heard him talked about you this morning

Choose a, b, c or d that best completes each unfinished sentence:

Today children have more ____. to decide their own future.

A large supermarket was looking for a manager for a new store they were (i) _____ to open. Out of over 90 people who had applied for the post, the had chosen five and asked them to come for an interview. The first (ii) _____, Mr Riley, walked into the interview room. He was smartly dressed, but it was clear that he was listening to a personal stereo. He sat down, (iii) _____ off his shoes and lit a cigarette. One of the interviewers said that they would (iv) _____ him not to smoke and Mr Riley excused. Just at that moment, a telephone rang. Mr Riley reach into his pocket, took out his mobile phone and began a conversation with a friend of his. After a minute or two, the interviewers had had enough and said they wanted to begin, “Certainly, go ahead”, said Mr Riley. They asked him why he wanted the job. “I don’t”, he replied. “But I felt like a day in London, and you’ve already paid my train (v) _____ to come up here for the interview.”

(iv)_____-

He promised to keep ......  us while he was abroad.

Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the folllowing word(s). "principles"

If it fits inside a pocket, keeps you safe as well as in touch with your office, your mother and your children, it is (i) _____ worth having. This is the view of the swelling ranks of female mobile – phone users who are beginning to (ii)  _____  the consumer market. Although Britain has been demonstrated to be one of the most expensive places in the world to run a mobile phone, both professional women and (iii) _____ mothers are undeterred. At first, the mobile phone was a rich man’s plaything, or a businessman’s status symbol. Now women own almost as many telephones as men do – but for very different reasons. The main attraction for most women customers is that it provides a form of communication back – up, wherever they are, in case of (iv) _____. James Tanner of Tancroft Communications says: “The majority of people buying phones from us this year were women – often young women or men W’ho were buying for their mothers, wives and girlfriend. And it always seems to be a question of peace of mind.” Size is also (v) for women. They want something that will lit in a handbag,” said Mr Tanner. “The tiny phones coming in are having a very big impact. This year’s models are only half the size of your hand.

(i)_____

You will have to ……………...on the time it takes you to get ready in the morning

During the last 400 years, most scientists have based on mathematics in their development of their inventions or discoveries. However, one great British scientist, Michael Faraday, did not make (i) _______ of mathematics. Faraday, the son of a poor blacksmith, was born in London in 1971 and had no (ii)  _______  beyond reading and writing. In 1812, Faraday was hired as a bottle washer by a great chemist Humphry Davy. Later, Faraday became a greater scientist than Davy, making the last years of Davy’s life embittered (iii) _______ jealousy. Faraday made the first (iv) _______  motor in 1821, a device that used electricity to produce movement. Then Faraday became interested in the relationship between electricity and magnetism. In 1831, he discovered that when a magnet is moved near a wire, electricity flows in the wire. With this discovery, he produced a machine for making electricity called a dynamo. Faraday then went on to show how electricity affects chemical substances. Because Faraday believed that money should be given to the poor, when he grew old, he was destitute. (v) _______, Queen Victoria rewarded him for his discoveries by giving him a stipend and a house. He died in 1867.

(v)_______

Choose the correct answer to each of the following questions. " The doctor warned his patient not to take _____ much sugar."

Aluminium foil is used to wrap food in the kitchen. It is very thin flexible metal sheet, sold in a roll, and since it is put in the oven. The invention of the foil in France in 1903 may not have seemed hugely significant at the time but it began a packaging revolution that was to change our whole (i) _______ of life. Until the early 20th century, everything bought from shops was wrapped with paper and string. (ii) _______ the growing technological expertise in the world, packaging remained quite basiC. Aluminium foil was not widely used until 1914, when people began using it as a secure top for milk bottles. Some forty years later, however, the packaging revolution really (iii) _______  when companies making the cans used for soft drinks stopped using tin, a metal which was becoming too expensive, and switched to aluminium. (iv) _______ production of aerosol cans soon followed. Al the turn of the 20th century, there was little or no packaging to throw away. But with the arrival of the new materials, what we now refer to as the “throw – away society” was bom. Disposable razors, for example, were (v) _______ to be used and then thrown aw’ay. The idea was appealing to manufacturers because it meant that the customer would always be coming back for more.

(iv)______-

Long ago, Chinese people didn’t say “How are you” when they met each other or saw their friends. They said, “(i) _____ you eaten your rice today?”. Eating rice (ii) _____ such an important part of daily life in China! Rice is still one of the (iii) _____ important kinds of food in the modem world. Nearly half the people that live on our planet eat it every day and in some countries, an adult eats more than 100 kilos of rice each year. We think that people first (iv) rice in India. In China, people began eating rice about 5,000 years ago. Rice wasn’t eaten in North America until 17th century, but many Americans prefer to cat pasta these days (v) _____ only cat about 2 kilos of rice per year.

(ii)___

When I have free time, I usually ______.

All sorts of people need to know what the weather is going to do. They do not all want to know the same information for the same period of time, however. For someone (i) _____ a small boat across the lake, wind or rain on that day will matter whereas a farmer might be more interested in the chances of rain over the next six months. The one thing they (ii) _____  need, however, is totally dependable information. And it is for this reason that forecasting is a very big international business. Today, because the accuracy of forecast is important to so many people, weather satellites cross from pole to pole every hour and a quarter, reporting back to earth from fifty miles up, although of course, it hasn’t always been so easy. Ancient Greek philosophers like Aristotle started weather forecasting by trying to (iii) _____ logically what was happening in the sky above them. They weren’t always right, but they understood the importance of systematic observation. But forecasting remained limited so long as people only knew what was happening in their own section of sky. It was the arrival of the electric telegraph in the 1830s that (iv) _____ forecasters to get a wider picture of the weather that was on its way. This information could then be (v) _____ on to those in its path while it was still of use.

(iv)_______

You need a rest; you look run ........

We are using up the world’s petroleum. We use it in our cars and to heat our building in winter. Farmers use petrochemicals to make the soil rich. They use them to kill insects (i) _______ eat plants. These chemicals go into rivers and lakes and kill the fish there. Thousands of pollutants also go into the air and pollute it. Winds carry this (ii) _______ air to other countries and other continents. Poor farmers use the same land over and over. The land needs a rest so it will be better next year. However, the farmers must have food this year. Poor people cut down forests (iii) _______ firewood. In some areas when the trees are gone, the land becomes desert. Poor people can’t save the environment for the (iv) _______ . This is not a problem for one country or one area of the world. It is a problem for all- humans. The people and the nations of the world must work together to (v) _______  the world’s resources.

(i)_____-

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions. Sadly, many non-disabled people have negative attitudes toward children with cognitive impairments in developing countries.

When the tenants failed to pay their bills, the authorities decided to cut......the gas supply to the flats