CAE Paper Three Use of English

PART 1: CLOZE VOCABULARY

From the words listed below, choose the ones which best fit the space, A, B, C or D.

PARROT RUSTLING

Parrots and macaws have become so (01)......... that special varieties of these birds are
(02) ......... up to £9,000 each on the black market in Britain. Macaws from Brazil cost
from £1,000 and parrots from Australia can cost £7,500 a pair.

The demand for parrots, cockatoos and macaws has led to a (03)......... increase in thefts
from zoos, wildlife parks and pet shops. London and Whipsnade zoos are among the
many places from which parrots have been stolen. Some thefts have not been (04).........
in an effort to prevent further (05).......... Parrot rustling, as it is known among bird
fanciers, has increased rapidly in Britain since 1976 when imports and exports of
(06)......... birds became (07)......... controlled.

Quarantine controls, (08)......... with the scarcity of many types of parrots in the wild in
Africa, Australia, Indonesia, and South America, have caused a shortage of birds which
can be sold legally under (09).......... This has sent prices to (10)......... levels.
Working at night and equipped with wire-cutters, nets and substances to dope the birds,
the rustlers are prepared to (11)......... serious risks to capture the parrots they want. At
Birdworld, a specialist zoo, thieves (12)......... two parrots after picking their (13).........
through an enclosure containing cassowaries, The cassowary is a large flightless bird,
related to the emu, which can be extremely (14)........., and has been (15)......... to kill
humans with blows from its powerful legs.

01. A. costly B. extinct C. outlandish D. rare

02. A. raising B. reaching C. lifting D. fetching

03. A. acute B. peak C. sharp D. high

04. A. published B. publicised C. advertised D. told

05. A. happenings B. incidents C. acts D. activities

06. A. unusual B. uncommon C. exotic D. strange

07. A. tightly B. hardly C. toughly D. grimly

08. A. coupled B. doubled C. attached D. accompanied

09. A. warranty B. guarantee C. licence D. law

10. A. unknown B. unheard C. record D. highest

11. A. sustain B. assume C. take D. make

12. A. thieved B. robbed C. misappropriated D. stole

13. A. way B. road C. path D. lane

14. A. aggressive B. fighting C. bad-tempered D. rough

15. A. heard B. known C. considered D. able

 PART 1: CLOZE VOCABULARY

From the words listed below, choose the ones which best fit the space, A, B, C or D.

OLYMPIC GAMES

It is not so much the scandals and disputes of recent years that have (01)..... the
Olympic Games. It is their (02).... enormity, their excessive cost, their (03)..... of
national pride. One very sensible suggestion is that future Games should be (04)..... to
individual events in which one person clearly wins. All team games would (05)....., and
no one would feel any loss at the disappearance of Olympic soccer, a (06)..... shadow of
the more professional game.

Anything which required judging would also be (07)...... One reason for this is the
difficulty of obtaining fair and accurate judges. An (08)..... example of this is the case of
Jacqueline de Bief, a former (9) world figure skating champion. She revealed to the
(10)..... that she was sometimes offered generous (11)..... in exchange for what one
newspaper called "an amorous adventure".

If events that required judging were excluded, it would also (12)..... the Games of
boxing, wrestling, and the boring diving competitions. It would also eliminate sailing,
largely a matter of boat building, and horse jumping, largely a matter of the horse.
Under (13)..... circumstances, the individual would be (14)..... to his rightful place, and a
(15)..... size to the Games would be achieved.

01. A. warned B. threatened C. reproached D. shocked

02. A. sheer B. vast C. heavy D. massive

03. A. pampering B. easing C. indulgence D. spoiling

04. A. held B. restricted C. limit D. decided

05. A. remove B. depart C. leave D. go

06. A. slight B. dull C. pale D. empty

07. A. undone B. left C. omit D. excluded

08. A. extreme B. outside C. upset D. unlimited

09. A. former B. ex C. passed D. formerly

10. A. paper B. press C. journal D. magazine

11. A. awards B. marks C. numbers D. odds

12. A. remove B. take C. rid D. scratch

13. A. such B. this C. most D. normal

14. A. retained B. ascended C. renovated D. restored

15. A. sane B. approximate C. accepted D. sensible

 PART 1: CLOZE VOCABULARY

From the words listed below, choose the ones which best fit the space, A, B, C or D.

THE LOTTERY

The (01).............................. of lottery winners change their lives

(02).............................. little, and continue on their settled (03)..............................,
happy ever after. A couple of years ago, a Mr David Horabin won a million. He had been
struggling to make a success of his dry cleaning shop for the (04)..............................
12 months. He accepted his cheque in a small ceremony at the (05)..............................
at 2.30, and by three o'clock he had reopened for business. The reaction of Mr Pasquale
Consalvo who won $30 million in the New York state lottery was very
(06)............................... He was unhappy not to be able to fulfil his
(07).............................. to go to work as usual on the day he won. He also said that if
the money made him unhappy he would give it back. In fact, the
(08) .............................. of his life being (09).............................. a misery by his
new-found wealth are almost as (10) ........................., though not quite, as the sixty
million-to-one odds he (11).............................. to take a jackpot that had remained
(12).............................. through six previous draws. Gambling small
(13).............................. on the lottery is a harmless if futile (14)...............................
But gambling can become an addiction, increasingly so as the activity becomes socially
(15)...............................

01. A. most B. majority C. number D. quantity

02. A. but B. a C. scarcely D. not

03. A. way B. path C. road D. habit

04. A. earlier B. before C. recent D. past

05. A. site B. building C. company D. premises

06. A. appropriate B. linked C. similar D. same

07. A. passion B. ambition C. desire D. vocation

08. A. possibility B. probability C. chances D. odds

09. A. created B. made C. sent D. got

10. A. thin B. slim C. meagre D. reduced

11. A. cracked B. overwhelmed C. beat D. overthrew

12. A. unaccepted B. undone C. rejected D. unclaimed

13. A. quantities B. amounts C. money D. change

14. A. action B. sport C. hobby D. pastime

15. A. fashionable B. proper C. acceptable D. appropriate

 PART 2: CLOZE USAGE

Complete with one word only in each space.

HEALTH AND CIGARETTES

In many Western countries, girls are more (01) ............. to smoke than boys. It's the
girls who want to look "tough and grown-up." The result is that (02) ............. lung
cancer in American men has fallen (03) ............. the first time in 50 years, the disease
is (04) ............. in women. The decrease in the disease among men is attributed to a
decrease in smoking among men (05) ............. the government's first warning of a
(06) ............. between cigarettes and disease in 1964. On the other hand, lung cancer is
now expected to overtake breast cancer (07) ............. the principal fatal cancer among
women. (08) ............. your son or daughter is a non-smoker, there is another good (09)
............. for rejecting a smoker as a life-long mate. Smokers don't just ruin their own
health by (10) ............. up. They are a menace to (11) ............. Second-hand smoke is
lethal. As the 18th report on smoking by the United States Surgeon General
(12) ............. it: "Involuntary smoking is a (13) ............. of disease, including lung
cancer, in healthy non-smokers." (14) ............. to the report, at home, the children of
parents who smoke (15) ............. the effects in their respiratory systems. Smokers
make their own kids sick.

PART 2: CLOZE USAGE

Complete with one word only in each space.

THE WELSH

When it (01)..... to violent nationalism, the Welsh are not in the (02)..... league as the
Basques or the Northern Irish, but they can be bad (03)...... The Welsh do have a
distinct nationality, (04)..... a language and literature of their own. Indeed, they have
their own cultural festival, with music and singing, (05)..... an Eisteddfod, which dates
back to 1176. The Eisteddfod forms (06)..... of the Gorsedd, or assembly, founded many
centuries before the Christian era. At the Eisteddfod, the poets, or bards, wear long
white, flowing robes, and (07)..... themselves very seriously.

(08)..... Brittany, Wales is rather isolated. It is a mountainous lump (09)..... England and
the Irish Sea. (10)..... it is isolated, and because it contains little (11)..... stealing, the
place has been (12)..... to its own devices, so that half a million people (13)..... speak
the ancient Welsh language. (14)....., the proportion of the population who speak Welsh
has fallen (15)..... 1960 from about 30 per cent to about 20 per cent.
Complete with one word only in each space.

THE ONE-EYED GAMESTER PART 2

In Britain, 98 per cent of households have at (01).............................. one television set

and an average of 25 hours a week is spent in (02).............................. of it. 30 per
cent of homes now have video machines, and the number is rising rapidly. This average
of 25 hours a week is a staggering amount of time taken (03).............................. of
people's lives.

(04).............................. do they watch? Mostly, it appears, game shows and soap

opera, usually (05).............................. American origin. Game and quiz shows -
(06).............................. is a difference between (07)..............................: games you
stand up, quizzes you sit down - are immensely popular. They began in the United States
in 1955 with The 64 Thousand Dollar Question, which enabled contestants to win big
money (08).............................. answering complex questions. It became an overnight
sensation, but three years later the bubble burst. Several contestants - the
(09).............................. that lost - charged that popular quiz shows were rigged. The
scandal shook the TV industry and forced the networks to kill (10)..............................
the shows.

They were resurrected in 1961. They are still booming. There are 21 game shows
flourishing (11).............................. American networks, the biggest and latest being
Chance of a Lifetime in which contestants can win a million dollars.
(12).............................. is these big money shows that draw the big audiences, and
thus the advertising sponsors. For the networks, it's cheap. A programming manager for
CBS says, "It costs around $100,000 to put (13).............................. a show, and
efficient producers can shoot five programmes, or a week's worth of programmes, in one
day. Afternoon soaps cost twice or three (14).............................. as much to produce
and you can only tape one half-hour segment a day. So it boils (15)..............................
to economics."

A DISCONTENTED PARENT PART 2

For three years, on and (01).............................., the teachers in Britain had been on
strike or going slow. One parent, (02).............................. daughter received at the end
of the summer a computer print-out telling her she had failed her school-leaving
examinations (known in England (03).............................. O-level), expressed the anger
of many:

"... when someone I love, who has worked hard and intelligently, is reduced
(04).............................. tears by a computer print-out I start to look for reasons. I
start to reflect on her (05).............................. throughout the year to share textbooks
with a friend. I reflect on the number of classes she attended which the relevant teacher,
in pursuit of a dispute, (06).............................. not.... I reflect on the teacher who did
not and does not set homework (07).............................. he 'doesn't believe in it.'
Perhaps most of all, I reflect on (08).............................. might have been,
(09).............................. not my daughter spent a crucial year in her life
(10).............................. treated like an educational football by a profession so cosseted
that faced with the threat of being assessed it walked (11).............................. the job.

"My wife and I cannot be the (12).............................. parents in this country who do
not give a damn what teachers believe in. What we believe in is the right of our children
to an education uninterrupted by disputes and untrammelled by pseudo-philosophical
stances (13).............................. homework which are at best irrelevant and at worst
plain idle. It may be that the anger and resentment I feel now is no substitute
(14).............................. calm, rational thought followed by constructive action. But the
first member of the National Union of Teachers who thinks of throwing that one at me
had (15).............................. rehearse it first. In front of a mirror."
 PART 3: ERROR RECOGNITION
Most but not all of the following lines contain one error. There may be a
spelling or punctuation or grammatical mistake, a word may be wrongly used,
or the line may contain an unnecessary word. Underline the error. If a line is
correct, tick ( ) it. STEEPLECHASING

01. Steeplechasing early began in the eighteenth century as a sport among the fox-hunting

02. gentry. In those days, they raced through the countryside to a place marked by a

03. distant church spire, or steeple. It was a reckless and dangerous sport. By 1830,

04. it became a part of formal racing, and is today an established winter sport. The

05. courses, which there are over 40 in England and nearly 30 in Ireland, have

06. artificial barriers in place of the real ditches, walls, streams and hedges. From

07. October to March, hundreds of steeplechase jockeys, professional and amateur,

08. risk life and limbs. Of all the races in the steeplechasing calendar, the most

09. popular is the Grand National, run over a distance of ten kilometres and forty

10. high jumps. Everyone in the country takes an interest to it and most people

11. seems to buy a sweepstake ticket, or put a pound or two on the horse they think

12. will win. In some years, where the going is especially bad, as

13. much as three-quarters of the horses will not finish the race

BUFFALOBURGERS
01. Buffalo Bill and men like him hunted the American bison to exhaustion. In 1900,

02. with the West tamed, there were only a few hundred buffalo over. Today, there are

03. thousands. There meat is in demand for buffaloburgers. A buffalo steak is the

04. smart thing to order, and restaurants throughout the United States have supplies

05. flown in daily. One rancher, Mr Roy Huck, has 3,500 heads on his 50,000-acre

06. ranch in South Dakota. He says: "We owe a lot to the conservationist which

07. rescued a small herd 70 years ago and saved the buffalo from dying." With the

08. growth of buffalo ranching in recent years, it is reckoned there are now 50,000,

09. all descended from the handfull who were saved. For a rancher, buffalo have many

10. advantages. They are wild animals and look after themselves in their nature

11. habitat. In winter, they don't have to be brought in because they can dig through the

12. snow to find food. They have a strong sense of survival. Unlike cattle, they do not

13. need special care. They are decease-free, and can live and reproduce longer.
YOGI FACES GRISLY FATE
01. Yellowstone National Park is home to Yogi Bear. So Yogi Bear, as everyone ought to
know,

02. ranks only second next to Peanuts in the popular strip-cartoon world. He is,
therefore, dear to

03. the heart of every American child. Whatever it happens to Yogi becomes a matter of
national

04. concern. And it does appear that Yogi is in to deep trouble. He is in danger of
extermination.

05. Or, at least, his real-life brothers are. Out there in Wyoming, in the Yellowstone Park,
there

06. used to be more hundreds of grizzly bears. A few years ago, there were about 250.
Last

07. year, the number had dropped to just over hundred. And now ecologists claim that
within a

08. few years, to as far as Yellowstone is concerned, the grizzly will be extinct. For
almost a

09. hundred years, the bears had been feeding at the great rubbish dumps which are
being found

40. in the park's remoter regions. They found out the collected dumps of travellers'
garbage a

11. source of food, available all year round about. Often, the bears would arrive at a
dump in

12. a great huge gang, thirty or forty strong. Then, suddenly, the park administrators ordered all
13. the dumps to be closed up, and any bear found near them to be shot. Hungry bears raged
through the park.

EDUCATION IN BRITAIN
01. Parents in Britain are being required by law to see that their children receive full-time

02. education between the ages of 5 and 16. At the present, there are about nine million

03. school-children at about 40,000 schools. The number is increasing, mainly because of some

04. increase in the birth rate, and such primary school numbers are very high.

05. Although the birth-rate has now stabilised, each year more of children stay

06. on at school from beyond the minimum leaving age. There is, therefore, a

07. continuing need for more teachers and more school buildings. In England, Wales and

08. Northern Ireland, it is usual for boys and girls to be taught all together in primary schools: that

09. is, up to the age of 11, but about half the secondary schools are for boys and girls only.
10. Although mixed schools are more common in Wales and Scotland, where all but a few city

11. schools take both boys and girls. As to a result of the reorganisation of schools, and the

12. introduction of comprehensive education, much more children are attending co-educational

13. establishments. While in the independent sector, more than half the schools are

14. co-educational; but of those that providing secondary education, the majority are either for

15. boys or girls. These independent schools do receive no grants from public funds,

16. and charge fees. They are of two types: the preparatory schools and the public schools.

PART 4: WORD FORMATION

Complete with a word formed from those in the list.

John Lennon

Lennon, if he is a symbol of anything, is a symbol of (01) .......... , of play. He believed

you could change the world. If you made the right gesture, a (02) .......... might take
place. His life has become a myth, and high claims are made for him. He said that the
Beatles were better known than Jesus Christ, which seemed to Christian (03) .......... a
(04) .......... and (05) .......... thing to say, but he was probably right. The (06) ..........
thing is that, by his violent death, he seems himself to have been elevated from
musician, from supreme exponent of rock and roll, to the rank of prophet, shaman,
myth. His wife, Yoko Ono, still serves as the (07) .......... of the myth, the keeper of the
relics. She says: "He certainly wasn't a person who kowtowed or tried to preserve himself
by shutting up. It's a very precious thing, I think, very (08).......... : this man who said it
in a way for all of us. People identified with him because he said the truth, especially the
truth they could not say."

01. CHILD .......................

02. TRANSFORM ......................

03. CHURCH ......................

04. SENSE ......................

05. RESPONSIBLE ......................

06. IRONY ......................

07. MAID ......................

08. COURAGE ......................

Northern Ireland

For thirty years Belfast, the capital city of Northern Ireland, was divided, torn by
(09) .......... riots, blasted by car bombs, patrolled by armoured cars. A whole
(10) .......... grew up in the city knowing nothing else but what the Irish (11) .......... call
"the troubles". The place suffered not only from violence, but from poverty, low
(12) .........., lack of incentive, lack of a future.

The young complained of (13) .......... by the police and security forces. But the
(14) .......... by terrorists, Catholic or Protestant, could be much worse. The example is
given of one 15-year-old Catholic boy with 85 offences behind him. He fled from
Northern Ireland after being told that the IRA was waiting at his home. Six cushions had
been laid out in his sitting room in(15) .......... for a (16) .......... shooting - elbows,
knees and ankles. This was a country where the concepts of law and order no longer had
any meaning.

09. SECT ......................

10. GENERATE ......................

11. EUPHEMISM ......................

12. EXPECT ......................

13. VICTIM ......................

14. HARASS ......................

15. PREPARE ......................

16. PUNISH ......................

PART 4: WORD FORMATION

Complete with a word formed from those in the list.

Unwelcome Guests

Throughout east London, new buildings go up, and unwanted tenants move in, often
before the new ones arrive. The story of Richard Glanville is one example. He explains:

"The flat was just what we wanted and we thought we were lucky to get it. We snapped
it up quickly. The (01) ............... were still here when we moved in, and in the first few
months we had no sign of our new neighbours. But then they started to introduce
themselves. Our (02) ............... were first aroused when our dog started chewing up the
edges of the carpet in our bedroom. We thought he was just being deliberately
(03) ................ In fact he was trying to alert us to what lay underneath the floorboards.

"We realised there was something seriously wrong when we were woken up at four in the
morning by a scratching sound. It seemed to be coming from the wall between the
bedroom and the living room. It was a (04) ............... sound - sharp nails tearing up the
cavity walls and racing along underneath the floorboards.

"We called in the local health office, and a private firm. The (05) ............... were ripped
up and a programme of poisoning was carried out. Well, the scratching at night stopped.
But the idea of our new home was ruined. It didn't feel like a home any longer. In the
end we just wanted to get out."
In some parts of the capital, there has been an 80 per cent increase in the number of
(06) ................ There has been a huge increase in the number of (07) ...............
restaurants. More rubbish seems to get dumped in the streets than ever before, and that
doesn't help.

Developers want to get people in as fast as possible, often before the building has been
completed and the drains properly connected. As a result the rats can sometimes be in
there ready and waiting for the new (08) ............... to move in.

Unfortunately, a lot of people have an `out of sight, out of mind' policy towards rodents
just because they are (09)............... But they pretty soon make their presence felt if
nothing is done about them. Rats love house-hunting and they don't pay rent.

01. BUILD ..............................

02. SUSPECT ..............................

03. DESTROY ..............................

04. NERVE ..............................

05. FLOOR ..............................

06. SIGHT ..............................

07. TAKE ..............................

08. OCCUPY ..............................

09. GROUND ..............................

Smaller Families

Over the past two hundred years the family in the western world has changed
(10) ............... In the 18th century, families were restricted by high rates of infant
(11)............... and by epidemics of smallpox and cholera which carried off children
(12) ............... With the 19th century, and improved health and hygiene, families of 10,
12 and 14 children became commonplace. The (13)............... of effective means of
contraception, increased (14) ...............and expectations of higher living standards
meant that, at the beginning of this century, the nuclear family became the norm.
Despite divorce, the nuclear family - mum and dad and two kids and a television set -
has remained the ideal to which most people have aspired. Now, however, a completely
new family unit has come on the scene, and dad is no part of it. It consists simply of
mother and child.

The new family unit was greeted in the British popular press under the title, Virgin Birth.
Of course, it isn't. It's artificial insemination, and is sought by women who seek
(15) ..............., not through the Almighty, but through medical science. According to
one report: "Many single women (just how many is not specified) want a child without
the direct involvement of a man either in its conception or in its (16) ................ Artificial
insemination by donor (AID) is a simple, cheap and (17) ............... popular means for
them to achieve pregnancy."

10. DRAMA .......................... 16.BRING.....................

11. MORTAL .......................... 17.INCREASE.....................

12. SALE ..........................

13. ARRIVE ..........................

14. URBAN ..........................

15. MOTHER ..........................

Chemical Controls

The more chemical controls are used, the more resistant the insects and microbes
become. According to Dr Robert Metcalf, professor of entomology at the University of
Illinois, "Some strains of insects and microbes have appeared that are (01) ..................
to nearly everything in our arsenal. The short-sighted and (02) .................. use of
antibiotics has produced monster bugs. And it's getting worse. Pests are now quicker to
develop resistance to new (03) .................. weapons. The earliest (04) ..................
like DDT were highly (05) .................. for many years. The (06) .................. of the
latest (07) .................. is often measured in months."

Jobs for the Boys and Girls

American ambassadors are political (08) .................., a way of thanking those who have
given time and money to the (09) .................. campaign. Take the example of Della
Newman, a Seattle real-estate broker and friend of George Bush, eminently qualified to
be Ambassador to New Zealand. Her certificate of competence from the State
Department points out: "Mrs Newman's background in the real-estate business,
combined with her many civic (10) .................., gives her the (11) ..................
qualities to make her an (12) .................. candidate for Ambassador to New Zealand."
(13) .................. diplomats have been appalled, and someone started to leak the
competence certificates, which are supposed to show that the ambassador will have a
(14) .................. of "the country's principal language, and understanding of its history,
culture and political structure." A State Department official commented: "By keeping
them (15) .................. they obviously hope to shepherd more turkeys through the
Senate." One certificate, provided to an operator of fast-food restaurants in Kansas, read
in full: "Mr Wilkins's (16) .................. background in business will serve him well as the
next US ambassador to the Netherlands."

01. RESIST ..................

02. RESPONSE ..................

03. CHEMISTRY ..................

04. INSECT ..................

05. EFFECT ..................

06. USE ..................

07. VARY ..................

08. APPOINT .................. 16.CONFIDE.................

09. PRESIDE .................. 17. EXTEND..................

10. COMMIT ..................

11. MANAGE ..................

12. EXCEL ..................

13. PROFESS ..................

14. KNOW ..................

CENSORSHIP

England has a reputation for being a land free of censorship. A number of events have
shown that the (01) .......................... is not entirely deserved. There is political
censorship and moral censorship, and both are (02) ........................... In regard to all
(03) .......................... of censorship, the law is vague and confused. Here are two
examples of what might be loosely termed political protest.

In the first case, the accused person was carrying a poster which depicted the then Prime
Minister, Mrs Thatcher, dressed in a black slip and (04) .........................., a whip in her
hand and with a stiletto heel resting on a kneeling member of her cabinet. The
(05) ......................... had to show that the average person would be alarmed or
distressed or harassed by the poster. As there were no members of the public
(06) .......................... available who would admit to being distressed, two policemen
had to qualify as the victims of this hideous (07) ........................... As all they could
admit to was a slight attack of laughter, the case was dismissed. In a different case, a
group of demonstrators were walking down Whitehall past the end of Downing Street.
One of them shouted a few rude, four-letter words and made a V-sign, a gesture of
contempt, in the direction of No 10, the Prime Minister's residence. As a result, he was
arrested and convicted of insulting (08) ........................... If you are going to protest in
Britain, you had better do it quietly.

01. REPUTE ..........................

02. DISCRIMINATE ..........................

06. READY ..........................
03. APPLY ..........................
07. PROVOKE ..........................
04. SUSPEND ..........................
08. BEHAVE ..........................
05. PROSECUTE ..........................

HARD LIFE FOR SOME YOUNG PEOPLE

But you don't have to go to distant (09) .......................... or Ugandan villages to find
young people in trouble and in need of help. The situation in England is bad enough, and
gives little optimism for a (10) ...................... in the level of (11) ......................... of
young across this (12) .......................... world. Angela Lambert, reporting for The
Independent newspaper, writes : "There are at least 50,000 (13) ..........................
people under the age of 20 in London alone, and perhaps three times as many in the
whole of England. An estimated 2,000 are squatting in derelict (14) ..........................;
10,000 are living in hostels; 2,000 in bed-and -breakfast hotels; and the rest, if they are
lucky, find temporary accommodation with friends - usually sleeping on the floor. The
(15) .........................., as is (16) .......................... obvious to any Londoner, live
rough - sleeping on park benches, in shop (17) .........................., and anywhere else
they can find. Many are permanently hungry."
 13. HOME ..........................

09. ORPHAN .......................... 14. BUILD ..........................

10. LESS .......................... 15. LUCK ..........................

11. TREAT .......................... 16. INCREASE ..........................

12. POPULATE .......................... 17. DOOR ..........................

PART 5: APPROPRIATE REGISTER

Read the formal letter. Then fill in the gaps using the most appropriate word(s). Use no
more than two words. Do not use any words from the formal letter.

LETTER FROM HOTEL TO CLIENT

Dear Mr Canelli

Thank you for your enquiry about the availability of accommodation and conference
facilities during the last two weeks of October.

We have one conference room, the Alexandra, available in that period. The Alexandra will
accommodate from 30 to 50 delegates, depending on how many attend.. You can see a
photograph of the room on page four of the enclosed brochure. Naturally, fax and telex
services, as well as secretarial assistance and translation service, are available.

I note from your letter that you expect 25 to 30 delegates to go to the meeting and will
require an equivalent number of double rooms. We advice booking a higher number of
rooms in case more decide to come than you expect. Since the hotel has 300 double
rooms, all with twin beds, we can usually offer rooms on six to four weeks notice during
the off-peak season. If less than four weeks' notice is given, difficulties may arise.

For a group booking such as yours, we offer a business terms discount of 40 per cent of
the total, excluding service charge and VAT, conditional on a minimum stay of five
consecutive nights being booked.

Yours faithfully

Jim,

Here's the hotel's answer. How does it (01)......... you? The brochure has a (02)......... of
the room taken with a wide-angle lens, (03)......... it is probably a lot smaller than you
can (04)......... from the photograph. A lot will depend on the number of people who
(05)..........

The discount sounds good, but as we (06)......... want three nights it won't (07)......... to
us. Perhaps you could get (08)......... them and see if they'll give us some sort of
(09)..........

We had better (10)......... our minds pretty soon because they want to know four weeks
in (11)........., and as we plan the conference over Easter they are sure to be rather
(12)......... booked.
A LETTER OF COMPLAINT

Hello, Mr Robinson. I'm sorry to hear that the desk we sent you has arrived at your office
so badly damaged. It must have happened during transportation, Yes, it must have fallen
from quite a way to cause that amount of damage. The best thing to do is drop a note to
the people you asked to pick it up, telling them that the thing has split right across the
top, and asking them to get it back to us. Send a copy to me, and I'll get after them for
the cost of the desk. In the meantime we'll send you another desk using our own van.

Dear Sirs

Your company delivered a self-assembly desk to this (01)..... on August 6. On receipt, I

told your (02)..... men that the outer flat-pack (03)..... was badly damaged.

Subsequently, on (04)..... the wrapping, I found the desk top to be split. The supplier,
Office Supplies Limited, of Banstead, assure me that the goods were in perfect (05).....
when (06)..... from their warehouse. I must, (07)....., conclude that the damage
occurred during (08)..... when the goods were in your care.

The desk appears to have been dropped from a considerable (09)..... so that the wooden
top has splintered and cracked completely across. It is unusable and will have to be
(10)......

The desk remains available for your inspection. I should be grateful if you would remove
it as soon as possible and deliver it to the manufacturer at Banstead to (11)..... I am
sending a copy of this letter, and who will be seeking (12)......

We need to put out a notice about next month's Jobs Forum. It happens every year, and
last year we left it too late. It gives everyone a chance to meet someone who might give
them a job, especially as we get big companies from all over the country and small firms
from nearby. Over sixty will be there. They will all send people, usually from their human
resources departments, but certainly those who are responsible for assessing and hiring
staff, and know what's what in their different firms. It gives people the chance to decide
more realistically what the choice is and what they may want to do and which particular
firms they prefer.

JOBS FORUM

The (01) ..................................... college Jobs Forum will be

(02) ..................................... over two days, 10 and 11 May. Students will have the
(03) ..................................... to meet (04) ..................................... employers, both
local and (05) ..................................... . Over 60 firms will
(06) ..................................... . Their (07) ..................................... will be able to
provide students with a wide (08) ..................................... of information about their
(09) ..................................... companies. Students will be able to question
(10) ..................................... managers and form a (11) ..................................... as
to the jobs which are on (12) ..................................... .
THE CASE FOR VEGETARIANISM

(01)........., the vets themselves are (02).........: (03)......... wished to remain

anonymous. He said, "I hardly eat any meat these days, especially not in restaurants. In
my opinion, it is not a wholesome product any more, (04)............. I don't trust many of
the producers or slaughterers I know. There is no effective (05).........." Thus, a meat
inspector on an poultry line has three to five seconds to examine each bird and judge
(06).......... One vet (07)......... admitted that if a tumour is found it is cut out but the
rest of the carcass is passed as (08).......... (09)......... that the consumer is forcing
change. Thus Gallup poll findings suggest that three million Britons now eat no red meat.
In the past five years, three new anti-meat magazines (10)..........

B have been launched A involved in meat inspection K start up

C whether or not it is G at least much of it isn't L as far as meat is concerned

healthy
H ready for eating M moreover
D speaking up
I means of policing N one who reported
E sometimes rather
worried J fit for human consumption O it would seem

F plans for the future

LIVING LONGER

For the first time, science (01)..... that the aging process (02)...... Life expectancy could
be doubled. Aging used to be mysterious and now it isn't. It is a problem that has been
solved. Scientists say (03)..... in laboratory insects (04)..... the extension of life. They
have bred fruit-flies that can live for the equivalent of about 150 human years. They
have discovered that a longer-lived fly that (05)..... one particular genetic trait. The
genes of what they call "Methuselah" fruit flies contain the recipe for a particularly
powerful protein that can neutralise damaging chemicals. These chemicals, known as
"free radicals", (06).....: a single atom of oxygen is one example. Free radicals are
produced (07)...... They are highly reactive and can tear apart important biological
molecules such as DNA. The protein (superoxide dismutase) produced by the Methuselah
fruit-flies mops up the free radicals (08)..... their destructive work. All that (09)..... is to
move from worms and flies to men, not all that far, and deliver the appropriate gene
(10)......

A cause the aging process

B has a greater abundance of

C remains to be done

D which are close

E naturally within the body

F can be slowed down

G will not create difficulties

H so that they cannot perform

I offers a realistic possibility

J inside the system

K to the human system

L that they have identified

M they expect to succeed

VANISHING FORESTS

A recent report from the United Nations indicates that the world's tropical forests are
vanishing faster (01) ....................... Up to 50 million acres a year are disappearing,
almost the area of West Germany, 50 per cent more than expected. The World Resources
Institute, (02) ......................, says (03) ...................... was "a tragedy for the
biological richness of the earth and an ominous signal for the climatic conditions of the
future." About 100 forest species become extinct every day, with irreparable loss of part
of the world's genetic resources. The report says that deforestation accounts for a third
of the world's emissions of carbon dioxide, the biggest cause of global warming.

The loss of the forests is largely the result of overpopulation. Hungry landless masses in
Africa, South America and Asia compete with commercial logging for the available
resources. At the moment, the landless masses are winning. The overwhelming bulk of
the wood and timber of tropical forests is burnt where it stands. (04) ...................... ,
only 17 per cent goes for industrial use. The rest is used for firewood. The concept
(05) ...................... is predominant. It is the central reality of the deforestation crisis. In
1988, 60 million acres of Rondonia in the Brazilian Amazon was burnt for grazing and
cropland. Billions of dollars worth of timber went up in smoke, wasted because there was
no ready economic market for it. The forest was seen to have more value as agricultural
land (06) ...................... .

A. that natural forest is spare land ready for agriculture

B. than as woodland

C. which compiled the report

D. that it is wasteful

E. than as standing forests to be harvested

F. than previously thought

G. that there would be little timber remaining

H. that the rising rate of deforestation