Prepositions - Exercises the 27th of October, 2012

1. Jane is arriving January 26 2 o'clock the afternoon. 2. It snows here every year December. We always go outside and play in the snow Christmas day. 3. Michael is leaving Friday noon. 4. Frankie started working for her law firm 1995. 5. Franklin began working on the project yesterday. 6. Normally, New Year's Eve, it's tradition to kiss the one you love midnight. 7 Don't be ridiculous; there were no telephones the seventeenth century! The telephone was invented the 1870s. 8. The plane leaves tomorrow morning 8:00 AM. 9. The hills here are covered with wildflowers early spring. 10. We met at the restaurant 6:30 and stayed 10:30.

1. She always gets up early the morning, so she can make it to class time. 2. I was sick, so I didn't go to work last Thursday, but I did go to work Friday. 3. Mary stopped talking the middle of her story, and suddenly started to cry. I think we were all crying the time she finished telling us what had happened. 4. Late night, you can here coyotes howling in the distance. 5. Just wait a second, I'll be there a minute. 6. I need to give my parents a call. I haven't talked to them over a month. 7. Barbara is going to start her new job next September.. 8. The professor said the first day of the course that there would be a big final test the

end of the semester. 9. I have been sitting here more than an hour. If they don't arrive the next ten minutes, I'm leaving. 10. We were really worried first because the banks were closed Saturdays, so we couldn't exchange money. But the end, everything worked out because we were able to exchange money at the hotel.

1. We have DSL Internet access work, but I don't have a high-speed connection home. 2. The kids are learning about the Civil War their history class school. 3. Toby was the hospital for two weeks after his motorcycle accident the freeway. 4. Jane and Debbie saw dolphins the ocean while they were having a picnic the beach. 5. Fred loves to go camping the desert, but Kyle prefers to camp the mountains. 6. The conference was held a ski resort Telluride, a small town southwest Colorado. 7. You can buy stamps the post office Delancy Street. 8. The old man who was standing the corner yelled at the kids who were playing the street. 9. While they were hiking Ridgeback Mountain, Laurelle and Frank saw a bear the woods. 10. They have a small house a lake in the countryside. When I visit them, I always love to sit the shore and watch the kids swimming the lake.

1. You can buy your rail passes the ticket counter any train station the country.

2. The brown bears found Kodiak Island are the largest the world.

3. There is no life the moon, but there are many forms of life the ocean floor.

4. She bought her wedding dress an exclusive shop Fifth Avenue.

5. Nathan was able to exchange money the exchange counter the airport.

6. If you want anything to eat, there is a freshly baked chocolate cake the table the kitchen and plenty of food the refrigerator.

7. While Shirley was in Tacy's department store the mall, she ran into Evan and Lea the furniture department.

8. While Dave was the top of the Eiffel Tower, he could see several tourist boats the Seine, the river that runs through Paris.

9. I stood line for thirty minutes the ticket window the movie theater to get tickets for the film.

10. Mike was sitting his desk his office work when Bill called; Bill was Asia on business.

1. Donna went the store, but I don't think she found what she was looking for because she came back almost immediately. 2. As Samantha was climbing the swimming pool, she slipped and fell back . 3. The post office is just the street on the left near the hospital.

4. Lily had problems climbing back the tree house because she had injured her ankle as she was climbing . 5. She didn't have any difficulty pulling the parking space, but as she was backing , she scratched the car parked next to her. 6. Although you can take an elevator the top of the Eiffel Tower, we decided to walk . I was exhausted by the time we got to the top. 7. When Mrs. Sims saw the kids playing on the roof she screamed, "You kids had better come there, right now!" 8. You can go now; Dr. Wilson is ready to see you. 9. Our customer service center will help you solve that problem. Just walk the hall and take the elevator the second floor. 10. Just as Debbie was stepping the elevator, she realized she was on the wrong floor, so she quickly jumped back before the doors closed.

1. While they were hiking the forest, Laurelle and Frank saw a mountain lion. 2. We walked the river looking for a way to get it, but there was no bridge. 3. When the kids saw the snake in the grass, they started running screaming hysterically. 4. The train passed nine tunnels on the way to Denver. 5. They strolled the beach watching the sunset. 6. The plane flew the Grand Canyon on the way to Los Angeles. 7. Several animals, including emus, ran the road in front of the car as they were driving the outback of Australia. 8. They walked the building twice looking for the entrance. 9. The cruise ship passed the Golden Gate Bridge as it was leaving San Francisco. 10. His dog is always trying to escape from the backyard. Sometimes he manages to jump the fence, and sometimes he digs a hole and crawls it.

1. The computer printer is the table the computer. 2. Shawn and Noel stood the tree waiting for the rain to stop. 3. I didn't see the mailbox even though I was standing right it. 4. Everybody was already sitting the table waiting for dinner to be served. 5. Every evening, the dog sits the dinner table begging for food. 7. Debra was sitting the computer surfing the Internet. 8. I asked the woman standing me on the bus where I should get out. 9. My car keys were the desk, but I couldn't see them because they were a magazine. 10. When I went to buy the concert tickets, there was nobody the ticket sales window.

1. Her wallet wasn't her purse; it was her coat pocket. 2. Tony had an ink stain his coat pocket. 3. Philip waited the movie theater for Simone, so they could buy tickets and go in together. 4. While Sam was talking to the bank teller, the woman him in line kept sighing impatiently. 5. There was a sign the restaurant saying that it was closed for renovations. 6. His grandfather, who had passed away years before, was the painting which was hanging the wall. 7. Shelly didn't see Bobby because he was hiding the couch. 8. Frank had his passport his hand as he boarded the plane. 9. There is an electrical outlet the desk. Can you help me move the desk, so I can plug in the computer? 10. The kids were sitting the floor the TV when Barbara came home.

Bring + Prepositions
Gap-fill Exercise
Fill in the blanks using the words in the box below along around away back into on out over through up

1. His heart attack was brought by too much stress at work.

2. I didn't realize he had gotten divorced. I'm so embarrassed - I wish I hadn't brought his wife at the party.

3. Your new dress really brings the color of your eyes.

4. Don't you bring those dirty shoes my clean house!

5. What exactly did you bring from the experience. Did you learn anything at all?

6. They brought a pizza and some beer and we watched an old movie on television.

7. You are only allowed to bring two bottles of wine customs when you enter this country.

8. When we go camping, don't forget to bring the binoculars so we can look for wildlife.

9. Lisa is going to pick Ted up at the airport and bring him to the house.

10. Sarah doesn't want to go skiing this winter, but we still have time to bring her .

Complete the text below by choosing the correct prepositions Suddenly Uncle Henry stood .

"There's a cyclone coming, Em," he called his wife. "I'll go look after the stock." Then he ran toward the sheds where the cows and horses were kept.

Aunt Em dropped her work and came the door. One glance told her of the danger close hand.

"Quick, Dorothy!" she screamed. "Run for the cellar!"

Toto jumped of Dorothy's arms and hid under the bed, and the girl started to get him. Aunt Em, badly frightened, threw open the trap door the floor and climbed down the ladder the small, dark hole. Dorothy caught Toto last and started to follow her aunt. When she was halfway across the room there came a great shriek the wind, and the house shook so hard that she lost her footing and sat down suddenly the floor.
AFRICAN TRAVEL JOURNAL January 9, 1995 We took a morning bus Arusha, and after checking a very simple hotel, started our search for a safari company. We went to Sunny Safaris, but nothing seems to be going soon. Next, we went to Cheetah Safaris. They have a safari going Tuesday. It sounds like a good deal $65 a day; we didn't want to search forever, so we chose them. While walking around town this afternoon, we met Joan and Per from Lamu. They introduced us Senara who will be taking the Safari us tomorrow. Later, we had dinner a less than exiting restaurant. January 10, 1995

Our first day of safari! Uh, oh! Unfortunately, we had a late start after trying to get some cash for Reiner and Walter. On the way the park, our driver John first stopped two gas stations, and then we went to his house to pick some clothes. We didn't get Lake Manyara until after one o'clock. Can you believe John actually suggested stopping a restaurant before going the park? We all said, "No way!" Bigfoot, also known Sasquatch, is an alleged ape-like animal said to inhabit the remote forested areas of much North America, with many of the sightings occurring the Pacific northwest of the United States and British Columbia, Canada. Bigfoot is sometimes described a large, bipedal hairy hominoid creature, and many believe that this animal, or its close relatives, may be found the world under different regional names, such as the Yeti of Tibet and Nepal. Bigfoot is also one of the more famous examples of cryptozoology, a subject that has been dismissed pseudoscience by mainstream researchers. It is because of that in addition unreliable eyewitness accounts and a lack physical evidence that very few scientists accept the likelihood Bigfoot's existence. Most who have expressed an opinion consider the stories of Bigfoot to be a combination unsubstantiated folklore and hoaxes.

Complete the text below by choosing the correct prepositions Turkey is a Eurasian country that stretches the Anatolian peninsula in southwestern Asia and the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. The region comprising modern Turkey has seen the birth major civilizations including the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires. Owing its strategic location the intersection of two continents, Turkey's culture is a unique blend Eastern and Western tradition, often described as a bridge the two civilizations. Turkey is a democratic, secular, unitary, constitutional republic whose political system was established in 1923 the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatrk following the fall of the Ottoman Empire the aftermath of World War I. Since then, Turkey has increasingly integrated with the West while continuing to foster relations with the Eastern world. It is a founding member the United Nations, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the Organization for Economic Co-operation

and Development and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, a member state of the Council of Europe 1949 and of NATO 1952.

Ruth Handler, an American businesswoman, watched her daughter Barbara at play paper dolls, and noticed that she often enjoyed giving them adult roles. At the time, most children's toy dolls were representations of infants. Realizing that there could be a gap the market, she suggested the idea of an adult-bodied doll her husband Elliot, a co-founder the Mattel toy company. He was unenthusiastic about the idea, as were Mattel's directors. But during a trip Germany 1956 with her children Barbara and Kenneth, Ruth Handler discovered a German doll called the Bild Lilli doll a shop window. The adult-figured Lilli doll was exactly what Handler had mind, so she purchased three of them. She gave one her daughter and took the others back Mattel. The Lilli doll was based a popular character appearing in a comic strip of a German newspaper. Lilli was a working girl who knew what she wanted and was not above using men to get it. The Lilli doll was first sold Germany 1955, and although it was initially sold to adults, it became popular children who enjoyed dressing her up in outfits that were available separately. On her return the United States, Handler reworked the design of the doll and it was given a new name, Barbie, after Handler's daughter Barbara. The doll made its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York March 9, 1959. This date is also used as Barbie's official birthday.

Long before any recorded human history in Yellowstone National Park, a massive volcanic eruption spewed an immense volume ash that covered all of the western U.S., much the Midwest, northern Mexico and some areas of the eastern Pacific Coast. The eruption dwarfed that of Mt. St. Helens 1980 and left a huge caldera. Yellowstone typically erupts every 600,000 900,000 years with the last event occurring 640,000 years ago. Its eruptions are

among the largest known to have ever occurred Earth, producing drastic climate change the aftermath. The park was named the yellow rocks seen the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone a deep gash in the Yellowstone Plateau that was formed floods during previous ice ages and river erosion from the Yellowstone River.

Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made solid glass; there was nothing it except a tiny golden key, and Alice's first thought was that it might belong one of the doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too small, but any rate it would not open any them. However, on the second time round, she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: she tried the little golden key in the lock, and her great delight it fitted!

Alice opened the door and found that it led a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage the loveliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get of that dark hall, and wander about those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway; 'and even if my head would go through,' thought poor Alice, 'it would be very little use without my shoulders.'

I went down even into the vaults, where the dim light struggled, although to do so was a dread my very soul. Into two of these I went, but saw nothing except fragments old coffins and piles of dust. In the third, however, I made a discovery.

There, in one of the great boxes, of which there were fifty in all, a pile of newly dug earth, lay

the Count! He was either dead or asleep. I could not say which, for eyes were open and stony, but without the glassiness of death, and the cheeks had the warmth of life through all their pallor. The lips were as red as ever. But there was no sign movement, no pulse, no breath, no beating the heart.

I bent over him, and tried to find any sign of life, but vain. He could not have lain there long, for the earthy smell would have passed away a few hours. By the side of the box was its cover, pierced with holes here and there. I thought he might have the keys him, but when I went to search I saw the dead eyes, and in them dead though they were, such a look hate, though unconscious of me or my presence, that I fled the place, and leaving the Count's room by the window, crawled again up the castle wall. Regaining my room, I threw myself panting upon the bed and tried to think.

PIZZA BIANCO

This pizza is made no toppings other than salt and oil and is served as a snack.

Preparation:

Preheat oven 500F.

Whisk together hot water and 1/2 a teaspoon of kosher salt until most of the salt is dissolved, then whisk one tablespoon of oil.

Coat the dough lightly flour, then stretch it a floured surface into a 13- by 9-inch rectangle. Transfer the dough an oiled baking pan, stretching the dough to cover the bottom of the pan. Dimple the dough pressing your fingertips all over, then brush the oil mixture.

Bake the pizza a pan on the bottom rack of the oven until it is golden brown top and bottom, about 10 to 12 minutes. Transfer the pizza a rack, then brush it with the remaining oil and sprinkle it with the remaining kosher salt. Serve the pizza warm, torn pieces.

Makes 4 servings.

His wife had always spoiled him outrageously. No doubt of that. Take, example, the matter of the pillows merely. Old man Minick slept high. That is, he thought he slept high. He liked two plump pillows his side of the great, wide, old-fashioned cherry bed. He would sink them with a vast grunting and sighing and puffing expressive of nerves and muscles relaxed and gratified. But the morning there was always one pillow the floor. He had thrown it there. Always, the morning, there it lay, its plump white cheek turned reproachfully at him from the side of the bed. Ma Minick knew this, naturally, after forty years of the cherry bed. But she never begrudged him that extra pillow. Each morning, when she arose, she picked it on her way to shut the window. Each morning the bed was made with two pillows his side of it, as usual.

On August 31, 1869, Mary Ward became what is believed to be the first recorded victim an automobile accident when she was thrown of a motor vehicle and killed in Parsonstown, Ireland. Some years later, on September 13, 1899, Henry Bliss entered the history books as North America's first motor vehicle fatality when he was hit stepping a New York City trolley. Since that time, in excess of 20 million people worldwide have lost their lives motor vehicle accidents.

The need a means of analysing and mitigating the effects of motor vehicle accidents human bodies was felt very soon after the commercial production automobiles began in the late 1890s, and by the 1930s, with the automobile a common part of daily life, the number motor vehicle deaths was becoming a serious issue. Death rates had surpassed 15.6 fatalities per 100 million vehicle-miles and were continuing to climb; vehicle designers saw this as a clear indication it was time to do some research ways to make their products safer.

The planet Mars, I scarcely need remind the reader, revolves about the sun a mean distance 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives the sun is barely half of that received this world. It must be, if the nebular hypothesis has any truth, older than our world; and long before this earth ceased to be molten, life its surface must have begun its course. The fact that it is scarcely one seventh the volume of the earth must have accelerated its cooling the temperature which life could begin. It has air and water and all that is necessary the support of animated existence.

Richard Halliburton's book "Second Book of Marvels" 1938 said the Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from the Moon. This belief has persisted today, assuming urban legend status, sometimes even entering school textbooks. Arthur Waldron, author the most authoritative history of the Great Wall, has speculated that the belief might go back the fascination with the "canals" once believed to exist Mars. The logic was simple: If people Earth can see the Martians' canals, the Martians might be able to see the Great Wall. But in fact, the Great Wall is only a few meters wide - similar in size highways and airport runways - and is about the same color as the soil surrounding it. It cannot be seen the unaided eye from the distance of the Moon, much less from Mars. If the Great Wall were visible from the Moon, it would also be apparent from near-Earth orbit, but from there it is barely visible, and only nearly perfect conditions. The Great Wall of China is no more conspicuous outer space than many other man-made objects.

The first reference Great Britain in European annals which we know was the statement in the fifth century B. C. of the Greek historian Herodotus, that Phoenician sailors went to the British Isles tin. He called them the "Tin Islands." The people whom these sailors traded must have been Celts, for they were the first inhabitants Britain who worked in metal instead stone. The Druids were priests of the Celts centuries before Christ came. There is a tradition Ireland that they first arrived there 270 B. C., seven hundred years before St. Patrick. The account of them written Julius Csar half a century before Christ speaks mainly of the Celts of Gaul, dividing them two ruling classes who kept the people almost in a state slavery; the knights, who waged

war, and the Druids who had charge of worship and sacrifices, and were addition physicians, historians, teachers, scientists, and judges.

I could not help laughing the ease with which he explained his process deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I remarked, "the thing always appears me to be so ridiculously simple that I could easily do it myself, though each successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good as yours."

"Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing himself down an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up the hall to this room."

"Frequently."

"How often?"

"Well, some hundreds times."

"Then how many are there?"

"How many? I don't know."

"Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is just my point. Now, I know

that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are interested these little problems, and since you are good enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you may be interested this." He threw over a sheet of thick, pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open the table. "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud."

A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system that consists stars, an interstellar medium of gas and dust, and dark matter. Typical galaxies range dwarfs with as few as ten million stars up giants with one trillion stars, all orbiting a common center gravity. Galaxies can also contain a large number of multiple star systems and star clusters as well as various types of interstellar clouds. Historically, galaxies have been categorized according their apparent shape. Interactions between nearby galaxies, which may ultimately result a galaxy merger, may induce episodes of significantly increased star formation, producing what is called a starburst galaxy. There are probably more than a hundred billion galaxies the observable universe. Most galaxies are a thousand a hundred thousand parsecs diameter and are usually separated one another by distances the order of millions of parsecs. Intergalactic space, the space between galaxies, is filled a tenuous gas with an average density less than one atom cubic meter. There is some evidence that supermassive black holes may exist at the center of many, if not all, galaxies. These massive objects are believed to be the primary cause of active galactic nuclei found the core of some galaxies. The Milky Way galaxy appears to harbor least one such object within its nucleus.

Orchids are the largest and most diverse the flowering plant families, with over 800 described genera and 25,000 species. Some sources give 30,000 species, but the exact number is unknown since classification differs greatly the academic world. Revisions of different genera occur a monthly basis and this will increase the growing use genetic research and biochemistry. More than 100,000 hybrids and cultivars, produced horticulturists, have been created the introduction of tropical species the 19th century. The Kew "World Checklist of Orchids" includes about 24,000 accepted species. About 800 new species are added each year. Orchids, along grasses, are considered examples the most advanced (derived) floral evolution through their interactions pollinators and their symbiosis orchid mycorrhizal fungi.

The intense interest aroused the public by what was known the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, view of the world-wide notoriety which attended it, I have been asked, both my friend Poirot and the family themselves, to write an account the whole story. This, we trust, will effectually silence the sensational rumours which still persist. I will therefore briefly set down the circumstances which led my being connected the affair. I had been invalided home from the Front; and, after spending some months a rather depressing Convalescent Home, was given a month's sick leave. Having no near relations or friends, I was trying to make my mind what to do, when I ran John Cavendish. I had seen very little him for some years. Indeed, I had never known him particularly well. He was a good fifteen years my senior, for one thing, though he hardly looked his forty-five years. As a boy, though, I had often stayed Styles, his mother's place in Essex.

For 28 years, the stark cement blocks of the notorious Berlin Wall reminded Germans and travelers Germany that they were on the front lines the Cold War. As the western city rebuilt its cement cage, a traumatized population began to express their anger in paint. What started as graffiti on an architectural scar grew extended visual commentaries on a divided nation caught in the ultimate ideological battle. And then, the battle ended. As Germans rushed to tear their symbol of division, some realized a work art was being destroyed as well - and that least part of it was worth saving.

An immune system is a collection of mechanisms within an organism that protects infection identifying and killing pathogens. It detects pathogens ranging viruses parasitic worms and distinguishes them the organism's normal cells and tissues. Detection is complicated as pathogens adapt and evolve new ways to successfully infect the host organism. To meet this challenge, several mechanisms have evolved that recognize and neutralize pathogens. Even simple unicellular organisms such as bacteria possess enzyme systems that protect viral infections. Other basic immune mechanisms evolved ancient eukaryotes and remain their modern descendants, such as plants, fish, reptiles, and insects. These mechanisms include antimicrobial peptides called defensins, pattern recognition receptors, and the complement system. More sophisticated mechanisms, however, developed relatively recently, with the evolution of vertebrates. The immune systems of vertebrates such as humans consist many types of proteins, cells, organs, and tissues, which interact an elaborate and dynamic network. As part of this more complex immune response, the vertebrate system adapts time to recognize particular pathogens more efficiently. The adaptation process creates immunological memories and allows even more effective

protection future encounters these pathogens. This process of acquired immunity is the basis of vaccination.

1 He made his escape by jumping ______ a window and jumping ______ a waiting car. over / into between / into out of / between out of / into up to / out of 2 To get to the Marketing department, you have to go ______ those stairs and then ______ the corridor to the end. over / into between / into out of / between out of / into up / along 3 I saw something about it ______ television. in on at through with 4 I couldn't get in ______ the door so I had to climb ______ a window. through / in between / into out of / between out of / into up / along 5 She took the key ______ her pocket and put it ________ the lock. over / into

between / into out of / in by / on up to / out of 6 He drove ______ me without stopping and drove off ______ the centre of town. from / into towards / over along / up past / towards in / next to 7 I took the old card ______ the computer and put ______ the new one. through / in out of / in out of / between out of / into up / along 8 I went ______ him and asked him the best way to get ______ town. from / into towards / over along / up by / on up to / out of 9 It's unlucky to walk ______ a ladder in my culture. I always walk ______ them. through / in out of / in under / around out of / into up / along 10 The restaurant is ______ the High Street, ______ the cinema. through / in out of / in under / around in / next to up / along 11 Sally left school ______ the age of 16 and went to work ______ a bank. through / in out of / in under / around in / next to

at / in 12 He jumped ______ the wall and ______ the garden. over / into towards / over along / up by / on up to / out of 13 He was driving ______ 180 miles per hour when he crashed ______ the central barrier. at / into out of / in under / around in / next to at / in 14 She ran ______ the corridor and ______ the stairs to the second floor. from / into towards / over along / up by / on in / next to 15 John is the person standing ______ the window, ______ the woman with the long blonde hair. at / into beside / next to under / around in / next to at / in 16 When the bull ran ______ me, I jumped ______ the fence. from / into towards / over beside / next to by / on in / next to 17 Look, that car's ______ fire. through with in into on 18 He saw a parking space ______ two cars and drove ______ it. over / into

between / into along / up by / on up to / out of 19 Harry comes to work ______ car but I prefer to come ______ foot. at / into beside / next to by / on in / next to at / in 20 He took the book ______ the shelf and put it ______ his bag. from / into at / into beside / next to by / on in / next to