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12. WORD FORMATION    Test 1. Add a prefix to the verb and put it in a proper tense. appoint Attempts to communicate in a foreign language can easily misfire. My friend is always ___ (1) by his attempts to speak French. understand Once a waiter in Paris ___ (2) what he wanted and instead of beetroots brought him potatoes. He ___ (3) potatoes but when like he asked a waiter to ___ (4) them with beetroots the waiter smiled, place and ___ (5) with a plate of aubergines. The waiter also ___ (6) turn my friend attitude towards everyone he meets and when my take friend complained that they had ___ (7) the meat, Paul (that was his cook name if my friend isn’t ___ (8)) grinned. To cap it all my friend take ___ (9) the bill and accused the waiter of ___ (10) him. It was just my read friend’s awful French again! charge Test 2. Add a correct prefix to the following adjectives. 1. dependent; 2. polite; 3. logical; 4. historic; 5. Atlantic; 6. moral; 7. national; 8. relevant; 9. regular; 10. direct Test 3. Add a prefix de-, ex-, multi-, semi-, sub– to the following words. You can use each of them more than once. 1. final; 2. partner; 3. standard; 4. national; 5. section; 6. ethnic; 7. zero; 8. regulate; 9. wife; 10. code Test 4. Complete the chart with the correct noun. Words in bold will help you.  Test 5. Fill in the spaces in the following text using a suitable form of the words given at the end of the lines to form nouns. It is no exaggeration to say that the world has become а global village. Modern methods of ___ (1) have made the world much communicate smaller and the problems we face such as ___ (2) are not restricted pollute to one country. The ___ (3) of the rainforests in Brazil is destroy everyone’s problem and the ___ (4) which is common in starve many African countries is а challenge for Europe too. The ___ (5) of rare species is а tragedy for the planet as а extinct whole and the ___ (6) of oil supplies will shake the ___ (7) exhaust of the world’s economy. The ___ (8) of the environment found is the responsibility of all nations, rich and poor. protect However, uncontrolled economic ___ (9) between strong compete and weak nations leads to the ___ (10) of greater inequality create between the rich and poor nations of the world. Test 6. Fill in the spaces in the following sentences with the suitable adjectives formed from given words. 1. It is a very ___ road. danger 2. It was so ___ that she couldn’t see anything. fog 3. Everyone knows this actress. She is very ___. attract 4. This case is very ___. comfort 5. He is a ___ politician. fame 6. Great Britain is an ___ country. industry 7. She plays the guitar and she is very ___. music 8. Her mother is very ___. She economy always tries to save money. 9. The shop is in the ___ part of the city. centre 10. The people were very ___ and knowledge answered all her questions. Test 7. Fill in the spaces in the following text using a suitable negative prefix of the words given at the end of the lines. The British government has decided to take the ___ (1) decision to ban smoking in a lot of public places. Though a popular lot of people find smoking ___ (2), and though experts please all agree it is ___ (3) and that it costs the state a lot health to treat victims of smoking, it is also ___ (4) that many people deny get pleasure from the habit and find smoking resist ___ (5) when they are in company. However, it is now ___ (6) to possible deny the antisocial nature of the habit. As advertising has proved ___ (7) with many smokers, the government effect has now made smoking ___ (8) in most public places. legal Smokers who are ___ (9) to stop smoking may feel the ability new measures are unjust, but for the passive smokers for whom a room full of smoke is ___ (10) they will come as bear a breath of fresh air. Test 8. Fill in the spaces in the following text using a suitable form of the words given at the end of the lines. Speaking English Well I have a Dutch friend who speaks English ___ (1). I have always beauty wondered how the Dutch manage to learn languages so ___ (2). The Dutch, like the Germans, often success speak English ___ (3) than some native-speakers or well at least they seem to speak the language more ___ (4) than correct some English people. Wilfred says that if you want to speak English ___ (5) with a reasonable fluency accent, you should listen to tapes as ___ (6) as frequency possible. If you can afford ___ (7) to go to an occasion English speaking country, you should go but you should also study the rules of English ___ (8), especially if care you want to speak ___ (9). Wilfred also feels accuracy very ___ (10) that there are no magic solutions strength but that you simply have to work at the new language. Test 9. Fill in the spaces in the following text using a suitable form of the words given at the end of the lines. Memorial Day in the USA Honoring the dead has been a practice of many ___ (1). civil The ancient Druids, Greeks, and Romans ___ (2) decoration the graves of their loved ones with flowers. In the United States, the ___ (3) have been death honored on Memorial Day since the time of the Civil War. In 1967 a ___ (4) of President Johnson proclaim and a ___ (5) congressional resolution officially join recognized Waterloo as ‘the birthplace of Memorial Day’. And the Memorial Day is ___ (6) on observation the last Monday of May. Each year the President of the US issues a special Memorial Day ___ (7) which proclaim includes a call for ___ (8) to observe the city occasion as a day of prayer for ___ (9). peaceful Memorial Day observances are by no means ___ (10) limit to the big ___ (11) cemeteries. In towns and cities, across the land, veterans’ groups, civic ___ (12), nation family groups, and individuals decorate graves organize with flowers or with small American flags. In many communities there are parades. Parade ___ (13) include participate veterans and armed forces and a lot of other people. Memorial Day has also ___ (14) marked tradition the ___ (15) of summer. begin Test 10. Fill in the spaces in the following text using a suitable form of the words given at the end of the lines. This ___ (1) was built in the 1920s and became showcase for ___ (2). neighbour, architecture Each architect had one plot on which to ___ (3) one house. In spite of this, builder the area has a ___ (4) unified style. Look, for example, at these wonderful houses on our left. At that time very few people lived in their owner ___ (5) apartments; those flats had no ___ (6) water, bathrooms and other run, convenient ___ (7). And here was a ___ (8) building project which attempted mass both to show the ___ (9) styles in which apartments could be difference built, and to improve ___ (10) conditions. live Test 11. Fill in the spaces in the following text using a suitable form of the words given at the end of the lines. Life used to be ___ (1) for teenag ers. They used to have money to funny spend, and ___ (2) time to spend it in. They used to wear ___ (3) freedom clothes, and meet in coffee bars and discos. Some of them still teenager do. But for many young people, life is harder now. Jobs are ___ (4) to find. difficulty There’s not so much money around. Teachers say that students work ___ (5) hard than they used to. They are ___ (6) interested in politics, little and more interested in ___ (7) exams. They know that good exams pass may get them ___ (8) jobs. Most young people worry more about good money than their parents did twenty years ago. They try to spend little ___ (9) and save ___ (10). They want to be able to get many homes of their own one day. Three quarters of ___ (11) young Britain people do more or less what their parents did. They did their ___ (12) good at school, find some kind of work in the end, and get married in their early ___ (13). They get on well with their parents and twenty enjoy their ___ (14). They eat fish and chips, watch football on live TV, go the pub and like ___ (15). After all, if they didn’t, they read wouldn’t be British, would they? Test 12. Fill in the spaces in the following text using a suitable form of the words given at the end of the lines. As your children move towards ___ (1) it is ___ (2) to make depend sure that they understand what decent values are. To importance prevent children from becoming ___ (3) and ___ (4) you should spoil not indulge them too much. To make sure that they grow up greed well– ___ (5) they should be taught to be ___ (6) from an manner early age. Children should be scolded for bad ___ (7), politeness which will be an effective way of helping ___ (8) to distinguish behave right from wrong. You need to reward your ___ (9) when they they do things well to give them a sense of ___ (10) but you must child be careful not to overdo it or they may become ___ (11). proud You should try to make your children ___ (12) and respectful conceit of other peoples beliefs by exposing them to ___ (13) tolerate races and cultures. Parents should try to place great difference ___ (14) on setting a good example to their children, important because children’s behaviour is often an ___ (15) of that imitate of their parents. Test 13. Fill in the spaces in the following text using a suitable form of the words given at the end of the lines. The ___ (1) of children starts as soon as they are born. Boys are educate allowed to make more ___ (2), to play with guns and cause more noisy trouble. Such education prepares boys for ___ (3) in the world powerful but for little else. But all boys are ___ (4). Some boys are differen good at ___ (5) and poetry whereas others are good at football cook or maths. Boys aren’t just ___ (6) and rebels, ‘machos’ and conform ‘wimps’. If we can ___ (7) them that all these types are okay, assurance it may help to reduce the ___ (8) of those boys who are the least macho. bully Test 14. Fill in the spaces in the following text using a suitable form of the words given at the end of the lines. The ___ (1) of fingerprints reached Britain in 1901 and systematize proved ___ (2). In 1930, Scotland Yard set up its first use ___ (3) system to enable officers to compare fingerprints found on classify the scene of the crime with those of ___ (4) known to the crime police. Fingerprint technology has advanced ___ (5) since then. great Different types of powder are used to ___ (6) the impression of the strength fingerprint before it is taken. Another ___ (7) revolutionary has been in the way that fingerprints are identified. Today, the first ___ (8) is done by the computer, which then produces searching a ___ (9) of possible matches. The final ___ (10) however is select done by police experts. identify Test 15. Fill in the spaces in the following text using a suitable form of the words given at the end of the lines. In the past, any mother would be ___ (1) if her children were pride round and slightly fat. Those days are gone. ___ (2) have now research reached the ___ (3) that too much fat and sugar in children’s conclude diets are a major factor in the ___ (4) of heart diseases and develop other ___ (5) when they are older. However, growing children need ill to eat a wide range of foods, and their general health could be ___ (6) by cutting out particular ones. Psychologists say that the danger ___ (7) is not to change eating habits too fast, but to do it ___ (8), solve so that children do not lose muscle in addition to fat. Parents should care present food a little ___ (9), spread butter thinly and avoid difference putting sugar on the table. Children should also be ___ (10) to courage take part in sports: this way they will be using the calories that they have eaten. Test 16. Fill in the spaces in the following sentences using a suitable form of the words given at the end of the lines. 1. What can we do to reduce the ___ of the atmosphere? pollute 2. The change in the climate has produced ___ floods. disaster 3. Many rare species are threatened with ___. extinct 4. Many of the gases produced by factories are ___ to our health. harm 5. Exhaust fumes have ___ effects on the environment. damage 6. Many countries must try and control the growth of the ___. populate 7. Protecting the environment is essential to our ___. survive 8. The protection of the environment is everyone’s ___. responsible 9. While some countries get richer, the ___ in others get worse. poor 10. Millions of people in the world are threatened with ___. Starve 13. EXAM PRACTICE Test 1 1. Read the text and put the words at the end of each line into the correct form. The Bald Eagle In 1782, soon after the United States won its independence, the bald eagle ___ (1) as the national bird of the new country. American choose leaders wanted the eagle to be а symbol of ___ (2) country because it they is one of the ___ (3) birds. Today the bald eagle strong almost ___ (4) from the country. In 1972 there ___ (5) only 3,000 disappear be bald eagles in the entire United States. The reason for the bird’s ___ (6) population was pollution of rivers by pesticides. Pesticides decrease poison the fish. Eagles eat these fish and then the eggs eagles lay have very thin shells and ___ (7). Today, the American government not hatch and the American people ___ (8) to protect the bald eagle. The try number of bald eagles slowly ___ (9). The American increase national bird ___ (10), and remains а symbol of strength and courage. survive 2. Read the text. Use the word given at the end of each line to form a word that fits the space in the same line. Our ___ (1) in New York was spectacular. Its skyscrapers and the arrive Statue of Liberty make а ___ (2) sight. New York has а ___ (3) beauty of over seven million and it is probably the world’s most populate famous city. The ___ (4) of the ‘Big Apple’ come from many inhabit different countries. There are more ___ (5) in New York than in any nation other place on earth. It also has more ___ (6) than any tour other city except London, ___ (7) in the summer. ___ (8) special come from all over the world and have а ___ (9) time. There visit are so many sights for them to get ___ (10) about wonder whether it’s some of the best museums in the world or the enthusiasm charming little streets of Greenwich Village. 3. Choose the most suitable word for each space. Viewed from the outside, the Houses of Parliament give а firm impression of all those ___ (1) which we are supposed to value in the British form of government. The architecture gives the place а ___ (2) look, and the buildings are sandwiched between а busy square and the river making them а ___ (3) between the country house of an eccentric duke and а Victorian railway station. You have only to learn that the ___ (4) refer to each other as ‘The Honourable Member for So and So’ to complete the picture of а dignified gentlemen’s club, with of course а few ladies to ___ (5) the numbers. Sadly, over the past few years first radio, and now television, have shown the general ___ (6) what in fact goes on when bills are ___ (7) and questions are asked. The first obvious fact is that the chamber is very rarely full, and there may be only а ___ (8) of members present, some of ___ (9) are quite clearly asleep, telling jokes to their neighbour, or engaged in shouting like badly-behaved schoolchildren. There is not enough ___ (10) for them all in the chamber in any case, which is а second worrying point. Of course, television does not follow the work of ___ (11) which are small discussion groups that do most of the real work of the House. But the ___ (12) impression that we as ___ (13) receive of the workings of government is not а good one. To put it bluntly, parliament looks disorganised, is clearly behind the times and seems to be ___ (14) with bores and comedians. This is presumably why members resisted for so long the efforts of the ВВС to broadcast parliamentary ___ (15) on television. 1. a) views b) appearances c) identities d) features 2. a) fashionable b) traditional c) close-up d) notorious 3. a) mixture b) combination c) cross d) match 4. a) members b) candidates c) delegates d) senators 5. a) take away b) bring about c) make up d) set in 6. a) situation b) public с) interest d) rule 7. a) paid b) determined c) voted d) discussed 8. a) handful b) majority c) few d) number 9. a) these b) whom с) them d) others 10. a) seats b) places c) room d) around 11. a) elections b) those c) everyone d) committees 12. a) overall b) visual c) positive d) striking 13. a) audience b) often c) voters d) well 14. a) working b) inevitably c) filled d) much 15. a) matters b) committees c) speeches d) debates Test 2 1. Read the text and put the words at the end of each line into the correct form. |