II For questions 7-16, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).
DESERT ANIMALS
Deserts are not (0) uninhabited ( INHABIT) places as many people believe. Although the daytime air temperature may reach a(n) (7)____________________( BEAR)_ 58° C and the surface temperature 77° C, many animals live in these conditions. Their (8)______________________( SURVIVE) however, is
(9 )……………………………( DEPEND) on them being able to get the water they need.
(10 )………………………( OBSERVE). of desert animals has revealed a lot about the strategies they employ to achieve this. (11)…………………( RESEARCH…).have found that beetles, for example, get their daily (12) ______( REQUIRE)_of water after waiting for the moisture from fog to condense on their bodies and drip down into their mouth.
Larger desert animals have come up with another (13)………………………(SOLVE…)to the problem of finding a source of water.. For example, (14)______________ (CREATE) like hares or rats get their supply by eating (15)_________________( CONSIDER_) amounts of desert vegetation, which contains the water they require.
However extreme the conditions may be, desert animals (16)________________(SOME) manage to obtain water.
III Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space.
The Sahara
Around 4,000 BC, the Sahara began to turn (0)…A….. a desert. Since that time, it has slowly been growing larger and larger and today it is the world’s largest desert. It (17)..B.. nine million square kilometers of Africa, that is, as (18)…C.. land as the United States. The Sahara is mostly made up of mountains, bare rocky plains and high flatlands (19)…D.. plateaus. The rest is a(n) (20)…B..sea of sand which in some (21)…C.. piles up into dunes. Very few plants survive more than a few weeks and those that do have adapted deep roots or take in moisture (22)…C.. their leaves. The desert is hot and dry during the day but (23)…D.. cool at night. Many of the two million people who (24)…B..in the Sahara are nomads – people who travel from place to place to (25).A.. food and water for themselves and their animals. This traveling is necessary since the Sahara gets less than ten centimeters of water a year. Other people (26)…D.., prefer not to travel and live in oases. Oases are places where water comes from wells or springs and where people can (27)…B.. their crops and water their animals. This picture of the Sahara is different to how it was over ten thousand years (28)…C.., when it had lakes and streams and was a fertile place.
0 A into B to C from D out
17 A has B covers C takes D owns
18 A long B far C much D many
19 A said B named C told D called
20 A extreme B huge C bulky D extended
21 A sites B events C places D positions
22 A in B on C through D about
23 A turns B converts C changes D has
24 A inhabit B live C stay D exist
25 A explore B invent C find D supply
26 A although B but C and D however
27 A grow B raise C develop D increase
28 A since B before C ago D after
IV Read the text and then type this missing word in the box on the right. There is an example at the beginning:
(0) your/more
Too Good to be True
Some say you can do it in seven days, others promise success in 24 hours, or you may prefer to take (0) ..............time and do it in 5 weeks. What are we talking about? Believe it (29)or not, these periods (30) of time refer to language learning courses that promise excellent results in less time (31) in it takes to say 'Bonjour'!
However, the advertisements of these companies are not necessarily the best guide and if you don't know what to look for in a good course you could be left with little (32) more than a large bill.
A complaint was recently made to a consumer rights group against Whizz Learn Systems, a language school chain, and the company has been forced to remove its claim that its technique is ten times better than any (33) new method. The Managing Director of Whizz Learn Systems said (34) "but we still believe our claim is true, we are willing to change our advert. But the fact remains , if you spend 3 hours per day for 5 weeks on our language course you will soon be speaking the language. What we (35) can have done was to make (36) it clearer in the advert."