Use of English part 3Look at the pairs of sentences below. Each incomplete sentence must be finished so that the meaning is as close as possible to the sentence before it.1. He is a very good player, but Ted is better..2. You must be at the airport by 2 o'clock, no matter what you have to do..3. Joe suggested that we should go to this film..4. We were able to finish the job only because Mike helped us..5. Sally left the room a few seconds before James walked in..6. I think that you are being very unreasonable.. 7. We had nothing to eat but bananas..8. Although he got more votes he did not become president..9. Think back to last December..10. I was very lucky to escape from that crash.. Read the text carefully and then choose the best word to put into each gap from the selection on the right.The Vacuum cleaner.

Until about 250 years ago, households did not take dirt as ..(1).. as they do now - it was a fact of life, and that was that. Cleaning often consisted of an annual ..(2)... called 'spring cleaning' when the furniture was moved aside, and all the linen products in the house were cleaned. Carpets and rugs were taken outside, hung on ropes and had the dust ..(3).. out of them - an exhausting and messy process.The industrial revolution brought about a major change - as new ..(4).. became available to make homes cleaner, a corresponding interest in '..(5).. hygiene' appeared in households. This in turn led to the ..(6).. of further products, one of which was the vacuum cleaner...(7).. has it that when one of the first vacuum cleaners was demonstrated, a kindly scientist took the proud inventor..(8).. , and offered a bit of advice that was to become ..(9).. to the future evolution of the product - 'make it suck, not blow'.The first vacuum cleaners appeared in the 1860s in the United States. They were operated by hand pumps and were almost as ..(10).. as spring cleaning. It was only when electric motors had become sufficiently ..(11)... to become portable that vacuum cleaners became common household items. Most of today's major ..(12).. - including Electrolux and Hoover - were born in the 1920s.The household ..(13).. that vacuum cleaners suck up is mostly dead skin cells - humans ..(14).. millions of cells every day. A much smaller proportion comes from dust and soil carried into the house from ..(15)... .Answer Sheet

1. a importantly b crucially c considerately d seriously 2. a ritual b result c resolutiond scrub3. a cleaned b taken c beatend sucked4. a products b concepts c ideals d developments 5. a house b domestic c homelyd internal6. a fabrication b appearing c recreation d development7. a Story b Epic c Legendd Tale8. a away b aside c abackd along9. a standard b crucial c regular d esteemed10. a laborious b hard c nefarious d straining11. a scientific b forward c technologicald advanced12. a brands b marks c makesd trademarks13. a grit b rubbish c refused dirt14. a lose b outgrow c omitd shed15. a external b outside c beyondd indoors

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence using the word given (in brackets). You must use between three and eight words, including the word given. Do not change the word given.

1 He still hasn't recovered from losing his job last year.He still hasn't got last year. (being)

2 Children and older people are much more prone to infection than young adults.Children and older people easily than young adults. (pick)

3 You must try to accept that you will never be famous! You must fact that you will never be famous.(terms)

4 No one really expected John to do so well in his exams. Everyone did so well in his exams.(taken)

5 Susan thinks that the colors are much too bright. As the colors are much too bright .(far)

6 Students must not enter the exam late, whatever the reason might be. Under late.(circumstances)

7 Do you think your father was offended by what I said? Do you think comments?(exception)

8 This part of the building can only be accessed by authorized staff. Access to authorized staff.(restricted)