Vocabulary Revision For Specializing English Grade 11

VOCABULARY REVISION FOR SPECIALIZING ENGLISH GRADE 11
I. FILL IN EACH BANKS WITH A SUITABLE WORD 1. If anyone ________, they will be sent home immediately. 2. I've just come back from Canada and I'm still ________ my suitcases. 3. Here's a photo of our little girl ________ her Christmas presents. 4. She's a very obedient young lady. She would never ________ her parents. 5. She ________ the money which she had been given. She was supposed to use it to pay for her education, but bought a sports car instead. 6. The head teacher ________ of members of staff wearing jeans to school, and insists that they dress smartly at all times. 7. You keep ________ my name. It's Rawdon, not Randon. 8. His statement to the police said that he was nowhere near the bank, but they managed to ______ __ this. 9. I ________ anyone who wears green shoes but I can't tell you why. 10. I can't ________ the car door. I think I've got the wrong key. 11. After the accident he was fined 1,000 and ________ from driving for two years. 12. She ________ the tablecloth and put it on the table. 13. We don't sell Sonic cameras any longer. We have ________ that line. 14. I seem to have ________ my keys. I can't find them anywhere. 15. If you refuse to pay your gas bill, you will be ________ . 16. You're completely wrong. I'm afraid I ________ with you. 17. He completely ________ my meaning when I told him to 'put a sock in it'. 18. If you ________ me again, I'm afraid I shall ask you to leave. II. FILL IN EACH BLANK WITH A SUITABLE PHRASAL VERB OR PREPOSITION Exercise A 1. We came________ this little restaurant when we were out walking. 2. The children have come ________ ________measles. 3. The policewoman came ________ ________him and asked to see his passport. 4. Jenny came ________ a fortune when she was twenty-one. 5. Simon's come ________ ________a rash. 6. When we suggested moving to another office, we came ________ ________a lot of opposition from the management. 7. The message came________this morning. 8. Come ________, or you'll miss the bus. 9. Our team came ________badly in the competition.. 10. When she came ________, she was in hospital. 11. Richard came ________ ________a really strange idea the other day. Exercise B 1. We will have to ________ ________on staff costs at work if we're to continue operating as normal. 2. We are trying to get him to ________ ________ the number of cigarettes he smokes each day. 3. We were in the middle of a telephone conversation when we were suddenly ________ ________. 4. I wish you wouldn't ________ ________ while I'm telling a story. 5. Did you see how the little white car ________ ________in front of the black Audi? 6. She's decided to ________ ________sweet things so as to lose weight. 7. He didn't pay his bill, so the company ________ ________ his electricity. Exercise C 1. The government are going to do ________ ________ customs inspections. 2. Somebody decided to do the gang boss ________ and dump the body in the river. 3. I can't do ________ this zip. Can you help me? 4. Why don't you buy that old cottage and do it ________? 5. After that long walk, I do ________ a cup of tea. 6. Don't do ________your back digging the garden. 7. Plants can't do ________ water.
Exercise D 1. I'm trying to get ________ to the people in the office that they'll all have to work harder. 2. He was rude to the teacher, but got ________ ________it somehow. 3. How are you going to get ________ without a car? 4. We get ________ on only 50 a week. 5. He'll have to get ________ ________ some hard work if he wants to pass the test. 6. They don't get ________ well at all. 7. She's getting ________ well at university. 8. I want an excuse to get ________ ________ going to the office party. 9. Kiki's got ________ her flu. 10. She never got ________ the death of her father. 11. I only got ________ ________sending my Christmas cards yesterday. 12. Jane got ________ the boss by giving him a bottle of wine. 13. Did he get ________ his exams? 14. I tried to get ________ ________ the complaints department, but the line was busy. 15. Whatever did you get ________ ________last night? 16. She thinks she's being got ________. Exercise E 1. He said he was French, but we didn't believe him as his accent gave him ________. 2. The company are giving ________ a free pocket calculator with every 10 purchase. 3. I can't use my watch because the battery has given ________ . 4. She gave ________ presents to all the children. 5. She's trying to give ________ smoking. 6. The hijacker gave himself ________ to the police. 7. I didn't want to go to the cinema with the children, but they kept asking me so in the end, I gave ________ and agreed to take them. 8. The fire in the factory gave ________ clouds of poisonous black smoke. III. CLOZE TEST Exercise A Television is one of man's most important (1)_____ of communication. It brings (2)_____ and sounds from around the world into millions of homes. A person with a television set can sit in his house and watch the President (3)_____ a speech or visit a foreign country. He can see a war being fought and watch statesmen try to (4)_____ peace (5)_____ television, home viewers can see and learn about people, places and things in faraway lands. TV even takes its viewers out of this world. It brings them (6)_____ of America's astronauts as the astronauts explore outer space. (7)_____ all these things, television brings its viewers a steady stream of programs that are (8)_____ to entertain. In fact, TV provides many more (9)_____ programs than any other kind. The programs include action packed dramas, light comedies, sporting (10)_____ and motion pictures. Exercise B Famine is prolonged food shortage that causes (1)_____ hunger and death. Throughout history, famine has struck at least one area of the world (2)_____ few years. Most of the developing nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America have (3)_____ enough food for their people. Millions is these countries go hungry when food production or import (4)_____ for any reason, famine may strike and thousands or millions of people may die. Many famines have more than one cause. For example, the great Bengal famine in 1943 in Eastern India was caused by both natural and historical (5)_____. World War II (6)_____ a general food shortage and led to the cut-off of rice imports from Burma, which has been occupied by the Japanese. Then a cyclone (7)_____ much farmland. Famine struck, and more than 1 millions persons died. Nearly all famines (8)_____ from crop failures. The chief causes of crop failure include drought, too much rainfall and flooding, plant diseases and (9)_____. Many other (10)_____ may also help create a famine.

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