GAP FILL Casi

POZNAVANJE IN RABA JEZIKA
TASK 1: GAP FILL (Verbs)

Write the correct form of the verbs given in brackets in the spaces on the right.
There is an example at the beginning: Gap 0.
Impact Earth: Could we divert a giant asteroid?

Adapted from an article in The Independent, 2 July 2008, by Steve Connor
A hundred years ago this week a man __0__ (SIT) in the

wooden porch of a trading post in the village of Vanavara in 0. was sitting
deepest Siberia when a blinding flash of light, followed by a huge
blast of sound __1__ (THROW) him to the ground. Several years 1. ___________________________
later, he recounted the terrifying moment to an inquisitive
Russian scientist from St Petersburg who was on an expedition 2. ___________________________
__2__ (FIND OUT) what had caused such a massive explosion in
one of the remotest regions on Earth. 3. ___________________________
If the asteroid __3__ (COLLIDE) just a few hours later, it
could easily have exploded over Paris, London, New York or 4. ___________________________
Moscow, with devastating consequences. Scientists calculate
that if something of similar size exploded over London today, little 5. ___________________________
within the M25 area __4__ (REMAIN) standing.
Although the impact happened in 1908, it was not until 1921 6. ___________________________
that Leonid Kulik, the chief curator of meteorites at St Petersburg
Museum, __5__ (LEAD) the first expedition to find out what 7. ___________________________
happened, and possibly discover the crater it had left behind. He
failed on that occasion because of the harsh conditions – 8. ___________________________
swampy, mosquito-infested forests in summer and penetrating
cold and ice in winter. In 1927, Kulik made another attempt and 9. ___________________________
managed to reach the blast area to witness the devastation. He
tried to get the deeply suspicious locals – reindeer herders __6__ 10. ___________________________
(CALL) the Evenki – to tell him what they remember of that
fateful morning 19 years earlier. 11. ___________________________
They believed the blast was a visitation by the god Ogdy, who
had cursed the area by destroying trees and animals. Those 12. ___________________________
trees acted as markers, __7__ (POINT) directly away from the
blast's epicentre. Later, when the team arrived at ground zero,
they found the trees there standing upright – but their bark __8__
(STRIP) away. They looked like a forest of telephone poles.
The absence of a crater and of meteoroid fragments has
made scientists speculate about what __9__ (CAUSE) the
explosion – from mini black holes to space aliens. A more
sensible suggestion, however, is that it was not a space object,
but an explosion caused by the sudden release of huge
quantities of methane or some other kind of explosive gas from
deep below the ground.
Giuseppe Longo of Bologna University and colleagues
__10__ (BELIEVE) they have located a potential crater, a large
water-filled depression known as Lake Cheko, where the
meteoroid hit and __11__ (BURY) under permafrost. They intend
to dig for what remains of the space object to prove their case.
However, others point out that Lake Cheko __12__ (LACK) the
attributes of a crater – such as raised edges – and is probably
nothing more than one of the region's many oxbow lakes, formed
from a river bend that collects slow-running water that then sinks
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into the permafrost below.
© The Independent

Attack on Lawrence memorial 'was racist'

Adapted from an article in The Independent, 15 February 2008, by Jerome Taylor
Vandals have attacked a centre for inner-city children that

__0__ (BUILD) to commemorate the murdered black teenager 0. was built
Stephen Lawrence, causing thousands of pounds worth of
damage only a week after it was opened to the public. 1. ___________________________
Police said they were treating the attack on the Stephen
Lawrence Centre in Deptford, south-east London, as a racially 2. ___________________________
motivated incident and that the crime unit at Lewisham CID were
investigating it. 3. ___________________________
The attackers are believed __1__ (STRIKE) in the early hours
of yesterday, causing more than £100,000 worth of damage. 4. ___________________________
Eight reinforced windows designed by the Turner Prize-winning
artist Chris Ofili, and __2__ (DEDICATE) to Stephen's mother 5. ___________________________
Doreen, were destroyed during an attack which sources said was
"sustained and planned". 6. ___________________________
The attack on the £10m centre, designed by the award-
winning architect David Adjaye, immediately __3__ (DRAW) 7. ___________________________
condemnation from anti-racism campaigners and politicians.
The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, said he was 8. ___________________________
"disgusted" by the attack on the centre. "This latest outrageous
act of racism follows several others over the past few months on 9. ___________________________
the centre," he said. "It also comes on the anniversary of the
inquest that confirmed Stephen's death to be an unprovoked 10. ___________________________
racist murder and will be even more distressing for his mother,
who has fought __4__ (ESTABLISH) this cultural landmark for 11. ___________________________
the whole community."
The centre was built to inspire young people of all races from 12. ___________________________
deprived backgrounds who would pursue careers in design and
architecture, the career path that Stephen __5__ (HOPE) to
follow. The 18-year-old student was stabbed to death by a racist
gang after __6__ (ATTACK) as he waited at a bus stop in Eltham
15 years ago. His killers __7__ (NEVER / BRING) to justice and
some of those suspected of carrying out the murder still __8__
(LIVE) in the area.
The inquiry into how the authorities handled the murder
investigation accused the Metropolitan Police of "institutional
racism" and __9__ (LEAD) to a major overhaul of how racist
crimes were dealt with by police forces.
Dr Richard Stone, an adviser to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry
said yesterday: "This seems __10__ (BE) a premeditated attack
aimed at causing distress to the Lawrence family because they
are black.
"This is a sad day for people __11__ (COMMIT) to equality of
human beings and is a reminder of the injustice faced by the
Lawrences."

This attack is the fourth time that the centre __12__
(TARGET) by vandals so far.
© The Independent

'Had my first experience of squalls ... I've also had a

chance to do some homework'
Adapted from an article in The Guardian, 29 December 2006, by Paul Lewis
He is not old enough to drive a car or buy a drink in a pub. It

__0__ (BE) two years before he can get married and four before 0. will be
he can vote. Michael Perham, however, is on the verge of making
history: at 14, he is within days of becoming the youngest person 1. ___________________________
__1__ (SAIL) across the Atlantic single handed.
The teenager, from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, set off from 2. ___________________________
Gibraltar on the 3,500-mile voyage to the Caribbean on
November 18. With 670 miles remaining until he __2__ (REACH) 3. ___________________________
his destination on the island of Antigua, he expects to break the
world record for the youngest unaided sailor across the ocean, 4. ___________________________
possibly as early as New Year's Day.
Speaking by satellite phone on his yacht, Cheeky Monkey, 5. ___________________________
he said yesterday that he was "cruising along quite nicely".
"The weather is gorgeous. The wind's quite high and I'm 6. ___________________________
getting clear blue skies almost every day. This is the longest trip I
__3__ (EVER / DO). I'm coping fine." 7. ___________________________
With sponsorship from local companies, Michael has taken
three weeks off school to complete the voyage, during which he 8. ___________________________
used the trade winds that __4__ (CARRY) sailors from Europe to
the Americas for centuries. 9. ___________________________
The trip was scheduled to be completed before Christmas
but had to __5__ (EXTEND) after satellite equipment on his 28ft 10. ___________________________
(nine metre) boat failed and he __6__ (FORCE) to make a
diversion to Lanzarote and the Cape Verde islands. He said that 11. ___________________________
he was missing warm toast, cold drinks and crisps, but his diet of
"mainly Tesco tinned food" __7__ (BE) reliable. "You empty the 12. ___________________________
tin and five minutes later – voila!"
Michael's father, Peter, a chartered surveyor and
experienced yachtsman, __8__ (FOLLOW) two miles behind his
son and keeps regular radio contact with him.
Mr Perham said his son, who has sailed since the age of
seven, first volunteered the idea of breaking the transatlantic
record three years ago, after __9__ (WATCH) footage of a
previous record attempt.
"Michael said to me: 'It __10__ (BE) great if I could do that,
Dad.' As a parent I just thought it was a typical boy's dream. I
never thought it __11__ (ACTUALLY / HAPPEN). The poor lad
has had no Christmas presents, nothing. And he's run out of
snacks but I can't give him any because the rules say I can't help
him in any way."

Over the last five weeks Michael, who __12__ (ATTEND)
Chancellor's School in Brookmans Park, has sailed alongside
dolphins and sharks, and battled through 25ft high waves and
gale-force winds. 'Experienced my first experience of squalls,' he
wrote in his travel log on November 25. 'They really do knock
your teeth out.'
© The Guardian

From Robben Island to the red carpet

A new film about the apartheid era is winning accolades.
Adapted from an article in The Observer, 5 November 2006, by Andrew Meldrom
At the orphanage he __0__ (RUN), deep in the far-flung hills

of Mpumalanga province in north eastern South Africa, Patrick 0. runs
Chamusso is suffering from jet lag.
But he grins with pride at the laughing children __1__ 1. ___________________________
(PLAY) in the dirt with a little Oscar statuette and a snowstorm
paperweight containing a plastic White House. "You should have 2. ___________________________
seen me in New York," he says. "I __2__ (HAVE) my own car
and driver! The Four Seasons Hotel! But that was not true life. 3. ___________________________
This is my home and working with these children is what makes
me happy. That is not going to change." 4. ___________________________
But however reluctant a hero, Chamusso is about to find
fame. The remarkable story of his life in South African apartheid 5. ___________________________
has been made into a film already being tipped for an Oscar.
When The Observer tracked him down to the home he runs for 6. ___________________________
children orphaned by Aids, he __3__ (JUST RETURN) from a
tour of North American premieres – Los Angeles, New York, 7. ___________________________
Toronto and Atlanta – where his infectious, unaffected spark
made him as sought-after on the red carpets as the stars. 8. ___________________________
The film Catch a Fire, shown last week at the London Film
Festival and which opens in the UK next year, is set __4__ 9. ___________________________
(TURN) this unassuming, unknown man into an international
inspiration. "I'm an ordinary man," he says. "I only did what was 10. ___________________________
right in fighting for South Africa's freedom. Now I am living where
I want, here in this township." 11. ___________________________
Chamusso is a hero twice over. First he __5__ (FIGHT) to
end South Africa's apartheid regime and, despite __6__ 12. ___________________________
(ENDURE) torture and 10 years in jail, he embraces the spirit of
forgiveness and reconciliation that is the hallmark of the new
South Africa. Short, plump and pleasant, his extraordinary life
story encompasses much of the country's compelling history.
It was 1981. Nelson Mandela was enduring the seventeenth
year of imprisonment on the fortress of Robben Island when the
most audacious and spectacular sabotage attack against the
apartheid regime __7__ (CARRY OUT) with a bombing of South
Africa's Secunda power plant. Elated by the success of the
attack, which cost no lives, the ANC's military mastermind, Joe
Slovo, said: "If you ever __8__ (WANT) to tell a story about this
period in our history, you must tell the story of operative Patrick
Chamusso, code name Hotstuff. A maverick. A live wire."

After achieving considerable success in apartheid South
Africa as a black manager at the Secunda power plant,
Chamusso __9__ (WRONGLY SUSPECT) of sabotage, tortured
by police and jailed for six months. __10__ (OUTRAGE) by the
abuse, the previously apolitical Chamusso joined the armed wing
of the African National Congress and devised a plan __11__
(DESTROY) the plant. The plan, which is the basis of the film,
__12__ (INVOLVE) creating a diversionary 'incident' that causes
all the plant workers to flee, then setting off the main bombs.
© The Observer

TASK 5: GAP FILL
Nineteen years and counting

Adapted from an article in The Observer Magazine, 1 December 2002, by P Vernon
Juliet and I have been going out for so long that we've
almost forgotten how we first met. The first time I can remember 0. meeting
__0__ (MEET) her was at a hat party, in our first week at
university. Juliet turned up in this Maid Marion cornflake-packet 1. ___________________________
hat with a purple scarf draped from the top. I couldn't believe she
was wearing an actual hat – the rest of us were kitted out in TV 2. ___________________________
aerials, lampshades and traffic cones.
Then I bumped into her in the sports centre a few weeks 3. ___________________________
later. I don't think she's been in a sports centre since. She __1__
(SUPPOSE) to be meeting a postgrad she was seeing at that 4. ___________________________
time. There were lots of jokes about him __2__ (BE) an older
man, though with hindsight, I now realise that he was probably 5. ___________________________
only 22 or 23. Juliet was an hour late and presumed he __3__
(ALREADY / LEAVE). In fact, he'd never come. __4__ (CHEER) 6.
___________________________
her up, I volunteered to be her date. And that, I suppose, was the
beginning…
7. ___________________________
We arranged to meet in a student bar. She turned up
wearing bright red jumbo cords, her father's moth-eaten cardigan,
a string of pearls and a pair of £40 sandals. I was staggered that 8. ___________________________
anyone could spend so much on a pair of shoes. It's an
extravagant streak she has never grown out of. Anyway, we 9. ___________________________
__5__ (HIT) it off and started seeing each other in a casual,
studenty kind of way. Well, that was how I saw Juliet. 10. ___________________________
But I found her intoxicating. At 19, she was a year older than
me. She was clever and funny. She took siestas and stayed up 11. ___________________________
all night talking. She could say 'I love you' in Russian. She __6__
(NOT / SEEM) to mind my spots. And she never wore a bra. She 12. ___________________________
was studying languages and had just spent a year in Paris. I'd
never been there and after a few weeks suggested we should go
during the Easter holidays. Paris in spring, how romantic. She
burst out __7__ (LAUGH) and said, 'But Easter is still two months
away. We'll be finished by then.' Hah… how wrong she was.
I'm sure it's easier to start a relationship when you're young.
We were teenagers when we met, so there was no agenda. We
were free to explore what we wanted and who we were.
Somehow, it seemed like fun __8__ (COMPARE) to the serious
business of 'being in a relationship'. __9__ (SAY) that, 'fun' could
be pretty gruelling. We argued and __10__ (FIGHT) over every
conceivable thing. But you work it through. We were both

beginners. And all the thrashing out establishes a template for
everything that follows.
A year after we left university, we bought a flat on our own.
We were 22, that seems incredibly young now. Then, it seemed
completely straightforward. When we were about 26, my
grandfather died. He was very religious and used to phone me up
and say: 'My knees are sore, I have been praying for you so
much.' Because we __11__ (LIVE) together in sin, he was sure
we were going to go to hell. When he died, I suddenly wondered
what we had been holding out against. So I decided to get
married. Even after eight years together, I __12__ (FEEL) it was
a momentous decision. I decided to propose to her.
© The Observer Magazine

TASK 6: GAP FILL
Beating around the bush

Adapted from an article in The Independent, 15 August 2005, by Tim Walker
The campfire has dwindled to a pale orange glow.
Somewhere out in the gathering dark a herd of elephants lumber 0. is recounting
among the baobabs. In a low voice, Francis __0__ (RECOUNT)
another big game adventure. He was out at night in the bush on a 1. ___________________________
conservation project, he recalls, "and I __1__ (SIT) in the jeep
waiting for my colleagues to return. I saw them coming towards 2. ___________________________
me and was about to call out, when they stopped dead in their
tracks, __2__ (STARE) at a point just behind my head... I turned 3. ___________________________
very slowly to see a leopard sitting in the back seat! What could I
do? It had crept up so quietly. If I ran, its instinct __3__ (BE) to 4. ___________________________
chase me. So I knew the best thing was just to sit there, very still.
Eventually, the leopard jumped out of the jeep and disappeared 5. ___________________________
into the bush again."
This may be a true story, or it may simply be a fable for the 6. ___________________________
benefit of Francis' audience of young gappers, a parable of
Africa: it's intimidating, sure, but stay calm, keep your head, and it 7. ___________________________
__4__ (NOT BITE). At Camp Kenya, a gap year site on the coast
south of Mombasa, this group of 14 teenagers is experiencing 8. ___________________________
some of the best that East Africa has to offer, and with the help of
a group of unmatchable Kenyan staff – like Francis – they can 9. ___________________________
comfortably ease their way into Third World travel without __5__
(FEEL) overwhelmed. 10. ___________________________
Tonight they __6__ (CAMP) out in the Mwaluganje Elephant
Sanctuary, a corridor of national parkland in the hills above the 11. ___________________________
coast, and it __7__ (BE) a long day. In the morning, some of the
gappers were out on a game drive, getting up close and personal 12. ___________________________
with the local elephants for the first time.
Kieran, one of the gappers, has spent most of his gap year
back in England, training __8__ (BECOME) a qualified football
instructor. One of his fellow gappers has come direct to Kenya
from Australia, another spent the past few months at home, one
is taking time out before restarting her A-levels. All of them have
made firm friends in their time together.
Most __9__ (DRAW) to the Camp Kenya experience by the

combination of adventure activities and community work that it
involves. Mwaluganje is a good example: the game drives are
great fun, but the students also help to monitor the elephant
population for the Kenya Wildlife Service. Selling elephant dung
paper is just one way to generate capital from the sanctuary; the
gappers __10__ (ENCOURAGE) to think of other means of
making tourism profitable for the local community. Many of the
teenagers take advantage of the opportunity __11__ (OFFER) to
climb Mount Kenya or enjoy an extended safari.
Back at Makongeni, the village which is home to Camp
Kenya's main site, however, they're helping to build new
classrooms, to provide a decent water supply for the local school
and, indeed, __12__ (TEACH) the children there. When the new
Kenyan government introduced free primary education last year,
the school's roll leapt from 150 to around 700 overnight, making
Camp Kenya's input more important than ever.
© The Independent

Diving in at the shark end

Adapted from an article in The Independent, 26 October 2005, by Michael Park
Perhaps it should come as no surprise that the inventor of a

submarine that looks and moves like a great white shark __0__ 0. is called
(CALL) Cousteau. For 60 years, this family name __1__ (BE)
synonymous with undersea adventure and award-winning 1. ___________________________
documentaries. The family patriarch and pioneer, Jacques
2. ___________________________
Cousteau, died in 1997, but now his grandson is carrying on the
family tradition.
3. ___________________________
Fabien Cousteau __2__ (INVOLVE) in his family's business
since he was a boy, sailing regularly with his father and 4.
___________________________
grandfather to remote archipelagos to film the silent, undersea
world. Now an oceanographer and film-maker in his own right, he 5.
___________________________
has just completed work on a project that would have made his
grandfather proud. 6. ___________________________
__3__ (INSPIRE) by no less than the fictional comic
character Tintin, Cousteau has devised and co-designed a 7. ___________________________
submarine the size and shape of a great white shark. Encased
within the shark, Cousteau has for the first time been able to 8. ___________________________
swim with great whites and film them without __4__ (CONFINE)
within a submerged steel cage. 9. ___________________________
Cousteau __5__ (ALREADY MAKE) two shark documentaries
when he was asked to produce a third. He was reluctant to 10. ___________________________
commit to it unless he could film the sharks in a way that __6__
(PRODUCE) genuinely revelatory footage. It was then that he 11. ___________________________
remembered Tintin. "When I was a kid, I received a copy of the
Tintin story Red Rackham's Treasure," he says. The journey from 12. ___________________________
the picture in his Tintin book to a working submarine was a huge
endeavour. Cousteau knew that getting great whites __7__
(BELIEVE) that his creation was one of them would require it to
do much more than just look like a shark. Cousteau contacted the

Hollywood designer Eddie Paul, a family friend. "It was a really
difficult challenge," says Paul, who has built hi-tech vehicles for
films, including Terminator 2, but never a submarine. "There were
so many factors to take into consideration, and all had to __8__
(INCORPORATE) into one machine." At a cost close to
£150,000, Paul built the shark around a set of stainless-steel ribs
with a flexible spine. Cousteau would use a joystick to control left
to right movement.
The skin, __9__ (MAKE) from a material called Skinflex, was
painted to look like a great white. The Skinflex was stitched
together along the top but sealed underneath with Velcro, thus
__10__ (ALLOW) water to seep in and out. In case anything
went wrong, Paul designed the head to be removable, but hinged
it. Finally, two monitors __11__ (PLACE) inside the head so
Cousteau could see where he __12__ (GO).
Where to position and how to disguise the monitor's cameras
proved more of a challenge. "Initially we had cameras looking out
of the eye sockets," Cousteau says, "but it was so disconcerting
to try to make sense of those images that it just didn't work."
© The Independent

TASK 8: GAP FILL
Highest ice-fields will not last 100 years, study finds

Adapted from an article in The Guardian, 24 September 2004, by Jonathan Watts
The world's highest ice fields __0__ (MELT) so quickly that they are
on course to disappear within 100 years, driving up sea levels, 0. are melting
increasing floods and turning verdant mountain slopes into deserts,
Chinese scientists __1__ (WARN) yesterday. 1. ___________________________
After the most detailed study ever undertaken of China's glaciers,
which are said to account for 15% of the planet's ice, researchers from 2. ___________________________
the Academy of Science said that urgent measures were needed __2__
(PREPARE) for the impact of climate change at high altitude. 3. ___________________________
Their study, the Glacier Inventory, __3__ (APPROVE) for publication
last week after a quarter of a century of exploration in China and Tibet. It 4. ___________________________
will heighten alarm at global warming. Until now, most research on the
subject __4__ (LOOK) at the melting of the polar ice-caps. Evidence 5. ___________________________
from the inventory suggests that the impact __5__ (BE) as bad, if not
worse, on the world's highest mountain ranges – many of which are in 6. ___________________________
China.
In the past 24 years, the scientists __6__ (MEASURE) a 5.5% 7. ___________________________
shrinkage by volume in China's 46,298 glaciers, a loss equivalent to
more than 3,000 sq km of ice. Among the most marked changes has 8. ___________________________
been the 500 metre retreat of the glacier at the source of the Yangtze on
the Tibet-Qinghai plateau. The huge volumes of water from the glacier's 9. ___________________________
melted ice, __7__ (ESTIMATE) at 587bn cubic metres since the 1950s,
__8__ (THINK) to have been a factor in flooding that has devastated 10. ___________________________
many downstream areas in recent years.
Shrinkages were observed at almost every ice-field in the Karakorum 11. ___________________________
range, __9__ (INCLUDE) the Purugangri glaciers, which are said to be
the world's third largest body of ice after the Arctic and Antarctica. 12. ___________________________
According to Yao Tandong, who led the 50 scientists in the project, the

decline of the Himalayan glaciers would be a disaster for the ecosystem
of China and neighbouring states. 13. ___________________________
If the climate __10__ (CONTINUE) to change at the current pace, he
predicted that two-thirds of China's glaciers would disappear by the end 14. ___________________________
of the 2050s, and almost all would have melted by 2100. "Within 20 to
30 years, we will see the collapse of many of the smaller glaciers," he 15. ___________________________
said. "Within 60 years, we can predict a very significant reduction in the
volume of high-altitude ice fields."
He claimed that in the short term the water from the ice __11__
(FILL) reservoirs and lead to more flooding – as was already the case in
Nepal and downstream areas of China. In the future, he __12__
(PREDICT), the end of the glaciers would deprive the mountain ecology
of its main life source and hasten the desertification that threatens
western China. Once the mountain ice was gone, rivers would start to
dry up and ocean levels would rise, __13__ (THREATEN) coastal cities.
The inventory confirms earlier studies of Everest, which showed the
world's tallest peak more than 1.3 metres shorter than in 1953, when it
__14__ (FIRST SCALE) by Edmund Hillary.
To ease the impact of the glacial melt, the scientists plan to advise
China's government to build more reservoirs and hydroelectric dams
__15__ (IMPROVE) downstream flood control.
But they said that there were limits to what could be achieved. "No
one can reverse the changes to a glacier," said Shi Yafeng.
© The Guardian

New York stories

Adapted from an article in The Independent on Sunday, 3 March 2002, by David Usborne
We are scaling the second of a series of steel ladders on top

of a 16-floor apartment building in midtown Manhattan when my 0. missing
guide, John DeGeorge, recalls a colleague __0__ (MISS) his
footing last year. ''Yeah, he __1__ (FALL) 20 feet. Smashed up 1. ___________________________
both his ankles pretty bad. He doesn't do this work any more.''
The work is building and maintaining those round wooden 2. ___________________________
water tanks that you see perched on the roofs of scores of
buildings in New York. For eight years, John __2__ (BE) in one 3. ___________________________
of the crews from Rosenwach Wood Tanks, the only company left
in the city still building and installing new tanks. This morning, 4. ___________________________
John, __3__ (ACCOMPANY) by Manuel, his brother-in-law, is on
a cleaning job. The tank on this roof is 14 years old – they 5. ___________________________
generally get replaced every 30-odd years – and it __4__ (NOT /
CLEAN) for two years. Once it has been emptied down a drain 6.
___________________________
pipe on to the street – the last few inches are thick with pond-like
gunk – it is Manuel who climbs all the way inside with a bucket,
7. ___________________________
yellow rubber boots and a mop.
From up here, you can scan the horizon and see scores of the
tanks, like wine barrels on stumps. According to some, they are 8. ___________________________
the homes of mythical rooftop trolls that only come out after
midnight. Far from __5__ (BE) relics of a bygone time, as I used 9. ___________________________
to imagine, they are working parts of every building they grace.
Manhattan __6__ (NOT / HAVE) the water pressure to get 10. ___________________________
supplies any higher than the sixth floor. Some modern buildings
have internal pressure systems __7__ (DRIVE) by pumps. The 11. ___________________________

older ones have single pumps that drive the water up to one of
these towers. Gravity then __8__ (TAKE) it down again. 12. ___________________________
This tank, measuring 15ft across, made of yellow cedar and
held together by steel bands, feeds the sprinkler system and fire 13. ___________________________
hydrants, not people's kitchens and showers.
I __9__ (RELIEVE) to hear this, given the colour of water. 14. ___________________________
John, 28, never tires of __10__ (WORK) with the tanks. ''Some
people think they are eyesores. But I love them. They are what 15. ___________________________
sets this city apart from other places.'' It takes him and a small
crew just a day to take down an old tank and build a new one in
its place. This is a precarious place of work, however, and it is not
for everyone.

If there __11__ (BE) such a thing as trees from outer space,
one has surely landed in Central Park. It is made of shiny steel,
and rises 50 feet from the ground with a thick trunk and all the
requisite branches and twigs quivering in the winter wind. If you
come across it unaware, you __12__ (THRILL) certainly, and
perplexed.
The tree is, of course, a sculpture, placed in the park until 30
June as part of this year's Whitney Biennial project. Conceived by
Roxy Paine and called ''Bluff'', it is made of 5,000lbs of
cantilevered branches. As people approached it on a recent
afternoon, every one of them __13__ (BREAK) into a smile. Until
now purists in the city have successfully blocked attempts
__14__ (USE) Central Park as a stage for artworks. That taboo,
however, seems to be over. If other pieces proposed for the park
are as dazzling as ''Bluff'', few people __15__ (MIND).
© The Independent on Sunday
TASK 10: GAP FILL
Write the correct form of the verb given in brackets in the spaces provided on your answer
sheet.
The grass is greener

Adapted from an article in The Observer Magazine, 3 March 2002, by Tamsin Blanchard
Helen Ellery is delighted. She __0__ has found a snail on her stairs – inside her flat, a cosy two-
bedroom Georgian sanctuary above an old shopfront which now __1__ (SERVE) as her office. While
most of us would be vaguely disgusted to find a trail of slime __2__ (LEAD) to a snail inside our
homes, for Helen it is proof that she has managed to achieve exactly what she wanted: to bring the
outside in. If only the odd bee and caterpillar __3__ (MAKE) themselves at home too, she would be a
very happy woman.
Walk up a narrow flight of stairs and you find yourself in Helen's English country cottage. You can
almost hear the sea washing up against the shingle beach outside and the seagulls swooping around
the sunny blue sky. The smell of freshly cut narcissus wafts about in the breeze from the open
windows of the living room. It's only the end of February, but spring has arrived. But the truth is, we
are about as far away from the great British seaside as it is possible __4__ (BE). This is industrial,
urban Clerkenwell in central London.

The views of the windows are of scaffolding and building sites. In the middle of the night, it is not the
waves that __5__ (KEEP) Helen awake but the rumble of the meat trucks on their way to Smithfield
Market. Nevertheless, she __6__ (FILL) her home with a little bit of sea air with the help of some
carefully chosen decoration and design.
Originally from south Wales, Helen __7__ (LIVE) in London since her days working in the record
industry, promoting bands. As a mature student, she __8__ (APPLY) to St Martins to do a foundation
course and then a degree in graphics. Then she took a step further and went to Chelsea College of Art
to do interior design. While there, she had the inklings of an idea and she __9__ (ALREADY / DECIDE)
on the name of her business, The Plot. 'It was about growth, propagation and all things that come from
seed.' Now 36, her interiors business has well and truly taken root. She is about to complete a 36-
room house in Salisbury, which __10__ (FIT) out with grass-green rugs 'mown' to give the outlines of a
maze, oversized checks, big chintzy floral curtains, and a colour palette __11__ (TAKE) directly from
the garden outside.
Helen's own home is, in a way, her calling card. There are 'lawn' carpets in bright grassy green, 'rape'
rugs the shade of an oil-seed rape field just before it's flowered, miniature black-and-white
chequerboard tiles in the kitchen, an oversized sofa with traditional English country check upholstery,
and lovely, blousy florals on curtains and coming alive on canvases __12__ (HANG) around the place.
'__13__ (GO) home to my parents in the countryside is definitely an inspiration for me,' she says. 'All
those vegetable patches, big lawns, traditional flowers.' The Britishness of it all is quite fundamental to
Helen's vision. Bit this is not a style lifted straight out of a typical stately home. It's quite tongue in
cheek.'There has to be an element of humour,' she says. 'I didn't want it to be twee. You __14__ (LIVE)
in the city after all, and I didn't want to live in the past.'
Hence the upside-down china cup and saucer lampshade in the kitchen, the lettuce-leaf cushions, the
miniature doll's house bath and sink set perched in the bathroom under the toilet cistern, and the
painting that she commissioned for the first-floor landing. She asked for a picture of a slug, and in
return she __15__ (PRESENT) with the word 'SLUG' written in big, green sluggly letters.
TASK 11: GAP FILL
Write the correct form of the verb given in brackets in the spaces provided on your answer
sheet.
What happened next?

Adapted from an interview in The Observer Magazine, 15 September 2002, by Veronica Blake
I don't think there was a day when I decided to become a professional footballer. I just always knew I
would. My father advised me __0__ to finish my studies; he used to say, 'You never
__1__ (KNOW) what might happen.' He didn't know how right he was.
I was 17 years old when I signed my first professional contract with Schaffhausen. I was so excited. I
thought, 'My God, I __2__ (EARN) money because of my hobby.' I couldn't believe they would pay me
for __3__ (DO) something I loved. My parents were so proud of me. My next club was Lazio, which
was an amazing experience at first, but after a while I didn't have a private life anymore. It was difficult.
I just wanted my private life back, so in 1996 I was very happy __4__ (SIGN) with Chelsea and get out
of Italy. I loved living in London and was very happy because you can live a normal life, unlike in Rome

where I __5__ (EXPECT) to be the footballer 24 hours a day. When I moved here I discovered I could
walk in the park, go to the cinema or go shopping and no one would bother me.
I was single and on my own when I arrived, so I got in touch with a friend from Rome, Roberto
Caravona. One Sunday, while __6__ (SIT) under a tree in Hyde Park on a sunny afternoon, we had
this idea: 'Why __7__ (WE / NOT / OPEN) our own little restaurant, a place to meet and entertain our
friends?' We were both single and without families at the time. My father's advice paid off and the
business degree I __8__ (DO) proved to be very useful.
Of course all that changed one September day in Zurich. One minute I was a professional footballer,
the next I was an invalid. I was 30, at the height of my career and we __9__ (PLAY) St Gallen in the
first round of the Uefa Cup. We were leading by a goal from the first leg, but had conceded two by the
35th minute when a St Gallen player went for the ball but slipped as he went in for the tackle. All his
body weight was on one leg, and his knee cannoned into my leg. I watched it on video for the first time
last month and I could see it was a pure accident. He __10__ (NOT / INTEND) to do it, and there was
nothing I could do to stop it happening. I __11__ (TAKE) to hospital immediately, where I was told I
had a triple fracture. It __12__ (MEAN) I had to have nine operations in 40 days.
I got depressed, and just couldn't see any light at the end of the tunnel. Such was the extent of the
damage to my leg, I understood from the beginning that there was a possibility I might never play
again. The doctors told me from day one that they just __13__ (WANT) to make sure I could live a
normal life again, they couldn't guarantee anything more. My recovery was painfully slow.
During that time I did a lot of thinking; when you __14__ (FACE) with a situation like that you can often
see things more clearly. I saw that when things go wrong you are pretty alone in the world. When life is
going well there are a lot of people around, and plenty who call themselves your friend. When things
went wrong, I found that I __15__ (BE) lonely, and that changed my attitude towards people.
Rešitev

Impact Earth: Could we divert a giant asteroid?
1. threw
2. to find out
3. had collided
4. would remain
5. led
6. called
7. pointing
8. had been stripped / was stripped
9. caused
10. believe
11. was buried / is buried
12. lacks
V tem delu izpitne pole ocenjujemo poznavanje in rabo

jezika, zato ne upoštevamo napačno napisanih besed
niti slovnično oporečnih rešitev. Skrajšane glagolske
oblike upoštevamo kot pravilne odgovore.
Vsak pravilen odgovor je vreden eno (1) točko.
Rešitev
Attack on Lawrence memorial 'was racist'
1. to have struck
2. dedicated
3. drew
4. to establish
5. (had) hoped / had been hoping / was hoping
6. being attacked / having been attacked

7. have never been brought / were never brought / will
never be brought
8. live
9. (has) led
10. to have been
11. committed
12. has been targeted

Rešitev
'Had my first experience of squalls ... I've also had a
chance to do some homework'
1. to sail / to have sailed
2. reaches / has reached
3. have ever done / have ever been doing / will ever do
/ ever did
4. have carried / have been carrying
5. be extended
6. was forced
7. was/is / has been
8. is following / follows
9. watching / having watched
10. would be
11. would actually happen / was actually going to
happen
12. attends

Rešitev
From Robben Island to the red carpet
1. playing
2. had
3. had just returned / was just returning
4. to turn
5. fought / was fighting
6. enduring
7. was carried out
8. want
9. was wrongly suspected
10. Outraged / Having been outraged
11. to destroy
12. involves

TASK 5: GAP FILL

Nineteen years and counting
1. was supposed

2. being
3. had left already / had already left
4. To cheer / Cheering
5. hit
6. didn't seem
7. laughing
8. compared
9. Having said / Saying
10. fought
11. (had) lived / were living / had been living
12. felt

Rešitev
TASK 6: GAP FILL
Beating around the bush
1. was sitting / sat
2. staring
3. would be
4. will not/won't bite
5. feeling
6. are camping
7. has been
8. to become
9. were drawn / have been drawn
10. are encouraged
11. (being) offered
12. to teach

V tem delu izpitne pole ocenjujemo predvsem
poznavanje in rabo jezika, zato ne upoštevamo napačno
napisanih besed niti slovnično oporečnih rešitev.
Vsi pravilni odgovori se točkujejo z eno točko. Skrajšane
glagolske oblike upoštevamo kot pravilne odgovore.
Rešitev
Diving in at the shark end
1. has been
2. has been involved
3. Inspired / Having been inspired
4. being confined
5. had already made
6. would/could produce
7. to believe
8. be incorporated
9. made
10. allowing
11. were placed
12. was going / went


Rešitev
TASK 8: GAP FILL
Highest ice-fields will not
last 100 years, study finds
1.warned
2.to prepare
3.was approved
4.(has) looked
5.is
6.(have) measured
7.estimated
8.are thought
9.including
10.continued
11.would fill
12.predicted
13.threatening
14.was first scaled
15.to improve

Rešitev
New York Stories
1. fell
2. has been

3. accompanied
4. hasn't been cleaned
5. being
6. doesn't have
7. driven
8. takes
9. am relieved
10. working
11. is
12. will be thrilled /
are going to be thrilled
13. broke
14. to use
15. will mind

Rešitev
TASK 10: GAP FILL

The grass is greener
1. serves
2. leading
3. made
4. to be
5. keep
6. has filled / fills
7. has lived / has been living

8. applied
9. had already decided
10. has been fitted / is fitted
11. (has been) taken
12. hung/hanging
13. Going
14. live / are living
15. was presented

Rešitev
TASK 11: GAP FILL
What happened next?
1. know
2. am earning / will be earning
NESPREJEMLJIVO: are going to earn / will earn
3. doing
4. to sign
5. was expected
NESPREJEMLJIVO: had been expected
6. sitting
7. don't we open
NESPREJEMLJIVO: wouldn’t we open
8. had done
9. were playing
10. didn't intend / did not intend
11. was taken

12. meant
13. wanted
14. are faced
15. was

Rešitev
Task 12: Gap fill (verbs): “I know the dangers but I
want them anyway”: The dark truth about diet pills
Točk Dodatna
Vpr. Rešitev
e navodila
1 1 13. to have contributed
2 1 14. has now decided
3 1 ena od:
15. may have been
16. might have been
17. might’ve been
4 1 18. are investigating
5 1 19. attributed
6 1 20. to be made
7 1 21. to be growing
8 1 22. take
9 1 ena od:
23. feeling
24. having felt
10 1 25. has been tested

11 1 26. being absorbed
12 1 ena od:
27. are not categorised
28. aren’t categorised
29. have not been
categorised
30. haven’t been
categorised
13 1 ena od:
31. would not be
32. wouldn’t be
14 1 ena od:
33. took
34. had taken
Skupaj 14
Rešitev
Task 13: Gap fill (verbs): More than 2,000 refugees
stranded at Croatian border town
Točk Dodatna
Vpr. Rešitev
e navodila
1 1 13. runs
2 1 ena od:
14. breaking up
15. being broken up
3 1 16. have been moving

4 1 ena od:
17. going up
18. go up
5 1 19. closed
6 1 20. to meet

7 1 ena od:
21. would place
22. was going to place
8 1 23. to be transported
9 1 24. laid
10 1 ena od:
25. are already closed
26. have already been
closed
27. have been already
closed
11 1 ena od:
28. will not result
29. won’t result
12 1 30. trapped
13 1 31. succeed
14 1 32. is running
15 1 33. breaks
Skupaj 15

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POZNAVANJE IN RABA JEZIKA

TASK 1: GAP FILL (Verbs)

Impact Earth: Could we divert a giant asteroid?

A hundred years ago this week a man __0__ (SIT) in the

© 2014 e-Banka nalog RIC. Vse pravice pridržane.

POZNAVANJE IN RABA JEZIKA

TASK 2: GAP FILL (Verbs)

Attack on Lawrence memorial 'was racist'

Vandals have attacked a centre for inner-city children that

© 2014 e-Banka nalog RIC. Vse pravice pridržane.

POZNAVANJE IN RABA JEZIKA

TASK 3: GAP FILL (Verbs)

There is an example at the beginning: Gap 0.

'Had my first experience of squalls ... I've also had a

He is not old enough to drive a car or buy a drink in a pub. It

© 2014 e-Banka nalog RIC. Vse pravice pridržane.

POZNAVANJE IN RABA JEZIKA

From Robben Island to the red carpet

At the orphanage he __0__ (RUN), deep in the far-flung hills

© 2014 e-Banka nalog RIC. Vse pravice pridržane.

POZNAVANJE IN RABA JEZIKA

Nineteen years and counting

© 2014 e-Banka nalog RIC. Vse pravice pridržane.

POZNAVANJE IN RABA JEZIKA

Beating around the bush

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POZNAVANJE IN RABA JEZIKA

Diving in at the shark end

Perhaps it should come as no surprise that the inventor of a

© 2014 e-Banka nalog RIC. Vse pravice pridržane.

POZNAVANJE IN RABA JEZIKA

Highest ice-fields will not last 100 years, study finds

© 2014 e-Banka nalog RIC. Vse pravice pridržane.

POZNAVANJE IN RABA JEZIKA

New York stories

We are scaling the second of a series of steel ladders on top

© 2014 e-Banka nalog RIC. Vse pravice pridržane.

POZNAVANJE IN RABA JEZIKA

TASK 10: GAP FILL

There is an example at the beginning: Gap 0.

The grass is greener

© 2014 e-Banka nalog RIC. Vse pravice pridržane.

© The Observer Magazine

POZNAVANJE IN RABA JEZIKA

TASK 11: GAP FILL

There is an example at the beginning: Gap 0.

What happened next?

© 2014 e-Banka nalog RIC. Vse pravice pridržane.

© The Observer Magazine

© 2014 e-Banka nalog RIC. Vse pravice pridržane.

V tem delu izpitne pole ocenjujemo poznavanje in rabo

© 2014 e-Banka nalog RIC. Vse pravice pridržane.

V tem delu izpitne pole ocenjujemo poznavanje in rabo

2. reaches / has reached

3. have ever done / have ever been doing / will ever do

7. was/is / has been

9. watching / having watched

11. would actually happen / was actually going to

© 2014 e-Banka nalog RIC. Vse pravice pridržane.

A hundred years ago this week a man 0 (SIT) in the

At the orphanage he 0 (RUN), deep in the far-flung hills