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Contemptuous, contemptible, neat, furtive, permissible, impermissible, skilled, succession, exaggeration, confidence, to argue, to remind, to outwit, to take root




1. At night I take () strolls to the fridge. 2. Go for a new hairstyle to boost your (). 3. There are useful similes: a degenerate aristocrat is like rhubarb, a () shrub that springs from a noble root. 4. It is a () sport, best done by people who understand and admire their quarry and are fit enough to pursue and () it. 5. The newcomers were not able to brush aside the native Carib population with quite the () ease with which the Spaniards had conquered the mainland. 6. I need hardly () you of the many emergencies that Save The Children has responded to in recent years. 7. It is perhaps no () to suggest that the weather saved France from a catastrophic defeat. 8. But the idea for The Body Shop did not () immediately. 9. Locke's patron, Shaftesbury, and others, sought to exclude James, then Duke of York, from the () to the throne, and () for government by consent. 10. The borderline between () co-operation on the one hand, and () restrictive practices on the other, may be a fine one, and it is important that companies remain abreast of legal developments in this area. 11. The concentrated aroma of a () essence can be over-powering if sniffed from the bottle; but once diluted, the fragrance becomes much more characteristic of the living plant though not identical.

 

V. Insert the required prepositions:

1. They may talk first to someone wise and experienced a person they know and can confide (). 2. A rally in Hyde Park () 6 June 1982 drew a crowd which the police estimated () 115,000. 3. You remind me () a medieval fresco I saw on a church in Donegal once. 4. Morning, she said () a friendly voice, then pointed () the desk to remind him () the microphone. 5. Bush announced () May 14, the choice of Robert M. Gates () Webster's successor. 6. In Ayr, the second most marginal seat in the United Kingdom, Phil Gallie, the successor () George Younger, held on () 85 votes. 7. Our instinctive reactions seem to be rooted () the past and they are not always appropriate () twentieth-century living. 8. Words and names, as we all know () everyday experience, possess magical power: naming and identifying experiences and things imposes some degree of control () them and gives () least the illusion of bringing them () our power. 9. During the years 188789, the old ruinous south chapel was pulled () to make room for the present commodious aisles, the reason () this being the increase () population due to industrialisation in the village. 10. One resident, Jim Goodson, aged 105, who enlisted () the Army in 1902 () the age of 17, remembered being one of the first to be issued with a khaki uniform, an improvement () the red tunics which the Boers picked () so easily. 11. In two weeks of December the number of male vagrants had risen () 371, and the master was () the opinion that the increase was due to the fact that many of the unemployed in London were returning to their own towns. 12. I didn't come ( ) a theory immediately, though I had hunches which were difficult to put () words.

 

VI. Translate into English:

Translation 1

 

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15. 50 .

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17. , .

18. ? , , ?

 

Translation 2

 

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