Find the mistake and correct it:
1. The decrease of the infant mortality rate is the result of better health care services.
2.
3. I'm sorry I delayed to answer your letter.
4. There are several reasons for our delay to reprint the book.
5. They have demanded all copies of the book to be destroyed.
6. I was sure that one of them had taken the watch, even though they all denied.
7. I described her exactly what had happened.
8. He promised to give her anything she desired for.
9. At the police station I described in details what I had seen.
10. The new government is not different from the last one.
11. People's ideas about what makes a good holiday are different.
12. Her family had great difficulty to get her transferred to another hospital.
13. You won't have any difficulties in recognising him.
14. He's left home but he still does well to his kids.
15. The new rule will disallow accountants to charge what they like.
16. Union leaders spent the morning discussing with the Prime Minister.
17. Two hours later he found himself laying in his own bed again.
18. The government must take immediate action, least the problem of child poverty grow worse
19. The alleged offences include such non-violent crimes like theft and shoplifting.
20. Although the room was little, it was big enough for me.
21. I was worried a little about what she would say.
Word formation 7.
1. His ____________was well known to all the nurses. STUBBORN
2. I don't like all this ____________- I want to be kept fully informed about everything that's happening. SECRET
3. I don't want to work ____________hours. SOCIAL
4. Iceland is at a ____________west of the Greenwich meridian. LONG
5. I'd love to tell you about it, but Martin's sworn me to ____________. SECRET
6. I'm sure I never said that! You must have ____________ me. HEAR
7. In the last few months of his illness he suffered ____________ pain. ENDURE
8. In the story the clever little fox ____________ the hunters and escapes from the trap they set. WIT
9. In the summer, it's ____________ hot in the smaller classrooms. COMFORT
10. It's hardly surprising that Richard doesn't have any friends when he behaves so ____________. SOCIAL
11. It's so ____________of him to refuse to eat meat and yet to carry an alligator skin bag. LOGIC
12. Jack is such a gifted player, he just ____________the rest of the team. CLASS
13. Many teachers have expressed serious ____________about the new exams. GIVE
14. ____________can be a serious obstacle to making yourself understood in a foreign language. PRONOUNCE
15. Most of the forests are being cut down, but the Mosquitia region has been protected by its _________. ACCESS
16. None of his grand plans for a TV series ever came to ____________. FRUIT
17. Of course it's ____________to cheat someone out of their money. MORAL
18. One of the side effects of the drug is an increased ____________to sunlight. SENSE
19. Over the years ____________differences of opinion have developed between the sisters. RECONSILE
20. ____________ will help you find a flat to rent.
Cloze test
When Roger Bannister first ran the mile in ..................... (1) than four minutes on May 6, 1954, he broke a barrier which ...................... (2) now been crossed hundreds of times. Similarly, in other athletic ...................... (3) the limits of the possible continue to be pushed back as record ..................... (4) record is broken.
In a less spectacular .................... (5), everyday skills such as riding bicycles ...................... (6) to have become easier to ..................... (7) up, with many children learning younger and faster than their grandparents .................. (8). And recent studies have .......................... (9) that average performance in intelligence tests is also ........................ (10). ........................ (11) the war, the average IQ score of American children has been rising ....................... (12) about 1 point .................... (13) three years, and .................... (14) faster increases have ............................ (15) in Japan.
There are many possible ......................... (16) for these effects, such as better nutrition, improved teaching methods, ......................... (17) availability of facilities and so on. But there may be an important underlying factor which has so far been .......................... (18), namely an inherent tendency for past experience to .......................... (19) present performance through a kind of collective memory ........................... (20) which everyone has potential access.
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