Exercise 7. Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. There is an example at the besinning (0).
If you are (0)…interested… in the life of birds you should know that birds do not USUALLY …(1) fly very high and we can EASILY …(2) see them flying from the ground. A lot of birds when on MIGRATION … (3) fly from 100 to 400 metres high as the EQUIPMENT …(4) shows. Some birds, like penguins, cannot fly, but they are good SWIMMERS …(5) and good JUMPERS (6) too.
They QUICKLY …(7) jump into and out of water and they look so
FUNNY …(8) when they walk.
"Don't get NERVOUS …(20). Try and read the passage ATTENTIVELY …(21), learn from context. Pay ATTENTION …(22) to what the rest of the passage says. English has a very EFFICIENT
(23) method of adding words BORROWED …(24)! As an English SPEAKER (25) travels the globe he adds a wealth of words from other languages. By the 1600's the English were ACTIVELY (26)
involved in EXPLORATION (27). They were looking for countries to establish trade CONNECTIONS with. In those countries a TRAVELLER …(29) was exposed to new ideas, climates full of heat and ICY …(30) cold, DIFFERENT …(31) plants and animals. Rather than make up ENDLESS …(32) rows of new words for everything he saw, an EXPLORER (33) often used the words of the natives. These words became an IMPORTANT (34) part of the English vocabulary.
Exercise 8. Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line.
The English language is CONSTANTLY (1) growing and changing. No one has ever included every word from the language in a
single dictionary. To do that would mean to REWRITE …(2) the dictionary every day, which is IMPOSSIBLE …(3). But people have a lot of INFORMATION …(4) about the (5) GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT …(6) of the language, its EXPANTION (7). Scholars have VARIOUS (8) ideas of how any new discovery contributes to the process of new words ADOPTION …(9). When people are faced with a new SITUATION …(10) and they do not have a word for its DISCRIPTION …(11) they sometimes make up one. But no one makes a formal DECISION (12) about it. Many READERS …(13) begin to have trouble when they start to read passages about UNFAMILIAR …(14) subjects. Such people often MISUNDERSTAND …(15) the passage as they cannot tell what the MEANING (16) of the sentence is. They come across UNKNOWN …(17) words which prevent the process of COMPREHENSION … (18). There are many USEFULL …(19) ideas that can help you and the first is,
1. Easy
2. Usually
3. Migrating
4.equip
5.swimming
6.jumping
7.quickly
8.funny