Yesterday, as I walked down the Strand, I met George, an old friend of mine. He recognized me at once, though I wore a scarf round my face as 1 suffered from toothache. He told me how sorry he was to see me in such a poor way, and added: « came to see you a fortnight ago but unfortunately we prepared the annual accounts and as one of my colleagues were ill, I couldn't find time to get round to you.» All the time he said this, I tried to remember something I wanted to tell.
Eventually I remembered and said to him: «Just before I came out, I received a letter from
Smith, in which he said that he hoped you would call on him soon. He last ... saw you at Marion's birthday party but you talked so animatedly to Robertson that he didn`t dare to interrupt!» Just then I saw another friend of mine: he waved to me from the other side of the road. I said goodbye to George and started to cross the road; while I crossed a car rushed out from nowhere and knocked me down. Luckily, I fell into an open crate of bananas, which a barrow-boy sold so I sustained no great injury
- though the bananas did!
Choose the suitable prefix or suffix to form the correct word.
1) It is my __ that there are other living beings in the universe. (belief)
2) The country is facing a population (explosion)
3) The importance of this __ has been extremely overrated. (invention)
4) They say that travel the mind. (broadens)
5) __ is probably the most useful form of energy. (electricity)
6) This bag contains all my photography __. (equipment)
7) We have the same model in __ colours. (various)
8) When you work at a nuclear power plant, you must be extremely __. (careful)
9) Extraterrestrial life has not been _ proved yet. (scientifically)
10) You know how on a flat surface, which has only two dimensions, we can represent a figure of a three __ solid. (dimensional)
