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5.
A) presidents
B) ministers
C) ambassadors D) bureaucrats
6.
A) palaces
B) embassies
C) centers
D) hotels
7.
A) resume
B) give up
C) cease
D) halt
8.
A) borders
B) embassies
C) links
D) splits
AN ARREST
A policeman was sent to __1__ the disappearance of some
property from a hotel. When he arrived, he found that the hotel staff
had caught a boy in one of the rooms with a camera and some cash.
When the policeman tried to __2__ the boy, he became violent and
the policeman had to __3__ him. At the police station the boy could
not give a satisfactory explanation for his actions and the police decided
to __4__ him with the __5__ of the camera and cash. They took his
__6__ locked him in a __7__ and __8__ him overnight. The next
morning he appeared in __9__ before the __10__. He took a(an) __11__
and __12__ not guilty. Two __13__, the owner of the property and a
member of the hotel staff, gave __14__. After both sides of the case
had been heard the boy was __15__ guilty. He had to pay a(an) __16__
of £50 and he was given a __17__ of three months in prison suspended
for two years.
1.
A) arrest
B) magistrate
C) investigate
D) detain
2.
A) arrest
B) investigate C) charge
D) save
3.
A) arrest
B) plead
C) handcuff
D) detain
4.
A) arrest
B) sentence
C) detain
D) charge
5.
A) thieving
B) steal
C) theft
D) evidence
6.
A) fingerprints B) tiptoes
C) handcuffs
D) witnesses
7.
A) prison
B) dungeon
C) cell
D) jail
8.
A) took
B) charged
C) handcuffed
D) detained
9.
A) dungeon
B) prison
C) station
D) court
10. A) criminal
B) magistrate
C) lawyer
D) prosecutor
11. A) witness
B) oath
C) promise
D) plead
12. A) asked
B) pleaded
C) promised
D) begged
13. A) witnesses
B) magistrates C) friends
D) opponents
14. A) criminal
B) magistrate
C) investigations
D) evidence
15. A) found
B) sentenced
C) celled
D) charged
16. A) fine
B) oath
C) sentence
D) money
17. A) word
B) sentence
C) fine
D) charge
LAW AND PUNISMENT
If you want legal advice in Britain, you go to a __1__. At the end
of the __2__, the judge orders the twelve men and women of the
__3__ to retire and consider their __4__ guilty or not guilty. Men or
women who look after prisoners in prison are called prison officers or
__5__. If a person dies in unusual circumstances, a(an) __6__ is held at
a special court, and the ‘judge’ is called a __7__. A policeman who
investigates serious crime is called a __8__. He wears __9__ clothes,
not uniform. In some countries murderers are executed but other
countries have abolished the death __10__.
1.
A) trial
B) coroner
C) solicitor
D) prosecutor
2.
A) trial
B) event
C) incident
D) verdict
3.
A) inquisitive
B) team
C) detectives
D) jury
4.
A) trial
B) response
C) answer
D) verdict
5.
A) detectives
B) coroners
C) warders
D) soldiers
6.
A) inquest
B) trial
C) verdict
D) jury
7.
A) warder
B) coroner
C) jury
D) criminal
8.
A) warder
B) coroner
C) detective
D) jury
9.
A) colorful
B) plain
C) detective
D) jury
10. A) fine
B) sentence
C) punishment D) penalty
CLASSICAL MUSIC
While the concert __1__ was filling up and the __2__ were taking
their seats, the __3__ were tuning their __4__. The famous __5__
entered. He gave the audience a low __6__, picked up his __7__,
looked briefly at the __8__ which lay open in front of him, and raised
his hands. The pianist placed her fingers ready over the __9__ of her
piano. The __10__ section of the orchestra (violinists, cellists etc.)
brought their __11__ up, ready to play. The concert was about to
begin.
1.
A) area
B) saloon
C) stadium
D) hall
2.
A) spectators
B) musicians
C) audience
D) watchers
3.
A) spectators
B) musicians
C) audience
D) watchers
4.
A) instruments B) tools
C) devices
D) apparatus
5.
A) conductor
B) singer
C) director
D) actor
6.
A) hug
B) bow
C) greeting
D) hello
7.
A) stick
B) string
C) score
D) baton
8.
A) book
B) notebook
C) score
D) baton
9.
A) keys
B) buttons
C) switches
D) strings
10. A) drum
B) bow
C) singer
D) string
11. A) keys
B) sticks
C) bows
D) batons
POPULAR MUSIC
After the Beatles, The Rolling Stones have probably been the
most successful __1__ in Britain. Most of their records have gone into
the __2__ ten and they’ve had many at __3__ one. But their records
have usually been made in a recording __4__ and I always wanted to
hear them __5__ at a __6__. I wanted to see them perform on __7__
in front of thousands of excited __8__. And I did, at Earls Court in
1990. It was great. And Mick Jagger, the __9__, sang all the old
favorites. I couldn’t hear the __10__ very well because of the noise,
but somehow it didn’t matter.
1.
A) group
B) team
C) squad
D) vocalists
2.
A) upper
B) bottom
C) good
D) top
3.
A) top
B) best
C) number
D) worst
4.
A) center
B) studio
C) institution
D) house
5.
A) live
B) living
C) alive
D) life
6.
A) stage
B) concert
C) studio
D) cinema
7.
A) stage
B) concert
C) studio
D) movie
8.
A) watchers
B) supporters
C) fans
D) spectators
9.
A) vocal
B) lyrics
C) actor
D) vocalist
10. A) letters
B) lyrics
C) words
D) scripts
FAMINE AND FLOOD
If a country has no rain for a long time, this dry period is called a
__1__. In countries dependent on their agriculture, this can lead to a
period of __2__, when there is not enough food and people actually
__3__ (die of hunger). They die of __4__. When it rains very heavily
and the land is under water, this is called a __5__. In this situation
people and animals can __6__. Sometimes __7__ have to __8__ food
supplies to people in areas which are __9__.
1.
A) famine
B) drown
C) drought
D) flood
2.
A) famine
B) drown
C) drought
D) flood
3.
A) survive
B) starve
C) drop
D) extinct
4.
A) starvation
B) starve
C) drown
D) drought
5.
A) famine
B) drown
C) drought
D) flood
6.
A) starve
B) drown
C) swim
D) extinct
7.
A) trains
B) balloons
C) parachutes
D) helicopters
8.
A) throw
B) starve
C) drop
D) fly
9.
A) cut up
B) cut off
C) cut down
D) cut in
Book 2 Part B
Everyday Vocabulary
