For questions 1-15, read the text and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct and some have a word that shouldn't be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (^)in the appropriate box on your answer sheet. If a line has a word which shou

For questions 1-15, read the text and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct and some have a word that shouldn't be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (^)in the appropriate box on your answer sheet. If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word down in the appropriate box on your answer sheet.

Happy Quoting!

1. Quotations and sayings are part of our language and our way of

2. life. As the poet Emerson said, we use of them by necessity; to

3. remind ourselves to look before we leap or to avoid crossing

4. our bridges before we come over to them. We use them by habit,

5. often not realizing we are doing so much, and we all love to

6. use an apt quotation to enliven conversation or score a point

7. in an argument. The booklet contains over above a thousand

8. quotations, proverbs and sayings. Together they offer a great

9. deal of the information, advice, amusement and comfort.

10. Emerson wrote: 'I hate quotations', so it is doubtful that he

11. would have been used this booklet - but we hope that you will.

12. Whether you use it to improve your knowledge more, as an aid to

13. solving crossword puzzles, to enrich your own speech or simply

14. for idle reading in your spare time, it will put you in to

15. touch with some of the cleverest minds of the past and at present. Happy reading and happy quoting!

Task 2

For questions 16 -22 , complete the second sentence so that it has the similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. You must use between two and five words. Do not change the word given.

Example:

You haven't seen my pen anywhere, have you? happen

You don't happen to have seen my pen anywhere, have you?

16. Tom was definitely first in the queue. doubt

There's................................................................................................... first in the

queue.

17. It was only when I checked that I saw the tyre was flat. see

Only when I checked.............................................................................. a flat tyre.

18. Your hair needs cutting. have

You need................................................................................................ cut.

19. I'm sure this isn't how you get to Norwich! can't

This........................................................................................................ way to

Norwich!

20. He took two hours deciding which seeds to buy. mind

He took two hours............................................................................... which seeds to buy.

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