A Night Out In Bristol
For questions 1-12, read the text below and decide
which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the
beginning (0).
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If you're in Bristol on a weekday evening and 0. fancy a lively, boozy night out without getting too badly 1.______ off you could do worse than to try Fandangos, the
new nightclub complex on Lower Guzzlemore Street. Before eleven o'clock, prices
are quite 2.__________ and you can get a 3._____ of four drinks for around a tenner. If like me,
you're a bit of a 4.___________ it could even set you back less than that. But for
the heavyweights, more often than 5.___ , they run
some kind of drinking competition at some point in the evening. On the evening
I visited they were offering a free pint to anyone who could 6.____ their first pint in one' guaranteed to leave even
the most hardened heavyweight with a7.________ the next day. On most nights, the dress 8.____ is fairly relaxed although they do seem to draw the
line at torn jeans.
If, on the other hand, you're looking to 9.___ away from it all and enjoy a quiet beer or two in somewhere a little more off the 10.______ track, The Pickwick Brewery Tap on Regents Muse might be more to your liking. Despite the rather unoriginal name, this charming little pub is not the fake tourist 11.____ that you might expect. Most nights the other customers are nearly all locals and regulars but from 12.____________ they do get bus loads of pensioners taking over the place for an hour or two in the late afternoon.
If, on the other hand, you're looking to 9.___ away from it all and enjoy a quiet beer or two in somewhere a little more off the 10.______ track, The Pickwick Brewery Tap on Regents Muse might be more to your liking. Despite the rather unoriginal name, this charming little pub is not the fake tourist 11.____ that you might expect. Most nights the other customers are nearly all locals and regulars but from 12.____________ they do get bus loads of pensioners taking over the place for an hour or two in the late afternoon.
Answers
1. A wish B hope C fancy D dream
2. A stolen B lifted C taken D ripped
3. A reasonable B respectful C realistic D resistible
4. A hand B round C pack D stack
5. A weak-drinker B lightweight C low consumer D soft head
6. A not B ever C never D sometimes
7. A stomach B down C draw D drain
8. A sore-brain B head-bang C heavy-head D hangover
9. A plan B rule C code D restriction
10. A run B get C go D put
11. A well-known B toursit C beaten D popular
12. A trap B hole C den D ground
13. A now and then B time to time C here and now D day to night
Climate Change
For questions 1-12, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).
We are not as well-informed about climate 0. change as we may think we are. Most people have heard about the1._____ of global warming but relatively few people could reliably tell you accurate 2._____ and figures 3.________ to this phenomenon. Scare stories appear in the media on an almost 4._____ basis, complete with graphs, statistics and5.___________ of how the world is going to change. But although we have all read and understood this numerical data, remembering it is 6._______ matter.
7.____ the actual rise in global 8.___________ over the last century, for example. When asked in a survey how much the world had warmed during the 9._____ of the twentieth century, fifty-one percent of people thought that a ten-degree rise 10._______ right compared with an actual 11.______ of 0.6 degrees. Many people also seemed to believe that we could soon expect to see sea-level rises that would cover all but the world's highest mountains when in 12._______ the rise is unlikely to be more than five metres.
7.____ the actual rise in global 8.___________ over the last century, for example. When asked in a survey how much the world had warmed during the 9._____ of the twentieth century, fifty-one percent of people thought that a ten-degree rise 10._______ right compared with an actual 11.______ of 0.6 degrees. Many people also seemed to believe that we could soon expect to see sea-level rises that would cover all but the world's highest mountains when in 12._______ the rise is unlikely to be more than five metres.
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