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Read and choose the best word for each sentence.
1. Out in the Pacific...Ocean ..., 3700 kilometers from Los Angeles, are the islands of Hawaii, the 50th state of the United States.
2. In 1778, Captain James Cook, the great English..explorer .., visited Hawaii.
3. Captain Cook put Hawaii on his maps of the Pacific. Ships...searching ..for whales began stopping there for supplies.
4. In 1820, a small group of people from the eastern United States came to teach the Hawaiian people about...Christianity...
5. These people started farms in Hawaii to grow sugarcane and, later,..pineapples .....
6. People from the various groups have married each other, so today the groups are partly..mixed ...
7. A lei is a long...necklace ...made from beautiful fresh flowers. Hawaiian people give these to visitors.
8. Hawaiians....earn ...most of their money from tourists.
9. Sometimes when people from different countries,....races ....., and traditions live together, there are problems.
10. Hawaii has many few....serious ...problems. In general, the people of Hawaii have learned to live together on those beautiful islands in peace
1)ocean
2)explorer
3)searching
4)christianity
5)pineapples
6)mixed
7)necklace
8)earn
9)races
10)serious
B. Use the words given in capitals at the end of each sentence to form a word that fits in the space.
1. The first inhabitants of Iceland were a group of _Norwegian_ families who settled on the island in AD 874. NORWAY
2. There was disagreement about whether the country needs to maintain a _deterence_. DETER
3. Hundreds of _ evacuees_ from the war zone have arrived in the city and we are trying to find homes for them. EVACUATE
4. _Bedridden patients are often given exercises to help prevent their muscles from becoming stiff. BED
5. It was this passion for fast cars that led to his _untimely_ death at the age of 33. TIME
6. Every effort is made to _rectify_ any errors before the book is printed. RIGHT
7. In a recent opinion poll, a majority of _respondents__ were against nuclear weapons. RESPONSE
8. Her mouth is _seductively__ lipsticked and her eyes are wide open with anticipation. SEDUCE
9. The script has a refreshing _spontaneity_ and sparkle. SPONTANEOUS
10. It’s better to be an _omnivore_ and eat a variety of plant and animals in case there is a shortage of one particular kind of food.
Gap-filling
The coelacanth
The fish the coelacanth,(0)__which__was very common during the early history of the world,gets(1)__its__name from the Ancient Greek term for 'hollow spine'.At the begining (2)__of__the twentieth century,scientists believed (3)__that___the coelacanth was extinct.Indeed,they had worked (4)___out__from fossils off coelacanths that it (5)__has___been extinct for over sixty million years.
Then,in 1983,an extremely exciting scientific discovery was (6)__made___.A fisherman fishing off (7)__the___coast of South Africa caught a very peculiar fish.Ha brought it back to the mainland (8)___for__analysis, and it was identified from its hollow spine and the shape of its finds(9)__as___a coelacanth.The fish was not extinct after (10)__....___.
Unfortunately,the fish decomposes rapidly,preventing scientists (11)__from___carrying out furrther studies on it.However,(12)__since___1952 a number of coelacanths have (13)__been___caught in the seas around east Africa,(14)__allowing___scientists to examine the fish which everyone had presumed had died (15)__out___with the dinosaurs.
39. It would appear that Thomas _________
A. has organized a protest recently.
B. takes an interest in important events.
C. has no contact with other homeless people.
D. is not as poor as he used to be.
40. When Thomas was in the Navy, he _________
A. only visited three countries.
B. enjoyed the strict life on board ship.
C. was very well paid for the job he did.
D. liked meeting people from different countries.
41. Thomas changed his job because he _________
A. was too old to stay in the Navy.
B. wanted to start a family.
C. wanted to be near his relatives in New York.
D. did not enjoy the work any more.
42. Thomas lost his job and became a tramp because _________
A. he did not have any family.
B. he was tired of doing normal job.
C. of reasons he does not want to discuss
D. of the death of his parents.
43. The text states that Thomas thinks the President _________
A. should not allow home people to stay on the streets.
B.should increase pensions for oldpeople.
C. has not had enough time to change things.
D.should have done more to help people like him
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The history of surfing undoubtedly goes (0) BACK a long way. It seems to (9) ..have........ formed a central part of the culture of the Polynesian people, who were inhabitants of islands in the Pacific Ocean (10) .....such..... as Samoa, Tonga, and Hawaii. These people did not regard surfing (11) ....as...... a mere recreational activity. For them, it was much (12) .....more..... of an art. Although surfing disappeared from many parts of Polynesia in (13) ...the....... early twentieth century, a small number of people in Hawaii kept the tradition alive. In 1912, it spread to the east coast of the United States, and in particular to Virginia Beach, (14) .....which..... became an important surfing center. Surfing developed quite rapidly from then on, and the design of surfboards became more sophisticated. However, (15) ....it...... was not until the 1960s that surfing came to be a truly global phenomenon, boosted not only by the success of surfing films (16) .....but..... also by pop songs about surfing cultur