miércoles, 30 de septiembre de 2009

SENTENCE 393


One reason I don’t drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.- Lady Astor

ALISON BOUGHT THE BIG HOUSE BECAUSE SHE WANTED TO OPEN A HOTEL 392


VIEW

ALISON BOUGHT THE BIG HOUSE WITH A VIEW TO OPENING A HOTEL

THE STRANDER CLIMBER WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN RESCUED IF THIS BROTHER HADNT HAD AN INGEIOUS PLAN 391


INGENUITY

BUT FOR THE INENUITY OF HIS BROTHER PLANS ,THESTRANDED CLIMBER WOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN RESCUED

THE COMMMMITTEE SAID THERE WAS NO POSSIBILITY OF DISCUSSINGTHE MATTER ANY FURTHER 390

DISCUSSION


THE COMMITTEE SAID THAT FURTHER DISCUSSION WAS OUT OF QUESTION

if only i hadnt believe his lies 389


TAKEN


I WISH I HADNT BEEN TAKEN BY HIS LIES

EVERYTHING TURNED OUT ALL RIGHT IN THE END 388


PLACE


DESPITE SOME INITIAL PROBLEMS EVERYTHING FELL INTO PLACE

I M SURE THE ROBBERY WAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MY SON 387


MY SON WAS NOT MIXED UP IN THE ROBBERY,I CAN ASSURE YOU

I ITS UNUSUAL TO SEE GRAFFITI IN THIS PART OF THE TOWN 386


ACCOSTUMED


ARE NOT ACCUSTOMED TO SEEING GRAFFITI

exercises 385

CPE CERTIFICATE IN PROFICIENCY ENGLISH
PAPER 3 ENGLISH ON USE
EXTRA PRACTICE WORD FORMATION


WORD FORMATION EXERCISE 1.“ Go Figure “ ( geoffrey m. miller )

"Maybe we should ask a ........................................1 “ ,I suggested. PHYSICS
"Yeah", replied my new friend Paul. "or a mathematics professor or ...............................2 like that." SOME

We had just finished dinner and were waiting for the nurse to come and take our trays away
In addition to making new friends, another benefit of being .........................................3 HOSPITAL
is that it gives people time to think about things we wouldn't ..........................4 ORDINARY
think about. In this case, it was "Highly ..................................5 Events and The Way PROBABILITY
They Seem To Happen All The Time."
Paul shared a story about a friend of his from college who went to China for a semester.

"She was ...........................6 in a cafe in Beijing, when in walks another American girl. SEAT
They got to talking and it turns out they knew each other.", Paul exclaimed. "They lived on the same block when they were little. Hadn't seen each other since."
"What are the odds of that happening?", I wondered.

We asked the nurse to check with the other patients to see if any of them might have a mathematics degree. Meanwhile, we tried to figure it out ................................. 7 OUR
and came up with some fairly .........................................8 numbers. REMARK

We made a valiant but ...................................9 attempt at calculating the odds FRUIT
of two .............................10 friends bumping into one another in China. CHILD
Two people meeting in the same cafe at the same time would mean they ......................11 have to WILL
be there within the same half hour, and..............................12 , say, twenty WITH
feet of each other. We figured how many twenty foot squares there were on the
......................................13 areas of the earth and the number of half hours that HABITAT
had passed in the twenty years since they had seen each other. We had worked ourselves into a mathematical frenzy and were just about to take the number of half hours, to the power of the number of twenty foot squares, when then nurse had to come and sedate us.

As I drifted into .....................................14 sleep, I realized that calculating the odds PHARMACY
of Paul and I being in the same hospital room at the same time were far too ...........................15 ASTRONOMY
to be attempted by amateurs.

WORD FORMATION Exercise 2 WHY ENGLISH IS SO DIFFICULT!

TAKE INTO ACCOUNT IRREGULAR PLURAL NOUNS!!

Why English Is So Difficult! We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes;
but the plural of ox became ..............................1 not oxes. OX
One fowl is a goose, but two are called ....................... 2 , GOOSE
yet the plural of moose should never be meese.You may find a ....................... 3 mouse ALONE
or a nest full of.......................... 4 ; yet the plural of house is houses, MOUSE
not hice. If the plural of man is always called....................... 5 , MAN
why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I spoke of my foot and show you my two...........................6 , FOOT
and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are............................ 7 , TOOTH
why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that, and three would be.................... 8, THESE
yet hat in the plural would never be hose, and the plural of cat is cats, not cose
. We speak of a brother and also of brethren, but though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.

Some reasons to be grateful if you grew up speaking English
1) The bandage was .............................. 9 around the wound. WIND
2) The farm was used to produce...........................10 . PRODUCT
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the .........................11 furniture. POLAND
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to
...........................................12 the present. PRESENCE
8) At the Army.........................13 , a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum. BASIS
9) When 14 ............................... at, the dove dove into the bushes. SHOOT
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The 15 ............................. was invalid for the invalid. INSURE
12) There was a row among the 16 ............................. about how to row. OARS
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the 17 ..................... are present. DOE
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with.............................. 18 , the farmer taught his sow to sow. PLANT
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got.......................19 . NUMB
19) On ............................20 the tear in the painting I shed a tear. SIGHT
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
22) I spent last evening ......................................21 out a pile of dirt. EVEN
Screwy pronunciations can mess up your mind! For example... If you have a rough cough, climbing can be tough when going through the bough on a tree!





ANSWERS / CLUES

EXERCISE 1 GO FIGURE Clue 1. Physicist 2. Someone 3. Hospitalized 4. Ordinarily 5. Improbable 6. Sitting 7. Ourselves 8. Remarkable 9. fruitless 10. Childhood 11 will 12 within 13 habitable 14 pharmaceutical 15 astronomical
Exercise 2 WHY ENGLISH IS SO DIFFICULT! CLUE 1. OXEN 2. Geese 3.LONE 4 Mice 5 . Men 6. Feet 7. Teeth 8 those 9. Wound 10 produce 11 Polish 12 present 13 BASE 14 SHOT 15 insurance 16 oarsmen 17 DOES 18 PLANTING 19 number 2 0 Seeing 21 evening

compare apples and oranges384


compare apples and oranges
to examine the similarities of things that are completely different Comparing the average wages of workers and managers is like trying to compare apples and oranges.

Verb 1. team up - form a team; "We teamed up for this new project"383


1.
team up - form a team; "We teamed up for this new project"
team
aggroup, group - form a group or group together

martes, 29 de septiembre de 2009

brace oneself for something 382


brace oneself for something
1. Lit. to hang onto something or prop oneself against something in preparation for something that might cause one to fall, blow away, wash away, etc. Hold onto the rail. Brace yourself. Here comes another huge wave.
2. Fig. to prepare for the shock or force of something. Brace yourself for a shock. As the boat leaned to the right, I braced myself for whatever might

THE AUTHORITIES HAD DECIDED THEY WOULD GET TOUGH WITH DISIDENTS 381


THE AUTHORITIES HAD DECIDED THERE WOULD BE ON A CRACKDOWN ON DISSIDENTS

IF YOU WANT TO CRITICISE,THEN THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES ARE THE ONE TO BLAME 380


CRITICISM


IF YOU WANT TO MAKEA CRITICISM,THEN THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES ARE THE ONES TO BLAME

HE BECAME FAMOUS WHEN HIS FIRST BOOK WAS PUBLISHED 379


HE BECAME FAMOUS ON THE PUBLICATION OF HIS FIRST BOOK

ALL TENANTS MUST ACT IN CONCORDANCE WITH TE REGULATIONS ABOUT GUEST 378


COMPLY

ALL TENANTS MUST COMPLY WITH THE REGULATIONS ABOUT GUESTS

CRACK DOWN 377


crack down (on someone or something)
to put limits on someone or something; to become strict about enforcing rules about someone or something. The police cracked down on the street gangs. They cracked down once last year too.

to take strong action to stop something bad from continuing The university is taking steps to crack down on underage drinking on campus. Countries that used to ignore terrorist groups in their midst are starting to crack down

THE CROPS WERE BADLY AFFECT BY THE STORM 376


THE STORM HAD A BAD EFFECT ON THE CROP

ARE YOU IMPLYING THAT HE IS A THIEF 375


INFER

AMI TO INFER THAT HE IS A THIEF

THE VILLAGERS PREPARED THEMSELVES TO WITHSTAND THE COMING STORM 374


BRACED


THE VILLAGER BRACED THEMSELVES FOR THE COMING STORM

the member of parlaiment did everything he could to exploit the situation 373


ADVANTAGE


THE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT DID EVERYTHING HE COULD TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION

on the ground 372


Events on the ground are where things are actually happening, not at a distance.

mr nixon refused tho answer the question on the ground

martes, 22 de septiembre de 2009

HE DIDNT UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT WAS WRONG UNTIL HE READ JULIES LETTER 371


IT WAS ONLY AFTER HE READ JULIE S LETTER THAT HE UNDERSTOOD EXACTLY WHAT WAS WRONG

NONE OF THE OTHER TEAM MEMBERS SUPPORTED TERRY IDEA 370


TERRYS IDEA MET WITH NO SUPPORT FROM THE OTHERS MEMBERSOF THE TEAM

THE REGION IS RICH IN NATURAL RESOURCES 369


THE REGION HAS A LOT TO OFFER IN TERMS OF NATURAL RESOURCES

BECAUSE OF ITS PRICE ,THE BOOK MAY NEVER BECOME A BESTSELLER 368


THE PRICE OF THE BOOK MAY PREVENT IT FROM BECOMING A BESTSELLER

viernes, 11 de septiembre de 2009

a short meeting of the cast will take place after todays rehersal 366


todays rehearsal will be followed by a short meeting of the cast

I LL BE HAPPY TO SHOW YOU THE ROUND THE SIGHTS OF MY CITY WHEN YOU COME TOVISIT ME 366


IT WILL BE A PLEASURE TO TAKE YOU SIGHTSEING TOUR OF MY CITY WHEN YOU COME TO VISIT ME

ROUSSEAU PAINTED FABULOUS PICTURES OF THE RAINFOREST ALTOUGH HE HAD NEVER TRAVELLED OUTSIDE EUROPE 365


ROSSEAU PAINTED FABULOUS PICTURES OF THE RAINFOREST IN SPITE OF NEVER HAVING TRAVELLED OUTSIDE EUROPE

it wouldnt have been right to leave you to do all the work on your own 364


i couldnt have left you to do all the work on your own

what is the difference between nuclear fission and nuclear fussion 363


how exactly does nuclea fussion differs from nuclear fussion

on this ship passengers can not get onto the bridge 362


passengers have no acces to the bridge of this ship

gary is proud of the fact that he is never late 361


gary prides himself on always being early

you think am someone else 360


you are confusing me with someone else

the police only warned salled because it was her first offence 359


sally was let off with a warning because it was her first offence

terry was rude but anne got revenge on him 358


anne paid terry back for being rude

i m not really intersted in sports 357


i dont really go in for sports very much

it took layla five minutes to find her car keys 356


layla spent five minutes looking for her car keys

clara sid that she had not seen the missing letter 355

claradenied having seen the missing letter

mauro says he prefer to do hishomework on his own 354


mauro says that he would rather not do his homework with

drop dead 353


drop dead
1. . to die suddenly. I understand that Tom Anderson dropped dead at his desk yesterday. No one knows why Uncle Bob suddenly dropped dead.
2. Go away and stop bothering me. (Usually Drop dead!) If you think I'm going to put up with your rudeness all afternoon, you can just drop dead! Drop dead! I'm not your slave!
See also: dead, drop

patronize 352

treat condescendingly [syn: patronise, condescend]

make a name for yourself also make your name 351


make a name for yourself also make your name
to become famous or respected by a lot of people It was with his third novel, 'The Darkest Hours', that he made a name for himself.

if marc hadnt take up politics ,he might have become a famous art historian 350


if marc hadnt taken up politics he might have made a name of himself

my grandfather had completely forgotten that he phoned me last night 349


my grandfather didnt have any recollection of phoned me last night

paul wasnt able to leave the house all day because of the terrible bad weather 348


the terrible weather made impossible for paul to leave the house all day

it s very unlikely that martin will win the 100 metres ,as he s out of training 347


marting has almost no chance of winning the 100 metres,as he is out of training

the holiday is within our price range,provided we dont go to the expensive restaurant in the tourist center 346


we can afford this holiday as long as we avoid the expensive restaurant

jueves, 10 de septiembre de 2009

IT S POSSIBLE THAT THE CURTAINS STARTED BURNING WHEN A CANDLE FELL OVER 345


THE CURTAINS MIGHT HAVE BEEN SET ON FIRE WHEN A CANDLE FELL OVER

344 DAILY GRIND

the everyday work routine
My father is tired of the daily grind of working and will retire soon

quieto, acallar; Sinónimos: calm, hush, quiet, appease, blanket, soothe, assuage, placate; Cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to

KEEP QUIET

MENTIONIG MY DAY OFF WHEN THE BOSS WAS IN SUCH A BA MOOD WAS A MISTAKE 342


I WISH I HAD KEPT QUIET ABOUT MY DAY OFF WHEN THE BOSS WAS IN SUCH A BAD MOOD WAS A MISTAKE

be going great guns 341

be going great guns
to be doing something very successfully and quickly I know he had a little difficulty at the start of the course but he's going great guns now.

I LAST WON A GAME OF TENNIS AGAINST MY BROTHER YEARS AGO 340


ITS YEARS SINCE I HAVE BEATEN MY BROTHER

you are more likely to get into university if you have private math lessons 339


BY HAVING PRIVATE MATHS LESSONS,YOU WILL INCRESE YOUR CHANCES OF GETTING INTO UNIVERSITY

vocabulary 338

keep their ego in check

he would sooner leave the party than break with me 337...

miércoles, 9 de septiembre de 2009

WRITING 336


WHILE MOST STUDENTNTS GOT ON WELL WITH THEIR CLASSES ,THEY DIDNT FIND THE CLASSES VERY REVELANNT TO THEIR STAY

STUDENTS FOUND THERE WERE

HIGHLY ENTHUSIASTIC 335