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English Language Learning: Vocabulary and Cloze Exercises, Slide di Lingua Inglese

Università degli Studi di Ferrara (UNIFE)Lingua Inglese

Peter Verdonk: "Stylistics" Oxford University Press 2014

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PART 1: CLOZE: VOCABULARY
From the words listed below, choose the ones which best fit the space.
OLYMPIC SCANDAL
Scandal has haunted the Olympic Games in modern times. At the very first Games, an
Englishman called Flack (01)............................ off briskly in front of the (02)............................ in
the marathon. He was (03)............................ by his butler on a bicycle.. When they neared Athens,
he (04)............................ the butler back to (05)............................ who was behind him. The butler
went back about a mile but found nobody. He rode back to Flack and said, "There's nobody. You
can win this thing on your head." Then soon after, (06)............................ ran one Greek, then
another, and another, and another. They were full of running. Perhaps Flack took a long
(07)............................ round?
At the next Marathon, in 1900, in Paris, the winner was a Frenchman who worked as a
baker's roundsman. It was (08)............................ suspected that he was able to take numerous short
(09)............................ because of his experience delivering bread in the area.
Four years later, the Games were held in St Louis, in the USA. This (10)............................
suspicions were proved, and the scandal great. The American runner who finished first in the
marathon was discovered to have accepted a (11)............................ from a car. He was disqualified.
It is not so much the scandals and disputes of recent years that have (12)............................
the Games. It is their sheer (13)............................ , their excessive cost, their indulgence of national
pride. One very sensible suggestion is that future Games should be restricted to individual
(14)............................ in which one person clearly wins. All team games would go, and no one
would feel any loss at the disappearance of Olympic soccer, a pale (15)............................ of the
more professional game.
01. paced made ambled set
02. group participants crowd field
03. served serviced accompanied allied
04. sent fetched brought requested
05. view scan look see
06. up round by to
07. path road way distance
08. heavily seriously strongly greatly
09. ways cuts routes sets
10. time occasion event meeting
11. lift help ride push
12. threatened attacked discouraged loomed over
13. grossness enormity obesity largesse
14. happenings events circumstances fields
15. weakness shadow image effigy
Check your answers.
(01) set (02) field (03) accompanied (04) sent (05) see (06) up (07) way (08) strongly (09) cuts (10) time (11) lift
(12) threatened (13) enormity (14) events (15) shadow
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PART 1: CLOZE: VOCABULARY

From the words listed below, choose the ones which best fit the space. OLYMPIC SCANDAL Scandal has haunted the Olympic Games in modern times. At the very first Games, an Englishman called Flack (01)............................ off briskly in front of the (02)............................ in the marathon. He was (03)............................ by his butler on a bicycle.. When they neared Athens, he (04)............................ the butler back to (05)............................ who was behind him. The butler went back about a mile but found nobody. He rode back to Flack and said, "There's nobody. You can win this thing on your head." Then soon after, (06)............................ ran one Greek, then another, and another, and another. They were full of running. Perhaps Flack took a long (07)............................ round? At the next Marathon, in 1900, in Paris, the winner was a Frenchman who worked as a baker's roundsman. It was (08)............................ suspected that he was able to take numerous short (09)............................ because of his experience delivering bread in the area. Four years later, the Games were held in St Louis, in the USA. This (10)............................ suspicions were proved, and the scandal great. The American runner who finished first in the marathon was discovered to have accepted a (11)............................ from a car. He was disqualified. It is not so much the scandals and disputes of recent years that have (12)............................ the Games. It is their sheer (13)............................ , their excessive cost, their indulgence of national pride. One very sensible suggestion is that future Games should be restricted to individual (14)............................ in which one person clearly wins. All team games would go, and no one would feel any loss at the disappearance of Olympic soccer, a pale (15)............................ of the more professional game.

  1. paced made ambled set
  2. group participants crowd field
  3. served serviced accompanied allied
  4. sent fetched brought requested
  5. view scan look see
  6. up round by to
  7. path road way distance
  8. heavily seriously strongly greatly
  9. ways cuts routes sets
  10. time occasion event meeting
  11. lift help ride push
  12. threatened attacked discouraged loomed over
  13. grossness enormity obesity largesse
  14. happenings events circumstances fields
  15. weakness shadow image effigy Check your answers. (01) set (02) field (03) accompanied (04) sent (05) see (06) up (07) way (08) strongly (09) cuts (10) time (11) lift (12) threatened (13) enormity (14) events (15) shadow

From the words listed below, choose the ones which best fit the space. INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM The death of Fred Hill was recorded by a (01)........................... article in the Times newspaper. Fred was 74 years old and died in prison. He was in prison for the 32nd time. Why?. (02)........................... for any great crime, but for a reason you may find difficult to understand. You see, Fred was a motorcyclist who (03)........................... to wear a crash helmet. He believed that he was a safer motorcyclist (04)........................... a crash helmet. More importantly, he believed that, right or wrong, the decision to wear a crash helmet was his to (05)............................ It was not for the State to tell him (06)........................... to do. So Fred went out on his old motorbike with no helmet, over and over again. The police (07)........................... him. They (08)........................... a blind eye when they could. But often they had no choice. And in the court they had no choice (09)........................... to send him to prison because he refused to pay the fines. They usually (10)........................... him 30 days. But the last time, they gave the old man two months. Some way through the sentence, Fred suffered a heart attack and died. Was he heroic? If he was, he was a most unlikely hero. But perhaps we do need someone to (11)........................... out for the little liberties, the sort of (12)........................... which the greater boring mass of "public opinion" considers too silly, too undignified, not worth (13)........................... about. The sort of thing there are no votes in for (14)............................ Fred Hill stood for an individual freedom, which is a freedom to do things that the (15)........................... generally considers to be silly, harmful, immoral or unnecessary.

  1. main editorial front leading
  2. Never Neither None Not
  3. rejected refused differed disagreed
  4. less without minus except
  5. do settle take decide
  6. what how so that
  7. recognised knew acquainted sympathised
  8. made turned closed had
  9. and other option but
  10. held did imprisoned gave
  11. look see be make
  12. thing event object something
  13. concerning bothering feeling suffering
  14. someone none any anyone
  15. public people other commons Check your answers. (01) leading (02) Not (03) refused (04) without (05) take (06) what (07) knew (08) turned (09) but (10) gave (11) look (12) thing (13) bothering (14) anyone (15) public

From the words listed below, choose the ones which best fit the space. THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT But it isn't so (1).................... that marriage is expensive in terms of money, as that it is expensive in terms of life (2).................... , especially when it goes wrong, as it did in the (3).................... of Mr and Mrs Stark. Mrs Stark was given a divorce because of the unreasonable behaviour of her husband. He was (4).................... to have (5).................... up a contract which he forced her to sign. (6).................... some points of view - particularly the point of view of a husband - the contract does not seem to be too bad a (7)..................... In it, Mrs Stark was not allowed to mention the names of her parents or brother in the house. She could only visit her parents twice a month, the cost to be (8).................... from the household budget. She would have to return to the house in (9).................... of time to prepare Mr Stark's evening meal. Her parents could visit her once a month while he was out. If he was in, then they would have to meet somewhere else. Mrs Stark would be allowed £2 a week (10).................... money for her personal use. In the (11).................... of a death in the family, she would be allowed two days (12).................... from the house. She could spend up to five days a year away in the event of family illness. No presents for her parents were to be paid (13).................... from the housekeeping. Mrs Stark was (14).................... a divorce, but Mr Stark appealed against the decision. It cost him £6,000 in legal fees, much more than it cost him to get married in the first (15)..................... "

  1. often great much hard
  2. now itself then however
  3. event instance time case
  4. said considered described enabled
  5. made written done drawn
  6. To With At From
  7. idea thing number theme
  8. taken met earned lifted
  9. best most plenty hours
  10. as for in to
  11. cause occasion event happening
  12. away holiday leave departure
  13. out to for with
  14. granted awarded let presented
  15. time example point place Check your answers. THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
  1. much (2) itself (3) case (4) said (5) drawn (6) From (7) thing (8) met (9) plenty (10) as (11) event (12) away (13) for (14) granted (15) place

PART 3: WORD FORMATION

To fill the spaces, use a word formed with the words in the list below. SQUASHED DOG STORIES Newspapers have a (01)................... for what the French call "squashed dog" stories. In England, they are "goldfish emerging from bathroom tap" stories. Such stories run under the "Man Bites Dog" (02).................... From France comes the story of an (03)................... savage attack on an old man near Calais carried out by a swarm of bees. The scenario might have pleased Hitchcock. The victim was (04)................... himself in his garden at the time. The firemen were called but were driven back into their van by the (05)................... of the insects. After 45 minutes someone arrived with (06)................... clothing and (07).................... By then the man sitting in the deck chair was dead, covered in hundreds of stings, most of them on his eyelids. The French liked the story from London about grafting a pig's kidneys on to a human patient. They went for the animal rights angle. They like the idea of putting a (08)................... ring round the hospital to repel people who are intent on rescuing the pig from (09).................... From London, too, came the story of the brown paper parcel in London's main parcel sorting office, a parcel which moved. Packages do not normally move very quickly through the post office at the best of times, but this one was definitely frisky. A lady customs officer was summoned to X-ray the package. The X-ray revealed a (10)................... reptile called a gila monster wrapped in a sock. The subsequent police trail led to a salesman in Hampshire whose back bedroom was filled with rattlesnakes, lethal lizards, snapping turtles and a python, most of which he had sent himself through the post.

  1. fond
  2. head
  3. except
  4. sun
  5. fierce
  6. protect
  7. insect
  8. secure
  9. member
  10. poison Check your answers.
  11. fondness
  12. headline
  13. exceptionally
  14. sunning
  15. fierceness
  16. protective
  17. insecticide
  18. security
  19. dismemberment
  20. poisonous

PARLIAMENT

Parliament consists of two houses: the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The third part of the (01) ...................... is the Monarchy, which is of (02) ................... (03) ...................... only. The Lords are not elected. A member of the House of Lords can inherit his position, or he can be made a member, appointed for his service to the State. The members of the House of Lords receive no salary for their (04) ...................... work. However, they receive travelling expenses from their homes to Westminster, together with an (05) ...................... (06) ....................... The House of Commons is a (07) ...................... (08)...................... elected by everyone over the age of 18. Members receive a salary for their work, and are elected. The Commons is presided over by the Speaker who is elected by the members immediately after a new Parliament is formed. English politics have been dominated by two parties: the Conservative, or Tory, party, and the Socialist, or Labour, party. The small Liberal party also has quite a lot of popularity. However, as England does not have proportional (09) ...................... , small parties are not very (10)......................

  1. govern
  2. symbol
  3. signify
  4. parliament
  5. attend
  6. allow
  7. represent
  8. assemble
  9. represent
  10. succeed Check your answers.
  11. government
  12. symbolic
  13. significance
  14. parliamentary
  15. attendance
  16. allowance
  17. representative
  18. assembly
  19. representation
  20. successful

PIGEON POWER

Tom Jones, a psychologist, reports a new role for pigeons. Asked by a pharmaceutical company to measure the effects of drugs on animal behaviour, Jones noticed one day that some 70 women were employed to check flawed capsules. "That is a job any pigeon could do," he said, because he knew about the pigeon's learning (01)............................. On (02)............................ , capsules left the (03)............................ line. There, Jones arranged for a bright, narrow beam of light to pass through them. If a capsule was perfect, the light showed a single spot; if it was (04)............................ , the light showed a double spot. In their training, two pigeons were rewarded with food every time they correctly identified a wrong capsule. The experiment worked. A (05)............................ belt carried the capsules as fast as two a second past the pigeon (06)............................ , who achieved 99 per cent success within a week. But the company rejected (07)............................ of the pigeons on a permanent basis. They feared (08)............................ that might be bad: The public might think pigeons were not as (09)............................ as humans. "A main obstacle to progress," commented Jones sadly, " remains man's obstinate belief in his (10)............................ over other creatures."

  1. able
  2. complete
  3. produce
  4. perfect
  5. convey
  6. inspect
  7. employ
  8. public
  9. rely
  10. superior Check your answers.
  11. ability
  12. completion
  13. production
  14. imperfect
  15. conveyor
  16. inspectors
  17. employment
  18. publicity
  19. reliable
  20. superiority
  1. Ken does not work half as much as he used to. hard Ken used to work .............................. he does now.
  2. The experts thought that the cost of petrol would rise next year. expected The cost of petrol .............................. next year.
  3. Some people who start smoking find it difficult to stop. always It .............................. to stop smoking once you have started.
  4. If he isn't careful, he is bound to end up in hospital. him His carelessness is bound .............................. in hospital.
  5. Because of his illness he could not work effectively. impossible His illness ............................... him to work effectively.
  6. Scotsmen will never give anything to waiters. tip No .............................. waiter.
  7. Mary said, I do not want to get married yet." rather Mary protested that she ............................. married yet.
  8. Mothers must try hard to understand. best Mothers must .............................. understanding.
  9. The younger you marry, the greater the chance you will be unhappy. likely The younger you marry, the .............................. be unhappy.
  10. I was wrong to argue with him. mistake .............................. to argue with him. Check your answers.
  11. twice as hard as
  12. is expected to rise
  13. is not always easy
  14. to put him
  15. made it impossible for
  16. Scotsman will (ever) tip a
  17. would rather not get
  18. do their best to be
  19. more likely you are to
  20. It was a mistake/I made
  1. She had not bought so much for a long time. since It was a long time .............................. much shopping.
  2. Ken arrived there twelve months ago. for Ken .............................. year.
  3. If Mary hadn't failed her driving test, she wouldn't be unhappy. pass Mary is unhappy ............................. her driving test.
  4. Rabbits used to be more numerous. not Rabbits .............................. they used to be.
  5. His new book has been widely criticised. lot His new book has come .............................. criticism.
  6. His secretary updated the list. brought His secretary .............................. date.
  7. I couldn't have managed it without your help. not If .............................. your help, I couldn't have managed it.
  8. Regular exercise kept him healthy. owed He .............................. regular exercise.
  9. He couldn't lend us the car because it didn't belong to him. his The car ............................. lend.
  10. We were not surprised when he won. came His winning .............................. surprise. Check your answers.
  11. since she had done so
  12. has been there for a
  13. that/because she did not pass
  14. are not as numerous as/are less numerous than
  15. in for a lot of
  16. brought the list up to
  17. it had not been for
  18. owed his health to
  19. was not his to
  20. came as no