Choose the most suitable word.

1. In this garden there are two ornamental iron doors/gates and there is a stone path/pavement leading to the house.

2. This is the front entry/entrance, but there is another door at the edge/side of the house.

3. All the cupboards/wardrobes in the kitchen and the bookshelves/library in the living room are made of wood.

4. There is a beautiful stone chimney/fireplace in the living room, and there are sinks/washbasins in all the bedrooms.

5. At the top of the stairs/steps there is a 19th century coloured /stained glass window.

6. The bathroom has a shower/washer and modern mixer pipes/taps.

7. At the top of the house there is a/an attic/cellar and the garden contains a glasshouse/greenhouse and a garden hut/shed.

8. There is a wooden fence/wall on one side of the garden, and a bush/hedge on the other.

9. This is a fine single/detached house in a quiet residential neighbourhood /suburb.

10. We would love to expose/show you the surrounding suburbs/countryside any day you like.

Complete each sentence using the words below.

Bungalow, cottage, car park, flat, countryside, pedestrians, suburbs

 

1. I would prefer to live in a ……......... with my own garden.
2. Jenny lives in a small.....…… in a modern block.
3. This street is only for.....….., no cars are permitted here.
4. Peter has moved to the …........ because he likes to be in the fresh air
5. This village is surrounded by lovely...………...
6. The shopping center has a multi-storey...…….... equipped with elevators.
7. My grandmother bought a..……... to spend vacation at the seashore.

Choose the most suitable word in each sentence.

1. The old houses opposite are going to be........................

1) broken down 2) knocked down 3) taken down

2. The view from the skyscraper....................... over New York harbour.

1) shows up            2)stands up            3) looks out

3. Please................ the rubbish because the dustman is coming tomorrow.

1) take in            2) tie down                        3) put out                   

4. Please come and unblock our drains! I'm....................... you!

1) waiting for                 2) counting on                   3) seeing to             

5. I can't put these plants in pots. I've....................... earth.   

1) run out of                   2) put up with                   3) given up

6. I've been planting trees all day and I'm........................

1) worn out         2) taken in                         3) grown up

7. A lot of tiles....................... our roof after the high wind.

1) came off         2) took off                         3) got off

8. The car went out of control and....................... hitting a lamp-post.

1) ran up             2) turned up           3) ended up

 

Choose the most suitable word or phrase underlined in each sentence.

1. Put your wet socks on the central heating/radiator to dry.

2. Mary was sitting beside the fire in a comfortable armchair/sofa.

3. Jane lives in a flat on the first floor/storey.

4. Let's take the runway/motorway, we'll get there faster.

5. We drove out of the village along a winding lane/path.

6. There's someone at/on the door. Can you see who it is?

7. Why don't you put the car in the car park/parking?

8. Steve redecorated his room with flowery posters/wallpaper.

9. We used to keep the coal downstairs in the cave/cellar.

10. I like the painting but I don’t like the surrounding/frame.

 

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Skye, a peculiar island in Scotland

Skye is located off Scotland's northwest coast, some 184km from Glasgow. The island measures 77km in length and 38km at its widest. The largest island in Scotland's Inner Hebrides, Skye covers an area of l, 740sq km about half the size of the state of Rhode bland in the USA. Skye's landscape is dominated by the spectacular Black Cuillin Hills, which an English journalist H.V. Morton (1892-1979) described in his book “In Search of Scotland”. Imagine Wagner's " Ride of the Valkyries” frozen in stone and hung up like a colossal screen against the sky. It seems as if Nature when she hurled the Coolins up.. said: " I will make mountains which shall be the essence of all that can be terrible in mountains".

According to legend, the island, once flat, was inhabited by Cailleach Bhur, the goddess of winter. She had enslaved a beautiful girl, the sweetheart of spring, who appealed to the sun for help. In response, the angry sun hurled his burning spear at Cailleach Bhur as she rode across Skye. But he missed his mark and destroyed the landscape which broke into a range of hills - the Cuillins. Skye's inhabitants often tell this tale to explain the curious fact that these hills are rarely snow-covered, even in winter. When surrounding hills are covered with snow, the Black Cuillins stand dark against the sky.

Twenty peaks feature in the Black Cuillins, 15 of them more than 914m in height. The tallest, Sgur Alasdair, stands 1, 009m high. The peaks came into existence some 50 million years ago. The Red Cuillin Hills, some 16km to the east are more rounded than the Black Cuillins. hi the south of the island stands the unusual rock known as the Old Man of Storr. Both these formations had their beginnings 10, 000 years ago.

Little of Skye's landscape can support the barley, oats and other crops grown elsewhere in Scotland. Areas of human settlement occur only rarely. Thousands of seabirds nest on the island's coast and shore. The puffin which nests on dangerous rocks, can catch small fish in great numbers. It is not unusual for a puffin to return to its nest with as many as 14 fish in its mouth. Yet Skye's puffin population is far from " growing due largely to the attacks of lesser black-backed gulls which rob the puffins of their catch before they can reach their nests to feed their young.

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