Test_11 (final)
1. Choose the correct answer a, b, c or d to complete the text.
My older brother Charlie is getting married tomorrow.So why is this interesting? Because until recently he was "commitment phobic", that is, he was afraid to settle 1____________ with one person.
Charlie used to say, 'If you look at the divorce 2________ in this country, it doesn't make any sense to get married:
He also said he didn't want to give 3_________ his freedom.
Then he met Natalie. Even though she's a really impressive girl, Charlie 4_________ ages to make up his mind and propose to her.
But finally they've 5__________ the decision and now he seems really happy.
I'm looking forward 6___________ seeing the ex-commitment phobic have a family to look after!
2. Tick the word or phrase that you cannot use with the word in bold.
1) strong
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3) release
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2) pick up
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6) potatoes
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4) the audience
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5) send off
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7) holiday
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8) work out
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7) holiday
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6) potatoes
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5) send off
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4) the audience
3. Choose the correct answer.
If you _____________ to be healthy, you should look
after your diet.
_______________ you get enough calcium, you won't
have strong bones.
We need _____________ this problem quickly.
We went swimming,______________ we had a pizza.
The product __________ won the prize was designed by my friend.
The factory _____________ they make all their
products is in Indonesia.
We all knew that everything__________________ after the war ended.
1. Read the text about the effect of music on brain development.
Match the sentences a-g to the gaps 1-6. There is one extra sentence.
One of the most persistent mistaken beliefs about brain development is that playing classical music to babies increases their intelligence. Despite the lack of evidence to support it, the theory has become widespread, probably because it seems to provide parents with an easy way to assist their children's intellectual development. 1______________. So what are the origins of this idea and is there any truth in it?
It all started in 1993, when a report in the scientific journal Nature claimed that listening to a Mozart sonata improved the performance of college students on a complex spatial reasoning task. 2___________. However, when popular science writer, Don Campbell,published a book called The Mozart Effect in 1997, it became a bestseller and the idea took off.
Over the next few years, the theory that classical music makes babies smarter was repeated countless times in newspapers, magazines, and books: 3___________. In the US, the state government of Georgia sent classical music €Ds to all parents of newborns in the state.
In 1999, another group of scientists repeated the original experiment on college students and found that they could not get the same results. 5_____________. What is most significant here is that all these experiments were with college students.In the retelling, the stories about the Mozart effect had gradually replaced the college students of the original experiment with children or babies.
In actual fact, no one had tested the idea on babies, ever. Other,more reliable research suggests you can use classical music to help your child's brain development, but only if you buy them a musical instrument and pay for some lessons. 6___________. Music may indeed improve children's intelligence - but only if they become active producers of music and not just passive consumers.
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