matrix intermediate
and radar will take the place of human drivers.
UNIT 10
'People movers' — a kind of urban cable-car —
CLOZE TEST
…………………
will
wonder, though, if any of us will be around to
see it.
a working man, Christopher MacLean
2. As
counts himself among the fortunate.
suffer ………………… (2) coughs, colds and other
chest problems constantly. Also our transport
system ………………… (3) become dangerously
overloaded. Our roads are blocked …………………
(4) traffic jams, while buses, cars, taxis and
motorbikes fight against ………………… (5) other
to get through. Annoyed and tired, drivers drive
accidents
and
even
murder one another.
………………… (1) the exception of two years on
the dole when he was just married, he has been
………………… (2) in the docks ………………… (3) a
boat handler for the best part of twenty years.
A man needs to work; it is his right. He doesn't
have
any
respect
…………………
(4)
himself
………………… (5) he cannot organize his life and
support his own family.
His eldest boy, Tom, ………………… (6) is married
and lives with his wife and children …………………
(7) the road in a decaying pre-war house, is
employed
…………………
(8)
the
moment,
………………… (9) there is no guarantee of how
Also, buses and trains are ………………… (7)
you
bus
Doesn't ………………… (20) sound marvellous? I
reached ………………… (1) proportions that we all
that
airports,
on lead-free petrol.
experience. In most cities, air pollution has
crowded
parks,
(19) all vehicles will have special filters and run
Travelling to or from anywhere these
(6)
car
………………… (18) a thing of the past …………………
1. days can be an unhealthy and frustrating
…………………
(17)
stations and railway stations. Pollution will
Fill in the
blanks with
suitable words
of your
own.
badly,
carry us high in the air over towns
…………………
(8)
hardly
breathe or even stand up straight. There are
simply too ………………… (9) people wanting to
move from one place to another and not
………………… (10) space for them to do so.
Town planners ………………… (11), tell us that
everything will soon be different. …………………
(12) the future, according to them, private cars
will ………………… (13) banned ………………… (14)
town centres and be replaced by an integrated
transport system in ………………… (15) all vehicles
will be ………………… (16) by a central computer
………………… (10) it will last. Before that he was
out of ………………… (11) for two years. He got
himself qualified as a welder and …………………
(12)
as
he
was
about
to
change
from
apprenticeship to full wages, they gave him the
sack. ………………… (13) broke his heart.
Christopher's younger son, Tony, has never
………………… (14) a job. Christopher understands
why his son can't get ………………… (15) of his
bed until the afternoon, ………………… (16) it
irritates him, hearing young Tony wandering
around the ………………… (17) in the small hours,
turning night into ………………… (18) Tony has
never asked his father or brother …………………
heavy rocks. The headache was ………………… (1)
(19) a penny, but he gets depressed because
severe that he dropped ………………… (2) of the
he is an able man, a willing ………………… (20)
rocks ………………… (3) his foot. His foot became
who wants to work.
very painful and ………………… (4) to bleed.
………………… (5) his headache stopped. From this
And then Father began to tell Marvin the
3. story. There
(1)
the rock ………………… (6) replaced by a variety of
things he did not understand: it was impossible
needles. The first acupuncture needles were
for ………………… (2) to imagine life on the planet
………………… (7) of stone, bone, bamboo, copper,
he had never seen. Nor could he understand
iron or silver, but today stainless steel is usually
why it had ………………… (3) destroyed in the end,
used.
leaving the Colony alone. ………………… (4) he did
You
understand the pain of ………………… (5) last days
acupuncture treatment in the `Biographies of
when the Colony had learnt at ………………… (6)
Pien Chueh and Tsang Kung' which was written
that the supply ships would never again come
over two thousand years ………………… (8). Pien
………………… (7) through the stars with presents
Chuch was famous ………………… (9) his skill in
from home. One by one the radio stations on
acupuncture, massage and the use of herbal
Earth had ………………… (8) calling: the lights of
medicines. One day he was with his two
the cities had died, and ………………… (9) were
assistants in an area called Kuo …………………
alone at last as no men ………………… (10) been
(10) he heard that the Prince of Kuo was very
alone before, carrying the future of the race in
seriously ………………… (11). When Pien Chueh
………………… (11) hands.
arrived at the palace, preparations …………………
So, at last, Marvin realized that he …………………
(12)
(12)
of
………………… (13) made. Pien Chuch examined
………………… (13) lost world or listen to the
the Prince and ………………… (14) he was still
thunder ………………… (14) its hills. Yet one day —
breathing, but only weakly. He immediately
how far ahead — HIS (15) children's children
ordered ………………… (15) of his assistants to
would return. The winds and the rains would
treat
carry the poisons ………………… (16) the burning
………………… (16) assistant placed bunches of
lands down to the sea, and in the depths of the
special herbs in his armpits. Soon the Prince
sea they ………………… (17) harm no living thing.
recovered consciousness and was …………………
Then the great spaceships ………………… (18)
(17) to sit ………………… (18) in bed. Pien Chueh
were still waiting here on the silent, dusty
recommended that he should ………………… (19)
plains could lift off once ………………… (19) into
certain herbal medicines for twenty days. The
space, along the road that led ………………… (20)
Prince ………………… (20) this and was soon fit
home.
and healthy again.
never
walk
were
beside,
…………………
the practice of acupuncture developed, although
the
rivers
According to an ancient Chinese legend,
can
the
read
an
Prince's
him
with
early
funeral
description
were
acupuncture,
of
already
while
the
I'm a teacher and a few years ago I
4. the idea of acupuncture" began when a
5. started
man developed a headache while lifting some
students because they weren't concentrating in
getting
worried
about
my
lessons and had difficulties following what I was
………………… (3) ready for.
saying. I thought that this ………………… (1)
Firstly, ………………… (4) weather can be very
perhaps because of all the fast food they
changeable — even in summer — so you
…………………
a
………………… (5) know what it's going to be like.
psychologist ………………… (3) a university and,
It might be rainy or sunny, hot or cold, so you
with
………………… (6) be prepared for everything and
the
(2)
days.
So
students'
and
I
contacted
their
parents'
agreement, we worked out an experiment.
…………………
First of ………………… (4) I kept a record of
warmer ones.
everything
students
Secondly, opening hours for shops, pubs, etc.
………………… (5) over a three-day period and,
can be very different from ………………… (8)
when we analysed this record, ………………… (6)
countries. Shops normally open at 9.30 a.m.
found that their diet did not ………………… (7)
and ………………… (9) at 5.30 p.m. with no
enough vitamins and minerals. We therefore
………………… (10) in the middle of the day. AS
decided
two
(11) for pubs, their opening hours vary. Normal
………………… (8) and give ONE (9) group vitamin
hours are 11.30 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. and 5.30
pills
pill
p.m. to 10:30 p.m., ………………… (12) you may
same
find some pubs are open longer than this. You
to
and
a
hundred
divide
the
the
other
of
my
students
grow
a
…………………
(10)
looked
exactly
…………………
(11)
which,
in
into
dummy
the
summer
clothes
and
will also ………………… (13) discotheques open
nutritional value — no vitamins or minerals at
quite late, but generally speaking, night-life
all.
finishes early in Britain, and so ………………… (14)
The students ………………… (12) the pills for nine
public transport. Finally, ………………… (15) word
months and then we tested ………………… (13) to
about eating. If you want to eat out there are
see if there was ………………… (14) difference in
lots of restaurants, but ………………… (16) tend to
their
be expensive unless they are Indian or Chinese.
Our
results
had
both
no
performance.
fact,
(7)
showed
no
important differences in memory, concentration
Food
and language ability ………………… (15) the two
………………… (17) value for money. But don't
groups. But the group who ………………… (16)
forget that you ………………… (18) eat in pubs and
taken the vitamin pills got much higher scores
there the food is often good, varied and cheap,
………………… (17) the other group in tests of
although if you're under eighteen they won't
their mathematical ability.
………………… (19) you drink alcohol with your
I hadn't expected these findings but …………………
meal.
(18) does seem that what ………………… (19) eat
One last thing: if you do come, ………………… (20)
influences
a great holiday!
our
intelligence
even
when
we
in
these
is
generally
tasty
and
I
………………… (20) apparently well-fed.
students visit Britain every
6. Many
summer either as tourists, or to learn the
Express
is
7. Children's
organization that started
ago
with
the
slogan
'BY
a
unique
twelve years
CHILDREN
FOR
language, or to do a combination of the two. If
EVERYBODY'. The idea behind the articles,
you're thinking ………………… (1) visiting Britain,
which are ………………… (1) in over thirty papers
there are ………………… (2) things that you should
across ………………… (2) USA as ………………… (3)
as
in
New
encourage
Zealand
readers
and
Australia,
…………………
(4)
is
to
look
at
important issues from the ………………… (5) of
view of children and young people.
In
their
New
York
office
the
200
young
reporters can choose ………………… (6) story they
want to work on, depending ………………… (7)
what they are ………………… (8) in. On any story,
a team of three or four, usually under thirteen
and sometimes as young ………………… (9) eight,
work
with
an
assistant
editor.
Interviews
………………… (10) done using tape-recorders and
are then typed out by adult workers. The
………………… (11) interesting articles are then
selected ………………… (12) a teenage assistant
editor and an adult Children's Express editor.
Children's Express teams have interviewed local
politicians and presidential candidates. They
have
covered
Kampuchea
stories
and
have
on
Chernobyl
investigated
and
difficult
social problems ………………… (13) as violence
…………………
(14)
the
family.
They
also
………………… (15) articles in Spanish for the large
………………… (16) of Spanish American readers.
Recently they have announced that they’re
………………… (17) to produce a weekly TV news
programme, starting ………………… (18) year.
Ten-year-old Laurel is to ………………… (19) one
of the presenters of the programme because
she is not embarrassed about asking important
people difficult questions. To Laurel, working on
a TV ………………… (20) is just ‘fun'!
matrix intermediate
carry us high in the air over towns TO (17) car
UNIT 10
parks,
CLOZE TEST
of the past BECAUSE / SINCE / AS (19) all
airports,
bus
stations
and
railway
stations. Pollution will BE / BECOME (18) a thing
vehicles will have special filters and run on
Fill in the
blanks with
suitable words
of your
own.
lead-free petrol.
Doesn't THAT (20) sound marvellous? I wonder,
though, if any of us will be around to see it.
a working man, Christopher MacLean
2. As
counts himself among the fortunate.
WITH (1) the exception of two years on the dole
when
he
was just
married, he has
been
WORKING / EMPLOYED (2) in the docks AS (3)
Travelling to or from anywhere these
1. days can be an unhealthy and frustrating
experience. In most cities, air pollution has
reached SUCH (1) proportions that we all suffer
FROM
(2)
coughs,
colds
and
other
chest
problems constantly. Also our transport system
HAS (3) become dangerously overloaded. Our
roads are blocked WITH / BY (4) traffic jams,
while buses, cars, taxis and motorbikes fight
against EACH (5) other to get through. Annoyed
and tired, drivers drive badly, HAVE / CAUSE
(6) accidents and even murder one another.
Also, buses and trains are SO (7) crowded that
you CAN (8) hardly breathe or even stand up
straight. There are simply too MANY (9) people
wanting to move from one place to another and
not ENOUGH (10) space for them to do so.
Town planners HOWEVER (11), tell us that
everything will soon be different. IN (12) the
future, according to them, private cars will BE
(13) banned FROM (14) town centres and be
replaced by an integrated transport system in
WHICH (15) all vehicles will be CONTROLLED /
DRIVEN (16) by a central computer and radar
will take the place of human drivers. 'People
movers' — a kind of urban cable-car — will
a boat handler for the best part of twenty years.
A man needs to work; it is his right. He doesn't
have any respect FOR (4) himself IF / WHEN (5)
he cannot organize his life and support his own
family.
His eldest boy, Tom, WHO (6) is married and
lives with his wife and children DOWN / UP /
ACROSS (7) the road in a decaying pre-war
house, is employed AT (8) the moment, BUT (9)
there is no guarantee of how LONG (10) it will
last. Before that he was out of WORK (11) for
two years. He got himself qualified as a welder
and JUST (12) as he was about to change from
apprenticeship to full wages, they gave him the
sack. THAT (13) broke his heart.
Christopher's younger son, Tony, has never
HAD (14) a job. Christopher understands why
his son can't get OUT (15) of his bed until the
afternoon, BUT (16) it irritates him, hearing
young Tony wandering around the HOUSE (17)
in the small hours, turning night into DAY (18)
Tony has never asked his father or brother FOR
(19) a penny, but he gets depressed because
he is an able man, a willing PERSON (20) who
wants to work.
And then Father began to tell Marvin the
3. story. There
were SOME / TWO (1)
needles
were
MADE
(7)
of
stone,
bone,
bamboo, copper, iron or silver, but today
things he did not understand: it was impossible
stainless steel is usually used.
for HIM (2) to imagine life on the planet he had
You
never seen. Nor could he understand why it had
acupuncture treatment in the `Biographies of
BEEN (3) destroyed in the end, leaving the
Pien Chueh and Tsang Kung' which was written
Colony alone. BUT (4) he did understand the
over two thousand years AGO (8). Pien Chuch
pain of THE / THOSE (5) last days when the
was famous FOR (9) his skill in acupuncture,
Colony had learnt at LAST (6) that the supply
massage and the use of herbal medicines. One
ships would never again come UP / BACK (7)
day he was with his two assistants in an area
through the stars with presents from home.
called Kuo WHEN (10) he heard that the Prince
One by one the radio stations on Earth had
of Kuo was very seriously ILL (11). When Pien
STOPPED (8) calling: the lights of the cities had
Chueh arrived at the palace, preparations FOR
died, and THEY (9) were alone at last as no
(12) the Prince's funeral were already BEING
men HAD (10) been alone before, carrying the
(13) made. Pien Chuch examined the Prince and
future of the race in THEIR (11) hands.
REALISED / SAW / NOTICED / FOUND (14) he
So, at last, Marvin realized that he WOULD (12)
was
never walk beside, the rivers of THE (13) lost
immediately ordered ONE (15) of his assistants
world or listen to the thunder ABOVE / OVER
to treat him with acupuncture, while the OTHER
(14) its hills. Yet one day — how far ahead —
(16) assistant placed bunches of special herbs
HIS (15) children's children would return. The
in his armpits. Soon the Prince recovered
winds and the rains would carry the poisons
consciousness and was ABLE (17) to sit UP (18)
FROM / OFF (16) the burning lands down to the
in bed. Pien Chueh recommended that he
sea, and in the depths of the sea they WOULD
should TAKE / DRINK / HAVE (19) certain
(17) harm no living thing. Then the great
herbal medicines for twenty days. The Prince
spaceships WHICH / THAT (18) were still
DID (20) this and was soon fit and healthy
waiting here on the silent, dusty plains could lift
again.
can
still
read
an
breathing,
early
but
description
only
weakly.
of
He
off once AGAIN / MORE (19) into space, along
the road that led THEM / BACK (20) home.
According to an ancient Chinese legend,
I'm a teacher and a few years ago I
5. started
getting
worried
about
my
4. the idea of acupuncture" began when a
students because they weren't concentrating in
man developed a headache while lifting some
saying. I thought that this WAS (1) perhaps
heavy rocks. The headache was SO (1) severe
because of all the fast food they THESE (2)
that he dropped ONE (2) of the rocks ON (3) his
days. So I contacted a psychologist AT (3) a
foot. His foot became very painful and STARTED
university and, with the students' and their
(4) to bleed.
parents'
From
this
BUT (5) his headache stopped.
the
practice
of
acupuncture
lessons and had difficulties following what I was
agreement,
we
worked
out
an
experiment.
developed, although the rock WAS (6) replaced
First of ALL (4) I kept a record of everything a
by a variety of needles. The first acupuncture
hundred of my students ATE (5) over a three-
day period and, when we analysed this record,
middle of the day. AS (11) for pubs, their
WE (6) found that their diet did not HAVE (7)
opening hours vary. Normal hours are 11.30
enough vitamins and minerals. We therefore
a.m. to 2.30 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.,
decided to divide the students into two GROUPS
ALTHOUGH / BUT (12) you may find some pubs
(8) and give ONE (9) group vitamin pills and
are open longer than this. You will also FIND
the other grow a dummy pill WHICH / THAT
(13) discotheques open quite late, but generally
(10) looked exactly the same BUT / YET (11)
speaking, night-life finishes early in Britain, and
which, in fact, had no nutritional value — no
so DOES (14) public transport. Finally, A (15)
vitamins or minerals at all.
word about eating. If you want to eat out there
The students TOOK / HAD (12) the pills for nine
are lots of restaurants, but THEY (16) tend to
months and then we tested THEM (13) to see if
be expensive unless they are Indian or Chinese.
there was ANY / A (14) difference in their
Food in these is generally tasty and I GOOD
performance. Our results showed no important
(17) value for money. But don't forget that you
differences
and
CAN / MAY (18) eat in pubs and there the food
language ability BETWEEN (15) the two groups.
is often good, varied and cheap, although if
But the group who HAD (16) taken the vitamin
you're under eighteen they won't LET (19) you
pills got much higher scores THAN (17) the
drink alcohol with your meal.
other group in tests of their mathematical
One last thing: if you do come, HAVE (20) a
ability.
great holiday!
in
memory,
concentration
I hadn't expected these findings but IT (18)
does seem that what WE (19) eat influences our
intelligence even when we ARE (20) apparently
Express
is
7. Children's
organization that started
well-fed.
ago
with
the
slogan
'BY
a
unique
twelve years
CHILDREN
FOR
EVERYBODY'. The idea behind the articles,
students visit Britain every
6. Many
summer either as tourists, or to learn the
which are PUBLISHED / PRINTED (1) in over
language, or to do a combination of the two. If
as
you're thinking OF (1) visiting Britain, there are
encourage readers TO (4) look at important
FEW (2) things that you should BE (3) ready
issues from the POINT (5) of view of children
for. Firstly, THE (4) weather can be very
and young people.
changeable — even in summer — so you NEVER
In
(5) know what it's going to be like. It might be
reporters can choose ANY / WHAT / A / WHICH
rainy or sunny, hot or cold, so you MUST /
(6) story they want to work on, depending ON
SHOULD (6) be prepared for everything and
(7) what they are INTERESTED (8) in. On any
TAKE / BRING (7) both summer clothes and
story, a team of three or four, usually under
warmer ones.
thirteen and sometimes as young AS (9) eight,
Secondly, opening hours for shops, pubs, etc.
work with an assistant editor. Interviews ARE
can be very different from OTHER (8) countries.
(10) done using tape-recorders and are then
Shops normally open at 9.30 a.m. and CLOSE
typed out by adult workers. The MOST (11)
(9) at 5.30 p.m. with no BREAK (10) in the
interesting articles are then selected BY (12) a
thirty papers across THE (2) USA as WELL (3)
in
New
their
Zealand
New
York
and
office
Australia,
the
200
is
to
young
teenage assistant editor and an adult Children's
Express editor.
Children's Express teams have interviewed local
politicians and presidential candidates. They
have
covered
Kampuchea
and
stories
have
on
Chernobyl
investigated
and
difficult
social problems SUCH (13) as violence IN (14)
the family. They also WROTE (15) articles in
Spanish for the large NUMBER (16) of Spanish
American
readers.
Recently
they
have
announced that they’re GOING (17) to produce
a weekly TV news programme, starting NEXT
(18) year. Ten-year-old Laurel is to BE (19) one
of the presenters of the programme because
she is not embarrassed about asking important
people difficult questions. To Laurel, working on
a TV PROGRAM (20) is just ‘fun'!