TS10-CA-Noun Clauses (Part 1)

b. It’s factual / a fact that she put colleagues’ backs up in nearly everything she did.

• factual

• fact

c. It’s legal / a rule that no-one under 18 should be involved in such social activities.

• legal

• a rule

d. It’s absurd / an absurdity that men are permitted into such clubs and women are not.

• absurd

• an absurdity

a. It’s ridiculous / a ridicule that he should be allowed to get away with it.

• ridiculous

• ridicule

e. It’s comfortable / a comfort that you are here in our time of need.

• comfortable

• a comfort

f. It’s inconvenient / an inconvenience that we have to go up three flights of stairs for a bath.

• inconvenient

• an inconvenience

Decide where they have been taken from and write the appropriate capital letter in the numbered gap.

Điền vào chỗ trống số (1)

I sit here shivering in July. This is the month that should see us prancing along beaches and complaining of the oppressive heat. And ......... (1), contemplating whether to turn the central heating on. No, that’s not an option. Not in July. Yet we have suffered day after day of drizzle mixed in with occasional thunderstorms. It’s amazing ......... (2). In any civilised country it would have led to demonstrations. People would have marched with posters demanding sunshine ......... (3). Is ......... (4) a testimony to our resigned attitude to the weather? Can it be true ......... (5)? Surely not. And yet, ......... (6) have been grinning and bearing it these past few weeks suggests it may be so. How can any nation sit back and accept the climate it is given year in, year out? We need motions passed ......... (7) be shared about more evenly.

We need assurances ......... (8). ......... (9) that some people should go on ad nauseam about deforestation and global warming and things like that. ......... (10) those same people don’t take our bitterly cold Julys more seriously. I can’t stand another one like this.

• that people have put up with it

• the fact that this has not happened here

• here we are

• or at least an absence of rain

Decide where they have been taken from and write the appropriate capital letter in the numbered gap.
Điền vào chỗ trống số (2)

I sit here shivering in July. This is the month that should see us prancing along beaches and complaining of the oppressive heat. And ......... (1), contemplating whether to turn the central heating on. No, that’s not an option. Not in July. Yet we have suffered day after day of drizzle mixed in with occasional thunderstorms. It’s amazing ......... (2). In any civilised country it would have led to demonstrations. People would have marched with posters demanding sunshine ......... (3). Is ......... (4) a testimony to our resigned attitude to the weather? Can it be true ......... (5)? Surely not. And yet, ......... (6) have been grinning and bearing it these past few weeks suggests it may be so. How can any nation sit back and accept the climate it is given year in, year out? We need motions passed ......... (7) be shared about more evenly.

We need assurances ......... (8). ......... (9) that some people should go on ad nauseam about deforestation and global warming and things like that. ......... (10) those same people don’t take our bitterly cold Julys more seriously. I can’t stand another one like this.

• that people have put up with it

• it’s a pity

• the fact that so many people

• that people have stopped caring

Decide where they have been taken from and write the appropriate capital letter in the numbered gap.
Điền vào chỗ trống số (3)

I sit here shivering in July. This is the month that should see us prancing along beaches and complaining of the oppressive heat. And ......... (1), contemplating whether to turn the central heating on. No, that’s not an option. Not in July. Yet we have suffered day after day of drizzle mixed in with occasional thunderstorms. It’s amazing ......... (2). In any civilised country it would have led to demonstrations. People would have marched with posters demanding sunshine ......... (3). Is ......... (4) a testimony to our resigned attitude to the weather? Can it be true ......... (5)? Surely not. And yet, ......... (6) have been grinning and bearing it these past few weeks suggests it may be so. How can any nation sit back and accept the climate it is given year in, year out? We need motions passed ......... (7) be shared about more evenly.

We need assurances ......... (8). ......... (9) that some people should go on ad nauseam about deforestation and global warming and things like that. ......... (10) those same people don’t take our bitterly cold Julys more seriously. I can’t stand another one like this.

• it’s absurd

• or at least an absence of rain

• the fact that this has not happened here

• that people have put up with it

Decide where they have been taken from and write the appropriate capital letter in the numbered gap.
Điền vào chỗ trống số (4)

I sit here shivering in July. This is the month that should see us prancing along beaches and complaining of the oppressive heat. And ......... (1), contemplating whether to turn the central heating on. No, that’s not an option. Not in July. Yet we have suffered day after day of drizzle mixed in with occasional thunderstorms. It’s amazing ......... (2). In any civilised country it would have led to demonstrations. People would have marched with posters demanding sunshine ......... (3). Is ......... (4) a testimony to our resigned attitude to the weather? Can it be true ......... (5)? Surely not. And yet, ......... (6) have been grinning and bearing it these past few weeks suggests it may be so. How can any nation sit back and accept the climate it is given year in, year out? We need motions passed ......... (7) be shared about more evenly.

We need assurances ......... (8). ......... (9) that some people should go on ad nauseam about deforestation and global warming and things like that. ......... (10) those same people don’t take our bitterly cold Julys more seriously. I can’t stand another one like this.

• the fact that so many people

• it’s a pity

• here we are

• the fact that this has not happened here