At the crossroad of Africa and Asia, Egypt is a gateway for business in the Arab world, Africa, the Middle East and the Mediterranean. The Egyptian government has put in place changes that allow its economy to integrate the mainstream of the world economy. Today, Egypt has established a market-economy that includes strengths in software, tourism,

textiles, agricultural products and many other industry sectors. What is the best title for this text?

It is very important for people everywhere to have ________. We all need to talk to

someone when we have problems and someone to enjoy our free time with.What is the meaning of the missing word in the text?

Historic industrial buildings in the heart of the city center have been chosen for possible conversion into a riverside village. Developers are looking to build 86 flats and houses in the old Industrial Conservation Area. Detailed plans for a village-style development have

been submitted to the council for approval. What is the best title for this text?

Bike Doc

A Worker’s Co-op

Mountain bikes, bikes, tourers, city bikes, racers, hybrids, folders, tandems, and more.

Spares, accessories, clothing, friendly helpful service, everything you should get from the best all round bike shop in Manchester.

Access, Visa, Switch 0% Finance, Xmas Club.

Hotline: 0161 224 1303

What can you NOT buy at Bike Doc?

We are delighted to announce our Autumn Season, in which we will present seven shows prior to the West End, two of which are not only Yvonne Arnaud productions but

also world premieres of new plays.

What kind of organization would make this announcement?

When I was younger, I hated travelling by XXXX. Now I work for a large company and have to cross the Atlantic for my job every month. For me, it’s very important to be able to

get a place as quickly as possible.

What is the meaning of the missing word (XXXX) in the text?

Not to be used for babies under six months.

What does this label mean?

.....after strong winds

Last week’s storms have left a trail of destruction across the Wye valley and South Shropshire. The worst gales in a decade have left insurance companies facing hundreds of claims as property owner assessed the damage. Hardly a building was left untouched and in Titley one house lost its roof in the 100mph winds. According to Councillor John Price,

repairs to Burton village hall are estimated to be in excess of 2,000

Which words complete the headline (.....after strong winds)?

There are always occasions when we want to dress up and look a little different – a party, a special meal, a friend’s wedding. But why change just your clothes and shoes

when you can have a special pair of spectacles as well?

Read the advertisement and decide what the company sells

The concert given by the Nash Ensemble on 5 October as part of the South Bank’s Haydn Festival will be dedicated to the memory of Christopher van Kampen. On 13 October, with the viola player Paul Silverthorn and the London Sinfonietta under Martin Brabbins, he was due to give the world premier of Alexander Raskatov’s double concerto “Miserere in memoriam Oleg Kagan”. Thus concert will now also be dedicated to his

memory.

Which of the people mentioned has recently died and is to be remembered in a concert?

A spokeswoman for the RSPCA (the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), Jo Crozier, said: “if it hadn’t been for DNA testing, we would never have been able to prove that it was these men who killed the animal, even though they were found only 600 yards from the body. All we would have had was circumstantial evidence and

that wouldn’t have been enough to convict them.

Who or what helped the RSPCA to have the men convicted?

The Holiday of a lifetime-in- China

A 15 night tour of Hong Kong to Beijing, including Xian, Guilin, Shanghai, Suzhou, Wuxi, Guangzhou, Nanjung.

From 1,399

The Price includes:

*scheduled-flights (non-stop) from London/Hong Kong and Beijing/London

total 15 nights accommodation

*12 breakfast, 13 lunches, 11 dinners (including farewell Peking Duck Dinner)

*all excursions/sightseeing

What is NOT included in the price of this holiday?

There is nowhere else like it in all of America: where the days are warmed by ribbons

of golden sunshine._________________________ And the stars in the sky are bedazzled

by the movie stars you will see in the streets. It’s the province of Beverly Hills.

Read the text and then choose the most suitable sentence to fit the gap.

In the north of Italy, for example, they use Parmesan and in other parts, pecorino sardo,

a delicious sharp ewe’s cheese. Personally, I decide what to put in it when I know what

I’m serving in with. Balance is everything in fine food

Which of the sentences below starts the text?

Cigarettes contain nicotine. When you smoke regularly over a long period of time, your body gets used to the nicotine. So when you give up smoking, your body doesn’t get

the nicotine it has become dependent on. This can cause withdrawal symptoms.

What is the best title for the next?

More than 27,000 people are waiting for hospital treatment around the country, it was revealed this week.

In west Surrey, the number of patients on the waiting list has gone up by nearly 20% in the last year and 10% in the previous six months.

Official figures from the Department of Health also confirm that, by the end of September, six patients in the district had been waiting longer than the maximum 18 months allowed

under the Government’s patient charter standards

What is the main idea in the text?

Socialists defended a plan to cut France’s work week to 35 hours after President Jacques Chirac criticized the proposal, and a poll said that less than half the French supported it. At the close of a job conference last week, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin said he intended to introduce the 35-hour week by 2000 as a way to create new jobs and reduce the country’s high unemployment rate. Many French

employers oppose the plan, which they say would increase costs and would not deliver on promises to reduce the 12.5 per cent jobless rate.

Who supports the plan to reduce France’s working week?

Many people make the mistake of thinking that heartburn is only caused by too much stomach acid. Most heartburn sufferers are not producing too much stomach acid. Instead their symptoms are more likely caused by a little acid in the wrong place. The stomach is the only part of the digestive system which is actually supposed to contain acid- it is there to help break food down. The pain associated with heartburn is felt when small amounts of acid from the stomach flow back into the gullet or food pipe causing the familiar burning sensation.

What causes heartburn, according to the text?

In South Africa, spring begins in late August and early September. This is a country whose wild flowers are too beautiful to describe. Traveling from near the border with Namibia down towards Cape Town, we make frequent overnight stops, thus keeping journey times short and maximizing the time available for wildflower searches and walks. When combined with brilliant sunshine, magnificent scenery and flowers in great numbers and variety, this is a dream tour in a world of flowers

What is the best title for this text?

The fact that last Friday’s party was such a resounding success is due in no small part to your hard work in organizing the event.

What does the writer want to do?

She had gone alone, but the children were to go to the station to meet her. And loving the station as they did, it was only natural that they should be there a good hour before there was any chance of Mother’s train arriving, even if the train were punctual, which was most unlikely

What can you say about their mother’s train?

Suzanne Somers is always going to struggle to lose the image of the superficial character she played in a recent TV drama. Try as she might, she is not particularly convincing here as ace journalist who sets out to uncover the mystery behind the death of seven people in a night-club. Ed Begley and Michael Nouri offer satisfactory support, but the direction is strictly routine, and the same goes for the script.

What is the writer’s opinion of the film?

Buying and selling anything is your forte now, If you visit a jumble or cat-boot sale or the like, a romantic encounter is more than probable! News linked to the family is brilliant!

What type of text is this?

Our hands met. I looked him straight in the face. The smile slowly creased up into lines of thought. He waved his left hand impatiently to silence the loquacious proprietor who had begun the parrot formula he had repeated at least fifteen times so far: “I have the honor, sir, to introduce...”

“that ́s right,” said the Minister not to anyone in particular, but to some mechanism of memory inside his head. “You are...no, not Nwege, ...it’s Odili, isn’t it?

“Yes, sir”

“Odili, the great,” said the Minister boyishly. “Where have you been all this time?”

Who wrote this?

The new digital cameras are great fun and very easy to use. They let you review your pictures the moment you take them, so you can re-shoot right away if you’re not satisfied. But remember, a digital camera is just a computer _____. It’s not a replacement for your ordinary camera.

What is the meaning of the missing word in the text?

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

-Sharing a spaghetti Bolognese and a bottle of wine with my wife. What is your greatest fear?

-Needles

Which living person do you most admire?

-Nelson Mandela – he crosses race boundries ____________________________________?

-Not listening to other people clearly

What is the trait you most deplore in others?

-Rudeness

What objects do you always carry with you?

-Diary and wallet

Look at the interview below. What is the missing question?

Few corners of the world remain untainted by intrepid tourists, and their impact is often devastating. Too frequently they trample heedlessly on fragile environments, displacing wildlife and local populations in their insatiable quest for unexplored locations.

What is the best title for this text?

An E Coli outbreak which struck down nine fans at this year’s Glastonbury Festival was due to cattle grazing on the site an enquiry found. An investigation was launched after revelers fell ill with the stomach bug. Investigators initially feared the outbreak of E Coli 157 was caused by poorly cooked food sold to people at the festival.

But the report yesterday by the Communicable Disease Surveillance Center disclosed that the bacteria had found its way from cattle dung into mud on the side at Pilton, Somerset. All the victims –who included a two-year old girl –made a complete recovery.

Where did the illness come from?

“I do think this course should be fun,” he said. “And people should get out of it what they want. Some come here wanting to be very serious and even a bit competitive about their work. And that’s fine. Others are very hesitant and find that a bit of humor can relax them.____________________________ I’ve taught high court judges and dustmen and the mix is part of the fun.”

Which sentences best fills the gap in the text?

. I am 70 and consider myself active around the house and garden. I’m up and down the stairs all day long, walk to and from the shops and to visit friends. Do I really need to do exercise on top of all that? My daughter says I do. What’s your professional opinion?

Where is the text taken from?

With our travel agency, the holiday you book is the one you get. If you arrive and find we’ve failed to live up to our promises, let us know what the problem is within one day of your arrival. We’ll spend 24 hours doing everything possible to sort the problem out. In the unlikely event that we can’t resolve your problem and make you happy within 24 hours, we’ll fly you home and give you your money back.

Read the text and decide how you would describe it. It is...

To the western visitor, Bangkok is not just another city, it’s another way of life. (a) wooden houses built on stilts over the water stand in the shadows of gleaming tower blocks. (b) The air is filled with different smells. (c) Exotic temples glimmer in the sunlight. (d) Their cool interiors offer a welcome refuge from the heat and noise of the city.

There is one sentence missing form the text. The missing sentence is: “Tradition and development rub shoulders here as nowhere else.”

Whether your company produces waste, tries to recycle it or depends on a steady supply of raw materials, your business is bound to be affected by environmental controls. There are thousands of government regulations designed to protect the environment.

Fortunately we specialize in helping you cope successfully with changing conditions. In fact, we are the only worldwide company that helps you insure your business risk. And we’ve got financial ratings to back us up.

What type of company would advertise in this way?

People seem to think that ecoturism is about indulging in trips to remote or fragile areas. If you really care about these environments you wouldn’t go near them. Real ‘ecotourism’ is when people spend their free time putting like back into places which have already suffered at the hands of man- in other words not trampling over the rare and beautiful but getting kicks out of making good our past mistakes”.

This sentence is a summary of the text:

“Ecotourism should involve the improvement of damage environments... the exploitation

of natural areas.”

Which is the best group of words for the gap (...) in the sentence and completes the summary of the text?

Mothers are surprised and even ashamed at their own lack of endurance with small children__________ There is nothing as exhausting as giving attention constantly to someone else, as trying to concentrate on one line of action while another equally important is in the offing, as trying to keep a train of though which is interrupted over and over, and as being aware of the tremendous responsibility that one has for the inquiring, resourceful, nosy little being in the next room.

wich sentence best fills the gap in the text?

We have still not learned the lesson of the programme of closures and amalgamations which produced the mega-schools and colleges of today. The reasons why bigness is a blight in education have been well documented, as have the advantages of smaller institutions. We have created institutions whose management requires more effort and more resources than the teaching job they are meant to perform, and where individuals matter less and less.

what is the best title for this text?

Full details of your cover are shown in the enclosed policy schedule which you should read carefully in conjunction with your Policy Booklet. Please let us know if anything is incorrect or if you would like us to amend the cover in any way.

where is the text taken from?

The science and practice of caving owes much to a Romanian, Emil Racovita, who founded the world’s first speleological institute at Cluj university, near the karst zone of the Apuseni mountains. This offer the greatest range of possibilities, form easy strolling passage to vertical shafts and flood tunnels; there are tourist caves such as Chiscau and Medziad, big river caves such as Humpleu, Magura and Cetatile ponoruliu and any number of crevices that only experts should get involved with. The other main area is the southern Banat and the Mehedinti massif, with river caves such as Topolnita, Closani and Comarnic.

The last major discovery was made only in 1986, at Movile in Dobrogea, and the further reaches of many other caves are still being explored by Romanian enthusiasts, and constantly yield fresh surprises. Interest groups or individuals should write to the Racovita Institute, Str Clincilor 5, 3400 Cluj or Str Frumoasa 11, 78114 Bucuresti, to enquire about co-operation and possible caves, several months in advance, stating your experience. And Offer to contribute gear and a share of the costs should increase your chances of acceptance by a local club.

who was the text originally written for?

Injuries can have serious repercussions for the victim. About three million people a year suffer personal injuries in an accident yet only a quarter of them ever consider making a claim. The majority of the victims do not realize they have a potential claim, or indeed they think a claim will take time and be costly to settle. Or the victims feel the legal system for compensation is stacked against them by being complicated and burdensome.

what is the main idea of the text?

This is the tale of a poor girl, the youngest of five children, who grew up in a mining town in Wales. In her early thirties, she has now become one of the most successful and ___________ women on television. I ask her exactly how many programs she’s on at the moment. “I’ve lost count”, she says.

what is the meaning of the missing word in the text?

Dear Mr James.

Thank you for enquiry about the post recently advertised. Please find an application form enclosed. The deadline for these is the end of March. Shortlisted. _________ will be informed of interview dates by April 15th.

Yours faithfully D.Buller

What’s the best word for the gap in the sentence?

June Redfern continues her journey by bicycle around Northern India in search of exotic ingredients. Tonight she tries an elephant ride, visits the Taj Mahal palace and demonstrates how to prepare a supper of spicy Indian dishes fit for a prince!

What type of television program does the text describe?

Castleton is a busy tourist center with many attractions to occupy the visitor.

__________________________________________ But the most visible is the tower of peveril Castle, dominating the town from its cliff top position. The layout of the town was planned so that the castle and village could be defended together.

which sentence best fills the gap in the text?

The original cottage gardens were there for only one purpose. They were essential to feed the working man’s family. Until the plague in 1348, labourers worked for their masters in return for the rent of their cottages. Mostly they had to be self-sufficient, growing what they could and keeping animals.

read the text and then predict the sentence that come next.