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exercise 6 Fill in according to the clues.
1. My baby sister is five years old, but I also have a twenty-year-old brother.
2. The news said that every young person / every teenager spends an astounding number of hours per day online.
3. Are you afraid of the unknown?
4. That’s it! You’re grounded for the next / the following three weeks.
5. Do you think young people / the young are more open-minded than old people / the old?
6. There are more 90-year-olds now than ever before.
7. Good old Peter. You can always trust him to take care of all the silly little details.
8. The past few weeks / The last couple of weeks have been the best weeks of my life.
9. My grandmother lived in that little red cottage up on the hill.
exercise 7 Fill in. I'm studying at 1. one of the best universities in London. It has 2. enormous / huge / massive stone buildings. It has all the facilities a good college should have, including 3. well-furnished classrooms and laboratories, and even our library is 4. better than / superior to that of any other school. Our new librarian is also 5. much / a lot more helpful than the previous one. Our dean is 6. by far the strictest disciplinarian there is, but I don’t think he is 7. as scary / frightening as some of the students say. However, if anyone violates the rules, they get punished. 8. “The more active you are in your studies, 9. the more versatile your future options will be”, he says. At our university, special attention is paid to behaviour and punctuality. 10. The best-behaved and 11. (the) most punctual student is awarded a prize every year. My university is very 12. similar to my dad’s school, except his was an all-boys school. My dad says getting a good education is becoming 13. more and more valuable / worthwhile in the modern world. But he also says it is 14. even more vital / crucial to do what really makes me happy.
1. My baby sister is five years old, but I also have a twenty-year-old brother.
2. The news said that every young person / every teenager spends an astounding number of hours per day online.
3. Are you afraid of the unknown?
4. That’s it! You’re grounded for the next / the following three weeks.
5. Do you think young people / the young are more open-minded than old people / the old?
6. There are more 90-year-olds now than ever before.
7. Good old Peter. You can always trust him to take care of all the silly little details.
8. The past few weeks / The last couple of weeks have been the best weeks of my life.
9. My grandmother lived in that little red cottage up on the hill.
exercise 7 Fill in. I'm studying at 1. one of the best universities in London. It has 2. enormous / huge / massive stone buildings. It has all the facilities a good college should have, including 3. well-furnished classrooms and laboratories, and even our library is 4. better than / superior to that of any other school. Our new librarian is also 5. much / a lot more helpful than the previous one. Our dean is 6. by far the strictest disciplinarian there is, but I don’t think he is 7. as scary / frightening as some of the students say. However, if anyone violates the rules, they get punished. 8. “The more active you are in your studies, 9. the more versatile your future options will be”, he says. At our university, special attention is paid to behaviour and punctuality. 10. The best-behaved and 11. (the) most punctual student is awarded a prize every year. My university is very 12. similar to my dad’s school, except his was an all-boys school. My dad says getting a good education is becoming 13. more and more valuable / worthwhile in the modern world. But he also says it is 14. even more vital / crucial to do what really makes me happy.