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CHECK YOUR PROGRESS
1. Complete these sentences with the correct word from the box.
about, against, away, for (x2), off, on, out, over, up
1.
I can
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t stand this programme. Can you turn ________ to the news channel, please?
2.
If you don
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t understand the exercise at first, don
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t give _____.
3.
In your English lesson tomorrow you will have to talk _____ your hero.
4.
If you like that jacket you should try it _____.
5.
Millionaires are often very generous and give ______ a lot of their money to charities to help the poor.
6.
The fire started because Laura forgot to switch______ the iron.
7.
Don
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t forget to close the windows before you go _______.
8.
Now that he has left school Jack is looking_________.
9.
If you decide you want to buy the jacket, you have to pay_______ it over there.
10.
It is very important to fight __________ problems like racism.
2.Complete the text with propositions.
The Design Museum
There is a Design Museum (1)________ London. It
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s (2)________ 28 Shadthames Street, very (3)________ the
River Thames. When you go there you can walk (4)_________ the river and then visit the museum. I was there
last
week.
I
liked
a
lamp
called
the
Tiffany
lamp
which
was
made
(5)________
1910.
Would
you
like
that
(6)________
your
room
,
(7)________
your
bookshelves?
The
top
is
made
(8)________
glass.
(9)________
that, the metal you can see (10)__________ the picture is very heavy. Then I saw a wooden armchair designed
(11)________ 1918. We could sit (12)________ it. I sat with the long thin piece of wood (13)_________me
and the blue seat (14)________ my legs. The next armchair was from the 1960s. It was made of plastic and you
blow it up like a balloon. There
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s a plastic cushion with it .You blow that up and put it (15)________your head
while you watch TV.
3.Complete the text with where/who/that,which and whose.
The exhibition in the wood cabin in John Raymond
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s garden
British teenager John Raymond has a small wood cabin in his garden (1)_________ he likes to spend his time
at the weekend and in the evenings. But John is not the kind of teenager (2)________ has football posters on
the walls,. John is interested in painting. The artist he likes best is Michaelangelo, (3)_________ painted ceiling
at the Sistine Chapel in Rome is a famous tourist attraction (4)__________ he saw when he went to Rome on
holiday. When he came back, John painted his own
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Sistine Chapel
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on the ceiling of his cabin. Then he bought
an antique cupboard (5)_________he put in the corner of the cabin .
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I
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m interested in glass, too,
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said John ,
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and I wanted a cupboard (6)_________ I could store all the glass I collect.
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John knows some artists near his
home (7)__________ paintings he puts on his walls.
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These are people (8)__________ sell their paintings for a
lot of money,
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says John.
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So I am lucky. I have a place to keep the paintings (9)_________ I collected for a
few weeks until they are sold. It
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s like having an exhibition (10)________ I can visit any time I want to.
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4. Correct the text with the correct words form the brackets.
Before you start, read the whole text carefully. You will need to read the text more than one before you
decide on your answer.
Two artists