Question

1. Complete each sentence with a word formed from the word in capitals


a) The new leisure centre doesn't quite come up to my expectations EXPECT

b) There was a bare ............................... of people at the youth club. HAND

c) Helen's solo crossing of the Pacific was a ............................... feat. REMARK

d) We ............................... go to the pub before lunch on Sunday. VARY

e) All the runners, with the ............................... of Mark, were exhausted. EXCEPT

f) Our club has just purchased new sports ................................ EQUIP

g) Our city has some open spaces but they are not very ................................ ACCESS

h) Is it possible to ............................... between a hobby and an interest? DISTINCT

i) Nowadays ............................... numbers of people are taking up jogging. INCREASE

j) Leisure habits won't change much in the ............................... future. SEE


2. Read the text and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best completes each

collocation or fixed phrase.

Very few popular (1) sports today remain amateur in any sense of the word. In the past, even in

cases where payment to players or athletes was forbidden, many sports tolerated what became

known as 'shamateurism', and even the sports governing (2) turned a blind eye to such (3) as

the paying of 'expenses'. More recently, sport has become, in effect, a (4) of the entertainment

industry, and the elite (5) in sports such as swimming, tennis, football and track athletics can

expect to become very rich. This worries some people, who complain that the old Olympic ideal

has been lost, but the fact is, sport has become more and more professional in the wider sense,

not only requiring total dedication from (6) champions, but also expensive facilities, training and

nutritional advice.


1) A audience B watching C spectator D viewing

2) A associations B confederations C authorities D bodies

3) A practices B occurrences C acts D operations

4) A branch B division C wing D limb

5) A doers B players C makers D performers

6) A hopeful B aspiring C striving D wishful

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Answer 1

Răspuns:

1.

b) handful

c) remarkable

d) chiar nu stiu imi pare rau

e) exception

f) equipment

g) accessible

h) distinction

i) increasingly

j) seen

2.

1) audience

2) associations

3) acts

4) division

5) players

6) aspiring