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A. Complete the gaps in the text with one word.
EcoFads is an eco-fashion brand that takes the protection of the environment consideration when making and selling clothes. Eco-fashion is a new trend that is becoming more and more popular and which is based the idea that clothes should created in ways that are environmentally friendly.
EcoFads uses cotton that grown without pesticides, materials that have been reused or recycled and avoids all types of leather. Priscilla Wells, the founder of Ecofads, points that most fashion companies use methods to make clothes that can harm the environment in the run. ‘I had been looking techniques eco-fashion uses because I didn’t want to end harming the environment with my business, too,’ she says. ‘That’s why I always stick to environmentally-friendly ways of manufacturing, while producing clothes that appeal young people and are stylish. Will more fashion companies get interested in eco-friendly ways of making clothes before it’s too late? Only time will .
B. Choose a, b, c or d.
1. You can order it online and have it sent to your home. is free of charge.
2. The percentage of child is increasing in many countries because of junk food.
3. Cheese, milk and butter are products.
4. The got into the house by breaking the window and then threatened to shoot the owners.
5. I’m absolutely . I haven’t eaten anything since this morning.
6. The scientists an experiment in Antarctica.
7. By the time they reached the station, the train .
8. People who large amounts of fat are more likely to suffer from heart disease.
9. Danny outside for over an hour when his mother called him to come in.
10. I spent a summer in Mexico, where I learnt Spanish.
11. All participants will a prize at the end of the race.
12. Do you remember Carol last week?
C. Complete the text with the correct form of the words in capitals.
In May 2007, a (DEVASTATE) tornado struck Greensburg. The tornado, which covered an area larger than the city itself, resulted in the (DESTROY) of 95% of the buildings there and the death of 13 people. After that, most of the residents left the city, because they had nowhere to live. Emergency services arrived as well as volunteers from nearby towns to help, providing the residents with food and mobile homes. The (COUNT) buildings that were destroyed couldn’t prevent the residents from planning a new future for their town. The plan was to rebuild Greensburg.
During the summer that followed, residents held weekly meetings to decide on what they were going to do for their town. (INITIAL) all the residents couldn’t agree and many people (APPROVE) some of the plans because they believed they were not (AFFORD) under the circumstances. However, not only did they manage to (COME) the problems, but they also turned Greensburg into one of the nation’s greenest towns.
Now, people from all over the world visit Greensburg, where many homes, public buildings and businesses have been built according to the latest energy-saving and environmentally-friendly design technology. This strategy is helping the environment and also it is (GENERAL) believed that it is helping all the residents as well. This is because wind turbines were installed, which produce enough electricity for all the homes, businesses and town facilities in Greensburg.
Today, Greensburg is proving to be an example for other towns and cities around the world as well, which are also trying to use renewable energy and eco-friendly designing to make greener cities.
D. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and five words, including the word given.
1. I don’t often go to work by car, because it harms the environment.
AVOID | by car, because it harms the environment.
2. They have informed all the passengers about the delay.
BEEN | All the passengers about the delay.
3. Many people think that skydiving is dangerous.
THOUGHT | Skydiving dangerous.
4. Everyone knows that eating too much sugar is bad for your health.
COMMON | It is eating too much sugar is bad for your health.
5. Brenda doesn’t really like reading poetry.
RATHER | Brenda poetry.
6. Billy hasn’t got much money so he borrowed some from me.
SHORT | Billy so he borrowed some from me.
7. Victor decided to stop eating so much red meat.
CUT | Victor decided red meat.
8. We drove around for an hour and then realised our car was almost out of petrol.
BEEN | We an hour before we realised our car was almost out of petrol.
9. I felt terrible when I heard that Tina had moved away.
SORRY | I was Tina had moved away.
10. I can’t wait to go to Greece on holiday.
FORWARD | I’m to Greece on holiday.