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Korean Dining

Sampling the local cuisine is (0) …one… of the great pleasures for people visitting Korea, a country famous (1)…………………. its reach array of foods. Korean cuisine is highly distinct. It is rich (2) ………………. fermented and preserved food, and full of strong, spicy flavours – no meal is complete without a selection (3) ………….. strong chilli seasonings to enhance it! Meat, seafood, vegetables and wild greens, grains (4) …………………………. as rice, soups and teas all feature heavily in the Korean diet. Korean food is hardly ever deep fried. Instead, foods are boiled, steamed or stir – fried. It is highly nutritious, low (5) ………………… calories and fat, and very healthy. Koreans are very proud of(6) …………………………..! Distinct to korean cuisine is its way of picking instead (7) …………………. cooking vegetables. A classic korean dish (8) ………………….. fermented vegetables or ‘kimichi’. Kimichi is highly valued because of its disease-preventing propertis (9) ………………. most Koreans eat kimichi every day of the year – for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Korean meals are almost always accompanied (10) ………………………….. a bowl of soup or stew and they are not served in courses. Instead, dishes are all placed on the table (11) …………………………. the same time. Cooks try to create meals that harmonize five eesential flavours (hot, sour, sweet, salty, bitter) and five colours (green, red, white, black and yellow). They also pay particular attention (12) ………………….. the way foods are arranged on a plate and laid out on a table. Foods are meant to be arranged (13) …………………….. neat circles or parrallel columns. In Korea, you will never see a table with dishes laid out in a disorderly fashion.

klucz:

1. for

2. in

3. of

4. such

5. in

6. it

7. of

8. is

9. and

10. by

11. at

12. to

13. in


źródło: fce, use of English 1, Virginia Evans

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Like lightning…

From the (0)…beginning… of time people have been amazed and frightened (1) ……………… storms. Worldwide, about 2,000 thunderstorms and 100 lightning strikes happen (2) ………………….. second. According to scientists, we all have a one in 600,000 chance of being struck by lightning. So we are (3) …………………… more likely to be struck by lightning (4) ……………. Win the lottery!

There are many different types of lightning but the two most usual (5) ……………………. Are “sheet” and “ribbon” lightning. Sheet lightning is more common than ribbon lightning and is the kind that lights up the (6) …………………… sky. Ribbon lightning is the kind that zigzags to the ground,

A typical lightning bolt travels at a tenth of the (7) ………………… of light and is often more than five kilometres long. It has hundreds of millions of volts of energy – (8) ………………………. to light a 100-watt light bulb for at (9) ……………………….. three minutes. (10) …………………….. in a lightning bolt get as high as 50,000 *F and, because they rise so fast, there is an explosion that that we (11) …………… as thunder. If you want calculate how near you are to a lightning flash, count the number of seconds between the lightning flash and the (12) …………….. of thunder and divide by five. The result gives you the approximate number of miles you are away from lightning.

klucz:

1. by

2. every

3. actually

4. than

5. types

6. whole

7. speed

8. enough

9. least

10. Temperatures

11. experience

12 clap


źródło: fce, use of English 1, Virginia Evans

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What to wear?

Where we live (0) .. has.. a lot to do with the kinds of clothes we wear. Different people around the world wear (1) ………….. clothes and we can often guess where a person might be from simply from what they are wearing. People (2) ………….. live in cold climates need to keep warm. Inuits from Greenland and Northern Canada for example, wear clothes (3) …………. from animal skins. They need to wear fur trousers, mittens and jackets to protect themselves from the cold. People from  hot countries (4) …………. the other hand, wear clothes to keep cool. Africans and Arabs (5)…………… in the Sahara wear long, light-weight, loose robes to stay cool in the hot sun.

(6) …………………. addition to the weather, there are many other factors that influence what we wear. For example, people decorate (7) …………… in brightly coloured clothes and with different objects to special occasions, to tell other people what group or tribe they belong to, or simply to (8) …………….. good. Also, people in certain (9) …………….. wear clothes that will identify them to others. Police officers, soldiers, firefighters and nurses the world over wear uniforms so (10) ………….. everyone can recognise them, and many children wear a uniform to school.

So, all around the world, clothes seem to be an important part of our lives no matter where we live. They (11) ……..  us warm or cool, and whether we like it or (12) ………….. , they reveal a lot about who we are.

klucz:

1. different

2. who

3. made

4. on

5. living

6. in

7. themselves

8. look

9. professions

10. that

11. keep

12. not

źródło: fce use of English 1, Virginia Evans

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SOS: Orang-utans

Orang-utans are among the (0)…most… endangered species on our planet. (1)……………….we do more to protect them, some scientists predict they will disappear within 50 years. There are (2) …………. 55,000 orang-utans left in the world and this number is falling. Hunters kill the adults and sell the babies (3) ……………… circuses and zoos. Natural disasters have also taken a toll on orang-utans numbers. Indonesia, for example, one of the (4) …………….. orang-utans come from, was devasted by severe forest fires in 1997. Hundreds of orang-utans (5) …………………….killed and thousands left (6) ……………………….. food and place to live. Luckily, however many were rescued and taken to Tanjung National Park where they received medical care and food.

The indonesian government has now (7) …………………… permission for a new centre to be built which will protect and care for any orang-utans that need help. The Orang-utans foundation in London is helping to raise (8) ………………… for the construction of the centre. If you’d like to help to raise funds, we would love to hear from you. An organisation (9) …………………. Care For The Wild is running an Orang-utan adoption scheme if you are (10) ………………………….. in contributing to the care and upkeep of one particular animal. There are many ways you can help to (11) ………………….. sure that those lovely animals don’t (12) …………………………. Extinct. So, why don’t you helpmake a difference!

 klucz:

1. unless

2. currently

3. to

4. places

5. were

6. without

7. given

8. money

9. called

10. interested

11. make

12. become


źródło fce, use of English 1, Virginia Evans

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Fill in the missing sentences.

1. The bridge was blown………….. by American soldiers.
2. I’m not keen………… Internet dating.
3. You’d …………… hurry or you’ll be late.
4. This soup is disgusting. It …………. like milk.
5. If you go …………… the corner you’ll see the bank.
6. They’re going to …………… their house painted tomorrow.
7. There are a lot of ……………… species in my country. We have to protect them.
8. When are you going to move house? The ………. The better.
9. It was ………….. a hot day that I decided to stay at home.
10. Can you hand me the chopping ………….. I need to cut these vegetables.

klucz:

1. up

2. on

3. better

4. tastes

5. round

6. have

7. endangered

8. sooner

9. such

10. board

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1. She carried……… the research about the problems in Africa.
2. There’s no need to hurry.   ………… your time.
3. ……………. the time the bus arrived I was already two hours late.
4. He’s likely………….. quit his job. He doesn’t like it.
5. You………………….. have seen George. I don’t believe you.
6. This car is a ………….. value for money.
7. Don’t ……………. the soup. Can’t you eat in silence?
8. I lost my credit card but at ………… I was able to cancel it.
9. If you had brought the map we ………… be lost.
10. There were a lot of ................. in my country because of the war in Iraq.

 klucz:

1. out

2. take

3. by

4. to

5. must

6. good

7. slurp

8. least

9. wouldn't

10. refugees

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1. I went to USA in………….to improve my English.
2. In …………… of the rain the concert continued.
3. Sue’s parents grew…………. In Prague.
4. My cousin is the …………….. sheep of the family.
5. I’m in …………… of the marketing department.
6. I ……… been waiting for several hours when she finally arrived.
7. We ………….. to go to the theatre every month.
8. It is …………….that smoking kills you.
9. I can’t …………… with this problem
10.  You shoulg get ………….. of this old sofa.

 klucz:

1. order

2. spite

3. up

4. black

5. charge

6. had

7. used

8. said/obvious

9. deal/cope

10. rid

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US publication Rolling Stone magazine is    1.                          launch in China. The magazine,  2.                       should hit shelves early next year, will focus on China's emerging youth culture as well   3.                             foreign arts and entertainment. Rolling Stone   4.                      first published in San Francisco in 1967 to chronicle cultural changes in the US. "We feel Chinese music and arts   5.                              maturing rapidly and that a Chinese edition      6.              be viable," said Jimmy Jung, of One World Publishing. Rolling Stone  7.                    licensed Hong Kong-based One World to publish the Chinese-language edition. Mr Jung said the magazine, to be printed in simplified Chinese characters, will  8.                         a mix of local content 9.         primarily by Beijing-based staff and translations of articles from the US     10.                          . "We want to make 11.                                 that we're faithful to the spirit of the brand," said Jung. He added that   12.                           Hong Kong and Taiwan had more developed pop cultures, mainland China 13.                                 more important. "We feel China offers greater potential and we want to be there from the  14.                       ," said Jung, whose company also  15.                     Chinese editions of British car magazine, Top Gear and gadget magazine T3.

Klucz:

1. to
2. which
3. as
4. was
5. are
6. will
7. has
8. contain
9. written
10. edition
11. sure
12. while
13. was
14. start
15. publishes

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