Underline the best alternative. a These trousers are better than the other one / ones.

b I don't like them. Let's choose another / the other pair. c Well, hurry up the others / another are waiting. d I suppose one pair is as good as another / one. e You've tried on so many, one after the other / others. f Can I try just one / another more pair? g OK, but let's stop arguing with each / one another. h Give me another / the other few minutes. Fill each of the gaps with other, another, others, or other's. Left-handedness is a fascinating phenomenon unless you are trying to undo a knot that a left-handed person has tied the (1) way round. It is surprising that left-handers have not protested more about how the physical world has been constructed around the (2) lot'. Though the days have gone when children were forced to change to the ....... (3) way, we still don't make enough concessions. Surely lefties should be encouraged to greet one ................ (4) by shaking the ....... (5) left hand. Why don't they always stick out their left hand anyway and surprise all us ...........(6) once in a while? I've seen some lefties writing like crabs and producing handwriting from ............ (7) planet and I've seen ........... (8) who produce better writing than any (9) person 1 know. And ....................(10) thing: why don't left-handed waiters tease us by laying the table 'back to front'? They've as much right as the right-handers. Fill each of the numbered blanks with one suitable word. Raising (1) child at a time is hard enough; parents of twins have an even more difficult job. It is important that they don't become so bonded that ......(2) becomes merely a missing part of ....... (3) other. Parents have to help their children grow up together, but realizing that they are individuals first and twins second. The sibling rivalry may be avoided by encouraging them to develop different interests from one .........(4) to help to preserve their identities. But the special intimacy that twins share can lead to problems. As they grow older they may find it hard to develop close relationships with.......... (5) because they think no person will ever know them as well as their twin. They think like (6) other and do the same things, marry similar partners and live in virtually identical houses. In one, study, a twin declared that losing the (7) would be like losing a part of her own body. In (8), a pair separated at birth and brought up in different towns, unaware of (9) another's existence, moved into houses in Florida with their families, only to discover that the person next door was ..........(10) other than their twin.

Underline the better alternative. Sometimes both are possible. Example: Have you heard any / some news today at all? a The news should be on any / some minute now. b I'd like to be a newsreader some / any day. c I'm not sure this one is any / some improvement on the others. d She appears to be having some / any difficulty reading her auto cue. e In fact she's getting anywhere / nowhere. f If she gets any / some worse, they'll have to sack her. g Why doesn't she do anything else / something else? h Aren't there any / some other jobs she could do better? i Any / Some old job would do, I'd have thought. iThough I reckon few if any / some employers

would look on her favourably after this.

The BBC World Service on radio claims a regular worldwide audience of (1) 25 million for its English language programmes It is funded directly by the British Foreign Office, though (2) Government attempt to

control the content of programmes is vigorously fought off. It is broadcast around the world and (3) who has access to a radio with short wave need be without it. The archetypal listener today is under 30, male, likely to be relatively well-educated, for whom English is likely to be a second or even third language. Few women tune in, which is why there is no women's programme (4) in its 24-hour service. The biggest and most important of the news programmes is Newshour, a 60-minute survey of world news which goes out (5) night at 10p.m. British time. This slot cannot please (6) but is the optimum time to catch (7) listeners having breakfast in Hong Kong or settling down for the night in West Africa. It can be recommended to (8) who wants to understand the world, not just Britain. At (9) rate, that is its aim and certainly by comparison, (10) British domestic news programmes seem trivial and parochial.
In most pairs of lines there is one unnecessary word. For each pair of numbered lines (1 14), write the unnecessary word in the space. Indicate correct pairs with a tick (). The exercise begins with two examples,

One of the marvellous things on my first trip to Europe was the discovery that the world could be so full of any variety, that there were so many 1 different ways of doing essentially identical things, something like eating and 2 drinking and buying cinema tickets. It fascinated me that any Europeans could be 3 at once alike that they could be so bookish and cerebral, and some drive 4 small cars, and live in little houses in ancient towns, and nobody love soccer, 5 and have chilly hotel rooms and warm inviting places to eat and drink 6 and yet be so endlessly, unpredictably different anyone from each other as well. 7 1 loved the idea that you could never be sure of anything else in Europe. 8 This is why I have never learned any more language other than English. I don't 9 want to know what other people are talking about. I can't think of anything 10 that excites a greater sense of any childhood wonder than to be in a country 11 where you are ignorant of almost everything else. Suddenly you are five years 12 old again. You can't read nearly anything, you have only the most rudimentary 13 sense of how any things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without 14 endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of some interesting guesses.
Fill each of the gaps with one suitable word. Example: Everybody has now received their orders.

a They didn't give me any help at ............ b His dissertation amounted to.............. 200 pages. c Few if.............of those eligible to vote did so. d You don't have the time, do you, by..............chance? e Everything, including all your orders this week, ............now waiting to be collected. f I heard the news on some satellite channel or............. g If................. calls, tell them I'll be back by two.

1. Nu este nici o farama de adevar in ceea ce spune ea ; nu-i adevarat ca ea personal s-a dus acolo. 2. Este ora doua, nu-i asa? 3: Nu este deloc departe pana la hotel. 4.I-am cautat pe Steve si Alex mai bine de o ora si, in cele din urma, i-am gasit pe amandoi in parc. 5. Sora mea s-a lovit cand a cazut pe gheata. 6. Martin a fost cel care a intrat primul in camera.7. Pe cine ai mai intalnit acolo ? 8. Cartea pe care am cumparat-o luni este foarte interesanta. 9. In cele din urma, toti cei prezenti au cazut de acord sa se intalneasca a doua zi la aeroport. 10. Haideti sa ne plimbam; ne va face sa ne simtim mai bine. 11. Ce ai reusit sa afli la politie ? 12. Casa al carei acoperis este rosu a fost vanduta unui american. 13. Dupa ce s-au uitat unul la altul, cei doi copii au izbucnit in ras. 14. Prietenii nostri nu au gasit pe nimeni acolo.15. Cine altcineva te-a mai vazut intrand aici ? 16. Si Mary, si Lucy au promis ca vor fi aici la ora cinci, dar nici una nu a venit inca. 17. Cu exceptia catorva italieni si a noastra, toata lumea a plecat in excursie. 18. Cativa dintre elevii mei invata franceza, ceilalti invata engleza. 19. Cui i-ai dat scrisoarea ? 20. Cum de mi-ai gasit adresa ? 21. Barbatul care ne-a salutat este un prieten de-al meu. 22. A cui este masina aceea de langa poarta noastra? 23. Ce altceva as fi putut face ? 24. Baiatul al carui nume 1-ai vazut in ziar a castigat o bursa in Anglia. 25. Unele magazine sunt moderne, altele sunt demodate.26. Care este umbrela ei ? Sunt trei aici. 27. Noi insine ne-am dus acolo sa vedem ce s-a intamplat. 28.Copiii pe care i-ai vazut in parc sunt colegii mei de clasa. 29. Care baiat ti-a spart geamul ? 30. Primele exercitii sunt corecte, celelalte sunt gresite.