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11. By the end of the second year ...
12. The work seemed to her too easy and she ...
13. She seemed to have been eating the same food ...
14. Ruth took some ofAnthea's advice ...
15. Ruth confessed that...
16. Richard was a prize beyond ...
17. Richard, a psychologist by training, was ...
18. There seemed to be no end to ...
19. She thought him exemplary and ...
20. So Ruth took more ofAnthea's advice and ...
Exercise 8
Complete the sentences choosing the appropriate word or phrase from the list. Change their form if
necessary.
To have no worries about something; in one's own eyes; a hall of residence; read through one's meals; to
adhere to something; to be at one with somebody; to go out; to make friends;
to find one's way to
somebody.; to get rid of something; to need somebody's company; beside the point; to be on one's guard; on
three counts; no end to something; the concern of somebody.
1. A communicative person ... with other people very quickly and feels at ease in any company.
2. It is important ... a definite style when choosing clothes; otherwise one risks looking strange.
3. Police ask people ... when strangers approach them, try to make contact with them or ask favours of
them.
4. Sharing a room with other people, one has ... all bad habits: smoking, scattering things here and there,
coming late.
5. Having passed the exam, she grew .... The exam was very difficult and being through with it meant
success.
6. The teacher tried... a little boy in primary school; she spoke
with him, made him speak and play too,
but he remained aloof and constrained.
7. The child seemed not ... ; he liked to stay all by himself, with no companions to play with.
8. Most British students live either in ... or share flats with other students.
9. In the evening most British students .... They go to pubs, discos or just walk around with their friends.
10. Doctors do not recommend.... It may lead to indigestion.
11. The athlete's physical power was almost.... It was his mental discipline that really made him a
champion.
12. There was ... her friend's advice: she always had new ideas and poured them out incessantly.
13. Her success rested ...: she was President of Students' Society, she had only excellent marks and she
won a scholarship from the British Council.
14. Hurrying up to the university in the morning, she ... all the rest of the students: she was an integral
part of this moving mass.
15. His constant failures soon became ... every lecturer. Nobody knew what to do in a situation like this.
16. She ... domestic chores: her mother and grandmother did everything in the house.
Exercise 9
Put in the missing prepositions.
1. The teacher demanded that the students should take notes ... coloured ball-point pens.
2. Being a psychologist... training, Richard devoted his life to solving other people's problems.
3. Not everyone likes to share a flat ... somebody: it disturbs one's privacy.
4. Working... her thesis, Ruth learned many interesting facts.
5. The mother always grumbled when her daughter was reading ... her meals.
6. The commuters were at one ... the bus stop, and every person felt as if he or she were an integral part of
the crowd.
7. Ruth could not understand why a certain restlessness came ... her.
8. Ruth did not have any worries ... money, because she lived at home with her parents.
9. It was very easy to choose subjects ... dissertations; the professor offered a long list of topics.
10. She would never sit down ... her meal without a book, which, of course, was a bad habit.
11. One day the lecturer returned Ruth's essay with an inscription ... the bottom.
12. Ruth's greed ... books kept her working in the library until nine o'clock.