 Audio 26 |
Exercise 3
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Listen and cross out the word that does not rhyme with the other words.
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a) knows
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b) rose
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c) lose
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a) tough
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b) cough
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c) rough
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a) foul
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b) soul
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c) poll
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a) suit
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b) route
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c) foot
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a) gloss
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b) cross
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c) gross
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a) goose
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b) choose
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c) truce
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a) flood
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b) stood
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c) blood
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a) pour
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b) roar
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c) sour
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a) word
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b) sword
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c) board
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a) tow
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b) dough
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c) vow
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a) card
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b) ward
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c) guard
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a) rush
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b) bush
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c) push
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Improving your skills
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Part A(part éi)
Choose the correct option in each line.
THE NIGHT I HEARD CARUSO SING
The highlands and the lowlands are the routes my father (1)___________,
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a) takes
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b) knows
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c) goes
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The holidays at Oban and the towns around Montrose.
But even as he sleeps, they are loading bombs into the (2)____________,
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a) hills
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b) mountains
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c) valleys
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And the waters in the lochs can run deep, but never still.
I have thought of having children, but I have gone and changed my (3)_______,
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a) ideas
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b) mind
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c) view
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It is hard enough to watch the news, let alone explain it to a child.
To cast your eye´cross nature, over fields of rape and (4)_____________,
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a) wheat
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b) barley
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c) corn
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And tell him without flinching not to fear where he has been born.
Then someone sat me down last night and I heard Caruso sing.
He is almost as good as Presley and if I only do one (5)_______________,
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a) thing
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b) act
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c) deed
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I will sing songs to my father, I will sing songs to my child.
It is time to hold your loved ones while the chains are loose,
And the world runs (6)_____________,
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a) wild
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b) riot
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c) amok
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But even as we speak, they are loading bombs onto a white (7)____________,
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a) submarine
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b) train
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c) plain
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How can we afford to ever sleep so sound again?
