Today we practise the advanced level with 4 exam activities. You can see the answers in the link after each exercise.
For questions 1- 8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.
For questions 1-8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. You can use the “?” button to get a clue but by doing so you will lose points.
Muscle Cars |
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Muscle cars were never intended to be valuable. In fact, the whole idea behind | |
muscle cars was to make them (1) … and fast. Muscle cars were stripped-down | EXPENSIVE |
versions of the most (2) … homely, and basic mass-produced cars to ever roll out | UTILITY |
of Detroit. These rattle trap, bare bones, crude devices were built to conform to | |
a price point with little regard given to sophistication or (3) …, and aimed squarely | LONG |
at the (4) … market. And this market couldn’t get enough of them. These were the | YOUNG |
cars every red-blooded American kid wanted. The image, the speed, the lifestyle | |
were all highly addictive. Looking back, the muscle car years were (5) … brief | RELATIVE |
moment in time that we will never see the likes of again. It was a perfect storm, | |
just what the market wanted, and was presented at the right place in the right time. | |
So how did these seemingly (6) … cars, built in large numbers and owned by | DISPOSE |
kids who (7) … tried to kill them from the first twist of the key, become so valuable? | LITERAL |
More importantly, why did they become so valuable? Most people are astounded | |
when they hear the recent sales results of the most (8) … muscle cars. We call them | DESIRE |
two-comma cars, cars that are worth so much money that you need two commas | |
to separate all the zeroes in the price. | |
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