Practice test 2

Practice test 2

Fill in the best expression.
  1. He always shows  in front of girls.
  2. It'll be carried  by the local authorities.
  3. The financial director says the price cannot be cut  any more.
  4. Stop fighting, guys! You should pull  .
  5. Why are they so excited  the plan?
  6. He often complains  sore throat.
  7. I've never dreamed  being a general director.
  8. What gave us  ? I thought our masks were perfect!
  9. I think she was really disappointed  me!
  10. It always pays to look  ! You should be ready for anything that might come.
  11. She is really falling  the other students. I think she needs some revision course.
  12. I'm afraid if you play such a dirty trick on him, he will definitely kick  .
  13. If I were you, I wouldn't reply  such letters.
  14. I can't keep  all new technologies. It's incredible how quickly the world is turning these days!
  15. The soldier fell into a coma and never came  again.
II. Read the text and fill in the missing words. Use only one word for each gap.
Trinity Site marks 60th anniversary of A-bomb Herb Lehr hasn't been to Trinity Site (1)  the day a mushroom cloud filled the early morning sky in the New Mexico desert. Standing 12 miles from the blast, he looked toward the Oscura Mountains and watched as scientists detonated the first atomic bomb 60 years ago Saturday, ushering in the nuclear (2) . "All of a (3)  this very bright light came out and where I was, it was intense enough that the whole mountain range itself was completely whited out," he said. "I could see the ball and fire rising (4) . It was sort of awe-inspiring." This Saturday, Lehr will guide a tour bus from the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque to the Trinity Site, on what is now the Army's restricted White Sands Missile Range. More (5)  5,000 people visited the site for the 50th anniversary, and officials said they are prepared for (6)  increase for the 60th. But just like the 50th anniversary, no special events or speeches are planned. For more than a year, Lehr was part of the top-secret Manhattan Project in Los Alamos (7)  developed two atomic bombs that essentially stunned Japan into surrender and ended World War II. Tens of thousands of people died when the bombs were (8)  on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Lehr said he never fully understood the impact the bombs would have. (9) , he said he would do it again. "In a lot of respects I felt as if I had done something worthwhile," said Lehr, 83. "I am in no way ashamed of what I had done in any way, shape, matter or form. I did what I was (10)  to do. I did it to the best of my ability." At Trinity Site, visitors can walk on Ground Zero, where the bomb was detonated from a 100-foot steel tower that was vaporized by the blast. Ground Zero, now a gentle depression in the desert, is marked by a lava obelisk with a simple inscription: "Trinity Site, Where the World's First Nuclear Device Was Exploded on July 16, 1945." Along the fence line hangs a pictorial history of what happened (11) . Not everyone is happy with that history. Anti-war groups planned to protest the anniversary at the National Atomic Museum on Friday. Bob Anderson of Stop the War Machine said celebrating the development of weapons (12)  blood on the nation's morality. "It glosses over all the political and human tragedies that occurred as a (13)  of the Trinity blast and the use of weapons on Japan," Anderson said. "We just think that's probably a more important message than (14)  to glorify the weapons." Lehr said it is unfortunate the bombs were used for war. But the development of a nuclear bomb was a race among scientists around the world that couldn't be stopped, he said. "I'm just interested in going and seeing it and maybe (15)  some memories back," said Lehr, who now lives in Mesa, Arizona. "Los Alamos was a whole interesting experience. It was something unique. I worked very hard down there."

 

 

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