VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR Part 1: Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) which best completes each sentence. 1. The school was closed for a month because of serious . . . . . . . . . . . . of fever. A. outcome B. outburst C. outset D. outbreak 2. The campaign raised far more than the . . . . . . . . . . . . of $. A. aim B. object C. goal D. target 3. We have a . . . . . . . . . . . . future ahead with little comfort, food or hope. A. cruel B. pessimistic C. grim D. fierce 4. Only thoroughly unpleasant. | I was reading an article last week in (1). the writer described (2) . her children has changed as they (3). up. When they were small she had to (4). up with noisy games in the house, or join in interminable games of football in the garden which (5). her out. If the house went quiet, she wondered what the monsters were getting up to, or what crisis she would have to (6). with next. She dreaded the fact that they might (7). after her husband, who admitted having (8). an uncontrollable child who (9). most of the time showing off to his friends by breaking things or getting into fights. What was worse was that (10). else thought he was a sweet child, and he got away with the most terrible things! However, she had experienced an even greater shocked with her children. They had (11). out of all their naughty behavior, and (12). up serious hobbies (13). as chess and playing the piano. They never did anything without (14). it over first, and coming to a serious decision. She had to face up to the fact that they made her feel rather childish as they got (15)., and that in some ways she preferred them when they were young and noisy.
