5) prosperous 6) spontaneous 7) humorous 8) mysterious 9) jealousy 10) curious 11) cautious 12) ridiculous 13) ambition 14) generous 15) virtue 16) error 2.
1) fast-growing 2) fast-moving 3) good-looking 4) far-reaching 5) outstanding 6) ill-fitting 7) high-sounding 8) everlasting
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3.
1) ill-planned 2) well-paid 3) well-designed 4) well-read 5) newly-wed 6) well-meant 7) widespread 8) far-fetched V. 1) at first 2) firstly/first 3) First of all 4) first of all/first 5) firstly 6) first 7) at first 8) at first VI. 1.
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1) A ballet dancer who does not practice every day loses a lot of skill, as does a musician.2)Almost all the teachers at the training centre were women,as were the majority of the learners.
3) The first lines gripped him; as did the next verse; and then the whole poem. 4) Isaac watched her winning smile, as did every man in the group.
5) Anyone accompanying a disabled person will be admitted to the meeting, as will guide dogs.6) The second individual session began with a review of the homework assignment, as did allsessions.
2.
1)It is believed that between 50,000and 100,000people in this country,who are free of symptoms, are likely to be carrying the HIV virus.
2) During this period, it is estimated that half a million people were killed in the communalviolence that flooded the country.
3)When it is discovered that a substance harms women's reproductive
health,women of childbearing age are usually kept from jobs that might expose them to it.
4) Official figures give average class sizes as forty to fifty, but it is reported that in the ruralareas there are often seventy to eighty children in a class.
VII. Cloze 1. 1) apparent 2) disappear 3) pressure 4) widespread 5) collapse
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6) alternative 7) does us no harm 8) tissue 9) liberate 10) visible 11) radiation 12) by itself 13) consume 14) in all likelihood 2. 1) grow 2) hotter 3) seem 4) run 5) fall 6) melt 7) means 8) away 9) retreat 10) to 11) necessarily
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12) possible 13) so 14) exist 15) gained 16) though 17) found 18) another 19) piled 20) stay 21) causing 22) flooded 23) farther VIII. 1) planet's 2) average 3) directly 4) temperature 5) too cold for most life 6) In fact, it is frozen 7) thick
8) hot enough to melt lead
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