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Exercise For 10th

(1) An unusual person is currently living next door to me. We never see him in the morning and he always keeps his windows shut. (2) These days, however, somebody else is staying with him. At the moment, they are sitting in the garden. Unfortunately, I can't hear what they are talking about. (3) I am wondering who this strange visitor is!

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Exercise For 10th

(1) An unusual person is currently living next door to me. We never see him in the morning and he always keeps his windows shut. (2) These days, however, somebody else is staying with him. At the moment, they are sitting in the garden. Unfortunately, I can't hear what they are talking about. (3) I am wondering who this strange visitor is!

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Complete the blanks with the Present Simple or the Present Progressive

of the verbs in brackets.


An unusual person (1)

(live) next door to me.

We never (2)

__________________________ (see) him in the morning

and he (3)

_______________________(always / keep) his windows shut.

He (4)
(5)

(sometimes / go) out at night but


______ (not seem) to have any visitors. These days, however,

somebody else (6)


(7)

_____________________(stay) with him. At the moment, they


(sit) in the garden. Unfortunately, I can't hear what they

(8)
is!

(talk) about. I (9)

(wonder) who this strange visitor

Circle the correct words.


1. The film was very bored / boring so we left the cinema.
2. Mary is a very interested / curious little girl and she wants to know everything
about everyone.
3. As soon as / In the end we decided to go to the cinema, not to the theatre.
4. The children were frightened / frightening when they heard the story about the
ghost.
5. The old man found the walk to the top of the hill very tired / tiring.
6. Brendan, use your knife / fork to cut the bread please!

Complete the story with the phrases a-f.


a. for a while
b. played a joke on you
c. couldn't believe my eyes
d. didn't believe a word
e. all of a sudden
f. to my surprise

One night I was studying in my room. (1) ________________ the door opened and a green creature
came in. I (2) ________________! I was very scared but,
(3) ________________, the creature was very friendly. It smiled at me, looked at my book, sat on my

chair (4) ________________ and then left. The next thing I knew, my mother came into my room. I
told her what happened but she (5) ________________ of it. "Your brother, Jack, probably (6)
________________," she said.

Read the text and match the headings a-f with the paragraphs 1-6 of the text. (10 marks)
a. Do we really need so many?
b. It's time to do something
c. Not a pretty picture

d. Bigger cities, more problems


e. No peace and quiet
f. Nowhere to stay

g. CITY LIFE
h. 1. ___
i. The cities we live in show how much we think of them. Look carefully at the city you live in.
What does it say about how much people think of it? Cities are getting bigger and bigger
and so are their problems.
j.
k. 2. ___
l. In a big city you can see people who live in big houses and have a lot of money to spend.
You can also find people who have no money or home at all. You can often see these
people sleeping in parks or train stations because they don't have anywhere else to go.
m.
n. 3. ___
o. Everybody wants to have a car. Some families have two or even three cars and sometimes
each member of the family has their own car! Cars make it easy to get from one place to
another, but they can also make our lives difficult. More and more cars mean traffic
problems and air pollution. In some cities the pollution is so bad that it is a danger to
people's health and to plant life, too!
p.
q.
r. 4. ___
s. Noise pollution is another serious problem. Most noise pollution comes from cars, lorries
and planes or even loud music. These annoying sounds make conversation and some
kinds of work difficult and make it difficult for people to sleep.
t.
u. 5. ___
v. Many cities look awful because we throw a lot of rubbish in the streets. The amount of
rubbish that we produce is a more serious problem. There is so much rubbish that we don't
know what to do with it! Recycling is one answer to this problem but we must do a lot more
if we want to make a difference.
w.
x. 6. ___
y. These are just some of the problems in a city; there are many others. We must act now, if
we want to improve things in the cities we live in. We don't have time to lose. Tomorrow
may be too late.

z.
aa.

ab.
ac.
ad.
ae.

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