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A.

1. I don’t believe you. It can’t be true.
2. He should consult a doctor before he goes on a diet.
3. Could you open the window, please?
4. I can climb that wall. It isn’t very high.
5. You can keep yourself fit by walking a certain distance every day.
6. You have to be at the airport two hours before your flight. Don’t be late.

B.

1. You should go to the dentist.
2. My family can’t be at home.
3. He had to be here.
4. You don’t have to take any warm clothes.
5. Could you close the window please?
6. May I help you?

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C.

1. She can’t have won the prize
2. She could have lost her keys.
3. They must have rented a house in suburbs.
4. She needn’t have done the laundry.
5. You could had packed earlier.
6. He may has overslept.

D.

1. You ought to haven’t be late.
2. She had to point the gate yesterday.
3. The speak Japanese very well. They must have lived in Japan in the past.
4. She didn’t have to do the dishes.
5. I had left my keys in the house but I was able to get in through the window.
6. Gloria needn’t have cleaned the house but she had already done it.
7. They could have crashed into that wall. But luckily the driver braked hard at last minute.

E.

Nowadays, as soon as a fast food restaurant opens, it has to advertise its specialties to appeal to people’s eating preferences. If it manages to attract consumers’ interest quickly then it must increase production to meet consumers’ demands; this means that this business has all the prospects to become a profitable one. Today, it is well-known that fast food is teenagers’ favourite food so if parents happen to be very busy and they cannot prepare a meal, a fast food restaurant might solve their problem. Therefore, they needn’t have worry about what their families’ meals have to be. However, it should be noted that some years ago, a great number of people used to consume great amounts of fast food every day but now things have started to change. They are making an effort to reduce it as much as they can, because dieticians and nutritionists claim that we should prefer home-made and traditional dishes if we want to be healthy.

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A.

1. Release
2. Flee
3. Defend
4. Convict
5. Alibi
6. Clues
7. Victim
8. Interrogation
9. Demonstration

B.

1. Commit a crime, a blunder, suicide, a murder, an offence
2. Put on probation, the blame on sb.
3. Stand trial, still
4. Pass a law
5. Restore law and order, stolen property
6. Catch sb. red-handed, my breath
7. Receive a fine, a sentence, a ticket for committing an offence

C.

1. incidence
2. slums
3. rate
4. roam
5. involved

D.

1. rustling
2. crashing
3. dull
4. harsh
5. clicking

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Verbs of Walking and Moving

1. tip toe
2. crawls
3. stagger
4. limp
5. dash
6. wander
7. stride
8. creep

Verbs of Speaking

1. moan
2. groan
3. gasp
4. mumble
5. exclaim
6. shriek
7. yell
8. whisper

 

1. He come stridding along the corridor holding a small box.
2. Yelling with pain, she picked up the phone and called for help.
3. She started exclaiming when she saw a cockroach.
4. He’s still limping after the caraccident he had two months ago.
5. Amber lost her balance, staggered and fell off the stairs.

F.

Verb of Seeing/Looking

1. Glimpse
2. Stare
3. Glance
4. Glare
5. Gaze
6. Peep
7. Peer

Verbs of Crying

1. Sob
2. Weep with joy/rage
3. Shed tears of laughter/joy

 

1. I glimpsed trough the smoke to see if there was anybody in the room.
2. It’s rude to stare at people. Be polite!
3. The little boy sobbed when he saw that his toy car was broken.
4. He glanced around the room to see where he had left his keys.

G.

1. He looked at me threatening and grabbed the money.
2. She was pacing nervously up and down the room.
3. He was deeply sorry for causing us all that trouble.
4. I soon realized that the burglar had skillfully de-activated the burglar alarm.

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H.

1. Gorgeous
2. Evil
3. Nasty
4. Bulky
5. Enormous
6. Massive
7. Minute
8. Dazzling
9. Overcast
10. Dim

I.

2. –
3. +
4. +
5. –
6. –
7. +
8. +
9. +
10. –
11. –
12. +
13. –

J.

1. It might have been
2. Made
3. Was tiptoeing
4. Took
5. Crawled
6. Saw
7. Was keeping

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A.

1. After some time
2. Finally
3. When
4. While
5. Immediately

D.

1. In the fist
2. By creating an atmosphere of suspance
3. 2 paragraphs
4. At the beginning of closing paragraph
5. A lot of suspance

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H.

That day I couldn’t imagine that such an event could ever happen to me on my way home. I was going to the park to meet some friends of mine, when I accidentally took the wrong road and I finished in a poverty-stricken area of the city.

I was returning back when I saw a man running very fast and glancing repetitively back. When he saw me, he come towards me threatening. I didn’t know what to do! I was so frightened! He was approaching more and more and I couldn’t move my legs to escape because of the scare.

Suddenly a police car arrived and went towards the man who began to run. Luckily the policeman managed to catch the man and arrest him. After some minutes the policeman explained me that he was a robber and they have been searching for him for 2 days and finally they managed to find him. I will always remember the fear and all the feelings that I felt in that moment.