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Test 10

Practice Test 10 Part 1

For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (A,B,C or D) best fits each gap.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
Example:
0 A amongst B between C with D of

0AB C D

Dolphins and Man

The affinity (0) ............ dolphins and Man has been well (1) ............ from Aristotle to the present day. Stories of
dolphins (2) ............ in proximity to Man abound. There are also numerous tales of marine rescues, where struggling
swimmers are saved by the (3) ............ intervention of a dolphin.

So, what to (4) ............ of these stories? In the dolphins’ nomadic undersea world, solitude equals vulnerability, so
a (5) ............ human in the water must seem direly in need of assistance.

Nor is dolphin-human (6) ............ limited purely to emergency situations. Biologists have recorded dolphins fed by
humans, (7) ............ the gesture, by offering up tuna, eels and octopuses as gifts. It (8) ............ seem, therefore,
that dolphins treat Man in a similar fashion to members of their own pod.

1 A documented B written C told D noted
2 A staying B living C keeping D having
3 A timed B timely C untimely D untimed
4 A doubt B consider C make D determine
5 A lone B unique C remote D deserted
6 A interaction B operation C interference D co-ordination
7 A co-operating B following C pursuing D reciprocating
8 A can B would C will D should

Part 2

For questions 9-16, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only
one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Write your answers in CAPITAL LETTERS.

Example: 0 WHERE

The end of antibiotics?
Imagine a world (0) WHERE people die from paper cuts and routine operations become impossible. This dystopian
view of the future may alarmingly come to pass, (9) ...................... governments act soon.

For too (10) ...................... have antibiotics been used indiscriminately. GPs routinely prescribe them for viral infections
and farmers (11) ...................... them to livestock feed often just to fatten animals up. We have repeatedly ignored
warnings about the overuse of antibiotics.

Now we are beginning to reap the consequences of our folly. Already, superbugs have made bladder transplants a thing
of the past. In (12) ..................., previously treatable diseases may soon become incurable. Currently, microbial resistance
accounts (13) ...................... almost 50,000 deaths annually in Europe and the USA. More worryingly still, the global
death toll could rise to 10 million, (14) ...................... to a recent report. (15) ................. we are to tackle the problem
effectively, we will need an international agreement on (16) ...................... antibiotics are regulated and prescribed. It
will also be necessary to encourage pharmaceutical companies to work harder to develop new classes of antibiotics.

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