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Advertising

                 Put each of the following words or phrases in its correct place in the passage.
                 hoardings      c1assified advertisements   publicise     commercials
                 posters        advertising agencies        persuade      eye-catching

                 Advertisements are everywhere, from eolumns of smali (a)  for houses, jobs,
                 ears etc. in newspapers to big (b)  on walls and enormous advertisements on
                 (c)       by the side of the road. The job of the (d)  is to (e)     the
                 produets of the firms who employ them. They design (f)  advertisements and
                 make television (g)     to (h)       us to buy, buy, buy.


                 Art
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                 Put each of the following words in its correct place in the passage below.
                 galleries    works         dealers       professional      sculptor
                 creative     sculpture     painter       amateur           reproductions
                 One of the most (a)      things anyone ean do is to make a wark of art,
                 whether it's a (b)    making a (c)       ar a (d)       painting pictures.
                 (e)       artists do it for their own satisfaetion and pleasure, but (f)  _
                 artists have to make a living from their art and they are dependent on (g)  to
                 sell their (h)    in city (i)    o I myself have three Picassos,a Botticelli and
                 a Van Gogh. They're G)     , not originals, but they're all I ean afford.



                 Photography
                 Instructions as above.
                 prints      album          enlargements         snaps
                 slides      camera         projector            develop
                 A lot of people buy a (a)    just to take holiday (b)   o They have
                 (c)       made and put them in an (d)      ar sometimes they prefer
                 (e)      , whieh they ean show on the wall ar sereen with a (f)  o Other
                 people are more serious. They (g)   and print their films themselves in their
                 own darkroom at home. If they want big pietures they make (h)  _


                 Military Service

                 Put each of the following words or phrases in its correct place in the passage
                 below.
                                                 forces
                                                                  volunteers
                 army        compulsory
                                                  officer
                                                                  air force
                 navy        promotion
                 In same eountries military service is (a)  o Ali young men and sometimes
                 young women must spend a year ar twa in the (b)    o (In most countries
                 nowadays they don't have to. Ali members of the armed serviees are (c)  .)
                 To be a soldier you join the (d)  .,to be a sailor you join the (e)  and
                 to be an airman you join the (f)  o If you are good at your job and ean take
                 responsibility, you might get (g)  and become an (h)    _


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