1. Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with one suitable word. creatures as the Brontosaurus, (2) its massive body and long, snake-like neck, peer regularly from the pages of children's comics and strip cartoons and (3) to Martians and space ships are the (4) important ingredients in the cruder kinds of science fiction (5) the commercial world has been unable to (6) the lure of the dinosaurs. They are a standby (7) advertising agents on both (8) of the Atlantic and, in recent years, have (9) the most glamorous film stars as a box office draw. In (10) of this immense popularity, or (11) one should say notoriety, of the dinosaurs, it is odd that they are (12) the subject of so many misconceptions. Cartoonists who (13) them as a serious public nuisance in the Old Stone Age, continually (14) the prowl for an unsuspecting cave man to carry home to their young, are very (15) from the truth. Dinosaurs were extinct ten million years before the first man appeared on the earth, and were in any way far too unintelligent to be a serious threat to any reasonably active mammal. (INCREASE) difficult once the basic (STRUCTURAL) and patterns of the language have been understood. Students are (18) (NATURE) surprised and disappointed to discover that a process which ought to become simpler does not appear to do so. (CONSOLE) to point out that the teacher too, becomes frustrated when his efforts appear to produce less obvious results. He finds that students who were easy to teach because they (20) (SUCCESS) in putting everything they had been taught into practice, hesitate when confronted with the vast (21) (TOUCH) area of English vocabulary and (22) (USE) which falls outside the scope of basic textbooks. He sees them struggling because the language they thought they knew now appears to consist of a bewildering (23) (VARY) of idioms, cliches and accepted phrases with different meanings in different contexts. It is hard to convince them that they are still making progress towards (24) (FLUENT) and that their English is certain to improve, given time and (25) (DEDICATE)e (28).... the money, and it paid off. It was a lot of fun, but you can become (29).... in the pop world. It's addictive, and once you're a pop star, people tend to (30).... you on a pedestal. It was so mad we had to get out while the going was good. Now money doesn't mean so much, although it (31).... me to leave my career behind for a while. But Robsor wanted to go back to acting and has made
