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Task1 : Fil in the blanks with the words in the list below (6pts)
| Larger / has/ by / the / rise / in / shown
/ twice / availability / grants / graduates / to |
A dramatic increase in student debt in recent years has been
revealed by a survey carried on 2.400 university graduates . The survey
has shown that by the time students leave university, they have borrowed
twice as much as their counterparts in 1994, and the debt
burden is expected and the to grow larger the reduction in
student grants and the increasing
availability of special student loans has led to a massive rise in
brorrowing , according to the survey.
Task 2 : Circle the right alternative (5.5
pts)
Most experts agree the it is becoming harder to get a secure job
nowadays.That's why
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attractive |
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| most working people will agree that however |
awful |
their job is, it is probably |
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interesting |
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stress |
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unemployment |
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anxiety |
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| less |
stressed |
than
being |
employed |
the |
anxious |
of job hunting |
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stressful |
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unemployed |
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anxiously |
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lose |
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bad |
| the |
loss |
of self-confidence and the financial worry are
definitely |
worst |
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lost |
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worse |
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job-relating |
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positive |
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| than a little |
job-related |
pressure.Stress can
be |
position |
and can often |
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job-relation |
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positively |
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creatve |
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| improve performance and
stimulate |
creativity |
In a world where financial instability is |
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ceator |
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vitality |
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job secure |
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| increasing, it has
becom |
vitally |
to think
of |
security job |
before anything else |
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vital |
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job security |
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| Task 3 : Put the bracketed
verbs in the right tense
or form : (2.5pts)
A bomb (blow) blew up at one of the main hotels in town yesterday while
several businessmen (hold) were holding a conference .Fortunately only a
few people(wound) were wounded it has been reported that the
hotel manger received messages two weeks ago (warn) warning him of such an attack . He (be)
has been his guard ever since .
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