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14 Here is a summary of the article about the boy with the pellet pistol. For
questions 1-9, read the text. Use the words in capital letters to form the
word that fits the same numbered space in the text.
Summary of article
The article is about a court case in which a youth
was found (1) _____ and sentenced to various GUILT
(2) _____. These included a period of PUNISH
probation, some community service work and
requirement to give an (3) _____ to his victim. APOLOGIZE
The (4) _____ was believed to have fired at a TEEN
younger boy, aged 11, as he cycled past the car
in which the youth was sitting. It was claimed that
the car then started up and drove in the (5) _____ DIRECT
of the boy. The incident came to an end when the
young boy reached home and his father caught the
teenager after a car chase.
The young boy was (6) _____ frightened by what EXTREME
had happened to him, and as a result of it received
counselling.
The accused’s counsel maintained that it had not
been her client’s (7) _____ to fire at the boy nor INTEND
to harm him, and that he had driven after him to
(8) _____ him that he had not been fired at. SURE
The judge warned the youth of the (9) _____ STUPID
and danger of using handguns, and ordered him
not to have them or any other weapons, ammunition
or explosives in his (10) _____ in the next five POSSESS
years.
(The Cambridge CAE course by Mary Spratt and Lynda B. Taylor)
15 In most lines of the following text, there is either a spelling or a
punctuation error. For each numbered line 1-9, write the correctly spelled
word(s) or show the correct punctuation in the space at the end of a line.
Some lines are correct. Indicate these lines with a tick (√).
Motorists near Chicago stuffed there pockets with cash 1 _______
after hundreds of thousends of dollars fell out of the back 2 _______
of an armoured van as it sped down a motorway with its 3 _______
doors open. “It was chaos People with car doors open – 4 _______
they didn’t care if they were going to be hit, said Brandon 5 _______
hatch, an ambulance worker who scooped up a sack 6 _______
containing $120,000 and deliverd it to a police station. 7 _______
An additional $30,000 was turned in, bringing the total 8 _______
recovered to $150,000. 9 _______
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