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SECTION 07 · Word-bank exercise

Words in context

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How to solve: Words in contextA text with gaps and a word bank; each word is used once and one word is extra.

What it tests

Vocabulary in context: meaning, word class and collocation (which words go together).

In the exam: part VII, 1 tasks.

Step by step

  1. Read the whole text first without filling anything.
  2. Mark the word class of each bank word: noun, verb, adjective, adverb.
  3. For each gap decide which word class fits, then choose by meaning.
  4. Fill the gaps you are sure about first; the remaining choices get easier.
  5. One word is left over — check it really fits nowhere.

Watch out for

  • A word with the right meaning but the wrong form (rely vs reliable).
  • Collocations: pay attention, make a decision, facial expression.
  • Using the same word twice.

Example

Facial ____ and tone of voice show our feelings. Bank: rely, expression, pay, reaction…

expression — “facial expression” is a fixed collocation and a noun is needed after the adjective.

Part B · Text 3
EXERCISE TEXT

Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta, Georgia on 15th January, 1929. Both his father and grandfather were Baptist preachers who had been actively involved in the civil rights movement. m

King graduated from Morehouse College in 1948. After considering careers in medicine and law, he entered the seminary. 1. Over the next few months King read several books on the ideas of Gandhi, and eventually became convinced that the same methods could be employed by blacks to obtain civil rights in America. 2. King was also influenced by Henry David Thoreau and his theories on how to use nonviolent resistance to achieve social change. After his marriage to Coretta Scott, King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. 3. On 1st December, 1955, Rosa Parks, a middle-aged tailor's assistant, who was tired after a hard day's work, refused to give up her seat to a white man. After the arrest of Rosa Parks, King and his friends, Ralph David Abernathty, Edgar Nixon, and Bayard Rustin helped organize protests against bus asegregation. It was decided that black people in Montgomery would refuse to use the buses until passengers were completely integrated. 4. Others involved in the Montgomery Bus Boycott also suffered from harassment and intimidation, but the protest continued.

5. The new organization was committed to using nonviolence in the struggle for civil rights, and SCLC adopted the motto: “Not one hair of one head of one person should be harmed.”

FILL IN USING THE WORD BANK

Choose the best word for each gap

1 In Montgomery, like most towns in the Deep South, buses were segregated.2 The campaign to end segregation at lunch counters in Birmingham, Alabama, was less successful.3 He was particularly struck by Gandhi's words: “Through our pain we will make them see their injustice”.4 While studying at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, King heard a lecture on Mahatma Gandhi.5 King was arrested and his house was fire-bombed.6 They employed a method of terrorizing the local black population.7 In 1957 King joined with R. D. Abernathy and B. Rustin to form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.