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2. Read the text. Use the word given at the end of each line to form a word that fits the space in the same line.

I have only been once to an art _____ (1). In fact, the Tate in London exhibit

was my _____ (2) to modern art, but although the gallery was introduce

quite interesting, I found the pictures difficult to understand. The _____ (3)  paint

in the exhibition were by famous _____ (4) from all over the world. Our art

guide told us about each painting, and I listened carefully to her _____ (5).  explain

After she had given us а _____ (6) of а painting by Picasso, 1 asked her describe

what it all _____ (7). She said we should not look for meaning but for _____ (8),  mean, please

as the most important thing was to enjoy the shapes and colours.

_____ (9), I found this advice а complete _____ (10).  person, reveal

3. Choose the most suitable word for each space. Whenever we read about the natural world nowadays, it is generally to be _____ (1) dire predictions about its imminent destruction. Some scientists go so _____ (2) as to assert that from now on, the world can no longer be called ‘natural’, insofar as future processes of weather, _____ (3), and all the interactions of plant and animal life will no longer carry on in their time-honoured way, unaffected by _____ (4). There will never be such а thing as ‘natural weather’ again, say such writers, only weather _____ (5) by global warming. It is hard to know whether to believe such _____ (6) of doom, possibly because what they are saying seems too terrible to be _____ (7). There are other equally influential scientists who argue that climate has changed many times over the _____ (8), and that what we are experiencing now may simply be part of an endless cycle of change, rather than а disaster on а global _____ (9). One cannot help wondering whether these attempts to wish the problem away _____ (10) underline the extent to which western industrialised countries are to blame for upsetting the world’s _____ (11). It is not our fault, they seem to be saying, because everything is all right, really! One certain _____ (12) which is chilling in its implications, is that there is no longer anywhere on the earth’s _____ (13), whether in the depths of the oceans or in the polar wastes, which is not _____ (14) by polluted air or _____ (15) with empty cans and bottles. Now we have to come to terms with understanding just what that means, and it is far from easy.