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• Then he HIT on the idea of using the newly-invented railways for pleasure trips and by the summer of 1845, he was organising commercial trips.

  
  

  OPTIONS: CROSSED/HIT/STRUCK/DAWNED
• The first was to Liverpool and featured a 60-page handbook for the journey, the forerunner of the modern holiday brochure.

  
  

  Options: PRIOR/FORERUNNER/PIONEER/FORETASTE
• The expertise he had gained from this STOOD him in good stead when it came to organising a fantastic journey along the Nile in 1869.

  
  

  OPTIONS: KEPT/TOOK/STOOD/MADE
• Then, in 1872, Cook organised the first conducted world tour and the WORLD of travel has not been the same since.

  OPTIONS: LAND/AREA/WORLD/SCENE
• Support for environmental issues cuts across traditional party lines.

  Hint: phrases verb for TO AFFECT
• The government has cut back $150 million of funding.

  Hint: phrases verb for reducing amount of something
• Their conversation was cut short by the arrival of more guests.

  Hint: Phrases verb for stopping to doing something
• If this bill is not paid within five days, your gas supply will be cut off.

  Hint: Phrases verb for STOP PROVIDING SMTH.
• What time does the game kick off?

  Hint: Phrasal verb TO START SMTH
• The fire was closing in on their neighborhood.

  The camera slowly closed in on the actor's face.

  Police were closing in on the two men.

  Hint: Phrasel verb for getting nearer to smith or smon
• The story of how the university came into being is quite fascinating.

  Hint: Phrasal verb for TO START TO EXIST
• The government has come under fire for its decision to close the mines.

  Hint: Phrasal verb for TO BE CRITICIZED
• She just came around. The accident she got into was extremely dangerous.

  Hint: Phrasal verb for becoming conscious after accident
• Swimming pools usually come under "leisure centres" in the phone directory.

  Our armies have come under heavy bombardment.

  Hint: Phrasal verb for SOMETHING TO BE LISTED IN PARTICULAR WAY, 2) TO SUDDENLY EXPERIENCE/SUFFER SMTH
• Her arguments and examples don't hold water.

  Hint: Phrasal verb for SMTH NOT TO BE TRUE/TO BE TRUE
• Few people hold out any hope of finding more survivors.

  Hint: Phrasal verb for offering a possibility, solution, hope, etc
• She was reduced to tears by the comment.

  Hint: caused to cry (phrasal verb)
• Portugal is renowned for the quality and beauty of its tiles.
• Eliana's experiences are very typical of young people doing intersnhips these days.
• Local businesses were strongly opposed to the introduction of a new property tax.
• The band have received some negative reviews, so they're rather wary about journalists now.
• Feliza was exposed to lots of different types of music.
• Gavin has doubts about the project and wasn't convinced by the latest reports.
• The coaches took great pride in the progress that the team made last year.
• Rather than resubmit his application for a scholarship, Duncan decided to write a completely new application.
• What seems to have happened, according to the researchers, is that billions of years ago....
• However, no one knew until recently precisely where these rare stones came from.
• Pete forgot where he had left his keys and he took ages to find them.
• Ahmed had problems with the internet connection, at which point he decided to stop working for the day.
• Camille was bitterly disappointed when she only came third in the 800 metre race.

  
  

  Options: sharply, bitterly,fiercely,crossly
• Advice on how to invest your savings is much more widely available than it used to be.
• My brother was on the point of joining the police force, but then he changed his mind.

  Options: edge, border, line, point
• Helen says she learnt Turkish through total /IMMERSE/ immersion in the language.
• Drama - dramatical - dramatically

  Noun - Adj. - Adverb
• Irony - Ironic - Ironically

  Noun - Adjective - Adverb
• Enthusiasm - Enthusiastic - Enthusiastically

  Noun - Adjective - Adverb
• Anecdote - Anecdotal - Anecdotally

  Noun - Adjective - Adverb
• I timed my holiday to coincide with the children's.
• TO PAY ATTENTION
• TO TURN DOWN AN OFFER - TO DECLINE