B16 _________of anything of the kind. Know you? I CAPABLE

B11_______. You have a wonderful influence. Let it DIFFER

be for good, not for evil. They say that you corrupt

every one with whom you become intimate, and

B12 that it is quite ______________for you to enter SUFFICE

a house for shame of some kind to follow after.

I don't know whether it is so or not. How should

I know? But it is said of you. I am told things

that it seems possible to doubt. Lord Gloucester

was one of my greatest friends at Oxford. He

showed me a letter that his wife had written to him

when she was dying alone in her villa at Mentone.

B13 Your name was implicated in the most _________ TERROR

B14 ________ I ever read. I told him that it was absurd – CONFESS

B15 that I knew you ____________and that you were THOROUGH

B16 _________of anything of the kind. Know you? I CAPABLE

wonder do I know you? Before I could answer that,

I should have to see your soul."

But suddenly my attention was (1)_____ by a beggar who, unlike the rest of them and unlike the black haired people sitting round me, had hair and beard of a red so (2)_____ that was (3)______. His beard was (4)_____ and his long hair looked as though it had not been (5)_____ for months. He wore only a pair of trousers and a cotton singlet, but they were rags, dirty and foul, that barely held (6)______. I have never seen anyone so (7)_____: his legs, his naked arms, were skin and bone and through the (8)_____ of his singlet you saw every rib of his body: you could count the bones of his dust covered feet. He was not (9)_____, he could not have been more than forty, and I wondered what had brought him to this (10)_____.

1. a) attracted; b) drawn; c) got; d) appealed

2. a) spirited; b) vivid; c) alert; d) active

3. a) breathtaking; b) amazing; c) startling; d) arresting

4. a) ragged; b) dissonant; c) broken; d) tatty

5. a) combed; b) hunted; c) cleaned; d) brushed

6. a) together; b) out; c) by; d) over

7. a) slim; b) slender; c) thin; d) thick

8. a) holes; b) bumps; c) gaps; d) slots

9. a) ancient; b) old; c) antique; d) aged

10. a) nation; b) commonwealth; c) state; d) region

When Andrew Carter was offered the position of Senior European Sales Manager in a large,
successful multinational corporation, he jumped at the chance. One of the main reasons for his immediate acceptance was the opportunity for a large amount of foreign travel. He could see himself relaxing in a cafe by the Seine after a hard day's business, before jetting A22 _____________to an important meeting the next morning in Prague. How romantic it all seemed.
And yet now, only eight months after his first day in the job. how different his emotions were. For Andrew Carter was experiencing what many international business travellers had experienced before him, and will experience for years to come, that a life A23 _____________ on planes and in hotels is lonely, dull and exhausting.
He longed to be back at home, and dreamt of the simple pleasures of having someone to watch television with, of being asked how his day was. As he lay on the bed in his luxurious, yet strangely soulless hotel room, he A24 ______________the empty evening ahead of him. 'What's the
A25 _____________,' he asked himself, as he had done so many times, 4of going out this evening?
I won't talk to anyone. I won't have anyone to enjoy it with. Every city's the same when you're alone.' Not wanting to sit alone at a table in the hotel restaurant, he decided to have his evening meal delivered to his room by room service. Leafing through the menu, Andrew was
A26 _____________ by another desire - for some simple, home-cooked food. He sighed.
And then he thought the unthinkable. 'I don't have to A27 ___________on like this,' he said out loud. I’m still young. My whole life's ahead of me. I could quit my job and do something I really enjoy. So what if I don't make so much money? Money isn't everything.'
It would take several years, and a number of A28 _____________starts, but finally Andrew Carter did leave his highly-paid position. He was scared, but for the first time in his life he was truly content.

А22 1) by 2) forward 3) up 4) off
A23 1) spent 2) paid 3) passed 4) taken
A24 1) dreaded 2) distrusted 3) depressed 4) disappointed
A25 1) theme 2) topic 3) point 4) subject
A26 1) attacked 2) smashed 3) knocked 4) struck
A27 1) live 2) go 3) move 4) continue
A28 1) false 2) fake 3) artificial 4) forged

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