I. Vocabulary:

1. Fill in the blanks with the words and expressions given below, changing the form where necessary.

1) The police were tracking down a ________ smuggling ring.
2) All the water drops ________ the sunrays.
3) Is there any opportunity for him to ________ the difficulties the volunteer student will face?
4) In darkness it is difficult to ________ who the woman is.
5) Millions of people ________ by the speech, "I have a dream."
6) The natural law is "the fittest ________."
7) Australia Day is to ________ the founding of the first settlement in Sydney Gulf.
8) Can you tell us the ________ of this dress?
9) In the committee nobody ________ the idea that the Hope Project should be stopped.
10) He is so selfish that everyone ________ him contemptibly .
11) This artist is ________ interested in details.
12) ________ he is the best student I have met.
13) A careless person like me will ________ nothing in life.
14) No one ________ the shipwreck except the baby.
15) The manager of this big company often ________ himself by traveling around.

2. Study the groups of words and then use them correctly in the following sentences.

1) certain, certainly, certainty
a. There is no ________ solution to this problem.
b. You will ________ get your share after the dangerous task.
c. His election is a ________.

2) irony, ironic (ironical), ironically, ironize
a. You can find such literary skills in this novel: ________, contrast, metaphor and myth.
b. There is always an _______ smile in his face.
c. Balzac is an expert in ________ mean and selfish nobleman.
d. The swimming champion ________ drowned in a small river.

3) power, powerful, powerless
a. The manager has the ________ to fire or hire an employee.
b. You will feel better after taking the ________ and quick-acting medicine.
c. I am sorry to say I feel ________ to help you.
d. All the machines in the factory ________ by electricity.

4) particular, particularly, particularity, particularize
a. The applicant must satisfy the ________ demands for the job.
b. The ________ of the current situation should be taken into account.
c. Writing compositions is not ________ difficult to do.
d. Would you like to ________ the items to buy?

5) respect, respectful, respectable
a. ________ the old is a kind of virtue.
b. People came to show their last ________ to the great politician at his death.
c. They are ________ citizens.
d. I was ________ when approaching the famous artist.

6) risk, risky
a. Has the ________ of war disappeared in the Middle East?
b. He is such a person who would ________ his own life to save others.
c. Believing such a dishonest person is really ________.