Lennon, if he is a symbol of anything, is a symbol of (01) .......... , of play. He believed you could change the world.

If you made the right gesture, a (02) .......... might take place. His life has become a myth, and high claims are made for him. He said that the Beatles were better known than Jesus Christ, which seemed to Christian (03) .......... a (04) .......... and (05) .......... thing to say, but he was probably right. The (06) .......... thing is that, by his violent death, he seems himself to have been elevated from musician, from supreme exponent of rock and roll, to the rank of prophet, shaman, myth. His wife, Yoko Ono, still serves as the (07) .......... of the myth, the keeper of the relics. She says: "He certainly wasn't a person who kowtowed or tried to preserve himself by shutting up. It's a very precious thing, I think, very (08).......... : this man who said it in a way for all of us. People identified with him because he said the truth, especially the truth they could not say." 01. CHILD ....................... 02. TRANSFORM ...................... 03. CHURCH ...................... 04. SENSE ...................... 05. RESPONSIBLE ...................... 06. IRONY ...................... 07. MAID ...................... 08. COURAGE ...................... For thirty years Belfast, the capital city of Northern Ireland, was divided, torn by (09) .......... riots, blasted by car bombs, patrolled by armoured cars. A whole (10) .......... grew up in the city knowing nothing else but what the Irish (11) .......... call "the troubles". The place suffered not only from violence, but from poverty, low (12) .........., lack of incentive, lack of a future. The young complained of (13) .......... by the police and security forces. But the (14) .......... by terrorists, Catholic or Protestant, could be much worse. The example is given of one 15-year-old Catholic boy with 85 offences behind him. He fled from Northern Ireland after being told that the IRA was waiting at his home. Six cushions had been laid out in his sitting room in(15) .......... for a (16) .......... shooting - elbows, knees and ankles. This was a country where the concepts of law and order no longer had any meaning. 09. SECT ...................... 10. GENERATE ...................... 11. EUPHEMISM ...................... 12. EXPECT ...................... 13. VICTIM ...................... 14. HARASS ......................

15. PREPARE ...................... 16. PUNISH ...................... Unwelcome Guests Throughout east London, new buildings go up, and unwanted tenants move in, often before the new ones arrive. The story of Richard Glanville is one example. He explains: "The flat was just what we wanted and we thought we were lucky to get it. We snapped it up quickly. The (01) ............... were still here when we moved in, and in the first few months we had no sign of our new neighbours. But then they started to introduce themselves. Our (02) ............... were first aroused when our dog started chewing up the edges of the carpet in our bedroom. We thought he was just being deliberately (03) ................ In fact he was trying to alert us to what lay underneath the floorboards. "We realised there was something seriously wrong when we were woken up at four in the morning by a scratching sound. It seemed to be coming from the wall between the bedroom and the living room. It was a (04) ............... sound - sharp nails tearing up the cavity walls and racing along underneath the floorboards. "We called in the local health office, and a private firm. The (05) ............... were ripped up and a programme of poisoning was carried out. Well, the scratching at night stopped. But the idea of our new home was ruined. It didn't feel like a home any longer. In the end we just wanted to get out." In some parts of the capital, there has been an 80 per cent increase in the number of (06) ................ There has been a huge increase in the number of (07) ............... restaurants. More rubbish seems to get dumped in the streets than ever before, and that doesn't help. Developers want to get people in as fast as possible, often before the building has been completed and the drains properly connected. As a result the rats can sometimes be in there ready and waiting for the new (08) ............... to move in. Unfortunately, a lot of people have an `out of sight, out of mind' policy towards rodents just because they are (09)............... But they pretty soon make their presence felt if nothing is done about them. Rats love house-hunting and they don't pay rent. 01. BUILD .............................. 02. SUSPECT .............................. 03. DESTROY .............................. 04. NERVE .............................. 05. FLOOR .............................. 06. SIGHT .............................. 07. TAKE .............................. 08. OCCUPY ..............................

09. GROUND ..............................

Smaller Families Over the past two hundred years the family in the western world has changed (10) ............... In the 18th century, families were restricted by high rates of infant (11)............... and by epidemics of smallpox and cholera which carried off children (12) ............... With the 19th century, and improved health and hygiene, families of 10, 12 and 14 children became commonplace. The (13)............... of effective means of contraception, increased (14) ...............and expectations of higher living standards meant that, at the beginning of this century, the nuclear family became the norm. Despite divorce, the nuclear family - mum and dad and two kids and a television set has remained the ideal to which most people have aspired. Now, however, a completely new family unit has come on the scene, and dad is no part of it. It consists simply of mother and child. The new family unit was greeted in the British popular press under the title, Virgin Birth. Of course, it isn't. It's artificial insemination, and is sought by women who seek (15) ..............., not through the Almighty, but through medical science. According to one report: "Many single women (just how many is not specified) want a child without the direct involvement of a man either in its conception or in its (16) ................ Artificial insemination by donor (AID) is a simple, cheap and (17) ............... popular means for them to achieve pregnancy." 10. DRAMA .......................... 11. MORTAL .......................... 12. SALE .......................... 13. ARRIVE .......................... 14. URBAN .......................... 15. MOTHER .......................... 16. BRING .......................... 17. INCREASE ..........................

Chemical Controls The more chemical controls are used, the more resistant the insects and microbes become. According to Dr Robert Metcalf, professor of entomology at the University of Illinois, "Some strains of insects and microbes have appeared that are (01) .................. to nearly everything in our arsenal. The short-sighted and (02) .................. use of antibiotics has produced monster bugs. And it's getting worse. Pests are now quicker to develop resistance to new (03) .................. weapons. The earliest (04) .................. like DDT were highly (05) .................. for many years. The (06) .................. of the latest (07) .................. is often measured in months." Jobs for the Boys and Girls American ambassadors are political (08) .................., a way of thanking those who have given time and money to the (09) .................. campaign. Take the example of Della Newman, a Seattle real-estate broker and friend of George Bush, eminently qualified to be Ambassador to New Zealand. Her certificate of competence from the State Department points out: "Mrs Newman's background in the real-estate business, combined with her many civic (10) .................., gives her the (11) .................. qualities to make her an (12) .................. candidate for Ambassador to New Zealand." (13) .................. diplomats have been appalled, and someone started to leak the competence certificates, which are supposed to show that the ambassador will have a (14) .................. of "the country's principal language, and understanding of its history, culture and political structure." A State Department official commented: "By keeping them (15) .................. they obviously hope to shepherd more turkeys through the Senate." One certificate, provided to an operator of fast-food restaurants in Kansas, read in full: "Mr Wilkins's (16) .................. background in business will serve him well as the next US ambassador to the Netherlands." 01. RESIST .................. 02. RESPONSE .................. 03. CHEMISTRY .................. 04. INSECT .................. 05. EFFECT .................. 06. USE .................. 07. VARY .................. 08. APPOINT .................. 09. PRESIDE .................. 10. COMMIT .................. 11. MANAGE .................. 12. EXCEL ..................

13. PROFESS .................. 14. KNOW .................. 15. CONFIDE .................. 16. EXTEND ..................

CENSORSHIP England has a reputation for being a land free of censorship. A number of events have shown that the (01) .......................... is not entirely deserved. There is political censorship and moral censorship, and both are (02) ........................... In regard to all (03) .......................... of censorship, the law is vague and confused. Here are two examples of what might be loosely termed political protest. In the first case, the accused person was carrying a poster which depicted the then Prime Minister, Mrs Thatcher, dressed in a black slip and (04) .........................., a whip in her hand and with a stiletto heel resting on a kneeling member of her cabinet. The (05) ......................... had to show that the average person would be alarmed or distressed or harassed by the poster. As there were no members of the public (06) .......................... available who would admit to being distressed, two policemen had to qualify as the victims of this hideous (07) ........................... As all they could admit to was a slight attack of laughter, the case was dismissed. In a different case, a group of demonstrators were walking down Whitehall past the end of Downing Street. One of them shouted a few rude, four-letter words and made a V-sign, a gesture of contempt, in the direction of No 10, the Prime Minister's residence. As a result, he was arrested and convicted of insulting (08) ........................... If you are going to protest in Britain, you had better do it quietly. 01. REPUTE .......................... 02. DISCRIMINATE .......................... 03. APPLY .......................... 04. SUSPEND .......................... 05. PROSECUTE .......................... 06. READY .......................... 07. PROVOKE .......................... 08. BEHAVE .......................... HARD LIFE FOR SOME YOUNG PEOPLE But you don't have to go to distant (09) .......................... or Ugandan villages to find young people in trouble and in need of help. The situation in England is bad enough, and gives little optimism for a (10) ...................... in the level of (11) ......................... of young across this (12) .......................... world. Angela Lambert, reporting for The Independent newspaper, writes : "There are at least 50,000 (13) .......................... people under the age of 20 in London alone, and perhaps three times as many in the whole of England. An estimated 2,000 are squatting in derelict (14) ..........................; 10,000 are living in hostels; 2,000 in bed-and -breakfast hotels; and the rest, if they are lucky, find temporary accommodation with friends - usually sleeping on the floor. The (15) .........................., as is (16) .......................... obvious to any Londoner, live rough - sleeping on park benches, in shop (17) .........................., and anywhere else they can find. Many are permanently hungry."

09. ORPHAN .......................... 10. LESS .......................... 11. TREAT .......................... 12. POPULATE .......................... 13. HOME ..........................

14. BUILD .......................... 15. LUCK .......................... 16. INCREASE .......................... 17. DOOR ..........................

01. childhood 02. transformation 03. churchmen, church-goers 04. senseless 05. irresponsible 06. ironic, ironical 07. handmaiden 08. courageous 09. sectarian 10. generation 11. euphemistically 12. expectations 13. victimisation 14. harassment 15. preparation 16. punishment ___________________________________________________________________________ 01. builders 02. suspicions 03. destructive 04. nerve-wracking 05. floorboards 06. sightings 07. take-away 08. occupants

09. underground 10. dramatically 11. mortality 12. wholesale 13. arrival 14. urbanisation 15. motherhood 16. upbringing 17. increasingly 01. resistant 02. irresponsible 03. chemical 04. insecticides 05. effective 06. usefulness 07. varieties 08. appointees 09. presidential 10. commitments 11. managerial 12. excellent 13. professional 14. knowledge 15. confidential 16. extensive

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01. reputation 02. indiscriminate 03. applications 04. suspenders 05. prosecution 06. readily

07. provocation 08. behaviour

09. orphanages 10. lessening 11. ill-treatment, maltreatment, mistreatment 12. over-populated, overpopulated 13. homeless 14. buildings 15. unlucky, luckless 16. increasingly 17. doorways