Test – State and Round the World

1 Is ______ relevant in the modern world or should it be abolished?

2. There are two chambers in the British _______ – the House of Commons is the lower chamber, and the House of Lords is the upper chamber.

3. Children with single parents at my school were very much in the _______. 

4. The President is _____ for a four-year term of office.

5. Despite the scandal, the leader’s opponents could not win at the _______ .

6. Many _______ have arrived at the border without passports.

7. A national _______ is carried out every ten years.

8. I need your _______ on the credit card receipt.

9. Talent like hers is ______ in someone so young.

10. It is a ________ title, so Mark Howard will become Sir Mark Howard on his father’s death.

11. The equator divides the earth into the northern and southern _______ .

12. The Pyrenees is a _________ extending from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean Sea.

13. When you live in the _______, water is your most vital resource.

14. The whole interior of Greenland is completely covered by an enormous _______ .

15. There is a ______ between doing the job accurately and doing it quickly.

16. It’s a good idea to _______ before you do vigorous exercise.

17. A book of stories of adventure on the sea, which he read over and over again when a boy, had filled him with a longing for a _______ life.

18. There were a lot of tourists in town, probably for the autumn ________, which drew people from around the world every year.

19. The Great Barrier _____ of Australia can be traced more or less continuously round the Gulf of Papua.

20. Victoria Falls, the greatest ______ in the world, forming the most remarkable feature of the river Zambezi, Central Africa.