HE ... (HAVE) TROUBLE WITH THE SECOND-HAND CAR SINCE HE BOUGHT IT....

10. He ... (have) trouble with the second-hand car since he bought it. He wishes he ...

(not / buy) it.

II. READING

Part 1: Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. For each question, circle

letter A, B, C or D next to the answer you choose.

If you’re an environmentalist, plastic is a word you tend to say with a sneer or a snarl. It has

become a symbol of our wasteful, throw-way society. But there seems little (1)... it is here to stay,

and the truth is, of course, that plastic has brought enormous (2)... even environmental ones. It’s

not really the plastics themselves that are the environmental (3)... – it’s the way society choose to

use and (4)... them.

Almost all the 50 or so different kinds of modern plastic are made from oil, gas or coal – non-

renewable natural (5)... We (6)... well over three million tones of the stuff in Britain each

year and, sooner or later, most of it is thrown away. A high (7)... of our annual consumption is in

the (8)... of packaging, and this (9)... about seven per cent by weight of our domestic

(10)... Almost all of it could be recycled, but very little of it is, though the plastic recycling

(11)... is growing fast.

The plastics themselves are extremely energy-rich – they have a higher calorific (12)...

than coal and one (13)... of ‘recovery’ strongly (14)... by the plastic manufacturers is the

(15)... of waste plastic into a fuel.