IT IS MORE________ TO TRAVEL BY TRAIN THAN BY CAR. (ECONOMY)READIN...
60. It is more________ to travel by train than by car. (economy)
READING
(61-75). Choose the word or phrase (a, b, c or d) that best fits the blank space in the
following passage.
When you read something in a foreign language, you frequently come across words you
do not (61)____ understand. Sometimes you (62)_____ the meaning in a dictionary and
sometimes you guess. The strategy you adopt depends very much upon the (63)_____ of
accuracy you require and the time (64)_______ your disposal. If you are the sort of
person who tends to (65)____ to the dictionary frequently, it is (66)_____ remembering
that every dictionary has its limitations. Each definition is only an (67)______ and one
builds up an accurate picture of the meaning of a word only after meeting it in a
(68)_________ of contexts. It is also important to recognize the special dangers of
dictionaries that (69)__________ from English into your native language and vice versa.
If you must use a dictionary, it is usually far safer to (70) an English-English dictionary.
In most exams you are not permitted to use a dictionary. (71)________ you are allowed
to use one, it is very time-consuming to look up words, and time in exams is usually
limited. You are therefore forced to guess the meaning of when you come across
unknown words in an exam text, it is very easy to panic. However, if you develop
efficient techniques for guessing the meaning, you will (73)____ a number of possible
problems and help yourself to understand far more of the text than you at first thought
likely. Two strategies which may help you to guess the meaning of a word are: using
contextual clues, both (74)_____ the sentence and outside, and making use of clues
(75)____ from the formation of the world.