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.