INSTRUCTIONS: Complete the sentences with one word for each blank.
1. A ____________________ is a period of time which covers ten years, such as the 1930s or 1950s.
2. Teachers give lessons to pupils in schools, but at colleges students are given lectures and tutorials by college
____________________.
3. ____________________ went all over North America to seek and gather examples of popular folk music;
they were looking for the true music of the people.
4. A ____________________ is a single part of a collection or set of reference books in which poems, folk
music or stories are brought together.
5. Written material such as stories, poems or songs which have been collected together but not printed in a book
or made widely available to the public are known as ____________________ collections.
6. Another three-word hyphenated phrase for ‘state-of-the art’ is
____________________-____________________-____________________.
7. Someone who gives advice to an organisation for no payment, or a very small token sum, is called an
____________________ consultant.
8. The serious shortage of trained musicians caused a ____________________ in the supply of violin players
for the city orchestra, and only two could be found.
9. If someone doesn‘t want to make money out of their research or their interests and they give their services to
an organisation for nothing, they can be said to have a no ____________________ ____________________ for their activities.
10. In the United Kingdom, the head of a prison is a governor, but in the USA, a ____________________ is the
highest figure of authority.
11. When I had chosen the books I wanted to borrow from the library, I gave them to the
____________________ to check them out to me.
12. The rebels were described as ____________________ because their ideas and activities were secret and they
intended to damage or destroy the established system of government.
13. To survive in the wild, animals like lions have purely ____________________ reactions, and it is inevitable
that they will attack and kill weaker animals.
14. If people are treated badly by the government in power, they are likely to behave in a
____________________ way, by disobeying laws, becoming angry and trying to illegally overthrow the established order.
15. Sometimes books like the Harry Potter stories ____________________ equally to both children and
grown-ups, and they are therefore difficult to classify as either children’s literature or adult fiction.
1. ANS:
decade
2. ANS:
professors
3. ANS:
Collectors
4. ANS:
volume
5. ANS:
unpublished
6. ANS:
up-to-date
7. ANS:
honorary
8. ANS:
dearth
9. ANS:
profit motive
10. ANS:
warden
11. ANS:
librarian
12. ANS:
subversive
13. ANS:
instinctive
14. ANS:
rebellious
15. ANS:
appeal
