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UNIT
EXERCISES 1 1 2

112.1 Put in the correct or most likely preposition. Sometimes two answers are possible. (A, B & C)

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1 Did you hear the tiger? It's escaped again.
2 They heard the Department of Transport that their house was on the route of a
proposed new road.
3 I know it's unkind to laugh her, but her new hair style looks so funny.
4 We couldn't agree what caused the accident or what we should do about it.
5 Who has now heard the thousands of Greeks who were forced to flee their homes
last century?
6 My parents think that we should move to a bigger house, but personally I don't agree
them.
7 We found it difficult to agree what to do with the money.
8 The concert was given by people I had never heard
9 He's told that joke so often that no-one laughs it any more.
10 Julian spent most of his holiday in the bathroom. He ate some seafood that didn't agree
him.
11 After much discussion, they finally agreed the changes.
12 I hope that one day we'll be able to laugh how I had to sell my watch in order to buy
some food.
13 He generally kept quiet, afraid of being laughed
14 You often hear women who work right up until the day they give birth.
15 I agreed my neighbour that we should remove the fence between the gardens.
16 We used to see each other regularly, but I haven't heard him since last year.
17 Most people have never even heard a graphic equaliser.
18 I wanted to buy a motorbike but my parents wouldn't hear it.
19 At the meeting in Bonn, the ministers agreed new measures to combat terrorism.

112.2 Match the sentence halves, adding an appropriate form of the verb agree and about, with, to, or
on. If more than one answer is possible, consider what difference in meaning there might be. (C)

1 The children couldn't a the release of all prisoners,
2 You don't have to b the proposal to build a road through the area,
3 Many of my colleagues c which game to play next.
4 The rebels have d Campbell's political views to enjoy his writing,
5 Despite early opposition, local e whether to go hill-walking or laze on a beach,
residents have now f me about our working conditions,
6 The two airline companies have g my brother, but I think he's right this time,
7 I don't often h a plan to co-operate in scheduling trans-Atlantic
8 We'd hoped to have a holiday flights.
this year, but we couldn't

Example: 1 + (c) THe children couldn't agree about/on whlcd game to play next.
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