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UNIT
EXERCISES 2 4

24.1 Match the sentence beginnings and ends. (A)

1 You mustn't drink alcohol a to enjoy it.
2 You mustn't keep medicines b when you go into a pub.
3 You don't have to be a member с if teachers object to the new curriculum.
4 You don't have to play golf well d to run up and down the aisle of the aircraft.
5 Newspapers mustn't e to use the tennis club.
6 You don't have to drink alcohol f when you drive.
7 Newspapers don't have to say g who provided their information.
8 Children mustn't be allowed h where children can get them.
9 You mustn't be surprised i mislead the public.
24.2 Underline the more likely answer. If they are equally likely, underline them both. (C)
1 You needn't I don't need to close the door. I'm just going out.
2 In most developed countries, people needn't I don't need to boil water before they drink it.
3 Hannah has agreed to organise the party, so she said that the rest of us needn't I don't need
to do anything.
4 I've brought the car, so you needn't I don't need to carry your bags to the station.
5 You needn't I don't need to have any qualifications to be a politician.
6 Now that it has been eradicated, doctors needn't I don't need to vaccinate against smallpox.
7 You needn't I don't need to go to the supermarket. I went shopping earlier.
8 In many countries you needn't I don't need to pay to use public libraries.

24.3 Complete the sentences with either needn't have or didn't need to followed by an appropriate
verb. (D)
1 I bought a new car last year, and then a month later I won one in a competition. So I
all that money.
2 I an interview. They accepted me without one.
3 The accident if only Tom had got his lights repaired when he said he was
going to.
4 I got a lift to the station, so I a taxi after all.
5 Sue was feeling a lot better by the weekend, so we her shopping for her.
24.4 Here are some extracts from a speech made by the managing director of a company to her
employees. Correct any mistakes. (A-E)

1 I need hardly to tell you how important it is that we win this order.
2 I don't have to remind you that we are competing with two other companies.
3 We don't need to allow our competitors to gain an advantage over us.
4 We were delighted that we needn't have sold off our subsidiary company last year.
5 We mustn't allow our production rates to drop.
6 You mustn't work at weekends for the moment.
7 You needn't to worry about redundancies.
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