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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Gillian Lazar, Geraldine Mark and Stuart Redman for their
invaluable reports on the initial manuscript. We are also grateful to the students and staff
at various institutions who assisted in piloting the material in different parts of the world:
Hiilya Akgiin, Ozel Gékdil Lisesi, Istanbul, Turkey; Monika Barczyk, Sosnowiec, Poland;
Anna Cerna, The Bell School, Prague, Czech Republic; Leigh Fergus, Paris, France; Sharon
Hartle, Verona, Italy; Gary Hicks and David Parry, Embassy Language and Training Centre,
Hove, England; Grazyna Kanska, Warsaw, Poland; Stephanie Lott, St. John’s—Bell Language
Centre, Bangkok, Thailand; Elena Marinina, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; Dr
Miroslawa Modrzewska, Gdansk, Poland; Dr Ramzy Radwan, Cairo, Egypt;
M G Rogers, English One, Seville, Spain; Margot Teschendorf, Melbourne, Australia.

Many thanks are due to Noirin Burke of Cambridge University Press, who guided this book
through the editorial process. She set the deadlines that motivated us to get the book done,
and chased us when we lagged behind. Geraldine Mark, as usual, proved to be the most
professional of editors when the typescript passed into her hands and made many useful
comments that have improved the book. Ellen Shaw, who worked on the American edition
of the upper-intermediate English Vocabulary in Use, has continued to offer sound advice
which we hope is reflected at this level. Our domestic partners must always get a special
thank-you for being so tolerant of the long hours we spend away from them in the
company of our computer keyboards. Whatever faults and shortcomings remain in the book
must be laid entirely at our door.

Michael McCarthy
Felicity O’Dell

Cambridge, January 1998

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