choose the right answer.

1. Gina’s psychologist advised.. .her routine.

choose the right answer.

2. Please will you let.. .the news!

choose the right answer.

3. Do you remember.. .you when you were ill?

choose the right answer.

4. She waited.. .before phoning her mother.

choose the right answer.

5. They don’t allow.. .in the reservoir.

choose the right answer.

6. We’d like.. .this gift on behalf of all of us.

choose the right answer.

7. The doctor kept…for over an hour.

Complete the sentences with a pronoun and the verb in brackets. Use an infinitive with or without to or a gerund.

Complete the sentences with a pronoun and the verb in brackets. Use an infinitive with or without to or a gerund.

Complete the sentences with a pronoun and the verb in brackets. Use an infinitive with or without to or a gerund.

Complete the sentences with a pronoun and the verb in brackets. Use an infinitive with or without to or a gerund.

Complete the sentences with a pronoun and the verb in brackets. Use an infinitive with or without to or a gerund.

Complete the sentences with a pronoun and the verb in brackets. Use an infinitive with or without to or a gerund.

Complete the sentences with a pronoun and the verb in brackets. Use an infinitive with or without to or a gerund.

Complete the compound adjectives.

Complete the compound adjectives.

Complete the compound adjectives.

Complete the compound adjectives.

Match a word in A to a word in B to make compound adjectives, then complete the sentences.

Match a word in A to a word in B to make compound adjectives, then complete the sentences.

Match a word in A to a word in B to make compound adjectives, then complete the sentences.

Match a word in A to a word in B to make compound adjectives, then complete the sentences.

Match a word in A to a word in B to make compound adjectives, then complete the sentences.

Match a word in A to a word in B to make compound adjectives, then complete the sentences.

Match a word in A to a word in B to make compound adjectives, then complete the sentences.

Match a word in A to a word in B to make compound adjectives, then complete the sentences.

Match a word in A to a word in B to make compound adjectives, then complete the sentences.

choose the main stress in the compound adjectives.

1. high-|risk

choose the main stress in the compound adjectives.

2. home-|made

choose the main stress in the compound adjectives.

3. last-|mi|nute

choose the main stress in the compound adjectives.

4. long-|dis|tance

choose the main stress in the compound adjectives.

5. nar|row-|min|ded

choose the main stress in the compound adjectives.

6. se|cond-|hand

choose the main stress in the compound adjectives.

7. self-|con|scious

choose the main stress in the compound adjectives.

8. well-|be|haved

choose the main stress in the compound adjectives.

9. worn-|out

Listen to a man suggesting activities to try. Write S for summer and W for winter next to the activities.

Listen again and choose the sentences T (true) or F (false).

Read the article once and choose the best summary.

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HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?

Everyone knows that it takes 28 days to develop a new habit, or perhaps 21, or 18, depending on who you ask; anyway, the point is that it’s a specific number, which makes it sound scientific and thus indisputably true. The person who is probably responsible for this idea is Maxwell Maltz, the plastic surgeon who wrote the 1960 bestseller Psycho-Cybernetics. He claimed to have observed that amputees took an average of only 21 days to adjust to the loss of a limb.1____. And therefore it must take 21 days to change a habit, maybe, perhaps!
This is, of course, ridiculous, as a new study by the University College London psychologist Phillippa Lally and her colleagues helps confirm. On average, her subjects, who were trying to take up new habits such as eating fruit daily or going jogging, took a depressing 66 days before reporting that the behaviour had
become automatic.2____. One especially silly implication of the 28- or 21-day rule is that it is just as easy to start eating a few more apples as it is to start finding five hours a week to study Chinese.
Self-help culture supports the fiction of the 28-day rule, presumably because it makes changing habits sound plausibly difficult enough, but basically easy. The first problem with this is simple: changing habits is hard. Our brains are designed to take short cuts, in order to make as many behaviours as possible automatic. ‘What would be the point,’ asks the psychologist Ian Newby-Clark, ‘of having a habit that didn’t free up your mind to deal with more pressing matters?’3____
The subtler problem is that we tend to think about habit change wrongly. We get trapped in a paradox. We want to, say, stop watching so much TV, but on the other hand, demonstrably, we also want to watch lots of TV – after all, we keep doing it.4____
The way round this, says Newby-Clark and others, is to see that habits are responses to needs.5____If you eat badly, you might resolve to start eating well, but if you’re eating burgers and ice cream to feel comforted, relaxed, and happy, trying to replace them with broccoli and carrot juice is like dealing with a leaky bathroom tap by repainting the kitchen. What’s required isn’t a better diet, but an alternative way to feel comforted and relaxed. ‘The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken,’ Dr Johnson observed gloomily, but maybe by looking at the problem differently we can still, Houdini-like, slip out of them.

Five sentences have been removed from the article. Read it again and choose the sentences A-G to the gaps 1-5. There are two sentences you do not need to use.

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HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?

Everyone knows that it takes 28 days to develop a new habit, or perhaps 21, or 18, depending on who you ask; anyway, the point is that it’s a specific number, which makes it sound scientific and thus indisputably true. The person who is probably responsible for this idea is Maxwell Maltz, the plastic surgeon who wrote the 1960 bestseller Psycho-Cybernetics. He claimed to have observed that amputees took an average of only 21 days to adjust to the loss of a limb.1____. And therefore it must take 21 days to change a habit, maybe, perhaps!

Five sentences have been removed from the article. Read it again and choose the sentences A-G to the gaps 1-5. There are two sentences you do not need to use.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?

This is, of course, ridiculous, as a new study by the University College London psychologist Phillippa Lally and her colleagues helps confirm. On average, her subjects, who were trying to take up new habits such as eating fruit daily or going jogging, took a depressing 66 days before reporting that the behaviour had
become automatic.2____. One especially silly implication of the 28- or 21-day rule is that it is just as easy to start eating a few more apples as it is to start finding five hours a week to study Chinese.

Five sentences have been removed from the article. Read it again and choose the sentences A-G to the gaps 1-5. There are two sentences you do not need to use.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?

Self-help culture supports the fiction of the 28-day rule, presumably because it makes changing habits sound plausibly difficult enough, but basically easy. The first problem with this is simple: changing habits is hard. Our brains are designed to take short cuts, in order to make as many behaviours as possible automatic. ‘What would be the point,’ asks the psychologist Ian Newby-Clark, ‘of having a habit that didn’t free up your mind to deal with more pressing matters?’3______

Five sentences have been removed from the article. Read it again and choose the sentences A-G to the gaps 1-5. There are two sentences you do not need to use.

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HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?

The subtler problem is that we tend to think about habit change wrongly. We get trapped in a paradox. We want to, say, stop watching so much TV, but on the other hand, demonstrably, we also want to watch lots of TV – after all, we keep doing it.4_______

Five sentences have been removed from the article. Read it again and choose the sentences A-G to the gaps 1-5. There are two sentences you do not need to use.

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HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?

The way round this, says Newby-Clark and others, is to see that habits are responses to needs.5_______If you eat badly, you might resolve to start eating well, but if you’re eating burgers and ice cream to feel comforted, relaxed, and happy, trying to replace them with broccoli and carrot juice is like dealing with a leaky bathroom tap by repainting the kitchen. What’s required isn’t a better diet, but an alternative way to feel comforted and relaxed. ‘The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken,’ Dr Johnson observed gloomily, but maybe by looking at the problem differently we can still, Houdini-like, slip out of them.

Look at the highlighted adverbs in the text. What do you think they mean? Check in your dictionary, then use them to complete the sentences.

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HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?

Everyone knows that it takes 28 days to develop a new habit, or perhaps 21, or 18, depending on who you ask; anyway, the point is that it’s a specific number, which makes it sound scientific and thus indisputably true. The person who is probably responsible for this idea is Maxwell Maltz, the plastic surgeon who wrote the 1960 bestseller Psycho-Cybernetics. He claimed to have observed that amputees took an average of only 21 days to adjust to the loss of a limb.1____. And therefore it must take 21 days to change a habit, maybe, perhaps!
This is, of course, ridiculous, as a new study by the University College London psychologist Phillippa Lally and her colleagues helps confirm. On average, her subjects, who were trying to take up new habits such as eating fruit daily or going jogging, took a depressing 66 days before reporting that the behaviour had
become automatic.2____. One especially silly implication of the 28- or 21-day rule is that it is just as easy to start eating a few more apples as it is to start finding five hours a week to study Chinese.
Self-help culture supports the fiction of the 28-day rule, presumably because it makes changing habits sound plausibly difficult enough, but basically easy. The first problem with this is simple: changing habits is hard. Our brains are designed to take short cuts, in order to make as many behaviours as possible automatic. ‘What would be the point,’ asks the psychologist Ian Newby-Clark, ‘of having a habit that didn’t free up your mind to deal with more pressing matters?’3____
The subtler problem is that we tend to think about habit change wrongly. We get trapped in a paradox. We want to, say, stop watching so much TV, but on the other hand, demonstrably, we also want to watch lots of TV – after all, we keep doing it.4____
The way round this, says Newby-Clark and others, is to see that habits are responses to needs.5____If you eat badly, you might resolve to start eating well, but if you’re eating burgers and ice cream to feel comforted, relaxed, and happy, trying to replace them with broccoli and carrot juice is like dealing with a leaky bathroom tap by repainting the kitchen. What’s required isn’t a better diet, but an alternative way to feel comforted and relaxed. ‘The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken,’ Dr Johnson observed gloomily, but maybe by looking at the problem differently we can still, Houdini-like, slip out of them.

Look at the highlighted adverbs in the text. What do you think they mean? Check in your dictionary, then use them to complete the sentences.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?

Everyone knows that it takes 28 days to develop a new habit, or perhaps 21, or 18, depending on who you ask; anyway, the point is that it’s a specific number, which makes it sound scientific and thus indisputably true. The person who is probably responsible for this idea is Maxwell Maltz, the plastic surgeon who wrote the 1960 bestseller Psycho-Cybernetics. He claimed to have observed that amputees took an average of only 21 days to adjust to the loss of a limb.1____. And therefore it must take 21 days to change a habit, maybe, perhaps!
This is, of course, ridiculous, as a new study by the University College London psychologist Phillippa Lally and her colleagues helps confirm. On average, her subjects, who were trying to take up new habits such as eating fruit daily or going jogging, took a depressing 66 days before reporting that the behaviour had
become automatic.2____. One especially silly implication of the 28- or 21-day rule is that it is just as easy to start eating a few more apples as it is to start finding five hours a week to study Chinese.
Self-help culture supports the fiction of the 28-day rule, presumably because it makes changing habits sound plausibly difficult enough, but basically easy. The first problem with this is simple: changing habits is hard. Our brains are designed to take short cuts, in order to make as many behaviours as possible automatic. ‘What would be the point,’ asks the psychologist Ian Newby-Clark, ‘of having a habit that didn’t free up your mind to deal with more pressing matters?’3____
The subtler problem is that we tend to think about habit change wrongly. We get trapped in a paradox. We want to, say, stop watching so much TV, but on the other hand, demonstrably, we also want to watch lots of TV – after all, we keep doing it.4____
The way round this, says Newby-Clark and others, is to see that habits are responses to needs.5____If you eat badly, you might resolve to start eating well, but if you’re eating burgers and ice cream to feel comforted, relaxed, and happy, trying to replace them with broccoli and carrot juice is like dealing with a leaky bathroom tap by repainting the kitchen. What’s required isn’t a better diet, but an alternative way to feel comforted and relaxed. ‘The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken,’ Dr Johnson observed gloomily, but maybe by looking at the problem differently we can still, Houdini-like, slip out of them.

Look at the highlighted adverbs in the text. What do you think they mean? Check in your dictionary, then use them to complete the sentences.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?

Everyone knows that it takes 28 days to develop a new habit, or perhaps 21, or 18, depending on who you ask; anyway, the point is that it’s a specific number, which makes it sound scientific and thus indisputably true. The person who is probably responsible for this idea is Maxwell Maltz, the plastic surgeon who wrote the 1960 bestseller Psycho-Cybernetics. He claimed to have observed that amputees took an average of only 21 days to adjust to the loss of a limb.1____. And therefore it must take 21 days to change a habit, maybe, perhaps!
This is, of course, ridiculous, as a new study by the University College London psychologist Phillippa Lally and her colleagues helps confirm. On average, her subjects, who were trying to take up new habits such as eating fruit daily or going jogging, took a depressing 66 days before reporting that the behaviour had
become automatic.2____. One especially silly implication of the 28- or 21-day rule is that it is just as easy to start eating a few more apples as it is to start finding five hours a week to study Chinese.
Self-help culture supports the fiction of the 28-day rule, presumably because it makes changing habits sound plausibly difficult enough, but basically easy. The first problem with this is simple: changing habits is hard. Our brains are designed to take short cuts, in order to make as many behaviours as possible automatic. ‘What would be the point,’ asks the psychologist Ian Newby-Clark, ‘of having a habit that didn’t free up your mind to deal with more pressing matters?’3____
The subtler problem is that we tend to think about habit change wrongly. We get trapped in a paradox. We want to, say, stop watching so much TV, but on the other hand, demonstrably, we also want to watch lots of TV – after all, we keep doing it.4____
The way round this, says Newby-Clark and others, is to see that habits are responses to needs.5____If you eat badly, you might resolve to start eating well, but if you’re eating burgers and ice cream to feel comforted, relaxed, and happy, trying to replace them with broccoli and carrot juice is like dealing with a leaky bathroom tap by repainting the kitchen. What’s required isn’t a better diet, but an alternative way to feel comforted and relaxed. ‘The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken,’ Dr Johnson observed gloomily, but maybe by looking at the problem differently we can still, Houdini-like, slip out of them.

Look at the highlighted adverbs in the text. What do you think they mean? Check in your dictionary, then use them to complete the sentences.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?

Everyone knows that it takes 28 days to develop a new habit, or perhaps 21, or 18, depending on who you ask; anyway, the point is that it’s a specific number, which makes it sound scientific and thus indisputably true. The person who is probably responsible for this idea is Maxwell Maltz, the plastic surgeon who wrote the 1960 bestseller Psycho-Cybernetics. He claimed to have observed that amputees took an average of only 21 days to adjust to the loss of a limb.1____. And therefore it must take 21 days to change a habit, maybe, perhaps!
This is, of course, ridiculous, as a new study by the University College London psychologist Phillippa Lally and her colleagues helps confirm. On average, her subjects, who were trying to take up new habits such as eating fruit daily or going jogging, took a depressing 66 days before reporting that the behaviour had
become automatic.2____. One especially silly implication of the 28- or 21-day rule is that it is just as easy to start eating a few more apples as it is to start finding five hours a week to study Chinese.
Self-help culture supports the fiction of the 28-day rule, presumably because it makes changing habits sound plausibly difficult enough, but basically easy. The first problem with this is simple: changing habits is hard. Our brains are designed to take short cuts, in order to make as many behaviours as possible automatic. ‘What would be the point,’ asks the psychologist Ian Newby-Clark, ‘of having a habit that didn’t free up your mind to deal with more pressing matters?’3____
The subtler problem is that we tend to think about habit change wrongly. We get trapped in a paradox. We want to, say, stop watching so much TV, but on the other hand, demonstrably, we also want to watch lots of TV – after all, we keep doing it.4____
The way round this, says Newby-Clark and others, is to see that habits are responses to needs.5____If you eat badly, you might resolve to start eating well, but if you’re eating burgers and ice cream to feel comforted, relaxed, and happy, trying to replace them with broccoli and carrot juice is like dealing with a leaky bathroom tap by repainting the kitchen. What’s required isn’t a better diet, but an alternative way to feel comforted and relaxed. ‘The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken,’ Dr Johnson observed gloomily, but maybe by looking at the problem differently we can still, Houdini-like, slip out of them.

Look at the highlighted adverbs in the text. What do you think they mean? Check in your dictionary, then use them to complete the sentences.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?

Everyone knows that it takes 28 days to develop a new habit, or perhaps 21, or 18, depending on who you ask; anyway, the point is that it’s a specific number, which makes it sound scientific and thus indisputably true. The person who is probably responsible for this idea is Maxwell Maltz, the plastic surgeon who wrote the 1960 bestseller Psycho-Cybernetics. He claimed to have observed that amputees took an average of only 21 days to adjust to the loss of a limb.1____. And therefore it must take 21 days to change a habit, maybe, perhaps!
This is, of course, ridiculous, as a new study by the University College London psychologist Phillippa Lally and her colleagues helps confirm. On average, her subjects, who were trying to take up new habits such as eating fruit daily or going jogging, took a depressing 66 days before reporting that the behaviour had
become automatic.2____. One especially silly implication of the 28- or 21-day rule is that it is just as easy to start eating a few more apples as it is to start finding five hours a week to study Chinese.
Self-help culture supports the fiction of the 28-day rule, presumably because it makes changing habits sound plausibly difficult enough, but basically easy. The first problem with this is simple: changing habits is hard. Our brains are designed to take short cuts, in order to make as many behaviours as possible automatic. ‘What would be the point,’ asks the psychologist Ian Newby-Clark, ‘of having a habit that didn’t free up your mind to deal with more pressing matters?’3____
The subtler problem is that we tend to think about habit change wrongly. We get trapped in a paradox. We want to, say, stop watching so much TV, but on the other hand, demonstrably, we also want to watch lots of TV – after all, we keep doing it.4____
The way round this, says Newby-Clark and others, is to see that habits are responses to needs.5____If you eat badly, you might resolve to start eating well, but if you’re eating burgers and ice cream to feel comforted, relaxed, and happy, trying to replace them with broccoli and carrot juice is like dealing with a leaky bathroom tap by repainting the kitchen. What’s required isn’t a better diet, but an alternative way to feel comforted and relaxed. ‘The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken,’ Dr Johnson observed gloomily, but maybe by looking at the problem differently we can still, Houdini-like, slip out of them.

Look at the highlighted adverbs in the text. What do you think they mean? Check in your dictionary, then use them to complete the sentences.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?

Everyone knows that it takes 28 days to develop a new habit, or perhaps 21, or 18, depending on who you ask; anyway, the point is that it’s a specific number, which makes it sound scientific and thus indisputably true. The person who is probably responsible for this idea is Maxwell Maltz, the plastic surgeon who wrote the 1960 bestseller Psycho-Cybernetics. He claimed to have observed that amputees took an average of only 21 days to adjust to the loss of a limb.1____. And therefore it must take 21 days to change a habit, maybe, perhaps!
This is, of course, ridiculous, as a new study by the University College London psychologist Phillippa Lally and her colleagues helps confirm. On average, her subjects, who were trying to take up new habits such as eating fruit daily or going jogging, took a depressing 66 days before reporting that the behaviour had
become automatic.2____. One especially silly implication of the 28- or 21-day rule is that it is just as easy to start eating a few more apples as it is to start finding five hours a week to study Chinese.
Self-help culture supports the fiction of the 28-day rule, presumably because it makes changing habits sound plausibly difficult enough, but basically easy. The first problem with this is simple: changing habits is hard. Our brains are designed to take short cuts, in order to make as many behaviours as possible automatic. ‘What would be the point,’ asks the psychologist Ian Newby-Clark, ‘of having a habit that didn’t free up your mind to deal with more pressing matters?’3____
The subtler problem is that we tend to think about habit change wrongly. We get trapped in a paradox. We want to, say, stop watching so much TV, but on the other hand, demonstrably, we also want to watch lots of TV – after all, we keep doing it.4____
The way round this, says Newby-Clark and others, is to see that habits are responses to needs.5____If you eat badly, you might resolve to start eating well, but if you’re eating burgers and ice cream to feel comforted, relaxed, and happy, trying to replace them with broccoli and carrot juice is like dealing with a leaky bathroom tap by repainting the kitchen. What’s required isn’t a better diet, but an alternative way to feel comforted and relaxed. ‘The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken,’ Dr Johnson observed gloomily, but maybe by looking at the problem differently we can still, Houdini-like, slip out of them.