4. It was a challenging, difficult, demanding/ difficult and demanding course.
5. We found the hotel to be a welcome though/ and pricey haven from the noise and confusion of the surrounding streets.
6. Many of these stone large/ large stone structures date from the early Bronze Age.
7. We can seat up to ten people at our oval and mahogany/ oval mahogany dining table.
8. I'm fed up with these mindless, boring and sentimental/ boring, sentimental TV talent shows.
9. We will never submit to their outrageous yet/ and unreasonable demands.
10. Nineteenth-century novels tend to be full of long, detailed/ long and detailed descriptive passages.
Task 4. Complete the sentences, using suitable comparative and superlative forms of the adjectives in the box. Add than or the if necessary, as in the example.
Task 4. Choose a preposition or particle to fit into each blank.
1. Before she went to bed, she turned ___ the lights.
2. I’ll write the report ___ next Tuesday. That's a promise.
3. He is looking forward ___ seeing his nephew when he visits his sister next week.
4. He didn’t turn _______ at work, so the meeting had to be called.
5. When my daughter was sick, Nora’s sister offered to help look __ her.
6. They called to congratulate him ___ winning the prize.
7. They wanted to watch TV, so I turned it ___ immediately.
8. He explained ___ me why I had to stay and work ___nine o’clock ___the evening.
9. He said he thought he could rely ___ me, but then he apologized _ asking me to work late two nights in a row.
10. However, I decided not to complain ___ the boss ___ my long working hours.
Task 5. Choose the correct words in italics. If both options are correct, choose both
THE EDEN PROJECT
NO, YOU'RE NOT looking at a scene (1) from/ out of a James Bond movie!
The futuristic buildings in this photo really exist. They are part of the Eden Project – one of the most spectacular of the Millennium projects.
The Eden Project is located (2) at/iп Cornwall, England, in a former clay pit (3) above / over 50 metres deep. It consists of several huge domes, a large open area and a visitor centre. The Eden Project functions (4) as/ like a 'storeroom' for a huge number of plants from all over the world. The two main domes store plants and trees (5) from/ for the tropical and temperate regions of the world, while the open area accommodates more local species.