WORD FORMATION

Newspapers have a (01)................... for what the French call "squashed dog" stories. In England, they are "goldfish emerging from bathroom tap"
stories. Such stories run under the "Man Bites Dog" (02)................... . From France comes the story of an (03)................... savage attack on an old
man near Calais carried out by a swarm of bees. The scenario might have pleased Hitchcock. The victim was (04)................... himself in his garden
at the time. The firemen were called but were driven back into their van by the (05)................... of the insects. After 45 minutes someone arrived with
(06)................... clothing and (07)................... . By then the man sitting in the deck chair was dead, covered in hundreds of stings, most of them on
his eyelids.
The French liked the story from London about grafting a pig's kidneys on to a human patient. They went for the animal rights angle. They like the
idea of putting a (08)................... ring round the hospital to repel people who are intent on rescuing the pig from (09)................... . From London, too,
came the story of the brown paper parcel in London's main parcel sorting office, a parcel which moved. Packages do not normally move very quickly
through the post office at the best of times, but this one was definitely frisky. A lady customs officer was summoned to X-ray the package. The X-ray
revealed a (10)................... reptile called a gila monster wrapped in a sock. The subsequent police trail led to a salesman in Hampshire whose back
bedroom was filled with rattlesnakes, lethal lizards, snapping turtles and a python, most of which he had sent himself through the post.
01. fond
02. Head
03. Except
04. Sun
05. Fierce
06. Protect
07. Insect
08. Secure
09. Member
10. Poison

A WASTE OF GOOD EARTH

In the middle of Wales is the village of Lackerpandy. It has a population of 4,500.
The village is rather scattered. It spreads over eight kilometres in each (01).................. But, conveniently, especially for its 4,500 (02).................. , it
has 13 graveyards. Twelve of these are empty. The (03).................. is the (04).................. burying ground for Lackerpandy's people.
The graveyards - that is, the empty graveyards - have a total area of over 500 acres, You could grow a lot of potatoes on 500 acres, as one of
Lackerpandy's citizens explained. It appears, as a result of a government (05).................. , that the new graveyards were financed by the village
council. Most of the work was done by a local (06).................., a friend of the mayor, and a private building (07).................. .
Speaking to the (08).................. of the (09).................. committee, Mr Dai Jones, the new mayor, provided an (10).................. . He said that the old
mayor, Mr Tommy Davis, had a serious problem. He said, "Mr Davis was very worried about his own death. And so, whenever a new cemetery was
suggested, he just couldn't say no."
01. direct
02. Inhabit
03. Thirteen
04. Tradition
05. Investigate
06. Business
07. Contract
08. Law 09. Inquire
10. Explain

PARLIAMENT
Parliament consists of two houses: the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The third part of the (01) ...................... is the Monarchy, which
is of (02) ................... (03) ...................... only.
The Lords are not elected. A member of the House of Lords can inherit his position, or he can be made a member, appointed for his service to the
State. The members of the House of Lords receive no salary for their (04) ...................... work. However, they receive travelling expenses from their
homes to Westminster, together with an (05) ...................... (06) ...................... .
The House of Commons is a (07) ...................... (08)...................... elected by everyone over the age of 18. Members receive a salary for their work,
and are elected. The Commons is presided over by the Speaker who is elected by the members immediately after a new Parliament is formed.
English politics have been dominated by two parties: the Conservative, or Tory, party, and the Socialist, or Labour, party. The small Liberal party also
has quite a lot of popularity. However, as England does not have proportional (09) ...................... , small parties are not very (10)......................
01. govern
02. Symbol
03. Signify
04. Parliament
05. Attend
06. Allow
07. represent
08. assemble
09. Represent
10. succeed