A. Fill in the gaps with the words in brackets in a comparative or superlative form.
Teacher : What are 1 the most obvious (obvious) differences you have noticed between your own
country and this one?
Student : Oh there are so many! In my country people are 2 ______________ (not/interested) in
foreigners as people here, who are much 3 ______________ (friendly). They are always kind
and welcoming. Also, the weather is very different It’s much 4 ______________ (hot) in my
country. It’s only autumn but I am feeling cold here already and it’s getting 5 ______________
(cold) every day. I don’t like that. Then there’s the food. Your food is 6 ______________
(not/good) ours. Our food is 7 ______________ (spicy) and 8 ______________ (delicious). I
think it’s 9 ______________ (good) in the world! It is 10 ______________ (not/ expensive)
either. I’ve also noticed that people here eat slightly 11 ______________ (early) and they eat
their meals 12 ______________ (quickly). And I am beginning to change my own habits too!
13 ______________ (long) I stay here 14 ______________ (fast) I seem to be eating.
B. Fill in the gaps in the model answer below. Use one word in each gap.
The charts above show the number and types of books bought by men and women and four different
age groups in the UK.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons
where relevant.
The charts give information about the types of books that British men and women and different age
groups buy. The initial impression from the charts is that women tend to buy 1 _________________ books
than men overall, although they buy slightly 2 _________________ non-fiction books. The people that buy
the 3 _________________ books are in the 45+ age group.
Nearly 60% of women buy fiction. which is almost 4 _________________ as many as the number of men who
choose this type of book Nevertheless, most age groups buy 5 _________________ fiction books than non
fiction ones showing that non-fiction is generally 6 _________________ popular than fiction.
The number of people buying fiction increases steadily from ages 16 to 45 with the 7 _________________
number of books, at just over 40% of the age group bought by 16- to 24-year-otds and the 8
_________________ number, at just over 50%, bought by the over 45s.
However, the pattern is different for non-fiction. The number of books bought by 25- to 44-year-olds is 9
_________________ lower than the number bought by 16- to 24 year-olds and those over 45. Just over 40%
of 16- to 24-year-olds buy non-fiction but this number is not 10 _________________ high as the number of
people aged 45 and over buying non-fiction, at nearly 60%. Only 31% of 35- to 44-year-olds buy non-
fiction, and the number of 24- to 34 year-olds is 11 _________________ lower at 28%.
C. Read the description of the table below. Decide if the underlined comparisons are correct
or not. Write "right" if they are right and correct them if they are wrong.
The table shows the number of medals won by the top ten countries in the 2004 Olympic Games. The USA
won 1 greatest number of medals overall with a total of 103. They won 2 more silver medals as gold and
3 more medals than any other country in both categories. China had 4 the second high number of medals
at 63, but unlike the USA, China won 5 less silver medals than gold medals. While Russia’s silver medal
total was 6 more good than China’s, they did not do 7 well as China in the gold medals, winning just 27. In
fact China had a 8 more lower overall medal total than Russia but, as the table is based on the number of
gold medals won, they were placed second. Similarly, Germany was 9 significantly successful at winning
medals than Japan, with a total of 48 compared to Japan’s 37, but because Japan won 10 two more gold
medals that Germany they were ranked 11 higher. Great Britain gave 12 the worse performance in this
group, winning only nine gold and nine silver medals.
