ACTIVITY 108: For sentences below choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. Then check the correct answers.

101. This young author has already received the sort of — ATTENTIVENESS NOTE RECOGNITION NOTORIETY that many older and wiser heads have had to strive a lifetime for.

102. There will of necessity be a — CEILING ROOF SKY SUMMIT to the amount of money put at the new manager's disposal.

103. We should make a clear — SEPARATION DIVISION DISTINCTION DIFFERENCE between 'competent' and 'proficient' for the purposes of our discussion.

104. The young lad was the — IMAGE LIKENESS PICTURE PORTRAIT of his father.

105. They stood glowering at each other, eyeball to eyeball, their fists — JOINED CLENCHED CLASPED GRASPED ready for action.

106. One wonders whether the current political — ENVIRONMENT CLIMATE STATE STANDPOINT is right for such a move.

107. The group's image — APPEALS ATTRACTS EXCITES DRAWS to young people in general and the less well-off in particular.

108. In — HINDSIGHT REVIEW EXPERIENCE RETROSPECT , I must acknowledge that we were guilty of errors of judgement.

109. The supervisor's job is to — OVERLOOK OVERRUN OVERSEE OVERVIEW the work of his particular department.

110. The employee's departure was hastened when he was caught with his hands in the — REGISTER ACCOUNTS BOOKS TILL .

111. In the unlikely — EVENT HAPPENING EVENTUALITY INCIDENCE of the film not being a box-office success, the producers stand to lose up to $15 million.

112. She had never contemplated such a present, even in her — MADDEST COMMONEST FIERIEST WILDEST dreams.

113. It is a sign of the times when a pop record can — FETCH RAISE BRING UP SUBSCRIBE more money for charity than thousands of street and door-to-door collections.

114. Rumours would suggest that the Board has one more ace up its — MIND TROUSER-LEG PLANNING SLEEVE .

115. The caddy trudged on round the — COURT TRACK RINK COURSE , the bag of clubs over his shoulder feeling heavier at every hole.

116. In fact the criminal was — INTERNED EXPORTED DEPORTED BARRED from the country before extradition proceedings could be started.

117. It tends to — STUMBLE PAUSE STALL CRAWL whenever I take my foot off the clutch, whether I'm in gear or not.

118. Unless there is a — THAW FREEZE-UP MELT FROST in the next twenty-four hours, most of the weekend football matches are likely to be cancelled.

119. Making mistakes is all — CHALK AND CHEESE TOP AND BOTTOM PART AND PARCEL ODDS AND ENDS of growing up.

120. Despite scares to the contrary, we found that the elderly widow was — PERFECTLY ANYTHING BUT ENTIRELY FAR FROM all right.

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