Question

III. Use the word in CAPITALS at the end of each line to form an appropriate word which fits in each gap. Write the answers in your answer sheet (1 point for each correct answer).

GETTING IT WRONG
1 People have always had ……………… predicting the future. DIFFICULT
2 One of the least …………….. forecasters was Lord Kelvin, SUCCESS
3 who was President of an …………….. made up of the most ORGANISE
4 important ………………… of the day, called SCIENCE
5 the “Royal Society”. The ……………… of the radio in 1895 INVENT
6 was one of the greatest ………….of the 19th century, ACHIEVE
7 but Kelvin was not ……………… and simply said: “Radio has no IMPRESS
8 future”. Despite this ………….. mistake, he continued to look EMBARRASS
9 into the future. …………. before the Wright brothers’ historic SHORT
10 flight he said: “Heavier-than-air flying machines are ………..”. POSSIBILITY

Answer 1

1 DIFFICULTies
2 SUCCESSful
3 ORGANISation
4 SCIENtists
5 INVENTion
6 ACHIEVEments
7 IMPRESSed
8 EMBARRASSing
9 SHORTly
10 imPOSSIBILe