C1 Use of English April 2024 | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

As it's also a good guide to people's innermost THINK, learning how to "read" these would be a valuable life skill.

THOUGHTS

He described this time as like a prison sentence with harsh, TOLERATE conditions.

INTOLERABLE

As a young man he started an engineering APPRENTICE.

APPRENTICESHIP

But this chance discovery of useful materials _____ undergoing a change.

IS

Vulcanised rubber, celluloid and plastic - these materials were, _____ a certain degree/extent, invented by accident.

TO

The rules are EXACTLY/RATHER/THEREBY/SOMEWHAT straightforward: bring a book and lose yourself in it the way you did as a child.

RATHER

It's 7pm and I'm sitting in a café I've never been in before. It's CRAMMED/CRUSHED/MASSED/PILED with people, but nobody's talking.

CRAMMED

All these features add to our view of the owl as being MYSTERY.

MYSTERIOUS

Many birds have special SIGNIFY for humans but none is perhaps more respected than the owl.

SIGNIFICANCE

How often do we struggle to figure _____ a problem and then, after a night's sleep, we wake up knowing exactly what to do?

OUT

Some countries are in favor of abolishing leap seconds while others ARGUE/DISAGREE/DISPUTE/QUESTION that the technical challenges are manageable.

ARGUE

As all school children know, there are 60 seconds in a minute. But every so often, our planet EARNS/GAINS/WINS/OBTAINS a second.

GAINS

HISTORY, there have been long periods when one might barely detect a single change in pronunciation.

HISTORICALLY

For centuries, people existed in isolated COMMUNE far from one another.

COMMUNITIES

I often used to go walking through the forest with my parents when I was younger. // WOULD// My parents . . . take walks through the forest when I was younger.

and I would often

Being completely honest about your opinions isn't always advisable./IDEA// It isn't . . . completely honest about your opinions.

always a good idea to be

I was always convinced our business would be a success.//MIND// There was never . . . that our business would be a success.

a/any doubt in my mind

Last night, I foolishly left my apartment without a key and couldn't get back in. //LOCK// Last night, I was foolish enough . . . my apartment.

to lock myself out of

I'm proud of the fact that we built our home recording studio without any help.// BY // The fact we built our home recording studio . . . feel proud.

by ourselves makes me

Tom and Alexis said "We're getting married in May." //ANNOUNCED// Tom and Alexis . . . in May.

announced (that) they were getting married