Complete the sentences with the nouns and adjectives below. There are two extra words or phrases. air-conditioned football pitch soundproof state-of-the-art tower block weights room 25-metre
1 At the end of the match, some Manchester United fans ran onto the .
2 This cinema is very modern. We use equipment.
3 There are twenty apartments in this .
4 They can’t hear you inside the recording studio because it’s got walls.
5 Our hotel had a very nice swimming pool.

Read the following excerpt from "the city without us" by alan weisman: almost every other compound in nature contracts when frozen, but h20 (water) molecules do the opposite, organizing themselves into elegant hexagonal crystals that take up about 9 percent more space than they did when sloshing around in a liquid state. pretty six-sided crystals suggest snowflakes so gossamer it's hard to conceive of them pushing apart slabs of sidewalk. which statement best describes the effect of the metaphor on the excerpt's meaning? o a. it likens h2o molecules to hexagonal crystals, which are actually larger than people imagine. o b. it makes the frozen crystals seem like friends to the city to contrast with what a deceitful foe they are. o c. it compares the sloshing liquid to a river of water able to push apart the sidewalk o d. it compares the frozen crystals to delicately lacy snowflakes having an unexpected strength (apex)