Use of English Vocabulary Test F

(Please note: Questions 1-15 are part of a cloze test. They are interrelated, meaning that the information provided in each question is connected to the others.)

On Your Bike!

If you are getting fed up wasting time looking for parking space, my _____ to you is to consider the bicycle as an alternative _____ of transport.

If you are getting fed up wasting time looking for parking space, my _____ to you is to consider the bicycle as an alternative _____ of transport.

Cycling is probably the cheapest and healthiest way of getting _____ in our congested city centers.

_____ it is convenient and environmentally desirable, it can be an unattractive _____ on a cold wintry morning.

_____ it is convenient and environmentally desirable, it can be an unattractive _____ on a cold wintry morning.

It is much easier to _____ onto a nice warm bus or jump into your car, _____ the sight of cyclists as they weave their way in and out of the traffic may fill you with _____ as you sit waiting in yet _____ traffic jam.

It is much easier to _____ onto a nice warm bus or jump into your car, _____ the sight of cyclists as they weave their way in and out of the traffic may fill you with _____ as you sit waiting in yet _____ traffic jam.

It is much easier to _____ onto a nice warm bus or jump into your car, _____ the sight of cyclists as they weave their way in and out of the traffic may fill you with _____ as you sit waiting in yet _____ traffic jam.

It is much easier to _____ onto a nice warm bus or jump into your car, _____ the sight of cyclists as they weave their way in and out of the traffic may fill you with _____ as you sit waiting in yet _____ traffic jam.

In spite of the _____ that worsening pollution is getting many people _____, causing more and more health problems, and _____ it is fashionable to express one’s _____ of the environmentally safe bicycle, it is hard to _____ the danger cyclists face in sharing the road with cars.

In spite of the _____ that worsening pollution is getting many people _____, causing more and more health problems, and _____ it is fashionable to express one’s _____ of the environmentally safe bicycle, it is hard to _____ the danger cyclists face in sharing the road with cars.

In spite of the _____ that worsening pollution is getting many people _____, causing more and more health problems, and _____ it is fashionable to express one’s _____ of the environmentally safe bicycle, it is hard to _____ the danger cyclists face in sharing the road with cars.

In spite of the _____ that worsening pollution is getting many people _____, causing more and more health problems, and _____ it is fashionable to express one’s _____ of the environmentally safe bicycle, it is hard to _____ the danger cyclists face in sharing the road with cars.

In spite of the _____ that worsening pollution is getting many people _____, causing more and more health problems, and _____ it is fashionable to express one’s _____ of the environmentally safe bicycle, it is hard to _____ the danger cyclists face in sharing the road with cars.

_____ cycling is not as risky as it looks at first sight, there are more and more accidents involving cyclists.