VOCABULARY QUIZ 8  (P)
Name..................................................

Part A.  Recognition (1 each = 15 points)
Write the number of the word next to the correct definition.

1. packet
2. powder	__ cost, charge 
3. pump	__ it smells sweet
4. perfume	__ sugar, flour, soap
5. pronunciation	__ paper container
6. prize
7. price

1. private
2. pleasant	__ exactly on time, not late
3. punctual	__ not public
4. pink	__ 100% correct
5. perfect	__ pale red color
6. purple
7. possible

1. print
2. pray	__ say you will do it 
3. plug in	__ do; sing, speak, or act
4. pack	__ put things in a bag
5. promise	__ connect to electricity
6. put on
7. perform

1. pause
2. pattern	__ bowl, dish, pan
3. pot	__ break, short period of time 
4. pence	
5. pool	__ small amount of money
6. patient

Part B. Cloze  (1 each = 10 points)
Choose from these words to complete the passage:

palace 	probably	popular	pardon	pain	population
painful	political	poor	persuade	pick up	put up


Flor's Story

Last month in Singapore a Filipina worker called Flor Contemplacion was blamed for the killing of two people, another worker and a young boy.  The court found her guilty of the double murder, and shortly after that she was hanged in a Singapore prison. Governments all over the world had asked Singapore to (1)..................................... her for the crime, but Singapore refused and insisted on punishing her by death.  

When her body was returned to the Philipines to be buried, thousands of sad, angry people poured into the streets of Manila.  Most of the Filipino (2).................... believes that she was not really guilty of killing anyone.  They say that the Singapore police are well known for being cruel and using (3).............................. to make prisoners talk.  Some people who were in jail with Flor Contemplacion said that the police beat her and didn't stop until she said she was the murderer.   And a doctor who saw the bodies of the people Flor is supposed to have killed said that it looked like the work of a strong man, not that of an older woman like Flor.  

Was she guilty or not?  People in the Singapore think she was and people in the Philipines think she wasn't.   The real truth will (4)..................................... never be known, but the result of it all is that there are now great (5)..................................... problems between the two Asian countries.  In an interview at his (6).................................... in Manila, Philipines President Fidel Ramos said that he wants to (7).....................................  the Singapore government to look at the case of  Flor Contemplacion again to see if she was really treated fairly.  If they refuse, he is thinking of closing the Philipines embassy in Singapore, and perhaps breaking all connections with Singapore.  The problem with this idea is that the Philipines is (8).................................  and it depends on Singapore economically.  The Filipino economy needs the money that people working in Singapore send home.  And the Filipinos themselves need these jobs.  When a plane was sent to Singapore last week to (9)..................................... any workers who wanted to return home, it returned half empty.  Clearly, the workers preferred staying in a country where they are not very (10)..................................... to giving up their jobs. 

- based on articles in The Oman Observer, April 9, 1995
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