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STUDY FOR CAE: ENGLISH IN USE
PART 6: STRUCTURE AND MEANING: PHRASAL COMPLETION
Complete with the most suitable phrases from the selection given below. In the Advanced Certificate, the time for this exercise would be 15 minutes.
In one year, at Boys' and Girls' High School in Brooklyn, New York, 102 assaults on teachers went (01)..................................... . There are 4000 students in the school. Ninety per cent of its pupils are black or Puerto Rican. There are few middle-class families, white or black, represented, because they (02)..................................... . Ronnie Markham, a teacher at the school, says: "There are security guards (03)...................................... They are an absolute necessity for safety, and the place is just like a prison. The whole atmosphere of the school is one of fear. you used to be able to smell marijuana all over the school, and there are still drugs here. Racial fights between pupils (04)..................................... by teenagers on a high from drugs or alcohol. Sometimes, tension between groups can lead to violence (05)..................................... . In many a tense situation a bump in the hallway can be blown up to murder in the first degree." Every high school in New York has its drug specialist (06)..................................... .
A. is just the tip of the iceberg
B. are often sparked off
C. who is completely lost
D. on record
E. from among the pupils
F. made a lot of progress
G. have moved out to the suburbs
H. on the staff
I. thought he could fly
J. half are taking drugs
K. on every floor
L. which can cause widespread disruption
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