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1 – When I was about 12, I (1 - ) the chance to go to western China, looking for rare plants in an extraordinary area of the mountains and forests.

a) got

2 – I wasn’t all that (2 - ) in plants.

c) interested

3 – But my dad’s a botanist by (3 - ) and he was going as assistant to Professor Beall, who was leading the expedition.

b) profession

4 – It was an important international expedition and my name was (4 -) not on the list of the participants.

b) definitely

5 – But at the (5 - ) moment, one of the experts broke his ankle.

c) last

6 – Of course, he had to (6 - ) out.

a) drop

7 – It was impossible to get anyone else to go at such (7 - ) notice, so my dad suggested taking me, for experience.

d) short

8 – The professor was so surprised that he agreed without thinking, but he obviously began to (8 - ) doubts as soon as the plane was in the air.

a) have

9 – I remember him (9 - ) that he hoped I was not going to run around.

d) saying  

10 – He also hoped I wouldn’t (10 - ) on rare specimens, as if I was a little kid!

a) tread

11 – My dad didn’t say anything as bad as that but he did say he hoped he wasn’t going to (11 - ) bringing me.

b) regret

12 – They didn’t realize it at that time that my only ambition was to get a photo of a wild panda; and in the end that was (12 - ) what I did!

c) exactly

Yesterday protesters managed to hold up work on the Oldbury bypass. Protest leader Alison Compton defended the action by members of the Green World group. 'If we don't protest, soon (►) there'll be (there / be) no countryside left,' she told reporters. The bypass is now well behind schedule, and if the protesters had not held up the work so often, it would have opened two months ago. 'If these fields disappear, we'll never see them again,' said Ms Compton. 'Why can't we use public transport? If more people travelled on buses and trains, we wouldn't need new roads. If the motor car had never existed, the world would have been a more pleasant place today.' But many people in Oldbury want their new bypass. 'If they do not build it soon, the traffic jams in the town will get worse,' said Asif Mohammed, whose house is beside the busy A34. 'We just can't leave things as they are. If things remained the same, people's health will suffer even more from all the pollution here. It's terrible. If we don't get the traffic out of the town, I will go mad. If I had known earlier how bad this problem would get, I would have moved out years ago. But now it has become impossible to sell this house because of the traffic. The government waited too long. If they had done something sooner, there would be less traffic today' And the protest is making the new road even more expensive. 'If this goes on, there won't be enough money left to finish the road,' says the Transport