IV. Choose the correct words, then check in a dictionary.
1. The book is set / situated in Tudor times.
2. Matthew Fox plays / stars the lead role in “Lost”.
3. My sister takes /makes photographs for a living.
4. I'm going to a dance presentation / performance at the theatre
tonight.
5. The Mona Lisa is the most famous art exhibit / exhibition in the
Louvre.
V.
Complete the sentences with verbs formed using the prefixes re-, dis-,
mis-, under- and the verbs in capitals.​

1) about 2000 years old

2) 8,982 millions

3) The British Museum

The Tower of London and Tower Bridge

Buckingham Palace 

Big Ben and Parliament

4) Napoleon Bonaparte

5) The National Gallery of Art – the nation's museum – preserves, collects, exhibits, and fosters an understanding of works of art.

6) Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, England and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner. It is the largest of the four Royal Parks. The park is divided in two by the Serpentine Lake.

7) Buckingham Palace

8)

Trooping the Colour.

Churchill War Rooms.

Sir Keith Park Memorial.

Statue of the Earl Kitchener.

The Household Cavalry Museum.

Household Division.

Downing Street.

Banqueting House.

9) Big Ben

10) Over 3,300 people have been buried or commemorated at Westminster Abbey. This includes seventeen British monarchs including King Henry V and all the Tudors except for Henry VIII. Other notable people buried at Westminster Abbey include Isaac Newton, Edward the Confessor and Charles Dickens.

11) The Tower of London, officially Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle located on the north bank of the River Thames in central London.

12) Today the Tower's ravens are one of the attractions for tourists visiting the City of London. 

Once upon a time 24___c) a___ philosopher was travelling down a river 25___a) in___ a small boat. While he was crossing the river he 26___b) asked__ the boatman, “have you heard about Philosophy?” “No,” 27___b)said the boatman. “I 28a) am sorry 29__c) for you,” replied the learned man. “You have lost a quarter of your life because it is a very interesting science!” Several minutes later the philosopher asked 30___a) the___ boatman another question: “Have you heard about Astronomy, when you 31___c) were at school?” “No, I 32a) left  school many years ago and I 33__b) forgot___ all about it,” was the answer. To this the philosopher answered that he 34___a) was really sorry 35d) for the man, and he thought that the boatman had lost a second quarter of 36_a) his_ life.