Use of English 4

Task 4

• You are going to read about a man who won a lot of money in a lottery because he

behaved politely. In most lines there is one word that should not be there. It is either

grammatically incorrect or does not fit in with the sense of the text.

• Read the text and then copy the extra word in the space provided after each line.

• Some lines are correct. Indicate these lines with a tick ().

• The task begins with two examples (0).

 POLITENESS LEADS TO LOTTERY WIN

0) Good manners have paid dividends for a man in the Philippines 0) 

0) who have won 741m pesos (£10.5m) in a lottery. 0) have

30) An official for the national lottery said to the father-of-three was 30)

31) next in a queue to buy her a ticket when a woman rudely pushed 31)

32) in ahead of him. He graciously let her to go ahead, and in turn he 32)

33) bought the winning ticket, choosing "lucky pick" numbers. 33)

34) He is believed to be a Filipino in his sixties, been living in the US, 34)

35) who was back in the Philippines visiting family. Although the 35)

36) lottery agency has won a policy of keeping the names of winners 36)

37) secret, partly to protect them from the kidnap attempts. 37)

38) When the draw was made on 29 November, nobody ever had 38)

39) won the lottery since 15 May. The prize money that had 39)

40) accumulated over 86 consecutive draws to become the country's 40)

41) biggest ever jackpot and more millions of people bought tickets. 41)

42) The winner beat up odds of one in nearly 29 million. 42)

43) When the man realised he had won, he was said: " How sad for 43)

44) that woman. She could have won the big prize if she had just been 44)

 patient. " (www.bbc.co.uk)