Reading and Use of English Part 3 For questions 17-24, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0). Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet. Example: 5 REFERENCE A book of world records One of the most fascinating (0) .......... books you can read is Guinness World Records. It contains a (17) of facts and figures about incredible human achievement. It is also full of statistics concerning (18) .......... natural features such as the world's highest mountains. But it is more than just a (19).......... source of amazing facts. The organisation that produces the book is also now responsible for checking the (20).......... and accuracy of every new world record. It all started in 1951 when Hugh Beaver, the Managing Director of a large British company, got into an (21) about which bird was the fastest in the world, and found that none of the books in his library were (22) .......... in giving him the answer. He hired researchers to produce a book that could answer such questions. It sold quickly and became a huge (23) .......... Success. In recent years, the book has increasingly focused on records set during (24) .......... competitions, such as sword swallowing. REFER COLLECT IMPRESS RELY TRUE ARGUE HELP COMMERCE CONVENTIONAL
