Сhoose the correct words in italics to complete each sentence.

1 The beach is much less/least crowded today than last week.

2 He is very/much younger than he looks.

3 She’s quite a lively person compared with/than the rest of her family.

4 ‘Police Academy II’ wasn’t as funny so/as ‘Police Academy I’.

5 I’d like another shirt exactly the same color as/than this one.

6 The economic situation is too bad/much worse than we expected.

7 His operation was far more serious that/than we thought.

Exercise 7. Write missing words.

– New York is very big. It’s a seaport. There are very ----- buildings here, which are called skyscrapers. Many ----- make money in this city. \
–– In 2012 London became the first city to host the modern Summer ----. It has a diverse range of peoples, cultures, and religions, and more than 300 ----- are spoken within its boundaries.
– Moscow is the heart of performing -----, including ballet and film. There are ninety-three theaters, 132 cinemas and twenty-four concert-halls in this -----.
– Beijing’s primary airport is about 20 ----- northeast of the city center. It is currently the second ----- airport in the world and the busiest in -----.
– Many national ----- are edited in London. This city is a major retail center and in 2010 had the ----- non-food retail sales of any city in the world, with a total spend of around £ 64.2 billion.

Exercise 8. Choose 2 great cities (Beijing, Moscow, New York and London) and compare them. Write 4 sentences using other forms of comparison: Compared to/with// The same as//Different from//Whereas// Compared with/to //More/less + adjectival phrase (than)

1.Choose the right variant: The King Arthur of the legend is very well-known ______nobody knows the real Arthur.

a) both

b) whereas

c) same

d) due to

2.Choose the right variant: Every novel she writes is different _____ the last.

a) as

b) from

c) than

d) to

3. Choose the right variant: Susan is better-looking than Ada; however, Liz is..... one.

a) better-looking

b) the best-looking

c) good-looking

d) the better

4.Choose the right variant: She is so conscientious.

a) She is lazy.

b) She always does her best in everything.

c) She is so immature.

d) She behaves like a child.