Question

Part 1. For questions 1 – 5, read the passage 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.

        The word ‘security’ has both positive and negative connotations. Most of us would say that we crave security for all its positive virtues, both physical and psychological – its (1. EVOKE) _______________ of the safety of home, of undying love, or freedom from need. More negatively, the word nowadays conjures up images of that huge industry which has developed to protect individuals and property from invasion by ‘outsiders’, ostensibly malicious and intent on theft or (2. WILL) _______________ damage.
        Increasingly, because they are situated in urban areas of escalating crime, those buildings which used to allow free access to employees and other users (buildings such as offices, schools, colleges, or hospitals) now do not. (3. ENTER) _______________ areas which in another age were called ‘Reception’ are now manned by security staff. Receptionists, whose task was to receive visitors and to make them welcome before passing them on to the person they had come to see, have been supplanted by those whose task is to bar access to the (4. AUTHORITY) _______________ , the unwanted, or the plain unappealing. Inside, these buildings are divided into ‘secure zones’ which often have all the (5. TRAP) _______________ of combination locks and burglar alarms.

 

Answer 1

 

evocation 

willful

entry

unauthorized

trappings

Answer 2

evocation 

willful

entrance

unauthorized

trappings