THERE (A) WASN’T HARDLY (B) ELECTRICITY IN (C) THE MOUNTAINOUS REGI...

50.There (A) wasn’t hardly (B) electricity in (C) the mountainous regions ten years (D)

ago.

Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space.

There has been a revolution in the world of newspapers. Not many years (51)_____

newspapers were still being produced using techniques unchanged for (52)______

hundred years. The journalists gave their stories to a typist, who prepared them for an

editor, who passed them on (53)________ the printer. The printer, who was a

(54)_________ skilled man, set up the type. (55)_________ was then collected to make

the pages. When the pages were complete, the printing machines could be

(56)____________ . Nowadays what (57)________ ? The journalists type their stories

into a computer. The (58)________ checks their spelling, plans the page, shapes the

articles. When the pages are ready, another computer may control the printing. (59)_____

can be no doubt about it, producing a newspaper is an entirely different (60)______ now.