A. BEHAVIOURS B. STYLES C. ATTITUDES D.HABITSEXAMPLE

73. A. behaviours B. styles C. attitudes D.habitsExample:00. A. informed B. told C. shown D. saidAnswer:00. CII. Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word to complete the following passage.MY HOME TOWNI was born in one of (00) ....the... most interesting cities in Malaysia. It has a rich, colourful historyand many parts of the city have hardly changed at (74) ...all... during the last five centuries. However,nowadays, it is (75) ..no... longer the trade centre that it once (76) ..was... . It is difficult to imagine that atone time its harbour (77) ...used.. to be visited by over 2,000 ships a week, and that the huge warehousesalong the quayside would have (78) ...been.. full of spices and silks, jewels and tea.The old city centre is small, which (79) ...makes... it very easy to explore (80) ..on.. foot. A riverneatly divides the town, (81) ...not.. only physically but in spirit, too. On one side, you find many grandhouses, but on crossing the river, you find yourself in ancient Chinatown, where you really take a step backinto the past.It is great fun to wander through the colourful, noisy backstreets. As well as having shops that sell awide range of clothes and shoes, some of these streets are also famous (82) ...for... high quality antiques.Unfortunately, most of the bargains disappeared many years ago. However, (83) ..if.. you look aroundcarefully, you can still come across an interesting souvenvir.Example:00.theIII. Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question.Because writing has become so important in our culture, we sometimes think of it as more real thanspeech. A little thought, however, will show why speech is primary and writing secondary to language.Human beings have been writing (as far as we can tell from surviving evidence) for at least 5,000 years; butthey have been talking for much longer, doubtless ever since there have been human beings.When writing did develop, it was derived from and represented speech, although imperfectly. Eventoday there are spoken languages that have no written form. Furthermore, we all learn to talk well beforewe learn to write; any human child who is not severely handicapped physically or mentally will learn totalk: a normal human being cannot be prevented from doing so. On the other hand, it takes a special effortto learn to write. In the past many intelligent and useful members of society did not acquire the skill, andeven today many who speak languages with writing systems never learn to read or write, while some wholearn the rudiments of those skills do so only imperfectly.To affirm the primacy of speech over writing is not, however, to disparage the latter. Oneadvantage writing has over speech is that it is more permanent and makes possible the records that anycivilization must have. Thus, if speaking makes us human, writing makes us civilized.