INSTEAD OF TO BE SELECTED, HE FAILED TO GET THE JOB. A B C DIII. R...

16. Instead of to be selected, he failed to get the job.

A B C D

III. READING.

Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C, D that best fits the blank space in the following passage:

HOW TO MEET A BOY AT A PARTY

When I arrived at Jenny’s House at 8 p.m, the party ………(17)……….. She touched me by the arm and

asked if I would like to be introduced to a boy from the school across the road from my house. Before I had the

chance to answer,she had left me alone with him. He looked a bit bored with everything, and I wasn’t looking

……….(18)……….to talking to him.But he asked where I was from and what school I ………(19)……….. to, and

soon we were discussing everything under the sun. Like me,he was …….(20)…….. in films,but as well as the

famous films that everybody knew about, he had seen ones nobody else had heard of. So what I thought was going

to be: a boring evening turned out to be really interesting.