………..,,AND USE WORDS ACCURATELY BOTH WHEN SPEAKING ANDWRITING. MAK...

10. ………..,,

And use words accurately both when speaking and

Writing. Make sure you make the room for at least one

Good monolingual dictionary on your bookshelf- and

then make sure you use it at a regular basis!

B. READING

Question I: Read the following passage and circle the letter preceding the correct answer (A, B, C,

or D) which best fits each gap. (1pt)

In this age of ( 1) ...telephone networks and electronic mail, it seems that fewer and even fewer peopleare taking time to sit down and write letters (2) ...friends and relatives. For hundreds of years, letters werethe only way to keep (3) ...people who were any distance away and letter-writing was seen as an importantskill for all learned people (4) ...Gradually, (5) ..., the importance of writing letters is decreasing to a point that majority of us have to(6)...a special effort to turn out something worthwhile when we apply for a job or make a complaint. Inbusiness circles the tendency is for routine communications to become shorter. (7) ...clients mayappreciate a detailed letter, an employee who sends out long letters is often regarded as (8) ... Many peopleprefer the telephone in all circumstances and its speed is essential in many situations but (9) ...have youput the telephone down, dissatisfied with what you have managed to say? I don’t think I’ll throw my(10) ...away yet.