READ THE TEXT BELOW AND THINK OF THE WORD WHICH BEST FITS EACH SPACE

10. A. refused B. denied C. ignored D. exemptedB. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one wordin each space. (10 points)Although the rise in the global temperature by 4 per cent predicted by many scientists maynot sound like much, it is the difference between now and the last Ice Age, when huge glacierscovered Europe and most of Britain. Nobody knows (1) exactly / precisely what would happenin a warmer world, but we (2) do know some things. Heat a kettle and the (3) water inside itexpands. The (4) temperature of the world has climbed more than half a degree this century, andthe oceans have (5) risen by at least 10 cm.But (6) just as it takes several minutes for a kettle to begin warming, (7) So it may havetaken the ocean thirty years to swell. This (8) means that the global warming we are nowexperiencing is a result only of the carbon dioxide we have dumped into the atmosphere (9) upto the 1960s. Since then, the (10) use of fossil fuels has increased rapidly. Scientists (11) working for the United nations and European governments have been warningthat (12) what the Dutch and the people of East Anglia will need to do will (13) be to build moreextensive sea defenses. Many of the world’s great cities are (14) at risk, because they are (15)located / situated at sea level. Miami, (16) almost entirely built on a sandbank, could be (17)swept away. But the effect of rising sea levels will be much (18) worse for the developingcountries. With a meter rise in sea levels, 200 million could become homeless. There are other fears too, (19) according to a recent United Nations report. The plight of the hungry in northern Africa could (20) worsen, as rainfall in the Sahara and beyond is reduced by 20 per cent. C. Read the passage and choose the correct answer for the following questions: (5 points)All at once Hazel was coming in through the French windows, pulling off gardening gloves, andBill was entering through the door, both at once. So I only had time to take one quick look at herbefore I turned to face him. All very confusing. What that first glimpse showed me was that timehad thickened her figure but didn’t seem to have made much difference to her face. It still hadgood skin and youthful outlines. She was holding a bunch of roses – must have been cutting themin the garden while waiting for me. The gardening gloves lent a delightfully informal touch. Itwas quite an entrance, though Bill spoilt it a bit by making his at the same time.Bill seemed longer and thinner. His tightly massed hair had a tinge of grey. Apart from that,twenty years had done nothing to him, except deepen the lines of thoughtfulness that had already,when I knew him, begun to spread across his face. Or was that all? I looked at him again, morecarefully, as he looked away from me at Hazel. Weren’t his eyes different somehow? Moreinward looking than ever? Gazing in not merely at his thoughts, but at something else, somethinghe was keeping hidden or perhaps protecting.Then we were chattering and taking glasses in our hands, and I came back to earth. For thefirst ten minutes we were all so defensive, so carefully probing, that nobody learnt anything. Billhad forgotten me altogether, that much was clear. He was engaged in getting to know me fromscratch, very cautiously so as not to hit a wrong note, with the object of getting me to contribute abig subscription to his African project. I kept trying to absorb details about Hazel, but Bill wastalking earnestly about African education, and the strain of appearing to concentrate whileactually thinking about his wife proved so great that I decided it would be easier just toconcentrate. So I did. I let him hammer away for about ten more minutes, and then the daughter,who seemed to be acting as parlourmaid, showed in another visitor. Evidently we were to be fourat lunch.