I (KNOW) ______________________ HER FOR SEVERAL YEARS.III. READING...

5. I (know) ______________________ her for several years.

III. READING COMPREHENSION (3 points)

Part 1: Fill in the gap with ONE suitable word to complete the paragraph. (1 point)

TRADITIONS AND CUSTOMS IN GREAT BRITAIN

Every nation and every country has its own customs and traditions. In Britain, traditions (1)

____________ a more important part in the life of the people than in (2) ____________ countries.

Englishmen are proud (3) ____________ their traditions and carefully keep them up.

It has been the law (4) ____________ about 300 years that all theaters are closed on Sundays. No

letters are (5) _________________ , only a few papers are published.

To this day, an English family prefers a house with a garden (6) ____________ a flat in a mordern

house (7) ____________ central heating. English people like gardens. Sometimes, (8) ____________

garden in front of the house is a little square covered with cement painted green in (9)______________

of grass and a box of flowers.

Holidays are especially rich in old traditions and (10) ______________ different in Scotland,

Ireland, Wales and England. Christmas is a great English national holiday, but in Scotland, it is not kept,

except by clerks in banks, all shops and factories are working.

Part 2: Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each of the following questions

by circling its corresponding letter A, B, C or D. (1 point)

Most people agreed that pop music (1) _____________ in the United States in the 1950s and that it

developed from black American music. Since its advent, it was especially (2) _____________ young

people. In many countries, they liked listening to it and dancing to it (3) _____________ it was exciting

and it was a way of rebelling against their parents’ generation. Many parents strongly (4)

_____________ of it. They disliked the way many pop stars looked and acted. They thought the music

was rubbish (5) _____________ the group couldn’t sing or play their instruments properly. They said

that pop music wouldn’t last for long.

Today, attitudes are different. Many of today’s parents are people (6) _____________ loved the

music when they were young and still do. As a result of this, pop music is no longer for the young. (7)

_____________ addition, some of the stars (8) _____________ careers began a long time ago and who

are now middled-aged are just as popular today as they were then. Their original fans still like them,

perhaps, because they (9) _____________ them of when they were young. At the same time, new

generations of young people buy their records and go to their concerts. So pop music was not just brief

fashion. All these years (10) _____________, it is more popular than ever.