A. REFUSED B. DENIED C. IGNORED D. EXEMPTED B. READ THE TEXT BELOW...
10. A. refused
B. denied
C. ignored
D. exempted
B. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word
in each space. (10 points)
Although the rise in the global temperature by 4 per cent predicted by many scientists may
not sound like much, it is the difference between now and the last Ice Age, when huge glaciers
covered Europe and most of Britain. Nobody knows (1) ______ what would happen in a warmer
world, but we (2) ______ know some things. Heat a kettle and the (3) ______ inside it expands.
The (4) ______ of the world has climbed more than half a degree this century, and the oceans
have (5) ______ by at least 10 cm.
But (6) ______ as it takes several minutes for a kettle to begin warming, (7) ______ it may
have taken the ocean thirty years to swell. This (8) ______ that the global warming we are now
experiencing is a result only of the carbon dioxide we have dumped into the atmosphere (9)
______ to the 1960s. Since then, the (10) ______ of fossil fuels has increased rapidly.
they are (15) ______ at sea level. Miami, (16) ______ entirely built on a sandbank, could be (17)
______ away. But the effect of rising sea levels will be much (18) ______ for the developing
countries. With a meter rise in sea levels, 200 million could become homeless.
There are other fears too, (19) ______ to a recent United Nations report. The plight of the
hungry in northern Africa could (20) ______ , 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,
and Bill was entering through the door, both at once. So I only had time to take one quick look at
her before I turned to face him. All very confusing. What that first glimpse showed me was that
time had thickened her figure but didn’t seem to have made much difference to her face. It still
had good skin and youthful outlines. She was holding a bunch of roses – must have been cutting
them in the garden while waiting for me. The gardening gloves lent a delightfully informal touch.
It was 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, more
carefully, as he looked away from me at Hazel. Weren’t his eyes different somehow? More
inward looking than ever? Gazing in not merely at his thoughts, but at something else, something
he was keeping hidden or perhaps protecting.
Then we were chattering and taking glasses in our hands, and I came back to earth. For the
first ten minutes we were all so defensive, so carefully probing, that nobody learnt anything. Bill
had forgotten me altogether, that much was clear. He was engaged in getting to know me from
scratch, very cautiously so as not to hit a wrong note, with the object of getting me to contribute a
big subscription to his African project. I kept trying to absorb details about Hazel, but Bill was
talking earnestly about African education, and the strain of appearing to concentrate while
actually thinking about his wife proved so great that I decided it would be easier just to
concentrate. 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 four
at lunch.