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.