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PART 6: Insert A, AN, THE or Φ (zero article). Write on the numbered blanks.

I came home from school one day with (1) ________ headache, and took two aspirins

from (2) _______ bottle in (3) ________ medicine cupboard. They left (4) _______ curious

aftertaste in my mouth, and when my mother came home half an hour later I told her what I had

done. She shrieked and ran to (5) _______ telephone: I had taken some tablets that (6) ________

doctor had prescribed for her stomach cramps, and she had been warned that it was dangerous to

exceed (7) _______ stated doze – one tablet a day. She had broken (8) ________ bottle that

morning, and transferred (9) _______ tablets to (10) _______ empty aspirin bottle.

PART 1: Choose the word that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage. Circle A,

B, C or D to indicate your answer. (0) has been done as an example.

THE OPEN UNIVERSITY

The Open University was created in 1968 to (0) ___________ people who cannot afford

to (1) __________ regular courses of study, the opportunity of studying and (2) _________ a

university diploma or degree. They study at home and their academic performance is assessed by

(3) __________ of written examinations or project work. Most Open University students (4)

__________ in study while also holding down a job or coping with a busy home life. They study

in order to update their job skills or for personal (5) __________.

At the heart of most courses is a (6) ___________ of specially written and professionally

printed textbooks and workbooks which students receive by post. On many of the courses,

students are (7) __________ to watch television programmes on the BBC network, which are

programmes is to develop and broaden the study experience, so that students do not have to (10)

__________ only on the printed material they are sent.

Students are (11) __________ with all the notes and books they need and, in (12)

__________, some courses also include audio and video cassettes and computer software.

However, studying at the Open University can be a (13) __________ because students have few

opportunities to (14) ___________ each other. That is why the University encourages students to

set (15) ____________ and run informal study groups themselves.

0. ○ ^{A . give B. bring C. let D. make}