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13. Simon ... in me on the understanding that I wouldn't tell anyone else. A. confided B. intimated C. confessed D. disclosedQuestion 4: Read the text below. Use the words given in capitals at the end of each line to forma word that fits in the space in the same line (10 points).Example: (0) depressionEXERCISE Exercise is one of the best ways of keeping (0) ...DEPRESSEDaway. It improves your body and your mind and (1) ...youABLEto perform better in the work place at home. BREATH Proper (2) ... is essential if you want to get the mostCONSIDERfrom exercise and you should also take into (3) ...yourheart rate. It can be (4) ... to do too much, which is why allHARMIMPORTANTgood fitness instructors emphasise the (5) ... of "listeningto your body”. When you first start you should use good (6) ...,JUDGEbecause it's essay to make the mistake of using theequipment (7) ... or doing too much at one time. StartCORRECTslowly and build up gradually. DEMAND Exercise should not be seen as a (8) ... task; itcan be as essay as a quick walk. To increase your fitness(9) ..., exercise for 20 minutes a day, 4 to 6 times a weekSTEADYand you will notice a (10) ... in your body and mind in aDIFFERENTfew weeks.Question 5: Put the verbs in brackets into the suitable tenses, including passives if necessary(12 points). The mystery of the Mary Celeste is one of the greatest mysteries of the sea. An Americansailing ship, the Mary Celeste set sail from New York on 5 November 1872 - bound for Genoa inItaly, with a cargo of 1,700 barrels of commercial alcohol. A month later - on 5 December - she (1 sight) ...east of the Azores, inthe eastern Atlantic, by a British ship, the Dei Gratia. By an amazing coincidence, the master of theBritish ship, Captain David Reed Morehouse, and the master of the Mary Celeste , captainBenjamine Spooner Briggs (2 dine) ...together in New York the nightbefore the Mary Celeste (3 set sail) ... So Morehouse (4realize) ..., that the Mary Celeste (5 sail) ... in thewrong direction. What could be the ship doing, he (6 wonder) ...?Having hailed his friend's ship and got no reply, he (7 go) ... toinvestigate. There (8 be) ...nobody on board. Captain Briggs, his wife andtwo-year-old daughter (9 all vanish) ... The last entry in the ship's logwas for 25 November, on which day the Mary Celeste (10 be) ... withinsix miles of the Azores. An enquiry (11 hold later) ... in Gibraltar, but to this day the mysteryof the Mary Celeste ( 12 never solve) ... .Question 6: Fill in each gap with ONE appropriate word. The first gap has been done as an example (15 points).EVOLUTIONIt is generally accepted that present-day animals and plants differ from those of the past, (0) ...having ... changed by a general process called evolution. But this theory has beenwidely accepted for little (1) ... than a hundred years. The present theory of evolution wasdeveloped (2) ... two naturalists – Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace – workingindependently.When he was a young man (3) ... 22, Darwin went as naturalist on a round-the-world, map-making cruise aboard a British naval survey ship, HMS Beagle. The cruise began in1831 and lasted (4) ... 1836. In the Galapagos islands, Darwin came (5) ... a group of birds, later to become known (6) ... “Darwin’s finches”. They were similar toone (7) ... in their colour, song, nests and eggs, and were clearly descended (8) ...the same finch stock, (9) ... each had a different kind of beak and was adapted(10) ... a different way of life. (11) ... were seed-eaters, fly-catchers, woodpeckersand various other types.Darwin assumed that the ancestors of all (12) ... types had been blown to theislands in bleak weather, had survived and changed somehow (13) ... the various forms. Inthe years after the voyage, Darwin gradually came to the conclusion that individuals better suited(14) ... their environment would tend to leave more offspring while those (15) ...well adapted would die out.Question 7: Read the passage and decide which answer best fits each space(10 points). There people jumed (1) … a car on a busy Oxford road after a fire started under the bonnet thismorning. They were just able to rescue their possessions before the car burst into (2) … . Mr. PeterCollins, 25, of Wey Road, Berinsfield (3) … his Avenger estate car home (4) …. Work with twofriends when he noticed smoke coming into the car. He stopped, (5) … was unable to open thebonnet. He poured a bottle of water over the radiator where the smoke was coming from, but couldnot put out the fames. He then (6) … to get fire extinguishers from a nearby (7) …, but (8) … alsofailed to have any effect. (9) … he telephone for a (10) …, but by the time it arrived, the car wastotally burnt out.