I WOULD RATHER CYCLE THAN TRAVEL BY MOTORBIKE TO WORK. I PREFER...

40. I would rather cycle than travel by motorbike to work.

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I prefer ……… .

V. Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank.

Louis Braille was born in France in 1809. His father had a small business. He ..(41)....shoes and other

things from leather. Louis liked to help his father in the store even (42) … ..he was very small. One day when

Louis was three years old, he was cutting some leather ,suddenly the knife (43) … ..and hit him in the eye.

Louis soon became completely blind. When he was ten years old, he(44) … ..the National Institute for the

Blind in Paris. One day his class went to visit a (45) … ..exhibit by a captain in the army. One thing in the

exhibit was very interesting for Louis . It showed messages in code. Armies send messages in (46) … codes

so no one else can read them. The captain wrote this code in raised letters on very thick paper.

Louis thought a lot about this code. Then he (47) … .to write in the same way so blind people could

“read” (48) … . their fingers . It is very difficult to feel the differences between raised letters. (49) …… ..of

letters, Louis used a “cell” of six dots . He (50) …… the dots with two dots across and three down.