A LOT OF PEOPLE PAID THEIR LIVES IN THIS DISASTER ___________ A. WH...

8. A lot of people paid their lives in this disaster ___________

A. while running away from the blue zone.

B. for entering the ‘ forbidden’ zones.

C. while climbing to the summit of Mount St Helens.

D. for stopping people evacuating from the red zones.

Question 8 : Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word to complete the

passage below:

Sanjit Ray works for a computer company in Los Angeles, California. He writes computer

…( 1 )…. But he doesn’t go to Los Angeles every day. In fact, he doesn’t live in the USA. He

lives in India. Every day, he…( 2 )…the bus into Bombay and he goes to an office there. The

computer company sends information to him…( 3 )…e-mail. He works on the information on a

computer and then he sends the program back to California. The computer company doesn’t do

the work in the USA because it costs…( 4 )…to do it in India. Salaries there are…( 5 )….Also,

India is twelve hours…( 6 )…of California. So the computer company sends information at the

end of the day and Sanjit works on it when it’s…( 7 )…time in the USA. When he sends the

programs…( 8 )…, they arrive in California before the computer company starts in the

morning.

Question 9 : The article below is not complete and logical. Eight paragraphs or

sentences have been removed from it. Find out one of the suitable paragraphs / sentences

( A- I ), then insert it into the gaps ( 1- 8 ) where it should be to make the article a good

one. There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use:

THE DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET

That day in May three years ago could have put me off flying completely, but it didn’t. I had

always wanted to take up flying, but it wasn’t until I had seen an advertisement for a cheap

trial lesson that I decided to try it.

1

__ or at least I thought I did! So I rang up the flying club and booked a lesson.

2

When I turned up at the club, I paid and then met my instructor, who turned out to be a

woman.

3

I should have listened to her from the moment we had shaken hands, because she was in fact

giving me my own private lecture on the basic of flying. The trouble was that everything was

so new and strange to me that I hardly heard anything she said.

4

The instructor was still talking, giving me information and advice, but I couldn’t take anything

in. I wasn’t frightened: I was just too interested in leaving the earth and in the view beneath us.

5

But we had only up in the air for about ten minutes__ and remember that this was the first time

I had ever been in an aeroplane__ when she said: ‘Right. You can take over now. Good luck.

Just keep her steady with the horizon.’And she took her hands off the controls.

6

I obviously did something wrong because the next moment the ground seemed to be racing up

to meet us.

7

my instructor took over the controls and we were soon flying straight again.

I honestly admit that the experience was more embarrassing than anything else.

8

but friends won’t let you forget things like that very easily, will they?

THE REMOVED PARAGRAPHS :

A.

I know that I froze for a moment or two, but I don’t know exactly what I did after that.

B.

Although she knew I had no experience at all, she took me straight out to the plane

which was being tanked up with fuel.

C.

I have been flying regularly for three years now and can put a plane in and out of a dive,

D.

I had very little money and no knowledge at all about flying, but I had a lot of courage

E.

“ Oh, yes, I know there’s an energy crisis__ but we’ll pull through somehow!”

F.

I woke up very excited on the morning of the ‘historic day’ and cycled to the airport

which was about ten miles away.

G.

We put on parachutes, got into the plane, which was about as big as a Mini inside,

strapped ourselves in side by side, and took off.

H.

I thought we were going to crash, but with a calm ‘I’ll take over again now’,

I.

The instructor was flying the plane of course and I was just holding my dual controls.

PART IV : WRITING ( 4.0 pts )

Question 10 : For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as

possible in meaning to the original one, but using the word given.This word must not

be altered in any way:

Example: ( o ) There was no conclusion at the end of the workshop.

Conclude

They did not conclude anything at the end of the workshop.