SHE WAS THE FIRST WOMAN IN INDIA……….THE PRESIDENT.A. BE B. IS C....

25. She was the first woman in India……….the president.A. be B. is C. to be D. beingC. READINGI. Complete the passage with the words in the box. doing up university tested predict To do well at school, college or …..………..( 26 ) you usually need to do well inexams. “All students hate exams” may be a generalization, but it is fairly true one. Certainly, allof the students I’ve known disliked ……….………( 27 ) exams, None of them thought that theexam system was fair; to do well in a exam you simply had to be able to ……..…………( 28 )the questions which would be asked, This was the case as regards two students in my class atcollege. Both of them were exceptionally bright, but in the final year “exam” neither of themgot an A grade. In fact, they both got Cs. The exam had ……….( 29 ) us on questionswhich had come up the previous year. They had both assumed that the same questions wouldn’tcome……….….. ( 30 ) again, and hadn’t prepared for them.II. Read the following passage and circle the letter A,B,C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 31 - 35.

I often hear or read about “natural disaster”- the eruption of Mount St Helen, a volcanoin the state of Washington; Hurricane Andrew in Florida; the floods in the American Midwest;terrible earthquakes all over the world; huge fires; and so on. But I’ll never forget my firstpersonal experience with the strangeness of nature – “the London Killer Fog” of 1952. Itbegan on Thursday, December 4

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when a high –pressure system (warm air) covered southernEngland. With the freezing-cold air below, heavy fog formed. Pollution from factories, cars,and coal stoves mixed with the fog. The humidity was terribly high, there was no breeze at all.Traffic (cars, trains, and boats) stopped. People couldn’t see, and some walked onto therailroad tracks or into the river. It was hard to breathe, and many people got sick. Finally onTuesday, December 9

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, the wind came and the fog went away. But after that, even morepeople got sick, many of them died.