Choose the word of phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage

Once a farmer (1) ______________ a comfortable life with his family. His chickens laid many eggs which the farmer used to sell to buy food and clothing (2) ______________ his family. One day, he went to (3) ______________ the eggs and discovered one of the chickens laid a gold egg. He shouted (4) ______________ to his wife, “We’re rich”. His wife ran to him and they both look at the egg in amazement. The wife wanted more, so her husband decided to cut open all the chickens and find more eggs. Unfortunately, he couldn’t find any eggs. When he finished all, the chickens were (5) ______________. There were no more eggs of any kind for the (6) ______________ farmer and greedy wife.

Question 5:

A. die

B. díed

C. dying

D. dead

Choose the word of phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage

Once a farmer (1) ______________ a comfortable life with his family. His chickens laid many eggs which the farmer used to sell to buy food and clothing (2) ______________ his family. One day, he went to (3) ______________ the eggs and discovered one of the chickens laid a gold egg. He shouted (4) ______________ to his wife, “We’re rich”. His wife ran to him and they both look at the egg in amazement. The wife wanted more, so her husband decided to cut open all the chickens and find more eggs. Unfortunately, he couldn’t find any eggs. When he finished all, the chickens were (5) ______________. There were no more eggs of any kind for the (6) ______________ farmer and greedy wife.

Question 3:

A. collect

B. buy

C. sell

D. save

Choose the word of phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage

Once a farmer (1) ______________ a comfortable life with his family. His chickens laid many eggs which the farmer used to sell to buy food and clothing (2) ______________ his family. One day, he went to (3) ______________ the eggs and discovered one of the chickens laid a gold egg. He shouted (4) ______________ to his wife, “We’re rich”. His wife ran to him and they both look at the egg in amazement. The wife wanted more, so her husband decided to cut open all the chickens and find more eggs. Unfortunately, he couldn’t find any eggs. When he finished all, the chickens were (5) ______________. There were no more eggs of any kind for the (6) ______________ farmer and greedy wife.

Question 1:

A. leave

B. left

C. live

D. lived

Choose the word of phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage

Once a farmer (1) ______________ a comfortable life with his family. His chickens laid many eggs which the farmer used to sell to buy food and clothing (2) ______________ his family. One day, he went to (3) ______________ the eggs and discovered one of the chickens laid a gold egg. He shouted (4) ______________ to his wife, “We’re rich”. His wife ran to him and they both look at the egg in amazement. The wife wanted more, so her husband decided to cut open all the chickens and find more eggs. Unfortunately, he couldn’t find any eggs. When he finished all, the chickens were (5) ______________. There were no more eggs of any kind for the (6) ______________ farmer and greedy wife.

Question 6:

A. poor

B. foolish

C. sociable

D. generous

Choose the word of phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage

Once a farmer (1) ______________ a comfortable life with his family. His chickens laid many eggs which the farmer used to sell to buy food and clothing (2) ______________ his family. One day, he went to (3) ______________ the eggs and discovered one of the chickens laid a gold egg. He shouted (4) ______________ to his wife, “We’re rich”. His wife ran to him and they both look at the egg in amazement. The wife wanted more, so her husband decided to cut open all the chickens and find more eggs. Unfortunately, he couldn’t find any eggs. When he finished all, the chickens were (5) ______________. There were no more eggs of any kind for the (6) ______________ farmer and greedy wife.

Question 4:

A. exciting

B. excited

C. excitedly

D. excitingly

Choose the word of phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage

Once a farmer (1) ______________ a comfortable life with his family. His chickens laid many eggs which the farmer used to sell to buy food and clothing (2) ______________ his family. One day, he went to (3) ______________ the eggs and discovered one of the chickens laid a gold egg. He shouted (4) ______________ to his wife, “We’re rich”. His wife ran to him and they both look at the egg in amazement. The wife wanted more, so her husband decided to cut open all the chickens and find more eggs. Unfortunately, he couldn’t find any eggs. When he finished all, the chickens were (5) ______________. There were no more eggs of any kind for the (6) ______________ farmer and greedy wife.

Question 2:

A. to

B. for

C. about

D. of

Read the passage below and answer each question:

Once a farmer lived a comfortable life with his family. His chickens laid many eggs which the farmer used to buy food and clothing for his family. One day, he went to collect the eggs and discovered one of the chickens laid a gold egg. He shouted excitedly to his wife: “We are rich! We are rich! “ His wife ran to him and they both

looked at the eggs in amazement. His wife wanted more, so her husband decided to cut open all the chickens and find more gold eggs. Unfortunately, he couldn’t find any eggs. When he finished, all the chickens were dead. There were no more eggs of any kind for the foolish farmer and his greedy wife.

1. What did the farmer do when he discovered one of his chickens laid a gold egg?

2. What did the farmer shout to his wife?

3. Why did the farmer decide to cut open all his chickens?

4. Did the farmer find any more gold eggs?

SECTION A: PASSAGE FOR GAP-FILL In this section you must find a word from the box to complete the numbered blanks in the passage below. Use only ONE word for each blank. (15 points):

Used,on, afford, enough, every, soon, wait, used

Listening, home, few, who, what, won, all

There was once a large, fat woman (26)... had a small, thin husband.He had a job in a big company and was given his weekly wage(27)...... Friday morning. As (28).. .. as he got (29).......on friday,  his wife(30).....to make him give her (31).... his money, and then she(32).... to give him back only (33)......to buy his lunch in the office every day. One day the small man came home very excited. He hurried into the livingroom .His wife was (34).....to the radio and eating chocolates there.You"ll never guess(35)....happened to me today, dear," he said. He waited for a few second and then added. I'll (36)...... ten thousand pounds (37)...... the lottery !".  "That's wonderfull" said his wife delightedly. But then she thought for a(38).....seconds and added angrily, " but (39). ...a moment! How could you (40)....to buy the ticket?"

Read the text and then choose the best answer A, B, C, or D.

Geoffrey Hampden has a lot of friends and is very popular at parties. Everybody admired him for his fine sense of humour, except his six-year-old daughter, Jenny.

Recently, one of Geoffrey's closest friends asked him to make a speech at a weeding reception. This is the sort of thing that Geoffrey loves. He prepared the speech carefully and went to the weeding with Jenny. He included a large number of funny stories in the speech and, of course, it was a great success. As soon as he finished, Jenny told him she wanted to go home. Geoffrey was a little disappointed by this but he did as his daughter asked. On the way home, he asked Jenny if she enjoyed the speech. To his surprise, she said she didn't. Geoffrey asked her why this was so and she told him that she did not like to see so many people laughing at him!

Question. What was he invited to do one day?

A. To go to a wedding.

B. To make jokes at a party.

C. To make a speech at a wedding reception.

D. To prepare a speech.