IX. Read the following passage and decide which option A, B, C or D best fits each space. Write your answers in the box below.
SEASONAL ADVICE
If you are about to graduate from school or college this summer and feel in need of a little advice about what’s important in life, you could do a lot worse than consider the words of ___(1)____that were read out on my last day at school. Do not expect to understand the value of your youth until it has ____(2)_____. But you can be sure that thirty years from now you’ll _____(3)_____ back on life and _____(4)_____ just how good things were.
Try not to worry about the future – or at least be aware that worrying never really helps to solve anything. Real troubles will always sneak up and _____(5)_____ you by surprise. But remember it doesn’t do any harm to do something that scares you every so often.
Do not lie and cheat – especially in love – and do not _____(6)_____ up with people who deceive you. Do not let opportunities pass you by, as the time to do things simply runs ____(7)______. Today is almost certainly more important than tomorrow.
It helps to be kind ______(8)___ your neighbors and colleagues – it’s nice and they’ll miss you when you’re not ____(9)_____. Friends come and go but there are a precious few that you should try and _____(10)_____ on to. Without quality friends, quality time is harder to come by.
1. A. knowledge B. learning C. opinion D. wisdom
2. A. gone B. been C. lasted D. spent
3. A. come B. look C. think D. go
4. A. remind B. rethink C. recall D. reappear
5. A. get B. happen C. appear D. take
6. A. look B. come C. put D. bring
7. A. out B. down C. off D. over
8. A. about B. to C. with D. for
9. A. in B. around C. with D. over
10. A. take B. hold C. stay D. stick
