Fill in an appropriate word in each blank.

Kipling was the first writer........ (1)..... expressed the faith and national pride. He was.......(2)...... in Bombay India.........(3)..... 1865 and was taken .....(4)..... England to .....(5).... educated at the .....(6).... of 6. But at the age of 17 he returned ......(7)...... India and became a journalist. ........(8)..... this time he.....(9).... a great amount of prose and portry. After wards he returned to England and travelled in Japan and America. He received the 1907 Nobel ....(10)... for literature and died in 1936 while he was working on his autbiographical notes.

Kiping was the first writer...........expressed the faith and national pride. He was.............in Bombay India................1865 and was taken..............England to......educated at the.........of 6. But at the age of 17 he returned...............INdia and became a journalist............this time he...............a great amount of prose and potry. After wards he returned to England and travelled in Japan and America. He recived the 1907 Nobel..........for literature and died in 1936 while he woking on his autbiographical notes.

Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the space provided. (2.0 points)                       

Computing is now at the (1) ___________ stage as printing was when the first printing presses were used. (2) ___________ printing presses were invented, only rich people like kings and dukes could afford to buy books. Often these (3) ___________ were unable to read and hadn’t got enough time to learn. In any case, the books were so big that it was difficult for anyone to relax with a book (4) ___________ we do today. They wanted books (5) ___________ they were expensive and there was something magical about them. Only a few people were able to (6) ___________, and it took an extremely long time to write a book. Monks and other people who could write said ordinary people could not learn to read.

The position with computers is very similar today. A few years (7) ___________, computers were very large and expensive. Business managers and rich people ordered them but (8) ___________ didn’t know how to (9) ___________ them. In many (10) ___________,  however, the situation has now completely changed. Lots of people not only own microcomputer but also know how to use them.

VIII. Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word. (2 pts)

            Television  owes its origins to many inventors. But it was the single -minded determination of an amateur’ John Logie Baird ‘that led (1)…….. the first live television broadcast.

            Born in Scotland in 1888 and educated in Glassgow’ John Logie Baird earned a living (2)………a razor-blade salesman. In the 1890s Guglielmo Marconi showed that sound could (3)……..sent by radio waves. Baird became convinced that a similar system could transmit a picture. He spent most of (4)……..spare time working on his ideas in his tiny workshop without any commercial support. He had to use his own earnings to continue his research. In 1924 ‘Baird successfully transmitted the general outline of a figure over more (5)……… three meters. He continued to experiment and (6) ………October 25 ‘1925  transmitted a recognizable image of a doll. He ran down to the office on the office on the ground floor and persuaded one of the boys to come upstairs. (7)………boy became the first  living image transmitted by television. Overnight ‘Baird became famous and the money (8) ……..he needed to continue his research was at (9)……...made one from London to New York. He continued experimenting  (10) ………spent his last years exploring the possibility of color television.

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase (1p)

              Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known to most people as Mark Twain, was born (….1…) 1835 in a town near Hannibal, Mo. He spent his boyhood in Hannibal, (…2…) is on the Mississippi River. When he grew up, he became (…..3…..) river pilot.  Later, he went and worked as a reporter in Virginia City, Nev. From then on Clemens used Mark Twain as his pen name. Mark Twain died in (…..4…..) when he was seventy five years old.

1. a. in                    b. at                     c. on                                d. for

2. a. which                        b. that                   c. who                    d. when

3. a. an                           b. the                    c. a                       d. no article                               

4. a. 1910                    b. 1901                        c. 1900                   d.1835

VIII: Fill in each numbered blank with a suitable word.  

                 first      next      more     left    none      was    with     have      realized      sat    

   The morning train seemed ...(1)... crowded ...(2)... passengers than usual. At ...(3)... I thought I would have to stand for the whole ...(4)..., but when the train ...(5)... the station, I ...(6)... an empty seat ...(7)... to the window. I looked carefully around but ...(8)...of the passengers seemed to ...(9)... that seat. I came up to that seat and ...(10)...down . Opposite me ...(11)... a boy, he was playing with a  small object, no doubt but as soon as I looked at it again, I ...(12)... why I had found the seat so empty.

VIII: Fill in each numbered blank with a suitable word.  

                 first      next      more     left    none      was    with     have      realized      sat    

   The morning train seemed ...(1)... crowded ...(2)... passengers than usual. At ...(3)... I thought I would have to stand for the whole ...(4)..., but when the train ...(5)... the station, I ...(6)... an empty seat ...(7)... to the window. I looked carefully around but ...(8)...of the passengers seemed to ...(9)... that seat. I came up to that seat and ...(10)...down . Opposite me ...(11)... a boy, he was playing with a  small object, no doubt but as soon as I looked at it again, I ...(12)... why I had found the seat so empty.