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I. Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space.
For each question, mark the correct letter A. B, C or D on your answer sheet.
CHOCOLATE
When the Spanish explorer Cortez reached Mexico in the sixteenth century, he found the people there using a drink they (56) ........... chocolate. It tasted quite strong (57) ........... it had pepper in it. To (58) ........... it tastes better, the Spanish added sugar to it. When chocolate first came to Europe in the seventeenth century, people started to drink it with milk, (59) ........... of water. Nowadays, tones of chocolate and cocoa are (60) ........... to factories, where they are turned (61) ........... any popular sweets and cakes.
(62) ........... chocolate and cocoa come from the fruit of the cacao tree. Cacao trees (63) ........... only be grown in hot countries, as they need a warm climate. Cacao is an American plant, (64) ........... still grows wild in the northern part of South America. Countries in Central and South America were the first to grow it, but today Africa (65) ........... the world with the most chocolate.
56. A. announced 57. A. while 58. A. let 59. A. apart 60. A. delivered 61. A. down 62. A. Both 63. A. ought 64. A. what 65. A. brings | B. told B. because B. cause B. except B. directed B. into B. Every B. can B. which B. fetches | C. called C. so C. allow C. rather C. prepared C. off C. Either C. have C. who C. supplies | D. declared D. whether D. make D. instead D. produced D. over D. Each D. might D. whose D. gives |
THE ANNOUNCEMENT
The editor sent an e-mail (38) ................................................. every journalist on the news desk announcing (39) ..................................... there would be an emergency editorial meeting at one o’clock. I had heard (40) ..................................... the problems the paper was facing and I heard (40) ..................................... my colleagues that the paper might be going to close. Whatever it was, it was likely (42) ..................................... be bad news.
At the meeting, the editor told us (43) ..................................... to tell anyone else yet, but the paper had been taken over by Ronald Morduck. He said he had only been informed (44) ..................................... the decision that morning. We were all so surprised (45) ..................................... the news that nobody knew what to say. I made a comment (46) ..................................... a colleague that it was time to start looking for a new job. The editor heard this, and finally managed to persuade us not (47) ..................................... quit until we had seen what changes would be made.
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