* Read the following passage and mark the letter A, II, C or I) on your answer sheet to

indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

THANKS A MILLION

  Percy Ross was bom in 1916 in Michigan. His parents has come to the USA from Latvia and Russia and the family were poor. But Percy soon showed a talent (31)_________ business and made a (32)_______in the fur trade and auction business. Then disaster struck and he lost all his money. But he soon made a fortune again - this time by manufacturing plastic bags. In 1969, he sold his plastic bag company for millions of dollars.

  Ross started giving away in 1977: he gave $50,000 to 50 Vietnamese refugees so that they could make a new home in the USA. (33) ________ he held a Christmas party tor 1,050 poor children in the American town of Minneapolis. Ross bought a bike for every one of the 1,050 children at the party.

  After these first experiences of giving money away, Ross decided to do it on a (34)________basis. He started a newspaper column called “Thanks a Million”, and later a radio show, in order to (35)_________his money. It took years, but Ross finally succeeded in giving away his entire fortune.

(Source: Solutions - Intermediate)

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* Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following question.

 You must drive it home to him that spending too much time playing computer games will do him no good.

* Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

 The weather was so dismal that they had to cancel the picnic immediately.

* Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

 We cannot create a rule-based ASEAN. We don’t have means of drafting,

interpreting and enforcing rules.

* Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.

 “What qualities do you have that make you a suitable candidate for this post?” 

  “________”

* Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.

 When I got to the cinema Jack had been waiting for me.

* Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.

 Endemic diseases are diseases that habitual infect only those persons living within certain geographical limits.

* Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

 1 don’t mind whether we go to the seaside or not this year.