Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 29. Fill in the appropriate word in question 26

How the Internet Is Changing Our Language

There are words that we say today that 70 years ago weren’t even in (25) ____. If a person were to remark to a 1950s businessman, “Go and check this website out on the Internet and get back to me via Facebook,” the businessman would have no clue as to what had just been said. We know exactly what the words mean, though, so they (26) _____ perfect sense to us.

The problem that people are encountering today is the same as the 1950s businessman would have encountered - he would have come (27)____a word that would mean nothing because he lived in a world where Internet technology is changing and progressing today at an even faster (28)_____, and this is creating changes in the way we communicate. Our words are different, and even our means of (29) _______ those words across are different as well. Forget about a 60-plus year difference; we speak much differently than we did even 10 or 20 years ago.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

We are not allowed _____ jeans at school.

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

My brother has become a bit of a couch potato since he stopped playing football.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

Facial _____ show one’s feelings when he is communicating.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

We _____ won the game if we’d had a few more minutes.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

____ my personal qualities, I have experience of working in a multi-national company for three years.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

The brochure says that the hotel has a great _________of the sea.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following exchanges.

- “I’m sorry for being late.”

          - “______________”