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:
A tiny village school is soon to celebrate its 110th birthday – against all expectations. Five years ago it seemed certain to close, but parents and other villagers fought the local education authority and raised funds to keep it (1) ______. It is now ending its first term as a school (2) ______ by the village community, and the villagers are just proud of their achievement. They were furious when education chiefs tried to make them send the village children to other schools further away because the number of pupils at the village school was too (3) ______. The villagers started a huge campaign to (4) ______ money. They collected enough to hire a teacher and begin to help with school cleaning, lunch supervision and lessons. Now the school is doing well and it seems (5) ______ it will continue to run in the future.

Five years ago it seemed certain to close, but parents and other villagers fought the local education authority and raised funds to keep it (1) ______.