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 8 to 12.

Most Americans eat three meals (8)______ the day: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Breakfast begins between 7:00 and 8:00am, lunch between 11:00 am and noon, and dinner between 6:00 and 8:00 pm. On Sundays "brunch" is a (9)______ of breakfast and lunch, typically beginning at 11:00 am. Students often enjoy a "study break" or evening snack around 10:00 or 11:00 pm. Breakfast and lunch tend to be light meals, with only one (10)______. Dinner is the main meal.

(11)_____ breakfast Americans will eat cereal with milk which are often mixed (12)_____ in a bowl, a glass of orange juice, and toasted bread or muffin with jam, butter, or margarine.

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

There is little ____ of things improving soon.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part that needs correction in the following question

Mrs. Thatcher has become Prime Minister in 1979 after winning the elections.

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

We need to act quickly to ____ to climate change, or it will be a disaster for the whole planet.

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

Nowadays, people are searching for more ____ materials to build their houses.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to the following question.

I didn't speak to Anita. I didn't see her.

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 question.

The flight may be delayed. Please call me from the airport.

Before Jean's father passed away, her mother used to _______.