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Elias National Park is the biggest in the United States of America. It is perhaps the ___1___ and least known park. Some of the highest mountains in the United States are also ___2___ there and it has many glaciers. ___3___ such as bears, wolves, caribous, moose and mountain goats ___4___ the park. ___5___ few people live in it all year round. Only two gravel roads ___6___ the park, one from the west, the ___7___ from the north. Hunting is permitted in designated ___8___, about one-third of the park acreage. Guides are assigned a quota of clients. Only a specified ___9___ of each species can be hunted, to keep game population healthy. In summer, thousands of tourists arrive to ___10___ the beauty and solitude of the park. 1. (A) wild (B) wilder (C) wildest (D) wildly 2. (A) find (B) finds (C) finding (D) found 3. (A) Animals (B) Creatures (C) Life (D) Living 4. (A) live (B) roam (C) wander (D) move 5. (A) And (B) Therefore (C) However (D) Moreover 6. (A) reach (B) enter (C) serve (D) pass 7. (A) one (B) other (C) others (D) another 8. (A) spot (B) space (C) area (D) areas 9. (A) amount (B) quantity (C) number (D) numbers

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Choose the best answer from the options A, B, C and D. Tom Hanks is a top movie actor. ___1___ he is talented and popular, he is ___2___ ordinary man off-screen. He is rather ___3___ and does not like to talk much about ___4___. This is partly because he had an unsettled childhood. Constantly ___5___ from house to house and changing schools meant he didn't have many ___6___. However, he says he had a lot of fun growing up ___7___ the drawbacks. Most of the ___8___ he plays are lovable. He has acted as a perplexed businessman, as an absent-minded policeman and as a teenage romantic ___9___ others. His ___10___ known film is Forrest Gump which became a big hit. 1. (A) Although 6. (A) peers (B) However friends (C) Since (C) comrades 7. (A) though (B) an (B) even despite (D) -(D) however actors (C) reserved (C) films characters 4. (A) it 9. (A) with (B) his among (D) himself (B) for (C) him (C) (D) retired (D) 3. (A) timid 8. (A) people (B) humble (B) (C) the (C) (D) Nevertheless (D) partners 2. (A) a (B)

(D) between best (B) moves moving (D) popular (B) most

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Pelangi Beach Resort on Langkawi Island has intricately carved wooden chalets with high sloping roofs. The gardens ___1___ beautifully landscaped to ___2___ the cottage setting. Pathways meander through luxuriant flora and foliage. Pelangi means rainbow ___3___ Malay. Like the proverbial pot of gold ___4___ the end of the rainbow, Pelangi Beach Resort is a rich treasure trove ___5___ those who seek to unwind in peaceful surroundings. ___6___ the rainbow itself, the resort ___7___ you a colorful holiday away from the city crowd and to snap the hold ___8___ routine. You can see smiling waiters eager to wait ___9___ you; the sparkling waters and whitepowdered sand. There are lots of activities to keep you ___10___ the go -- the beautifully landscaped swimming pool, jacuzzi and water sports facilities. The resort even has tennis and squash courts. 1. (A) is 6. (A) Like (B) are (B) Likes enhance 7. (A) promise (B) enhanced promises (C) enhances (A) at 8. (A) (C) promised (D) enhancing (D) is promising 3. (B) (C) was (C) Unlike (D) were (D) Besides 2. (A)

of (B) by in (D) at at 9. (A) at (B) in on (D) by on (C) for (C) for (D) at (D) along (D) by 5. (A) from 10. (A) in (B) who (B) (B) for (C) off (C) 4. (A) (B) off (C) with (C) on (D)

Wole Soyinka Wole Soyinka, who was born in 1934, is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. Many 1) __________ him as Africa's most 2) __________ playwright. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, the first African writer to win this honour. Soyinka has played an active role in Nigeria's 3) __________ history. In 1967, during the Civil War in Nigeria, he was arrested by the Federal Government and put in solitary 4) __________ for attempting to broker a peace between the warring parties. While in prison he wrote 5) __________ which was published in a collection. He was released two years later after international attention was drawn to his 6) __________. His experiences in prison are recounted in a book.He is an outspoken 7) __________ of many Nigerian administrations, and of political tyrannies worldwide, including the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe. Much of his 8) __________ has been concerned with "the 9) __________ boot and the irrelevance of the colour of the foot that wears it". 1986 was his most glorious year and occurred during the reigns of several violent and repressive African regimes. The Swedish Academy 10) __________ him the Nobel Prize for Literature as a writer who in a wide 11) __________ perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of 12) __________. The foremost Nigerian 13) __________ became the first African Nobel laureate, enshrined forever in the history of world literature. His Nobel Lecture was devoted to South African freedom-fighter Nelson Mandela. Soyinka's 14) __________ speech criticised apartheid and the politics of racial segregation imposed on the population by the Nationalist South African government. That year brought him another 15) __________ award - the Agip Prize for Literature and he was awarded a Nigerian national decoration: Commander of the Federal Republic.

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wright writing 9 oppress oppressive oppression oppresser 10 granted awards awarded grants 11 culture cultural cultured cultures 12 exist existance existence existential 13 dramatic drama dramatically dramatist

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