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Q2. Elephants are not really very savage animals, but occasionally they can be in a very bad temper. Their most dangerous habit at such moments is to pick up, with their trunk, a large stick or stone, and throw it with great force at someone standing nearby. When this happens the only thing anyone can do, is to jump quickly out of the way. ---------- When an elephant is in a bad temper _____.

1. it may try to hurt someone.
2. it moves its trunk from side to side.
3. one shouldn’t throw stones at it.
4. one should keep perfectly still.
5. it never shows it.

Q3. Where the pilot finally managed to land _______.

1. is not known
2. nobody knows;
3. we don’t know
4. nobody knew

Q4. Find the synonym of the following word. ***** Respect

1. esteem
2. belief
3. scorn
4. contempt

Q5. I was knocked for ……… when Kate told me she had passed her driving test.

1. nine
2. eight
3. seven
4. six

Q6. Hello! I ______ to phone you all week. Where ______?

1. am trying / were you
2. have tried / did you go
3. tried / were you
4. have been trying / have you been

Q7. They always give the available seats to ______ comes first.

1. whoever
2. whom
3. whichever
4. whomever

Q8. Don’t you think we should go ______ our plans again?

1. down
2. through
3. on

Q9. On the day of my first piano recital, I became more and more nervous. To help me calm down, my piano teacher told me to place several cabbages in the room where I practiced. I was so eager to get over my nerves that I was willing to try anything. For the next few hours, I played to an audience of cabbages. When the time of the recital finally arrived, I was still terribly nervous. My hands felt like ice. When I finally walked across the stage, I looked out into the dark audience. I could not see anyone! All those people out there could just as easily have been cabbages. As I sat down to play, my hands relaxed. Before I knew it, I had played all my pieces without a mistake. For the first time, the cabbage heads applauded. --------- On the day of the recital the music teacher _____.

1. advised the writer to put cabbages in the room where he practiced and play for them.
2. warned the writer not to look at the audience.
3. had no patience with the writer because he was nervous too.
4. felt nearly as nervous about the recital as the writer did.
5. couldn’t think of a way of helping the writer to stay calm.

Q10. Jeremy had to eat humble pie because

1. there was nothing else to eat
2. he wanted to seem humble
3. it was clear he was wrong