VII. Choose the sentence which is closest in meaning to the printed one.
He acts as though nothing matters to him.
A.He acts when there's no matter for him.
B.He acts although nothing matters to him.
C.He seems not to care about anything.
D.Nothing matters to him when he acts.

VI. Read the passage below and choose the best answer A, B, C or D to each question.
I’m interested in sports, especially athletics, and I run seven or eight kilometres every day. I particularly enjoy cross country running, where you have to run across fields, jump over streams and so on. While I’m running I think about all sorts of things, and at the end of a run I’m sometimes surprised to find that I’ve managed to solve a problem that was on my mind.
Next year, I’m going to try the London Marathon. It’s hard race 26 miles, or 42 kilometres-and you have to be tough to finish, but I very much want to do it. I worry a bit about getting too old, and I’d like to prove to myself that I’m still almost as fit as I was twenty years old.
I’m interested in mountaineering s well as running. I’ll never become an except climber, but I know what I’m doing in the mountains. I successfully completed a course in snow and ice climbing when I was younger; and I’ve done a series of easy climbs in the Alps during the last few years. My wife doesn’t share my interest in mountains. She agreed to go climbing with me once, but she found that she felt ill as soon as she got above 1,000 metres.
The writer’s wife is not interested in mountaineering for ____.
A.it doesn’t bring her any interest
B.she almost feels ill at the height of above 1,000 metres
C.she doesn’t want to climb together with her husband
D.the air is cold

III. Choose the best answer to each of the following question.
He ____ could not come ____ did not want to.
A.either – or
B.neither – or
C.either – nor
D.neither – nor

III. Choose the best answer to each of the following question.
Not ____ did she refuse to speak to him, but she also vowed never to see him again.
A.even
B.only
C.at all
D.always

III. Choose the best answer to each of the following question.
Neither the TV nor the video sets ____ properly.
A.works
B.work
C.has worked
D.is working

III. Choose the best answer to each of the following question.
______ applicants should send their completed forms to the personnel office.
A.Quality
B.Qualitative
C.Qualifications
D.Qualified

III. Choose the best answer to each of the following question.
There is considerable ______ over the safety of the treatment, so it hasn't been applied yet.
A.agree
B.agreement
C.disagree
D.disagreement

III. Choose the best answer to each of the following question.
British people are very interested in ____ in sports.
A.entering
B.interfering
C.involving
D.taking part

III. Choose the best answer to each of the following question.
My son like sports very much and he can also take part in every school sporting activity. He is very ____.
A.sophisticated
B.interested
C.athletic
D.popular

III. Choose the best answer to each of the following question.
Our recreation is quite different ____ yours.
A.between
B.among
C.with
D.from