Exercise 5. 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 21 to 25.
Polar bears are in danger of dying out. Unlike some other endangered animals, it's not hunters that are the problem, it's climate change. Since 1979, the ice cap at the Arctic Circle where the polar bears has reduced in size (21)_________ about 30 per cent. The temperature in the Arctic has slowly been rising and this is (22)_________  the sea ice to melt, endangering the polar bears' home. The polar bears' main sources of food are the different types of seals found in the Arctic. They catch them by waiting next to the air holes seals have made in the ice. (23)_________  the bears are very strong swimmers, they could never catch seals in water. This means that the bears really do rely on the ice to hunt.
Polar bears also need sea ice to travel. They can cover a huge territory and often swim from one part of the ice to another. They have been (24)_________  to swim up to 100 km, but when there is less ice, they may have to swim further and this can (25)_________  fatal to the bears. A number of bears have drown in the last few years and scientists believe that it is because they were not able to reach more ice before they became too tired and couldn't swim any further.
(22) 
A.making                   
B.turning                    
C.causing                   
D.resulting

A number of students ____________ playing  table – tennis now
A.are
B.was    
C.were     
D.is

I_____skiing if there ______more snow.
A.will go -------were
B.would go------is
C.went ---were 
D.would go------were

He told me to rest  for a while

“__________ for a while”, he said
A.To rest          
B.Rest  
C.Do you rest               
D.Resting

...............(6)
A. straight
B.just
C.direct
D.rather

Phil was sentenced to three years _________ for his part in the robbery.
A.prisoner
B.imprisonment
C.imprison
D.prison

From the four words or phrases (A, B, C or D) choose the one that best completes the sentence.
Do you want to open another ................... of orange juice?
A.packet            
B.sack      
C.cask    
D.carton

Many a _________ it difficult to avoid the interference of mass media in their life.
A.pop star find        
B.pop star finds  
C.pop stars find
D. pop stars finds

Choose the word that has the main stress placed differently from that of the others.

A.reasonable   
B.volcanic                              
C.unpleasant                          
D.throughout

Read the following passage, and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer for each of the blanks.
 Earthquakes are amongst the most destructive natural disasters. They usually (51) …………….... without any warning and result in a great (52) ……………....of life and an enormous demolition of buildings. Additionally, they may cause devastating landslides or create gigantic tidal waves which, in fact, are colossal walls of water smashing into seashores with such force that they are (53) …………….... of  destroying coastal cities. However, the (54) …………….... majority of fatalities and serious injuries come (55) ……………....when buildings (56) …………….....
Most frequently, the earthquake lasts 30 to 60 seconds, so usually there is no time to
(57) ……………....the mortal upshot once the shaking starts. The savage forces of an earthquake trigger off a complex chain (58)……………....in the building's structure when it is shaken, lifted, pushed or pulled. A building's height, its shape and construction materials are the most significant (59) ……………....deciding about the survival or collapse of the structure and, consequently, about the life or death of its (60)……………....

A.wide        
B.broad    
C.full      
D.vast