1. Choose the best answer

18. Choose the best answer.
The parcel ... back to the Post Office because I was at work when they ... to deliver it.
A) took/were tried
B) has been taking/are trying
C) is taken/are tried
D) was taken/tried
19. Choose the best answer.
Garlic has a very ... smell. You can tell that someone has eaten garlic from several feet away.
A) delicious B) delightful C) unlikely D) distinct
20. Choose the answer that fits the given situation.
You invite some of your friends to dinner, but they don't come on time and you wait for a long time. Arriving two hours late, they say they were delayed by unexpected visitors. You believe them but still express your anger by saying:
A) Why didn't they call you before coming?
B) If only they had come earlier.
C) You could have informed me about that.
D) If I were you, I would have been very angry at them.
21. Choose the answer that completes the text.
Stated simply, there are two habitats for plants and in each habitat raw materials are obtained differently All the other raw materials are taken in from the soil through roots. Plants that live in water are surrounded by dissolved raw materials which they take in all over their surfaces.
A) They are divided into two groups namely land and water Plants
B) Raw materials are what we call coal and oil
C) However, there are some plants whose respiration
systems are the same
D) In land plants, oxygen and carbon dioxide enter
through the pores
22. Choose the answer with closest meaning to the
question.
Jack acts as if he knew all the answers.
A) If Jack had known all the answers, he wouldn't have behaved like that.
B) Although he knew all the answers, he acts like Jack.
C) Jack doesn't know all the answers, though he pretends to.
D) If only Jack had known all the answers.
Questions from 23 to 27 are based on the text below.
Surveys reveal that most adults consider themselves «well informed about the affairs of the nation and the world.» Yet a regularly taken Roger poll (23) ... asks «From where do you obtain most of your information about the world?» (24) ... the percentage of people who reply; «Television»
has been increasing (25) ... over the past decade. (26) ... questionnaire found that well over 60 percent of the respondents chose television (27) ... other media as their major source of information.