Choose the word or phrase (A, B, c or D)) that best fĩts the blank space in the following passage:

We are using up the world’s Petroleum. We use (6)_________in our cars and to heat our building in winter.Farmers use petrochemicals to (7)_________the soil rich. They use them to kill insects (8)_________eat plants. These Chemicals go (9)_________rivers and lakes and kill the fish there. Thousands of pollutants also go into the air and pollute it. Winds carry this (10)_________air to other countries and other continents.

Poor farmers use the samc land over and (11)_________. The land needs a rest so it will be better next year. However, the farmers must have food this year. Poor people cut down forests (12) _________ firewood. In some arcas when the trees are gone, the land (13)_________desert. Poor people canh save the environment for the (14)_________.

This is not a problem for one country or one area of the world. It is a problem for all- humans. The people and the nations of the world must work together to (15)_________the world’s resources.Question 14

A. fiiture

B.timebeing

C.times

D.period

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to choose the sentence which is closest in meaning to the given one

Calling Jim is pointless because his phone is out of order

A. It’s useless calling Jim because his phone is out of order

B. It’s no use to call Jim because his phone is out of order

C. There’s no point in calling Jim because his phone is out of order

D. It’s worth not calling Jim because his phone is out of order

Lenses,_________,are used to correct imperfections in eyesight

A. are the forms of glasses and contact lenses

B. in the form of glasses and contact lenses

C. glasses and contact lenses which form

D. glasses and contact lenses may be formed

On attaining maximum size,_________by drawing itself out and dividing into two daughter amoebas, each receiving identical nuclear materials

A. the reproduction of the amoeba

B. the amoeba, which reproduces

C. reproducing the amoeba

D. the amoeba reproduces

We_________today and I got into trouble because I hadn't done it

A. had checked our homework

B. had our homework checked

C. were checked our homework

D. have our homework checking