Directions: In this part there are 10 incomplete sentences, each with four suggested answers. Choose the one you think is the best answer. Mark your choice on the Answer Sheet by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets.
1. When he was a student, his father gave him a monthly ______ towards his expenses. A. currency B. pay C. allowance D. permission
2. Martin Luther King, the great Black leader in the movement against racial discrimination, was ______ the Nobel Prize for peace for his outstanding contribution to world peace. A. rewarded B. given C. awarded D. offered
3. He is obviously quite embarrassed about it because he ______ me to tell anyone. A. banned B. forbade C. protected D. prohibited
4. If you do something on your own ______, you plan it and decide to do it yourself without anyone telling you what to do. A. initial B. initiative C. initiate D. beginning
5. The goal is to make higher education available to everyone who is willing and capable ______ his financial situation. A. with respect to B. in accord with C. regardless of D. in terms of
6. What the leader does and says ______ of great importance. A. was B. is C. are D. were
7. By the end of next year, they ______ three modern hotels there. A. will build B. will be building C. will have been built D. will have built
8. The material of the course is arranged in twenty-four teaching units, each _____ of an introduction, a text, and some written exercises. A. consist B. consisting C. consists D. is consisting
9. _____ it left to me to decide, I would never hesitate to choose the former. A. If B. Were C. Had D. Should
10. ______ he was an old customer, the boss allowed ten per cent discount off the prices of the goods. A. Give that B. Giving that C. To give that D. Given that