He tried hard. He couldn’t set up a new world record.

Read the following passage, then choose the correct answer to questions.

        It can be shown in facts and figures that cycling is the cheapest, most convenient, and most environmentally desirable form of transport (21)______ towns, but such cold calculations do not mean much on a frosty winter morning. The real appeal of cycling is that it is so (22)______.It has none of the difficulties and tensions of other ways of travelling, (23)_______ you are more cheerful after a ride, even through the rush hour.

The first thing a non-cyclist says to you is:“But isn’t it (24)______ dangerous?”. It would be foolish to deny the danger of sharing the road with motor vehicles and it must be admitted that there are an alarming (25)______ of accidents involving cyclists. However, although police records (26)______ that the car driver is often to blame, the answer lies with the cyclist. It is possible to ride in such a way as to reduce risks to a minimum.

Have you found out how much all this is going to cost? Is it expensive?

I’m afraid he will lose his job due to his laziness.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to the original sentence in each of the following questions.

It is 9p.m now. The children should go to bed.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to each of the following exchanges.

 - Anna: “Would you like to come to dinner next Friday?”

- Laura: “_________”

I spent one hour going to work by bicycle.

Read the following passage, and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

        Ted Robinson has been worried all the week. Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police. In the letter he was asked to call at the station. Ted wondered why he was wanted by the police, but he went to the station yesterday, and now he is not worried any more. At the station he was told by a smiling police-man that his bicycle had been found. Five years ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away. It’s now being sent to his home by train. Ted was most surprised when he heard the news. He was amused too, because he never expected the bicycle to be found. It was stolen twenty years ago when Ted was a boy of fifteen.

Ted was worried because_________.