Section A: Grammar Cloze Read the passage carefully. Choose the correct word from the words given in the box and write it in each blank. USE A WORD ONCE ONLY.

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Paul was catching grasshopper when he saw a lizard suddenly dart its sticky tongue to catch a fly. Fascinated, he decided to catch a lizard instead (1) grasshopper. Paul crouched down on the grass and stretched his hand out slowly. He caught gold of the lizard (2) its tail.

He got up quickly and ran home, anxious (3) show his father his prized catch.

When he reached home, he was astonished to see only a tail (4) his hand. Paul’s father explained that the lizard has a special way of escaping (5) its enemy. When is caught by his tail, it simply breaks the tail off and crawls away. A new tail will grow soon after. Paul learned a new and interesting fact about lizards from that experience.

Which sentence in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich suggests that ivan ilyich and his wife couldn’t even agree on how to raise their children?

Look at this dictionary entry: realize (ree-uh-lyz) v. to become completely aware of (something) as a fact; understand without a doubt to make (something desired or anticipated) occur to give real, definite or physical form to a plan, dream, or goal to earn (money or a profit) from a deal which sentence uses the word realize as it is described in the fourth definition? a. mike realized the gravity of the situation only when dalia explained it to him. b. only hard work and perseverance can people realize their dreams. c. he felt that his vision was realized when he finished reading the final draft of the narrative. d. fay's glass paintings are expected to realize a handsome profit. e. dan will realize his goal of going to an ivy league school only if he works hard.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion