For questions 1-18, read the three texts below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet.

Vancouver
In the last ten years or so, hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world have (1) .... up residence in Vancouver, in western Canada. To relax in the evening, residents (2).... down the city streets and, if you join them, you are likely to overhear a different language at almost every other step. People come to Vancouver for its mild climate, its wonderful setting between the ocean and the mountains, its clean and safe environment and its educational and job opportunities. And (3).... some may grumble about the speed at which new buildings have (4)...., there's no doubt that the new arrivals and (5) .... tourism industry have helped fuel an urban renaissance. Locals once referred to Vancouver as Terminal City' because of the city's role as a terminus or gateway to all other places. Though the name has fallen slightly out of (6) ...., Vancouver is more a gateway than ever.

1 A	taken	B	put	C	made	D	built
2 A	prowl	B	stumble	C	trudge	D	stroll
3 A	conversely	B	nevertheless	C	much as	D	even so
4 A	sprung up	B	gathered up	C	piled up	D	moved up
5 A	progressing	B	blooming	C	flourishing	D	swelling
6 A	approval	B	favour	C	opinion	D	support

Putting Pen to Paper
Journalists like myself are usually poor letter-writers. I have heard it (7).... that this is because of the instinctive distaste we feel at writing something we are not going to be paid for, but I cannot believe we have quite such mercenary characters. It is more probably that (8).... in our work, we are always (9) .... to get the greatest possible effect, the essential spontaneity of a letter (10) .... us. The real creative artist, who does not consciously work on the effect at all (though he may re-write a passage dozens of times), does not have this problem. I believe that it is in this inherent grasp of the effect of his words that there (11) .... the only sure test of the real artist. When Shakespeare wrote some of his famous lines he (12).... never thought consciously that it was the contrast between polysyllables that made them so effective, as well as showing him to be a great writer.

7 A	said	B	told	C	remarked	D	presumed
8 A	since	B	for	C	like	D	once
9 A	striving	B	exerting	C	contending	D	tackling
10 A	misses	B	escapes	C	avoids	D	passes
11 A	goes	B	remains	C	lies	D	exists
12 A	inevitably	B	confidently	C	particularly	D	surely

Supermarket Opening
The opening of a new supermarket used to be a bit of an event in Britain. You could always rely on a soap star, a disc jockey or a minor member of the royal family to come down and cut the ribbon. Now it seems that new branches are (13) .... up every day in many areas and so the poor old celebrity has become (14).....Why pay a famous person when any Tom, Dick or Harry will open it for nothing? Last week, waiting pensioners didn't care who opened the new branch of Superbuy, (15) .... they were at the front. According to one prospective customer who knew someone who worked there, the first five men over the (16) .... would be getting a bottle of aftershave, and the first five women, a bunch of flowers. This (17).... of information quickly swept (18) .... the crowd, instilling feelings of smug superiority among those at the front, and envy from the latecomers.

13 A	popping	B	leaping	C	jumping	D	nipping
14 A	superfluous	B	excessive	C	surplus	D	residual
15 A	despite	B	so long as	C	in case	D	regardless
16 A	entrance	B	doorway	C	threshold	D	barrier
17 A	clipping	B	strand	C	string	D	snippet
18 A	among	B	through	C	across	D	around