(A)

(B)

There is no point in seeing that film.

That film ...

(A)
(B)

"You broke the window" said the teacher to the student.

The teacher accused .

(A)
(B)

I had better go to the dentist's soon.

It's .

(A)
(B)

The last time I went to the opera was about 4 months ago.
It

(A)
(B)

"I don't want to go on holiday with you," said Mary to her boyfriend.
Mary told her boyfriend that

(A)
(B)

Although the film was good it received a poor write up from the critics.
Despite .

(A)
(B)

They had to wait 2 hours before the meeting began.

Only after a ..

(A)
(B)

Would you mind not smoking here?

I'd rather

(A)
(B)

No matter how hard I tried I couldn't answer the question.

Try .

(A)
(B)

It makes no difference if the play is full booked, we will still try to get a
ticket.
We will still try and get a ticket

(A)
(B)

I would do anything for you.

There's ...

(A)
(B)

The house was so run down that nobody would buy it.
They had such ...

Each question consists of a text and four statements. Your task is to indicate which
of the four statements can best be derived from the given text.
Question 1:
China is too large and too many people live there. That is the complaint on everyone's
lips when traffic in China's congested cities once more comes to a standstill, people worm
their way through shopping streets, or criticism is levelled at the impotence of China's
leaders. But none of that mattered on the day that Hong Kong was handed back. With the
return of Hong Kong, China has become even larger and that is an important fact for the
merry-makers in Beijing.
A. When traffic in a congested Chinese city comes to a standstill, everyone says
that it is because China is over-populated.
B. On the day that Hong Kong was returned to China it was once more
frantically busy in Beijing.
C. On the day that Hong Kong once more became part of China, no-one was
angry with the Chinese leaders.
D. It does no good to complain about congestion in China, certainly not on a day
of celebration.
Question 2.
Apartheid and Kruger Park, for a long time those were the two things which the world
associated with South Africa. After the abolition, in 1993, of the most sophisticated
system of racial discrimination which the world has ever known, all that was left was
Kruger Park, an institution which apparently had nothing to do with the evil of the past.
For a long time, the Park had been seen as a model of a successful way to protect "good
nature" against "evil man".
A. Kruger Park is a successful example of how "good nature" can be protected
against "evil man".
B. Two things can be mentioned which were long associated with South Africa.
One of them, Kruger Park, still exists.
C. Kruger Park, as we had known it until then, was closed down in 1993.
D. The things with which South Africa had been associated until 1993 have all
changed or been abolished.
Question 3.
It is expected that the social changes taking place in South Africa will also have been
incorporated into Kruger Park within a few years. Then, Kruger Park will be seen to have
become part of the new South Africa. The present, mainly black, government is not
planning to slaughter this goose that lays the golden eggs: nearly a million people visit
the park each year. A well-known politician even sees the Park as having a constructive
function: "Appreciation of the natural environment and the conservation of nature can
forge a link between all South Africans and can become an aspect of political maturity of
which we can all be proud.
A. The present mainly black government is expected to introduce substantial
social changes in Kruger Park.
B. On the basis of nearly a million visitors each year, Kruger Park can rightly be
seen as the goose that lays the golden eggs.

C. A well-known politician thinks that Kruger Park is a model for South African
society.
D. Within a couple of years, policies concerning Kruger Park will need to
drastically change or it will cease to be such an important source of income.
Question 4.
All road, rail, air and inland shipping traffic in and around Breukelen came to a
standstill on Sunday when a British Second World War bomb had to be deactivated.
Inhabitants of houses inside the immediate danger zone had to remain indoors with
the windows open and curtains pulled shut. The police invoked emergency bylaws to
enable them to act against anyone found on the streets.
A. People were not allowed on the street in Breukelen on Sunday because a
Second World War bomb had been found.
B. The lives of many inhabitants of Breukelen were disrupted on Sunday as a
result of the explosion of the bomb.
C. The police invoked emergency byelaws in Breukelen on Sunday, bringing
traffic to a standstill for several hours.
D. If you lived within the immediate danger zone around the site in Breukelen
where the bomb was deactivated last Sunday, you had to stay indoors but keep
the windows open.
Question 5.
The bible was right. At least, it was in the sense of nature conservation. Adam was told to
give all the animals a name, and Noah filled a boat with them, but The Netherlands has
regulated nature in plans from A to Z. Man held, and still holds, the life and death of the
animal and plant world around him firmly in his hands, as if by some divine mandate.
A.
B.
C.
D.

The Netherlands makes plans in which nature is regulated from A to Z.

Man has absolute power over life and death in nature.
Adam giving all the animals a name is an example of nature conservancy.
The bible was right, for man rules from A to Z in nature.

Question 6.
Except for misplaced ideologies, the over-indulged citizen is yet another threat to the
government's nature policies. Although scientists agree that good nature conservancy
depends on preserving as many species as possible, citizens prefer to see their nature with
plenty of parking spaces and playgrounds. Not all animals and plant species are served by
this desire. Nonetheless, this sort of public desire is kept in mind for political reasons.
A. The citizen would like to see many parking spaces in nature, so that he can
visit nature reserves for instance.
B. Politicians take account of over-indulged citizens.
C. Scientists would dearly like to preserve as many species as possible, but the
over-indulged citizen is against this idea.
D. As the government has to take account of the citizen, with a view to his
political opinion and vote, parking areas are sometimes being created in nature
areas anyway.
Question 7.
European regulations contribute to a sensible protection scheme for nature, because they
are international. It would make little sense to try to protect Dutch migratory birds, for

instance, if they are only destined to be shot out of the skies over France and served up as
a delicacy. This can now be avoided because France has committed itself to the same
regulations.
A. The international migration of birds benefits from the protection offered in the
Netherlands.
B. European regulations prevent birds being served as a delicacy in France.
C. The protection of migratory birds in the Netherlands can be more effective if
migratory birds are no longer eaten as a delicacy in France.
D. Since the introduction of European guidelines, migratory birds avoid France.
Question 8.
It is pretty rough going, up there on the mountaintop where Lhasa has been built. Mobile
phones don't work in the Tibetan capital. Slowly the travellers realise that they have never
strayed so far off the beaten track, and that here there are rats even in the Holiday Inn.
These unsuspecting tourists are being called the new generation of Tibetan travellers;
inspired by the film Seven Years in Tibet (with Brad Pitt as leading man) they loaded
their suitcases. The Brad Pitt effect has done the travel agencies no harm at all, because
the film was in the cinemas over a year ago and people are still admitting that the film
was the most important inducement to make the trip.
A. As their mobile phones do not work in Lhasa, modern tourists in Tibet are
caught like rats in a trap.
B. Many participants in a trip to Tibet admit that they are doing so because of a
film they saw.
C. The fact that Brad Pitt had a role in a film about Tibet has induced many
people to visit that country.
D. Many visitors to Tibet are unsuspecting tourists who find it really rough going
and will probably never come back.
Question 9.
In Papua New Guinea it sounds a bit hackneyed if someone says that he was born in the
stone age and that his own lifetime has bridged ten thousand years of history. Half a
million people living in the valleys of the Highlands were only discovered by western
gold-diggers and missionaries in the nineteen thirties. New tribes were being discovered
right up to the nineteen sixties, and it is claimed that an unknown tribe still lives in the
border area between three provinces. They are said to live in trees for fear of crocodiles,
and to have had no contact at all with western civilisation.
A. Western gold-diggers made it possible for many people in Papua New Guinea
to bridge the gap from the stone age and ten thousand years of history to the
present day.
B. Even now there are undiscovered tribes living in the trees of the Highlands of
Papua New Guinea.
C. New tribes were being discovered in Papua New Guinea as recently as the
nineteen sixties.
D. The fear of crocodiles makes the people live in trees.