Unit 1: A visit from pen pal - Read

Read the passage below then pick out ONE best option (A, B, C or D) to complete each of  the following sentences. Britain is now a highly industrialized country and there are  only 238,000 farms in the UK. More and more farmers leave the land because they can not earn enough money to survive. Only large farms are economic and because of this most British farm are big. They usually grow cereals in the east of England and raise sheep and cowsin the north of England and Scotland. The small family farms often have to earn  more money by offering bed and breakfast accommodation to tourists. Farming methods in Britain have also changed. Fields used to be quite small, divided by hedges which were sometimes  a thousand years old and full of wild flowers and  birds. Many hedges were pulled up to allow farmers to use mordern machinery. Now most fields in England are large by European standards. 

Choose A, B, C or D to complete the following passage. My village is about 50 kilometers (6)________ the city center. It is a very beautiful and (7)________________ place where people (8)________________ flowers and vegetables only. It’s very famous for its pretty roses and picturesque (9)________.  The air is quite (10)________; however, the smell of the roses make people (11)________________ cool. In spring, my villages looks lie a carpet with plenty of (12)________. Tourists come to visit it so often. Nowadays, with electricity, it doesn’t take the (13)________________ much time to water the roses. And even at night, people can (14)________ along the path and enjoy the fresh smell (15)________ the flowers.