Directions:Read the text and then select the correct answer, A, B, C or D.
There is hardly a sadder sight (1)................. that of an abandoned school, and the country is full of them, mainly in rural areas. They are the result of decades of a falling birth (2)..............., which began in the 1960s, combined with rapid urbanisation. The consequences were felt even (3).................... Communism, when classes in village schools were often merged. The mass emigration after 1989 of about a million citizens, most of them young, (4) ...................... complicated the situation. The birth rate went down even further, leading to a significant drop in the (5) .................... of students. Between 2000 and 2009, there was a 30 percent reduction in young people (6) ................ school age, pre-schoolers reduced by 26 percent and the highschool population by 30 percent. The need to (7) ............... the school system became evident and the controversial decision to close down schools was taken. In 2007, 111 schools were closed and the process (8) .................. in 2008, when 340 schools were closed. In 2009 another 44 schools went.
The unwanted school buildings and properties were (9) ....................empty. Later, many were auctioned and sold – often for derisory sums – to entrepreneurs (10) ................ to turn them, with varying degrees of success, into spa centres, rural hotels or sometimes old folks homes.
1. (A) from (B) than (C) of (D) but
2. (A) information (B) control (C) rate (D) delivery
3. (A) by (B) of (C) under (D) beside
4. (A) further (B) more (C) far (D) farther
5. (A) amount (B) target (C) bulk (D) number
6. (A) in (B) from (C) of (D) on
7. (A) inform (B) perform (C) deform (D) reform
8. (A) arose (B) peaked (C) risen (D) reached
9. (A) made (B) received (C) left (D) destroyed
10. (A) aiming (B) aim (C) aims (D) aimed
You will find the Key in the first comment.
1.B 2.C 3.C 4.A 5.D 6.C 7.D 8.B 9.C 10.A
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