Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 26 to 30.

Imagine you are buying an apple in a supermarket. Which do you choose, one with a small brown mark, or one without? Be honest - you'd go for the apple (26) looks perfect. Supermarkets do this too, but on a much larger scale when buying fruit and vegetables from farmers. And what (27) of the ones with marks on them? They are thrown away. So are the ones that are a funny shape or size.

(28) reason for waste is that people buy more food than they can eat and supermarkets do everything they can to encourage this, for example with offers like “Buy one, get one free”. Developed countries waste about 650 million tons of food each year and so do developing countries. (29), the waste happens for very different reasons. As the world's population grows, this problem will only (30), so we need to take action urgently.

(Adapted from Navigate)

I picked up some holiday brochures ______ around the table at the travel agency.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

Jane has some work to do this weekend. She can't attend her sister's wedding.

Everyone at the Halloween party hid their faces by wearing different ______.

The meeting will begin ______.

He hopes that she will be happy with this ______ ring.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following exchanges.

Samuel is talking to Lan about volunteer work.

- Samuel: “I think we should do some local volunteer work this summer."

- Lan: “ _______. Some people in our neighbourhood really need help.”

Mrs. Lan and the boys want to spend the rest of his life living in the suburb.

The book which you borrow from the city library yesterday is very interesting.

It is important that we should ______ the environment.

She failed her driving test ______ she practised a lot.

The newly advertised product had just been on sale. Customers realised that it had lots of defects.

The mother tries hard to ______ sure that her children get the best of everything.