Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each numbered blank, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
One way of improving your language skill is to read for 1 novels, plays, travel books, and so on. And in reading books of this kind the 2 thing is to get on with the reading and to try to guess 3 the writer is going to tell you in the book. This is impossible 4 you stop to think over the meaning of every 5 word which happens to be unfamiliar to you. You cannot enjoy a story if you stop half a dozen times 6 every page in order to look up words in the dictionary. When you are reading books of this kind, 7 , you will usually have to rely mainly on the 8 to help you. If you see an unfamiliar word, do not let it take too much of your 9 from the main thread of the story. In all probability you will meet the same word again a few pages later and in a 10 different context, and each time you see it your understanding of it will become more exact.