VI. Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage.

If you (1) ____ to go to a university, you usually apply during your last year at school, when you are 17-18. You can apply to (2) ____ at any university in Britain and most people choose a university that is not in their own town. So, university students usually live away from home. Students get a grant from the government to study. At the beginning of your last year at school, you (3) ____ an application form. On this form you choose up to five universities that you would like to go to. The form is sent to those universities with (4) ____ from your school about your academic (5) ____. If the universities are interested in your application, they will offer you a place.

Any offer, however, is only conditional at this stage. Applications and interviews take (6) ____ several months before students do their A-level examinations. These are the exams that you do at the end of your time at school. So, when a university makes an (7) ____, it will tell you the minimum grades that you will have to get when you do your A-level exams. If you don't obtain those grades, then, you will not be able to (8) ____ the place. It will be offered to someone else and you must apply (9) ____ to another university. You don't have to accept your place immediately. Some students don't want to straight from school to university. (10) ____, after they have taken their A-level, they take a year out to work or travel.

1. A. want                   B. make                       C. perform                   D. participate

2. A. lead                     B. link                         C. study                       D. lock

3. A. reply                   B. ban                          C. receive                    D. forward

4. A. problem              B. information             C. support                   D. present

5. A. degree                 B. diploma                  C. certificate               D. record

6. A. out                      B. place                       C. in                            D. after

7. A. attempt               B. offer                        C. secondary               D. main

8. A. get                      B. make                       C. remind                    D. inquire

9. A. soon                    B. again                       C. against                    D. much

10. A. So                     B. But                          C. Because                  D. Then