A.   Read the passage and circle the best option A, B, C or D to complete the passage.

There (1)_______thousands of people living in Calcutta, India with no jobs and proper homes. They live in homes made (2)_________ mats, boxes, and rusty sheets of tin. In the railway stations, many people have to camp permanently cooking, eating, sleeping and (3)______their babies there. Babies are born in the streets and people die there too.

Seventeen out of every hundred families live in the streets and they have (4)_______ to go. Hot and damp climate makes many of these people sick. (5)__________ the government tries hard to provide houses, schools, and medical services, it can hardly keep up with the increasing population.

1. A. is                         B. are                         C. were                  D. was

2. A. up                       B.by                          C. of                      D. from

3. A. feeding                B. taking                    C. saving                D. playing

4. A. nothing               B. everywhere            C. somewhere        D. no where

5. A. Despite                B.Although               C. Because             D. When