Choose the words that best fit each of the blanks in the following passage

Part 1: Choose the words that best fit each of the blanks in the following passage. Circle A, B, C, or D to indicate your answer.

Can you imagine what life would be (1) ………… if there were no telephone? You could not call (2) ………… your friends on the phone and talk to them. If fire broke (3) ………… in your house you could not call the fire department. If somebody was sick, you could not call a doctor.

(4) ………… our daily life we need to communicate with (5) ………… We need to do this mostly by speaking to other people and listening to (6) ………… they have to say to us, and when you are close (7) ………… them we can do this very easily. However, our voices will not travel very far even when we shout.

The man who (8) ………… this possible was Alexander Graham Bell, a Scotsman, born (9) ………… Edinburgh in 1847. Bell, a teacher of visible speech who later moved to Canada, (10) ………… all his spare time experimenting. (11) ………… enthusiastic was he in his research (12) ………… a means for sending speech (13) ………… electricity that he left (14) ………… time for his day-to-day work and at one time (15) ………… almost penniless.

1. A. as                        B. like                          C. of                            D. for

2. A. on                       B. for                           C. in                            D. up

3. A. out                      B. in                            C. up                           D. off

4. A. With                   B. In                            C. On                           D. At

5. A. you                     B. one another             C. them                       D. other

6. A. that                     B. this                          C. what                        D. which

7. A. from                   B. to                            C. out                          D. on

8. A. had                     B. did                          C. made                       D. brought

9. A. at            B. in                            C. on                           D. from

10. A. took                  B. wasted                    C. cost                         D. spent

11. A. So                     B. Very                       C. Too                         D. Such

12. A. as                      B. for                           C. to                            D. by

13. A. in                      B. with                        C. by                           D. on

14. A. some                 B. much                       C. little                        D. enough

15. A. being                B. is                             C. was                         D. be