III. READING Choose the word or phrase (a, b, c or d) that best fits the blank space in the following passage. When I was a boy, children always objected to (36) _______ school uniform but teachers were (37)_______ on it because they said all of us looked alike. Otherwise, they said, children would compete with (38) and the poor children would be unhappy because people would see straight away (39)_______ poor they were. In recent years, however, many schools have give up the idea of making children wear uniform, but, fairly enough, now that children can wear (40)_______ they like, they have adopted a uniform of their own. When some journalists visited a London school they found that all the boys and girls were dressed (41)_______ jeans. One girl said she would rather die than wear a coat instead of a jersey because (42)_______ wants to look different from the other children in the class. Parents may not be as happy about this as children, but they (43)_______ to be, because this new kind of uniform is one that children like, not something they have been (44)_______ to wear, and it is also (45)_______ cheaper than school uniforms used to be. 36. a. taking b. dressing c. wearing d. putting 37. a. carried b. keen c. gone d. keep 38. a. together b. another c. others d. each other 39. a. how b. which c. what d. however 40. a. like b. such as c. as d. as if 41. a. on b. in c. by d. with 42. a. everyone b. anyone c. someone d. no one 43. a. ought b. should c. must d. might 44. a. taken b. employed c. forced d. pushed 45. a. much b. more c. too d. very Read the passage below carefully and choose the correct answer a, b, c or d. In most animals, dental decay is a rare problem. In man, and especially in the rich West, the disease has reached epidemic proportions. The cause of tooth decay in human beings is a bacterium that feeds on the sugar in our food. It digests the sugar more easily by converting it into an acid. The acid then dissolves the enamel, the outer coating of the teeth, and finally attacks the living nerve within. The result is the extreme pain we know as toothache. • epidemic proportions (n): nạn dịch • digest (v): tiêu hóa • convert (sth into sth) (v): chuyển hoá (...thành...) 46. According to the passage, animals ______. a. never suffer from tooth decay b. seldom suffer from tooth decay c. suffer from tooth decay as much as people do d. suffer from tooth decay more commonly than people do 47. The problem of tooth decay in the rich Western countries ________. a. is decreasing each year b. has already been controlled c. has been increasing slowly d. is now almost out of control 48. Human teeth decay when they are attacked by a kind of _______. a. sugar b. acid d. food 49. Decay cannot begin until the bacterium produces _______. a. food from sugar b. sugar from food c. acid from sugar d. sugar from acid 50. The term "tooth decay” refers to the ________. a. digestion of the food b. conversion of the sugar c. production of the acid d. dissolution of the enamel