B. Read the text carefully, then choose the correct answer a, b, c, or d. Britain is now a highly industrialized country and there are only 238,000 farms in the UK. More and more farmers leave the land because they can not earn enough money to survive. Only large farms are economic and because of this most British farms are big. The small family farms often have to earn more money by offering bed and breakfast accommodation to tourists. Farming methods in Britain have also changed. Fields used to be quite small, divided by hedges which were sometimes a thousand years old and full of wild flowers and birds. Many hedges were pulled up to allow farmers to use modern machinery. Now most fields in England are large by European standards. 9. British farmers give up farm work because they a. are tired of the farm work c. want to leave for the city 10. Most British farms are big because a. there are plenty of land c. small farms are uneconomic 11. The small family farms often offer bed and breakfast accommodation to tourists in order to a. show their friendship c. build up some savings 12. Fields on British farms used to be a. separated from each other by hedges b. full of wild flowers and birds c. a thousand years old 13. Nowadays most fields in England are a. planted by European c. larger than fields in Europe b. cannot earn their living by farming d. are forced to leave the land. b. farming is now industrialized d. most British farmers are rich 1. b. attract more tourists to their farms d. improve their earnings d. all are correct b. smaller than they used to be d. large by European standards V. SPEAKING Choose the sentence or phrase (a, b, c, or d) that best fits the blank space. 1. May I use your phone?" 'Certainly. a. Hold on, please. c. Here you are. b. It doesn't matter. d. You're welcome. 2. Would you like to have tea with us?" a. Yes, I'd love to. c. That's a good idea. b. Yes, I would. d. I think so. I'm going to make a table. b. What's this wood for? d. Whose is this wood? a. Why is this wood? c. How is this wood used? 4. "Excuse me, where is the post office?" a. Let me see. b. About two hundred meters. d. Keep straight on for one mile. c. Twenty minutes walk.