EX1: Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions. Question 29: The weather was cold. We went swimming. A. Although the weather is cold, we went swimming. B. Although the weather was cold, but we went swimming. C. Because the weather was cold, we went swimming. D. Despite the cold weather, we went swimming. Question 30: Children are playing chess in the garden. A. Chess is played in the garden by children. B. Chess is being played in the garden by children. C. Chess is playing in the garden by children. D. Chess is being play in the garden by children. EX2: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks. Every season there are new clothes and new fashions in the shops. Colours and styles keep (31)_________. One season black is the 'in' colour, but the next season everyone is wearing orange or pink or grey. The length of women's skirts goes up and down from year to year. A shirt (32) _____ you once thought was very trendy can look (33)_______oldfashioned a few years later. And your father's shirts, you always thought were very conservative and traditional, can suddenly become (34)_________. Keeping up with the fashions can be very expensive. So one way to save money is never to throw your old clothes out. If you wait long enough, the clothes are out of fashion today will be (35)_________ in fashion tomorrow. Yesterday's clothes are tomorrow's new fashions. Question 31: A. to change B. changed C. changing D. change Question 32: A. whom B. that C. what D. who Question 33: A. stranger B. strangeness C. strange D. strangely Question 34: A. outdated B. old C. useless D. stylish Question 35: A. back B. away C. out D. up