For questions 1 – 8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap.
         I wish that people would (1) ____________ from chattering non-stop when they are on public transport. It’s (2) ____________ to complete a journey in total silence as there are usually several conversations going on at once and the noise can be (3) ____________ as everyone shouts to be heard. Last week, as I tried to get off at my stop, the noise was so loud that the driver couldn’t hear the bell and he drove straight on. I tried to push my way through the standing passengers to get to the door and, failing to keep my (4) ____________ about me, I caught my foot on a bag and fell flat on my face. Instead of helping me get back up, people started laughing. Mortified that I had become a laughing (5)  ____________ , I got to the driver and started shouting at him to stop the bus. Unfortunately he saw me as a threat and radioed the transport office. He wouldn’t let me off the bus until the police arrived. While I (6)  ____________ that perhaps I was a little rude to him, he failed to take into account my distress at falling over and missing my stop. So now I (7) ____________ public transport with one of the worst experiences of my life and the (8) ____________ of it is that I will never catch a bus again.
`1.`  A refuse     B relegate     C refrain     D reject
`2.`  A irregular     B infrequent     C scarce     D rare 
`3.`  A disbelieving    B unbelievable    C inconceivable    D questionable
`4.`  A head     B mind     C wits     D brain
`5.`  A stock     B stork     C stack     D stick
`6.`  A except     B assent     C accept     D expect
`7.`  A associate    B compare    C correlate    D evaluate
`8.`  A hard and fast                            B thick and thin    
       C long and short                          D ups and downs