Last Saturday, my father that his dinner suit was too small, so now he a strict diet. A

A) live / waste

B) lived / have wasted

C) have been living / wasted

D) am living / have been wasting

E) was living / am wasting

10. In the USA, the twenty largest newspaper chains ....... for almost half of the circulation, reflecting a trend that ....... in the 1970s.

A) account / started

B) were accounting / start

C) has accounted / was starting

D) accounted / is starting

E) accounts / has started

11. ....... of the soldiers was given two complete uniforms, ....... of which they were expected to keep spotlessly clean.

A) All / some

B) Every / either

C) Each / both

D) Some / all

E) The whole / many

12. There is an amount of wisdom in ....... old sayings, such as “Don't cry over spilt milk”.