Variant – 1 Choose the best answer

19. Choose the best answer.

They don’t know if the leader ... this application tomorrow

morning. A) confirmed B) would confirm

C) will confirm D) confirms

20. Choose the best answer.

It was ... windy that I couldn't stand up!

A) to B) such C) so D) enough
Read & choose the correct answer for (21-24).

At the turn of the century, the European powers were hard

at work attempting to claim as much land in Africa as

possible. Britain's General Kitchner’had pushed through the

gates of Khartoum, and French troops were fighting

Moroccans resisting them. A hundred years later, the

possessors of the past have come and gone, and the continent

is unfettered from colonialism. It has been a long and

painful march to freedom. The African people have been

weighed down beneath the yoke of historical circumstance

and traumatized by some 400 years of a slave trade, which

only ended around 1850. Yet for better or for worse, Africa

is finally its own master .
21. The author points out that many years ago, ...

A) Khartoum won a major victory against Britain's General

Ki’chner.

B) Europeans were doing their best to own as much of

African lands as they could.

C) the French fought against the Moroccans who yielded to

the enemy immediately.

D) it was too hard for Europeans to fight against Africans

22. According to the passage, the word "unfettered " proba“ly

m“ans ...

A) forced to march from one place to another.

B) colonized by a stronger nation.

C) held as a slave by another country,

D) emancipated from restraint.

23. As it is implied in the passage ...

A) Africa's history provides’a firm foundation for the steady

growth.

B) Africans abandoned the struggle for freedom.

C) up to day Africans are completely weighed down

European countries.

D) hard struggle preceeded Africans' freedom.
24. Acc’rding to the passage Africans were subjugated by

Europeans approximately...

A) in the middle of the fifteenth century.

B) in the middle of the fourteenth century.

C) at the end of the sixteenth century.

D) at the beginning of the thirteenth century.