Variant – 1 Choose the best answer

19. Choose the best answer.

The conman spent seven years in prison after he was ... of

fraud. A) arrested B) blamed C) charged D) convicted
20. Choose the best answer.

I have been waiting for the prices of the houses to come

down before buying one, but I think I ... too long and the

prices ... to go up again.

A) waited / were beginning B) wait / began

C) have waited / are beginning D) shall wait / began

Read & choose the correct answer for (21-24).

Some countries have medical air services, but Australia's is

the oldest a’d covers the most ground. For more than

70 years, the Flying Doctors Service has been a mainstay of

the sparsely populated Australian Outback, providing

medical supplies and treatment to areas where there is often

no alternative, and where the difference can be life and

death. If you drive just a few hours inland from the coast,

where most Australians live, you are in Flying Doctors

country. The 53 pilots share duties in 38 planes stationed at

17 bases dotted across the country. They serve 7 million

square kilometers of scrubland and desert, an area more than

two-thirds the size of the United States.