Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper, you should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.

How often one hears children wishing they were grown up, and old people wishing they were young again. Each _56__, however, has its pleasures and _57__ pains, and the happiest person is the _58__ who enjoys what each age gives him _59__ wasting his time in useless _60_. Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make _61__ difficult. A child is usually fed, looked after and loved, _62__ he may do. It is _63__ that he will ever again in his life be given so _64__ without having to do anything in _65_. In addition, life is always presenting new things to the child.
Old age, on the other hand, has always been _66__ of as the worst age to be; but with old age _67__ come wisdom and the ability to help others _68__ advice (wisely given). The old can have the _69__ of seeing their sons and daughters _70__ making progress in life; they can _71__ their grandchildren growing up around them; and perhaps _72_ of all, they can feel the happiness of having reached a _73__ when they can lie back and rest, _74__ others to continue the battle _75__ life.

56. A) time B) person C) age D) division
57. A) many B) its C) their D) also
58. A) one B) luckiest C) child D) best
59. A) unless B) without C) except D) beyond
60. A) work B) efforts C) attempts D) regrets
61. A) people B) child C) them D) life
62. A) however B) which C) whatever D) what
63. A) impossible B) unreasonable C) surely D) natural
64. A) few B) many C) little D) much
65.A) fact B) return C) kindness D) thought
66.A) considered B) thought C) concerned D) regarded
67.A) should B) must C) need D) can
68.A) by B) for C) in D) with
69.A) joy B) profit C) advantage D) benefit
70.A) exceedingly B) gradually C) thoroughly D) increasingly
71.A) watch B) make C) bring D) control
72.A) one B) any C) worst D) best
73.A) level B) decision C) point D) time
74.A) helping B) leaving C) inviting D) forcing
75.A) on B) of C) about D) over