Cycling is the ( 41. good ) ………. means of transportation and exercise for three reasons. ( 42. One ) ………. , it is one of the safest forms of exercise. A ( 43. day ) ………. bike ride will help you improve your ( 44. breathe ) ………. ( 45. especial ) ………. if you smoke and ( 46. gent )………. increase your energy. Cycling, therefore, is suitable for people of all ages, but if you have any ( 47. medical ) ………. problems, check with your doctor before you start. Besides ( 48. be ) ………. an excellent form of exercise, cycling allows you to see the country as you ride your bike slowly through small ( 49. quietness ) ……….villages or beautiful forest paths. Cycling is also an easy, convenient and ( 50. Expensive) ………. means of transportation. Ride your bike to school and you never get traffic jam on the way

Choose the letter of the word that most clearly expresses the tone in each passage. if you are unfamiliar with any of the words, look them up before you select the correct answer. we have come together this afternoon to mourn the deaths of sixteen miners—our friends and neighbors—who were trapped by fire yesterday, deep below the earth. they lived bravely and they died too soon, leaving behind grieving wives and bewildered children. we bid them a final farewell. question 1 options: forgiving sorrowful angry amused

Select the contred text in the passage which sentence in this excerpt from john galsworthy's narrative essay "gone" reflects his view that there is no afterlife? an old woman and mrs. herd's sister were in the sitting-room, they showed us to the crazy, narrow stairway. though we lived distant but four hundred yards of a crows flight, we had never seen mrs. herd before, for that is the way of things in this land of minding one's own business a slight dark girlish-looking woman, almost quite refined away, and with those eyes of the dying, where the spirit is coming through, as it only does when it knows that al is over except just the passing. she lay in a double bed with clean white sheets. a white-washed room, so low that the ceiling almost touched our heads, some flowers in a bow, the small lattice window open. though it was hot in there, it was better far than the rooms of most families in towns, living on a wage of twice as much, for here was no sign of defeat in decency or cleanliness. in her face, as in poor herd's, was that same strange minging of resigned despair and almost eager appeal, so terrible to disappoint. yet, trying not to disappoint it, one felt guilty of treachery: what was the good, the kindness in making this poor bird flutter still with hope against the bars, when fast prison had so surely closed in round her? but what else could we do? we could not give her those glib assurances that naive souls make so easily to others concerning their after state. and the night was so beautiful, so utterly glamourously beautiful, with its star-flowers, and its silence and its trees clothed in moonlight. all was tranquil as a dream of sleep. but it was long before our hearts wandering with poor herd, would let us remember that she had slipped away into so beautiful a dream

How do you feel about hrothgar so far? in your opinion, is he a strong or weak king? of course, defend this position.