Part 1
For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (А, В, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Example:
| A historic | В elder | C old | D elderly |
How polite are the British?
An 0_____ stereotype suggests that the British are polite, but have you 1 asked yourself whether that’s really true? Imagine two situations: in the first, you are 2 for a bus, when someone walks into you; in the second, you have 3 sat down on the Tube, when the person next to you stands on your foot as they are getting up. Who should say sorry – you, or the person who made the mistake? In most countries, it would be the person 4 for the mistake. However, it’s 5 more likely in the UK that both you and the person who made the mistake would apologise to 6 other! Why? The 7 may come from a recent survey in a national newspaper which found that people tend to use the word ‘sorry’ automatically and most admit to never meaning it at all. Perhaps the British are not as polite 8 we might think after all!
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