47. Sky-diving takes a lot of courage. The reason people do it is to test themselves in difficult situations. (A) A sky-diving school can teach you how to use a parachute and how to land without broken bones. (B) I read that up to twenty people can jump together, join up and form patterns in the sky. (C) Each of them has to know exactly when to jump and be able to speed up or slow down their descent. (D) Bungee jumping would be very scary.

44. Which of the following can best fit into the blank in the paragraph below? (A) In America, however, people use words from other languages. (B) In Britain, however, life changed considerably and so did English. (C) In America, however, people like to shop at malls. (D) In Britain, however, this place is called a chemist’s. In America, the place where medicines are sold is called a drugstore or pharmacy. _______________ In Britain, the skilled person who owns or manages a shop where medicines are sold is called a chemist, but in America, this person is called a druggist or pharmacist. To the British mind, a drugstore sounds like a place where illegal drugs like heroin and cocaine are sold, rather than where legal drugs like cough medicine and headache tablets can be purchased!

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