Ex. 10. Read the text below and decide which option (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap.Lionel Mendax: The Truth It was my misfortune to be Lionel Mendax’s form master in his last year at school. Lionel was a (0) compulsive liar and an inveterate cheat who, when not (1) … truant, plagued the hell out of both myself and my teaching colleagues. Contrary to his own inflated opinion of his intellectual abilities, Lionel was not a (2) … student. Far from it. He was at best a (3) … candidate for his GCSE exams and as such it was at best a blessing that he was (4) … from the school before he took them. It is only fair, however, that I should give Lionel credit where credit is due. No one had ever been (5) … out of Greyfriars Schools before. Notwithstanding that, even our ridiculously (6) … and excessively liberal headmaster could not ignore the fact that Lionel had been caught cheating (7) … every single one of his (8) … GCSE exams. After his (9) …, he (10) … a course in printing and design at the local technical college, but soon (11) … out. A hardened B heavy C compulsive D addictive A running B playing C making D doing A gifted B understanding C skilled D strict A grey B borderline C futile D debatable A evacuated B expelled C evicted D expired A thrown B pitched C discarded D hurled A harsh B light C stringent D lenient A on B at C in D by A false B pretend C mock D fake A eviction B extradition C expulsion D evacuation
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