Section A
Directions: Read the following two passages. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, fill in each blank with one proper word. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct.

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Roald Dahl, the famous children’s book writer, was born to Harold and Sofie Dahl on 13 September 1916. He was named (25)______ the explorer, Roald Amundsen, their national hero in Norway of that time.

In 1920, when Dahl was four, his father died at the age of fifty seven. Instead of (26)______(move) back to Norway to live with her relatives, his mother decided to remain in Britain. It had been her husband’s wish to have their children (27)______(educate) in the best school in the world.

At the age of eight, Dahl and four of his friends (28)______(beat) by the headmaster after playing a practical joke on a candy store owner. Throughout his childhood, Dahl was sent to several boarding schools.   He wrote to his mother almost every day £¨29£©______ ______homesickness. On (30) ______ day when she died, he realized that she had saved every single one of his letters.