Read the passage. Choose the best answer from options A, B, C, and D.

Love is a splendid thing. It can make us laugh and cry. Love can even move mountains. No wonder countries around the world devote an entire day every year (__1__) this exhilarating emotion.

Love may be the universal language, but its expression varies widely from one culture to (__2__). On Valentine’s Day in Japan, girls give their sweethearts gifts of chocolate. Store-bought sweets are considered insincere and many girls will make their own. A month later, on White Valentine’s Day, it is the boys’ (__3__) to give something back.

In Scotland, Valentine’s Day is celebrated with a festival, attended by an equal number of unmarried men and women. The women draw men’s names from a hat and pin their partner’s name over their heart or on their sleeve. Scottish lovers may also (__4__) love knots with each other, which symbolizes two lives closely connected. Britons are famous (__5__) their love poems while Danish men write silly rhymes for their valentines, which they send unsigned. The lady who receives the card then must try to guess the sender.

Perhaps the most unusual Valentine’s Day tradition (__6__) between young lovers in tribal New Guinea as they test their compatibility at a private party called a kango. (__7__) by the girl’s mother, a couple will spend hours in her hut singing high-pitched songs, holding hands, and swaying together. When a young man finds the right girl, he asks his father or older brother to kill a pig for her parents. This gives a Valentine’s Day twist to the expression “bringing home the bacon.”

1A) honourB) to honouringC) in honouringD) to honour
2A) anotherB) otherC) the otherD) the rest
3A) timeB) momentC) turnD) point
4A) replaceB) purchaseC) transferD) point
5A) asB) forC) byD) on
6A) holdsB) is happenedC) takes placeD) is occurred
7A) SupervisedB) SupervisingC) SuperviseD) Supervises

Type your answers in the spaces provided.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.