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Read the passage and answer the following questions according to the passage.
Over the past half-century___A___ a foreigner has smoked their first spliff at this cosy cafe, which sat perfectly on the__B___between two tourist favourites, the Heineken Brewery and Rembrandt Square. Mellow Yellow is the____C___ in a string of Amsterdam coffeeshop closures, a development that is worrying health workers, law enforcement officials and potheads equally because it may push drugs back onto the street. The number of coffeeshops in the Dutch capital has ____D___ by half since 1995, from 350 to just 167. Why are so many Amsterdam coffee shops closing?
To most outsiders, the Netherlands is synonymous with liberal, legalised vice, with Amsterdam the main port of ____E__. Roughly one in four tourists to Amsterdam ___F__ to visit a coffee shop, according to the city’s tourism bureau (in 2016 Amsterdam received 17m tourists, up from 12m in 2012). Holland’s soft drug ___G___ has always been one of “tolerating” rather than legalising. As Vincent explains in “Pulp Fiction”, “It’s legal to buy it, it’s legal to own it and if you’re the proprietor of a hash bar, it’s legal to sell it.” Central to making this construction work is a ____H___ of small, tightly regulated coffeeshops, where people can legally buy and smoke cannabis—and which the authorities can keep an eye on. Few officials in liberal Amsterdam ___ I___to get rid of coffee shops altogether; they are thought to help keep soft drugs out of the criminal circuit. But in more conservative parts of the country, including the political capital, The Hague, resistance to the policy of looking the other way has ____J___.
- Which word best suits for A:
1.Most
2.Many
3.Often
4.MuchAnswer – 2.Many - Which is the apt word for B:
1.Route
2.Passage
3.Way
4.PathAnswer – 1.Route - Which suits the best for C:
1.Oldest
2.Newly
3.Latest
4.LatelyAnswer – 3.Latest - Which suits for D:
1.Risen
2.Fell
3.Rebound
4.FallenAnswer –4.Fallen - Which suits for E :
1.Voice
2.Call
3.Thought
4.SeaAnswer – 2.Call - Which is suits for F:
1.Intends
2.Insists
3.Subtends
4.SubstitutesAnswer – 1.Intends - Which suits for G:
1.Schedule
2.Policy
3.Problem
4.ProcedureAnswer – 2.Policy - Which suits for H:
1.Sketch
2.Plan
3.Set
4.SystemAnswer – 4.System - Which Suits for I :
1.Require
2.Want
3.Need
4.DesiredAnswer – 2.Want - Which suits for J:
1.Eroded
2.Grown
3.Drained
4.BanAnswer – 2.Grown
