Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

People enjoy living in large cities. But cities have problems. One problem is that they frequently grow very rapidly. Transportation (23)_______ complicated. There are a lot of cars, buses and bicycles. As a result, people are trying to improve the big cities, and they are also planning for new cities. Plan A is a large city (24)_______ smaller cities around it. There is an open land with trees, fields, and lakes between the large city and smaller cities. Each small city is (25)_______. It has offices, schools, hospitals, and places of entertainment. In Plan B the cities are (26)_______by a road. In Plan C, the cities are in rings around the central city and all of them are connected to each other. The goal of all these plans is to limit the (27)_______of the large city.

 

Transportation (23)_______ complicated.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

It is often considered that the schoolyard is where bullies go to make other kids a miserable school life, but a new study suggests that classrooms are another popular place.The study, presented recently at the American Public Health Association's yearly meeting in Philadelphia, is based on the results of the research from more than 10, 000 middle school students who answered questions online.

Of those researched, 43% said they'd been physically bullied within the last month.A bit more than half said they had been laughed at in an unfriendly way, and half reported being called hurtful names.About one third said groups had excluded them to hurt their feelings.28% said their belongings had been taken or broken; 21% said someone had threatened to hurt them.According to the results, two-thirds of the students said they had been bullied in more than one way over the previous month.

The study authors mentioned that 8% of the students who answered said they had missed school at least once during the school year because of fear of being bullied.25% said they had taken other actions, such as missing recess, not going to the bathroom or lunch, missing classes, or staying away from some area of the school to escape from experiencing a bully.Bullies did too much to the school life.

Bullies can happen in the following places EXCEPT_______.