Directions: There is a passage with ten blanks. Y ou are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. E ach choice in the bank is identified by a letter. P lease write the answer on the Answer Sheet . Y ou may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. A. anxiety F. indicated K. transition B. introduce G. resent L. equivalent C. acquaint H. reinforce M. regretting D. acquisition I. expressed N. acceptable E. saddled J. sensible O. shifting There is a special life stage that our generation goes through. It is the 46 )________ period, during which we move from teenage to adolescence. We learn who we are and what we stand for and what inspires us. Also, in this period we are 47 )________ with a lot of pressure from our parents who want us to make something out of ourselves. My parents have already expressed feelings of 48 )________ over my future with academics and life. When I expressed to them recently that I would not mind graduating in five years instead of four in order to study abroad to 49 )_______ myself with the world, they seemed so shocked. That idea sounded foreign and to them was 5 0 )________ to lack of ambition. Apart form that , my mother has 51 )_______ to me that she is worried that I am not searching for a boyfriend. I 52 )________ this stupid idea of marrying out of college since it does not suit me one bit. Women today can get what they want out of life without a man, even children, as it becomes more 53 )________ for women to adopt children. I personally want to stay in school as long as I can to 54 )________ my academic work, possibly complete a law degree and start a career, and then after, and only after, begin to think about 55 )_______ to marriage. If my math is correct, that means I will be more or less “ready” for marriage at the age of 29 or 30, the age when my mother had me.