Variant-1 Choose the answer which correctly completes the sentence

17. Choose the answer which correctly completes the sentence.
This is the factory … my father used to work.
A) where B) what C) that D) which
18. Choose the answer which correctly completes the sentence.
The sky is clear and the temperature is dropping fast; it must be going to ... tonight.
A) warm B) dark C) freeze D) glow
19. Choose the answer which correctly completes the sentence.
He is the ... looking man I have ever met.
A) well B) best C) better D)most
20. Choose the answer which correctly completes the sentence.
Be careful! You ... hit that car!
A) would B) should C) have D) are going to
21. Choose the answer which correctly completes the sentence.
As soon as I walked into the room, she ... me the letter.
A) hand B) handed C) had handed D) was handing
22. Choose the answer which correctly completes the sentence. The class got... when the professor entered.
A) quietly B) quieting C) quietness D) quiet
23. Choose the answer which correctly completes the sentence.
She took the bus to work because her car ... at the time.
A) had serviced B) was being serviced
C) serviced D) was serviced
Read the text. Then choose the correct answer to question 24-26.
Fertility rates in the West had been falling for more than a century, and so following World liar II, demographers expected only a modest increase, that happened instead was "the baby boom". Since "then, scientists have been arguing about the cause, The best-known explanation comes from economist Richard A.Easterlm of the University of Southern California. He argues the baby boom resulted from the unprecedented'' mix of three developments: an expansion of the economy, restricted immigration since the mid-1920s, and a relatively small group of new job seekers because of low fertility in the late1920s and 1930s. This combination created unusually good job prospects for young people after World War II, and so feeling more prosperous than their parents, they married earlier and had more children.