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When I had (12.1) _____ the age of seventeen my parents decided that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt. Before I had attended the schools of Geneva, but my father thought it necessary for the completion of my education that I should be made (12.2) _____ with other customs than those of my native country. My departure was therefore fixed at an early date, but (12.3) _____ the day resolved upon could arrive, the first misfortune of my life occurred - an omen, as it were, of my future misery. Ehzabeth had caught the scarlet fever; her illness was severe, and she was in the (12.4) _____ danger. During her illness many arguments had been voiced to persuade my mother to refrain (12.5) _____ attending upon her. She had at first yielded to our requests, but when she heard that the life of her favourite was endangered, she could no longer control her anxiety. She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper - Elizabeth was saved, but the consequences of this imprudence were fatal to her preserver. On the third day my mother got sick; her fever was accompanied by the (12.6) _____ alarming symptoms, and the looks of her medical attendants were the sign of the worst event. On her deathbed the fortitude of this best of women (12.7) _____ not desert her. She joined the hands of Elizabeth and myself. "My children," she said, "my firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union. This expectation will now be the consolation of your father. Elizabeth, my love, you must (12.8) _____ my place to my younger children. Alas! I regret that I am taken from you; and, happy and beloved as I have been, is it not hard to quit you all? But these are not thoughts befitting me; I will endeavour to resign myself cheerfully to death and will indulge a hope of meeting you in another world."

Adapted from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

12.1. A. raised B. obtained C. grown D. attained

12.2. A. acquitted B. acquainted C. familial D. friendly

12.3. A. before B. time C. after D. unless

12.4. A. greatest B. grandest C. largest D. biggest

12.5. A. against B. to C. without D. from

12.6. A. more B. most C. much D. best

12.7. A. rather B. can C. hardly D. did