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Rival schools and a labor union are stepping up assistance such as ( ) up classes or arranging lessons ( ) cash-strapped foreign instructors from ( ) language school chain Nova Corp.

G.education Co. is to take over Nova businesses, including its station model. However, G.education plans to ( ) only 30 schools so it will be some time ( ) Japanese staff and foreign instructors ( ) a total of about 4 billion yen in unpaid salary. Ramona Coulson Watanabe, an instructor at the International Language Service school, ( ) about the welfare of foreign instructors ( ) in the lurch by Nova's demise.

1. a. to open b. opening c. open d. to be opening
2. a. in b. to c. on d. for
3. a. failed b. failing c. failure d. collapsing
4. a. open again b. be opening c. reopen d. be reopened
5. a. before b. after c. later d. when
6. a. are going to receive b. are supposed to receive c. receive d. receiving
7. a. concerns b. is concerned c. is concerning d. is to concern
8. a. who leave b. having left c. who is left d. left