Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in the following questions.

Your experience with oil well fires will be invaluable to the company in case of trouble.

The policeman ______ everything he had noticed to the inspector.

The profit has now ________ towards the point where it nearly doubled.

The forecast has revealed that the world’s reserves of fossil fuel will have ________ by 2015.

It was _____ by the railways board that the cost of rail fares would be increased by ten per cent.

The boy waved his hands to his mother, who was standing at the school gate, to ………….. her attention.

Thank you for your explanation, but I’m afraid I’m still in a _____ over what happened.

Having so many hobbies in common, Ted and Nick got on like a(n) ____________ on fire.

Because of people’s______ with the environment, many kinds of plants and animals are becoming rare.

The number of injuries from automobile accidents ………. every year.

I’m not going to go ice skating! I’d only fall over and __________ a fool of myself.

The mechanic examined the car engine ______ but could find nothing wrong with it.

Culture has been described as features that are shared and bind people together into a community.

Daisy has spent the last two weekends _____ hundreds of photographs so that she can put them in separate albums.

To score a goal, players need to learn how to pass in both__________ and horizontal positions.

It never..........his mind that his badly behaved manner would be discovered.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

After congratulating his team, the coach left, allowing the players to let their hair down for a while.

Paul is a very _______ character, he is never relaxed with strangers.

Installing is firewall is one method of trying to protect against_______.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in the following question

Mrs Gilman is seriously ill in hospital so, for the time being, her classes will be taken by other teachers.

I’m a great believer in the _____ of reading books and taking up a sport, which offer you both knowledge and healthy.