Choose the best answer:

Fortunately the machine was not ........... when it caught fire.

A surprising number of popular spectator sports, for example football or baseball, started in Europe or the USA in the nineteenth century. This did not happen by chance. It was the  ______ of changes in the way people lived in those places at that time.

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

I'd appreciate it if you could provide me with the requested             by February 10 at the latest

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

She has made some very____________investments, which has earned her a lot of money.

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

Once invoices arrive in the office, they should be processed________in order to maintain accurate records.

The point of Phobia Awareness Week is to highlight the difficulties that many people face in everyday situations. It is important to (1) _____ between a fear and a phobia. It's (2)______usual for all of us to have our own peculiar fears, for example being anxious around snakes or nervous about flying. However, only a very small proportion of US actually have a phobia of these things. When these fears begin to (3) _____ you embarrassment or you feel that your life is being disrupted then you would be wise to (4)_____ treatment for what could potentially be a phobia. By far the most (5) _____ phobia and potentially the most disruptive is agoraphobia. The word derives from Greek and (6) _____ means 'fear of the marketplace' but we apply it today to describe a distressing (7) ______ in which people avoid going outside because of the awful feelings of anxiety that arise. Treatment of phobias usually consists of the patient (8) _____ behavioural therapy during which they gradually get used to being near the object or the situation that causes them fear. Drugs may be (9) _____ to treat anxiety and many people opt for alternative therapy such as acupuncture or hypnosis to help them come to (10) _____ with their fear and conquer it.
(7)....................

Choose the best option among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence: I ______ that he stole the car.

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

Many insects, such as wasps and ants, use their_____________ to touch objects. 

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

Applications for the receptionist job have come in____________over the past two weeks.

- Help me with this! - ________

It .............dark. Shall I turn on the light? 

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 each of the following questions: 

“I’m sorry, madam. This is the fixed price and there is no discount.”

It is now ending its first term as a school _____by the village community and the villagers are just proud of their achievement.

Anyone…………experiences complications with the new software is encouraged to bring this matter to Mr. Gruber's attention in room 210.

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

All of Nahan-Messer's established science fiction authors have been moved to the new  division.---------------, Lightspeed has acquired several first-time novelists. Its first  release, A Giant of Industry by Lily Riddle, will be published on March 15. 

You can ride an exercise bike while you are watching television ______ you can take the stairs instead of the elevator.

 The children are __________ with watching the same programme every day. 

Choose the best answer:

We are bored ……… the same activities in English lessons.

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 each of the following questions: 

 The writer was really hot under the collar when his novel was mistaken for another.

Every ten minutes, one kind of animal, plant or insect dies (1) ...... forever. If nothing is done about it, one million species that are alive today will have become (2) ...... twenty years from now.
The seas are in (3) ........ They are being filled with poison, industrial and nuclear (4) ......., chemical fertilizers and pesticides, sewage. The Mediterranean is already nearly dead. The North Sea is following. If nothing is done about it, one day soon nothing will be able to live in the seas.
The tropical rain forests, which are the (5) ...... of half the earth's living things (including many rare animals and plants), are being destroyed. If nothing is done about it, they will have disappeared in twenty years. The (6) ...... on the world's climate and on our agriculture and food supplies, will be disastrous.
Fortunately, somebody is trying to do something about it. In 1961, the World Wildlife Fund was (7) ...... - a small group of people who wanted to raise money to save animals and plants from extinction.
Today, the World Wildlife Fund is a large international organization. It has raised over $35 million for conservation projects, and has created or given (8) ...... to National Parks in five continents. It has helped 30 mammals and birds, including the tiger, to (9) ........ Perhaps this is not much, but it is a start. If more people give more money - and if more governments wake up to what is happening -perhaps the World Wildlife Fund will be able to help US to avoid the disaster that (10) ...... the natural world, and all of US will be with it.
(9)..................

The local authority must face the _______ that they do not have enough conditions to develop economy