Choose the best answer

Reducing gender ____ improves productivity and economic growth of a nation.

These letters ________ now. You can do the typing later.

The police officer lectured the children for ten minutes about the dangers to throw stones, but then let them off with a warning

In the early twentieth century, there was considerable interesting among sociologists in the fact that in the United States the family was losing its traditional roles.

The Wright brothers, owner of a bicycle shop, used a number of bicycle parts to make the original motorized plane.

Gunpowder, in some ways the most effective of all the explosive materials, were a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur.

Our house has been redecorated last week. You can still smell paint when you enter and the wallpaper has a striking contrast with the floor.

That investors in the stock market enjoys increases and suffer declines is simply a fact of the financial market, and a smart investor is not too excited about the former or crestfallen about the latter.

Gwendolyn Brooks, which won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950, had 75 poems published by the time she was twenty.

Many books have been written ______ Thomas.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correcting in each of the following questions.

She has disappeared three days ago, and they are still looking for her now.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best answer to each of the following questions.

It is raining hard this week but Tom expects _______with his friends this weekend.

VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURES: Choose the best options 

“ Mr.Jones, please type those letters before noon.” – “They’ve already ______ sir. They are on your desk.” 

Choose the best answer:

Pele is famous                       his powerful kicking and controlling the ball.

The new mall shopping in the downtown area will be much more expensive for the shoppers than the mall in the freeway outside the town.

Some conifers, that are tree that have cones, are able to thrive on poor, thin soil.

Choose one word or phrase marked A, B, C, or D that best complete the preceding sentence:

You should give the iron time to heat up__________ you iron your clothes.

May I ask who was that man who was leaving the office when we came in?

Most pines grow rapidly and form straight, tall trunks that are ideally for lumber.

Choose one word or phrase marked A, B, C, or D that best complete the preceding sentence:

_________ he is old, he wants to travel around the world.

Friends advise her to stop doing the housework because her old age.