Choose the best answer to complete the sentences

Women still do the majority of the household chores, ________.

The director retired early ..............  ill health.

They always try .................. ................ the bridge as they promised before

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions:

The new cow boy-film catches the fancy of the children.

As the drug took______ , the boy became quieter.

Jane recounted the details of her vacation so  ........  that we were able to picture what she had done.

I have bought a present for my mother, and now I need some ______.

Choose the best answer:
The 1908 Siberian meteorite explosion brought about considerable depletion of the northern hemisphere's ozone layer.

Identify the word/ phrase that must be changed to make the sentence correct: 

Job enrichment is a technique used to increase satisfaction workers by giving them more responsibilities.

Choose the best answer among A, B, c or D that best completes each sentence:  John didn’t attend the class ____he was seriously ill.

Identify the error in each sentence: (A) When the chemicals (B) inside a cell (C) no longer produce ions, the cell stops (D) to function.

 John went to the mountains on his vacation, and_________

Identify the error in each sentence: So far this term, (A) the students in writing class (B) have learnt how (C) to write the statements, organize their material, and (D) summarizing their conclusion.

They are conducting a wide ............. of surveys throughout Viet Nam.

The preparations ................  by the time the guests arrived.

After months of testing, the Russian space scientists ........... a space suit that works better than any other in history.

If you say you are using a word ______, you mean you are choosing it after thinking about it very carefully.

The manager did not offer her the job because of her untidy  ...............

Her boss promised _______ her a raise because she never minds _______ the night shift. 

Where’s that_______dress that your boyfriend gave you?

Can we see (33)______ the earth is a globe? Yes, we can, when we watch a ship that sails out to sea. If we watch closely, we see that the ship begins (34)______. The bottom of the ship disappears first, and then the ship seems to sink lower and lower, (35)______ we can only see the top of the ship, and then we see nothing at all. What is hiding the ship from us? It is the earth. Stick a pin most of the way into an orange, and (36)______ turn the orange away from you. You will see the pin disappear, (37)______ a ship does on the earth.
(37)..................