He said that his mother would be very upset when she .............. that he had lost his job. 

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

She wanted to remove the color from the curtains, so she____________ them. 

This causes many problems, including serious air pollution, lengthy delays, and the greater risk  ________ accidents. 

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.

Health is something we tend to (1) ___when we have it. When our body is doing well, we are hardly (3)____of it. But illness can come, even (2)______we are young. In fact, childhood has been a very susceptible time. Many diseases attack children in particular, and people know very little (4)______ to cure them once they struck. The result was that many children died. About a century ago, (5)__________, scientists found out about germs, and then everything changed. The (6)_____ of many diseases was found, and cures were developed. As this medical discovery spread, the world became (7)______ safer for children. The result is that (8)___________a hundred years ago, the average man lived for 35 years, nowadays, in many areas of the world, people can (9)______ to live for 75 years. And what do we expect by the year 2020 ? Undoubtedly, medical science will continue to (10)______ . Some people will be able to avoid medical problems that are unavoidable today.
(5)............................

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence:  Hundreds of species of Hawaiian flowers have become extinct or rare …. land development and the razing of wild goats.

Choose the best answer to complete the sentence below.

After Mariana _______ her exam, I _______ her out to eat.

Choose the best answer:

If you have any problems, don’t hesitate ...... your teacher.

It is relatively easy for computers to speak. A computer that says 'please' and 'thank you' in the right places is (1) ______ miracle of science , but recognizing the words that make up norm al, continuous human speech is another (2)________
Not until now have computer been programmed to (3) _____to a range of spoken commands. Until recently it was thought that computers would have tobe programmed to the accent and speech hahits of each user, and only then would be able to respond (4) _____to their master's or mistress's voice. Now rapid progress is being made (5) ______ systems programmed to adapt easily to each new speaker.
The IBM Tangora system, under development at the end of 1980s was claimed to (6) ______ a spoken vocabulary of 20,000 words with 95 percent accuracy. The system includes a processor that can make informed guesses as to (7) ______ is a likely sentence. That system has been programmed not only with grammatical rules, but also with an analysis of a vast quantity of office correspondence.
On the (8) _______of this information, the machine can calculate the probability of one particular word following another. Statistical probability is necessary for computers to interpret not only speech but also (9) ______ data.
Security systems can distinguish between faces they have been taught to recognize, but never has a computer been able to match a human's ability to make sense of a three-dimensional scene (10) ______ identifying all objects in it.
(4)......................

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: 

This boy is poorly-educated and doesn’t know how to behave properly.

Mark a 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.

 Man:”I heard you have a part in the school play tonight.” Woman:”Yes, and I’m on pins and needles.”

Vincent Van Gogh is a famous painter from the 19th century. Van Gogh's paintings are sold at very high prices (1) ______many collectors want his paintings. But unfortunately, when he was (2) ______, he did not have a happy life.
Van Gogh was from a poor family in Holland and lived (3) _______his life at home. He lived a rather sad and (4) _______ life. He drew things that he could see (5) ______ around the quiet town of his parents' home or outside his window. This is why he painted things (6) _______the sky, his room and even himself. 
Van Gogh once cut off his own ear after drawing a picture of himself. He cut it off to (7) _______ the person that said the ear in Van Gogh's painting was not correct. It was very (8) _____ him to do such a thing.
Van Gogh was also (9) _________a crazy man. He really (10) ______become crazy, and was sent to a mental hospital. Sadly, he killed himself when he was just 37.
(7)...........................

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

When he served as President of Delvan Manufacturing, Pierre Dunn ________  several policies that transformed the company. 

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.
(10)....................

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence: Our English teacher would like  us  spend  more time in the laboratory _______ our pronunciation.

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

We apologize in advance for any........... that may result from the activity.

There has been a shift from the agriculture-based economy to the economy based on manufacturing and industry _______.

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence: My father hasn’t smoked _____ three years.

Huong teaches small children. She often finds her job__________. 

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

I think we should have____________glass put in the bathroom window because people on the other side of the street can see right in.

All students.................hand in their assignments by Friday at the latest.