Make the best choice

After twenty-five years of hard work, he made a decision to retire. 

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Although he was able to do the job, he wasn’t given the position.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to choose the sentence which is closest in meaning to the given one. 

Without her teacher‟s advice, she would never have written such a good essay.

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 If he could speak French, he would be able to get a job there.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions:

The coffee was not strong. It didn’t keep US awake.

Rewrite the sentence:

What she does in her free time does not concern me.

Rewrite the sentence:

The boss was annoyed that his secretary came to work late.

Choose the underlined part among A, B, C or D that needs correcting: Wine tends to be lost its flavour when it has not been properly sealed.

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The girl packed the vase in polyester foam. She didn’t want it to get broken in the post.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions:

When I had finished the report, I went out for a cup of coffee.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions: 

Charles would have won the essay contest if he had typed his paper.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions:

The painting displayed in the museum has been stolen. They are rumouring about that.

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He was successful because he was determined to pursue personal goals. He was not talented.

Rewrite the sentence:

I bought an Italian pair of shoes for $150. They went missing after two days.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions:

He was successful because he was determined to pursue personal goals. He was not talented.

Rewrite the sentence:

There is nothing new in the use of herbs and spices.

Choose the correct sentence among A, B, C or D which has the same meaning as the given one: It’s a waste of time to try and explain anything to Tony.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions:

“I am sorry, Jean. I broke your vase” said John

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I can earn enough money to support my family. Thank you for your job offer.

Read the passage below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each space. 
Today there are libraries in almost every towns in the world. Even in areas (1) ______ there are no libraries, there are often mobile libraries which take boos from one village to the other. But in the days when books were copied by hand (2) ______ than printed, libraries were very rare. The reason is simple: books took a very long time to produce, and there were far fewer copies of any given work around. The greatest library (3)______ all, that in Alexandia, had 54,000 books.
In the ancient world, this number (4)______ considered huge. It was the first time that anyone had collected so many books from all around the world under one roof. There are many theories about why these books were lost. One is that the library accidentally burned down. Another is that one of the rulers of the city ordered the books to be burned. They were taken to various places and it took six months to burn them. Whatever happened, the collection there was priceless. Many of the library’s treasures were lost forever-some books were (5) ______ recovered. We cannot even know exactly what the library contained.
(3).....................

 Choose the sentence - a, b, c, or d   without changing the meaning

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