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.”

  

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

Some people wanted travel scholarships. The end of the week was the deadline. By then everyone had applied

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence:  …….unprepared for the exam, I felt sure I would get a low score.

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He always tries ……. the best conditions …….. his children.

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…………….. Grappa?

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Mr. Rap ........ mathematics before he ....... to literature.

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

Staff members --------- for promotion will be notified by management within ten days.

Malaysia is a founding member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations _______.

Tattooing is an old art. In ancient Greece, people who had tattoos were regarded as members of the _____ classes.

By my ____ they should be here within the hour.

Jack ................... the door. 

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.
(7)............................

Some countries, like Japan, will employ people without a teaching qualification as _______ as the teacher is a native speaker of English. 

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

Employees currently working in Ridge Manufacturing's branch offices will move into the new headquarters ---------- the building is finished.

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

The (A) moment I was seeing (B) him, I realized (C) I had met (D) him somewhere before.

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

The Joseph Wellington Library would like to thank all donors for their_______ during the recent fundraising campaign.

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)..................

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

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Tom ........ before we arrived there.

Vietnam asked for _______ to ASEAN in 1995.

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

Noted author Neha Dehuri will be signing copies of her…......... acclaimed book,

The Forgotten, on Sunday at the Gloucester University Bookstore.