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: 

I always hated pasta when I was a child. Now I cook it regularly.

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: 

As he gets older, he wants to travel less.

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: 

The noise next door didn’t stop until midnight.

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:

He finds physics far more difficult than other science subjects.

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Invitations were sent out as soon as the date of the conference was chosen.

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The only members of the cat family that can roar are lions, leopards, tigers, and jaguars but lions are by far the loudest.

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: 

As an excuse for being late, she made up a whole story.

Choose the underlined part among A, B, C or D that needs correcting: After George had returned to his house,  he   was  reading a book.

Rewrite sentences without changing the meaning: 

Although it was cold, we decided to go for a picnic.

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:

I'm sure Luisa was very disappointed when she failed the exam.

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:

 We should quickly find a solution to the problem. Otherwise, its impact on those concerned will increase.

Make the best choice

He prefers playing golf to swimming.

Read the text then choose the best answer to fill in the blank.

China said today that there was heavy loss of life in the earthquake which struck Tangshan City yesterday. Survivors said that Tangshan, an industrial city of one million people 160 kilometers east of Peking, was completely (1) ……..

Observers living in Beijing said it appeared that only a mall part of the one million inhabitants escaped (2) …… or injury.

Many of the men of Tangshan were working in the (3) …….. deep under the earth’s surface when the (4) ……… occurred. Unfortunately, few of these miners have (5) ……….

Unfortunately, few of these miners have (5) ……….

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: 

 The film didn't come up to my expectation.

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“Let’s give her more information about our plan next week,” said Michael.

Choose the correct sentence among A, B, C or D which has the same meaning as the given one: Your car is more expensive than mine.

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: 

"I would be grateful if you did the work" he said to me.

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: 

It doesn’t matter to them which film they go to.

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 It wouldn’t be a waste of time to look at that house again.

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:

It was wrong of you not to turn off the gas cooker.

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"Let’s go for a walk. We 've been working all day,” said Joanna.