Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.

The expansion of public services has caused concern that the civil service branches are becoming autonomous powers.

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Flu season is here, so take advantage of the free flu shots ______________   in the lobby.

Wendy is ______ eleven-year-old girl. 

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__________ the poor weather, the annual staff picnic will be postponed until next Friday.

The hall was very crowded with over a hundred people ................ into it.

These schools were called junior colleges _______ their main function was to offer only the beginning stage of general college study.

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The  ____________  building will be closed for renovation work throughout December.

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The Welcome Committee always strives to extend  _______________  to new members.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.

A central issue in probability is foretelling the value of a future observation.

As the hospital had been careless with its hygiene procedures, the patient found she had been _______ with a harmful virus.

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Ms. Rakel's new Stockholm office tower is sure to be recognized as a highlight of -----architecture.

When .................  a European, we should stick to the last name unless he suggests that we use his first name.

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He did the tests well ........... I did, too.

She’s certainly a ................. writer, she has written quite a few bools this year.

He couldn’t stop to chat with her because he was really ________ for time

We walked in the streets where the noise of the traffic was rather ................

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The Sahara is the ….....….. hot desert in the world, and the third largest desert behind Antarctica and the Arctic, which are both cold deserts.

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Sang Joon Park is retiring after 25 years of -------- with Dahl Legal Consultants.

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We discussed the issue all day; ________, we could not come to a final conclusion.

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Pupils are learning .............

Although they ———————, they did not lose heart.