Mark the 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:

Some operations may have to be halted unless more blood donors come forward to help.

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The fire destroyed the house last night.

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One of the ------- for the position is three years of customer service experience

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Long-term maintenances fees ------ according to the type of industrial printing machine purchased

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Excuse me, I ordered soft __________ eggs, not hard

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We cannot ------- the filming of our documentary, Morning after Night, without sufficient funding

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________ it would stop raining for a morning, we could cut the grass

Our parents join hands to give us a nice house and happy home

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Compliance Department officers regularly monitor changes in the ------- framework

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Dr. Wu provides patients with exceptional dental care at an ------- price

Which word is similar in meaning to the word “glue”

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The studies revealed that most employees -------- by increases in status rather than just financial compensation

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You can't expect to have any friends if you don't make the ________ with people.

I wouldn't describe my family as __________ but as children we never had to go without money

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The more paper we recycle, ________

My father is very helpful. He is always _______give a hand with cleaning the house.

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If you want to be healthy. you should _____ your bad habits in your lifestyles

MY BEST FRIEND
I have several good friends but I (1) ________ that my best friend is Ellen. We (2)________ friends with each other since we were very young because she (3)________ next door to me. We have always been in the same class at school, although she has always been much cleverer than me. I don't mind (4)________, because she often helps me with my homework! Anyway, I've always been better at sport than she is. I always (5)________ her at tennis and she doesn't like that. In fact, she hates losing at anything and gets very annoyed if she does. That's the only thing that I don't like about her. Otherwise, she has (6)________ humour and she's always making me laugh. We get on very well together, although occasionally we've had arguments - usually about silly little things. Ellen and her family moved to another district last year but I still see her a lot. We're planning to go on a trip around Europe next summer, I'm really (7)________ to it because I think we'll have a lot of fun and see exciting places. Of course, it's going to be hard -to afford such a wonderful and exciting trip and so we're both going to get jobs and try to (8)________ enough money for it.
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Can’t you just see that One Direction are steamingly...........? I just can’t take it anymore.

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It has been claimed that ________ in icy water, as done in Russia and Finland, can help the body ________ off illness

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Ann and Sophia are close friends. They are talking about their study at the start of the semester.
Ann: "Then, I'm taking history this semester. How about you?"
Sophia:"____. I'm still wondering whether to take history or geography."