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.

Tet marks the beginning of spring and, for agrarian people who depend on the lunar calendar to manage their crops, the start of the year.

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

Some wild animals will become______________ if they get used to people. 

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.

Helen Keller, blind and deaf from an early age, developed her sense of smell so finely that she could identify friends by their personal odors.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions: 

When you consider all the advantages you've gained I think you'll admit you had a good run for your money.

Choose the underlined part that needs correction: 

When you realized you may have difficulty arranging last month’s conference, you should have told me so that I could have gotten more people to volunteer.

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. 
The Philippines, officially known (1) _____ the Republic of the Philippines, is (2) _____ in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. The Philippine (3) ____ 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean, sharing borders with Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam. The Philippines is the world's 12th most populous country with a population approaching 90 million people. Its national (4) _____ is the 37th largest in the world with a 2006 gross domestic product (GDP) of over 117.562 billion USD. There are (5) _____ 11 million overseas Filipinos worldwide. The Philippines became a Spanish colony in the 16th century and an American territory at the (6) _____ of the 20th century. The Philippines won independence from Spain in 1896. The Philippines (7) _____ its independence from the United States on July 4, 1946 after World War II. Spanish was (8) _____ official language of the Philippines until 1973. Since then, the two official languages are Filipino and English. The Philippines had cultural ties with Malaysia, Indonesia, and India in the ancient time, and trade (9) _____ with China and Japan as early as the 9th century. The late 1960s and early 1970s its economic development was second in Asia, (10) _____ to Japan. The Philippines is a founding and active member of the United Nations and is a founding member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)/ The Philippines is also a member of the East Asia Summit (EAS) and an active member in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
(2)........................

Choose the best option among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence: New teachers have to ….. the respect of their students.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions: 

“I’m sorry, madam. This is the fixed price and there is no discount.”

ASEAN has _______ population of 575.5 million.

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

Please let me know if you are in need of any other office products at this time. You may  respond to this e-mail or call me ---------- at 415-555-0166, ext. 42. 

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Friendship is a ............. affair, giving and taking.

What did that man die                 ?  –A heart attack.

We are  _________  to produce unemployment by 50%.

Choose the best answer:

Nothing ………his opinion.

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

By the time Clear Blaze Technology's word processing program  goes on the market,software engineers ------------- its remaining flaws. 

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence: Cooperation ……. success.

She said that the report was a bit __________. 

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.
(6)...........................

Where’s_______ report I left on the table next to the TV in the living room.

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

My favourite Greece_____________is stuffed tomatoes.

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

After their catastrophic defeat the_____________of the army made their way back to their mountain strong holds.