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: 

For decoration, people mount animal heads on walls. They buy furs to make rooms more

lavish.

 

Whenever my little sister …, all of us will run to her. 

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It is estimated that no more than 200 Siberian tigers ...... in the wild.

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

Avery Motors will not _______ on the design of its new line of automobiles  until the press release tomorrow.

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I wouldn’t waste time ......... that book if I were you.

Within minutes, he had  ________ for me to visit her and her family.

Jeanne and Mike are talking about Bonnie. Jeanne: “_______ .”

Mike: “ Really? What did he say?”

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You are not allowed to ........ private phone calls in the office.

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In a few days, there ....... an important meeting.

After studying rainbows in ________, Sir Isaac Newton was able to explain how they are formed.

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

The main_____________of the new electronic notepad is internet use.

You arrived two days ago. You are going to leave next Sunday. By the time you leave, you ........... nine days here. 

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

She will be……for identifying and developing new business opportunities in the region.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions:

Reaching 35 and obviously aging, Jane has to make up her mind on her future very soon.

The ASIAN was                  on August 8^th, 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand.

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

Flash photography is not permitted......................... the Sakura Museum of Art.

We are all too dismissive of traditions in our modern world, but they can have very strong pull _____ us.

Employees at NC media co., Ltd…………donate to local charities by hosting Fund-raising parties.

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.
(8)..................

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. 
What is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and what is its purpose? The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a multilateral organization which was (1) _____ to give Southeast Asian states a forum to communicate (2) _____ each other. Since the region had a long colonial past and a history of endemic warfare, there has never been much peaceful and constructive (3) _____ between kings, presidents and other officials. A neutral forum was, (4) _____, a very useful development for all of those countries. ASEAN was formed as a result of the Bangkok (5) _____ of 1967 and initially had five members: Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, (6) _____ Philippines and Singapore. Brunei (7) _____ joined in 1984 after it had won independence from Britain. Vietnam became the seventh member of the group, officially joining in 1995. (8) _____ several years of negotiation, Myanmar and Laos joined in 1997 and the final member of the ten, Cambodia, joined in 1999. The only (9)__ state in Southeast Asia which is not a member of ASEAN is now East Timor. It is still (10) _____ vulnerable and fragile to be able to participate for the foreseeable future.
(8)..........................

We are trying to control the                 of the dollar on the world’s money markets.