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:

We’re not taking on any new staff at the moment so that we can cut down the cost.

A. B. C. D. 

 

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

……….a degree in accounting, Ms. Sakai is considered one of the top candidates for the management position.

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:

Roget’s Thesaurus, a collection of English words and phrases, was originally arranged by the ideas they express rather than by alphabetical order

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

Please reply____________to the invitation for the software training.

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

When he served as President of Delvan Manufacturing, Pierre Dunn ________  several policies that transformed the company. 

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

 The           statement reported the survival of fifty people.

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

Simon says he____________ giving up studying French in school, as now he has been offered a job in France.

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:

The education system is a mirror that reflects the culture.

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

Did you use to have …………………… as a child?

Choose the best option among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence:  Both my books …… from my room last night.

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.

_________ one hand on the steering wheel, Ann opened a can of soda pop with her free hand.

As the wind blows over the land, it often  ______ small grains of sand.

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence: The ASEAN countries are going to …….  a resolution to establish a free trade zone.

At the end of the day's work, she often finds __________. A. exhausted B. exhaust C. exhaustedly D. exhausting

Pasteur ...................in the 19th century. 

(John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1917-1963) the 35th us President (1961-1963). He was the country's youngest president and the first Roman Catholic ever ____ (1) ____, He was___(2)____known informally as Jack Kennedy and JFK. His wife was Jackie Kennedy. He won a medal for____(3)____during World War II, and was elected to the us House of Representatives (1947-1953) and then___(4)___ the us Senate (1952-1960).
Kennedy's greatest success___ (5) ___President was in___ (6) ___the Cuban missile crisis and his worst failure was over the Bay of Pigs incident. He worked ____ (7) ____his brother, US Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to support the civil rights___ (8) ___. He was murdered in Dallas, probably by Lee Harvey Oswald, in one of the most shocking events in us history. Some people believe that others were responsible for his murder, but ___ (9) ___has ever been___(10)___proved. Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage (1956), won a Pulitzer Prize.
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."
John F Kennedy
(5)........................

Peter … for her wife’s letter since last Friday. Now he hasn’t received yet. 

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.
(4)..........................

He said that his mother would be very upset when she .............. that he had lost his job.