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 yearly growth of the gross national product is often used as an indicator of a nation's economy.

Some birds can travel at speeds approaching one hundred miles an hour, and a few land animals can so.

I am not sure how old he is but he must be ______ for 70.

I would have gone with him to Washington except I had had no time.

While searching for the wreckage of a unidentified aircraft, the Coast Guard encountered severe squalls at sea.

Choose the best answer:

There are many ways of ..................  ourselves in a big city.

The two men, disguising as security guards, overpowered staff at the bank and escaped with £150,000.

If the solid level has raised a little higher, the dam would probably have broken.

The professor has not written a book _________ to the masses to generate interest from a publisher.

Choose the best answer:

They had made Bob ................Jane.

This car needs____________ because it’s so dirty.

Identify the error in each sentence: The life span (A) of a domesticcat at home is said to be (B) far shorter (C) than a wild tiger (D) in the jungle

The basic law of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are taught to all elementary school students.

Three decibel, which is a unit of relative loud, is the smallest amount of change detected by the human ear.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.

An increased number of city dwellers has made the obsolete infrastructure worse and required a lot of repairs in these days.

Choose the correct answer to the following questions.

She started working as a teacher of English ten years ago.

Deep cratering, the sun is over 4200 miles in diameter with negligible gravity and atmosphere.

It is estimated that at least a million meteors have hit the Earth’s land surface, which is only 25 percentage of the planet.

What do the initials USA stand ________?

He had so a difficult exercise that he couldn’t do it.

Chicago’s Sears Tower, now the taller building in the world, raise 1,522 feet from the ground to the top of its antenna.