Of course an encyclopedia is not a book you read _________

The public ceremonies of the Plains Indians are lesser elaborate than those of the Navajo in the Southwest.

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 ages of the two children put together was equivalent to that of their father

Did they tell you that there has in our town an excellent beach less than a mile from the campus?

The brothers Grimm intended their fairy tales to be studied by scholars of German literature and not to enjoy as simple stories by children

We’ll have to wait a little longer because I’m sure he will _______ .

The composer Verdi has written the opera Aida to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal, but it was not performed until 1871 .

There is a hostel at the bottom of the canyon where we can stay there.

 I have... great admiration for him. 

She_______come yet; we're still waiting for her. 

She couldn't resist _______ at him in those clothes

The TV station, in _______ to massive popular demand, decided not to discontinue the soap opera.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

 “We shall be here the day after tomorrow”, they said.

However kinds of raw materials are used in making paper, the process is essentially the same .

So when Whitman returned to the Pacific, over thousand settlers went with him.

My father's hours became more irregular; sometimes he stayed in... house in .... morning and sometimes both he and my mother were out all ……day.

From the four words or phrases (A,B,C or D), choose the one that best completes the sentence.

If peeling onions makes you cry, a useful ….. is to peel them under water.

The crew of the tanker were fortunate_________ just minute before it sank in heavy seas.

The number of teaching assistants required meeting undergraduate course needs is rapidly increasing.

In the sixteenth century, Francois Vieta, a French mathematician, used the vowels “a”, “b”, “c”, “o”, “u” to represent a unknown number.

Find the mistake: Watching television too much have adverse effects about children’s cognitive ability.