There has been a hot debate among the scientists relating to the pros and cons of using robotic probes to study distant objects in space.

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Over the last century, there ____ many significant changes in the way we live.

They'd be hurt if I ___________.o.

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What the problem _________________ is whether the consumers can accept to pay more for a higher quality product

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I’m waiting till the time is ______ before I tell my grandparents that I failed the entrance exam.

It will take more or less a month to prepare for the wedding.

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There are small ________between British and American English.

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Despite her________as an accountant, she was still the best employee we could ever hope for

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If you don't warm up before taking exercise, you risk wounding yourself.

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:

Teletext is continuously sent out at all times when regular television programs are broadcast.

She always listens___to what she is told.

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________a single word can describe my appreciation.

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Tim looks so frightened and upset. He _______ something terrible.

Unlike     the nationally regulated and financed education _______ of many other industrialized societies, American public education is primarily  the responsibility of the states and individual school districts.

_____ there are some more ideas, we can end the meeting now.

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I can easily while the whole afternoon ______ reading a good book.

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My parents lent me the money. __________, I couldn’t have afforded the trip

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We’ve all heard the saying that all work and no play makes Jack a _________ boy

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Of course, such experiments on animals also raise moral issues, especially in the absence of any justification based on curing terrific diseases.

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

Whoever said this (A) he must have been a liar because it is (B) something (C) that even a child knows to (D) be true.

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Although the fish can hear, they have _______ external ears ______ ear drums