You can talk to him until you are _____ in the face, but he still won’t understand.

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Smoking is bad for your health. You had better .................... it up. 

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The drought ________ considerable problems for farmers.

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

His lawyer thought he had a good chance of being acquitted at the trial, if no further evidence was found.

 I had my assistant ……………the report. 

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The bus will be leaving on five minutes so you’d better hurry up.

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There is a real possibility that these animals could be frightened _______ a sudden loud noise.

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You are bound to find information on the stock market crash of 1987 in the newspaper ________ .

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I ................... him three years ago.

She nearly lost her own life in a(n) ...................  to save the child from drowning.

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

The year 2000 can be considered as a milestone for the hearing-impaired as the Nippon Foundation launched a disability support project.

Choose the correct answer to complete the sentence. "We paid for the meal. We wanted to say sorry _____ what we had done."

Choose the correct answer to each of the following questions. "____ what has happened, they think she will never return."

Just water these plants twice a week, and ____________the ones in the bedroom.

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A large number of inhabitants have made ......... on how to protect the environment.

Choose the correct answer to each of the following questions. "Many animals were born in _______. Resultantly, they do not always breed well."

Dwelling primarily in the ice Northern Polar seas, beluga whales are characteristically small, white, agile, and elusive.

Choose the correct answer to each of the following questions. "People have to suffer from traffic _______ and pollution every day."

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best option for each of the blanks.
People’s fingernails and toenails, according to a recent study, are nowadays growing more quickly. Research (35) _____ out at the University of North Carolina indicates that the speed at which human nails are growing has increased by (36) _____ 25 per cent over the last 70 years. The results of the study show that the (37)_____ human fingernail now grows about 3.5 mm a month, (38) _____ just 3 mm seven decades ago. Toenail growth, (39) _____ only about 2 mm per month, was also up on the figure (40) _____ in a similar survey done 70 years ago. Researchers (41) _____ the rapid increase down to changes in lifestyle, particularly the greater awareness of the importance of regular exercise and a healthy diet. This, they point out, is in (42) _____with similar trends in the height and weight of present-day adults. Interestingly, it appears that nails have a propensity to grow fastest (43) _____ warmer conditions, with the quickest growth rate among young people, and men. The fastestgrowing nail is on the middle finger while that on the little finger is (44) _____ the slowest, at only a fraction over 3 mm each month.
(38)..............................

Choose the correct answer to complete the sentence. "Hai was about to do something _____ his mother suddenly shouted out."

Becoming an astronauts is so demanding that _______ people manage it.