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.

Lauren’s predominant features, what you first noticed about her, were her stunning black hair and large, dark eyes.

He did not do well at school and left with few _________ qualifications.

This small town developed ______ I had expected.

(30) ___________

Residents were warned not to be extravagant with water, _______ the low rainfall this year.

Once ______ in large quantities, these products will be more affordably priced. 

(29) ___________

Why does the author mention "a small flat-screen device" in the first paragraph?

The fire must have been started on purpose; otherwise, it couldn’t have caused so much damage.

Smart cards and mobile phones are becoming an increasingly popular way to make all sorts of payments. Even now, in Japan thousands of transactions, from paying rail tickets to picking up the groceries, take place every day with customers passing their handsets across a small flat-screen device. And predictions in the world of finance reckon that payments using mobile phones will have risen to more than $50 billion in the very near future.

What's the appeal of e-cash? Compared to cheques or credit cards, it offers the speed of cash, but more so. It takes just one tenth of a second to complete most transactions and as no change is required, errors in counting are eliminated. Fraud and theft are also reduced and for the retailer, it reduces the cost of handling money. Sony's vision of having a chip embedded in computers. TVs and games consoles means that films, music and games can be paid for easily and without having to input credit card details.

And what about the future of the banks? Within grip on the market, banks and credit-card firms want to be in a position to collect most of the fees from the users of mobile and contactless-payment systems. But the new system could prove to be a "disruptive technology" as far as the banks are concerned. If payments for a few coffees, a train ticket and a newspaper are made every day by a commuter with a mobile, this will not appear on their monthly credit card statements but on their mobile phone statements. And having spent fortunes on branding, credit-card companies and banks do not want to see other payment systems gaining popularity. It's too early to say whether banks will miss out and if so, by how much. However, quite a few American bankers are optimistic. They feel there is reason to be suspicious of those who predict that high-street banks may be a thing of the past. They point out that Internet banking did not result in the closure of their high-street branches as was predicted. On the contrary, more Americans than ever are using local branches. So, as to whether we'll become a totally cash-free society or not, we’ll have to wait and see.

What is the main idea of the first paragraph?

Singapore was one of the five original member countries that (28) _____ ASEAN in 1967. (29) _________ its independence in 1965, Singapore has become one of the world’s most prosperous countries. Singapore is highly ranked for its economic competitiveness, and it was the world’s most (30) ________ country from 1997 to 1999 as ranked by the World Economic Forum.        

Singapore has (31)______ an impressive recovery after the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 . The government is currently restructuring the economy by promoting higher-value-added activities in line with a knowledge-based” economy, and by opening up protected sectors such as financial services to increase overall efficiency. Various bilateral free-trade agreements are also being negotiated to improve market access and (32) _______ foreign investment inflows

(28) ___________

Pasteur _______all his life to science.

The word "embedded” in line 9 is closest in meaning to……

The number of wildlife habitat reserves have been established in order to save endangered species from extinction. (underlined part that needs correction)

If she _______ the train last night, she would be here now.

“I am very pleased at how things have turned out.”  She said to her employees

As the two teams left the football ground, the 100,000 ___ gave them a standing ovation.

Choose the word that has different pronunciation: bought, sought, drought, fought.

That carcinogenic substances _______ in many common household items is well-known.

The population of the world is growing very fast. In the last 40 years, it has doubled. By the year 2200, it will be about 10,000 million. Our cities will be much bigger. There will be more factories and more roads. We will need more water and more natural resources. Experts say that we will have serious problems in the future. They say that we must change the way we use energy and natural resources now.

Every day we throw away millions of tones of rubbish. Half of this is paper that we can use again. A typical family in Europe or America throws away more than l tone of rubbish each year, but we can recycle most of this. If we recycle things, we can save money, energy, and natural resources. Recycling the Sunday New York Times newspaper, for example, will save 75,000 trees every week.

A lot of rubbish we throw away is not biodegradable. Plastic, mental and chemicals will not disappear for hundreds of years. We also produce a lot of unnecessary things, such as packaging. All of this pollutes the air, the land 'and the water. Pollution will be a very big problem in the future. We must avoid using non-biodegradable material. We must also reduce the amount of unnecessary things that we produce and use. In shops, for example, we can say ‘No, thanks!’ to the packaging that comes with the things we buy.

Many natural resources are not renewable. Coal, gas, oil, metals and minerals, for example, will finish one day. Other resources take a long time to grow, such as trees, or they are not always available, such as water. We have to reduce the amount of resources and energy that we use. We also have to find alternative ways to make energy. We can use the sun, the wind, the sea and the heat of the Earth.

The certain consequence of a fast growing population is that……….

A (n) _____child means a child who behaves badly and saddens his parents.