This is especially important in the age of globalisation, where countries face a daunting challenge to preserve their own cultural identities.

The new sports complex ______ will accommodate an Olympic-sized swimming pool and others including fitness center, and a spa, to name just a few.

The advances of commercial airplanes resulted in a shrinking world.

The map was drawn to the standard ______ of 1/100,000, so there was not much detail.

Although the staff did expand somewhat for the first century of its existence, the entire teaching staff consisted of the president and three or four tutors.

A reduction in the amount of paperwork has been proposed in an attempt to ease the ____________on busy teachers.

They were just _______ us about Anna's new boyfriend.

The situation got out of hand when the festival organisers couldn't foresee that the mob would get angry because they were stopped from taking the offerings.

The police are ………………… certain who the culprit is.

I finally __________ the cold that I had had all week.

If you make a cat angry it may _____ you.

Do not _____ the butter too thickly on the bread. 

Because of the low ceiling, the bookcase was much too _____ to go into the room.

Unlike some other books about_______, it is unlikely that this will become a key text for those at the forefront of conservation action.

I have lived near the airport for so long now that I’ve grown ________ to the noise of the airplanes.

There is real concern that food supplies will not be _____ to feed the increasing world population. 

In view of the way things have improved I now feel confident enough to have another bite at the _______.

He_______ of the race after two laps.

Van Gogh suffered from depression _______ by overwork and ill-health.

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.

Their daughter soon became a celebrated writer after the publication of her first novel.

Normally he is rather _____ but sometimes he talks freely about himself.