ASEAN has _______ population of 575.5 million.

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

Alpha Clothing Store is a family-owned business offering high-quality men’s chothing at ……… prices.

At the end of the day's work, she often finds __________. A. exhausted B. exhaust C. exhaustedly D. exhausting

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.

Tet marks the beginning of spring and, for agrarian people who depend on the lunar calendar to manage their crops, the start of the year.

A combined gross domestic _______ of the member countries of ASEAN has grown at an average rate of around 6% per year

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

Visitors should reserve opera tickets well in advance ----- they hope to see a performance while in Westgard City. 

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

Although the staff has grown, Mr. Lee continues to conduct all client meetings  ________. 

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The English contest ...... the Student Union is an annual event in my school.

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. 
The Philippines, officially known (1) _____ the Republic of the Philippines, is (2) _____ in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. The Philippine (3) ____ 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean, sharing borders with Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam. The Philippines is the world's 12th most populous country with a population approaching 90 million people. Its national (4) _____ is the 37th largest in the world with a 2006 gross domestic product (GDP) of over 117.562 billion USD. There are (5) _____ 11 million overseas Filipinos worldwide. The Philippines became a Spanish colony in the 16th century and an American territory at the (6) _____ of the 20th century. The Philippines won independence from Spain in 1896. The Philippines (7) _____ its independence from the United States on July 4, 1946 after World War II. Spanish was (8) _____ official language of the Philippines until 1973. Since then, the two official languages are Filipino and English. The Philippines had cultural ties with Malaysia, Indonesia, and India in the ancient time, and trade (9) _____ with China and Japan as early as the 9th century. The late 1960s and early 1970s its economic development was second in Asia, (10) _____ to Japan. The Philippines is a founding and active member of the United Nations and is a founding member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)/ The Philippines is also a member of the East Asia Summit (EAS) and an active member in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
(8)........................

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: 

Do you think it’s OK for me to wear jeans to a job interview or do I need something a bit more upmarket?

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

Mariel Castillo’s----------- rated radio program will move to a new station in the spring.

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

After receiving numerous_______ about the defective headlight bulbs,our customer service departerment has agreed to issue full refunds.

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

I usually ___________with my brother about the happy old time when we were young. 

I like my work because I have the ________ to make my own decisions.

I .........................along the street when I suddenly heard footsteps behind me

When the weather is cold, it is not very much fun to  ______a bus. 

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

Factory officials reported that with the installation of the new machinery, errors  during ________ have decreased by 15 percent.

Use the word at the end of each gap to form a new word with which to fill the gap: 
‘It is simply this. That Space, as our __(1)___ (MATH) have it, is spoken of as having three dimensions, which one may call __(2)___ (LONG), Breadth, and __(3)___ (THICK), and is always definable by __(4)___ (REFER) to three planes, each at right angles to the others. But some philosophical people have been asking why THREE dimensions ___(5)__ (PARTICULAR) - why not another direction at right angles to the other three?-and have even tried to construct a Four-Dimension geometry. Professor Simon Newcomb was expounding this to the New York Mathematical Society only a month or so ago. You know how on a flat surface, which has only two dimensions, we can represent a figure of a three _(6)____ (DIMENSION) solid, and _(7)____ (SIMILAR) they think that by models of three dimensions they could represent one of four-if they could master the perspective of the thing. See?’
(3)..................

Choose the correct answer:

The motivations for the birth of ASEAN were the desire for a _______ environment.

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: 

It has been a secret for many years, but I am going to break the seal now.

The water _     in the area has resulted in poor crop production.