Choose the best answer among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence: My ……priority is to find somewhere to li ve.

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.
(42)..............................

The Bali Tiger was declared extinct in 1937 due to hunting and habitat loss.

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: 

The council has spent an enormous amount of money on this project.

The police are trying to put an end _____ the motorbike race among teenagers.

.......................... people are those who share the same interests, or points of view.

A good lifelong learner can advance both at work and in life.

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She did all the work ................. her own. 

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: 

Mike pretended to be sick, but I saw through his deception at once.

In Britain ____ authorities are responsible for handing the budgets of public services.

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

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: 

Despite having a bigger and cheaper choice of healthy foods, many Americans have lost a lot of weight.

 The rhinoceros will become ............... if people continue to hurt them.

Choose the part that needs correcting in each of the questions below

My brother has a French elegant clock which he considers his property.

Sheffield Football Club was _____one-hundred-and-fifty years ago, and is the oldest in the world.

The woman _______ when the police told her that her son had died. 

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May I suggest Monday for our trip to Bristol?

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She describes herself .......................... a fashion designer.

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:

She had a cozy little apartment in Boston.

 By the time their baby arrives, the Johnson hope _______ painting and decorating the new nursery. 

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I can’t stand ............. on the underground when it is busy.