Mark a letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to each of the following questions.

Tom should have known better than to ask Dick to help him.

     

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Linella Media Group has indicated that growth in its new media  revenues last year helped ------- a decrease in television advertising.

The point of Phobia Awareness Week is to highlight the difficulties that many people face in everyday situations. It is important to (1) _____ between a fear and a phobia. It's (2)______usual for all of us to have our own peculiar fears, for example being anxious around snakes or nervous about flying. However, only a very small proportion of US actually have a phobia of these things. When these fears begin to (3) _____ you embarrassment or you feel that your life is being disrupted then you would be wise to (4)_____ treatment for what could potentially be a phobia. By far the most (5) _____ phobia and potentially the most disruptive is agoraphobia. The word derives from Greek and (6) _____ means 'fear of the marketplace' but we apply it today to describe a distressing (7) ______ in which people avoid going outside because of the awful feelings of anxiety that arise. Treatment of phobias usually consists of the patient (8) _____ behavioural therapy during which they gradually get used to being near the object or the situation that causes them fear. Drugs may be (9) _____ to treat anxiety and many people opt for alternative therapy such as acupuncture or hypnosis to help them come to (10) _____ with their fear and conquer it.
(5)....................

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We believe that the popularity of …………products is the result of a combination of beauty and functionality.

As he made no _______to our quarrel, I assumed he had forgiven me.

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She has .............. provided a picnic lunch for us.

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Brunei Darussalam joined ASEAN on 7 January 1984, Viet Nam joined _________ 28 July 1995, Lao PDR and Myanmar on 23 July 1997, and Cambodia on 30 April 1999.

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We ..........TV when it started to rain.

– Mary: “That’s a very nice skirt you’re wearing.”

–Julia”                  ”

Identify the underlined word/phrase (A or B, C,D) that needs correcting to become an exact one.

Can you tell me what you have done at 8 o’clock last night?

Choose the best option among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence:  I would _____ on time if I hadn’t stopped at the post office.

Health is something we tend to (1) ___when we have it. When our body is doing well, we are hardly (3)____of it. But illness can come, even (2)______we are young. In fact, childhood has been a very susceptible time. Many diseases attack children in particular, and people know very little (4)______ to cure them once they struck. The result was that many children died. About a century ago, (5)__________, scientists found out about germs, and then everything changed. The (6)_____ of many diseases was found, and cures were developed. As this medical discovery spread, the world became (7)______ safer for children. The result is that (8)___________a hundred years ago, the average man lived for 35 years, nowadays, in many areas of the world, people can (9)______ to live for 75 years. And what do we expect by the year 2020 ? Undoubtedly, medical science will continue to (10)______ . Some people will be able to avoid medical problems that are unavoidable today.
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Oil......................... if you pour it on water. 

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Nevada Jobfind Inc. is planning to host a career fair for college graduates seeking…………in the healthcare sector.

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What have fashion designers ............... to modernise the ao dai?

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Ms. Atembe of Hartwick Trucking will conduct a workshop on the best ways to…… customers' concerns about freightdelivery.

(John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1917-1963) the 35th us President (1961-1963). He was the country's youngest president and the first Roman Catholic ever ____ (1) ____, He was___(2)____known informally as Jack Kennedy and JFK. His wife was Jackie Kennedy. He won a medal for____(3)____during World War II, and was elected to the us House of Representatives (1947-1953) and then___(4)___ the us Senate (1952-1960).
Kennedy's greatest success___ (5) ___President was in___ (6) ___the Cuban missile crisis and his worst failure was over the Bay of Pigs incident. He worked ____ (7) ____his brother, US Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to support the civil rights___ (8) ___. He was murdered in Dallas, probably by Lee Harvey Oswald, in one of the most shocking events in us history. Some people believe that others were responsible for his murder, but ___ (9) ___has ever been___(10)___proved. Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage (1956), won a Pulitzer Prize.
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."
John F Kennedy
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I ................. on the street when it rained.

It helps them acquire the skills that make life more interesting and enjoyable, _____ the skills needed to participate in a sport, paint a picture, or play a musical instrument.

A surprising number of popular spectator sports, for example football or baseball, ______ in Europe or the USA in the nineteenth century. 

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Our firm offers excellent_______________as a way to retain its valued employees.