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:

Excessive amounts of lead in the air can decrease a child’s intelligence.

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:

Many political radicals advocated that women should not be discriminated on the basic of their sex.

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The local council _________________ him planning permission to build an extra bedroom

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:

The shop assistant was totally bewildered by the customers' behavior.

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I wish another more effective teaching method______ used

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The wet weather has ________ three weeks now. It has rained every single day

Choose the correct answer to each of the following questions. " I will lend Hai some money, ______he must  pay it back to me next week."

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:

Father has lost his job, so we’ll have to tighten our belt to avoid getting into debt.

After graduating from university, I want to ____ my father's footsteps.

We _______ touch since we _______ school three years ago.

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They've done their best within the _______________ of their capability.

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I met ____ that I decided to book the room right away.

Mark the 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.

Since we had nothing else to do, we decided to go for a walk.

A waiter in a restaurant is talking to a customer who has just finished his meal there.

Select the most suitable response to complete the exchange.

- Waiter: "Here's your bill, sir"

- Customer: "________."

Her ___ to medicine was so great that she had little time for anything else.

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:

Polio is one of the top ten incurable diseases that modem medicine has failed to eradicate.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions

Window treatment, furniture (A) arrangement and color (B) combine all contribute to the (C) overall impression of a (D) room.

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According to the announcement, only 30% of the applicants ________selected for the next interview

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The collapse of tin prices in the 1980s destroyed the tin-mining industry, ________ formeremployees have since turned in desperation to growing cocoa

MY BEST FRIEND
I have several good friends but I (1) ________ that my best friend is Ellen. We (2)________ friends with each other since we were very young because she (3)________ next door to me. We have always been in the same class at school, although she has always been much cleverer than me. I don't mind (4)________, because she often helps me with my homework! Anyway, I've always been better at sport than she is. I always (5)________ her at tennis and she doesn't like that. In fact, she hates losing at anything and gets very annoyed if she does. That's the only thing that I don't like about her. Otherwise, she has (6)________ humour and she's always making me laugh. We get on very well together, although occasionally we've had arguments - usually about silly little things. Ellen and her family moved to another district last year but I still see her a lot. We're planning to go on a trip around Europe next summer, I'm really (7)________ to it because I think we'll have a lot of fun and see exciting places. Of course, it's going to be hard -to afford such a wonderful and exciting trip and so we're both going to get jobs and try to (8)________ enough money for it.
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Only staff ------- based in the Toronto office may reserve the conference room.