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.
There was a long period without rain in the countryside last year so the harvest was poor.
A.epidemic
B.flood
C.drought
D.famine

I. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best option to complete each of the following numbered blanks.
If parents bring up a child with the sole aim of turning the child into a genius, they will cause a disaster. According (1)              several scientists, this is one of the biggest mistakes which ambitious parents make. Generally, the child will be only too aware of what his parents expect, and will fail. Unrealistic parental expectations can cause great damage to children.
            (2)              , if parents are not too unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are ambitious in a sensible way, the child may (3)               in doing very well – especially if the parents are very supportive of their child. Michael Collins is very lucky. He is (4)              about music, and his parents help him a lot by taking him to concerts and arranging private piano and violin lessons for him. They even drive him 50 kilometers twice a week for violin lessons.
(1) 
A.to                
B.at                             
C.with                        
D.for

The man told his children didn't play so loudly
A.didn't play
B.The
C.children
D.loudly

It was such a dark room that we could see nothing.
A.The room was so dark that we can see nothing.
B.The room was such a dark that we could see nothing.
C.The room was such dark that we could see nothing.
D.The room was so dark that we could see nothing.

The word "incorporated” in paragraph 6 mostly means ______.
A.given                      
B.integrated               
C.brought                   
D.separated

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
We decided not to travel, ______ the terrible weather forecast.
   
A.having been heard       
B.to have heard
C.having heard     
D.to have been heard

Which of the following terms is NOT used to describe realism in filmmaking?
A.Exaggerated    
B. Spontaneous 
C. Self-effacing
D.Simple

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.
Applicants (A) for the public relations (B) post should have (C) strong impersonal (D) skills.
A.Applicants 
B.public relations
C.should have 
D.impersonal

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
She asked _______.
A.where her umbrella were 
B.where were her umbrella
C.where was her umbrella 
D.where her umbrella was

An animal perfectly in ______ with its environment is a perfect mechanism.
A.sympathy
B.harmony
C.balance 
D.discord