Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

A.promised      
B.conserved   
C.destroyed   
D.proposed

The word conventional paragraph 4 most nearly means:
A.formally disputed.       
B.strictly interpreted.            
C.easily understood.                                         
D.generally accepted.

Choose the word/phrase that best fits each blank.
He didn’t even have the intelligence to call_________an ambulance.
A.at      
B.on   
C.for 
D.about

Task 1. Mark the letter A, B, C, D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation.

A.sure                         
B.soup                        
C.sugar                       
D.machine

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
____ here.
A.At no time is parking allowed   
B.At no time is parking not allowed
C.At no time parking is allowed        
D.Is parking allowed at any time

What the politician was saying fell on deaf ears last night.
A.What the politician was saying deafened the listeners last night.
B.No one listened to what the politician was saying last night because they had deaf ears.
C.No one took notice of what the politician was saying last night.
D.The politician fell deaf when he was speaking last night.

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.
He went through much hardship before he became a successful businessman.
A.met
B.accepted
C.endured
D.created

The word “legacy” in lines 22 and 25 in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to_____.
 
A.philosophy   
B.trend    
C.contribution    
D.legend

He died _________pneumonia.

A.for                             
B.by                                  
C.in                                 
D.of

______(43)
A.danger
B.harm
C.risk
D.threat