They became ...................after eating the contaminated food.
A.sick
B.sickly
C.sickness
D.sickliness

My brother has to go to work................ it's raining very hard.
A.even though
B.despite
C.in spite
D.however

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
However much effort he put into it, he will never make a go of the business.
A.He’s a failure as an a businessman even though he’s extremely hardworking.
B.No matter how hard he tries, he won’t ever turn that business into a going concern.
C.The success of the business will depend upon the amount of hard work he puts into it.
D.Unless he is willing to make more of an effort, the business is never likely to be a success.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions
All foods contain water - cabbage and other leaf vegetables contain as much as 93% water, potatoes and other root vegetables 80%, lean meat 75% and fish anything from 80% to 60% depending on how fatty it is. If this water is removed, the activity of the bacteria which cause food to go bad is checked.
   Fruit is sun-dried in Asia Minor, Greece, Spain and ot her Mediterranean countries, and also in California, South Africa and Australia. The methods used vary, but in general the fruit is spread out on trays in drying yards in the hot sun. In order to prevent darkening, pears, peaches and apricots are exposed to the fumes of burning sulphur before drying. Plums for making prunes, and certain varieties of grapes for making raisins and currants, are dipped in an alkaline solution in order to crack the skins of the fruit slightly and remove their wax coating, so increasing the rate of drying.
   Nowadays most foods are dried mechanically; the conventional method of such dehydration is to put food in chambers through which hot air is blown at temperatures of about 110°C at entry to about 45°C at exit. This is the usual method for drying such things as vegetables, minced meat, and fish.
   Liquids such as milk, coffee, tea, soups and eggs may  be dried by pouring them over a heated horizontal steel cylinder or by spraying them into a chamber through which a current of hot air passes. In the first case, the dried material is scraped off the roller as a thin film which is then broken up into small, though still relatively coarse flakes. In the second process it falls to the bottom of the chamber as a fine powder. Where recognizable pieces of meat and vegetables are required, as in soup, the ingredients are dried separately and then mixed.
   Dried foods take up less room and weigh less than the same food packed in cans  or frozen, and they do not need to be stored in special conditions. For these reasons they are invaluable to climbers, explorers and soldiers in battle, who have little storage space. They are also popular with housewives because it takes so little time to cook them.
The word “checked” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to ______.
A.reduced considerably       
B.put a tick
C.examined carefully 
D.motivated to develop

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.
 It was relatively easy for him to learn baseball because he had been a cricket player.
A. nearly                 
B.essentially                          
C. comparatively        
D. approximately

She was very proud of her qualifications and______ down on people she thought were uneducated.
A.looked
B.put
C.took
D.came

Lucia was surprised when her guests_______ late for the party.
A.came up
B.turned up
C.looked up
D.put up

Van went to the travel agency to get some _______on China.
A.leaflets
B.announcements
C.designs
D.plans

Charlotte Bronte died of tuberculosis,______
A.either did all her sisters
B.and all her sisters did
C.and so were all her sisters
D.as did all her sisters

The committee has met and________
A.they have reached a decision
B.it has reached to a decision
C.its decision was reached at
D.it has reached a decision