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.
Everyone is hoping and praying that lasting peace will eventually come to the area.
A.durable             
B.ongoing                  
C.temporary        
D. enduring

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.
Paris is the ideal place to learn French; it’s a beautiful and hospitable city with Institutions for high quality linguistic teaching.
A.noticeable          
B.friendly              
C. affectionate             
D. natural

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.
Biologists have introducted a global list of endangered and vulnerable animal species.
A.tare and specious                               
B.small but invaluable
C.weak and easily hurt                                
D.strong and not easily hurt

Choose the correct word or phrase that best completes the passage.
The traditional definition of literacy is considered to be the ability to read and write, or the ability to use language to, read, write, listen, and speak. In modern contexts, the word refers to reading and writing at a level (31) _____ for communication, or at a level that lets one understand and communicate ideas in a literate society,' so as to take (32) _______ in that society. The United Nations, Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has drafted the following definition: “Literacy is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written 'materials (33) _______ with varying contexts. Literacy involves a continuum of learning to enable an Individual to achieve his or her goals, to develop his, or her (34) _______ and potential, and to participate fully in the wider society."
Many policy analysts consider literacy rates a crucial measure of a region's human capital. This claim is made on the (35) _______ that literate people can be trained less expensively than illiterate people, generally have a higher socio-economic (36) _______ and enjoy better health and employment prospects. Policy makers also argue that literacy increases job opportunities and access to higher education. In Kerala, India, for example, female and child mortality rates declined (37) _______ in the 1960s, when girls who were educated in the education reforms after 1948 began to raise families. Recent researchers, (38) _______, argue that correlations such as, the one listed above may have more to do with the effects of schooling rather than literacy in general. Regardless, the (39)_______ of educational systems worldwide includes a basic (40) _______ around communication through test and print, which is the foundation of most definitions of literacy.
(39)  
A.main
B.majority
C.focus
D.demand

Choose the correct word or phrase that best completes the passage.
The traditional definition of literacy is considered to be the ability to read and write, or the ability to use language to, read, write, listen, and speak. In modern contexts, the word refers to reading and writing at a level (31) _____ for communication, or at a level that lets one understand and communicate ideas in a literate society,' so as to take (32) _______ in that society. The United Nations, Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has drafted the following definition: “Literacy is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written 'materials (33) _______ with varying contexts. Literacy involves a continuum of learning to enable an Individual to achieve his or her goals, to develop his, or her (34) _______ and potential, and to participate fully in the wider society."
Many policy analysts consider literacy rates a crucial measure of a region's human capital. This claim is made on the (35) _______ that literate people can be trained less expensively than illiterate people, generally have a higher socio-economic (36) _______ and enjoy better health and employment prospects. Policy makers also argue that literacy increases job opportunities and access to higher education. In Kerala, India, for example, female and child mortality rates declined (37) _______ in the 1960s, when girls who were educated in the education reforms after 1948 began to raise families. Recent researchers, (38) _______, argue that correlations such as, the one listed above may have more to do with the effects of schooling rather than literacy in general. Regardless, the (39)_______ of educational systems worldwide includes a basic (40) _______ around communication through test and print, which is the foundation of most definitions of literacy.
(32)  
A.control
B.comfort
C.part
D.honor

Identify the one underlined word or phrase. A, B, C or D - that must be changed for the sentence to be correct.
Before (A) the nineteenth century, it (B) was rarely (C) to find organized systems (D) of adult education.
A.Before 
B.it 
C.rarely 
D.systems

Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.
Hardly _______ to the bus-stop when the bus suddenly pulled away.
A.did they get
B.they had got  
C. they got      
D.had they got

Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.
US scientists claim that they _______ a new vaccine against malaria.
A.developed
B.have developed   
C.had developed 
D.was developing

Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.
She is due to _______ a lecture on genetic engineering.
A.make
B.teach
C.deliver
D.take

Choose the word that has main stress placed differently from the others.

A.education
B.universal
C.eradication
D.population