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.
Since the death of Laura's father, her mother has become a breadwinner to support the family.
A.a person who bakes bread every morning          
B.a bakery-owner
C.a person who delivers bread to make money      
D.a person who goes out to work to earn money

A.houses       
B.services         
C.passages       
D.techniques

A.that                
B.he              
C.it              
D.this

No matter how young are you, you should take responsibility to do some housework to help your parents.
A.no matter
B.are you
C.should take
D.you help

Shall I phone you this evening?
A.Do you want me phoning you this evening?
B.Do you want to phone you this evening for me?
C.Do you want me to phone you this evening?
D.Do you want me to phoned you this evening?

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
The plan may be ingenious. It will never work in practice.
A.Ingenious as it may be, the plan will never work in practice.
B.Ingenious as may the plan, it will never work in practice.
C.The plan may be too ingenious to work in practice.
D.The plan is as impractical as it is ingenious.

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.
He expected us to offer him the job.
A.We were expected to be offered him a job.
B.He expected to be offered the job.
C.He is expected that we should offer him the job.
D.He was offered the job without expectation.

The joke that I told Michael made him..................  (laugh) a lot.
A.laughing
B.to laugh
C.laughed
D.laugh

Choose the word or phrase  that best completes the sentence or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.
After I ______ at the bus terminus, I found a crowd of schoolboys.
A.ad arrived   
B.arrived 
C.have arrived     
D.had been arriving

Choose the word or phrase  that best completes the sentence or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.
The use of computer aids in teaching, ______ the role of teachers is still very important.
A.yet
B.unless   
C.despite     
D.where