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.
In the early days of baseball, the game was played by young men of means and social position.
A.with ambition     
B.with money
C.with skill  
D.with equipment

Psychologist Abraham Maslow argued that humans have unique desires to discover and sunderstand, the giving of love to others, and to fulfill their inner potential.           
A.argued that
B.have unique desires
C.the giving of love to
D.their inner potential

Read the following passage, and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the number blanks from 41 to 50
A  recent (41)____ of a language learning magazine has consulted a number of experts in the (42)____ of second language acquisition. Their advice may prove invaluable for those considering a language course. One suggestion is that you access whether you are likely  to be successful at learning a language. Did you enjoy studying language at school, for example ? Do you have enough time to  learn a language ? The major (43) _____ will be your own time and effort. Therefore, you must make sure that course on offer leads to a (44)____ qualification. Also, be realistic in your (45) ____ . If you don’t set achievable aims, you are more likely to give up . Don’t be deceived into thinking that the most expensive courses are the best. (46)_____  around to get the best  possible value for money. You should also bear in your mind that the more quickly you tried to teach herself German by enrolling on a (47)____ course.  Already fluent in four languages and with a sound knowledge of teaching methodology her chances of (48) _____ progress were high. Three years (49) ___ she remembers very little. She feels her biggest mistake was not to follow her first experience. "Moreover, I think  the teacher’s role is important. It's so nice to have somebody give you a/an (50)_____”.

A.volume  
B.issue  
C.printing  
D.version

Until last year he was a_________ manager in the car factory.
A.production     
B.producing 
C.product 
D.produce

Give the correct form of verbs given
Mrs. Parker (be) ........... an English teacher for twenty-nine years. She first (start) ................ teaching English at a small school in the countryside. After (teach) .............. there for ten years, she (move)................ to a big city.
A.has been/ started/ teaching/ moved
B.had been/ started/ teaching/ moved
C.has been/ have started/ teaching/ moved
D.has been/ started/ teach/ moved

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
You'll have to _____ a better idea than that if you want to win.
A.come in for
B.come up with
C.bring out  
D.get down to

The author implies that, for readers, the conclusion of the paragraph is______ .
A. obvious    
B.surprising 
C.absurd
D.practical

From the four words or phrases (A, B, C or D) choose the one that best completes the sentence.
She said that she ............... to have a baby.
A.was going   
B.is going    
C.has gone
D.will go

Exercise 5. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 21 to 25.
Polar bears are in danger of dying out. Unlike some other endangered animals, it's not hunters that are the problem, it's climate change. Since 1979, the ice cap at the Arctic Circle where the polar bears has reduced in size (21)_________ about 30 per cent. The temperature in the Arctic has slowly been rising and this is (22)_________  the sea ice to melt, endangering the polar bears' home. The polar bears' main sources of food are the different types of seals found in the Arctic. They catch them by waiting next to the air holes seals have made in the ice. (23)_________  the bears are very strong swimmers, they could never catch seals in water. This means that the bears really do rely on the ice to hunt.
Polar bears also need sea ice to travel. They can cover a huge territory and often swim from one part of the ice to another. They have been (24)_________  to swim up to 100 km, but when there is less ice, they may have to swim further and this can (25)_________  fatal to the bears. A number of bears have drown in the last few years and scientists believe that it is because they were not able to reach more ice before they became too tired and couldn't swim any further.
(22) 
A.making                   
B.turning                    
C.causing                   
D.resulting

A number of students ____________ playing  table – tennis now
A.are
B.was    
C.were     
D.is