The government has made a serious attempt to raise the _____ of living.

     A. cost                          B. standard                   C. mode                        D. level

My math teacher is the one who is the most _____ of the staff in the school.

     A. respectable               B. respected                  C. respective                 D. respectful

Do you know that _____ longest river in _____ world is _____ Nile?

     A. a/the/the                   B. the/the/the                C. Ǿ/the/a                     D. the/the/ Ǿ

My grandfather spends a lot of time _____ care of the plants in the garden daily.

     A. to take                      B. taking                       C. for taking                 D. taken

The clock was _____ by the Chinese in the 11th century.

     A. built                          B. kept                          C. examined                  D. made

The air that surrounds our planet is both odourless, colourless, and invisible.

     A. The air                      B. our planet                 C. both odourless          D. invisible

Some of the agricultural practices used today is responsible for fostering desertification.

     A. of                             B. used                          C. is                               D. fostering

What I told her a few days ago were not the solutions to most of her problems.

            A. What I told            B. were            C. to    D. most of

She doesn’t want to go to their party. We don't want to go either.

     A. Neither she nor we don’t want to go to their party.

     B. Neither we nor she wants to go to their party.

     C. Either we or she doesn't want to go to their party.

     D. Neither we nor she want to go to their party.

He did not work hard. He failed the exam.

     A. Unless he had worked hard, he would have failed the exam.

     B. Even though he failed the exam, he didn’t work hard.

     C. If he had worked hard, he would have passed the exam.

            D. However hard he worked, he failed the exam.