Tom and Jerry _____________us last night, so I had to quickly defrost a pizza.

     A. turned up                 B. dropped in on           C. came across              D. went through

Most country music songs are deeply personal and deal with themes of love, _____ and separation.

            A. lonely         B. alone           C. lonliness     D. aloneful

Making mistakes is all _______of growing up.

     A. chalk and cheese      B. cats and dogs           C. part and parcel         D. Here and there

You are supposed _____ abroad more than three times so far.

     A. to go                         B. to be                         C. to have gone             D. to have been

Hundreds of employees were made redundant when the company was ____ by another one.

     A. taken over                B. taken on                   C. taking in                   D. being taken place

The computer has had an enormous ______ on the way we work and enjoy life.

     A. impression                B. influence                  C. change                      D. alternation

Family is a good _____ from which you can join the society with confidence.

     A. base                          B. basic                         C. basis                         D. basing

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