Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
During the flood, people had to live in misery due to the _____________ of food and medicine. 
A. short                     
B. shorting                     
C. short cut                     
D. shortage

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
The novel has had a tremendous impact on _______________ and publishing markets. 
A. entertain                      
B. entertainer                    
C. entertainment                    
D. entertainingly

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
To ______________ the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. 
A. acquire                  
B. enter                   
C. learn                     
D. start

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
Mr. Scott has a garage. The garage is ____________________.
A.  to him             
B. of him                
C. of his                   
D. his

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
She ___________ the news if she ______________ the radio this morning.
A. might not hear - didn’t turn on
B. might not have heard - hadn’t turned on
C. hadn’t heard - might not have turned on
D. didn’t hear - might not turn on

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
The headmaster disapproved ____________ his behaviour.
A. by 
B. with 
C. of
D. on

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
I am proud to have a family who is ___________ of every member.
A. supporting                    
B. supported                      
C. supportive                 
D. support

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
Bathe the wound and _____________ a clean dressing. 
A. remove                 
B. detach                   
C. register                       
D. apply

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
It is said that reading ______________ of a child when he leams to evaluate information in the book. 
A. sharpen the thinking processes
B. weaken the thinking processes
C. sharpens the thought processes
D. weakens the thought processes

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
The country experienced prosperity during the Kennedy _____________. 
A. administer              
B. administration                
C. administrative                  
D. administrator