Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Books are still a cheap _______ to get knowledge and entertainment.
A.means
B.way
C.method
D.measure

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
It is now over seventy years since Lindbergh _______ across the Atlantic.
A.has been flying
B.flew
C.had flown
D.has flown

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
This year, so far, we ________ 28,000 dollars and are still counting.
A.are raising
B.have been raised
C.have raised
D.raised

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
But for his kind support, I _______.
A.would not have succeeded
B.did not succeed
C.had not succeeded
D.would succeed

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 46 to 50.
MENTORING
Many adults in America and increasing numbers elsewhere take part in mentoring schemes. A mentor is an adult who provides support and friendship to a young person. There are numerous different (46)_____ of mentoring: passing on skills, sharing experiences, offering guidance. Sometimes the most helpful thing to do is just listen. Mentoring is open to anybody - no particular (47) _____ experience is required, just a desire to make a difference to the life of a young person who needs help. This may seem a difficult thing at first, but many people find they have a real talent for it.
The support of a mentor can play an important part in a child's development and can often make up (48) _____ a lack of guidance in a young person's life. It can also improve young people's attitudes towards society and build up their confidence in dealing with life's challenges. For the mentor, it can be incredibly rewarding to know that they have had a significant influence on a child and helped to give the best possible (49) _____ in life. Indeed, it is not only adults who are capable of taking on this role. There is now an increasing (50) _____ for teenagers to mentor young children, for example by helping them with reading or other school work.
(48) _____
A.with
B.for
C.over
D.to

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 46 to 50.
MENTORING
Many adults in America and increasing numbers elsewhere take part in mentoring schemes. A mentor is an adult who provides support and friendship to a young person. There are numerous different (46)_____ of mentoring: passing on skills, sharing experiences, offering guidance. Sometimes the most helpful thing to do is just listen. Mentoring is open to anybody - no particular (47) _____ experience is required, just a desire to make a difference to the life of a young person who needs help. This may seem a difficult thing at first, but many people find they have a real talent for it.
The support of a mentor can play an important part in a child's development and can often make up (48) _____ a lack of guidance in a young person's life. It can also improve young people's attitudes towards society and build up their confidence in dealing with life's challenges. For the mentor, it can be incredibly rewarding to know that they have had a significant influence on a child and helped to give the best possible (49) _____ in life. Indeed, it is not only adults who are capable of taking on this role. There is now an increasing (50) _____ for teenagers to mentor young children, for example by helping them with reading or other school work.
(49) _____
A.difficulty
B.chance
C.availability
D.risk

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 46 to 50.
MENTORING
Many adults in America and increasing numbers elsewhere take part in mentoring schemes. A mentor is an adult who provides support and friendship to a young person. There are numerous different (46)_____ of mentoring: passing on skills, sharing experiences, offering guidance. Sometimes the most helpful thing to do is just listen. Mentoring is open to anybody - no particular (47) _____ experience is required, just a desire to make a difference to the life of a young person who needs help. This may seem a difficult thing at first, but many people find they have a real talent for it.
The support of a mentor can play an important part in a child's development and can often make up (48) _____ a lack of guidance in a young person's life. It can also improve young people's attitudes towards society and build up their confidence in dealing with life's challenges. For the mentor, it can be incredibly rewarding to know that they have had a significant influence on a child and helped to give the best possible (49) _____ in life. Indeed, it is not only adults who are capable of taking on this role. There is now an increasing (50) _____ for teenagers to mentor young children, for example by helping them with reading or other school work.
(46)_____
A.times
B.approach
C.ways
D.supplies

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheel to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
“What a silly thing to say!”, Martha said.
A.Martha threatened that it was a silly thing to say.
B.Martha exclaimed that it was a silly thing to say.
C.Martha suggested that it was a silly thing to say.
D.Martha offered that it was a silly thing to say.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheer to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
It was the book "Brief History of Time" that rocketed the physicist Stephen Hawking to stardom.
A.reputation
B.unimportance
C.obscurity
D.universe

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheer to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Researchers have found that people are sleeping almost two fewer hours a night than they were in the 1960s, and our health is deteriorating as a result.
A.improving
B.degrading
C.purifying
D.elevating