Mrs. Jane gave her short speech to express her ________ for the retirement gift.
A.appeasement         
B. applause   
C.apportionment     
D.appreciation

Don’t expect to be treated _____ in this hospital.
A.preferential    
B.preference        
C.preferred     
D. preferentially

The 15th Asian Games was a _________ sporting event.
A. succeed         
B.success     
C.successful   
D.successfully

Our health is being _______ by air pollution.
A.dangerous 
B.dangerously    
C.danger        
D.endangered

There is ____ in my bedroom.
A.a square wooden old table       
B.an old square wooden table
C.a wooden old square table           
D. an old wooden square table

Roget's Thesaurus, a collection of English words and phrases, was originally arranged by the ideas they express rather than by alphabetical order.  
A.restricted 
B.as well as   
C.unless       
D. instead of

Roget's Thesaurus, a collection of English words and phrases, was originally arranged by the ideas they express rather than by alphabetical order.  
A.restricted 
B.as well as   
C.unless       
D. instead of

The word “they” in the first paragraph refers to ________.  
A. the earliest books for children 
B. illustrations
C.the Caldecott “toy books”             
D.lines of text

When did illustrations become important in books for children?  
A.In late 19th century 
B. In 1937
C.Only recently               
D. In 1957

The water temperature in a spring depends on that of the soil through where the water flows.
A.a spring
B.on that
C.where 
D.flows