Choose the best answer to complete the following sentences.
_______ defense, the players work to regain possession of the ball and prevent a goal.
A.About                     
B.Over           
C.Without
D.On

Exercise 8. Choose the best sentence made from the given cues.
We/ polluted/ air/ be/ smoke/ factories/ fumes/ motor vehicles//
A.What we have polluted the air with is smoke of factories and fumes of motor vehicles.
B.We are polluted the air which is smoke from factories and fumes from motor vehicles.
C.What we have polluted the air is smoke from factories and fumes from motor vehicles.
D.We polluted the air with smoke of factories and fumes of motor vehicles.

Exercise 7. Choose the sentence which is closest in meaning to the printed one.
Although she has less teaching experience than the other staff member, she is one of the best teachers.
A.She is one of the best teachers because she has taught longer.
B.Other members of the staff teach less than she does.
C.She has the best experience of all the teachers on the staff.
D.She is one of the best teachers in spite of her having less experience.

Select the ANTONYM of the following bold and underlined word in each sentence.
Thousands are going starving because of the failure of this year's harvest.
A.A. rich                           
B.poor        
C.hungry          
D.full

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A.for                       
B.with           
C.of      
D.in

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 30 to 34.
Many scientists believe our love of sugar may actually be an addiction. When we eat or drink sugary foods, the sugar enters our blood and affects parts of our brain that make us feel good. Then the good feeling goes away, leaving us wanting more. All tasty foods do this, but sugar has a particularly strong effect. In this way, it is in fact an addictive drug, one that doctors recommend we all cut down on.
"It seems like every time I study an illness and trace a path to the first cause, I find my way back to sugar," says scientist Richard Johnson. One- third of adults worldwide have high blood pressure, and up to 347 million have diabetes. Why? "Sugar, we believe, is one of the culprits, if not the major culprit," says Johnson.
Our bodies are designed to survive on very little sugar. Early humans often had very little food, so our bodies learned to be very efficient in storing sugar as fat. In this way, we had energy stored for when there was no food. But today, most people have more than enough. So the very thing that once saved us may now be killing us.
So what is the solution? It's obvious that we need to eat less sugar. The trouble is, in today's world, it's extremely difficult to avoid. From breakfast cereals to after-dinner desserts, our foods are increasingly filled with it. Some manufacturers even use sugar to replace taste in foods that are advertised as low in fat.
But there are those who are fighting back against sugar. Many schools are replacing sugary desserts with healthier options like fruit. Other schools are growing their own food in gardens, or building facilities like walking tracks so students and others in the community can exercise. The battle has not yet been lost.
What is this passage mainly about?
A.Our addiction to sugar 
B.Illnesses caused by sugar
C.Good sugar versus bad sugar 
D.Ways to avoid sugar

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 _____ appreciated that the rail network needs a complete overhaul.
A.widely   
B.badly  
C.regularly 
D.equally

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Jane often remembered   ______       to her mother before she died.
A.to talk      
B.talk
C.talked
D.talking

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 important to have someone you can ______       in.
A.talk    
B.speak      
C.know   
D.confide

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

A.wanted     
B.developed    
C.needed 
D.included