Choose the best option A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to each of the following questions.
He couldn’t come to the conference because he was seriously ill.
A.His illness was very serious that he couldn’t come to the conference.
B.Although he was ill, he came to the conference.
C.He couldn’t come to the conference, so he became seriously ill.
D.Because of his serious illness, he couldn’t come to the conference.

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete sentences.
My tips: home - .............. vegetables are always the tastiest. 
A.grow
B.grew
C.grown
D.growing

A.compliment   
B. processor    
C.interview  
D.essential

When the alarm clock went off, Tom just turned .............. and went back to sleep.
A.down
B.out
C.up
D.off

The writer Kate Millett was forced to stay in a psychiatric hospital by her family.
A.Problems with her family made the writer Kate Millett go to a psychiatric hospital.
B.The writer Kate Millett's family made her stay in a psychiatric hospital.
C.Together with her family, the writer Kate Millett was made to go into a psychiatric hospital.
D.The family of the writer Kate Millett convinced her to remain in a psychiatric hospital.

______(2. become)
A.become
B.will have become
C.are becoming
D.have become

Avoid ( use ) __________ the infinitive after the expression “it’s no use”.
A.to use
B.having used
C.using
D.to be used

The author of the passage implies that the construction of new nuclear power plants____.
A.is continuing on a smaller scale               
B.is being geared for greater safety
C.has been completely halted for fear of disaster     
D.has been decelerated but not terminated

Many studies on emotional expressions try to answer the questions whether __________.
A.eyebrows raising means the same in Minneapolis and Madagascar
B.rounding the mouth has the same in Minneapolis and Madagascar
C.raising the eyebrows has similar meaning to rounding the mouth
D. different cultures have similar emotional expressions

Egyptian slaves came from _____.
 
A.Palestine
B.Syria and Anatolia
C.Mesopotamia  
D. Lebanon