Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Because of cutbacks in council spending, plans for the swimming pool had to be shelved.
A.delayed
B.canceled
C.disapproved
D.stopped

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
I can’t possibly lend you any more money; it is quite out of the__________.
A.order
B.practice
C.place
D.question

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
My uncle was _____ ill last summer, however, fortunately, he is now making a slow but steady recovery.
A.seriously
B.deeply
C.fatally
D.critically

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
From the hotel there is a good ____ of the mountains.
A.vision
B.view
C.sight
D.picture

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.___________ is to give strangers your address.
A.What must never you do
B.That must never you do
C.That you must never do
D.What you must never do

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Did you accuse Nam of ___________ a plate? Well, I saw him __________ it off the table with his elbow.
A.break/ knock
B.breaking/ knocking
C.to break/ to knock
D.breaking/ knock

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.Safety should take ___________ over all other matters in the workplace.
A.precede
B.precedent
C.preceding
D.precedence

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
He laughed in a very strange way, _______ everyone to turn round and look.
A.causing
B.making
C.allowing
D.attracting

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Thank you for your support, which ______ me through the hard time I had last month.
A.pulled
B.went
C.led
D.jumped

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
__________, no one was absent from the farewell party last night.
A.Heavily as it rained
B.As it rained heavily
C.As it rained heavily
D.In spite of the heavily rain