Choose the answer among A, B, C, D to complete each of the sentences below:
After nine months without any rain, the country was facing one of the worst _______ in the last fifty years.
A.floods
B.draughts
C.droughts
D.eruptions

Choose the answer among A, B, C, D to complete each of the sentences below:
They were________ for smuggling jewelry into the country.
A.warned
B.arrested
C.accused
D.judged

Choose the answer among A, B, C, D to complete each of the sentences below:
Some scientists say that there are enough resources to ______ 8 billion people.
A.provide
B.distribute
C.support
D.raise

Choose the answer among A, B, C, D to complete each of the sentences below:
Dogs make very _______ pets. They'll always stay by your side.
A.loyal
B.private
C.digital
D.mental

Choose the answer among A, B, C, D to complete each of the sentences below:
A trust employee was discovered to have ________ confidential plans to a competing company.
A.spread
B.stolen
C.rumored
D.leaked

Choose the answer among A, B, C, D to complete each of the sentences below:
Learners of English as a foreign language often fail to _______ between unfamiliar sounds in that language.
A.separate
B.differ
C.distinguish
D.solve

Choose the answer among A, B, C, D to complete each of the sentences below:
Like many other baby birds, ducklings are blind _______ birth.
A.from
B.on
C.at
D.of

Choose the answer among A, B, C, D to complete each of the sentences below:
The story about the alien spaceship was _______ to have been invented by jounalists.
A.believed
B.suggested
C.recommended.
D.announced

Choose the answer among A, B, C, D to complete each of the sentences below:
He volunteered his ______ as a driver.
A.service
B.help
C.work
D.job

Choose the answer among A, B, C, D to complete each of the sentences below:
The city libraries present a gloomy picture of the ___________who used to flock the libraries every evening.
A.reduction gradual readers
B.gradual reduction of readers
C.gradual readers of reduction
D.gradual readers reduction