Mark the letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions
Democrats would have done better in the midterms _______ they run as the peace party.
A.had
B.if
C.unless
D.were

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“He needs to go on a strict diet.” – “I agree. He does eat _______ much.”
A.too much
B.that
C.much too
D.too very

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There seemed to be a consensus that the new proposal _______ at the meeting.
A.has rejected
B.be rejected
C.should reject
D.was rejected

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Christine has never _______ to anybody about anything in her life.
A.lied
B.laid
C.lain
D.lay

Read the text about oil spill and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 56 to 65.
On an ecologist’s list of nightmares, this (56)_______ looked like an easy member of the top five. An Ecuadorian fuel tanker, the Jessica, ran aground in the Galapagos Archipelago and slowly spilled its (57)_______ of 240.000 gal of fuel oil into the surrounding ocean. The disaster threatened to choke a unique and delicate (58)_______, the islands whose giant tortoises and 15 related species of finch inspired Charles Darwin’s “the origin of Species” in 1859.
he emergency began when the captain of the Jessica, a 30 year old boat, (59)_______ a buoy for a lighthouse and ran aground off the shore of San Cristobal Island. The ship’s cargo was 65% diesel oil (60)_______ for Baltra Island and 35% bunker fuel, a heavier form of oil used by tour boats. Rescue teams from Ecuadorian navy and the state-owned fuel company began (61)_______ fuel from the damaged vessel, but after three days of battering by waves up to 2 meters in (62)_______, the Jessica began leaking oil into the sea and would (63)_______ pour out over 180,000 gallons.
One week later, the government declared a state of (64)_______ in the Galapagos archipelago, setting (65)_______ an initial $2 million for cleanup operation.
(64)_______
A.alarm
B.disaster
C.emergency
D.tragedy

Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it
Keeping calm is the secret of passing your driving test.
A.As long as you keep calm, you would pass the driving test.
B.As long as you keep calm, you will pass the driving test.
C.As long as you keeping calm, you will pass the driving test.
D.As long as you keep calm, you will be passed the driving test.

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The English spoken in Canada is similar _______ the United States.
A.to these in
B.with that of
C.with that in
D.to that of

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After the eruption, lava _______ out of the volcano and poured down the mountainside.
A.has spewed
B.was spewed
C.spewing
D.spewed

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According to the investigation, he died not from a blow to the head _______.
A.but of a heart attack
B.but his heart failed him
C.only of a heart attack
D.instead of his heart attack

Choose the sentence A, B, C, or D which is closest in meaning to the first sentence of each of the questions
Cathy had better stop eating so much chocolate.
A.Cathy wishes she could give up eating chocolate.
B.Cathy ought to stop eating so much chocolate.
C.Cathy would prefer to stop eating so much chocolate.
D.Cathy may have given up eating so much chocolate.