Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
People believed that Jane retired because of her poor health.
A. Jane is believed to have retired because of her poor health.
B. Jane was believed to have retired because of her poor health.
C. It is believed that Jane retired because of her poor health.
D. Jane retired because of her poor health was believed.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
Be he rich or poor, she will marry him
A. She doesn’t want to marry him because he is poor
B. She wants to marry him if he is rich
C. She will marry him whether he is rich or poor
D. She will marry him however poor he may be
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
It was her story that made me cry.
A. I was made crying by her story.
B. I was made to cry by her story.
C. Her story made me crying.
D. Her story made me to cry.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
Question. Hundreds of students in Can Tho crafted 800 paper lanterns for poor children in the last Mid-Autumn Festival
A. Both the students and poor children in Can Tho crafted 800 paper lanterns in the last Mid-Autumn Festival.
B. 800 paper lanterns were crafted for poor children in the last Mid-Autumn Festival by hundreds of students in Can Tho.
C. Hundreds of students in Can Tho had 800 paper lanterns made for poor children in the last Mid-Autumn Festival.
D. Thanks to hundreds of students in Can Tho, poor children made 800 paper lanterns in the last Mid-Autumn Festival
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following question.
The last time I saw her was three years ago.
A. I have seen her for the last three years.
B. About three years ago, I used to meet her.
C. I haven’t seen her for three years.
D. I saw her three years ago and will never meet her again.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
Question. Marry loved her stuffed animal when she was young. She couldn’t sleep without it.
A. When Marry was young, she loved her stuffed animal so as not to sleep with it.
B. As Marry couldn’t sleep without her stuffed animal when she was young, she loved it.
C. When Marry was young, she loved her stuffed animal though she couldn’t sleep without it.
D. When Marry was young, she loved her stuffed animal so much that she couldn’t sleep without it.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Kate didn’t enjoy the roller coaster ride because it was________ experience of her life.
A. the most terrifying
B. the most terrified
C. a most terrified
D. far more terrifying
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Jane found herself in conflict with her parents over her future career.
A. disagreement
B. harmony
C. controversy
D. fighting
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to each of the following questions.
This is the first time we have been to the circus.
A. We have been to the circus some times before.
B. We had been to the circus once before.
B. We had been to the circus once before.
D. We have never been to the circus before.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
All over the country, young people are entering a world of homelessness and poverty, according to a recent report by the housing group, Shelter.
Nearly 150,000 young people aged between sixteen and twenty-five will become homeless this year, says Shelter. Some of the young homeless may sleep out in the open in such places as the "cardboard city” in London, where people of all ages sleep in the open air in their only homes - cardboard boxes. Others may find accommodation in shelters run by voluntary organisations or get a place in a hostel, which gives them board up to ten weeks.
But who are these people? Those who are seeking a roof over their heads are mostly not runaways but “throwaways" - people who have been thrown out of their homes or forced to leave because of parental divorce, an unsympathetic step-parent or one of many other reasons.
Take the case of one sixteen-year-old schoolgirl, Alice. She did not come from a poor home and had just passed her exams with good results. The Shelter team met her in a hostel where she was doing her physics homework. Her parents had thrown her out of her home for no other reason that she wanted to do Science Advanced Level Exams - which her parents refused her permission to do, saying that studying sciences was unladylike!
Shelter says that the government's laws do nothing to help these youngsters. Rising rents, the shortage of cheap housing and the cut in benefits for young people under the age of twenty-five are causing a national problem, according to Shelter. The recent changes in the benefit laws mean that someone aged between sixteen and twenty-five gets less than older people and they can only claim state help if they prove that they left home for a good reason.
Shelter believes that because of the major cuts in benefits to young people, more and more are being forced to sleep on the streets. Shelter also points out that if you are homeless, you can't get a job because employers will not hire someone without a permanent address; and if you can't get a job, you are homeless because you don't have any money to pay for accommodation. It's an impossible situation.
Question. The word "permanent" in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to ____.
A. flexible
B. obvious
C. stable
D. simple
