Read the following sentences and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

Hardly are appeals allowed against the council’s decisions.

A. It’s too hard for the council to allow appeals against its decisions.

B. The council always allows appeals against its decisions.

C. Allowing appeals against its decisions is not good.

D. The council rarely allows appeals against its decision.

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

Hardly are appeals allowed against the council’s decision

A. The council always allows appeals against its decisions

B. It’s too hard for the council to allow appeals against its decisions

C. The council rarely allows appeals against its decisions

D. Allowing appeals against its decisions is not good

Choose the answer that is nearest in meaning to the printed before it.  Scientists say forests are being destroyed by air pollution.

A. Scientists blame air pollution for the destruction of forests

B. Scientists are blamed for destructing forests

C. Forests are being destroyed by scientists

D. Forests account for air pollution

Choose the answer that is nearest in meaning to the printed before it. We are planning on spending the weekend in the country as long as the weather stays fine.

A. We’re planning on spending the weekend in the country despite the bad weather

B. If the weather is fine, we will spend the weekend in the country

C. If the weather is finer, we would spend the weekend in the country

D. If the country is nice, we will spend the weekend there

Choose the answer that is nearest in meaning to the printed before it. The boys must have gone to the sports ground.

A. The boys insisted on going to the sports ground

B. The boys had better go to the sports ground

C. They boys were forced to go to the sports ground

D. The boys probably went to the sports ground

Choose the answer that is nearest in meaning to the printed before it. Why not participate in the English Speaking Contest

A. He asked me to take part in the English Speaking Contest.

B. He suggested taking part in the English Speaking Contest.

C. He offered us to part in the English Speaking Contest.

D. He told me not to participate in the English Speaking Contest.

Choose the answer that is nearest in meaning to the printed before it. No one in the family is more sympathetic than Laura.

A. The people in the house is not sympathetic at all

B. Laura is very sympathetic

C. Laura is more sympathetic than many people in the house

D. Laura is the most sympathetic of all the people in the house

Choose the answer that is nearest in meaning to the printed before it.  It's thought that the accident was caused by human error.

A. The accident took place because of thoughtlessness

B. Humans’ thoughtlessness caused the accident

C. The accident is thought to have been caused by human error

D. The accident is thought to cause human error