Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

I couldn’t buy the house. The house was expensive.

A. The house was not cheap enough for me to buy it.

B. The house was not enough cheap for me to buy. 

C. It was so an expensive house that I couldn’t buy it. 

D. So expensive was the house that I couldn’t buy it.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

We couldn’t squeeze through the door. It was very narrow.

A. We couldn’t squeeze through the door, which it was very narrow

B. Since the door was very narrow, that we couldn’t squeeze through it

C. The door was so narrow for us to squeeze through

D. So narrow was the door that we couldn’t squeeze through

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

Flora was alone again in her tiny room. She couldn’t help crying a little

A. Flora couldn’t help crying a little as to be alone again in her tiny room

B. Flora couldn’t help crying a little during being alone in her tiny room

C. Alone again in her tiny room, Flora couldn’t help crying a little

D. Being alone again in her tiny room, and then Flora couldn’t help crying a little

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines of each pair of sentences in the following questions

We had spent nearly all our money. So we couldn’t afford to stay in a hotel

A. Having spent nearly all our money, so we couldn’t afford to stay in a hotel.

B. Spent nearly all our money, we couldn’t afford to stay in a hotel.

C. Having spent nearly all our money, we couldn’t afford to stay in a hotel.

D. After having spent nearly our all money, we couldn’t afford to stay in a hotel

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

Marry loved her stuffed animal when she was young. She couldn’t sleep without it.

A. When Mary was young, she loved her stuffed animal so as not to sleep without 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 so much that she couldn’t sleep without it.

D. When Marry was young, she loved her stuffed animal though she couldn’t sleep without it.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

Marry loved her stuffed animal when she was young. She couldn’t sleep without it.

A. When Mary was young, she loved her stuffed animal so as not to sleep without 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 so much that she couldn’t sleep without it.

D. When Marry was young, she loved her stuffed animal though she couldn’t sleep without it.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentence in the following questions.

The coffee was very strong. He couldn’t drink it.

A. The coffee was so strong that he could drink it.

B. He couldn’t drink the strong coffee before

C. The coffee was not weak enough for him to drink.

D. The coffee was too strong for him to drink.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

Smallpox is a serious disease. Malaria is a serious disease.

A. Smallpox is a serious disease, and so is malaria.

B. Malaria is a serious disease, but smallpox is not.

C. Neither smallpox nor malaria is a serious disease.

D. Either smallpox or malaria is a serious disease.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

The flood may rise higher. We have to move upstairs.

A. We’ll have to move upstairs soon if the flood rises any higher.

B. Unless the flood rises any higher we won’t have to move upstairs.

C. If we don’t move upstairs, the flood may rise higher.

D. We have to move upstairs in case the flood rises any higher.