Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s)in each of the following questions.

1. The aircarft carrier is indispensable in naval operations against sea and shore based enemies.

A. novel B. unneccessary C. exotic D. vital

2. People are now far more materialistic than their predecessors years ago.

A. monetary B. greedy C. object-oriented D. spiritual

Read the passage below carefully, and then choose the best answer

MANY KINDS OF MICROBES

There are thousands of different kinds of microbes. Microbes called (1) _______ are the smallest living things. Bacteria live almost everywhere: on land, in water, and even (2) _______ you.

Some microscopic life forms are like plants. Tiny diatoms are microbes that live in lakes and the ocean. Diatoms soak up (3) _______ and use its energy to make food, just like plants.

Some microscopic life forms are more (4) _______ animals. Protozoa such as the amoeba and paramecium are animal-like microorganisms. An amoeba can move (5) _______ changing the shape of its body. It sticks out a pseudo pod, or false foot. A paramecium is (6) _______ with tiny hairs. It waves its hairs rapidly to swim.

Viruses are (7) _______ kind of microbe. Viruses sometimes act like living things and other times act like nonliving things. Viruses sometimes live in the cells of plants and animals. (8) _______ a cell, a virus reproduces like a living thing. The virus uses the cell to make many copies of itself. Viruses are (9) _______ small to see with an ordinary microscope. You need a powerful electron microscope to see a virus. Outside of a plant or animal cell, a (10) _______ is like a nonliving thing.

1:

A. animals

B. bacteria

C. plants

D. viruses

2:

A. in

B. out

C. outside

D. inside

3:

A. sunlight

B. water

C. air

D. lightning

4:

A. as

B. same

C. like

D. similar

5:

A. by

B. after

C. before

D. during

6:

A. made

B. done

C. filled

D. covered

7:

A. other

B. one another

C. another

D. each other

8:

A. Outside

B. Inside

C. Beside

D. Near

9:

A. very

B. so

C. too

D. almost

10:

A. cell

B. plant

C. diatom

D. virus