Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions. ⇱
Question 1. Parents play a crucial role in a child's upbringing in the formative years. They are really the driving force behind whatever the children do.
Question 2. Laws on military service since 1960 still hold good.
Question 3. At every faculty meeting, Ms. Volatie always manages to put her foot in her mouth.
Question 4. The works of such men as the English philosophers John Locke and Thomas Hobbes helped pave the way for academic freedom in the modern sense.
Question 5. The Extension Program first established in 1873 at Cambridge University has successfully withstood changing popular trends.
Question 6. The atomic bomb annihilated the whole city, so nothing was left standing.
Question 7. Many people say that assembly-line jobs are monotonous and unrewarding.
Question 8. The government has passed laws to protect wildlife from coomercial trade.
Question 9. Only aggressive species of small animal life are likely to survive in the rough waters nears shallow coral reefs.
Question 10. When the business folded, he took the lion's share of the assets.
Question 11. A US man with a large online following in Vietnam has caused widespread anger, and faces possible criminal charges, over a Facebook post thought to have insulted a military hero.
Question 12. We decided to pay for the car on the installment plan.
Question 13. When Susan invited us to dinner, she really showed off her culinary talents. She prepared a feast - a huge selection of dishes that were simply mouth-watering.
Question 14. My head teacher has grave doubts as to whether I would pass my university entrance examination. I myself feel so worried.
Question 15. Yes, we went away on holiday last week, but it rained day in day out.
Question 16. When posed with a complicated mathematical equation, some students seek the assistance of a teacher.
Question 17. Please, you are so nervous, do try to contain your anger.
Question 18. The experimented vaccine seems to have both desirable and detrimental effects on the subject’s immune system.
Question 19. Important features of dehydrated foods are their lightness in weight and their compactness.
Question 20. As orders are becoming more and more, we’ve been rushed off our feet all week.
Question 21. That the genetic differences make one race superior to another is nothing but a tall story.
Question 22. The shop assistant was totally bewildered by the customer’s behavior.
Question 23. She was brought up in a well-off family. She can’t understand the problems we are facing.
Question 24. The term yard was used extensively by English as the measurement from the tip of a man’s nose to the tip of his outstretched thumb.
Question 25. Deforestation may seriously jeopardize the habitat of many species in the local area.
Question 26. When the police arrived the thieves took to flight leaving all the stolen things behind.
Question 27. She simply took it for granted that the check was good and did not ask him any questions about it.
Question 28. The first few days at university can be very daunting, but with determination and positive attitude, freshmen will soon fit in with the new environment.
Question 29. The restaurant entices more and more customers with its cozy interior and special daily events.
Question 30. I am gripped with a fever whenever a new year is coming.
Question 31. Exemplification is always necessary when you are addressing a younger audience.
Question 32. Jack persisted in attempting to convince his employers to use more technology and fewer people.
Question 33. Many people criticized the ostentatious lifestyle of some high-ranked officials.
Question 34. When two people get married, it is with the assumption that their feelings for each other are immutable and will never alter.
Question 35. I told you clearly and definitely not to write your answers in pencil, Tom!
Question 36. The expression “out of the frying pan and into the fire” means to go from one dilemma to a worse one.
Question 37. At the advent of his speech, he told a joke but the audience failed to laugh.
Question 38. In the wee hours, while the child is sleeping, the Tooth Fairy takes the tooth and leaves some money under the pillow.
Question 39. It’s a lovely house and very big but nobody uses it so it’s a bit of a white elephant.
Question 40. Juan Manuel Santos was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2016 for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end.
Question 41. Many large corporations will be wiped out and millions of jobs will be lost.
Question 42. The works of the English theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking helped pave the way for the framework of general relativity and theoretical prediction of black holes dynamics and mechanics.
Question 43. The most important thing is to keep yourself occupied.
Question 44. What I really have in mind is a garden where there is very little to look after throughout the year.
Question 45. Thanks to her regular workouts and sensible diet she certainly strikes me as in the pink.
Question 46. We had a quite fantastic day out at the seaside; everybody had a whale of a time.
Question 47. The appeal was rejected by the committee, despite the fact that it had been signed by over 5,000 people.
Question 48. When heated to temperatures above 1250 degrees Centigrade, clay fuses and becomes pottery or stoneware.
Question 49. After many years of unsuccessfully endeavoring to form his own orchestra, Glenn Miller finally achieved world fame in 1939 as a big band leader.
Question 50. In the past, women have confined to the domestic sphere.