Ben's dreams of a university education went by the board when his father died and he was forced to earn a living.

In the current financial crisis, the banks must not break with their commitment to society.

The phrase "cultural diversity" is also sometimes used to mean the variety of human societies or cultures in a special region. 

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.

Some companies are making strenuous efforts to increase the proportion of women at all levels of employment

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underline part that needs correction in each of the following questions.

The actor and singer were singing on the stage when we arrived at the theater.

Peter and John, two high school students, are talking about school exams.

- Peter: "I think exams should not be the only way to assess students."

- John: “_______________. There are various others like presentations and projects."

The government acted late. The general public was worried so much about the current situation.

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

Got Climate Anxiety? These People Are Doing Something About It

Distress over global warming is increasing, but formal and informal support networks are springing up, too. After Britt Wray married in 2017, she and her husband began discussing whether or not they were going to have children. The conversation quickly turned to climate change and to the planet those children might inherit. She said she became sad and stressed, crying when she read new climate reports or heard activists speak. Jennifer Atkinson, an associate professor of environmental humanities at the University of Washington, Bothell, became depressed after students told her they couldn't sleep because they feared social collapse or mass extinction. 

There are different terms for what the two women experienced, including eco-anxiety and climate grief, and Dr. Wray calls it eco-distress. It's also not unusual. Over the past five years, according to researchers at Yale University and George Mason University, the number of Americans who are very worried” about climate change has more than doubled, to 26 percent. In 2020, an American Psychiatric Association poll found that more than half of Americans are concerned about climate change's effect on their mental health. 

But as the prevalence of climate anxiety has grown, so has the number of people working to alleviate it, both for themselves and those around them. Dr. Wray, for example, who holds a Ph.D. in science communication, began reading everything she could about anxiety and climate change, eventually shifting her own research to focus on it entirely. She shares her findings and coping techniques in a weekly newsletter, Gen Dread, with more than 2,000 subscribers. In the spring of 2022, she plans to publish a book on the topic. “My overall goal is to help people feel less alone,” Dr. Wray said. "We need to restore ourselves so we don't burn out and know how to be in this crisis for the long haul that it is.” Dr. Atkinson, in hopes of assuaging her feelings and those of her students, designed a seminar on eco-grief and climate anxiety. 

For many Americans, counseling for climate distress is relatively accessible. In some communities, however, especially in less wealthy countries, it may seem more like a rare privilege. 

(Adapted from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/climate/climate-arxiety-stress.htm)

What is the objective of the things Dr. Wray has done?

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best completes each of the following exchanges.

Mary is talking to her professor in his office.

- Mary: "Can you tell me how to find material for my science report, professor?"

- Professor: “_______________”

We are sorry _________ any inconvenience this may cause.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

Sport and sport events provide a significant source of volunteering opportunities for a wide range of individuals. (12) __________ organizers of major sport events tend to target the youth market to source volunteers due to the apparent high level of interest in sport by this group, not only in terms of young people who watch a particular sport, but also those (13) __________ participate in it. It is therefore suggested that sport may act as a kind of 'nursery' for volunteering and that the experiences (14) __________ to young people in sport may be critical for their future volunteer involvement, not only in sport but the broader society. By developing an interest in volunteering as a young person, it is hoped that these people will continue to volunteer as they become adults. One of the most common approaches by many event organizers is to place an advertisement in the local media which invites readers to contact the organization. (15) _______, it is possible to 'adopt a more formally structured recruitment programme through schools and universities. The (16) ________ of this approach is to establish a relationship between the governing body of a particular sport and young people from an early age, in the hope that young people who are either spectators or participants in the sport continue from childhood to adulthood. 

(Adapted from https://www.eltexampreparation.com/sites/default/files/IELTS)

My grandfather still likes to exercise ________ he is very old.

This stamp is rarer than any other in my collection. 

He was studying in Salamanca when the Civil War ______.