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

Her son, who was reported dead more than three years ago, came out of the blue.

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. 

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. 

Which of the following activities is NOT mentioned when people queue to get products?

Reverend William Graham thinks shopping so much at this time of the year ______.

The phrase "in the black” in the first paragraph implies that people or companies ______.

On these days some businesses make _______ for the rest of the year.

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 questions from 39 to 45. 

Black Friday

     The day after Thanksgiving has become America's biggest shopping day. Closed all day on Thursday, shopping centres all across the nation open early on Friday. Some of them open at 12:01 Friday morning, while others open at 4 a.m. Some "sleepyhead" shopping centres, like Target this year, don't open their doors on Friday until 6 a.m. From Friday to the day before Christmas, this is the season when businesses make nearly 25 per cent of what they earn in a year. This season puts many businesses “in the black", that is, they make the money they need for the year. 

     Reporters from local TV stations interview people who sleep in tents in front of the shops a day or two before the doors open on Friday. These people patiently wait in queue to get products that are 50 per cent cheaper or more. 

     "Oh, we have fun," said one of the persons queuing, "We sometimes bring games to play, we watch TV and order lots of pizza, and we often meet interesting people. And, most important of all, we save a lot!" The problem, of course, is that only a very small number of products have big reductions in their prices. Apart from a few big discounts, each shop has other things that are reduced from 10 to 50 per cent, saving shoppers from 10 to 400 dollars per item, and so Americans want to go shopping. 

     Not all Americans enjoy shopping. Reverend William Graham wants to change Black Friday's name.  "We want to call it Remember Jesus Friday. People should start the season with the right attitude, Christmas has become a Season of Shopping. We want to make it a Season of Giving. And we don't mean giving material things. We mean giving your back, your mind, and your hands. Help an old lady clean up her house. Teach a kid how to read. Visit sick people in the hospital or in nursing homes.... 

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 34 to 38. 

Jobs in the time of Covid-19

     The impact of this deadly virus and actions taken by governments are affecting businesses and industries across the globe. Some, like the travel industry, are staring at one of the worst crises of their time. Countries and cities ...34... go through a long shutdown period will force many out of business for good, especially micro and small firms and others to ...35... employees. Many corporations have already initiated a lockdown-like state with mandatory work-from-home exercise. 

     An ongoing job-hunt and a pandemic make for a heavy combination. How so? By now, ...36... is pretty evident that this virus has not just attacked our bodies, but also shaken our economies and stock markets. If an economy plummets into a recession, almost all of us are at risk of losing our jobs. Especially if you are a job-seeker, searching for a job in a recession will be a Herculean task and you need a battle plan. 

     Your job search strategy in a recession should focus on applying to fewer job openings, not more.  Confused? In trying times, you need to narrow down to companies that you want to work for and then find a reasonable opening in just those firms. The logic is to direct your energies towards ...37... quality job applications, the ones that stand out from the multitude of mediocre job applications. Do not try to spread yourself too ...38... by applying anywhere and everywhere in the market. This is one of the most ill-suited times for that.

They could succeed in their work. It was thanks to our assistance.

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. 

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the pronunciation of the underlined part.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the pronunciation of the underlined part.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction.

The word "that" in paragraph 4 refers to _______.

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 questions from 19 to 26. 

LIFE IN THE FUTURE

     By the end of the third millennium, people will have access to basic utilities like electricity and the internet. As a type of civilization, the overall energy consumption of everyone in the 30th century will be at a level of around 4x10²⁶ watts. In other words, the energy utilization in a world full of working class consumers will be comparable to the luminosity of our parent star. So, the people of the future will inevitably need to fully harness the output of the Sun through the use of a vast array of satellite mega - structures that encircle the celestial body and capture the radiation it emits. 

     In requiring everyone to work together, the inclusive attitude of the future will cause everyone to grow much closer to one another, improving interpersonal relationships in neighborhoods the world over. By the year 3000, the whole of humanity will become a sort of poly-amorous society of mono-ethnic global citizens, living in a complex egalitarian intercontinental cooperative. Everyone will be part of multicultural communities within communities. Companies and credit unions will even be owned by their employees.  People will be very conscientious. Everyone will support the global economy, as well as ecology, of the world. 

     Humans will inhabit artificial urban jungles filled with buildings and sidewalks, while the other animals will inhabit natural rural jungles filled with wilderness and trails, Friends will walk through the crowded streets of the mega-cities of the future holding hands with one another. Public displays of affection will be customary among everyone. Casual bisexual encounters will be the norm. Everyone will care about everyone else. People will all accept each other, and help each other out, more and more as time goes on. 

     The point is that eventually, everyone will finally get along. Humanity will progress to a point of collective compatibility as everyone sufficiently integrates and assimilates. From now until the year 3000, the several thousand languages currently spoken will reduce down to only about a hundred. More importantly, the nation state members of the UN will all use the same form of electronic currency. As the countries of the world unify more and more, the metric system will become the universal standard of measurement. Things will become increasingly more common among everyone. This will bring everyone closer and closer together, each step of the way. In the end, cultural memes will all eventually just blend together in the great melting pot that is the world.

     People will also change physically, along with mentally, too though. For instance, there will be an increase in both height and longevity, among people in general. In the year 3000, people will be about six feet tall, and live to be 120 years old, on average. They will experience a slight reduction in the size of their mouths, too. Improvements in nutritional science will revolutionize the world of medicine and alter the course of human evolution. Everyone will be genetically screened as an embryo to weed out defects and correct mistakes in their personal genome. 8^th scale transhuman cyborgs will even go so far as to have 7th scale robotic integrations, with microscopic machines making them better. This will be terribly important because there will be very little diversity in the gene pool of the superhumans of the future, who are all bred to be what is considered ideal. 

He was one of the people who came instantly ______ awake and fell asleep with equal speed.

She plays ______ violin fairly well and makes a living by teaching ______violin.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions. 

In a restaurant. 

Waiter: Would you like to see the dessert menu? 

Jason: “____________”

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges. 

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

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress.