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 from 29 to 30.

Don’t take it as read that you’ll be promoted in your job, other colleagues stand a good chance, too.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions from 1 to 2.

Water is one of our most precious resources; to (31) ______ it simply, without water there would be no life.  

Mr. Robert, ______ from the company, is now facing legal charges.

Reading the article about damages caused by the heavy storm really brought a lump to my ______ .

He promises ______ the assignment before 5 p.m.

I hope that they can find out a cure for the disease, because they are on the ______ track.