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 question.

The student next to me kept chewing gum. That bothered me a lot.

It is not always easy to________ the difference between fact and opinion.

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 the following question.

The 21st century has witnessed the surprisingly increasing formation of multicultural societies where a varying number of ethnic people stay together.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to the following question.

I am not able to go anywhere this weekend because I am up to my________ in work.

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 the following question.

What exactly are white collar workers? They are people who work in offices and administrative positions.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to the following question.

The word dwindling in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _____