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

Ray Kurzweil suggests that exponential technological development will lead to the inevitable rise of artificial intelligence

A. exaggerate                  

A. confident           

A. There should be a hundred people at the meeting. 

B. There may be a hundred people at the meeting. 

C. There must be a hundred people at the meeting. 

A. She didn't take her children to the zoo two months ago. 

B. She has taken her children to the zoo for two months. 

C. She had two months to take her children to the zoo. 

A. few                         

A. The tempo of extinction of species today 

B. The two ways in which species disappear 

C. Deforestation as a major cause of mass extinctions of species 

A. preparing