* 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.

 Now our parents are still alive. We should be grateful to them and thank them for what they have done for us.

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

 One member of the project group_______the boss and was fired immediately.

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

 The government must take_______action against environmental pollution.

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

 _________this book by the time it is due back to the library?

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

More complex animals gradually evolved from these very simple creatures.

*Mark the letter A, B, C, or I) on your answer sheet to indicate the wordfs) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

I’d go mad if I had to do a dead-end job like working on a supermarket checkout.

*Mark the letter A, B, C, or I) on your answer sheet to indicate the wordfs) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

Feel free to bring along your significant other to the party.

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

 Congress has decreed that the gasoline tax__________.