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.

The company director decided to raise the workers’ wages. He did not want them to leave.

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 questions.

All the students were all ears when the teacher started talking about the changes in the next exam.

My aunt used to be a woman of great _________, but now she gets old and looks pale.

_________ his good work and manners, he didn’t get a promotion.

There has been little rain in this region for several months, _________?

_________no taxi, they had to walk home.

All _________ we had been told turned out to be untrue.

Her car needs ______