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.

Lack of water and nutrients has impeded the growth of these cherry tomato plants

A. lost / have left

B. have lost / leave

C. have lost / left

D. were losing / had left

A. She was very busy that she couldn’t answer the phone.

B. She was too busy to answer the phone.

C. She was too busy not to answer the phone.

D. She was very busy so that she couldn’t answer the phone

A. She was the first woman being elected as the president of the Philippines

B. She was the first woman who is elected as the president of the Philippines

C. She was the first woman to be elected as the president of the Philippines

D. She was the first woman elected as the president of the Philippines

A. a subject that I don’t understand

B. a theme that I like to discuss

C. a book that is never opened

D. an object that I really love

A. Hardly did he finished eating his breakfast when he fell down

B. Hardly he had finished eating his breakfast when he fell down

C. Hardly have he finished eating his breakfast when he fell down

D. Hardly had he finished eating his breakfast when he fell down

A. Japanese round beautiful wooden

B. beautiful wooden round Japanese

C. beautiful wooden Japanese round

D. beautiful round Japanese wooden

A. with

B. on

C. by

D. about