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.

My brother couldn’t speak a word. He could do that when he turned three.

The ______ of toothpaste are located in the health and beauty section of the supermarket.

Apart from those three very cold weeks in January, it has been a very ______ winter.

His clothes are in a mess because he ______ the house all morning.

We've had to postpone ______ to France because the children are ill.

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.

When the police arrived the thieves took to flight leaving all the stolen things behin

Mark the letter A, B,  C, or  D on your answer sheet to indicate  the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.

Many people who live near the ocean depend on it as a source of food, recreation, and to have economic opportunities.

What noisy neighbors you’ve got! If my neighbors ______ as bad as yours, I ______ crazy.