Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

People rumour that the Prince secretly got married to an ordinary girl.

John's ______ and efficiency at the company led to his promotion to Sales Manager.

Neither the Minister nor his colleagues has given an explanation for the chaos in the financial market last week.

I am sure your sister will lend you a sympathetic_______when you explain the situation to her.

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.

Steve said to Mike, “Don’t touch the electric wires. It might be deadly.”

To everyone's surprise, it wasn't in Bristol which he made his fortune, although that’s where he was born.

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

His girlfriend’s behavior at the party was unacceptable, which made everyone there shocked.

Despite their normal cylindrical form, some of the documents ______ on silk that were found at Mawangdui, an archaeological site in southeastern China, were folded into rectangles.