The newly advertised product had just been on sale. Customers realised that it had lots of defects.

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.

It is possible that he will not attend the meeting.

"My mum gave me some pocket money," said Jerry.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meal underlined word(s) in each of the following questions

If you want to become a famous music composer, you need to have talent and determination.

The teacher tries her best to ______ sure that her students can understand her explanations.

We could tolerate your noisy parties time and again, but throwing bottles out of the window was beyond the ______.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 26 to 30.

Imagine you are buying an apple in a supermarket. Which do you choose, one with a small brown mark, or one without? Be honest - you'd go for the apple (26) looks perfect. Supermarkets do this too, but on a much larger scale when buying fruit and vegetables from farmers. And what (27) of the ones with marks on them? They are thrown away. So are the ones that are a funny shape or size.

(28) reason for waste is that people buy more food than they can eat and supermarkets do everything they can to encourage this, for example with offers like “Buy one, get one free”. Developed countries waste about 650 million tons of food each year and so do developing countries. (29), the waste happens for very different reasons. As the world's population grows, this problem will only (30), so we need to take action urgently.

(Adapted from Navigate)