Read the passage carefully and choose the best option to fit each space.

Every season there are new clothes and new fashions in the shops. Colours and styles keep (23)_________. One season black is the 'in' colour, but the next season everyone is wearing orange or pink or grey. The length of women's skirts goes up and down from year to year. A shirt (24) _____ you once thought was very trendy can look (25)____old-fashioned a few years later. And your father's shirts, you always thought were very conservative and traditional, can suddenly become (26)____. Keeping up with the fashions can be very expensive. So one way to save money is never to throw your old clothes out. If you wait long enough, the clothes are out of fashion today will be (27)_____ in fashion tomorrow. Yesterday's clothes are tomorrow's new fashions.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.

If the world’s tropical forests continue to disappear at their present rate, many animal species will be extinct.

Rewrite the following sentences beginning as shown, so that the meaning remains the same.

 Although he wasn,t experienced, he got the job.

→ Despite..…………………………………………

Circle the underlined word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that needs correcting

We are looking forward to spend our summer vacation in the country.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.

Now, Peter has become accustomed to driving to the left

Circle the underlined word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that needs correcting

If there is no water, there would be no life on the earth.

Complete the second sentence so that it has the similar meaning to the first sentence using the word given. Do not change the word given.

 A knock at the door interrupted Dad's story (telling)

→ ………………………………………………………………

Complete the second sentence so that it has the similar meaning to the first sentence using the word given. Do not change the word given.

My sister is not old enough to ride a bicycle. (too)

→ ………………………………………

Mark the letter to indicate the most suitable response.

Jimmy: "You must have found reading my essay very tiring". - Kate: “__________.”

Circle the underlined word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that needs correcting

There are so much chickens in the garden that I can't count them all .

Circle the best option A, B, C or D to complete the sentences:

My class are lucky......a chance to visit the capital.

Complete the second sentence so that it has the similar meaning to the first sentence using the word given. Do not change the word given.

The total sales for this video are already over a million copies. (sold)

→ ……………………………………………..

Complete the second sentence so that it has the similar meaning to the first sentence using the word given. Do not change the word given.

After sitting in front of the computer all evening I felt sleepy. (been)

→ …………………………………………

Circle the best option A, B, C or D to complete the sentences:

Scotland is rich......coal and iron.

Circle the best option A, B, C or D to complete the sentences:

The building at the end of the street......in the early 20th century.

Circle the best option A, B, C or D to complete the sentences:

 I've been......a cup to match the one I broke.