The head teacher has asked me to take the new boy under my_____________and look after him.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 33 to 37.

Left-handers are the odd ones out. Sure, lefties (33) _____________up about 10 percent of the population - but, frankly, it seems like society has forgotten about them. Just consider all of the right-handed gadgets, awkwardly designed desks, and cooking tools that fit comfortably only in your right hand, what (34) _____________someone to become a lefthand? Scientists aren’t exactly sure, but research points to a complex (35) _____________between genes and environment.

While no exact set of “leftie genes” have been discovered, people who dominantly use their left hands do have more left-handed family members. And researchers have found different brain wirings in righties vs. lefties. But no matter (36) _____________it is that drives someone to use their antipodal paw, science has also uncovered a particular set of personality traits that lefthanded people tend to have. So for all of you lefties, leftie-loving righties, and ambidextrous folks out there - it’s time to brush up on your left-handed knowledge and help (37) _____________an end to leftie discrimination once and for all.

The biologists have found more than one thousand types of butterflies in the forest, _____________its special characteristics.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

I demand to know how this vase_____________, and no one is leaving till I find out.

The online game “Dumb ways to die” quickly_____________with young people after being released in 2013.

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

Later a wine reception will be followed by a concert before guests tuck into a banquet.

Chandler was shocked when his entire class seemed to come down with the same imaginative disease.

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.

“Please, let my child go!” she begged the kidnapper.

Jenny has an_____________command of Japanese cuisine.

John is feeling_____________because he hasn’t had enough sleep recently.

The natives were angry when foreigners came to their country and took over their land.

The word “bind ” in the passage probably means___________