During his lifetime, ______ his famed artwork, Michelangelo also wrote many poems.

I ______ an old friend yesterday. It was really nice to see her after all this time

The first amusement park in our city was a ______ success for its owners. Everybody would go there to have a good time.

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

After the party, they didn’t remember _______ the ashtrays out. The first thing I did in the morning was to open the windows.

From my room on the sixth floor of the hotel, there’s a good _____ of the mountains.

He said he _________ then, but he would get to the party by nine.

About two hundred illegal immigrants have been ______ from the country this year.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 29 

      Back in the 1960s and 1970s, the world was becoming more aware of the destructive effects of industry (25) _____ the environment and people were starting to think seriously about ways of protecting the environment. One man who was particularly affected by this subject was Gerard Morgan-Grenville. As Morgan-Grenville travelled round earning his living as a gardener, he noticed signs of the damage that was being done to the countryside around him. 

     It wasn’t long before Morgan-Grenville decided that he had to do something about this situation. He felt that if people could be shown a better way of living then maybe they would be interested enough to try to protect their (26) _____ environment. Mr. Morgan-Grenville decided to set up a project (27) ______ would prove what was happening to our surroundings and what could be done about it. So, in 1975, Morgan-Grenville created the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in a village in Wales. 

     The main aim of CAT is to search for an ecologically better way of living by using technology which (28) _____ no harm to the environment. One of the most important things CAT did initially was to explore and demonstrate a wide range of techniques and to point out which ones had the least destructive results on the world around us. (29) ________, CAT provides information and advice to people all over Britain and all over the world. If more and more individuals are informed about how much damage our modern lifestyle is causing to the planet, maybe more of them would be prepared to look for practical solutions to environmental problems.

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

Using public transportation means not having to hunt for a parking space when you go downtown.

She is a very talented girl. You should listen to her playing ________ violin.

Safety experts are trying to establish the ______ of yesterday’s train crash.