Choose the word or phrase (A, B, c or D)) that best fĩts the blank space in the following passage:

We are using up the world’s Petroleum. We use (6)_________in our cars and to heat our building in winter.Farmers use petrochemicals to (7)_________the soil rich. They use them to kill insects (8)_________eat plants. These Chemicals go (9)_________rivers and lakes and kill the fish there. Thousands of pollutants also go into the air and pollute it. Winds carry this (10)_________air to other countries and other continents.

Poor farmers use the samc land over and (11)_________. The land needs a rest so it will be better next year. However, the farmers must have food this year. Poor people cut down forests (12) _________ firewood. In some arcas when the trees are gone, the land (13)_________desert. Poor people canh save the environment for the (14)_________.

This is not a problem for one country or one area of the world. It is a problem for all- humans. The people and the nations of the world must work together to (15)_________the world’s resources.Question 15

We usually do go by train, even though the car_________is a lot quicker

Lenses,_________,are used to correct imperfections in eyesight

Nowadays women_________the same wages as men

Choose the best answer amongA, B, C, or D which has the same meaning with the original sentence:

I was on the point of leaving the house when he came

Choose the best answer amongA, B, C, or D which has the same meaning with the original sentence:

He is short-sighted. Therefore, he has to wear the glasses

On attaining maximum size,_________by drawing itself out and dividing into two daughter amoebas, each receiving identical nuclear materials

Thanks to the laser beams, at last, he could get rid of the birthmark on his face

Choose the option among A, B, C, D which needs correcting to make a complete sentence

I  didn't feel like  to go  to church this moraing because it was raining hard

Choose the option among A, B, C, D which needs correcting to make a complete sentence

Genetic engineering is helping researchers unravel the mysteries of previously incurable diseases so that they can get to its root causes and fĩnd cures

We_________today and I got into trouble because I hadn't done it

Choose the option among A, B, C, D which needs correcting to make a complete sentence

They have been living here since 20 years up to present

That beautiful girl died of an_________morphine

Choose the best answer amongA, B, C, or D which has the same meaning with the original sentence:

Even though some events were cancelled, thousands of people attended thefestival

Choose the option among A, B, C, D which needs correcting to make a complete sentence

My father asked me where had I gone the night before

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

The table is too heavy for me to move alone