Read the passage and choose the best answer among A, B, C, or D.

Throughout the United States, the number of places where people are allowed to smoke has gradually ecome smaller and smaller. First, it was banned on trains, buses and plancs, then in public places such as theatres and airports. Now you can’t smoke in any workplace. Nonsmokers are definitely winning the battle. “Why should we breathe their smoke ?”, they say.

If they are lucky, smokers can still find some bars and restaurants where they can light up a cigarette, but it may soon be banncd there , too. Anti-smoking groups even think that smoking ought to be banned in people’s homes.

Under new plans you won’t be able to smoke where there are more than ten visitors in a week, or where there are children. In 1996, nicotine was classed as drug, like cocaine or heroin. In the country that gave tobacco to the world, smoking might one day be illegal

“ Why should we breathe their smoke?” The word “their” in this sentence means:

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