Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.

After two decades of growing student enrollments and economic prosperity, business schools in the United States have started to face harder times. Only Harvard's MBA School has shown a substantial increase in enrollment in recent years. Both Princeton and Stanford have seen decreases in their enrollments. Since 1990, the number of people receiving Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degrees, has dropped about 3 percent to 75,000, and the trend of lower enrollment rates is expected to continue.

There are two factors causing this decrease in students seeking an MBA degree. The first one is that many graduates of four-year colleges are finding that an MBA degree does not guarantee a plush job on Wall Street, or in other financial districts of major American cities. Many of the entry-level management jobs are going to students graduating with Master of Arts degrees in English and the humanities as well as those holding MBA degrees. Students have asked the question, "Is an MBA degree really what I need to be best prepared for getting a good job?" The second major factor has been the cutting of American payrolls and the lower number of entry-level jobs being offered. Business needs are changing, and MBA schools are struggling to meet the new demands

The word "struggling" is closest in meaning to

Making mistakes is all _______of growing up

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This special offer is exclusive to readers of this magazine

The government has made a serious attempt to raise the _____ of living

Most country music songs are deeply personal and deal with themes of love, _____ and separation

My math teacher is the one who is the most _____ of the staff in the school.

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The air that surrounds our planet is both odourless, colourless, and invisible.

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Old buildings should be razed to make space for new and modern ones

Do you know that _____ longest river in _____ world is _____ Nile?

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

An employer must be very careful in dealing with subordinates and documenting their files in order to avoid complaints

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The clock was _____ by the Chinese in the 11th century

Hundreds of employees were made redundant when the company was ____ by another one

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.

Mrs Mai: “ ……………………” -> Mr. Brown: “ Thank you. We are proud of him.”

Family is a good _____ from which you can join the society with confidence

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What I told her a few days ago were not the solutions to most of her problems.

Tom and Jerry _____________us last night, so I had to quickly defrost a pizza.