Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

She is snowed under with work. She cannot go out with her friends at weekend.

“How long have you been working as a journalist?” She asked him.

Going by air is sometimes __________ than going by train.

The contract ________ when we reach an agreement on the price .

At the beach, seagulls _______ a bad reputation for swooping down on unsuspecting people to steal their food.

John has been unemployed for the past three years – he’s really in dire straits.

The ________ lay with the organizers, who failed to make the necessary arrangements for dealing with so many people.

The acupoints are stimulated _______ the healing capability of the body itself.

I am thinking of changing my current job because I can’t _______ my low salary.

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

The flowers in our school garden are very beautiful, _______?

Mrs Brown and Mr Smith are talking about teaching soft skills at school.

- Mrs Brown: “Some soft skills should be taught to children.”

- Mr Smith: “______. They are necessary for them.”