In spite of being the new resident in this area, he always tries to ____ with his neighbours.

My father used to ____ a lot of challenges before establishing his own insurance company.

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

My parents don't let me get married until I graduate from university and they never __ their mind about that.

Which show would you like to watch, madam?

I look up to my father for my whole life.

If you are lucky, it will be love at first ____.

I found it truly ____ to hear that Mr. Kim had been appointed to the committee.

It would be unreasonable ____ him ____ you money if you didn't pay it back.

It was hand-carved wooden spoons ________ Welsh boys gave to girls as a symbol of their love.

I think you ____ do exercise regularly in order to keep your body in good shape.

Although the dish smelt _______, he refused to eat saying that he was not hungry.

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

 Jane found herself in conflict with her parents over her future career.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

Fathers in today families are spending more time with their children than at any point in the past 100 years. (26) ____ the number of hours the average woman spends at home with her children has declined since the early 1900s, as more and more women enter the workforce, there has been a decrease in the number of children per family and an increase in (27) ____ attention to each child. As a result, mothers today in the United States, including those who work part- or full-time, spend almost twice as much time with each child as mothers did in the 1920s. People (28) ____ raised children in the 1940s and 1950s typically report that their own adult children and grandchildren communicate far better with their kids and spend more time helping with homework than they did.

America's children are also safer today than they've ever been. An infant was four times more likely to die in the 1950s than today. A parent then was 27 percent more likely to lose an older teen to death.

If we look back over the last millennium, we can see that families have always been diverse. In each period, families have solved one set of problems only to face new challenges. What works for a family in one economic and cultural setting doesn't work for a family in another. What's helpful (29) ____ one stage of a family's life may be destructive at the next stage. If there is one lesson to be drawn from the last millennium of family history, it's that families always have to (30) ____ with a changing world.