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Select the correct answer.

A: Have you heard of the inside scoop on elections?
B: Yes. Both the state …… and House of Representatives have Republican majorities.

a) amendment
b) senate
c) legislation
d) homeland

A: What are you reading, Kate?
B: It’s a novel that follows the …… stories of two people whose paths cross at the end.

a) transverse
b) concentric
c) parallel
d) adjacent

A: So, you must have been in severe pain after the truck impacted your car so heavily.
B: You have no idea how horrible it was. I could feel the steering wheel digging into the …… between my ribs.

a) meat
b) chest
c) flesh
d) kidneys

A: Mom, that’s a lovely flower. Let me smell it.
B: Hold on. Don’t close your fist over it or it’ll be …… into a pulp.

a) crashed
b) clasped
c) crushed
d) clashed

A: I think our cars are well equipped to survive accidents.
B: They might be, but weather conditions and technical problems are inevitable. We can’t relax our safety standards or we’d be …… with people’s lives.

a) gambling
b) mumbling
c) rambling
d) crumbling

A: How did the music festival go along?
B: Leonard won the prize for his skillful …… of a piece by Mozart.

a) intervention
b) intimidation
c) interception
d) interpretation

A: Oh, what’s happened to the fender of your car?
B: Two days ago, I was driving on Palm Street when I noticed a vehicle speeding in the opposite direction. I …… the sidewalk to avoid hitting it.

a) cut in on
b) swerved
c) mounted
d) skidded

A: The prices of wheat and rice are really low this year.
B: That’s because last year’s …… harvest was the biggest ever.

a) fertility
b) seed
c) plow
d) grain

A: People are suffering weak purchasing power nowadays.
B: Right, but the new president has announced a much-needed program to radically …… the economy.

a) refill
b) reform
c) refit
d) refer

A: If we don’t …… the spread of the disease, it will turn into an epidemic.
B: So, the best thing to do is to immunize the entire population.

a) compel
b) oppress
c) nip
d) curb

A: How can we bring the piano in? It’s too big.
B: Maybe we should try bringing it …… through the door.

a) sideways
b) forward
c) lengthways
d) backward

A: Excuse me sir, were people able to read and write in that age?
B: Actually, among the ruins there are inscriptions, …… some degree of literacy even in the 9th century BC.

a) multiplying
b) applying
c) complying
d) implying

A: My son is keen on being independent. Isn’t that a strong trait?
B: Sure it is, but on the other hand, group work helps children learn to share things and …… to each other.

a) relate
b) recast
c) recap
d) relent

A: All flag …… in this yard are rusted.
B: Ok sir, we’ll paint them as soon as possible.

a) girders
b) poles
c) axes
d) pillars

A: Sam, are you any good at tying …… ? I’m having trouble fastening my shoelace.
B: Yes, let me do it.

a) spindles
b) knots
c) strips
d) knobs

Listen and select the correct answer for questions 15 to 20.

Where had she seen the name “Pierre” before receiving the letter?

a) in a book
b) in another letter
c) on the desk
d) on the back of the picture

Pierre lived in …… .

a) Bucharest
b) Paris
c) London
d) Berlin

She was able to go to Romania because of her …… .

a) mother.
b) father.
c) husband.
d) son.

When she met Pierre, she found out he …… .

a) wasn’t her brother
b) looked exactly like her father
c) had piggybacked her father to the airport
d) was a reincarnation of her father

Her father kept secrets about his life before he …… .

a) immigrated to the United States
b) met her mother
c) was arrested
d) had a son