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

Unemployment rate is high. This makes many children move back to their parents' house.

A. Many children move back to their parents' house, which makes high unemployment rate.

B. High unemployment rate forces many children to move back to their parents' house.

C. Moving back to their parents' house suggests that the unemployment rate is high.

D. It is necessary to move back to your parents' house if unemployment rate is high.

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

Marry loved her stuffed animal when she was young. She couldn’t sleep without it.

A. When Marry was young, she loved her stuffed animal so as not to sleep with it.

B. As Marry couldn’t sleep without her stuffed animal when she was young, she loved it.

C. When Marry was young, she loved her stuffed animal though she couldn’t sleep without it.

D. When Marry was young, she loved her stuffed animal so much that she couldn’t sleep without it.

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

Mary broke up with her boyfriend. She couldn't stand his complaining.

A. Although Mary broke up with her boyfriend, she couldn't stand his complaining.

B. Mary broke up with her boyfriend because she couldn't stand his complaining.

C. Mary broke up with her boyfriend; however, she couldn't stand his complaining

D. Mary broke up with her boyfriend in case she couldn't stand his complaining.

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

Question 33. She has to work today. She cannot join her friends' outing.

A. If she had to work today, she would not join her friends'outing.

B. If she didn't have to work today, she could join her friends'outing.

C. If only she doesn't have to work today, she can join her friends' outing.

D. She wishes she hadn't had to work that day so that she could join her friends' outing.

Question 34. They didn't tell him the truth. More terribly, they forced him to live away from her.

A. Not only did they keep him in the dark but they also forced him to live away from her.

B. Only by not keeping him in the dark did they force him to live away from her.

C. No sooner had they told him the truth when they forced him to live away from her.

D. Not until they forced him to live away from her did they tell him the truth.

Question 38. The best thing you can do is to take some time off work.

A. You might take some time off work.

B. You oughtn't to take some time off work.

D. You had better take some time off work.

C. You needn't take some time off work.

Question 39. "I ordered a T-shirt yesterday," my classmate said.

A. My classmate said that he has ordered a T-shirt the previous day

B. My classmate said that he was ordering a T-shirt the next day

. C. My classmate said that he had ordered a T-shirt the day before.

D. My classmate said that he would order a T-shirt the following day.

Question 40. She inherited her father's fortune six months ago.

B. She has six months to inherit her father's fortune.

A. She hasn't inherited her father's fortune for six months.

C. It has been six months since she inherited her father's fortune.

D.The last time she inherited her father's fortune was six months ago

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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.

The traffic is so heavy. It will take us at least an hour to get there.

A. Unless the traffic is heavy, it will take us at least an hour to get there

B. As the traffic is so heavy, it will take us at least an hour to get there

C. The traffic was so heavy that it took us an hour to get there.

D. We will spend more than an hour to get there to avoid heavy traffic.

Circle the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to each of the following sentences.

41 Jane is by far the best student in her school.

A Jane lives very far from her school.

B No one can study as well as Jane in her school.

C Jane hasn't studied better so far.

D Everyone including Jane has better results in school

42 Kay would rather stay at home than go out with his friends.

B Kay likes staying at home and going out. C Kay only goes out with those who he likes.

D Kay prefers staying at home to going out.

A Kay doesn't like going out.

43 Unless my father takes me to school, I will be late for class.

A Because my father takes me to school, I'm never late for class.

B If my father doesn't take me to school, I won't go to class on time.

C My father always takes me to school, so I am always early for class.

D My father loves taking me to school so that I am not late for class.

Rearrange the words or phrases to make meaningful sentences.

44 spring/than/much/This year's/last year's. /is/hotter

45 You'd / better/ or /home/go/be/early,/your/angry./might/dad

Write the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one. 46 Natalie wanted to go on a tour that had a tour guide.

47. "Can I borrow your laptop for a day?" Martin asked me.

48 New software was installed in Vicky's computer by her brother.

49 If I were you, I would take this wallet to the nearest police station.

50 My twin sister isn't so tall as I am.