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(A) useless
(B) brilliant
(C) idiotic
(D)challenging
5. Theactresshadtoraisehervoiceinorder
to be audible in the balcony.
(A) musical
(B) dramatic
(C) heard
(D)appreciated
6. Dictatorsdonottolerateoppositionofany
kind.
(A) understand
(B) permit
(C) justify
(D)execute
(A) instantly
(B) annually
(C) spontaneously
(D)often
(A) integration
(B) education
(C) separation
(D)torture
(A) unable to read and write
(B) without children
(C) sports participants
(D)wealthy
(B) on the surface
(C) deep
(D)supercilious
(A) proverb
(B) lady
(C) gentleman
(D)book
14. Atelevisionadshowsabusybakerwitha
new computer that the advertiser claims
will help him make dough.
(A) a baking mixture
(B) more customers
(C) money
(D)bread
(A) illegal
(B) circumstantial
(C) expansive
(D)profitable
(D)fall asleep
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15. Thecorrectansweris(B).Toputyour
footinyourmouthisanidiomaticexpres13. Thecorrectansweris(A).Familiarity
sion that means (B), to say the wrong
with old sayings such as the one given in
thing. Like most such expressions, this
this sentencethe early bird gets the
wouldbeimpossibletotranslateliterally
wormwill give you answer (A), provinto another language. It has simply beerb. The other alternatives are senseless
comeafrequentlyusedexpressionthatis
in the context of this sentence.
generally understood by native speakers. Another such expression is to have a
14. The correct answer is (C). This is a
heart, which means to be sympathetic.
difficult item because the word dough is
a slang expression for (C), money. The
advertiser is making a play on words to
get a humorous effect, since a baker necessarily makes dough, a mixture of flour
and water. The computer will help the
baker make more money, not more baking mix.
12. The correct answer is (D).