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1.

  The teacher praised Muniandy for his handwriting which is not only neat and easily read, but also beautiful.
               
    (A)

legible

 
(B) logical
    (C) legitimate  
    (D) literate  
               
2.   I tried to ask and reason with him to help me but he wouldn't.
               
    (A) invite  
(B) encourage
    (C)

persuade

 
    (D) force  
               
3.   The writer for that newspaper was punched in the eye when he tried to take a photograph of the criminal.
               
    (A) author  
(B)

reporter

    (C) interviewer  
    (D) newsvendor  
               
4.   The driver was seriously hurt and had to be hospitalized.
               
    (A)

badly

 
(B) miserably
    (C) painfully  
    (D) uncomfortably  
               
5.   Mr. Hwang decided to wind up his business after October.
               
    (A) improve  
(B) expand
    (C) begin  
    (D)

terminate

 
               
6.   It is against the law to sell alcohol to anyone under the age of eighteen.
               
    (A)

illegal

 
    (B) illegible
    (C) outlaw  
    (D) lawless  
               
7.   I think the price you paid was much too high.
               
    (A)

exorbitant

 
    (B) expensive
    (C) handsome  
    (D) inverted  
         
8.   Ali cannot respect his father who listen in on his conversations secretly because he could not trust his son.
         
    (A) peeps  
    (B) groans  
    (C)

eavesdrops

 
    (D) strains  
         
9.   Congming was thoroughly soaked when he fell into the fish pond.
         
    (A)

drenched

 
    (B) saddened  
    (C) dirtied  
    (D) dampened  
         
10.   Mr. Naidu has a lot of eccentric ideas.
         
    (A) fine  
    (B) stupid  
    (C) excellent  
    (D)

peculiar

 
         

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