Choose the option that best completes the gap(s). My mother had ........ the fire wood before it began to rain?

• A. split
• B. splited
• C. splitted
• D. splitting

Opposite in meaning – The allies of the Chancellor will do anything to ensure that he does not abdicate power

• A. Fret
• B. Foes
• C. Fans
• D. Competitors

The passage below has gaps. Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

PASSAGE IV

With the most profound respect to the members of the Senate, I do not think that it is within the competence of that ...1... body to pass a motion to ...2... the executive action of the President. The Senate is ...3... of the National Assembly. But it is not by itself alone the National Assembly. One can imagine the confusion, which would be created if the ...4... were to take a view diametrically opposed to that reflected in the Senate resolution. The strongest objection to the action of the Senate in passing the resolution is the fact that it constituted itself the ...5... as well as the judge of the constitutionality of the action of the President. The function of the Senate is to ...6... laws. But the Senate has no authority or ...7... to control the President in the exercise of his ...8... powers. It cannot by a mere resolution or motion give any directive to the President regarding the exercise of his powers nor can it undo what the President has done in the exercise of those powers. The only way in which the exercise of the powers of the President can be ...9... is by ...10... of the National Assembly.

Adapted from The Guardian of July 8, 1999, p. 8.

• A. an anchor
• B. a portion
• C. a wing
• D. an arm

In the question below choose the optionopposite in meaning to the word underlined: Chidi is naturallytaciturn

• A. friendly
• B. cheerful
• C. dumb
• D. garrulous

From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the underlined letters or letters underlined. Brought

• A. roar
• B. plough
• C. drought
• D. worse

Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space; Tennyson and Browning lived about the same time and therefore .... poets

• A. contrary
• B. contractual
• C. contemporaneous
• D. contemporary

For her 2021 art installation Anthem, Wu Tsang joined forces with singer and composer Beverly Glenn-Copeland to produce a piece that critics found truly ______: they praised Tsang for creatively transforming a museum rotunda into a dynamic exhibit by projecting filmed images of Glenn-Copeland onto a massive 84-foot curtain and filling the space with the sounds of his and other voices singing. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

• A) restrained
• B) inventive
• C) inexplicable
• D) mystifying

Choose the most appropriate optionnearest in meaning to the underlined words.

He is bound to expose himself by hisnefarious activities?

• A. kind
• B. disreputable
• C. despicable
• D. nocturnal

In each of the following sentences, there is one word underlined and one gap. From the list of words lettered A - D, choose the word that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word and that will, at the same time, correctly fill the gap in the sentences.

The man was accused ofpremeditated murder but he pleaded that it was...............

• A. determined
• B. accidental
• C. planned
• D. contrived

Where did the police apprehend Talle?

• A. at the village stream
• B. at his residence
• C. at the palace of Hakimi
• D. at the village square