20. ____, he i s now becoming more interested in American football .
(A)He was once an avid soccer fan
(B) He once an avid soccer fan
(C) Once was he an avid soccer fan
(D)Once an avid soccer fan

16. In the past, ____ was often necessary to provide a large army. (A) subscription (B) prescription (C) transcription (D) conscription

17.George feels relieved now because the lump proves to be ____ rather than malignant. (A) beneficial (B) benevolent (C) beni gn (D) beneficent

18. I was a rebel when I was young. Hence, I never ____ to my parents’ opinions. (A) conferred (B) inferred (C) pref erred (D) deferred

19. Since my professor ____ on the syntactic structures of conditional sentences, I have been able to use them in my daily life. (A) expounded (B) compounded (C) pounded (D) expended

21 A short time before she died, the old woman ____ a will, leaving her entire estate to her beloved dog. (A) has written (B) had written (C) was writing (D) had been writing

22. The geographic position of North America, ____ in the early days of the European settlement. (A) laying between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, isolating it (B) lying between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, isolated it (C) isolated it as it laid between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans (D) isolating it between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans as it was lied

23. The spellings of many Old English words have been preserved in the living language, ____ thei r pronunciations have changed. (A) and (B) owing to (C) not withstanding (D) although

24.Weathering ____ the action whereby surface rock is disintegrated or decomposed. (A) is (B) being (C) it is (D) is that

25. When any two English words that differ in meaning but are identical in every way except for one sound segment at the same place in the string, they are referred to as ‘______.’ (A) allophonic pairs (B) identical pairs (C) lexical pairs (D) minimal pairs

26. When you try to add both –ing and ed suffixes to the verb ‘age’, which of the following statements is not true about their new derived forms and the rules involved? (A). You need to drop the final ‘e’ when adding ed suffix to the base. (B). The only correct new derived forms should be ‘aging’ and ‘aged’. (C). You can add –ing directly to the base without making any changes. (D). You can either optionally drop the final ‘e’ or not when adding ing to the base.