4. They lived in an apartment building ____ to the MRT station.
(A) adjunct
(B) abreast
(C) adjacent
(D) obscured

55. Which of the following statements is correct, according to the reading? (A) Thanks to its great value in preventative care, genetic testing is always conducted to identify a high-risk group. (B) Preventive mastectomy is customarily done in hospitals to treat breast cancer. (C) To ensure better cosmetic results, immediate reconstructive surgery should be avoided. (D) Oncologists and surgeons often work together to cure cancer patients. (E) In general, neither saline nor silicone is implanted for breast augmentation.

1. After the accident, Tom was badly scarred but the plastic surgeon did a marvelous skin ____ and now you can hardly see any trace of it. (A) transfer (B) change (C) graft (D) transplant

2. The court heard that the six defendants had been ____ into making a confession. (A) coerced (B) confided (C) conducted (D) induced

3. The teacher_________ at the suggestion that she had in any way neglected the students. (A) beheld (B) bristled (C) assailed (D) disclaimed .

5. Unlike ceramics, components of some types of plastics are known to be ____ to human health. (A) haphazard (B) infectious (C) infamous (D) hazardous

6. A copy of the Chinese version of Diamond Sūtra, found among the Dunhuang ____ in the early 20th century, was dated back to May 11, 868. (A) manuscripts (B) manuals (C) manifestos (D) minstrels

7. Samsung has ____ Apple, the iPad and iPhone maker, in the worldwide chip eating challenge. (A) suppressed (B) subsumed (C) submerged (D) supplanted

8. The 2011 Tohoku earthquake was a ____ 9.0 undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan. (A) epicenter (B) magnitude (C) scale (D) degree

9. The medical board declared the treatment worthless and the practitioner a ____. (A) magician (B) wizard (C) charlatan (D) trickster

10. We hadn’t realized that there would be a power cut so were astonished when the whole house was ____ into darkness.(A) dived(B) drowned(C) plunged(D) dredged