English Language (Use of English) Past Questions and Answers

Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the nearest in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:
When you go to a foreign country to study, you will discover that life is not always a bed of roses.

A As pleasant as one thought
B A bed without roses
C An unmitegated disappointment
D As expected
E Uncomfortable

Question 702:

Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the nearest in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:
A lorry larger than an elephant was stuck on the bridge.

A As large as an elephant
B Carring an elephant
C That looked like an elephant
D With elephantiasis
E Of enormous proportions

Question 703:

Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the nearest in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:
There is an end - of - session party tonight but Sola hasn't finished her term paper.She's unlikely to come

A I doubt whether she will come
B She will likely come
C It isn't unliklely her to come
D She doesn't like coming to party
E Ther is a small possibility that she might come

Question 704:

Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the opposite in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:
Never in the history of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.

A Many people owed much money at the end of the war
B A handful of people saved the lives of a nation
C A few people did a lot of things gratis
D This conflict caused the largest ransome ever demanded
E Very little was owed by anyone to anybody

Question 705:

Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the opposite in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:
While most of our recently elected legislators are living a life of affluence and ostentation the vast majority of those who elected them into office are unhappy

A Influence
B Pleasure
C Poverty
D Happiness
E Consequence