Melissa remembers the day, back in 2004, when her father went missing while on a regular business trip to Vietnam. “He just never showed up when he was supposed to meet a client,” she recalls.
Repeated phone calls from their home in Singapore to his mobile phone in Vietnam went
Since the first supposed monster sighting at Loch Ness was recorded in the 6th century, people have been searching for logical explanations. Sturgeons, trees, and even elephant trunks have all been blamed,
- Although she admitted that her airport expansion plan had recently collapsed, the governer (1) ... the significance of the failure, pointing out that competing economic development proposals are now more (2) ....
(1) (A) minimized 
(B) touted (C) acknowledged
(2) (D) tenuous (B) complicated (C) important
Any population increase beyond a certain level (1) ... greater (2) ... vegetable foods; thus, the ability of a society to choose meat over cereals always arises, from (3) ... the numbers of people.
(1) (A) necessitates (B) caters to (C) eludes
(2) (D) gratification of (E) recourse to (F) cultivation
(3) (G) replenishing (H) concealing (I) limiting
Select TWO answer choices.
While normal floods resulting from usual monsoon rainfall are ... the growth of the crop, recently there has been an increase in the frequency of high-intensity floods that do not have such welcome effects.
(1) conducive to
(2) hindered by
(3) devastating for
(4) deleterious or
(5) essential for
(6) indispensable to
