Choose Answers With Synonyms

1.

• The final exam was harder than the others.

• There were two exams rather than one.

• He thought the exam would be easier.

• The exam was not very difficult.

2.

• He’s not feeling very well.

• He’s rather sick of working.

• He’s feeling better today than yesterday.

• He’d really rather not answer the question.

3.

• The company was founded about a year ago.

• It was just established that he could go into business.

• The family is well established.

• The business only lasted a year.

4.

• He did not look at the right schedule.

• The plane landed in the right place.

• The plane arrived on time.

• He had to wait for the plane to land.

5.

• She’d rather go running.

• She doesn’t want to go into the pool.

• She’ll change clothes quickly and go swimming.

• She needs a sweatsuit to go running.

6.

• The firefighters saved the homes for last.

• A firefighter saved the hillside last night.

• The homes on the hillside were burned.

• The houses weren't destroyed.

7.

• There's enough soup.

• The spices are adequate.

• She thinks the soup's too salty.

• The man should add more salt and pepper.

8.

• He was lucky to receive a grant for his studies.

• He used his fortune to pay his fees.

• He is a scholar at a college with low fees.

• He paid to get a scholarship.

9.

• It profited from previous mistakes.

• It earned a lot of money.

• This is the last year that it would make a profit.

• It was not so successful.

10.

• Chuck’s bank account has too much money in it.

• He thinks Chuck has the wrong kind of bank account.

• He thinks that Chuck is on his way home from the bank.

• There isn’t enough money in Chuck’s account.