Use affirmative or negative of "ought to": It's raining. If you don't want your dress to get wet, you ____________ take an umbrella.

Topic 2: How to keep your skin, your eyes healthy 

Choose the correct answer: The festival begins on April 13 and everyone is awakened at dawn to the sound of firecrackers used to drive away evil spirits. This is the day when everything is scrupulously cleaned from the self, clothes, Buddha images, to houses, shops and streets in preparation for the New Year.

The word "scrupulously" in the passage is closest in meaning to ____.

A. carefully                

B. honestly                 

C. frankly                   

D. completely

Choose the best answer: Singapore was one of the five original member countries that founded ASEAN in 1967. Since its independence in 1965, Singapore has become one of the world’s most prosperous countries, with per capita GDP equalling that of the leading nations of Western Europe. Singapore is highly ranked for its economic competitiveness, and it was the world’s most competitive country from 1997 to 1999 as ranked by the World Economic Forum.

What does the word “it” in the first paragraph refer to?

A. ASEAN

B. GDP                                     

C. Singapore                                     

D. the World Economic Forum

Choose the correct answer: When Malaysia takes the ASEAN chair next year, it will face a huge challenge. Too few of us know enough about this grouping we call the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. We do not know what it means to be a part of ASEAN and why it is important to us. At the same time, pressure is mounting to reinvent ASEAN to make it more people-centric and less government-centric. The Heat speaks to Global Movement of Moderates CEO Saifuddin Abdullah on why ASEAN should mean more to us than just acronyms.

The word “acronyms” in paragraph 1 probably means ____.

A. abbreviations         

B. antonyms                           

C. enlargements                     

D. synonyms