IB ACIO 20 February 2021 Afternoon Shift

Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the given word.

Profligate

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence. If there is no improvement, then select 'No improvement'.

Hardly had he finished his meal (and it started) raining.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom in the given sentence.

We're finally at the end of the line with this project-now, we just have to hand it in and pray for a good grade.

Some parts of a sentence have been jumbled up, and labelled P, Q, R and S. Select the option that gives the correct sequence in which these parts can be rearranged to form a meaningful and grammatically correct sentence.

While I was inside

P. struggling with maths and
Q. chemistry, my father was constructing a
R. the classroom in Cambodia,
S. temporary scaffolding on

the campus grounds.

Select the word which means the same as the group of given words.

Spoken or done without preparation.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence. If there is no improvement, then select 'No improvement'.

It is high time that civilians (awake to) the dangers surrounding them.

Arrange the jumbled sentences to make a meaningful paragraph.

A. Yet there is also no reason to despair.
B. None of this is true today as we fight the coronavirus pandemic.
C. The global financial crisis in 2008-09 was a massive demand shock, but our workers could still go to work, our firms were coming off years of strong growth, our financial system was largely sound, and our government finances were healthy.
D. Economically speaking, India is faced today with perhaps its greatest emergency since Independence.

A sentence has been given with a blank to be filled with an appropriate word. Choose the correct alternative.

The four most ______ categories for public investment are shown in this table.

Choose the word that can substitute the given sentence.

A residence for nuns

Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word.

CULMINATION