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20. My mother was determined to help those in need and she would have been immensely proud of what has been achieved these last 20 years. The italicized part in the sentence expresses ______.

A. a hypothesis
B. a suggestion
C. a contradiction
D. a surprise

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19. Which of the following italicized words DOES NOT carry the metaphorical meaning?

A. I wonder what’s behind this change of plan.
B. Jim turned to speak to the person standing behind him.
C. This work should have been finished yesterday. I’m getting terribly behind.
D. I suppose I’m lucky because my parents were behind me all the way.

18. She hired a lawyer to investigate, only to learn that Gabriel had removed her name from the deed. The infinitive verb phrase “only to learn” is used ______.

A. to express an intended purpose
B. to indicate a high degree of possibility
C. to reveal an undesirable consequence
D. to dramatize a stated fact

17. At ______, photography is a chemical process, during which a light-sensitive material is altered when exposed to light.

A. its most basic
B. its basic
C. the most basic
D. the basic

15. I long to alleviate ______, but I cannot.

A. the evil
B. evil
C. evils
D. an evil

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