5 . Juventus won all games in the competition but the final .
A ) The final was too easy a game for Juventus to win . B ) Except for the final , Juventus was nearly overcoming all the games in the competition . C ) The only game Juventus failed was the last . x D ) Juventus was successful in none of the matches except for the final . E ) It was Juventus ’ s great failure to be unsuccessful in the final .
6 . Even if you had cooked the best stew ever , you would still have criticism from the guests .
A ) Only if you had cooked the best stew ever , would you be able to get the approval of the guests . B ) Since you didn ’ t cook well enough , the guests did appreciate the meal . C ) Had you cooked exceptionally well , you wouldn ’ t have had any criticism . D ) The guests would still have criticised you however well you had cooked . x E ) You cooked the best stew ever and could have had better appreciations from the guests .
7 . It never crossed her mind to question the truth of what he was saying .
A ) She took it for granted that he was being honest . x B ) She thought he was lying and didn ’ t trust him , regardless of how hard he tried to make her believe he was saying the truth . C ) It ’ s well-know that he always tells the truth no matter what he says . D ) She never believed what he had said because he is used to lying . E ) She lacks trust in what he is telling since he was never able to be trustworthy .
8 . Far more shocking for the author than the loss of his study room to the floods was the destruction of the only copy of his most recent novel .
A ) In his latest book , the author describes his pain when he lost part of his home in devastating rainstorms . B ) Even the destruction of his study room in the floods was not as hard for the author to tolerate as the soaking of the manuscript of his new novel . X C ) The sole thing the writer was able to rescue from the waters which destroyed his part of his home was the copy of his latest book , which was unique . D ) Even more difficult for the author than writing a single book was seeing it destroyed when his house was almost drowned and his study room flooded . E ) The author was devastated to find his study room destroyed by floods with everything in it , among which was the only script of his latest novel .