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1. Question

Part A

In this part (Question 1-15) you see incomplete sentences with four words or phrases, marked as A, B, C, D. Choose the one word or phrase that best complete the sentence.

1.The social system of bumblebees is not as complex …………. .

1) as that of honeybees
2) than honeybees
3) as honeybees
4) that honeybees are

2. Question

2. Our boss couldn`t stand ………… waiting for one hour.

1) being kept
2) to be kept
3) be kept
4) being of keeping

3. Question

3. …………… he was not a musician himself, Lawrence Hammond developed an electronic keyboard instrument called the Hammond organ.

1) For
2) Although
3) That
4) Despite

4. Question

4. …….. parrots are native to tropical region is untrue.

1) Since
2) All
3) Why all
4) That all

5. Question

5. ……………… known as one of the world`s great violin teachers, Suzuki developed his own method of education.

1) Having been
2) He is being
3) Has been
4) He has been

6. Question

6. …………… granted by Patent Office, it becomes the inventor`s property and he or she can keep it, sell it, or license it to someone else.

1) A patent
2) Once a patent is
3) When a patent
4) A patent, whenever it

7. Question

7. In ………… the crime rate has began to drop due to neighborhood.

1) a few years since
2) the past few years
3) a few years ago
4) few years

8. Question

8. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote four novels, ………….. The Scarlet Letter, became a literary classic.

1) one was
2) of which one,
3) which one
4) one of which,

9. Question

9. Aluminum, ……………, ductile metal, is the most abundant metal in the earth`s crust.

1) that is silver
2) silver
3) that is a silversmith
4) a silvery

10. Question

10. Hardly ever ………….. to work on time.

1) he would come
2) he comes
3) he does come
4) does he come

11. Question

11. Wagner`s son, Siegfried, was …………… despite being devoid of originality and force.

1) an extremely talented young man
2) a man young, talented extremely
3) a young man, extremely talented
4) a talented young man extremely

12. Question

12. Milk is …………… for infants as only it brings them vital vitamins and energy to grow and develop.

1) very good
2) so good
3) too good
4) such good

13. Question

13. Paint is …………. used to protect wood.

1) not the only substance
2) not only the substance
3) the substance which is not only
4) not only a substance which is

14. Question

14. Neither the table nor the chairs ………………. clean.

1) been
2) is
3) are
4) being

15. Question

15. The number of car accidents …………….. increasing every year.

1) is
2) are
3) have been
4) being

16. Question

Part B:

In this part (Questions 16-30) there is one grammatical error in each sentence. Identify the word or phrase that must be corrected in order for the sentence to be correct.

16. Today oysters are grown and harvested much alike any other crop

1) Today
2) much
3) alike
4) other

17. Question

17. Everyone who go into the woods should recognize common poisonous plants such as poison ivy and poison oak.

1) who go into the woods
2) recognize
3) poisonous plants
4) and

18. Question

18. Energy in tornado is enormous by any set of standards.

1) Energy
2) tornado
3) any
4) standards

19. Question

19. The art of photography has often been influenced by -and has influenced- another fine arts.

1) The art
2) has often been
3) by
4) another

20. Question

20. In general, the only kind of cells that cannot replace itself are nerve cells.

1) In general
2) that
3) itself
4) nerve cells

21. Question

21. After the negotiations, they made little changes in their proposal.

1) After
2) the negotiations
3) little
4) their proposal

22. Question

22. So that people with high blood pressure may not exhibit symptoms, they may not be aware they have the disease.

1) So that
2) symptoms
3) may not
4) the disease

23. Question

23. He would have received a better grade, if he revised his first draft.

1) would
2) have
3) revised
4) first draft

24. Question

24. An ant`s antennae provides it with the senses of hear, smell, touch, and taste.

1) it
2) senses
3) hear
4) touch

25. Question

25. All of the wheat grown throughout the world belongs one of the fourteen species.

1) All of
2) grown
3) belongs
4) species

26. Question

26. It was in a cave near Magdalena, New Mexico, where the oldest known ears of cultivated corn were discovering.

1) where
2) oldest
3) known
4) discovering

27. Question

27. Iron combines to oxygen to form rust.

1) Iron
2) combines to
3) to form
4) rust

28. Question

28. Small town newspapers often urge readers to make business with local merchants.

1) newspapers
2) urge
3) make business
4) local

29. Question

29. Never he realizes what goes on in his companies.

1) he realizes
2) what
3) goes on
4) his companies

30. Question

30. Drugs sold over the country are much more better packaged now than they used to be.

1) Drugs
2) more better
3) than
4) used to be

31. Question

Part C :

Cloze Passages: Choose the item that best completes the passage.

Passage 1:

It is predicted that policing in the future will be more different than it is today. Advances in technology, particularly in computers, televisions, and (31)………….. will assist the police (32)…………. solving and preventing crimes. Advances in forensic (33)………… evidence more reliable and meaningful. All of these changes (34) …………. for the better if they help (35)…………. the quality of police service.

31.

1) communications
2) communicates
3) communicating
4) communicative

32. Question

32.

1) at
2) in
3) on
4) to

33. Question

33.

1) would be made
2) had to make
3) should make
4) has made

34. Question

34.

1) will be
2) were
3) could
4) has been

35. Question

35.

1) to be improved
2) improving
3) be improved
4) to improve

36. Question

Passage 2:

Do you breathe in polluted air? (36)………. people breathe, pollutants in the air (37)…………… in the lungs or absorbed into the body. And polluted air can harm animals and plants (38)…………. people. For this reason, our air supply should be closely watched and (39)…………… to assure (40)……….. good quality.

36.

1) whether
2) when
3) until
4) during

37. Question

37.

1) may be deposited
2) have deposited
3) are depositing
4) had to be deposited

38. Question

38.

1) in spite of
2) as well as
3) in addition
4) even if

39. Question

39.

1) should manage
2) to manage
3) managed
4) be managing

40. Question

40.

1) theirs
2) them
3) our
4) its

41. Question

2. Vocabulary (Questions 41-70):

Part A :

In Questions 41-56, each sentence has an underlined word. Below each sentence are 4 words (A, B, C, D). Choose the one that best keeps the meaning of the underlined elements. In Questions 57-60, fill in the blanks with the appropriate word or expression.

41. “What type of art work do you consider to be beautiful?”

1) neglect
2) persuade
3) believe
4) negate

42. Question

42. A number of Americans suffer from occasional insomnia.

1) fragmentary
2) periodic
3) particular
4) uncertain

43. Question

43. “Who is the dominant child in your family?

1) innocent
2) harmful
3) submissive
4) prominent

44. Question

44. “I know you have said that your decisions are too unpredictable“.

1) probable
2) unexpected
3) unfair
4) imaginable

45. Question

45. The activities of all insurance companies are regulated by the government laws.

1) matched
2) refreshed
3) monitored
4) enacted

46. Question

46. “Don`t touch these shoes”, “these are not your properties.”

1) possessions
2) positions
3) transitions
4) inventions

47. Question

47. The students promised for fundamental changes in his misbehaviors.

1) quiet
2) selective
3) integrative
4) basic

48. Question

48. Astronomy, as distinct from astrology, is an exact science.

1) analogous
2) uniform
3) dissimilar
4) ideal

49. Question

49. This is a condensed version of the original research report.

1) summarized
2) legitimized
3) emphasized
4) authorized

50. Question

50. The employee agree to work overtime involuntarily.

1) intentionally
2) infrequently
3) untiringly
4) unwillingly

51. Question

51. We all hoped that the small boat would survive the storm.

1) resist
2) investigate
3) allocate
4) verify

52. Question

52. They subsequently heard that he had left the country.

1) formerly
2) backwards
3) previously
4) afterward

53. Question

53. I live in a family at which all the three generations are present.

1) operations
2) offspring
3) genes
4) organization

54. Question

54. Nothing can compensate for the loss of one`s health.

1) repay
2) transmit
3) threat
4) inspire

55. Question

55. Many people feel a conflict between their duties and their desires.

1) opposition
2) agreement
3) harmony
4) conspiracy

56. Question

56. No one knows for sure what caused the dinosaurs to vanish from the earth.

1) elude
2) disappear
3) appeal
4) distribute

57. Question

57. His negative reaction was ………….. .

1) unwarranted
2) unlucky
3) unhealthy
4) untidy

58. Question

58. “I`ll ………….. the laundry that you dropped off at the cleaners this morning.”

1) pick up
2) pick out
3) point out
4) put up with

59. Question

59. ” I need to use a computer for a few hours”. ” ………….. to use my laptop computer. I do not need it this morning.

1) Fall behind
2) Feel free
3) Fill out
4) Fall through

60. Question

60. Relatively few children are …………… talented artistically.

1) mainly
2) exceptionally
3) unfriendly
4) purposefully

61. Question

Part B: Cloze Passage (61-70):

Questions 61-70 are related to a Cloze Passage with blank spaces. Choose the one choice which best completes the passage.

Sometimes you might feel that if you had a perfect memory, all your problems with learning would be solved. You would be able to (61) ……. through exams without much revision. You would never again face the (62) ……. of forgetting someone ́s name. But imagine for a moment, not forgetting anything-not even last year ́s shopping (63) …….. You would be (64) ……. with information.
Memory covers a wide range of actions and needs. What we know about the brain is far from complete, so philosophers and scientists find it difficult to be (65) ………. about the nature of memory. Remembering and forgetting can be understood in many different (66) ……….. but broadly, three distinct classes of memory have been established: Personal, cognitive and habit memory. Personal memories are those acts of remembering which refer specifically to each person ́s life history. If you say, ”I remember the first time I traveled by train”, you will probably have an image in your mind of the (67) …. and be able to describe things in it. Cognitive memory helps us learn, for example, a speech or a (68) …………. of music. Habit memory (69) …. those abilities needed to perform actions such as typing or driving. All these actions must be learned but once they have been, you will rarely remember anything (70) …. as you perform them.

61.

1) fly
2) sail
3) walk
4) send

62. Question

62.

1) encouragement
2) comfort
3) embarrassment
4) emphasis

63. Question

63.

1) tips
2) receipts
3) notes
4) lists

64. Question

64.

1) overloaded
2) overweight
3) crowded
4) burdened

65. Question

65.

1) sensitive
2) precise
3) explanatory
4) correct

66. Question

66.

1) images
2) concepts
3) ways
4) constructs

67. Question

67.

1) thought
2) occasion
3) happening
4) process

68. Question

68.

1) branch
2) section
3) bit
4) piece

69. Question

69.

1) responds
2) means
3) persists
4) directs

70. Question

70.

1) consciously
2) totally
3) finally
4) hardly

71. Question

3. Reading Comprehension (Questions 71-100)

Part A: Question 71 is an incomplete sentence following by 4 choices. Choose only ONE which best completes the meaning of the sentence. In Question 72, you should choose the sentence that has almost the same meaning with that of the Question 72.

71. Despite abundant rain throughout the winter, ………………………………………… .

1) irrigation is only necessary for a few farms where they grow vegetables
2) the local fruit growers no longer complain about the drought
3) the city is still suffering from a shortage of water this summer
4) it was after a long period, without a drop of rain for many months

72. Question

72. For a more devastating for the author than the loss of his house on fire was the destruction of the sole copy of his latest novel.

1) The author was devastated to find his house burnt down with everything in it, among which was the only manuscript of his latest novel.
2) Even the destruction of his home in the fire was not as hard for the author to bear as the burning of the manuscript of his new novel.
3) The only thing the author was able to rescue from the flames which destroyed his home was the sole copy of his latest book.
4) Even more difficult for the author than writing a single book was seeing it destroyed when his house burnt down.

73. Question

Part B: Questions 73 to 100 are related to the Main Passage which follow. Read the passage and answer the questions.

Passage 1:

Your eyes are about three inches apart. That’s more than trivia — it’s the reason you see the world in three dimensions. The separation gives your eyes two slightly different views of every scene you encounter. In the brain’s visual cortex, these views are compared, and the overlap is translated into a stereoptic picture. To estimate relative distances, your brain takes a reading of the tension in your eye muscles.
But you only see in 3-D up to about 200 feet. Beyond that, you might as well be one-eyed — your eyes aren’t far enough apart to give two very different views over long distances. Instead, you rely on experience to judge where things are; the brain looks for clues and makes its best guess. For example, it knows that near objects overlap far ones; that bright objects are closer than dim ones; and that large objects are nearer than small ones.
These “monocular cues” are what painters use to trick us into thinking a flat canvas is three-dimensional and miles deep. That’s why paintings are much more convincing if you close one eye: Your brain hunts down all the clues the painter has dropped. But when both of your eyes are open, the brain gets more information and mixed signals. The paint may say miles, but the muscles in your eyes say inches.
All of this fancy eyework is second nature to us, but it is learned. “Other cultures don’t perceive pictures the same way we do,” says J. Anthony Movshon, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at New York University. “For example, primitive people don’t always think bigger means nearer. It’s our Western way of seeing things, and it’s a way of seeing that we’ve learned.”

73.The primary purpose of the passage is to explain

1) why your eyes are three inches apart.
2) how we see in three dimensions.
3) the difference between Western and primitive cultures.
4) the use of 3-D paintings.

74. Question

74. As used in the passage, stereoptic means …………..

1) upside-down.
2) reversed.
3) three-dimensional.
4) monocular.

75. Question

75. 3-D vision would be most useful in looking at which of the following?

1) paintings
2) a distant mountain range
3) the scenes in visual contexts
4) clouds

76. Question

76. The author mentions cultural differences in perception to support his point that

1) perception is learned.
2) bigger means nearer.
3) fancy eyework is second nature.
4) we get mixed signals from paintings.

77. Question

77. The language used in this passage can best be described as ………..

1) informal.
2) argumentative.
3) humorous.
4) impersonal.

78. Question

Passage 2:

Ambient divers arc, unlike divers who go underwater in submersible vehicles or pressure resistant suits, exposed to the pressure and temperature of the surrounding (ambient) water. Of all types of diving, the oldest and simplest is tree diving. Free divers may use no equipment at all, but most use a face mask, foot fins, and a snorkel. Under the surface, free divers must hold their breath. Most free divers can only descend 30 to 40 feet, but some skilled divers can go as deep as 100 feet.
Scuba diving, provides greater range than free diving. The word scuba stands for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. Scuba divers wear metal tanks with compressed air or other breathing gases. When using open-circuit equipment, a scuba diver simply breathes air from the tank through a hose and releases the exhaled air into the water. A closed-circuit breathing device, also called a rebreather, filters out carbon dioxide and other harmful gases and automatically adds oxygen. This enables the diver to breathe the same air over and over.
In surface-spooled diving, diving, divers wear helmets and waterproof camas suits. Toddy. sophisticated plastic helmets have replaced the heave copper helmets used in the past. These divers get their air from a hose connected to compressors on a boat. Surface-supplied divers can go deeper than any other type of ambient diver.

78. Ambient divers are ones who ………… .

1) are exposed to the surrounding water.
2) can descend to extreme depths.
3) use submersible vehicles.
4) use no equipment.

79. Question

79. According to the passage, a free diver may use any of the following EXCEPT …………

1) a mask
2) a rebreather
3) a snorkel
4) foot fins

80. Question

81. When using closed-circuit devices, divers ………… .

1) receive air from the surface.
2) exhale air into the water
3) hold their breath.
4) breathe the same air over and over.

81. Question

82. According to the passage, surface supplied divers today use helmets made from ……….. .

1) canvas
2) glass
3) copper
4) plastic

82. Question

Passage 3:

After two decades of growing student enrollments and economic prosperity, business schools in the United States have started to face harder times. Only Harvard’s MBA School has shown a substantial increase in enrollment in recent years. Both Princeton and Stanford have seen decreases in their enrollments. Since 1990, the number of people receiving Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degrees, has dropped about 3 percent to 75,000, and the trend of lower enrollment rates is expected to continue.
There are two factors causing this decrease in students seeking an MBA degree. The first one is that many graduates of four-year colleges are finding that an MBA degree does not guarantee a plush job on Wall Street, or in other financial districts of major American cities. Many of the entry-level management jobs are going to students graduating 15 with Master of Arts degrees in English and the humanities as well as those holding MBA degrees. Students have asked the question, “Is an MBA degree really what I need to be best prepared for getting a good job?” The second major factor has been the cutting of American payrolls and the lower number of entry-level jobs being offered. 20 Business needs are changing, and MBA schools are struggling to meet the new demands.

84. The word “prosperity” in line 1 could be best replaced by which of the following?

1) education
2) success
3) surplus
4) nurturing

83. Question

85. Which of the following business schools has NOT shown a decrease in enrollment?

1) Yale
2) Princeton
3) Harvard
4) Stanford

84. Question

86. The phrase “trend of” in line 5 is closest in meaning to which of the following?

1) extraction from
2) reluctance of
3) drawback to
4) movement toward

85. Question

87. As used in line 7, the word “seeking” could best be replaced by which of the following?

1) pursuing
2) examining
3) avoiding
4) seizing

86. Question

88. Which of the following descriptions most likely applies to Wall Street?

1) a neighborhood in New York
2) a center for international affairs
3) a major financial center
4) a shopping district

87. Question

89. The word “plush” in line 8 most probably means …………

1) dependable
2) legal
3) satisfactory
4) ordinary

88. Question

90. According to the passage, what are two causes of declining business school enrollments?

1) declining population and economic prosperity
2) lack of necessity for an MBA and an economic recession
3) low salary and foreign competition
4) fewer MBA schools and fewer entry-level jobs

89. Question

91. The word “cutting” in line 12 could best be replaced by which of the following?

1) carving
2) wounding
3) reducing
4) dividing

90. Question

92. Which of the following might be the topic of the next paragraph?

1) descriptions of non-MBA graduate programs
2) MBA schools' efforts to change
3) future economic predictions
4) a history of the recent economic changes

91. Question

80. According to the passage, the maximum depth for free divers is around …………. .

1) 1000 feet
2) 40 feet
3) 100 feet
4) 200 feet

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