آزمون EPT 1

Section One: Vocabulary

Read each statement below carefully and fill in the blank(s) with the correct answer.

1. It was customary for wealthy Romans to …………….. while they were dining.

1) decline
2) recline
3) cancel
4) support

2. John`s unkind words ……………. Mary`s heart.

1) inspired
2) encourage
3) scalded
4) departed

3. Colonel Robinson abandoned his search to …………… a buried city.

1) unearth
2) abide
3) abate
4) consent

4. The road crew removed the ………. of the fallen tree limb.

1) vein
2) provision
3) obstacle
4) expedition

5. Maurice Maeterlinck once said that it is important to remember that happiness is as …………….. as gloom.

1) contagious
2) sympathetic
3) forbidding
4) ruthless

6. People should learn to ……….. their country`s vital resources.

1) devastate
2) preserve
3) plunge
4) drench

7. He was shot in the stomach, but luckily the bullet didn`t hit any …………….. organs.

1) superior
2) vital
3) contentious
4) discarded

8. The …………. police is divided into two principal branches, the service of agents who are in uniform and the service of inspectors, who are out of uniform.

1) manageable
2) vague
3) pessimistic
4) municipal

9. Although there can be fierce rainstorms and windstorms and droughts, the weather in this city is usually ………… .

1) benign
2) massive
3) shrill
4) avid

10. Most of the television talk show guests who were in favor of the war were quite ………… and used very unkind words.

1) belligerent
2) caring
3) benevolent
4) resourceful

11. His tennis serve is very …………. . It`s not very fast, but it has a wicked spin, and is difficult to return.

1) transparent
2) reliable
3) deceiving
4) defective

12. It was a ……………. sensation; I was moving like walking in water but I had no sense of my own body.

1) bulky
2) weird
3) realistic
4) dark

13. Mark lives a/an ……………… life in a remote part of Scotland. The rumor is that he is suffering from a mysterious disease.

1) sociable
2) prior
3) industrious
4) solitary

14. The river fish belong chiefly to a very uncommon family; many of them are of brilliant and ………….. appearance, with strongly contrasted colors in bands and spots.

1) bizarre
2) decisive
3) inessential
4) assistant

15. Witnesses to the murder gave …………. reports of what happened. Therefore, the police are still trying to find out what the truth is.

1) clarifying
2) familiar
3) conflicting
4) practical

16. Some young people often make a mistake and start learning too many languages at the same time. They actually …………… the difficulties.

1) achieve
2) recognize
3) underestimate
4) highlight

17. The child …………… at his mother to see if she was watching him as he took another cookie.

1) pursued
2) glanced
3) fulfilled
4) examined

18. If a nuclear war were to break out, mankind would ……………… .

1) reward
2) promote
3) allow
4) perish

19. I fell among a group of thieves who seemed to do something new every evening to disguise themselves and …………… recognition.

1) baffle
2) refine
3) lament
4) permit

20. His mathematical enthusiasm was for the time completely …………….., and for two years the printed volume of his book lay unopened beside him.

1) exempted
2) quenched
3) matured
4) signified

21. The ………….. of sharks in popular movies has made these fish the most feared animals.

1) reception
2) depiction
3) elimination
4) rehabilitation

22. Despite contact with the west, the country has been able to ………… its traditional culture.

1) destroy
2) ventilate
3) amend
4) retain

23. Mr. Harrison made himself very popular in the city by his large gifts to the poor in time of ………….. .

1) abundance
2) famine
3) ambush
4) vocation

24. His treatment for cancer has made him …………… to infection.

1) affluent
2) benevolent
3) vulnerable
4) vicious

25. She was never quite sure how to …………… to Jane`s impolite remarks though the two continued to be best of friends.

1) consent
2) appoint
3) pierce
4) respond

Section Two: Structure. Part One

Read the following sentences. In each sentence, choose the number of the underlined word or group of words that is NOT correct.

26. Her dress was spotlessly clean and well made; but it was the kind of a dress which the daughter of a poor man would have worn.

1) spotlessly
2) kind of a
3) which
4) would have worn

27. My bedroom window was wide open, and I leaned out heedlessly to look for the sky.

1) wide
2) leaned
3) heedlessly
4) for

28. After driving for twenty miles, he suddenly realized that he has been driving in the wrong direction.

1) driving for
2) realized
3) has been driving
4) in

29. It seems extremely difficult to get used to sleep in a tent after having a soft, comfortable bed to lie on.

1) seems
2) to sleep
3) having
4) to lie on

30. William enjoy to be able to meet several famous movie stars during his vacation in California.

1) to be
2) to meet
3) movie stars
4) his vacation

31. Nancy didn`t like her husband working late every night; it made her feel neglected and lonely.

1) didn`t
2) working
3) made her
4) neglected

32. The police is investigating the case to see whether the manager has received any illegal money.

1) is
2) to see
3) whether
4) has received

33. My brother always gets too much exciting when going to the seashore so that he wakes up earlier than anyone else in the house.

1) exciting
2) so that
3) earlier
4) anyone else

34. The Bill of Rights was added to the constitution specifically to guarantee the certain individual rights.

1) The
2) was added
3) to guarantee
4) the certain

35. One group was satisfied with the explanation whereas the other group wanted to explore the subject farther.

1) was satisfied
2) with
3) whereas
4) farther

36. By installing the new sound system, the student association hopes attract more students to the movies and increase ticket sales.

1) installing
2) new sound system
3) attract
4) the movies

37. Critics say that current voting systems used in the US are inefficient and often leading to the inaccurate counting of votes.

1) voting systems
2) often leading to
3) counting
4) votes

38. Our daily banking or other high sensitive information system is actually improved as time goes by.

1) banking
2) high sensitive information system
3) is
4) goes by

39. The crater, now deeply buried in sediments, was originally about 200 kilometers of diameter.

1) deeply buried
2) sediments
3) was
4) of

40. American investors are simply ensuring that they personally take full advantage in the growth of the stock market.

1) personally
2) in
3) growth
4) stock market

41. If you drive 200 miles down the lonely road leads southwest out of Anchorage, Alaska, you`ll reach the small town of Horner.

1) down
2) lonely
3) leads
4) you`ll reach

42. In winter time, the snowplows cut through the snow, leaving it bank up twenty feet high on either side of the road.

1) In winter time
2) through
3) bank up
4) on either side

43. To cope with the divorce, she found comfort with her horses and also turned to write poems and songs.

1) To cope
2) found
3) with
4) to write

44. The firstly naval battle of the Revolutionary War was fought off the coast of Machias, Maine, in June 1775.

1) firstly
2) was
3) off
4) in

45. The public ceremonies of the plains Indians are lesser elaborate than those of the Navajo in the Southwest.

1) public ceremonies
2) lesser
3) than those
4) the

46. In some species of fish, such the three-spined stickleback, the male, not the female, performs the task of caring for the young.

1) some
2) such the
3) performs
4) caring

47. When she retires in September 1989, tennis champion Christine Event was the most famous woman athlete in the States.

1) retires
2) tennis champion
3) most
4) woman athlete

48. The ancient Romans used vessels equipped with sails and banks of oars to transporting their armies.

1) The
2) equipped
3) and
4) to transporting

49. Dinasaurs are traditionally classified as cold blooded reptiles, but recent evidence based on eating habits, posture, and skeletal structural suggests some may have been warm-blooded.

1) are
2) but
3) structural
4) may have been

50. Since the Great Depression of the 1930`s, social programs such as Social Security have been built into the economy to help avert severity business declines.

1) programs
2) been built
3) to help
4) severity

51. In the 1970`s, consumer activities succeeded in promoting law that set safety standards for automobiles, children`s clothing, and a widely range of household products.

1) consumer
2) succeeded in
3) safety
4) widely

52. Zoos in New Orleans, San Diego, and the Bronx have become biological parks where animals roam free and people watch from across a moat.

1) have become
2) where
3) roam free
4) watch from

53. In human beings, as in other mammal, hairs around the eyes and ears and in the nose, prevent dust, insects, and other matter from entering these organs.

1) mammal
2) around
3) prevent
4) entering

54. The Rocky Mountains were explored by fur traders during the early 1800`s, in a decades preceding the United States Civil War.

1) were
2) by
3) a
4) preceding

55.There is increase evidence that the impacts of meteorites have had important effects on the Earth.

1) increase
2) impacts
3) have had
4) on

Section Two: Structure. Part Two

In each of the following sets of sentences, three sentences are grammatically correct and one sentence is not grammatical. Identify the incorrect sentence.

56.

1) Today, the massive ruins still remain on the tiny island that stands guard over the entrance to the gulf.
2) The actual assassin, John Wilkes, broke his leg as he leaps from the stage.
3) A rather surprising geographical feature of Antarctica is a a huge freshwater lake.
4) The lake was first discovered in the 1970s while a research team was conducting an aerial survey of the area.

57.

1) In the America colonies there was little money to invest on sport.
2) During the Revolutionary war, funds were needed to finance the war.
3) Earlier driving bells can only make use of the air contained within the bell itself.
4) Air flowed through a leather pipe from the lead barrel on the ocean floor to the bell.

58.

1) Families were forced to agonize endlessly over where were their loved ones.
2) Carla Barton made numerous unsuccessful attempts to interest various government officials in her plan.
3) However, it was not until Henry Wilson took up her cause and presented her plan to President Lincoln.
4) Clara Barton operated the missing persons for four years, from the end of the war in 1865 until 1869.

59.

1) The final battle of the war of 1812 was the battle of New Orleans.
2) Negotiation of the treaty and the actual setting of the treaty took place in Europe.
3) British troops were unaware that the war had officially ended.
4) The war of 1812 was fought among Great Britain and the very young country of the United States.

60.

1) A binary star is actually a pair of stars that are held together by the force of gravity.
2) Scientists have discovered stars that seem to orbit an empty space,
3) Although the existing of black holes has not been proven, its theory has been around about two centuries.
4) Black holes can only be potentially identified based on the interactions of objects around them.

61.

1) As a folk hero, Paul Bunyan struck a cord in Americans on some level.
2) Paul Bunyan stories did not appear in written from until the early twentieth century.
3) A third story describes Paul`s role in establishing the Mississippi River.
4) However, it was through an extensive advertising campaign that Paul Bunyan moved solidly onti print.

62.

1) The chlorine then becomes free to go through the cycles over and over again.
2) Radiation from the sun splits oxygen molecules immediately.
3) One chlorine atom can destroy hundreds of thousand of ozone molecules.
4) Recently, the ozone layer over parts of the world have been diminishing.

63.

1) Harvard University came from very inauspicious and humble beginnings.
2) This oldest American university was founded in 1636.
3) After his speech appearing in print, appreciation for his words began to grow.
4) The general court of Massachusetts appropriated 400 pounds to establish a college.

64.

1) Carbon dating can be used to estimate the age of any organic material.
2) The principle underlying the use of carbon dating is a part of all living things.
3) Carbon dating has been used successfully in archeology.
4) In case of oldest objects, other age-dating methods are available.

65.

1) What is commonly called pepper in reality comes from two very different families of plants.
2) Columbus was introduced the spicy chili peppers to Europeans.
3) The pepper corns turn from green to red as they ripen and finally blacken as they dry out.
4) Plants of this kind generally have tiny white flowers and fruit.

Section Three: Reading Comprehension

Read the passages and choose the best answer for each question.

Passage 1

Blood pressure is the measure of the force of blood pushing against blood vessel walls. The heart pumps blood into the arteries (blood vessels), which carry the blood throughout the body. High blood pressure, also called hypertension, is dangerous because it makes the heart work harder to pump blood out to the body and contributes to hardening of the arteries, or atherosclerosis, stroke, kidney disease, and the development of heart failure.

A blood pressure reading has a top number (systolic) and a bottom number (diastolic). The ranges are: Normal: Less than 120 over 80 (120/80); Prehypertension: 120-139 over 80-89; Stage 1 high blood pressure: 140-159 over 90-99; Stage 2 high blood pressure: 160 and above over 100 and above; High blood pressure in people over age 60:150 and above over 90 and above.

The exact causes of high blood pressure are not known, but several factors and conditions may play a role in its development, including smoking, being overweight or obese, lack of physical activity, too much salt in the diet, stress, older age, genetics, family history of high blood pressure, chronic kidney disease, diabetes, insufficient intake of potassium, calcium and magnesium, and adrenal and thyroid disorders.

In as many as 95% of the reported high pressure cases in the U.S., the underlying cause cannot be determined. This type of high blood pressure is called “essential hypertension”. Though essential hypertension remains somewhat mysterious, it has been linked to certain risk factors. High blood pressure tends to run in families and is more likely to affect men than women. Age and race also play a role. In the United States, blacks are twice as likely as whites to have high blood pressure, although the gap begins to narrow around age 44. After age 65, black women have the highest incidence of high blood pressure.

Essential hypertension is also greatly influenced by diet and lifestyle. The link between salt and high blood pressure is especially compelling. People living on the northern islands of Japan eat more salt per capita than anyone else in the world and have the highest incidence of essential hypertension. By contrast, people who add no salt to their food show virtually no traces of essential hypertension.

When a direct cause for high blood pressure can be identified, the condition is described as secondary hypertension. Among the known causes of secondary hypertension, kidney disease ranks highest. Hypertension can also be triggered by tumors or other abnormalities that cause the adrenal glands (small glands that sit atop the kidneys) to secrete excess amounts of the hormones that elevate blood pressure.

66. It could be understood from the text that hypertension is the same as:

1) blood pressure
2) essential hypertension
3) secondary hypertension
4) high blood pressure

67. A person with the blood reading of 148/95 and the age of 55 is:

1) in the normal range
2) at stage 2 of high blood pressure
3) at stage 1 of high blood pressure
4) at prehypertension stage

68. Hypertension does NOT cause:

1) diabetes
2) heart failure
3) atherosclerosis
4) stroke

69. It can be inferred from the text that:

1) Hypertension is among many disease which are caused by the lack of activity.
2) Hypertension is one of the most popular disease of the century.
3) In the majority of cases it is not easy to identify the cause of hypertension.
4) The majority of people in the U.S. suffer from hypertension.

70. Salt is the cause of …………… .

1) any type of hypertension
2) essential hypertension
3) secondary hypertension
4) both essential and secondary hypertension

71. Which of the following is NOT the cause of hypertension?

1) too much use of potassium
2) kidney disease
3) genetics
4) stress

72. Secondary and essential hypertension are different because ……………… .

1) secondary hypertension happens after essential hypertension
2) only causes and NOT risk factors can be identified for essential hypertension
3) only secondary hypertension is caused by too much consumption of salt
4) only risk factors and NOT causes can be identified for essential hypertension

73. Secondary hypertension can be caused by tumors because tumors ……………… .

1) are abnormalities
2) increase secretion of hormones by adrenal glands
3) produce adrenal glands
4) cause kidney problems

74. In the United States ………………. .

1) black women have lower risk of hypertension in older ages
2) white men have higher risk of hypertension in younger ages
3) black men have lower risk of hypertension in older ages
4) white women have higher risk of hypertension in older ages

75. Which of the following life styles do not cause hypertension?

1) driving to work, no smoking, unsalted food
2) walking to work, unsalted food, enough consumption of calcium
3) playing tennis once a week, smoking, busy work schedule
4) Long hours of watching TV, eating a pack of chips per week, 2 hours reading per day

Passage 2

Peru’s Inca Indians first grew potatoes in the Andes Mountains in about 200 B.C. Spanish conquistadors brought potatoes to Europe, and colonists brought them to America. Potatoes are fourth on the list of the world’s food staples – after wheat, corn and rice. Today, Americans consume about 140 pounds of potatoes per person every year while Europeans eat twice as many.

One of our favorite ways to eat potatoes is in the form of potato chips. While Benjamin Franklin was the American ambassador to France, he went to a banquet where potatoes were prepared in 20 different ways. Thomas Jefferson, who succeeded Franklin as our French ambassador, brought the recipe for thick-cut, French-fried potatoes to America. He served French fries to guests at the White House in 1802 and at his home, Monticello.

A native-American chef named George Crum created the first potato chips on August 24, 1853, at Moon Lake Lodge in Saratoga, New York. He became angry when a diner complained that his French fries were too thick, so he sliced the potatoes as thinly as possible making them too thin and crisp to eat with a fork. The diner loved them, and potato chips were born. In 1860 Chef Crum opened his own restaurant and offered a basket of potato chips on every table.

Joe “Spud” Murphy and Seamus Burke produced the world’s first seasoned crisps, cheese & onion and salt & vinegar chips in the 1950s in Ireland. In the United Kingdom and Ireland crisps are what we in the United States call potato chips while chips refer to our French fries. Ketchup flavored chips are popular in the Middle-East and Canada. Seaweed flavored chips are popular in Asia and chicken flavored chips are popular in Mexico. Other flavors from around the world include: paprika, pickled onion, béarnaise, meat pie, chili crab, salmon teriyaki, borscht, caesar salad, roasted sausage, firecracker lobster, Roast Ox, haggis and black pepper, olive, and spaghetti.

About 27 pounds of potato chips are produced from 100 pounds of potatoes. Americans consume 2-4 billion pounds of potato chips every year, and spend more than $7 billion a year on them.

76. What question is answered in the second paragraph?

1) Who served French fries in the White House?
2) Who invented the potato chip?
3) How many pounds of potatoes are eaten per person in America each year?
4) When were salt and vinegar chips invented?

77. Potato Chips are called ………………. in the United Kingdom.

1) fries
2) chips
3) crisps
4) potatoes

78. What does the word “consume” mean in the last paragraph?

1) store
2) buy
3) eat
4) produce

79. The first potato chips were made in ………… .

1) China
2) France
3) Europe
4) New York

80. Which of the following statements is true?

1) Europeans eat less potato than Americans.
2) Americans eat less potato than Europeans.
3) Europeans eat as much potatoes as Americans.
4) Asians eat more potatoes than Americans and Europeans.

81. Which of the the following events happened last?

1) Thomas Jefferson served potato chips at Monticello.
2) Benjamin Franklin first discovered various types of potatoes in France.
3) Conquistadors brought potatoes to Europe.
4) Europeans brought potatoes to America.

82. What happened in 1950?

1) The world's first seasoned French Fries were produced.
2) The world's first potato chips were produced.
3) The world's first seasoned potato chips were produced.
4) The world's first french fries were produced.

83. Based on the passage, it can be inferred that potatoes are …………… foods in the world.

1) popular
2) ordinary
3) fun
4) insignificant

84. Which of the following is true?

1) Ketchup flavored Potato Chips are not popular in America.
2) Potato Chips are not really eaten very much in Asia.
3) Potato Chips are only popular in America.
4) Different flavored Potato Chips are popular in different parts of the world.

85. Seamus Burke was ………………. .

1) One of the people who invented the French fry.
2) One of the people who invented seasoned potato chip.
3) The customer who made George Crum angry.
4) One of the French ambassadors

Section Four: Cloze Passages

Read the following passages and fill in the blanks with the most appropriate choice.

Can we SEE that the earth is a globe? Yes, we can, when we watch a ship that …..(86)…… out to sea. If we watch closely, we see the ship begin to ……(87)……. . The bottom of the ship disappears first, and then the ship seems to sink lower and lower, …….(88)…… we can only see the top of the ship, and then we see nothing at all. What is hiding the ship from us? It is the earth. Stick a pin most of the way into an orange, and ……(89)…… turn the orange away from you. You will see the pin disappear, …..(90)…… a ship does on the earth.
86.

1) sails
2) moves
3) plunges
4) shifts

87.

1) disappearing
2) be disappeared
3) have disappeared
4) disappear

88.

1) since
2) until
3) after
4) by the time

89.

1) accidentally
2) slowly
3) passionately
4) carefully

90.

1) the same
2) alike
3) just as
4) by the way

Passage 2

Climate may be inherently variable as evidenced by the irregularity of the seasons from one year to another. This variability is normal and may ……(91)…… partially understood. It is related to ……(92)….. in ocean currents, volcanic eruptions, solar radiation and other components of the …….(93)…… system. In addition, our climate also has its extremes (such as floods, droughts, hail, tornadoes and hurricanes), which can be …..(94)……. . However, in recent decades, a number …..(95)….. indicators and studies show more and more evidence of climate warming …..(96)…… the globe. Climate warming is a disturbing phenomenon that ……(97)…… human habits and activities which are responsible for greenhouse gas emissions. The greenhouse effect is the ……(98)…….. by which absorption and emission of infrared …….(99)………. by gases in the atmosphere warm a planet`s ……..(100)……. surface.

91.

1) revolve
2) wait
3) remain
4) keep

92.

1) changes
2) events
3) regularities
4) movements

93.

1) atmosphere
2) environment
3) climate
4) trench

94.

1) relaxing
2) devastating
3) flourishing
4) motivating

95.

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

96.

1) through
2) toward
3) along
4) across

97.

1) challenges
2) conforms
3) strikes
4) obeys

98.

1) practice
2) process
3) deal
4) development

99.

1) radiation
2) energy
3) heat
4) power

100.

1) low
2) high
3) lower
4) higher

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