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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three
in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 1: A. wicked
B. watched
C. stopped
D. cooked
Question 2: A. celebration
B. nation
C. expedition
D. question
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of
primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 3: A. familiar
B. impatient
C. uncertain
D. arrogant
Question 4: A. disappear
B. arrangement
C. opponent
D. contractual
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the
following questions.
Question 5: As a child grows on, its physical health is affected by many elements in the air, water and food.
A
B
C
D
Question 6: The assumption that smoking has bad effects on our health have been proved.
A
B
C
D
Question 7: The examination will test your ability to understand spoken English, to read non-technical language
A
B
and writing correctly.
C
D
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 8 : We are watering the trees which _______.
A. were grown by John yesterday in the backyard
B. were grown in the backyard by John yesterday
C. were grown in the backyard yesterday by John
D. in the backyard were grown yesterday by John
Question 9 : I can’t possibly lend you any more money, it is quite out of the
.
A. order
B. practice
C. place
D. question
Question 10: The salary of a computer programmer is _________ a teacher.
A. as twice much as
B. as much as twice of
C. twice as higher as that
D. twice as high as that of
Question 11: There has been little rain in this area for months, ______?
A. has it
B. has there
C. hasn’t it
D. hasn’t there
Question 12: The doctors know that it is very difficult to save the patient's life,
, they will try their best.
A. but
B. although
C. despite
D. however
Question 13: Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is _____; if it was destroyed no amount of money could ever replace it.
A. worthless
B. valueless
C. priceless
D. invaluable
Question 14: Does it _______ any difference to you where we go for dinner?
A. take
B. do
C. make
D. go
Question 15. UNICEF
supports and funds for the most disadvantaged children all over the world.
A. presents
B. assists
C. provides
D. offers
Question 16: Five thousand dollars_______ a big sum of money. It’s worth trying.
A. is
B. are
C. was
D. were
Question 17: We had to ______ the noise from the building site next door for three months.
A. put up with
B. stand up to
C. give up
D. look up to
Question 18: He spent a year in India and loves spicy food. _______ the food is, _______ he likes it.
A. The hotter / the more and more
B. The hotter / the more
C. The more and more hot / the more
D. The hottest / the most
Question 19 : It is imperative that he _______ the school regulations.
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A. would obey
B. obey
C. will obey
D. obeys
Question 20: I _______along the street when I suddenly heard footsteps behind me.
A. was walking
B. am walking
C. walk
D. walked
Question 21: ________ had she opened the door than the phone rang.
A. Barely
B. Hardly
C. Scarcely
D. No sooner
Mark A, B, C, or D to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.
Question 22: “Would you mind turning down your stereo?’’ - “______________”
A. I’m really sorry! I’m not paying attention
B. Yes, I do
C. Oh! I’m sorry! I didn’t realize that
D. No. I don’t
Question 23: - David: “I failed my driving test yesterday.” - Tom: “_____________________”
A. You should try your hand at it.
B. I wish that we could talk about it.
C. Oh well. You’re in a good company-so did I last week. D. You want to pass the test. Dream on!
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of
the following questions.
Question 24: Deforestation may seriously jeopardize the habitat of many species in the local area.
A. do harm to
B. set fire to
C. give rise to
D. make way for
Question 25: Nutritious foods, such as fruits and vegetables, help our bodies grow.
A. healthy
B. boring
C. unpleasant
D. spicy
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 26: When I was going shopping yesterday, I accidentally met one of my old friends in high school.
A. by far
B. by heart
C. by chance
D. on purpose
Question 27: The chairman initiated the proceedings with a brief speech.
A. confused
B. closed
C. started
D. complicated
Mark A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
Question 28: : He decided not to go to university and went to work in a restaurant.
A. Despite of going to university he went to work in a restaurant.
B. He went to work in a restaurant instead of going to university.
C. Instead of going to university, he went to work in a restaurant.
D. He decided to go to work in a restaurant because he liked it.
Question 29: Many people think that Steve stole the money.
A. The money is thought to have stolen by Steve.
B. It is thought that Steve stole the money.
C. Steve was thought to have stolen the money.
D. Steve was thought to steal the money.
Question 30: “I’m very pleased at how things have turned out”, she said to her employees.
A. She asked her employees how things had turned out and was pleased to know it.
B. She expressed her satisfaction with the way things had turned out.
C. She complimented her employees for making things turn out.
D. She wanted her employees to tell her how many things had turned out.
Mark A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences.
Question 31: Nick recovered very quickly. He was injured in a car accident.
A. Nick, who was injured in a car accident, recovered very quickly.
B. Nick recovered very quickly because he was injured in a car accident.
C. Nick was injured in a car accident, so he recovered very quickly.
D. Nick recovered very quickly, but he was injured in a car accident.
Question 32. The Moon doesn't have the atmosphere. The planet Mars doesn't either.
A. Neither the Moon or the planet Mars has the atmosphere.
B. Either the Moon or the planet Mars has the atmosphere.
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C. Either the Moon nor the planet Mars has the atmosphere.
D. Neither the Moon nor the planet Mars has the atmosphere.
Read the passage and mark A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
The universal symbol of the Internet era communications, the @ sign used in e-mail addresses to signify the
word 'at', is (34)
a 500-year-old invention of Italian merchants, a Rome academic has revealed.
Giorgio Stabile, a science professor at La Sapienza University, claims to have stumbled on the earliest known
example of the symbol's use, as a(n) (35)
of a measure of weight or volume. He says the sign represents
an amphora, a measure of capacity based on the terracotta jars used to transport grain and liquid in the ancient
Mediterranean world.
The professor unearthed toe ancient symbol in the course of research for a visual history of the 20 th
century, to be published by the Treccani Encyclopedia. The first (36)
instance of its use, he says, occurred in a
letter written by a Florentine merchant on May 4, 1536. He says the sign made its way along trade routes to
northern Europe, where it came to represent 'at the price of’, its contemporary accountancy meaning.
Professor Stabile believes that Italian banks may possess even earlier documents (37)
the symbol lying
forgotten in their archives. The oldest example could be of great value. It could be used (38)
publicity purposes and to enhance the prestige of the institution that owned it, he says. The race is on between the
mercantile world and the banking world to see who has the oldest documentation of @.
Question 33: A. actually
B. truly
C. essentially
D. accurately
Question 34: A. proof
B. sign
C. evidence
D. indication
Question 35: A. known
B. knowing
C. knowable
D. knowledgeable
Question 36: A. taking
B. carrying
C. delivering
D. bearing
Question 37: A. on
B. for
C. with
D. by
Read the passage and mark A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Centuries ago, man discovered that removing moisture from food helped to preserve it, and that the easiest
way to do this was to expose the food to sun and wind, In this way the North American Indians produced
pemmican (dried meat ground into powder and made into cakes), the Scandinavians made stockfish and the Arabs
dried dates and “apricot leather”.
All foods contain water – cabbage and other leaf vegetables contain as much as 93% water, potatoes and
other root vegetables 80%, lean meat 75% and fish anything from 80% to 60% depending on how fatty it is. If this
water is removed, the activity of the bacteria which cause food to bad is checked.
Fruit is sun-dried in Asia Minor, Greece, Spain and other Mediterranean countries, and also in California,
South Africa and Australia. The methods used carry, but in general the fruit is spread out on trays in drying yards
in the hot sun. In order to prevent darkening, pears, peaches and apricots are exposed to the fumes of burning
sulphur before drying. Plums for making prunes, and certain varieties of grapes for making raisins and currants, are
dipped in an alkaline solution in order to crack the skins of the fruit slightly and remove their wax coating, so
increasing the rate of drying.
Nowadays most of foods are dried mechanically; the conventional method of such dehydration is to put
food in chambers through which hot air is blown at temperatures of about 1100C at entry to about 450C at exit.
This is usual method for drying such things as vegetables, minced meat, and fish.
Liquids such as milk, coffee, tea, soups and eggs may be dried by pouring them over a heated horizontal
steel cylinder or by spraying them into a chamber through which a current of hot air passes. In the first case, the
dried material is scraped off the roller as a thin film which is then broken up into small, though still relatively
coarse flakes. In the second process it falls to the bottom of the chamber as a fine powder. Where recognizable
pieces of meat and vegetables are required, as in soup, the ingredients are dried separately and then mixed.
Dried foods take up less room and weigh less than the same food packed in cans of frozen, and they do not
need to be stored in special conditions. For these reasons they are invaluable to climbers, explorers and soldiers in
battle, who have little storage space. They are also popular with housewives because it takes so little time to cook
them.
Question 38: What is the main idea of the passage?
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A. Mechanization of drying foods.
B. Water: the main component of food.
C. Advantages of dried foods.
D. Different methods of drying foods.
Question 39 : The word “checked” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to
.
A. put a tick
B. reduced considerably
C. motivated to develop
D. examined carefully
Question 40: The final product of the process of drying liquids that uses the first method will be.
A. dried soup
B. recognizable pieces
C. fine powder
D. small flakes
Question 41: According to the passage, dried foods are most useful for ____
.
A. people who are on the move
B. explores who are underweight
C. housewives who have little storage space
D. soldiers who are not in battle
Question 42: This passage is mainly _____
.
A. informative
B. fictional
C. argumentative
D. analytical
Read the passage and mark A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness and its originality of perspective. Satire
itself, however, rarely offers original ideas. Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists do not offer the
world new philosophies. What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions
seem foolish, harmful, or affected. Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that
many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false.
Don Quixote makes chivalry seem absurd; Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest
Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism. None of these ideas is original. Chivalry was suspect
before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldous Huxley, and people were aware
of famine before Swift.
It was not the originality of the idea that made these satires popular. It was the manner of expression, the
satiric method, that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read because they are aesthetically
satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive. They are stimulating and
refreshing because with commonsense briskness they brush away illusions and secondhand opinions. With
spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition,
and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude.
Satire exists because there is need for it. It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus, an irreverent
reminder that they live in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy. Satire serves
to prod people into an awareness of truth, though rarely to any action on behalf of truth. Satire tends to remind
people that much of what they see, hear, and read in popular media is sanctimonious, sentimental, and only
partially true. Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular image of it.
Question 43: What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Difficulties of writing satiric literature.
B. Popular topics of satire.
C. New philosophies emerging from satiric literature.
D. Reasons for the popularity of satire.
Question 44: Don Quixote, Brave New World, and A Modest Proposal are cited by the author as .
A. classic satiric works
B. a typical approach to satire
C. best satirists of all times
D. good critiques by satirists
Question 45: What satires fascinates readers is how
.
A. ideas are expressed
B. ideas are organized
C. realistic they are
D. plots are created
Question 46: Which of the following can be found in satiric literature?
A. Newly emerging philosophies.
B. Odd combinations of objects and ideas.
C. Abstract discussion of morals and ethics.
D. Wholesome characters who are unselfish.
Question 47: According to the passage, there is a need for satire because people need to be .
A. informed about new scientific developments
B. exposed to original philosophies when they are formulated
C. reminded that popular ideas may often be inaccurate
D. told how they can be of service to their communities
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Question 48: The word "refreshing" in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to .
A. popular
B. revitalizing
C. common
D. awakening
Question 49: The word "sanctimonious" may be new to you. It most probably means " " in this context.
A. exaggerated
B. good
C. educational
D. moderate
Question 50: The various purposes of satire include all of the following EXCEPT
.
A. introducing readers to unfamiliar situations
B. brushing away illusions
C. reminding readers of the truth
D. exposing false values
.
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