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Part ¢ñ Structure and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions:
Beneath each of the following sentences, there are four choices marked £ÛA£Ý,£ÛB£Ý,£ÛC£Ý and £ÛD£Ý.Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (5 points)
Example:
I have been to the Great Wall three times _________ 1979.
£ÛA£Ýfrom £ÛB£Ýafter £ÛC£Ýfor £ÛD£Ýsince
The sentence should read, "I have been to the Great Wall three times since 1979." Therefore, you should choose £ÛD£Ý.
Sample Answer
£ÛA£Ý£ÛB£Ý£ÛC£Ý£Û¡ö£Ý
1.If I were in movie, then it would be about time that I _________ my head in my hands for a cry.
£ÛA£Ýbury £ÛB£Ýam burying £ÛC£Ýburied £ÛD£Ýwould bury
2.Good news was sometimes released prematurely, with the British recapture of the port _________ half a day before the defenders actually surrendered.
£ÛA£Ýto announce £ÛB£Ýannounced £ÛC£Ýannouncing £ÛD£Ýwas announced
3.According to one belief, if truth is to be known it will make itself apparent, so one _________ wait instead of searching for it.
£ÛA£Ýwould rather £ÛB£Ýhad to £ÛC£Ýcannot but £ÛD£Ýhad best
4.She felt suitably humble just as she _________ when he had first taken a good look at her city self, hair waved and golden, nails red and pointed.
£ÛA£Ýhad £ÛB£Ýhad had £ÛC£Ýwould have and £ÛD£Ýhas had
5.There was no sign that Mr. Jospin, who keeps a firm control on the party despite _________ from leadership of it, would intervene personally.
£ÛA£Ý being resigned £ÛB£Ýhaving resigned
£ÛC£Ýgoing to resign £ÛD£Ýresign
6.So involved with their computers _________ that leaders at summer computer camps often have to force them to break for sports and games.
£ÛA£Ýbecame the children £ÛB£Ýbecome the children
£ÛC£Ýhad the children become £ÛD£Ýdo the children become
7.The individual TV viewer invariably senses that he or she is _________ an anonymous, statistically insignificant part of a huge and diverse audience.
£ÛA£Ýeverything except £ÛB£Ýanything but
£ÛC£Ýno less than £ÛD£Ýnothing more than
8.One difficulty in translation lies in obtaining a concept match. _________ this is meant that a concept in one language is lost or changed in meaning in translation.
£ÛA£ÝBy £ÛB£ÝIn £ÛC£ÝFor £ÛD£ÝWith
9.Conversation becomes weaker in a society that spends so much time listening and being talked to _________ it has all but lost the will and the skill to speak for itself.
£ÛA£Ýas £ÛB£Ýwhich £ÛC£Ýthat £ÛD£Ýwhat
10.Church as we use the word refers to all religious institutions, _________ they Christian, Islamic, Buddhist, Jewish, and so on.
£ÛA£Ýbe £ÛB£Ýbeing £ÛC£Ýwere £ÛD£Ýare
Section B
Directions:
Beneath each of the following sentences, there are four choices marked £ÛA£Ý,£ÛB£Ý,£ÛC£Ý and £ÛD£Ý.Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the rackets with a pencil. (10 points)
Example:
The lost car of the Lees was found _________ in the woods off the highway.
£ÛA£Ývanished £ÛB£Ýscattered £ÛC£Ýabandoned £ÛD£Ýrejected
The sentence should read. "The lost car of the Lees was found abandoned in the woods off the highway." There fore, you should choose £ÛC£Ý.
Sample Answer
£ÛA£Ý£ÛB£Ý£Û¡ö£Ý£ÛD£Ý
11.He is too young to be able to _________ between right and wrong.
£ÛA£Ýdiscard £ÛB£Ýdiscern £ÛC£Ýdisperse £ÛD£Ýdisregard
12.It was no _________ that his car was seen near the bank at the time of the robbery.
£ÛA£Ýcoincidence £ÛB£Ýconvention £ÛC£Ýcertainty £ÛD£Ýcomplication
13.One of the responsibilities of the Coast Guard is to make sure that all ships _________ follow traffic rules in busy harbors.
£ÛA£Ýcautiously £ÛB£Ýdutifully £ÛC£Ýfaithfully £ÛD£Ýskillfully
14.The Eskimo is perhaps one of the most trusting and considerate of all Indians but seems to be _________ the welfare of his animals.
£ÛA£Ýcritical about£ÛB£Ýindignant at £ÛC£Ýindifferent to£ÛD£Ýsubject to
15.The chairman of the board _________ on me the unpleasant job of dismissing good workers the firm can no longer afford to employ.
£ÛA£Ýcompelled £ÛB£Ýposed £ÛC£Ýpressed £ÛD£Ýtempted
16.It is naive to expect that any society can resolve all the social problems it is faced with _________,
£ÛA£Ýfor long £ÛB£Ýin and out £ÛC£Ýonce for all £ÛD£Ýby nature
17.Using extremely different decorating schemes in adjoining rooms may result in _________ and lack of unity in style.
£ÛA£Ýconflict £ÛB£Ýconfrontation£ÛC£Ýdisturbance £ÛD£Ýdisharmony
18.The Timber rattlesnake is now on the endangered species list, and is extinct in two eastern states in which it once _________.
£ÛA£Ýthrived £ÛB£Ýswelled £ÛC£Ýprospered £ÛD£Ýflourished
19.However, growth in the fabricated metals industry was able to _________ some of the decline in the iron and steel industry.
£ÛA£Ýoverturn £ÛB£Ýovertake £ÛC£Ýoffset £ÛD£Ýoppress
20.Because of its intimacy, radio is usually more than just a medium; it is _________.
£ÛA£Ýfirm £ÛB£ÝcoMPAny £ÛC£Ýcorporation £ÛD£Ýenterprise
21.When any non-human organ is transplanted into a person, the body immediately recognizes it as _________.
£ÛA£Ýnovel £ÛB£Ýremote £ÛC£Ýdistant £ÛD£Ýforeign
22.My favorite radio song is the one I first heard on a thick 1923 Edison disc I _________ at a garage sale.ª¤
£ÛA£Ýtrifled with £ÛB£Ýscraped through£ÛC£Ýstumbled upon£ÛD£Ýthirsted for
23.Some day software will translate both written and spoken language so well that the need for any common second language could _________.
£ÛA£Ýdescend £ÛB£Ýdecline £ÛC£Ýdeteriorate £ÛD£Ýdepress
24.Equipment not _________ official safety standards has all been removed from the workshop.ª¤
£ÛA£Ýconforming to £ÛB£Ýconsistent with
£ÛC£Ýpredominant over £ÛD£Ýproviding for
25.As an industry, biotechnology stands to _________ electronics in dollar volume and perhaps surpass it in social iMPAct by 2020.ª¤
£ÛA£Ýcontend £ÛB£Ýcontest £ÛC£Ýrival £ÛD£Ýstrive
26.The authors of the United States Constitution attempted to establish an effective national government while preserving _________ for the states and liberty for individuals.ª¤
£ÛA£Ýautonomy £ÛB£Ýdignity £ÛC£Ýmonopoly £ÛD£Ýstabilit
27.For three quarters of its span on Earth, life evolved almost _________ as microorganisms.
£ÛA£Ýprecisely £ÛB£Ýinstantly £ÛC£Ýinitially £ÛD£Ýexclusively
28.The introduction of gunpowder gradually made the bow and arrow _________, particularly in Western Europe.ª¤
£ÛA£Ýobscure £ÛB£Ýobsolete £ÛC£Ýoptional £ÛD£Ýoverlapping
29.Whoever formulated the theory of the origin of the universe, it is just _________ and needs proving.ª¤
£ÛA£Ýspontaneous £ÛB£Ýhypothetical £ÛC£Ýintuitive £ÛD£Ýempirical
30.The future of this coMPAny is _________: many of its talented employees are flowing into more profitable net-based businesses.ª¤
£ÛA£Ýat odds £ÛB£Ýin trouble £ÛC£Ýin vain £ÛD£Ýat stake

Part ¢ò Cloze Test
Directions:
For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked £ÛA£Ý,£ÛB£Ý,£ÛC£Ý and £ÛD£Ý. Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (10 points)
The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases 31 the trial of Rosemary West.
In a significant ª©32ªª of legal controls over the press. Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a ª©33ªª bill that will propose making payments to witnesses ª©34ªª and will strictly control the amount of ª©35ªª that can be given to a case ª©36ªª a trial begins.
In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee. Lord Irvine said he ª©37ªª with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not ª©38ªª sufficient control.
39ªª of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a ª©40ªª of media protest when he said the ª©41ªª of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges ª©42ªª to Parliament.
The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which 43ªª the European Convention on Human Rights legally ª©44ªª in Britain, laid down that everybody was ª©45ªª to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.
"Press freedoms will be in safe hands ª©46ªª our British judges," he said.
Witness payments became an ª©47ªª after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were ª©48ªª to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised ª©49ªª witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to ª©50ªª guilty verdicts.
31£®£ÛA£Ýas to £ÛB£Ýfor instance £ÛC£Ýin particular£ÛD£Ýsuch as
32£®£ÛA£Ýtightening £ÛB£Ýintensifying £ÛC£Ýfocusing £ÛD£Ýfastening
33£®£ÛA£Ýsketch £ÛB£Ýrough £ÛC£Ýpreliminary £ÛD£Ýdraft
34£®£ÛA£Ýillogical £ÛB£Ýillegal £ÛC£Ýimprobable £ÛD£Ýimproper
35£®£ÛA£Ýpublicity £ÛB£Ýpenalty £ÛC£Ýpopularity £ÛD£Ýpeculiarity
36£®£ÛA£Ýsince £ÛB£Ýif £ÛC£Ýbefore £ÛD£Ýas
37£®£ÛA£Ýsided £ÛB£Ýshared £ÛC£Ýcomplied £ÛD£Ýagreed
38£®£ÛA£Ýpresent £ÛB£Ýoffer £ÛC£Ýmanifest £ÛD£Ýindicate
39£®£ÛA£ÝRelease £ÛB£ÝPublication £ÛC£ÝPrinting £ÛD£ÝExposure
40£®£ÛA£Ýstorm £ÛB£Ýrage £ÛC£Ýflare £ÛD£Ýflash
41£®£ÛA£Ýtranslation £ÛB£Ýinterpretation£ÛC£Ýexhibition £ÛD£Ýdemonstration
42£®£ÛA£Ýbetter than £ÛB£Ýother than £ÛC£Ýrather than £ÛD£Ýsooner than
43£®£ÛA£Ýchanges £ÛB£Ýmakes £ÛC£Ýsets £ÛD£Ýturns
44£®£ÛA£Ýbinding £ÛB£Ýconvincing £ÛC£Ýrestraining £ÛD£Ýsustaining
45£®£ÛA£Ýauthorized £ÛB£Ýcredited £ÛC£Ýentitled £ÛD£Ýqualified
46£®£ÛA£Ýwith £ÛB£Ýto £ÛC£Ýfrom £ÛD£Ýby
47£®£ÛA£ÝiMPAct £ÛB£Ýincident £ÛC£Ýinference £ÛD£Ýissue
48£®£ÛA£Ýstated £ÛB£Ýremarked £ÛC£Ýsaid £ÛD£Ýtold
49£®£ÛA£Ýwhat £ÛB£Ýwhen £ÛC£Ýwhich £ÛD£Ýthat
50£®£ÛA£Ýassure £ÛB£Ýconfide £ÛC£Ýensure £ÛD£Ýguarantee

Part ¢ó Reading Comprehension
Directions:
Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each question there are four answers marked £ÛA£Ý,£ÛB£Ý,£ÛC£Ý and £ÛD£Ý.Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each of the questions. Then mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil.(40 points)ª¤

Passage 1
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