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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from
the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 1. A. create B. creature C. easy D. increase
Question 2. A. needed B. played C. rained D. followed
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in
the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 3. A. considerate B. continental C. territorial D. economic
Question 4. A. satisfaction B. presentation C. probability D. continuous
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase CLOSEST in meaning to
the underlined word(s) in each of the two following questions.
Question 5. The student apologized to his teacher for submitting the essay late.
A. handing in B. dropping out of C. carrying out D. bringing in
Question 6. I wonder when I’m finally going to receive news from Joe.
A. to hear of B. to hear from C. to get in touch with D. turn away from
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase OPPOSITE in meaning to
the underlined word(s) in each of the two following questions.
Question 7. We run a very tight ship here, and we expect all our employees to be at their desks by eight
o'clock and take good care of their own business.
A. manage an inflexible system B. have a good voyage
C. run faster than others D. organize things inefficiently
Question 8. He usually stays in peace in stressful situations but this time he really lost his head.
A. kept calm B. excited C. took leave of his sense D. lost touch
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following
questions.
Question 9. It was suggested that Pedro studies the material more thoroughly before attempting to pass the
exam
A. studies B. more C. attempting D. to pass
Question 10. The lion has long been a symbol of strength, power, and it is very cruel.
A. The B. long C. a D. it is very cruel
Question 11. Everyone ought to know the basic steps that following in case of an emergency.
A. Everyone B. that following C. in case of D. an
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following
questions.
Question 12. The doctor who is ____ tonight in the general hospital is Mr. Brown.
A. in turn B. on tour C. on call D. at work
Question 13. You ____ wonderful! Is that a new perfume you’re wearing?
A. are smelling B. smell C. will smell D. have been smelling
Question 14. She has been very interested in doing research on ____.
A. biology B. biological C. biologist D. biologically
Question 15. ____ of the United States grown during a Republican administration.
A. Rarely the federal government has B. Rarely has the federal government
C. Has the federal government rarely D. The federal government has rarely
Question 16. It took me 10 years to ____ enough money to travel around the country.
A. set out B. put away C. put by D. save aside
Question 17. Had I known that you were ill last week, ____.
A. I would have gone to see you B. I would go to see you
 C. I will go to see you D. I shall have gone to see you
Question 18. It is widely believed that ____ human beings are descended from one common ancestor.
A. every B. all C. every of D. all of
Question 19. Travel can ____ the mind, and exchange visits give young people experience of a way of life as
well as a different language.
A. broadly/different B. broaden/different C. broad/differently D. broaden/differ
Question 20. I think I should have ____ your mother while I was passing.
A. dropped in on B. come up with C. got on with D. run into
Question 21. Mr. Dawson was given the award in ____ of his services to the hospital.
A. spite B. charge C. recognition D. sight
Question 22. They thought they could deceive me but they were wrong, I could ____.
A. see them off B. see off them C. see through them D. see them through
Question 23. The rumors go that Jack will be arrested. He is said ____ a bloody robbery.
A. to have taken part in B. to have joined in C. to join in D. to take part in
Mark the letter A B, C, or D to indicate the most suitable response to complete the following exchanges.
Question 24. - Joan: ‘Our friends are coming ____, Mike?’
- Mike: ‘I’m sorry, I can't do it now.’
A. Why don’t we cook some coffee B. Shall I make you like some coffee
C. Shall you make some coffee, please D. Would you mind making some coffee
Question 25. ‘Would you like to have dinner with me?’ - ‘____’
A. Yes, it is B. Yes, so do I C. I’m very happy D. Yes, I'd love to
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each
of the following sentences.
Question 26. The scene is set in Normandy, but most of the characters in this novel are Londoners.
A. In the novel, the action moves backwards and forwards between Normandy and London.
B. The main characters in the novel are Londoners on a sightseeing holiday in Normandy.
C. In this novel, the story takes place in Normandy but the majority of the characters are from London.
D. The story is about Normandy, but the leading characters are all Londoners.
Question 27. The airline requested a confirmation call to ensure a seat on my flight back home.
A. The airline made sure I got a seat on my flight home
B. I secured a seat on my flight home.
C. The airline confirmed a seat on my flight home
D. It was necessary to confirm seat on my flight back home.
Question 28. Mary should never have been allowed to try to swim in the sea alone.
A. A When Mary left to swim in the sea alone, she said she knew what she was doing.
B. It would probably be wrong to let Mary swim in the sea on her own.
C. No one could have stopped Mary from trying to swim in the sea by herself.
D. Someone ought to have stopped Mary from attempting to swim in the sea on her own.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of
sentences in the following questions.
Question 29. He cannot lend me the book now. He has not finished reading it yet.
A. Having finished reading the book, he cannot lend it to me.
B. He cannot lend me the book until he has finished reading it.
C. Not having finished reading the book, he will lend it to me.
D. As long as he cannot finish reading the book, he will lend it to me.
Question 30. I did not arrive in time. I was notable to see her off.
A. She had left because I was not on time.
B. I did not go there, so I could not see her off.
 C. I was not early enough to see her off.
D. I arrived very late to say goodbye to her.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.
Postsecondary institutions and private schools are corporations under U.S. law. They are approved to
operate as non-profit, for-profit, or public corporations (31) ____ education and training. Increasingly, state
authorities are requiring approved educational providers to apply for and receive accreditation as a condition of
final and continued approval.
As corporate entities, U.S. institutions are internally self-governing and are (32) ____ to make property
facilities, equipment, and utilities transactions; make their own personnel decisions; decide whom to admit to
study and to graduate; (33) their own funds from outside sources; enter into contracts and compete for grants;
and do most of the other things that corporations do. Institutions compete (34) ____ one another for students,
research funding, faculty, and other benefits. Public institutions may compete within the same state or territory
for budget appropriations. It is the corporate nature of institutions and the competition within the system
that (35) ____ Americans to refer to the concept of the educational or academic marketplace - an important
distinctive element of the way U.S. education is organized.
Question 31. A. provided B. provision C. provide D. providing
Question 32. A. capable B. able C. probable D. possible
Question 33. A. rise B. raise C. call D. lend
Question 34. A. with B. to C. for D. at
Question 35. A. lets B. causes C. prevents D. makes
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
answer to each of the questions from 36 to 42.
I read with interest the article on American families. In general, I agree with it, but there are some
important things it left out. It didn’t tell the reader much about the life of a househusband. It’s not an easy life. I
know, because I’m now a househusband myself. A househusband has to change many of his ideas and his
ways.
First of all, he has to change the way he thinks about time. Before I was a househusband, I worked full-
time for the New York Times. I was a reporter, and time was always important. We had to finish our articles
quickly and give them to the editor. Everyone was always in a hurry. This is the way, many other men work too.
Businessmen, lawyers, bankers, and doctors all have to work quickly.
At home it's different. The househusband cannot be in a hurry all the time. If you rush around, you will
make everyone unhappy! The children will be unhappy because they don't understand. For them, time is not
important. Your wife will be unhappy because the children are unhappy. You will be unhappy, too, because
they are all unhappy. So you have to learn to slow down. That is the first and most important rule for a
househusband.
There is something else the househusband must learn. You must learn to show how you feel about
things. At work, men usually do not talk about feelings. If they do, people think they are strange. So, many men
are not used to telling anyone about their feelings. They do not know how to talk about their anger, worries, or
love. But children need to know how you feel. They need to know how much you love them. If you are angry,
they need to know why. Your wife also needs to know about your feelings. If you do not say anything, your
family may get the wrong idea. Then there may be serious problems.
People talk a lot about househusbands these days. Usually they talk about men doing the housework, the
cooking, cleaning, and shopping. But in my opinion, these are the easiest things to learn. It was much harder for
me to change the way I think and the way I act with my family. I think, other men will also find this harder,
but, like me, will find it necessary if they want to have a happy family!
Ted Diamond Hartwell, New Jersey
Question 36. What is this article is mainly about?
 A. fathers and children B. life as a househusband C. ideas about time D. American families
Question 37. At work, most people ____.
A. have to hurry B. take their time C. have lots of time D. have to slow down
Question 38. The word rush in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ____.
A. move about very slowly B. move about hurriedly
C. shout loudly and angrily D. spend time idly
Question 39. What does the househusband has to learn?
A. to do things more slowly. B. to do things more quickly.
C. the importance of time. D. how to understand his work.
Question 40. According to the passage, children ____.
A. are usually unhappy. B. are always in a hurry.
C. usually don’t think time is important. D. don’t know how to show their feelings.
Question 41. What does the word they in paragraph 4 refers to?
A. strange people at work B. men who talk about feelings
C. men as househusbands D. men who do not talk about feelings
Question 42. It can be inferred from the passage that Ted thinks ____.
A. learning about housework is easy.
B. learning about housework is a problem.
C. cooking is the easiest thing to learn.
D. being a househusband is easy.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.
According to some accounts, the first optical telescope was accidentally invented in the 1600s by
children who put two glass lenses together while playing with them in a Dutch optical shop. The owner of the
shop, Hans Lippershey, looked through the lenses and was amazed by the way they made the nearby church
look so much larger. Soon after that, he invented a device that he called a "looker," a long thin tube where light
passed in a straight line from the front lens to the viewing lens at the other end of the tube. In 1608 he tried to
sell his invention unsuccessfully. In the same year, someone described the "looker’’ to the Italian scientist
Galileo, who made his own version of the device. In 1610 Galileo used his version to make observations of the
Moon, the planet Jupiter, and the Milky Way. In April of 1611, Galileo showed his device to guests at a
banquet in his honor. One of the guests suggested a name for the device: telescope.
When Isaac Newton began using Galileo's telescope more than a century later, he noticed a problem.
The type of telescope that Galileo designed is called a refractor because the front lens bends, or refracts the
light. However, the curved front lens also caused the light to be separated into colors. This meant that when
Newton looked through the refracting telescope, the images of bright objects appeared with a ring of colors
around them. This sometimes interfered with viewing. He solved this problem by designing a new type of
telescope that used a curved mirror. This mirror concentrated the light and reflected a beam of light to the
eyepiece at the other end of the telescope. Because Newton used a mirror, his telescope was called a reflector.
Very much larger optical telescopes can now be found in many parts of the world, built on hills and
mountains far from city lights. The world's largest refracting telescope is located at the Yerkes Observatory in
Williams Bay, Wisconsin, Another telescope stands on Mount Palomar in California. This huge reflecting
telescope was for many years the largest reflecting telescope in the world until an even larger reflecting
telescope was built in the Caucasus Mountains. A fourth famous reflector telescope, the Keck Telescope
situated on a mountain in Hawaii, does not use a single large mirror to collect the light. Instead, the Keck uses
the combined light that falls on thirty- six mirrors.
Radio telescopes, like optical telescopes, allow astronomers to collect data from outer space, but they are
different in important ways. First of all, they look very different because instead of light waves, they collect
radio waves. Thus, in the place of lenses or mirrors, radio telescopes employ bowl-shaped disks that resemble
huge TV satellite dishes. Also, apart from their distinctive appearance, radio telescopes and optical telescopes
use different methods to record the information they collect. Optical telescopes use cameras to take photographs
of visible objects, while radio telescopes use radio receivers to record radio waves from distant objects in space.
Question 43. What can be inferred about the first optical telescope?
A. It was bought by children. B. It was invented in America.
C. It was sold by a shop owner. D. It was invented by accident.
Question 44. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about Hans Lippershey?
A. He owned a shop.
B. He was Dutch.
C. He sold his invention in 1608.
D. He got his idea of a telescope from the kids in his shop.
Question 45. When was Galileo's invention called "telescope"?
A. in 1611 B. in 1610 C. in 1608 D. in 1600
Question 46. What did Newton notice about Galileo's telescope when he used it?
A. It had many problems B. It refracted the light
C. It was called a refractor D. It had a curved mirror
Question 47. What did Newton do with Galileo's telescope?
A. He called it reflector. B. He sent it back to Galileo.
C. He improved it. D. He stopped using it after his notice.
Question 48. When did Newton start to use Galileo's telescope?
A. in the 17th century B. in the 18th century
C. in the 16th century D. in the 15th century
Question 49. Where does the largest reflecting telescope stand?
A. in Wisconsin B. in California C. in Hawaii D. in Caucasus Mountains
Question 50. Which of the following can both optical and radio telescope do?
A. Taking photographs of visible objects.
B. Allowing a collection of data from outer space.
C. Collecting radio waves.
D. Collecting light waves.