PRACTICE TEST ACEPT UGM

ALL PARTS:
LISTENING, VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR, REDAING, COMPOSING

Part I Listening Comprehension

A. Numbers 1 – 10 test your ability to under-stand short statements in English. Each statement will be
spoken just once. The statements you hear will not be written out for you. Remember, you are not
allowed to take notes or write in your booklet.

1. A. It is better for you to complete the task right now

B. No sanction is given if you do the assigment next week
C. You must do the assigment next week
D. Simon’s theme work is doe next week

2. The english language proficiency test for postgraduate students fall on Wednesday and Thursday.
A. The english language usually faill on the english language proficiency
B. Post graduate students usually fail on the english language proficency test
C. The english language proficiency test for postgraduate students is ever scheduled on Wednesday and
Thursday
D. Post graduate students may sit for the anglish language proficiency test on Wednesday

3. A. I must take my groceries home.

B. I didn't bring my shopping list with me.
C. My left wrist is sore.
D. I need to go home for a rest.

4. A. I thought the novel would be better.

B. The novel is surprisingly good.
C. The novel is just what I hoped it would be.
D. I think the novel is quite boring.

5. A. Someone assisted him with the work.

B. Someone should do the work, or him.
C. He didn't quite finish the work.
D. He didn't work long enough.
6. A. At what time must you leave?
B. Have you forgotten what day it is?
C. What still needs to be done today?
D. Who left the tray here yesterday?

7. A. No one knew what the formal requirements were.

B. There was no need for us to get dressed up.
C. They asked for our former address.
D. Everyone was wearing formal suits or gowns.

8. A. I seldom have meat.

B. I like to eat early.
C. I never buy meat.
D. I prefer my meat rare.

9. A. Rita's roommate helped her to pack.

B. Rita's roommate needed help packing.
C. Rita's got the package for her roommate.
D. Rita had her baggage with her.

10. A. I figured the expenses on the last page.

B. Your plan will cost too much.
C. Drawing can be an expensive hobby.
D. You should go back to your original plan.

B. In this part you will hear five short talks. After each talk, two questions will be asked based on the
information given. Answer the questions following the talk, by choosing A, B, C, or D which best answers
the questions. Remember, you are not allowed to take notes or write in your test book.

11. A. Culture shock

B. Moving to a new place
C. Different building and food
D. Problems with your English terminology.

12. A. They are entering an unfamiliar place

B. They’re not feeling to try new food
C. They do not want to speak english
D. They do not bring food from thehir country.

13. A. If people had more time to learn how to do it.

B. If its cost went down.
C. If it could make buildings more attractive.
D. If people realized its many advantages.

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14. A. The coffee market in Boston.
B. The role of supermarkets in the coffee business.
C. A new trend in the United States.
D. The advertising of a new product.

15. A. Gourmet coffee is less expensive.

B. Regular brands of coffee have too much caffeine.
C. Gourmet coffee tastes better.
D. Gourmet coffee is grown in the United States.

16. A. They will run out of coffee.

B. They will successfully compete with gourmet coffee sellers.
C. They will introduce new regular brands of coffee.
D. They will lose some coffee business.

17. A. Photographic techniques common in the early 1900's.

B. The life of Alfred Stieglitz.
C. The influence of weather on Alfred Stieglitz's photography.
D. Alfred Stieglitze's approach to photography.

18. A. How to analyze photographic techniques.

B. How to define photography.
C. How Alfred Stieglitz contributed to the history of photography.
D. Whether photography is superior to other art forms.

19. A. They were influenced by his background in engineering.

B. They were very expensive to take.
C. They were among the first taken under such conditions.
D. Most of them were of poor quality.

20. A. He thought the copying process took too long.

B. He considered each photograph to be unique.
C. He didn't have the necessary equipment for reproduction.
D. He didn't want them to be displayed outside of his home.

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 Part II. Vocabulary
A. For questions 1 – 15, choose the word or phrase in A, B, C, or D which best completes each blank space
in the text.

The conker is a chestnut, the hard brown fruit of the chestnut tree. There are two types of chestnut: the sweet
chestnut which you can eat. In winter, they are sold, roasted, from barrows in the street. And then
(1)................... is the horse chestnut, which cannot be eaten. It is the horse chestnut, or conker, which grows
(2)................... in England. The conker does, however, (3)................... one useful purpose. It is collected in
autumn by (4)................... small boy in England. He dries it, (5)................... a hole in it, and puts it on the end
of a piece of string.

1. A. it
B. here
C. that
D. there

2. A. usually
B. often
C. frequently
D. commonly

3. A. serve
B. make
C. offer
D. give

4. A. every
B. all
C. most
D. many

5. A. screws
B. digs
C. grinds
D. bores

He is then ready to challenge(6)................... small boy to play conkers. One of the boys holds his conker, at the
end of his string, while the other boy strikes it by bringing his conker down upon it as (7)................... as he can.
Then the positions are (8)................... . The victor is the boy who smashes the other's conker to (9)...................
. But in the city of Birmingham, conkers (10)................... come to an end.

6. A. second
B. another
C. other
D. every

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7. A. tough
B. hard
C. strong
D. heavy

8. A. reversed
B. reviewed
C. revised
D. remade

9. A. scraps
B. lumps
C. parts
D. pieces

10. A. can B.
may C.
ought D.
shall

A member of the city government - C ouncillor Florence Pickersgill - is worried about the number of children
injured (11)................... out gathering conkers from chestnut trees. She has asked that all chestnut trees in the
city be (12)................... so that they cannot bear conkers. A chemical firm has been approached. They will drill
small holes in the trees, and then insert an anti-conker pill in each hole. There has been a lot of
(13)................... to the scheme. Mrs Joan Whippitt, mother of eight children, said, "Councillor Pickersgill must
be crazy. The city of Birmingham has long refused to provide a family planning service for its (14)................... .
Now it has been (15)................... that the only completely free birth-control service is to be offered to trees."

11. A. after
B. while
C. since
D. as

12. A. treated
B. drugged
C. dealt
D. medicated

13. A. criticism
B. dislike
C. protest
D. opposition

14. A. members
B. citizens
C. partners
D. staff

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15. A. set
B. legalised
C. decided
D. dictated

B. Choose the word or phrase in A, B, C, or D that best collocates (combines) with each of the
underlined words or phrases in the following sentences.

1. The defendant accuses the officers of corruption aredication commision to............ money from him.
A. Extort C. Extract
B. Squeeze D. Wring

2. In medieval days, entire communities united to build churches that would not only glorify religion but
that would also be a credit ........ their cities.
A. for C. to
B. on D. in

3. Accounting information can be classified ........ two categories: financial accounting and
managerial accounting.
A. to C. by
B. into D. on

4. Amelia Earhart was greatly interested ........ the development of commercial aviation and took an active
role in opening the field to women.
A. in C. with
B. at D. about

5. Since independence, African governments have tried to diversify their exports so their income does
not depend ........ just one item.
A. in C. at
B. with D. on

6. Physical anthropologists often rely ........ rigorous medical scientific methods for their research, in addition
to more general observational methods.
A. above C. on
B. under D. with

7. The use of flags as symbols of national identity began to develop a thousand years
ago. a. Signs c. Codes
b. Plans d. Goals

8. The microtelephone is miniaturized telephone transmitter and receiver that can be inserted in the
car a. Attached c. Heard
b. Impaled d. Placed

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9. The main routes used by the pony express were equipped with stops for food and
lodging a. Stables c. Drinks
b. Shelter d. Sleep

10.Light hovercrafts can traverse very effectively virtually any surface.

a. Cross c. Detor
b. Dig d. Elevate

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 Part III. Grammar and Structure

A. Sentence Completion
For questions 1 – 15, choose the word or phrase in A, B, C, or D which best completes each of the
following sentences.

1. Everyone is ………. invited to attend the wedding party of the princess crown of sweden.
A. Cordially
B. Willingly
C. Happily
D. Freely

2. Asteroids are small and therefore very difficult to identify, even when to Earth.
A. quite closely
B. are being quite close
C. are they quite closely
D. they are quite close

3. A number of modern sculptors have rejected of minimal and environmental art and developed a
style of extreme realism.
A. which abstract qualities
B. there are abstract qualities
C. the abstract qualities
D. the qualities are abstract

4. tributaries of the Mississippi River system were navigated by steamboats during the period before
the outbreak of the Civil War.
A. More than forty
B. More than forty were
C. Forty more than
D. There were more than forty

5. Mary Eliza McDowell's introduction to social service came when she assisted victims of the great
Chicago Fire of 1871.
A. was sixteen years old
B. had sixteen years
C. at age sixteen
D. sixteen

6. Young herons are helpless for a few weeks they learn to fly.
A. how
B. before
C. despite
D. since

7. The history of painting is a fascinating chain of events that probably began with
A. ever made the very first pictures
B. the ever made very first pictures
C. the very first ever made pictures

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D. the very first pictures ever made

8. The center of gravity of the human body behind the hip joint.
A. locates
B. locating
C. to locate
D. is located

9. The leaves and stems of the alfalfa plant are the only parts of the plant
B. for using livestock feed
C. used for livestock feed
D. they are used for livestock feed

10. choose to live in or near metropolitan areas simply because they like the rapid pace of city life.
A. So large numbers of people to
B. There are large numbers of people
C. Large numbers of people
D. Large numbers of people who

11. to space travelers is high acceleration or deceleration

forces. A. Danger can be
B. They can be dangerous
C. What can be dangerous
D. While danger

12. Organic chemistry has made many new products

A. possible
B. as possible
C. are possible
D. they are possible

13. Perfectly matched pearls, strung into a necklace, a far higher price than the same pearls
sold individually.
A. in order to bring
B. their bringing
C. bringing
D. bring

14. Some metropolitan newspapers would make sizable volumes in book form.
A. than the print
B. print them
C. if printed
D. they are printed

15. Pennsylvania ranks high among the states population many areas are sparsely settled.
A. and yet C. if not
B. so even D. except for

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B. Cloze Test
For questions 16 – 25, choose the word or phrase in A, B, C, or D which best completes each blank space
in the text.

One day a tiger (16) ....... around in a forest. An unlucky fox (17) ....... and caught by the tiger. For the fox,
the inescapable destination was very clear — death. Despite the danger, the fox thought hard to find a
way out. Promptly, the fox declared to the tiger, 'How dare you (18) ....... me!' On (19) ....... the words the
tiger was surprised and asked for the reason. The fox raised his voice a bit (20) ....... and declared
arrogantly:
'To tell you the truth, it's I who (21) ....... to the forest as the king of all the animals! If you kill me, that will
be against the God's will, you know?' Seeing that the tiger became (22) ....... , the fox added: 'Let's have a
test. Let's go through the forest. Follow me and you will see how the animals are (23) ....... of me.' The
tiger agreed. So the fox walked ahead of the tiger (24) ....... through the forest. As you can imagine, the
animals, (25) ....... the tiger behind, were all terribly frightened and ran away.

One day a tiger was hunting around in a forest. An unlucky fox was met and caught by the tiger. For the
fox, the inescapable destination was very clear — death. Despite the danger, the fox thought hard to find a
way out.
Promptly, the fox declared to the tiger, “How dare you kill me!”
On hearing the words the tiger was surprised and asked for the reason” The fox raised his voice a bit
higher and declared arrogantly: “To tell you the truth, it’s I who was accredited by God to the forest as the
king of all the animals! If you kill me, that will be against the God’s will, you know?”
Seeing that the tiger became suspicions, the fox added: “Let’s have a test. Let’s go through the forest.
Follow me and you will see HOW THE ANIMALS ARE FRIGHTENED OF ME.” The tiger agreed.
So the fox walked ahead of the tiger proudly through the forest. As you can imagine, the animals, seeing
the tiger behind, were all terribly frightened and ran away. Then the fox said proudly: “There is no doubt
that what I said is true, isn’t it?”

16 A hunted В has been hunting C had hunted D was hunting

17 A met В had been met C had met D was met
18 A kill В to kill C to be killing D to have killed
19 A hearing В heard C hear D having heard
20 A high В highest C higher D the highest
21 A accredited В had been accredited C has been accredited D was accredited
22 A suspicious В suspicion C suspicions D suspiciously
23 A frightening В frightened C frighten D frightful
24 A proud В pride C proudly D prouder
25 A seeing В having seen C had seen D having been seen

C. Error Identification
For questions 26 – 40, choose the word or phrase A, B, C, or D which is wrong.

26. Most of the food what elephants eat is brought to their mouths by their trunks.
A B C D

27. The highly respect zoologist Ernest Just joined the ruling board of the Marine Biological
A B C D
Laboratory in the 1930's.

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28. Clementine Hunter's primitive paintings have been exhibited at various galleries, included
A B C D

one at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.

29. Alike a chicken, the grouse has four toes, with the hind one raised above the ground.
A B C D

30. Membership in labor unions in the United States reached its peak of 17 millions members in 1960.
A B C D

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31. The newer kinds of seeds produce corn it has much greater food value than older kinds.
A B C D

32. In meteorology, either the formation of clouds and the precipitation of dew, rain, and snow are
A B
known as condensation.
C D

33. Varieties of yellow grapes that have tender skin, rich flavor and high sugar content are
A B C
especially suited with making raisins.
D

34. Despite resistance in some parts of Canada, the conversion to metric measurement have been
A B C
said to be largely successful.
D

35. The most safest way to watch a solar eclipse is for one to look at it in a mirror while wearing
A B C D
dark glasses.

36. Chied Joseph La Flesche, a vigorous Omaha leader, worked hardly to make his nation a proud
A B C
and progressive one.
D

37. The diamond is the only gemstone composed with just one chemical element, carbon.
A B C D

38. In 1941 Orson Welles produced Citizen Kane a film noted for its technical brilliant, structural
A B
complexity, and Literate treatment of a controversial biographical subject.
C D

39. Wildlife conservationists say the cover that foliage provides for animals is equal in
A B C
importance to the food supplying.
D

40. The Leyden jar was one of the earliest form of condensers invented to store an electrical charge.
A B C D

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 Part IV. Reading Comprehension
Choose the best answer to each question based on the information which is stated or implied in the text.

Text 1

Bacteria are extremely small living things. While we measure our own sizes in inches or
centimeters, bacterial size is measured in microns. One micron is a thousandth of a millimeter a
pinhead is about a millimeter across. Rod shaped bacteria are usually from two to tour microns long,
while rounded ones are generally one micron in diameter Thus if you enlarged a founded bacterium
a thousand times, it would be just about the size of a pinhead. An adult human magnified by the
same amount would be over a mile (1.6 kilometers) tall
Even with an ordinary microscope, you must look closely to see bacteria. Using a magnification of
100 times, one finds that bacteria are barely visible as tiny rods or dots One cannot make out
anything of their structure. Using special stains, one can see that some bacteria have attached to
them wavy- looking "hairs" called flagella. Others have only one flagellum. The flagella rotate, pushing
the bacteria though the water. Many bacteria lack flagella and cannot move about by their own power
while others can glide along over surfaces by some little understood mechanism.
From the bacterial point of view, the world is a very different place from what it is to humans to a
bacterium water is as thick as molasses is to us. Bacteria are so small that they are influenced by the
movements of the chemical molecules around them. Bacteria under the microscope, even those with
no flagella, often bounce about in the water. This is because they collide with the water molecules and
are
pushed this way and that. Molecules move so rapidly that within a tenth of a second the molecules
around a bacterium have all been replaced by new ones even bacteria without flagella are
thus constantly exposed to a changing environment.

1. Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?

A. The characteristics of bacteria
B. How bacteria reproduce
C. The various functions of bacteria
A. How bacteria contribute to disease

2. Bacteria are measured in

A. inches
B. centimeters
C. microns
D. millimeters

3. Which of the following is the smallest?

A. A pinhead
B. A rounded bacterium
C. A microscope
D. A rod-shaped bacterium

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4. According to the passage, someone who examines bacteria using only a microscope that magnifies
100 times would see
A. tiny dots
B. small "hairs"
C. large rods
D. detailed structures

5. The relationship between a bacterium and its flagella is most nearly analogous to which of
the following?
A. A rider jumping on a horse's back
B. A ball being hit by a bat
C. A boat powered by a motor
D. A door closed by a gust of wind

Text 2

One of the most popular literary figures in American literature is a woman who spent almost half of
her long life in China, a country on a continent thousands of miles from the Unite States. In her lifetime
she earned this country's most highly acclaimed literary award: the Pulitzer Prize, and also the most
prestigious form of literary recognition in the world, the Nobel Prize for Literature. Pearl S. Buck was
almost a household word throughout much of her lifetime because of her prolific literary output, which
consisted of some eighty-five published works, including several dozen novels, six collections of short
stories, fourteen books for children, and more than a dozen works of nonfiction. When she was eighty
years old, some twenty-five volumes were awaiting publication. Many of those books were set in China,
the land in which she spent so much of her life. Her books and her life served as a bridge between the
cultures of the East and the West. As the product of those two cultures she became as the described
herself, "mentally bifocal." Her unique background made her into an unusually interesting and versatile
human being. As we examine the life of Pearl Buck, we cannot help but be aware that we are in fact
meeting three separate people: a wife and mother, an internationally famous writer and a humanitarian
and philanthropist. One cannot really get to know Pearl Buck without learning about each of the three.
Though honored in her lifetime with the William Dean Howell Medal of the American Academy of Arts
and Letters in addition to the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes. Pearl Buck as a total human being, not only a
famous author, is a captivating subject of study.

6. What is the author's main purpose in the passage?

A. To offer a criticism of the works of Pearl Buck.
B. To illustrate Pearl Buck's views on Chinese literature
C. To indicate the background and diverse interests of Pearl Buck
D. To discuss Pearl Buck's influence on the cultures of the East and the West

7. According to the passage, Pearl Buck is known as a writer of all of the following EXCEPT
A. novels
B. children's books
C. poetry
D. short stories

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8. Which of the following is NOT mentioned by the author as an award received by Pearl Buck?
A. The Nobel Prize
B. The Newberry Medal
C. The William Dean Howell medal
D. The Pulitzer prize

9. According to the passage, Pearl Buck was an unusual figure in American literature in that she
A. wrote extensively about a very different culture
B. published half of her books abroad
C. won more awards than any other woman of her time
D. achieved her first success very late in life

10. The author's attitude toward Peart Buck could best be described as
A. indifferent
B. admiring
C. sympathetic
D. tolerant

Text 3

When we accept the evidence of our unaided eyes and describe the Sun as a yellow star,
we have summed up the most important single fact about it-at this moment in time. It appears probable,
however, that sunlight will be the color we know for only a negligibly small part of the Sun's history.
Stars, like individuals, age and change. As we look out into space, we see around us stars
at all stages of evolution. There are faint blood-red dwarfs so cool that their surface temperature is a
mere
4,000 degrees Fahrenheit, there are searing ghosts blazing at 100, 000 degrees Fahrenheit and
almost too hot to be seen, for the great part of their radiation is in the invisible ultraviolet range.
Obviously, the "daylight" produced by any star depends on its temperature; today(and for ages to
come) our Sun is at about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and this means that most of the Sun's light is
concentrated in the
yellow band of the spectrum, falling slowly in intensity toward both the longer and shorter light waves.
That yellow "hump" will shift as the Sun evolves, and the light of day will change accordingly.
It is natural to assume that as the Sun grows older, and uses up its hydrogen fuel –which it is now
doing at the spanking rate of half a billion tons a second – it will become steadily colder and redder.

11. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Faint dwarf stars
B. The evolutionary cycle of the Sun
C. The Sun's fuel problem
D. The dangers of invisible radiation

12. What does the author say is especially important about the Sun at the present time?
A. It appears yellow
B. It always remains the same
C. It has a short history
D. It is too cold

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13. Why are very hot stars referred to as "ghosts"?
A. They are short- lived.
B. They are mysterious.
C. They are frightening.
D. They are nearly invisible.

14. According to the passage as the Sun continues to age, it is likely to become what color?
A. Yellow
B. Violet
C. Red
D. White

15. In line 15, to which of the following does "it" refer?

A. yellow "hump"
B. day
C. Sun
D. hydrogen fuel

Text 4

If by "suburb" is meant an urban margin that grows more rapidly than its already developed
interior, the process of suburbanization began during the emergence of the industrial city in the second
quarter of the nineteenth century. Before that period the city was a small highly compact cluster in
which people moved about on foot and goods were conveyed by horse and cart. But the early factories
built in the 1830's and 1840's were located along waterways and near railheads at the edges of cities,
and housing was needed for the thousands of people drawn by the prospect of employment. In time,
the factories were surrounded by proliferating mill towns of apartments and row houses that abutted the
older, main cities. As a defense against this encroachment and to enlarge their tax bases, the cities
appropriated their industrial neighbors. In 1854, for example, the city of Philadelphia annexed most of
Philadelphia County. Similar municipal maneuvers took place in Chicago and in New York Indeed, most
great cities of the United States achieved such status only by incorporating the communities along their
borders.
With the acceleration of industrial growth came acute urban crowding and accompanying social
stress conditions that began to approach disastrous proportions when, in 1888, the first commercially
successful electric traction line was developed. Within a few years the horse-drawn trolleys were retired
and electric streetcar networks crisscrossed and connected every major urban area, fostering a wave of
suburbanization that transformed the compact industrial city into a dispersed metropolis. This first
phase of mass-scale suburbanization was reinforced by the simultaneous emergence of the urban
Middle
class whose desires for homeownership In neighborhoods far from the aging inner city were satisfied
by the developers of single-family housing tracts.

16. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A. The growth of Philadelphia
B. The Origin of the Suburb
C. The Development of City Transportation
D. The Rise of the Urban Middle Class

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17. The author mentions that areas bordering the cities have grown during periods of
A. industrialization
B. inflation
C. revitalization
D. unionization

18. In line 10 the word "encroachment" refers to which of the following?

A. The smell of the factories
B. The growth of mill towns
C. The development of waterway
D. The loss of jobs

19. Which of the following was NCT mentioned in the passage as a factor in nineteenth-
century suburbanization?
A. Cheaper housing
B. Urban crowding
C. The advent of an urban middle class
D. The invention of the electric streetcar

20. Where in the passage does the author describe the cities as they were prior to
suburbanization. A. Lines 3-5
B. Lines S-9
C. Lines 12- 13
D. Lines 15-18

Text 5

The ability of falling cats to right themselves in midair and land on their feet has been a source of
wonder for ages. Biologists long regarded it as an example of adaptation by natural selection, but for
physicists it bordered on the miraculous. Newton's laws of motion assume that the total amount of spin
of a body cannot change unless an external torque speeds it up or slows it down. If a cat has no spin
when it is released and experiences no external torque, it ought not to be able to twist around as it
falls.
In the speed of its execution, the righting of a tumbling cat resembles a magician's trick. The
gyrations of the cat in midair are too fast for the human eye to follow, so the process is obscured.
Either the eye must be speeded up, or the cat's fall slowed down for the phenomenon to be observed.
A century ago the former was accomplished by means of high-speed photography using equipment
now available in any pharmacy. But in the nineteenth century the capture on film of a falling cat
constituted a scientific experiment.
The experiment was described in a paper presented to the Paris Academy in 1894. Two
sequences of twenty photographs each, one from the side and one from behind, show a white cat in
the act of righting itself. Grainy and quaint though they are, the photos show that the cat was dropped
upside down, with no initial spin, and still landed on its body clockwise, the rear and tail twist
counterclockwise, so that the total spin remains zero, in perfect accord with Newton's laws. Halfway
down, the cat pulls in its legs before reversing its twist and then extends them again, with the desired
end result. The explanation was that while no body can acquire spin without torque, a flexible one can
readily change its orientation, or phase. Cats know this instinctively, but scientists could not be sure
how it happened until they increased the speed of their perceptions a thousandfold.

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21. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The explanation of an interesting phenomenon
B. Miracles in modern science
C. Procedures in scientific investigation
D. The differences between biology and physics.

22. The word "process" in line 10 refers to

A. the righting of a tumbling cat
B. the cat's fall slowed down
C. high-speed photography
D. a scientific experiment

23. Why are the photographs mentioned in line 16 referred to as an "experiment"?

A. The photographs were not very clear.
B. The purpose of the photographs was to explain the process.
C. The photographer used inferior equipment
D. The photographer thought the cat might be injured.

24. Which of the following can be inferred about high-speed photography in the late
1800's? A. It was a relatively new technology.
B. The necessary equipment was easy to obtain.
C. The resulting photographs are difficult to interpret.
D. It was not fast enough to provide new information.

25. The word "rotates" in line 19 is closest in meaning to

A. drops
B. turns
C. controls
D. touches

26. According to the passage, a cat is able to right itself in midair because it is
A. frightened
B. small
C. intelligent
D. flexible

27. The word "readily" in line 24 is closest in meaning to

A. only
B. easily
C. slowly
D. certainly

28. How did scientists increase "the speed of their perceptions a thousandfold" (lines 25-26)?
A. By analyzing photographs
B. By observing a white cat in a dark room
C. By dropping a cat from a greater height.
D. By studying Newton's laws of motion.

29. “It” in line 5 refers to

A. Cat

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B. Air
C. Body
D. Biologist

30. The word “thousandfold” can be replaced by

A. thousand more
B. thousand times
C. one thousand
D. almost one thousand

Text 6

Each advance in microscopic technique has provided scientists with new perspectives on the
function of living organisms and the nature of matter itself. The invention of the visible-light microscope
late in the sixteenth century introduced a previously unknown realm of single-celled plants and animals.
In the twentieth century, electron microscopes have provided direct views of viruses and minuscule
surface structures. Now another type of microscope, one that utilize x-rays rather than light or electrons,
offers a different way of examining tiny details, it should extend human perception still farther into the
natural world.
The dream of building an x-ray microscope dates to 1895, its development, however, was virtually
halted in the 1940's because the development of the electron microscope was progressing rapidly.
During the 1940's electron microscopes routinely achieved resolution better than that possible with a
visible-light microscope, while the performance of x-ray microscopes resisted improvement. In recent
years, however, interest in x-ray microscopes has revived, largely because of advances such as the
development of new sources of x-ray illumination. As a result, the brightness available today is millions
of times that of x-ray tubes, which, for most of the century, were the only available sources of soft x-
rays.
The new x-ray microscopes considerably improve on the resolution provided by optical
microscopes. They can also be used to map the distribution of certain chemical elements. Some can
form pictures in extremely short times, others hold the promise of special capabilities such as three
dimensional imaging. Unlike conventional electron microscopy, x-ray microscopy enables specimens to
be kept in air and in water, which means that biological samples can be studied under conditions similar
to their natural state. The illumination used, so-called soft x-rays in the wavelength range of twenty to
forty angstroms (an angstrom is one ten-billionth of a meter), is also sufficiently penetrating to image
intact biological cells in many cases. Because of the wavelength of the x-rays used, soft x-ray
microscopes will never match the highest resolution possible with electron microscopes. Rather, their
special properties will make possible investigations that will complement those performed with light- and
electron-based instruments.

31. What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. The detail seen through a microscope
B. Sources of illumination for microscopes
C. A new kind of microscope
D. Outdated microscopic technique

32. According to the passage, the invention of the visible-light microscope allowed scientists
to
A. see viruses directly
B. develop the electron microscope later on
C. understand more about the distribution of the chemical elements

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D. discover single celled plants and animals they had never seen before.

33. The word "minuscule" in line 5 is closest in meaning to

A. circular
B. dangerous
C. complex
D. tiny

34. The word "it" in line 7 refers to

A. a type of microscope
B. human perception
C. the natural world
D. light

35. Why does the another mention me visible light microscope in the first paragraph?
A. To begin a discussion of sixteenth century discoveries.
B. To put the x-ray microscope in historical perspective
C. To show how limited its uses are
D. To explain how it functioned

36. Why did it take so long to develop the x-ray microscope?

A. Funds for research were insufficient.
B. The source of illumination was not bright enough until recently.
C. Materials used to manufacture x-ray tubes were difficult to obtain
D. X-ray microscopes were too complicated to operate.

37. The word "enables" in line 32 is closest in meaning to

A. constitutes
B. specifies
C. expands
D. allows

38. The word "Rather" in line 28 is closest in meaning to

A. significantly
B. preferably
C. somewhat
D. instead

39. The word "those" in line 29 refers to

A. properties
B. investigations
C. microscopes
D. x-rays

40. Based on the information in the passage, what can be inferred about x-ray microscopes in the
future? A. They will probably replace electron microscopes altogether.
B. They will eventually be much cheaper to produce than they are now.
C. They will provide information not available from other kinds of microscopes.
D. They will eventually change the illumination range that they now use.

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 Part V Composing Skills
In this section of the test, you are required to demonstrate your ability to paraphrase sentences and to
recognize language that is not appropriate for standard written English. There are five parts to this section,
with special direction for each part.

A. Numbers 1 – 10 contain complete and correct sentences. For each number, you are required to
choose the most appropriate paraphrased sentence closest in meaning to the original one.

1. Plankton is the best food stuff for everything that liver in the oceans. Plankton is the collective name
for minute marine animals and plants
A. Plankton, the collective name for minute marine animals and plants, is the best food stuff for
everything that lives in the ocean
B. Plankton is the best food stuff for everything that lives in the ocean, which is the collected name
for minute animals
C. Plankton the name collecting minute marine animals and plants, is the best food stuff for everything
that lives in the ocean
D. Plankton, the best food stuff for everything that lives in the ocean, collects the name for minute marine
animals and plants.

2. He knew it was time to lose some weight.

A. He had lost some weight.
B. He went on a diet to lose his weight.
C. He realized that he should lose some weight.
D. He must have lost some weight.

3. Her sister is too young to get married.

A. Her sister is not old enough to get married.
B. Her sister is so old to get married.
C. Her sister is not young enough to get married.
D. Her sister is young enough to get married.

4. John, whose cough is terrible, needs to see a doctor.

A. John needs to see a doctor because of his terrible cough.
B. John's terrible cough forces him to see a doctor.
C. John's terrible cough prevents from seeing a doctor.
D. John's doctor does not want to see him because he has a bad cough.

5. She ate nothing but small pieces of bread and butter.

A. She ate only some small pieces of bread and butter.
B. She only ate small pieces of bread and butter because she didn't like them.
C. She didn't eat anything, not even the bread and butter.
D. She wouldn't touch the bread and butter, but she ate other things.

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6. James was the last to know about the change of schedule.
A. Everyone had heard about the change of schedule before James did.
B. Among the first people informed of the change of schedule was James.
C. The last thing James knew was the change of schedule.
D. At last James was able to know about the change of schedule.

7. He talked about nothing except the weather.

A. He had nothing to say about the weather.
B. He talked about everything including the weather.
C. His sole topic of conversation was the weather.
D. He said that he had no interest in the weather.

8. The film didn't come up to my expectations.

A. I expected the film to end more abruptly.
B. The film was as good as I expected.
C. I expected the film to be more boring.
D. The film fell short of my expectations.

9. There's no point in persuading Jane to change her mind.

A. No one wants Jane to change her mind because it's pointless.
B. It's possible for us to persuade Jane to change her mind.
C. Jane will change her mind though she doesn't want to.
D. It's useless to persuade Jane to change her mind.

10. This flat is too small for my family.

A. This flat is not rather big for my family.
C. This flat is not enough bid for my family.
B. This flat is not very big for my family.
D. This flat is not big enough for my family..

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B. Numbers 11 – 20 contain incorrect sentences. The incorrect part of the sentence has been identified for
you. You are required to find the correct option to replace the underlined part.

11. Thank you for inviting me to the neighborhood picnic, but unfortunately I have made the other
plans. A. unfortunately I have made the other plans
B. I have been making other plans unfortunately
C. I have unfortunately made few other plans
D. unfortunately I have already made other plans

12. The woman about who I was talking about suddenly entered the room, so I hope she didn’t overhear me.
A. about who I was talking about suddenly entered the room
B. of which I was talking about suddenly walked into the room
C. whom I was talking about suddenly entered the room
D. suddenly entered the room of who I was talking about

13. If Alicia has enough time after the game, she would write her parents an email and tell them how she’s
doing in school.
A. she would write her parents an email
B. an email would be written to her parents
C. then writing an email could be done to her parents
D. she should like to writer an email to her parents

14. When we went out to eat with the Ramsey’s, Charlie ate everything on his plate except the spinach which
te lls me h e d on ’t like to ea t
sp ina ch .
A. which tells me he don’t like to eat spinach
B. that lets me know he’s not liking spinach
C. giving me the impression that he must not like spinach
D. which shows that the spinach he doesn’t much like it

15. The article explained that there is evidence that the dolphins suffer in captivity, living only a average of
12 years, with some even committing suicide.
A. evidence that the dolphins suffer in captivity, living only a average
B. ample proof that dolphins living in captivity only survive an average
C. study that the dolphins only live the average
D. a proof that, in captivity, dolphins suffer and only live an average

16. The farmhands have been working nonstop all day in order to get all the crops in before the big
storm arrives.
A. The farmhands have been working nonstop all day
B. Continuously, throughout the day the farmhands they were working
C. Throughout the day, the farmhands had been working very hard
D. The farmhands have they been working tirelessly all day

17. A new hospital in our small town should be built years ag o because the current hospital is very old and
no longer serves the needs of the community well.

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A. A new hospital in our small town should be built years ago
B. A new hospital ought to be builded years ago in our small town
C. Years ago in our small town, a new hospital could be built
D. A new hospital should have been built years ago in our small town

18. The jury found Mr. Adams guilty by taking money from the company he worked for and to keep it for
himself. A. by taking money from the company he worked for and to keep
B. of embezzling money from his company and keeping
C. for the taking of money from the company he worked for and keeping
D. of stealing money from his company and the keeping

19. The president has been accused of lying to the public concerning the war issue, but his assistant will
not confirm or either deny the allegation.
A. will not confirm or either deny
B. won’t confirm neither deny
C. cannot confirm or neither will deny
D. will neither confirm nor deny

20. Charles doesn’t seem to care for his bad grades although his parents have tried numerous forms
of discipline and encouragement.
A. seem to care for his bad grades although
B. too much care of his bad grades even though
C. really seem to take much care in his bad grades though
D. seems not to care about his bad grades basically because

C. Numbers 21 – 30, Choose the most appropriate and correct sentence.

21. a. Monica Cheng asked Roeun if I was going to visit Cambodia.

b. Monica Cheng asked Roeun if he had visited Cambodia.
c. Monica Cheng asked Roeun if I had gone to Cambodia.
d. Monica Cheng asked Roeun if he was going to visit Cambodia.

22. a. The teacher told us to study chapters 1-4 for the final test.
b. The teacher asked us if we studied chapters 1-4 for the final test.
c. The teacher said us to study chapters 1-4 for the final test.
d. The teacher asked to us to study chapters 1-4 for the final test.

23. a. He didn’t want me to go

b. He wanted me not to go
c. He said me not to go.
d. He told me don´t go.

24. a. Frank asked me how much pocket money Lisa got

b. Frank told me Frank: "How much pocket money did Lisa get?"
c. Frank said how much pocket money that Lisa got
d. Frank wanted to know if Lisa got pocket money.

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 25. a. Yesterday Daniel asked me if it would rain the following day.
b. Yesterday Daniel told me if it would rain tomorrow.
c. Yesterday Daniel said to me if it would rain the following day.
d. Yesterday Daniel asked me if it would rain later.

26. a. This card lets you buy now and pay later
b. This card lets you to buy now and pay later
c. This card lets you buying now and paying later
d. This card lets buy now and pay later

27. a. The movie make us laugh.

b. The movie made us laugh.
c. The movie make us laughing.
d. The movie made us laughing.

28. a. They got their teacher helps them with their algorithms.
b. They got their teacher help them with their algorithms.
c. They got their teacher to help them with their algorithms .
d. They got their teacher helped them with their algorithms.

29. a. I was thinking about surfing on the net.

b. He persuaded me go to the movies.
c. The teacher warned them to smoke in class.
d. I bought a new bike instead of go away on holiday.

30. a. John Smith is unlikely to be the next President.

b. John Smith is unlikely be the next President
c. John Smith will unlikely be the next President
d. John Smith will be unlikely the next President

D. Numbers 31 – 36 contain jumbled sentences. One of the sentences has been underlined. You are
required to choose the next sentence which logically follows the underlined one.

31. (1). The average individual is of less value to himself, to his family and to society than he could
be. (2). We are losing every year a vast army of individuals who are in their productive prime.
(3). There is too much illness, too much suffering.
(4). Of course, most people are well enough to attend to their work, but nearly all are suffering from
some ill, mental or physical, acute or chronic.
(5). It is natural to be healthy, but we have wandered so far astray that disease is the rule and good
health the exception.

A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5

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32. (1). Y o u h a ve to le t p eop le th in k a nd a ct ou tsid e t heir co rpo rat e “b o xe s”. Y o u h ave t
o crea te a n a tmo sp h e re
of innovation.
(2). Innovation is about doing what delights the customer, not just satisfying the customer.
(3). But you can’t invent revolutionary products in a conservative environment.
(4). It’s giving the customer something they didn’t expect. They can’t ask for it because they can’t know
what it is before it is created
(5). Once it has been invented, customers can’t imagine ever having lived without it.

A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5

33. (1). As manufacturing continues to shrink in an economy, overall growth will increasingly depend on
boosting productivity in services.
(2). Policy should therefore focus on removing obstacles (such as trade barriers and regulation), to such
productivity growth, and creating a labour market in which workers can move freely from factory
employment to services.
(3). Protection and subsidies push just the wrong way.
(4). But those who would tackle this by subsidies or trade barriers are missing the point.
(5). De-industrialisation causes problems in economies unable to absorb the workers released by
manufacturing.

A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5

34. (1). Four of the species ate plants, and four others, called theropods, preyed on the plant eaters and
other creatures.
(2). All eight date to the Cretaceous period which lasted from 145 million to 60 million years ago.
(3). No one has yet excavated a complete dinosaur skeleton from site near Colville River or anywhere
else in Alaska.
(4). Most come from just the period lasting from 75 million to 70 million years ago, some five million
years before the famous mass demise of the planet`s dinosaurs.
(5). Nevertheless, paleontologists have been able to identify from partial skeletons, isolated bones,
teeth and fossil footprints, eight types of dinosaurs that lived as contemporaries in the far north

A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5

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35. (1). Ne ve r stop th inkin g o f ways to ma ke yo u r p rod ucts b e tte r, bu t d o n ’t g et
stu ck t ryin g t o achieve perfection.
(2). Release the product and, at the same time, continue to refine it.
(3). I’m not suggesting that it is ever acceptable to deliver shoddy products.
(4). The longer you hold out for perfection, the less likely you are to achieve it, and you’ll lose whatever
competitive edge you may have.
(5). The product that beats the competition is seldom the best, and it’s never perfect.

A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5

36. (1). The Great Chain of Being did not correspond with sense experience.
(2). Here the work of Galileo is centrally important.
(3). His observations of the skies with a telescope led him to conclude that the heavens could not be the
perfectly ordered realm of the divine, for there were irregularities and imperfections (like comets, sun
spots, and the irregular surface of the moon).
(4). The really decisive challenge came from those who, in defence of Copernicuss suggestion, insisted
that the very nature of science must change, that it must work from a different purpose and by different
methods.
(5). It must rely upon observations and shape the understanding of the universe on the basis of
those observations, rather than fitting all observations into the traditional framework of Christian
belief.

A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5

E. Numbers 37 – 40 contain jumbled sentences. You are required to identify the correct order to form a good
paragraph.

37) (1). Researchers tell us that when we sit with the head in that forward position, our neck is supporting
the equivalent of 45 pounds.
(2). But this seemingly harmless position compresses the neck and can lead to fatigue, headaches,
poor concentration, increased muscle tension and even injury to the vertebrae over time.
(3). In contrast, when we sit tall and erect, our neck is supporting a weight of just 12 pounds.
(4). Being slouched over computer with your head jutting forward towards the screen is a posture so
common we almost don’t notice it any more.
(5). It can even limit the ability to turn your head.

A. 2-3-5-4-1
B. 2-4-5-1-3
C. 4-3-5-1-2
D. 4-1-5-3-2

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38) (1). A recently published study has shed light on the role of women in the creation of such manuscripts
with a surprising discovery.
(2). The lapis lazuli pigment was found embedded in the teeth of a woman buried at a small women’s
monastery in Germany around 1100 AD.
(3). Analysis suggests that the woman was likely a painter of richly illuminated religious texts.
(4). Some of these texts were decorated with luxurious paints, including gold leaf and ultramarine; a
rare and expensive blue colour made from the lapis lazuli stone.
(5). During the European Middle Ages, literacy and written texts were the province of men in religious
orders where they created richly illustrated texts for use by members of monasteries and by the
nobility.

A. 1-3-5-4-2
B. 1-4-5-2-3
C. 5-3-4-1-2
D. 5-1-3-4-2

39) (1). Once a suitable tree has been identified, you need to plant it in well-drained, mildly acidic
soil. (2). Keep it moist and ensure it is in a sunny position.
(3). Standard varieties will quickly become too large for a pot.
(4). It is possible to grow bananas in pots if you choose a dwarf variety.
(5). Then give it a good watering.

A. 5-3-5-2-1
B. 5-4-1-3-2
C. 4-3-5-1-2
D. 4-1-5-3-2

40) (1). As officials, their vision of a country shouldn’t run too far beyond that of the local people with whom
they have to deal.
(2). Ambassadors have to choose their words.
(3). To say what they feel they have to say, they appear to be denying or ignoring part of what they know.
(4). So, with ambassadors as with other expatriates in black Africa, there appears at a first Meeting a kind
of ambivalence.
(5). They do a specialized job and it is necessary for them to live ceremonial lives.

A. 3-2-5-4-1
B. 3-4-5-1-2
C. 5-3-4-1-2
D. 5-1-4-3-2

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