CLOZE TEST The United States will officially take 70,000

refugees in 2003.___(6)__ the number will be

Anyone looking for a way to something for the much lower as many thousands will be caught
environment need look no further than their up in lengthy ___(7)___ necessitated by post-
own home. In its struggle to ___(1)__ with the September 11th security procedures. In 2002, for
Kyoto Protocol of 1997 and reduce greenhouse example, America ___(8)___ only 30,000
gas emissions to ___(2)___ 1990 levels, the EU refugees, the lowest number in 25 years. This is
___(3)___ to reduce energy consumption in the a remarkable ___(9)___ of America's traditional
home. This is ___(4)___ surprising since the generosity ___(10)___ the world's displaced.
EU's 160 million buildings are ___(5)___
responsible for a staggering 40% of all energy 6.
consumed by its 15 states. A) In place of
B) In return
1. C) In practice
A) coincide D) In case
B) agree E) In excess of
C) augment
D) compete 7.
E) comply A) distinctions
B) competitions
2. C) departures
A) forward D) delays
B) above E) resources
C) behind
D) below 8.
E) back A) had accepted
B) has accepted
3. C) would accept
A) to have sought D) is accepting
B) would seek E) accepted
C) having sought
D) would be seeking 9.
E) is seeking A) reversal
B) exchange
4. C) comparison
A) hardly D) expression
B) nevertheless E) appreciation
C) more
D) indeed 10.
E) just A) against
B) through
5. C) over
A) nearly D) towards
B) apparently E) beyond
C) therefore
D) likely
E) permanently
In the pharmaceutical industry, vaccines have In Britain, firemen have been on partial strike
long been poor stepsisters to big, glamorous for months, demanding a huge pay increase
drugs. Immunization campaign; have worked ___(16)___ bitterly resisting changes to their
wonders. ___(11)___ scourges such as polio. working conditions. Tony Blair's labor
___(12)___ annual global sales of vaccines government has watched with ___(17)___ alarm
have fallen off during ___(13)___ years and the as a series of elections has put militant leaders
number of major companies ___(14)___ them ___(18)___ the top jobs at some of the biggest
has shrunk from 20 in the 1980s to just 4. This unions. In April, Kevin Curran ___(19)___ the
is a sure sign that it ___(15)___ an economic more moderate John Edmonds as leader of the
business to be in. GMB, Britain's fourth largest union; and in May
a left-winger defeated the ___(20)___ favored
11. by the Labor Party for the leadership of the
A) committing powerful T&G union.
B) pulling down
C) wiping out 16.
D) interfering with A) when
E) exposing B) while
C) for
12. D) as
A) Yet E) whether
B) Consequently
C) Apparently
D) As far as 17.
E) Regarding A) some
B) any
13. C) such
A) present D) an
B) contemporary E) as
C) latter
D) recent 18.
E) Final A) over
B) up
14. C) past
A) to sell D) into
B) having sold E) by
C) to be selling
D) to have sold 19.
E) selling A) succeeding
B) has succeeded
15. C) would succeed
A) didn't have to be D) having succeeded
B) hasn't been E) succeeded
C) wouldn't be
D) didn't use to be 20.
E) shouldn't be A) candidate
B) applicant
C) nominee
D) client
E) participant
When the rage for orchids hit Europe in the Until the middle of the nineteenth century, most
nineteenth century collectors immediately Americans were indifferent to paint. Wood was
realized that greenhouses were needed to plentiful and cheap especially on the frontier;
provide__(21)___ growing conditions. ___(26)___ most settlers had to chop down
___(22)___ greenhouses were a luxury trees to dear their land. ___(27)___ eager to
___(23)___ the very wealthy. But before long, start farming, they used their wood to build their
greenhouses ___(24)___ mass produced, cabins as cheaply and quickly as possible. If
___(25)___ made them more affordable for they had painted their buildings, this
orchid lovers of modest means. ___(28)___ their durability; ___(29)___
painting was an expensive and time-consuming
21. job. There were ___(30)___ more urgent calls
A) better upon their time and their money.
B) best
C) as good 26.
D) the most A) on the contrary
E) more B) as if
C) similarly
22. D) in case
A) At times E) in fact
B) At present
C) Eventually 27.
D) Hardly A) Having been
E) At first B) To be
C) To have been
23. D) Being
A) for E) Having to be
B) off
C) about 28.
D) over A) had extended
E) from B) might have extended
C) was extending
24. D) would be extending
A) have been E) might extend
B) were being
C) had been 29.
D) would have been A) but
E) will be B) whether
C) unless
25. D) that
A) what E) if
B) thus
C) which 30.
D) but A) none
E) so B) any
C) anywhere
D) other
E) so
Satellite-servicing technology is being used to Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803- 1882) was a sage,
upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope to perform not a scientist, but he was more keenly
beyond its initial design requirements. Twice interested in the scientific advances of his day
astronauts have replaced the telescope's solar than is commonly realized. One of his early
panels ___(31)___ higher performance ones. aspirations was to be "a naturalist", and he
The most impressive improvement, however, started his career ___(36)___ a lecturer- essayist
has come with the ___(32)___ of a new camera by giving talks on natural science, ___(37)___
to record the images seen by the Hubble . Its one focused on the chemical composition of
increased sensitivity makes it ten ___(33)___ as water. ___(38)___ Emerson went on to make
powerful as its predecessor, and it ___(34)___ his mark primarily in the areas of literature,
dramatically sharper images, some of them of religion, philosophy and social reform, he
stars and galaxies that were ___(35)___ to the remained an eager lifelong student of both
old Hubble. traditional and contemporary natural and social
science. To date, however, this side of
31. Emerson's thought and life ___(39)___ only a
A) from handful of significant scholarly discussions.
B) with Emerson's life in science is the best of books
C) to ___(40)___ this aspect of Emerson that have
D) against marked the bicentennial of his birth, and it is
E) over one that will endure.

32. 36.
A) distribution A) more
B) application B) so
C) installation C) such
D) as
D) duplication
E) only
E) reaction
37.
33. A) describing
A) times B) including
B) figures C) considering
C) degrees D) intending
D) periods E) defining
E) points
38.
34. A) although
B) therefore
A) will produce
C) so that
B) had produced D) but
C) has produced E) since
D) may produce
E) would produce 39.
A) should attract
35. B) is attracting
A) incapable C) will attract
B) inappropriate D) has attracted
C) inadequate E) had attracted
D) indestructible
40.
E) invisible
A) to
B) for
C) on
D) with
E) at