PRACTICE TEST 1209

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. climber B. plumber C. timber D. debtor
Question 2: A. achieved B. created C. arrived D. answered
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in
the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.
Question 3: A. interest B. reform C. labour D. comment
Question 4: A. stability B. undergraduate C. integration D. epidemic
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 5: Women ________ in presidential elections since 1921.
A. have voted B. was voting C. voted D. had voted
Question 6: He was seen ________ the classroom late.
A. enter B. to enter C. to entering D. to be entered
Question 7: They are going to ________ the old theatre and build a new shopping center.
A. cut down B. tear down C. narrow down D. go down
Question 8: That car can run at ________ speed of 180 miles ________ hour.
A. a / an B. the / a C. the / an D. the / the
Question 9: The ________ of the radio by Marconi played an important role in the development of
communication.
A. invention B. research C. discovery D. exploration
Question 10: Smoking should be ________ forbidden in public places.
A. extremely B. heavily C. strictly D. deeply
Question 11: She has taken a ________ photo.
A. beautiful landscape black and white B. beautiful black and white landscape
C. landscape black and white beautiful D. black and white beautiful landscape
Question 12: As my mum and dad didn’t fancy cooking at the weekend, we got a pizza ________.
A. be delivered B. delivered C. to delivered D. deliver
Question 13: These books are used as ________ materials besides the course book.
A. reference B. referent C. refering D. referential
Question 14: You can watch the film ________ you promise to go straight to bed when it finishes.
A. in case B. otherwise C. if only D. provided
Question 15: Last year, Matt earned ________ his brother, who had a better position.
A. twice as more as B. twice more than C. twice as much as D. twice as many as
Question 16: All the tickets for the concert by the ________ performer had been sold an hour after the sales
office opened.
A. well-off B. well-liked C. well-advised D. well-dressed

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to
complete each of the following exchanges.
Question 17: Two colleagues are discussing work over a coffee.
- James: “It seems to me, the harder you work, the more work people seem to pile on you!”
- Mary: “________.”
A. Well, it’s my pleasure B. Not at all. You’re welcome
C. No problem D. I couldn’t agree more
Question 18: Michael and Daisy are having dinner at Mary’s house.
- Mary: “Please make yourself at home, Daisy.”
- Daisy: “________.”
A. You’re welcome. Thanks B. Thanks, same to you
C. That’s very kind, thank you D. Yes, I think so. Thank you
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined part in each of the following questions.
Question 19: Because of the typhoon, the plane didn’t leave till 10:00 pm.
A. land B. transfer C. put up D. take off
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Question 20: Finding life in New York exciting, Thomas decided to settle permanently here.
A. temporarily B. forever C. constantly D. contiually
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the
underlined part in each of the following questions.
Question 21: When you are at a loose end, don’t hesitate to call me and we will meet up each other.
A. free B. busy C. occupied D. available
Question 22: While her sister excels at Mathematics, she is hopeless.
A. performs very badly B. performs very well
C. improves slightly D. improves greatly

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to show the UNDERLINED part that needs
correcting.
Question 23: It was imperative that workers didn’t enter the factory without wearing masks for their own
sake.
A. was imperative B. own sake C. without D. didn’t enter
Question 24: Most of the vitamins are needed for a healthy appetite, energy production in cells, healthy
nervous and skin.
A. for B. are C. nervous D. energy
Question 25: Many kinds of birds leave the offspring in its nest when they go searching for food.
A. its B. searching for C. leave D. offspring
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 questions.
Question 26: “I didn’t move the chair away”, John said.
A. John pretended he didn’t move the chair away.
B. John denied moving the chair away.
C. John admitted moving the chair away.
D. John refused to move the chair away.
Question 27: As opposed to being advantageous, too much sleep can actually lower a person’s performance.
A. Sleeping a little more than necessary can greatly improve one’s health.
B. An excess of sleep may be worse for a person rather than better.
C. People who are very active feel the advantage of rest more than those who aren’t.
D. If a person is really tired, it is better for him to sleep a little more than he really needs.
Question 28: Thanks to your support, I passed the exam.
A. Should you support me, I will pass the exam.
B. Were you not to support me, I would never pass the exam.
C. Because I passed the exam, I would be able to support you.
D. If you hadn’t supported me, I wouldn’t have passed the exam.
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: She has a great passion for reading. This makes her parents happy.
A. The only thing that makes her parents happy is her great passion for reading.
B. She has a great passion for reading, which makes her parents happy.
C. What makes her happy is her great passion for reading.
D. Her great passion for reading is originated from her parents’ happiness.
Question 30: They were extremely exhausted. Nevertheless, they were determined to continue their hiking.
A. As a result of their exhaustion, they were determined to continue their hiking.
B. They were so exhausted that they were determined to continue their hiking.
C. Being extremely exhausted, they were determined to continue her hiking.
D. Exhausted as they might be, they were determined to continue their hiking.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct word for each of the blanks.
The (31) ________ “seeing red” has long been used to describe an angry response to something, and
it derives from an ancient belief that the color red actually has this effect on people. Now, a new study has
concluded that looking at the color red can have a (32) ________ effect on sports people taking part in
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certain individual activities. The study showed that people doing sports such as weightlifting and sprinting,
(33) ________ require short bursts of strength and speed, received a boost from seeing red.
(34) ________, there is another side to the coin. Earlier studies have shown that in team sports, as
opposed to individual ones, the color red can have the opposite effect. It has a psychological association
with danger and can trigger feeling of fears, which can (35) ________ affect performance. This may explain
why there is evidence that teams competing against those wearing red tend to lose more frequently than they
do when competing against teams wearing other colors.
Question 31: A. idea B. structure C. conception D. expression
Question 32: A. beneficial B. beneficially C. benefit D. benefiting
Question 33: A. who B. whom C. that D. which
Question 34: A. Accordingly B. In addition C. However D. As a result
Question 35: A. favorably B. positively C. adversely D. stricly
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.
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 United 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.
Question 36: What is the author's main purpose in the passage?
A. To offer a criticism of the works of Pearl Buck.
B. To discuss Pearl Buck's influence on the cultures of the East and the West
C. To indicate the background and diverse interests of Pearl Buck
D. To illustrate Pearl Buck's views on Chinese literature
Question 37: The word “prestigious” in the passage is closest in meaning to ______.
A. considerable B. respectful C. renowned D. popular
Question 38: According to the passage, Pearl Buck is known as a writer of all of the following EXCEPT
______.
A. children's books B. novels C. short stories D. poetry
Question 39: Which of the following is NOT mentioned by the author as an award received by Pearl
Buck?
A. The Nobel Prize B. The William Dean Howell medal
C. The Pulitzer prize D. The Newberry Medal
Question 40: According to the passage, Pearl Buck was an unusual figure in American literature in that
she ______.
A. won more awards than any other woman of her time
B. published half of her books abroad
C. achieved her first success very late in life
D. wrote extensively about a very different culture
Question 41: According to the passage, Pearl Buck described herself as "mentally bifocal" to suggest
that she was ______.
A. capable of resolving the differences between two distinct linguistic systems
B. equally familiar with two different cultural environments
C. capable of producing literary works of interest to both adults and children
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 D. keenly aware of how the past could influence the future
Question 42: The author's attitude toward Pearl Buck could best be described as ______.
A. sympathetic B. indifferent C. tolerant D. admiring
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.
Humanity's primal efforts to systematize the concepts of size, shapes, and number are usually
regarded as the earliest mathematics. However, the concept of number and the counting process developed
so long before the time of recorded history (there is archaeological evidence that counting was employed by
humans as far back as 50,000 years ago) that the manner of this development is largely conjectural. Imaging
how it probably came about is not difficult. The argument that humans, even in prehistoric times, had some
number sense, at least to the extent of recognizing the concepts of more and less when some objects were
added to or taken away from a small group, seems fair, for studies have shown that some animals possess
such a sense.
With the gradual evolution of society, simple counting became imperative. A tribe had to know how
many members it had and how many enemies, and shepherd needed to know if the flock of sheep was
decreasing in size. Probably the earliest way of keeping a count was by some simple tally method,
employing the principle of one-to-one correspondence. In keeping a count of sheep, for example, one finger
per sheep could be turned under. Counts could also be maintained by making scratches in the dirt or on a
stone, by cutting notches in a piece of wood, or by tying knots in a string.
Then, perhaps later, an assortment of vocal sounds was developed as a word tally against the
number of objects in a small group. And still later, with the refinement of writing, a set of signs was devised
to stand for these numbers. Such an imagined development is supported by reports of anthropologists in
their studies of present-day societies that are thought to be similar to those of early humans.
Question 43: What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Similarities in number sense between humans and animals
B. The efforts of early humans to care for herds of animals
C. The development of writing
D. The beginnings of mathematics
Question 44: Why does the author mention “animals” in the first paragraph?
A. To support a theory about the behavior of early humans
B. To illustrate the limits of a historical record of human development
C. To identify activities that are distinctly human
D. To establish that early human kept domesticated animals
Question 45: The word "it" in the second paragraph refers to ______.
A. shepherd B. tribe C. evolution D. counting
Question 46: What is the basic principle of the tally method described in the second paragraph?
A. The count is recorded permanently. B. Large quantities are represented by symbols.
C. Each marker represents a singly object. D. Calculations provide the total count.
Question 47: The word "employing" in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to ______.
A. paying B. focusing C. using D. hiring
Question 48: Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an early methods of counting?
A. Tying knots B. Piling stones C. Cutting notches D. Bending fingers
Question 49: It can be inferred that research in other academic fields relates to research in the author's
field in which of the following ways?
A. It contributes relevant information.
B. It is less reliable than research in the author's field.
C. It causes misunderstandings if applied to the author's field.
D. It is carried out on a simpler level.
Question 50: Which of the following conclusions is supported by the passage?
A. Counting processes did not develop until after writing became widespread.
B. Early counting methods required herds of animals.
C. Early humans first counted because of necessity.
D. Mathematics has remained unchanged since ancient times.
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