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Sample Test
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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.
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.
16. A. Mud.
B. Stone.
C. Paper.
D. Grass.
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C. New banking laws made it easy to buy farmland.
D. The United States increased its agricultural imports.
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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.
An important point to remember if you like spending time out in the open air is that the human
head doesn't work very well outdoors if it becomes too hot, cold or wet. That's why a hat is a
good investment, wherever you're planning to go out and (1)....... Surprisingly, a single
waterproof hat with a brim will do the (2)..... adequately in most conditions. In cold climates, the
problem is that the head is (3)... heat all the time. As (4).... as fifty to sixty percent of your body's
heat is lost through the head and neck, (5)... on which scientist you believe. Clearly this heat loss
needs to be prevented, but it's important to remember that hats don't actually keep you warm, they
simply stop heat escaping.
1 A around
B about
C along
D above
2 A job
B task
C role
D duty
3 A giving away
B sending out
C dropping off
D running down
4 A soon
B long
C well
D much
5 A according
B regarding
C depending
D relating
Just as important is the need to protect your neck from the effects of (6)... sunlight, and the brim of
your hat will do this. If you prefer a baseball cap, (7).... buying one that has a drop down 'tail' at
the back to stop your neck (8).... sunburnt. And in wet weather (9)........ hats are often more
practical than pulling up the hood of your waterproof coat because when you (10)...... your head,
the hat goes with you, whereas the hood usually does not.
6 A sharp
B keen
C bright
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D deep
7 A consider
B recommend
C advise
D suggest
8 A suffering
B going
C having
D getting
9 A occasions
B positions
C cases
D conditions
10 A alter
B switch
C turn
D spin
At the push of a button they would be transported to such realistic settings where they could practice
their English, maybe getting a hand (11) ... a virtual English companion. All this perhaps, at the
computer, from the comfort of their home: no (12) ... to catch the bus to college, or a plane to
England. Exciting? Certainly, and an interesting alternative to traditional classroom lessons. But
would it ever (13) ... the classroom? Hopefully not. (14) ... the need to relate to real people
talking about real issues and generally learning a little more about others will always lead
language learners to (15) ... at least a little of their time with real people.
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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.
16. 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
17. Accounting information can be classified ........ two categories: financial accounting and
managerial accounting.
A. to C. by
B. into D. on
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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
23. The use of flags as ……… of national identity began to develop a thousand years ago.
a. symbols c. codes
b. plans d. goals
24. The microtelephone is miniaturized telephone transmitter and receiver that can be ……… in the
car
a. inserted c. heard
b. impaled d. placed
25. The main routes used by the pony express were equipped with stops for food and ………
a. stables c. drinks
b. Shelter d. sleep
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26. Light hovercrafts can ……… very effectively virtually any surface.
a. cross c. deter
b. dig d. elevate
27. The florida power and Light Company serves more than two million ……….
a. visitors c. tourist
b. clients d. shelters
30 Ronald had the ..............to blame his teachers for his failure.
a concern c chivalry
b regard d audacity
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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.
3. Fruit is one of the most abundant, nutritious, and ______foods a person can eat.
A. delicious
B. too delicious
C. is it delicious
D. tastes delicious
4. Prescriptions for corrective lenses that are provided by an optometrist are often brought to an
optician who ______the lenses.
A. grinding
B. grinds
C. they grind
D. are ground
7. Adhesive, such as glue, tape, and gum, vary with the purpose ______intended.
A. they were for
B. for they were
C. which were they
D. for which they were
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8. Alaskan forests _____five or six miles inland from the Pacific coast.
A. penetrate more rarely than
B. more rarely than penetrate
C. more penetrate than rarely
D. rarely penetrate more than
11. Jimmy Connors, well-knows tennis champion, is supposed ______that he did not want to
participate in all the tournaments once he had reached forty.
A. has said
B. he says
C. saying
D. to have said
12. The month is not a suitable unit of measure for determining the seasons ______the seasons are a
solar, not a lunar phenomenon.
A. in order that
B. while
C. since
D. in view of
13. The human skeleton consists of more than two hundred bones ______together by tough and
relatively inelastic connective tissues called ligaments.
A. are bound
B. to bind
C. bind them
D. bound
15. In 1727 Benjamin Franklin founded one of the first adult-education organizations ______the Junto.
A. has been called
B. which group called
C. to call
D. a group called
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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.
A young woman went to her grandmother and told her about her life and how things were so
hard for her. She did not know how she (16)....... make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of
fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem (17)....... , a new one would pop up. Her
grandmother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed (18)....... on a
high fire, and soon the pots came to boil. In the first pot she placed carrots, in the second she
placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them (19)....... without
saying a word. In about twenty minutes she turned (20)....... the burners. She fished the carrots
out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she
ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. (21)....... to her granddaughter, she asked, 'Tell me
what you see.' 'Carrots, eggs, and coffee,' she replied. Her grandmother brought her closer and
asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they (22)....... soft. The grandmother then
asked the granddaughter to take an egg and break it. After (23) ....... off the shell, she observed
the hardboiled egg. Finally, the grandmother asked the granddaughter to sip the coffee. The
granddaughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma then asked, 'What (24)....... , grandmother?'
She answered: (25)....... water.
C. Error Identification
For questions 26 – 40, choose the word or phrase A, B, C, or D which is wrong.
26. When a corporation needs to raise large amounts of capital, common stock can be issued and
A B
sell in part to outside investors.
C D
27. The development of stratus clouds is extremely common over the cold seawater away the
A B C D
northwestern United States coast.
28. Contemporary management practice have been influenced by investigations in the behavioral sciences.
A B C D
29. The Yukon River, which flows into the Bering Sea, gives its name to a region of Alaska and a
A B C
territory of the Canada.
D
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30. Although the United States experienced rapidly growth in the first half of the nineteenth
A B
century, it was still predominately concerned with agriculture and forestry.
C D
31. Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin has called the first truly successful North American opera.
A B C D
32. Over the past two decades, the popularity of the bicycle as a mean of transportation and
A B
recreation has increased tremendously in the United States.
C D
33. Having resided in New Mexico for many years, painter Georgia O'Keefe employs such as
A B C
Southwestern motifs as bleached bones, rolling hills, and desert blooms.
D
34. Louisa My Alcott's most famous novels, Little Women and one of the sequels, Little Men are
A B
considered classics for childrens.
C D
35. Weaving was a function household in the first settlements in colonial America.
A B C D
36. Fascination by the promise of the internal combustion engine and its application to a self-
A B C
propelled vehicle, Henry Ford constructed a one-cylinder gasoline motor in1892.
D
37. Marble has long been highly valued for its beautiful, strength, and resistance to fire and
A B C D
erosion.
38. A majority of the reports received from people claiming to have seen the legendary Loch
A B
Ness Monster have proven to be mistakes, misconceptions, or they were being tricked.
C D
39. For convenience it is common to speak of plants as "herbs," "shrubs," and "trees," but it is
A B C
really no sharp distinctions among them.
D
40. The labor movement developed differently in the United States from the way did it in other
A B C
countries.
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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
When the Group of Seven was formed in 1920, the artists hoped for recognition of their
works and ideas. In the catalog to their first exhibition, they actually invited adverse criticism-
but only because what they feared most was indifference. At a time when Canada was coming
into its own they felt that a major factor in the development of a strong and healthy nation was
a vital and relevant art. They hoped that their works would make a significant contribution to
the evolution of a truly Canadian art tradition. Therefore behind the Group’s desire to paint
the Canadian landscape lay the genuine of county and state boundaries. The planning function
conviction that it was the northern landscape that represented and expressed the country's
unique character. It was this concept that was to capture the imagination of so many
Canadians.
Today there’s every indication that the Group attained its goals. These artists achieved
widespread popular success and acclaim, and their works have been heralded as one of the
basic symbols of Canadian culture. They have been honored with exhibitions, degrees, and
medals; reproductions of their works can be found on everything from posters to postage
stamps.
As frequently happens with popular trends, there has been a tendency to romanticize the
accomplishments of the Group, which has inevitably caused many misconceptions to develop.
The most common of these is the popular belief that the Seven were violently criticized in the
first Group shows. However, the for these early shows were nearly all favorable.
2. The author implies that the Group of Seven welcomed adverse criticism because it would
A. help them to improve as artists
B. mean that their work was being noticed
C. increase the market value of their work
D. gain support for them as victim of unfair criticism
3. The author implies that the members of the Group of Seven were
A. portrait painters
B. landscape artists
C. art critics
D. art dealers
4. According to the passage, all of the following were major goals of the Group of Seven
EXCEPT truth of the matter is that the reviews
A. producing art with the intent of selling it quickly
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B. having their work recognized
C. having their ideas about art accepted
D. contributing to the growth of a uniquely Canadian art
5. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a way in which the Group of Seven was
honored?
A. Degrees were conferred on them
B. Their work was exhibited
C. Monuments were dedicated to them
D. They were awarded medals
Text 2
Marjorie Rice was an unlikely candidate for the role of mathematical innovator. She had
no formal education in mathematics save a single course required for graduation from high
school in 1939. Nonetheless, in 1975 she took up a problem that professional mathematicians
had twice left for dead, and showed how much life was in it still.
The problem was tessellation, or tiling of the plane, which involves taking a single
closed figure-a triangle, for example, or a rectangle-and fitting it together with copies of itself
so that a plane is covered without any gaps or overlap. A region of this plane would rook
rather like a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces are all identical. Rice worked primarily with
polygons, which consist only of straight lines. More specifically, she worked with convex
polygons, in which the line joining any two points on the polygon lies entirely within the
polygon itself or on one of its edges. (A five-pointed star, for example, does not qualify as a
convex polygon.)
By the time Rice took up tiling, its basic properties had been established. Obviously, any
square can tile the plane, as many kitchen floors have demonstrated. Equilateral triangles are
also a fairly clear-cut case. There is one other regular polygon (a polygon whose angles, and
sides, are equal) that can tile the plane: the hexagon. This fact was established by the ancient
Greeks but had long before been exploited by honeybees in building their honeycombs.
And what of irregular polygons.? As it turns out, any, triangle or quadrilateral, no matter
how devoid of regularity, will tile the plane. On the other hand, no convex polygon with more
than six sides can do so, and the three classes of convex hexagons that can were uncovered by
the end of the First World War. So the only real question left by the time Marjorie Rice began
her work was which convex pentagons tile the plane.
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8. "It" in line 4 refers to
A. education
B. life
C. a course
D. a problem
10. In the third paragraph, the author mentions honeycombs bee that
A. they prove that only regular polygons can tile the plane
B. they are an example of hexagonal structures
C. Greek mathematicians studied them
D. Marjorie Rice raised bees
Text 3
A seventeenth-century theory of burning proposed that anything that burns must contain
material that the theorists called "phlogiston." Burning was explained as the release of
phlogiston from the combustible material to the air. Air was thought essential, since it had to
provide a home for the released phlogiston. There would be a limit to the phlogiston transfer,
since a given volume of air could absorb only so much phlogiston. When the air had become
saturated, no additional amounts of phlogiston could leave the combustible substance, and the
burning would stop. Burning would also stop when the combustible substance was emptied of
all its phlogiston.
Although the phlogiston theory was self-consistent, it was awkward because it required
that imaginative, even mysterious, properties be ascribed to phlogiston. Phlogiston was
elusive. No one had ever isolated it and experimentally determined its properties. At times it
seemed to show a negative weight: the residue left after burning weighed more than the
material before burning. This was true, for example, when magnesium burned. Sometimes
phlogiston seemed to show a positive weight, when, for example, wood burned, the ash
weighed less than the starting material. And since so little residue was left when alcohol,
kerosene, or high-grade coal burned, these obviously different materials were thought to be
pure or nearly pure phlogiston.
In the eighteenth century, Antoine Lavoisier, on the basis of careful experimentation, was
led to propose a different theory of burning, one that required a constituent of air- later shown
to be oxygen- for combustion. Since the weight of the oxygen is always added, the weight of
the products of combustion, including the evolved gases, would always be greater than the
weight of the starting material.
Lavoisier's interpretation was more reasonable and straightforward than that of the
phlogiston theorists. The phlogiston theory, always clumsy, became suspect, eventually fell
into scientific disrepute, and was replaced by new ideas.
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11. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The chemical composition of phlogiston.
B. Attempts to explain what happens when materials burn.
C. Limitations of seventeenth-century scientific theories.
D. The characteristics of the residue left after fires.
13. The "phlogiston transfer" mentioned in line 5 is a term used to describe the
A. natural limits on the total volume of phlogiston
B. absence of phlogiston in combustible material
C. ability of phlogiston to slow combustion
D. release of phlogiston into the air from burning material
17.The "different materials" mentioned in line 17 were considered different because they
A. required more heat to burn than other substances did
B. burned without leaving much residue
C. were more mysterious than phlogiston
D. contained limited amounts of phlogiston
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19. The word "Since" in line 20 is closest in meaning to
A. later
B. because
C. during
D. although
20. Which of the following is true of both the phlogiston theory of burning and Lavoisier's theory
of burning?
A. Both theories propose that total weight always increases during burning.
B. Both theories are considered to be reasonable and straightforward.
C. Both theories have difficulty explaining why residue remains after burning.
D. Both theories recognize that air is important to combustion.
Text 4
The most easily recognizable meteorites are the iron variety, although they only
represent about 5 percent of all meteorite falls. They are composed of iron and nickel along
with sulfur, carbon, and traces of other elements. Their composition is thought to he similar to
that of Earth's iron core3 and indeed they might have once made up the core of a large
planetoid that disintegrated long ago. Due to their dense structure, iron meteorites have the
best chance of surviving an impact, and most are found by farmers plowing their fields.
One of the best hunting grounds for meteorites is on the glaciers of Antarctica1 where
the dark stones stand out in stark contrast to the white snow and ice. When
meteorites fall on the continent) they are embedded in the moving ice sheets. At places
where the glaciers move upward against mountain ranges, meteorites are left exposed on the
surface. Some of the meteorites that have landed in Antarctica are believed to have conic from
the Moon and even as far away as Mars, when large impacts blasted out chunks of material
and hurled them toward Earth.
Perhaps the world's largest source of meteorites is the Nullarbor Plain, an area of
limestone that stretches for 400 miles along the southern coast of Western and South
Australia. The pale, smooth desert plain provides a perfect backdrop for spotting meteorites,
which are usually dark brown of black. Since very little erosion takes place, the meteorites are
well preserved and are found just where they landed. Over 1,000. fragments from 150
meteorites that fell during the last 20,000 years have been recovered. One large iron
meteorite, called the Mundrabilla meteorite, weighed more than 11 tons.
Stony meteorites, called chordates, are the most common type and make up more than
90 percent of all falls . But because they are similar to Earth materials and therefore erode
easily, they are often difficult to find. Among the most ancient bodies in the solar system are
the carbonaceous chondrites that also contain carbon compounds that might have been the
precursors of life on Earth.
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22. The word "core" in line 4 is closest in meaning to
A. center
B. surface
C. mineral
D. field
23.The author mentions "dark stones" and "white snow" in line 9 to illustrate that.
A. meteorites are found most often in Antarctica
B. glaciers stop meteorites from mixing with soil
C. meteorites are easier to find in glacial areas
D. most of Antarctica is covered with meteorites
26.The passage suggests that which of the following is most commonly responsible for the poor
preservation of meteorites that fall to Earth?
A. The size of the fragments
B. Ice sheets
C. Erosion
D. Desert heat
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30.According to the passage, stony meteorites are
A. composed of fragmented materials
B. less likely to be discovered than iron meteorites
C. mostly lost in space
D. found only on the Nullarbor Plain
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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. Peter had very little money but managed to make ends meet.
A. Having little money, Peter couldn't make ends meet.
B. Peter could hardly live on little money.
C. Peter got by on very little money.
D. Peter found it hard to live on very little money.
4. The boy was not allowed to have any friends, so he felt lonely.
A. Despite having friends, the boy felt so lonely.
B. Not having friends, they made the boy feel lonely.
C. Having a lot of friends, the boy felt lonely.
D. Deprived of friends, the boy felt lonely.
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6. Peter took a class to learn how to use a computer.
A. Peter joined a computing class in order to use a computer.
B. Peter used a computer for his class.
C. Peter taught his students how to use a computer.
D. Peter took a computer to his class for students to learn.
10. I remember his face when I ran into him but his name escaped me.
A. As soon as I saw him, I remembered his name.
B. When I saw him, I couldn't recall his name.
C. His face seemed unfamiliar to me when I saw him.
D. When I saw him, he tried to escape.
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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. Elizabeth was appalled when she saw the dormitory room she was assigned because there aren’t
any furniture and is dirty.
A. there aren’t any furniture and is dirty
B. it was a filthy mess and has no furniture
C. there wasn’t any furniture and it was filthy
D. it had no furniture and their wasn’t any furniture
12. Captain Hook is most knowed as the villain who pursued Peter Pan, but was not based on any
known historical character.
A. Captain Hook is most knowed as the villain who pursued
B. The villainous Captain Hook, who was known to pursue
C. The best known villain Captain Hook to have pursued Peter Pan
D. Captain Hook was the greater known villain of pusuing
13. When an insect or spider are crawling along the leaves for a Venus flytrap and contacts its
sensitive hairs, the trap closes and imprisons it.
A. are crawling along the leaves for a
B. will be crawling much against the leaves of a
C. goes to crawl amongst the leaves into a
D. is crawling among the leaves of a
14. Mr. Kindle’s dog was hit by a car, and this is the reason he was so sad in class today.
A. and this is the reason
B. and this being a good reason why
C. which is the reason why
D. because that is the reason why
15. We went shopping after dinner, but the stores were all closed so we had to return home even after
we hadn’t found what we were looking for.
A. even after we hadn’t found what
B. without finding what
C. not finding that to which
D. with no success to find what
16. The house plants that mom set out on the patio yesterday are dead which determines we must had
had frost last night.
A. which determines we must had had frost
B. which means it must have frosted
C. that goes to show the frost must have been
D. and this proves the frost has been falling
17. Rob’s father reminded him that Rob was supposedly changing the tire hisself so that he could
have more practice doing it.
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A. was supposedly changing the tire hisself
B. had better been able to change the tire himself
C. might want to be changing the tire hisself
D. was supposed to have changed the tire himself
18. My friend won’t ever lend me his new car, but I wish he would lend it to me tomorrow night for
my date with Stacey.
A. but I wish he would lend it to me
B. but for me I wish he would be lending it
C. although my wish is that it be lended to me
D. but I wish that it would be lended to me
19. Mrs. Clarkson had been birthing their child by the time her husband made it to the hospital from
work.
A. had been birthing their child
B. is in the process of giving birth to their child
C. must have birthed the child
D. had already given birth to their child
20. Shelly chuckled at the bedtime story of the ravenous troll who had too much to eat that he
couldn’t pick his big, round belly up off the floor.
A. who had too much to eat that
B. who ate such great amounts which
C. which devoured such a tremendous amount that
D. having a huge amount to eat which
22. A. Dr Ogunmola admires people with character and who seem to have integrity.
B. Dr Ogunmola admires people who have character as well as people with integrity.
C. Dr Ogunmola admires people who have character and integrity.
D. Dr Ogunmola admires people with character and who have integrity.
24 A. He was bruised for our iniquities and crushed for our transgressions.
B. He showed forgiveness for our iniquities, he was crushed for our transgressions.
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C. He was bruised for our iniquities, and they were always crushing him for all our
transgressions.
D. He was bruised for our iniquities, and was also to be crushed for our transgressions.
26 A. The king was flattered by the chiefs, praised by his family but the people hated him.
B. The king was flattered by the chiefs, his family praised him but the people hated him.
C. The king was flattered by the chiefs, praised by his family but hated by the people.
D. The king’s chiefs flattered him, praised by his family but hated by the people.
29. A. The prophet predicted that he would become governor; that he would meet a beautiful
stranger and that his first son would become president.
B. The prophet predicted that he would become governor; a beautiful stranger will meet him and
that his first son would become president.
C. The prophet predicted that he would become governor; he would meet a beautiful stranger; his
first son would become president.
D. The prophet predicted that he would become governor; a beautiful stranger, will meet him; his
son, to become a future president.
30. A. I was writing the letter when she lays the table for breakfast.
B. I was writing the letter when she laid the table for breakfast.
C. I was writing the letter while she lay the table for breakfast.
D. I was writing the letter while she was laying the table for breakfast.
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). Professor Fitzgerald and his team studied more than 47,000 women.
(2). He convinced Professor Fitzgerald of the University of Hill to set up a study into this matter.
(3). Doctor Byron has long held that there is a link between diet and acne.
(4). No link was found between acne and traditionally suspect food such as chocolate and chips.
(5). The women were asked to fill in a questionnaire about the diet and about their suffering from
acne.
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A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
32. (1). Great progress was made in the field of aviation during the 1920s and 1930s, such as
Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight in 1927, and Charles Kingsford Smith's transpacific
flight the following year.
(2). One of the most successful designs of this period was the Douglas DC-3, which became the
first airliner that was profitable carrying passengers exclusively, starting the modern era of
passenger airline service.
(3). By the beginning of World War II, many towns and cities had built airports
(4). The war brought many innovations to aviation, including the first jet aircraft and the first
liquid-fueled rockets.
(5). There were numerous qualified pilots available.
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
33. (1). Today, many years later, many believe that evolution has progressed at the same steady
rate and that the absence of transitional forms can be explained by Darwin's argument that
there are huge gaps in the fossil record and that transition usually occurred in one
restricted locality.
(2). Paleontologists still argue about the origins of major groups, though new fossil finds since
Darwin's time have cleared up many of the disparities in the fossil record.
(3). Others, however, believe that the fossil evidence suggests that, at various stages in the
history of life, evolution progressed rapidly, in spurts, and that major changes occurred at
these points.
(4). An evolving group may have reached a stage at which it had an advantage over other
groups and was able to exploit new niches in nature.
(5). Climate change may also have produced a "spurt", as might the extinction of other groups
or species, leaving many niches vacant.
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
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34. (1). With regard to defence, the purpose of the military is to defend the nation and be prepared
to do battle with its enemy.
(2). The idea is to destroy the enemy's productive capacity, and depending upon the economic
foundation, that productive capacity is different in each case.
(3). Now in the information era, destroying the enemy's productive capacity means destroying
the information infrastructure.
(4). But in the industrial era destroying the enemy's productive capacity means bombing the
factories which are located in the cities.
(5). So in the agrarian era, if you need to destroy the enemy's productive capacity, what you
want to do is bum his fields, or if you're really vicious, salt them.
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
35. (1). But in Scotland three banks are still allowed to issue banknotes.
(2). In most countries it is only the government, through their central banks, who are permitted to
issue currency.
(3). To face growth of trade it was deemed necessary to remedy this lack of an adequate
currency.
(4). When this bank was founded in 1695, Scots coinage was in shod supply and of uncertain
value, compared with English, Dutch, Flemish or French coin.
(5). The first Scottish bank to do this was the Bank of Scotland.
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
36. (1). I have over and over again introduced ants from one my nets into another nest of the same
species; and they were invariably attacked, seized by a leg or an antenna, and dragged out.
(2). And it is a lesson to us that no one has ever yet seen quarrel between any two ants belonging
to the same community.
(3). However, they are in hostility not only with most other insects, including ants of different
species, but even with those of the same species if belonging to different communities.
(4). The communities of ants are sometimes. very large, numbering even to 500,000 individuals.
(5). It is evident, therefore, that the ants of each community all recognize one another, which is
very remarkable.
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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). It led to the driver losing control of the moving vehicle, which was eventually parked safely.
(2). The ‘Internet Of Things’ (IoT) has been the topic of discussion for over two years now, and
major corporations are already taking steps in developing technology for it.
(3). In a connected world, where alarm clocks can measure the depth of sleep, beds can gauge the
health of your heart, and lamps automatically adjust to your moods, everything is linked to
the Internet.
(4). But has security of these devices evolved with them?
(5). In 2015, a group of hackers demonstrated how a Jeep Cherokee can be hacked while on the
move, just by using a phone network.
A. 3-2-5-4-1
B. 3-4-5-1-2
C. 5-3-4-1-2
D. 5-1-4-3-2
38) (1). The findings, described in a paper published Aug. 11 on arXiv.org, reveal that HD 87646 is
the first close binary system with more than one substellar circum-primary companion
known to date.
(2). The system has a separation of only 22 AU between the two stars.
(3). The primary star in the system, HD 87646A, is about 12 percent more massive than the sun
and has a radius of about 1.55 solar radii.
(4). HD 87646, located around 240 light years away, is a bright G-type star with a fainter K-type
stellar companion.
(5). An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a giant planet and a brown
dwarf in a close binary system designated HD 87646.
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). There are still problems that cannot be resolved by the theory, such as dark energy.
(2). Despite Einstein’s correct predictions, his theory of relativity does not answer all the
questions of the universe.
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(3). Physicists and astronomers across the world are focusing their efforts on finding out what
this ‘something’ is.
(4). Dark energy is a phrase used by physicists to describe a mysterious ‘something’ that is
causing the universe to accelerate.
(5). The acceleration occurs at constant rate.
A. 2-3-5-4-1
B. 2-4-5-1-3
C. 5-3-4-1-2
D. 5-1-3-4-2
40) (1). In the same way the ball would warp the sheet, a planet bends the fabric of spacetime
ultimately creating the force we feel as gravity.
(2). The ripples can be produced when black holes orbit each other or by the merging of galaxies,
black holes and neutron stars, for example.
(3). Einstein predicted that if two massive bodies came together it would create such a huge
ripple in spacetime that it should be detectable on Earth.
(4). At its simplest, spacetime can be thought of as a giant rubber sheet with a bowling ball in the
centre.
(5). Any object that comes near to the body falls towards it because of this effect.
A. 1-3-5-4-2
B. 1-4-5-2-3
C. 5-3-4-1-2
D. 5-1-3-4-2
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