TEST TOEIC 9 pps

TOEIC 9
1. Coretta Scott King pushed and goaded
politicians for more than a decade to have her
husband's birthday ____ as a national holiday.
a. observed
b. observing
c. to observe
d. observe
2. Aid workers in the Philippines are struggling to
find any more ____ after a huge landslide on
Leyte Island.
a. survives
b. survivals
c. survivors
d. surviving
3. Nike has ____ a patent infringement suit
against Adidas-Salomon, claiming that a
number of its rival's trainers copy its
technology.
a. filed
b. filing
c. been filed
d. file
4. Nike, the world's ____ sportswear
manufacturer, claims it has 19 separate patents
protecting its SHOX system.
a. larger
b. the largest
c. larger than
d. largest
5. Adidas, the second biggest, ____ its takeover

of Reebok last month.
a. complete
b. has completed
c. completing
d. completed
6. Adidas paid $3.8bn for the US firm to step up
its ____ with Nike and improve its market share
in North America.
a. competitor
b. competition
c. competitive
d. competitively
7. A US biologist has said that the age of
retirement should be raised to 85 by 2050 ____
trends in life expectancy.
a. in spite of
b. but
c. unless
d. because of
8. The Stanford researcher has been looking at
relationships between historical trends in
ageing, population ____ and economic activity.
a. growth
b. grow
c. growing
d. grown
9. Based ____ this, he came up with a scenario in
which anti-ageing technologies will increase the
most common age of death by one year per
year between 2010 and 2030.

a. in
b. with
c. on
d. about
10. In the US, the cost of social security and
medical care would almost double if people
____ at 65 under Tuljapurkar's scenario.
a. retire
b. had retired
c. would have retired
d. retired
11. The US intends to push China aggressively to
clamp down more firmly on piracy and open
more of its domestic ____ to foreign firms.
a. markets
b. appliances
c. chores
d. economies
12. Mr Gutierrez said China had "to play by the
rules" if it wished to become a "respected"
global____.
a. trading
b. trader
c. trade
d. traders
13. China's ____ economic growth and surge in
exports has antagonized the US.
a. rapids
b. rapid
c. rapidly

d. rapidity
14. Washington ____ Beijing of both failing to
enforce intellectual property rights and
upholding a policy of protectionism to give
Chinese firms an unfair advantage.
a. has long accused
b. has accused long
c. long accused has
d. long has accused
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15. China has reacted ____ to a European Union
plan to slap anti-dumping duties on imports of
Chinese-made shoes.
a. angry
b. anger
c. angrily
d. angered
16. EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson said
on Thursday that punitive duties would be
imposed on leather footwear ____ from China
and Vietnam.
a. importing
b. imported
c. to importing
d. to import
17. The EU said it had found evidence that ____
from both countries were dumping footwear on
EU markets.
a. suppliers
b. customers

c. distributors
d. beneficiaries
18. The duties, which are due be introduced
between 7 April ____15 September, will be up
to 19.4% for imports of Chinese-made shoes
and 16.8% for shoes made in Vietnam.
a. or
b. nor
c. in
d. and
19. China _____ allegations that it was dumping
shoes, adding that the EU duties would be a
breach of global free trade principles.
a. supported
b. investigated
c. withdrew
d. denied
20. Mr. Chong said China's leather shoe industry
was one of the country's most market-
orientated, with 98% of the sector ____ by
private firms.
a. own
b. to own
c. owned
d. owning
21. Mr. Mandelson said on Thursday that the EU
measures were designed to deal ____
"disguised subsidies" and "state-supported
dumping".
a. in

b. with
c. about
d. out
22. China's trade relations with key Western
partners have become ____ strained recently.
a. increasingly
b. violently
c. angrily
d. specifically
23. Thailand has banned imports of ____ poultry
from European Union countries hit by the lethal
H5N1 bird flu virus.
a. alive
b. live
c. lives
d. lived
24. The 90-day ban applies to seven EU nations
____ France, Germany and Italy, where the
deadly strain has been found in wild birds.
a. include
b. included
c. to include
d. including
25. Thailand, which is one of ____ of poultry,
imports breeder chickens from Europe.
a. world's the biggest exporters
b. world's biggest the exporters
c. the world's biggest exporters
d. the world's biggest exporter
26. The news came as Austria said that it had

found a chicken infected with the virus - the first
such ____ in the EU.
a. example
b. symptom
c. phenomenon
d. case
27. Austria's health ministry maintained that its
commercial poultry stocks had not been ____
by the virus.
a. affected
b. enhanced
c. created
d. recovered
28. Mr. Nirandorn added that the ban could be
____ within 90 days "if concerned countries
can manage to curtail the disease before that".
a. imposed
b. lifted
c. extended
d. introduced
29. EU officials agreed on Wednesday to back
plans by France and the Netherlands to
vaccinate ____ against bird flu.
a. million of poultry
b. a millions of poultry
c. millions of poultry
d. a million of poultry
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30. The European Commission has unveiled plans
for a world-class institute of technology

intended to ____ the EU's economic
competitiveness.
a. improve
b. criticize
c. ban
d. undermine
31. The move is a response to surveys ____ show
that only a handful of European universities can
compete with the world leaders, which are
mostly in the US.
a. who
b. whose
c. where
d. which
32. US consumer prices rose by 0.7% in January,
fuelled by a sharp ____ in energy costs.
a. drop
b. rise
c. decline
d. turn
33. Gunmen have taken ____ of Brazil's carnival
commotion to steal paintings by Picasso, Dali,
Matisse and Monet from a Rio de Janeiro
museum.
a. account
b. charge
c. advantage
d. pride
34. The thieves ____ brandished a hand grenade
to threaten security guards at the Chacara do

Ceu museum.
a. reportedly
b. reported
c. reporter
d. reporting
35. Museum officials said that they shut down the
security cameras and then ____ away in a
crowd of Samba revelers.
a. slip
b. to slip
c. slipping
d. slipped
36. Pablo Picasso's The Dance, Salvador Dali's
The Two Balconies, Henri Matisse's
Luxembourg Gardens and Claude Monet's
Marine were ____.
a. stealing
b. stolen
c. stole
d. to steal
37. The paintings were considered the museum's
most valuable pieces, ____ their exact value
was not immediately available.
a. however
b. in spite of
c. or
d. but
38. A nationwide alert has been issued by the
federal police to try to prevent the artworks
from ____ the country.

a. leaving
b. left
c. to leave
d. leave
39. The latest Harry Potter film has taken more
than $600m at the international box office,
becoming ____ global movie of all time.
a. the fifth biggest
b. fifth the biggest
c. the five biggest
d. five the biggest
40. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was based
____ the fourth installment of JK Rowling's
series of fantasy novels.
a. in
b. at
c. on
d. about
41. When North American box office performance
is also taken into ____, The Goblet of Fire is
ranked eighth on the worldwide chart.
a. action
b. notice
c. place
d. account
42. ____ has begun on the movie of the fifth
installment, Harry Potter and the Order of the
Phoenix, due in cinemas next year.
a. Product
b. Production

c. Produce
d. Producer
43. A claim that Dan Brown's bestselling novel The
Da Vinci Code copied the ideas of two ____
authors has gone before London's High Court.
a. other
b. others
c. another
d. the other
44. More than 16,000 government railway staff
have gone on ____ in South Korea demanding
wage increases and improved working
conditions.
a. the rampage
b. a diet
c. a spree
d. strike
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45. The walkout forced the state-run rail operator to
____ more than half its services, but disruption
was mitigated by the fact Wednesday is a
holiday.
a. improve
b. provide
c. cancel
d. offer
46. The government said the strike was illegal as
arbitration aimed at ____ the dispute was
underway.
a. involving

b. settling
c. interrupting
d. delaying
47. Korea Railroad (Korail), ____ carries more than
two and a half million passengers a day, has
been forced to cancel 760 services.
a. that
b. who
c. what
d. which
48. The company has ____ retirees, non-unionized
staff and military personnel to provide a
skeleton service.
a. recruited
b. dismissed
c. pardoned
d. rewarded
49. While urging a ____ , the government
threatened firm action against the strikers.
a. settler
b. settle
c. settlement
d. settling
50. Under South Korean law, strikes are ____
illegal when arbitration is ongoing but unions
have ignored this in the past.
a. technically
b. technical
c. technique
d. technician

51. With 50,000 people estimated to ____ some
form of living from poultry farming in England it
is clear bird flu poses a potentially significant
economic threat.
a. create
b. earn
c. achieve
d. boost
52. All farmers with more than 50 birds must
disclose stock levels for a national register
____ Wednesday, a move widely applauded by
farmers.
a. in
b. at
c. prior
d. by
53. UK farmers ____1.6 million tons of poultry
meat in 2004, second only to France in the
European Union.
a. has produced
b. produced
c. producing
d. produces
54. The industry is an important source of
employment across much of England, while
farms play a vital ____ in supporting suppliers
and other businesses across rural
communities.
a. lead
b. role

c. game
d. match
55. US computer chip firm Intel is to build a $300m
factory in Vietnam. It will be based in the
Saigon Hi-Tech Park outside HCM City and will
initially ____ about 1,200 people.
a. enlist
b. discharge
c. employ
d. designate
56. It is believed to be the biggest ____ yet by a
US company in Vietnam, and will raise the
country's profile as a hi-tech business location.
a. investment
b. investor
c. investing
d. investigation
57. The plant will package chips into devices and
test them before shipping them on. Intel has
____ sites in China, Malaysia and the
Philippines.
a. same
b. similar to
c. the same as
d. similar
58. The company already has a program to provide
computer training to more than 30,000
Vietnamese teachers and is helping the
government ____ wireless computer access to
rural areas of the country.

a. to setting up
b. setting up
c. sets up
d. set up
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59. Vietnam has been one of Asia's fastest growing
economies in recent years, and has been trying
to diversify ____ economy by attracting hi-tech
investors.
a. its
b. it
c. their
d. them
60. A German court has banned the screening of a
film ____ on the case of self-confessed
cannibal Armin Meiwes.
a. derived
b. originated
c. based
d. depended
61. The state court in Kassel upheld a ____ from
Meiwes, 44, against the film Rohtenburg, which
was due for release in Germany on 9 March.
a. complain
b. complainer
c. complainant
d. complaint
62. The court ruled that Meiwes' rights as an
individual outweighed artistic ____ and that he
should not become the object of a horror film.

a. freedom
b. free
c. freely
d. freed
63. Meiwes, jailed for eight-and-a-half years in
2004, is facing a retrial. He ____ that in March
2001 he killed a 43-year-old man and partially
ate him. He was jailed for manslaughter.
a. accused
b. admitted
c. condemned
d. triggered
64. Meiwes says he simply carried out a willing
victim's ____.
a. instructs
b. instructions
c. instructors
d. instructive
65. Last year, an appeal court ordered a retrial
after state prosecutors argued Meiwes was
guilty of murder. If he were found guilty, Meiwes
____ a life sentence.
a. could have faced
b. will face
c. could face
d. has faced
66. Meiwes, a computer ____, killed and ate Bernd
Juergen Brandes after posting an advert on the
internet asking for a willing victim in 2001.
a. technique

b. technology
c. technological
d. technician
67. The film Rohtenburg, directed by Martin Weisz,
stars Thomas Kretschmann in the leading
____.
a. role
b. function
c. right
d. goal
68. Former British rock star Gary Glitter has been
jailed for three years after a Vietnamese court
found him ____ of sexually abusing two young
girls.
a. innocent
b. guilty
c. independent
d. responsible
69. On his release, he will be deported and could
face more charges in Britain. ____ he will
definitely be deported, it is not guaranteed that
he will return to the UK.
a. Nevertheless
b. In addition
c. Since
d. Although
70. ____ the prison sentence, Glitter has been
ordered to pay 5m Vietnamese dong
(£180/$315) to his victims' families.
a. In addition to

b. Because
c. Despite
d. However
71. During the two-day trial, ____ was held behind
closed doors, he was said to have committed a
series of "lewd" acts while the girls were at his
beach house in Vung Tau.
a. most of whom
b. of which most
c. most of which
d. which most of
72. After he was ____, Glitter told gathered
journalists that some British newspapers were
part of a conspiracy against him.
a. declared
b. sentenced
c. executed
d. considered
73. His lawyer said his client had not ____ decided
whether to appeal against the decision.
a. already
b. ever
c. since
d. yet
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74. The British embassy said in a statement: "Both
the UK and the Vietnamese governments take
the issue of child-sex tourism extremely ____.”
a. seriously
b. severely

c. harshly
d. readily
75. He had been in custody ____19 November
when he was arrested in Ho Chi Minh City as
he was about to board a flight out of Vietnam.
a. for
b. since
c. in
d. at
76. In December, Glitter's lawyer made
compensatory ____ to the families of the girls,
who later appealed to the courts for clemency
for Glitter.
a. pays
b. payable
c. payments
d. paychecks
77. Glitter was convicted of ____ child pornography
in Britain in 1999 and served half of a four-
month jail sentence.
a. possess
b. possession
c. to possess
d. possessing
78. Oil prices have continued ____ on Friday,
pushed higher by fears that production facilities
may be attacked in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia.
a. rise
b. to rising
c. risen

d. to rise
79. Nigerian production has been disrupted by
militants, ____ Saudi Arabia said it halted a
plan to bomb a local plant.
a. in the mean time
b. while
c. unless
d. however
80. The OPEC group of oil exporters meets next
week to consider ____ its current export levels.
a. change
b. to change
c. changing
d. to changing
81. Malnutrition is now costing poor countries ____
3% of their annual economic output, the World
Bank warns.
a. as much as
b. too much as
c. as many as
d. so many as
82. Its study into poor nutrition and food shortages
described malnutrition as today's "Black Death"
in relation to its ____ and social impact.
a. economy
b. economics
c. economic
d. economical
83. The World Bank said that malnutrition makes
people more vulnerable to fatal diseases ____

malaria and HIV/Aids, and called for
governments to do more.
a. so as
b. such as
c. so that
d. as in
84. The report found that the situation was ____ in
South Asia than Africa.
a. bad
b. worst
c. worsening
d. worse
85. It determined that rates of under-nutrition in
children across India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan
and Pakistan ranged between 38% and 51%,
compared ____ 26% in sub-Saharan Africa.
a. as
b. with
c. on
d. upon
86. The World Bank estimates that nearly 60% of
children who die across the world each year
from common diseases such as diarrhea and
malaria ____ if they had not been
malnourished in the first place.
a. could have survived
b. survived
c. will survive
d. had survived
87. India has urged US business leaders to

increase investment in the country, stressing
that foreign capital has a key role to play in its
economic ____.
a. develop
b. developing
c. development
d. developer
88. Finance minister P Chidambaram said India
needed US money, ____ and management
expertise to help it fulfill its true growth
potential.
a. technician
b. technical
c. technically
d. technology
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89. US firms have invested $5 billion in India ____
the start of the decade.
a. at
b. for
c. in
d. since
90. Microsoft, Dell and Intel have all announced
major investments in India in recent months,
reflecting global business confidence in the
continued ____ of the Indian economy.
a. strength
b. strong
c. strengthen
d. strongly

91. Mr Chidambaram said US investment could
help to create jobs, improve the country's
infrastructure and make India more ____
competitive.
a. globe
b. globally
c. global
d. globalization
92. US firms' ____ interest in India comes at a time
when its trade deficit with the world's largest
country stands at a record $10 billion.
a. grow
b. growth
c. growing
d. growingly
93. Last month, New Delhi agreed to open up its
retail and energy markets to more foreign
investment ____ strong opposition from
minority partners in the coalition government.
a. because of
b. however
c. despite
d. although
94. Mr. Chidambaram said the government was
____ to proceed with economic reforms and
was "confident" that it could secure legislation
to allow more foreign investment in areas such
as insurance.
a. determining
b. determination

c. determine
d. determined
95. South Korean prosecutors have begun ____
disgraced cloning expert Hwang Woo-suk and
three members of his research team in the
capital.
a. question
b. questioned
c. to questioning
d. questioning
96. Some of Dr Hwang's stem cell research, which
had raised ____ of imminent cures for difficult
diseases, was found in January to have been
fabricated.
a. fears
b. hopes
c. concerns
d. doubts
97. Prosecutors are ____ considering whether to
issue arrest warrants against some of those
being questioned.
a. reportedly
b. reported
c. report
d. reporter
98. The scientist caused shockwaves late last year
when he admitted flaws in his research, but he
insisted ____ the fabrications were carried out
without his knowledge.
a. the most

b. most
c. most of
d. almost
99. A report from experts at Seoul National
University then concluded that Dr Hwang had
faked his most famous work, the ____ of a
stem cell line taken from cloned embryos.
a. production
b. product
c. produce
d. productivity
100. He has been stripped of some of his titles and
been suspended ____ his university post.
a. on
b. off
c. of
d. from
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