TEST TOEIC 10 potx

TOEIC 10
1. Crash was the shock winner at the 78th
Academy Awards, ____ best film ahead of
favorite Brokeback Mountain.
a. wins
b. won
c. winning
d. win
2. Producer Cathy Schulman paid tribute to
fellow nominees for ____ "one of the most
breathtaking and stunning maverick years
in American cinema".
a. creating
b. create
c. to create
d. creation
3. Ang Lee won best director for Brokeback
Mountain, ____ the film won only three of
the eight awards it was nominated for.
a. and
b. also
c. however
d. but
4. Reese Witherspoon and Philip Seymour
Hoffman shared lead acting honors for
____in Walk the Line and Capote.
a. roles
b. functions
c. meanings
d. factions
5. Ang Lee, ____ past films include Sense

and Sensibility and Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon, saluted Brokeback's lead
characters, Ennis and Jack.
a. whom
b. whose
c. which
d. that
6. King Kong and Memoirs of a Geisha both
won three awards in technical categories,
equaling Brokeback Mountain's ____, but
this year's ceremony was not dominated by
any one film.
a. achievers
b. achieves
c. achievable
d. achievements
7. Reese Witherspoon, ____ won best
actress for her role as Johnny Cash's wife
June in biopic Walk the Line, thanked co-
star Joaquin Phoenix.
a. that
b. which
c. who
d. whose
8. Actress Rachel Weisz has ____ the best
supporting actress award at the Academy
Awards following her success in the
Golden Globes.
a. collected
b. collection

c. collecting
d. to collecting
9. Born in London ____ March 1971, Weisz -
pronounced "Vice" - became a child model
at the age of 14.
a. on
b. in
c. at
d. for
10. She ____ a series of schools including the
prestigious St Paul's Girls School in
London, with classmate and fellow actress
Emily Mortimer.
a. attended
b. dropped
c. appointed
d. stayed
11. As a teenager, Weisz decided that she
wanted ____ and at the age of 18 she
studied with Rada-trained Ken Campbell.
a. acting
b. act
c. to act
d. acts
12. While studying English Literature at
Cambridge University, Weisz helped ____
Talking Tongues theatre company.
a. formed
b. to forming
c. forming

d. form
13. Her first ____ film role followed as she co-
starred with Brendan Fraser and John
Hannah in 1999's Hollywood blockbuster
The Mummy.
a. majority
b. major
c. majors
d. majoring
14. The success of the action movie
encouraged Weisz ____ for an inferior
sequel two years later.
a. return
b. returning
c. returned
d. to return
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15. HSBC has unveiled the biggest profits
____by a UK High Street bank, making a
pre-tax profit of $20.97 billion in 2005.
a. yet
b. ever
c. never
d. almost
16. ____ the profit has been made abroad by
the global bank, which operates in the UK,
Europe, Asia and the Americas.
a. Many
b. Much
c. Many of

d. Much of
17. The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog
has called on Iran and the West to return to
negotiations in the row over Iran's ____
nuclear program.
a. controversial
b. controversy
c. controversially
d. controversialist
18. Mohamed ElBaradei said that he hoped a
deal on Iran's uranium enrichment work
could be ____ during the coming week.
a. reaching
b. reach
c. reached
d. to reach
19. He was speaking ____ the start of an
International Atomic Energy Agency
meeting that could pave the way for UN
Security Council action against Iran.
a. on
b. at
c. in
d. over
20. Mr ElBaradei said that the issue had
serious implications for world peace, and
urged both sides to continue ____.
a. negotiating
b. negotiators
c. negotiable

d. negotiations
21. The BBC's Bethany Bell in Vienna says
that the IAEA board is ____ to refer Iran to
the UN Security Council which could
impose economic and political sanctions on
the Islamic republic.
a. mentioned
b. expected
c. predicted
d. anticipated
22. Iran said on Sunday that if it were reported
to the council, it ____ full-scale uranium
enrichment.
a. would resume
b. will resume
c. would have resumed
d. had resumed
23. The IAEA has demanded that Iran suspend
nuclear enrichment ____.
a. completion
b. complete
c. completely
d. completed
24. Iran refuses, emphasizing ____ sovereign
right to continue the process under the
Non-Proliferation Treaty.
a. she
b. it
c. their
d. its

25. The IAEA meeting in Vienna - expected to
last several days - may not discuss Mr.
ElBaradei's report ____ Tuesday or
Wednesday.
a. between
b. from
c. until
d. over
26. The report, leaked to the media, says the
Iranians ____ feeding uranium gas into
centrifuges.
a. begun
b. have begun
c. has begun
d. have began
27. Three years of negotiations between Iran
and the EU, and the latest round of talks
between Moscow and Tehran, have
brought ____ significant result.
a. no
b. none
c. not
d. never
28. Russian and China - permanent members
of the Security Council with the power of
veto - have so far opposed ____ sanctions
on Iran.
a. facing
b. recommending
c. lifting

d. imposing
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29. Thousands of detainees held in Iraq are
____ being denied basic human rights with
reports of torture rife.
a. ever
b. also
c. still
d. yet
30. The report says both the multinational
forces and Iraqi authorities must take
urgent ____ to stop abuses if there is to be
any hope of halting Iraq's rise in violence
and sectarianism.
a. chances
b. steps
c. risks
d. advantages
31. Amnesty says in its 48-page report that
thousands of Iraqis are being ____ without
charge or trial.
a. held
b. hold
c. holding
d. to hold
32. More than 200 detainees have been
imprisoned for more than two years and
nearly 4,000 ____ longer than a year.
a. since
b. at

c. over
d. for
33. Former detainees told Amnesty they had
been beaten with plastic cables, given
electric shocks and ____ to stand in a
flooded room as an electrical current was
passed through the water.
a. make
b. making
c. to make
d. made
34. Ms Allen compared the current situation to
the Abu Ghraib scandal, which broke when
photos were ____ showing US guards
abusing detainees.
a. featured
b. reduced
c. released
d. appealed
35. According to the US military, ____ detainee
is given a form explaining the reasons for
their imprisonment and their files are
reviewed every 90 to 120 days.
a. every
b. every of
c. every the
d. every of the
36. The British ministry of defense said
allegations of wrongdoing were always
taken ____ and international observers

were invited into its detention centers.
a. severely
b. seriously
c. strictly
d. harshly
37. China has ____ the supply of live poultry
and pet birds to Hong Kong, after a man
died of bird flu in neighboring Guangdong
province.
a. suspended
b. suspected
c. accelerated
d. succeeded
38. It is reported he was infected after coming
into ____ with live chickens on sale in a
market in Guangzhou city.
a. conflict
b. effect
c. contact
d. view
39. This death - the ninth in China during the
current outbreak - is causing a great deal of
____ in Hong Kong.
a. source
b. pain
c. commerce
d. concern
40. Public health doctors from Hong Kong
____ to the city of Guangzhou to try to find
out more about how the latest victim caught

bird flu.
a. have been sending
b. have sent
c. have been sent
d. has been sent
41. The health professionals are looking ____
any evidence of human-to-human
transmission.
a. at
b. for
c. up
d. over
42. The authorities hope the ban on the supply
of live poultry will ____any outbreak
spreading to the territory.
a. prevent
b. spur
c. lead
d. report
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43. The authorities have ____ efforts against
poultry smuggling as well.
a. stepped up
b. rewarded
c. discouraged
d. concentrated
44. The number of chickens on sale in Hong
Kong each day ____already less than half
what it normally would be.
a. are

b. have been
c. were
d. is
45. China may allow its currency to trade more
freely, a move that probably would let the
yuan____.
a. to appreciate
b. appreciating
c. appreciate
d. appreciated
46. At present, the yuan is allowed to move by
a maximum of 0.3% ____ above or below a
daily target rate.
a. either
b. both
c. between
d. neither
47. The US has long been calling ____China to
change its currency policy, claiming that
Beijing keeps it artificially low in order to
boost demand for exports.
a. in
b. on
c. off
d. up
48. The US unemployment rate rose to 4.8%
last month, ____ the number of new jobs
added to the economy increased by
243,000.
a. since

b. however
c. even though
d. despite
49. Analysts were ____ as they had expected
the rate to remain unchanged.
a. surprised
b. surprise
c. surprising
d. surprisingly
50. The new jobs came mainly in the retail,
financial and construction sectors, ____
manufacturing jobs were lost, in particular
in the automotive industry.
a. since
b. while
c. in spite of
d. nevertheless
51. The Labor Department figures also showed
that average hourly earnings ____ by 0.3%
last month.
a. grow
b. growth
c. growing
d. grew
52. In January, 170,000 new jobs were created
in the US economy, pushing the
unemployment ____ to its lowest level in
four-and-a-half years.
a. statistics
b. insurance

c. rate
d. benefit
53. China is to create a court to focus on ____
intellectual property rights, as sales of
pirated goods rocket.
a. enforcing
b. enforce
c. to enforce
d. enforced
54. China's burgeoning fake goods market is
causing tension with the US, which has
said it forfeits up to $3.8 billion in lost sales
____.
a. annual
b. per annual
c. annually
d. every years
55. China is considered the biggest producer of
imitation goods, incorporating a wide range
of goods, ____ luxury clothes to films and
even books.
a. between
b. among
c. either
d. from
56. Supreme Court judge Jiang Zhipei, who
deals with product piracy cases, urged
foreign companies____ in getting cases to
court.
a. assisting

b. to assist
c. assist
d. assisted
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57. Mr. Sun said that ____ measures to help
tackle piracy should include better training
of local judges.
a. another
b. others
c. each other
d. other
58. According to Forbes, a worldwide
economic boom has yielded a record ____
of dollar billionaires in the past year.
a. number
b. amount
c. numbers
d. amounts
59. Microsoft's Bill Gates ____ the list for the
12th year running, with a net worth of $50
billion.
a. gives
b. tops
c. includes
d. provides
60. The youngest billionaire is a Lebanese
woman, 22-year-old Hind Hariri, who ____
$1.4 billion from her assassinated father,
former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
a. yielded

b. granted
c. inherited
d. invested
61. India's 23 billionaires have a combined net
worth of $99 billion, surpassing former
Asian leader Japan's 27 billionaires with
____ total worth of $67 billion.
a. its
b. her
c. their
d. they
62. Russia's 33 billionaires now have a
combined wealth of $172 billion, based
largely on oil and gas prices, ____ to a total
of $68 billion for oil-rich Saudi Arabia's 11
billionaires.
a. related
b. compared
c. devoted
d. attributed
63. Khodorkovsky, the ____ Yukos chief
executive convicted of fraud and tax
evasion last year, is now in a Siberian
prison.
a. formerly
b. formally
c. formal
d. former
64. While New York has the highest number of
resident billionaires with 40, Moscow is

second with 25, and London comes ____
with 23.
a. third
b. the third
c. thirdly
d. three
65. Steve Forbes, Forbes' chief executive and
editor-in-chief, attributed the global rise in
the number of billionaires to an____ boom.
a. economy
b. economist
c. economic
d. economical
66. Harry Potter author J. K Rowling has ____
the prestigious US-based Forbes
magazine's list of world billionaires.
a. join
b. joining
c. joint
d. joined
67. Supermarkets are facing a full ____ by the
Competition Commission into their
dominance of Britain's grocery market.
a. investigation
b. investigator
c. investigator
d. investigations
68. Critics have accused the UK's leading
supermarkets ____ driving local
convenience stores out of business.

a. for
b. of
c. in
d. with
69. China ____ Friday urged the European
Union to reconsider proposed sanctions on
its exports of shoes.
a. since
b. for
c. in
d. on
70. Wang warned that the proposed sanctions
would also hurt European ____ and
retailers.
a. imports
b. imported
c. importation
d. importers
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71. Under heavy ____ from European
manufacturers, EU Trade Commissioner
Peter Mandelson said Wednesday that he
was ready to act against imports of cheap
shoes from China and Vietnam.
a. burden
b. penalty
c. pressure
d. reliance
72. Web search leader Google Inc has agreed
to pay up to $90 million to ____ a class

action lawsuit over advertising fraud by
outside parties on its site, in a bid to put the
controversy behind it.
a. settle
b. fight
c. file
d. face
73. Australia says it has won a contract to
supply wheat to Iraq, ____ claims that its
state wheat board paid bribes to Saddam
Hussein's regime.
a. even though
b. despite
c. however
d. but
74. Last month Iraq ____ grain deals with
Australia amid allegations that its wheat
board, the AWB, paid up to $222m in
kickbacks to Iraq.
a. had suspended
b. has suspended
c. suspending
d. suspended
75. Iraq has been Australia's ____ wheat
export market.
a. a second biggest
b. the second biggest
c. second biggest
d. second bigger than
76. The AWB is alleged to have ____

kickbacks under the discredited UN-run oil-
for-food program for Iraq.
a. pay
b. paid
c. paying
d. payment
77. Russia has begun the mass vaccination of
poultry to try ____ the spread of the lethal
H5N1 bird flu virus.
a. to stop
b. stop
c. to stopping
d. stopping
78. Millions of vaccines have ____ been
delivered to provinces in southern Russia -
a region believed to be most vulnerable to
the virus.
a. ever
b. yet
c. already
d. still
79. The virus is blamed for nearly a million
poultry ____ in Russia.
a. dead
b. dies
c. dying
d. deaths
80. The virus has so far only infected people
who have come into direct contact with
diseased fowl - but experts fear a mutant

form of the virus may trigger a pandemic
____humans.
a. between
b. with
c. from
d. among
81. Singer Michael Jackson has been ordered
to close down his Californian home,
Neverland Ranch, after failing ____ staff or
renew their insurance policies.
a. paying
b. to pay
c. pays
d. payment
82. The star ____ in Bahrain since being
acquitted on child sex abuse charges in
June 2005.
a. has been living
b. had lived
c. lives
d. lived
83. Throughout his four-month trial, the singer
took refuge at Neverland, ____ fans
gathered attaching banners of support to
the gates of the estate, at 5225 Figueroa
Mountain Road.
a. which
b. that
c. where
d. whose

84. Jackson ____ the ranch, in the rolling hills
of the Santa Ynez Valley in Santa Barbara
County, in 1987 for a reported £11.3m.
a. buys
b. has bought
c. bought
d. will buy
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85. At the time, Jackson was at the ____ of his
career.
a. height
b. high
c. highly
d. heighten
86. The former Jackson Five star had ____ his
third solo album Bad to global acclaim and
record-breaking sales across the world.
a. declared
b. released
c. reduced
d. succeeded
87. Named after the fictional home of Peter
Pan, Neverland Ranch became a retreat
for the child star turned millionaire singer
____ spent his youth in the public eye.
a. which
b. where
c. whom
d. who
88. Children were frequently ____ to

Neverland, including child star Macaulay
Culkin and others selected by charities with
which Jackson was involved.
a. exported
b. invited
c. devoted
d. encountered
89. Adults, notably the press, ____ into this
exclusive world, fuelling rumors about
Jackson's unconventional lifestyle.
a. rarely gained entry
b. gained rarely entry
c. rarely entry gained
d. entry rarely gained
90. Unusually, ITV journalist Martin Bashir
gained ____ to the ranch when he filmed
the controversial documentary Living With
Michael Jackson.
a. weight
b. acceptance
c. access
d. control
91. In September 2003, Jackson finally opened
the gates of Neverland for a public party.
Some 500 guests____ the invitation-only
event.
a. won
b. attended
c. staged
d. arrived

92. Typically for Jackson, the media was
banned, ____reporters had to stand
outside the front gates.
a. but
b. or
c. also
d. and
93. But shortly afterwards, the world's spotlight
was trained on Neverland, when police
initiated a search of the singer's home in
conjunction with sexual abuse allegations
made by ____.
a. a 12-year-old boy
b. a 12-years-old boy
c. a 12-years of old boy
d. a 12-year-olds boy
94. The search revealed a museum filled
____costumed mannequins - one dressed
as Marilyn Monroe.
a. of
b. in
c. with
d. for
95. Abuse was alleged to have taken ____
during sleepovers at the ranch, but
Jackson was later acquitted on all charges.
a. advantage
b. care
c. charge
d. place

96. Jackson appears to have lost his taste for
his fantasy home, after his life there was so
____ exposed to public view.
a. brutally
b. brutal
c. brutality
d. brutalized
97. The number of people dying of measles
across the world ____ by almost half.
a. have fallen
b. has fallen
c. are falling
d. fall
98. Vaccination has been cited as the ____ for
the fall in cases.
a. excuse
b. reason
c. blame
d. claim
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99. A cheap and safe vaccine has been
available ____ the 1960s.
a. in
b. until
c. since
d. for
100. Around 410,000 children aged under five
died from it in 2004, most from
complications related ____ severe
diarrhoea and pneumonia.

a. in
b. for
c. with
d. to
101. A collaboration of organizations, under
the umbrella organization the Measles
Initiative, targeted efforts in the 47
countries that account ____ 98% of
measles deaths.
a. on
b. at
c. for
d. with
102. The initiative ____ more than $150 million
for its work since 2001.
a. has raised
b. raising
c. had raised
d. raised
103. African countries have been successful in
reducing measles deaths, ____ progress in
the South Asia region has been slower.
a. however
b. although
c. so
d. but
104. More than 250 medical experts have
____ a letter condemning the US for force-
feeding prisoners on hunger strike at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

a. signing
b. signature
c. signers
d. signed
105. The South Dakota law - approved by the
governor on Monday - makes it a crime for
doctors ____ abortions.
a. performing
b. to perform
c. perform
d. performance
106. Exceptions ____ if a woman's life is at
risk, but not in cases of rape or incest.
a. will be made
b. would be made
c. were made
d. would have been made
107. About 800 abortions are performed ____
in South Dakota.
a. each years
b. each of year
c. each year
d. each of the year
108. Under the law signed by South Dakota
Governor Mike Rounds, doctors could get
up to five years in prison and a $5,000
____ for performing an illegal abortion.
a. fine
b. refund
c. compensation

d. pay
109. The abortion ban would take effect ___1
July but it is likely that a federal judge
would suspend it during any legal
challenge.
a. in
b. on
c. for
d. at
110. The law would therefore not take effect
____ South Dakota State gets the case to
the US Supreme Court and wins.
a. unless
b. because
c. while
d. although
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