TEST TOEIC 16 ppt

TOEIC 16
1. According to People magazine ____
Angelina Jolie's humanitarian efforts that
make her most radiant.
a. it is
b. there is
c. they are
d. she is
2. Sharon Stone has accepted an undisclosed
sum in libel damages from a British
newspaper that alleged she had left her 4-
year-old son in a car ____ dining at a
London restaurant.
a. when
b. while
c. during
d. in that
3. The newspaper accepted that the allegation
was untrue, and apologized to Stone for the
distress and ____ it had caused.
a. embarrassment
b. embarrassing
c. embarrass
d. embarrassed
4. The 48-year-old actress had agreed to
accept an undisclosed sum in damages
from the newspaper and planned to ____
the money to charity.
a. invest
b. spend
c. donate

d. earn
5. British secret agent James Bond has
chased the world's ______ in everything
from cars to spaceships, but in his latest
adventure, his vehicle of choice will be a
bulldozer.
a. the most dangerous villains
b. villains most dangerous
c. dangerous most villains
d. most dangerous villains
6. In the opening scene of "Casino Royale,"
Bond will pursue his latest enemy in a four-
wheel W190 bulldozer ____ by Fiat.
a. supplies
b. to supply
c. supplied
d. supplying
7. ____ 90 years after the guns fell silent, the
mud of Flanders is still giving up its secrets.
a. Near
b. Nearly
c. Close
d. Most
8. Hundreds of thousands of people have
joined May Day rallies across Asia, with
protests ____ high alerts in the Philippines
and Indonesia.
a. spark
b. sparks
c. sparked

d. sparking
9. In Manila police stopped hundreds from
____ the presidential palace amid fears that
rallies would become anti-government
protests.
a. reaching
b. going
c. heading
d. moving
10. Strong protest rallies were also ____ in
Japan, Taiwan and Cambodia.
a. hold
b. holding
c. held
d. holds
11. In Manila, 5,000 anti-riot officers were
deployed amid fears of a repeat of the 2001
May Day riots, ____ government forces
clashed with followers of ousted President
Joseph Estrada.
a. meanwhile
b. during
c. where
d. when
12. Protest leaders said they would gather at
the historic Mendiola bridge, ____ has
become a symbol of anti-government
resistance.
a. which
b. where

c. who
d. what
13. In Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, protesters
gathered in their thousands, waving trade
union banners and ____ that planned
revisions to the 2003 labor law be dropped.
a. demand
b. demanding
c. to demand
d. demanded
14. About 13,000 security personnel, ____ riot
police, were deployed in the city.
a. include
b. included
c. including
d. includes
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15. Opponents of the revisions to the labor law
say that they will curtail workers' ____ to
organize and to strike, and will also reduce
severance pay.
a. free
b. freely
c. freeing
d. freedom
16. Supporters of the revisions to the labor law
say that they will make Indonesia____.
a. more competitive than
b. more competitive
c. competitive more

d. more than competitive
17. In Cambodia, ____ a huge police presence
to enforce a ban on marches.
a. there has been
b. they have been
c. it has been
d. there have been
18. Police briefly detained Chea Mony, head of
_______.
a. largest labor organization
b. the largest organization labor
c. the largest labor organization
d. labor organization the largest
19. Workers in Thailand marched to demand a
25% increase in the minimum ____.
a. rate
b. price
c. wage
d. requirement
20. In Japan, tens of thousands gathered in
Tokyo to protest against the wealth ____
between rich and poor and to call for better
working conditions.
a. opening
b. hole
c. depression
d. gap
21. US imports have been hit with a ____ $9.1
million in tariffs from the European Union for
breaking World Trade Organization rules.

a. further
b. far
c. father
d. farther than
22. The move comes as the US continues to
benefit ____ the Byrd amendment.
a. in
b. from
c. of
d. on
23. The anti-dumping amendment lets US firms
___ a levy from competitors' goods which it
deems to be too cheap.
a. raising
b. to raise
c. raised
d. raise
24. Rapid credit and surging investment levels
has helped ____ economic growth to 10.2%
in the first quarter.
a. drive
b. driven
c. driving
d. drove
25. Beijing wants 8% growth in 2006, down
from 9.9% last year, amid ____ that
unbridled growth could fuel inflation.
a. expectations
b. concerns
c. declines

d. optimisms
26. United 93, the first Hollywood film to deal
with the terrorist attacks of 11 September,
was _____ movie in the US on its opening
weekend.
a. the second most popular
b. second the most popular
c. the most popular second
d. the most second popular
27. The film ____ events on a flight which
crashed when passengers fought back
against hijackers.
a. dramatizing
b. to dramatize
c. dramatizes
d. is dramatized
28. United 93's sensitive subject matter had
made _____ how it would fare in US
cinemas.
a. it difficult forecasting
b. difficult to forecast
c. it difficult to forecast
d. it difficulty to forecast
29. Some audiences watching trailers for the
film had expressed concern that it was ____
soon to release a drama about the events of
2001.
a. so
b. such
c. enough

d. too
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30. England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson is
poised to take striker Wayne Rooney to the
World Cup ____ his broken foot.
a. nevertheless
b. but
c. though
d. despite
31. Sven-Goran Eriksson added that he had
received "very encouraging news" about
Michael Owen, who is ____ from a foot
injury.
a. protecting
b. prohibiting
c. recovering
d. benefiting
32. Owen played for the first time on Saturday
since breaking a bone in his foot ____ 31
December.
a. in
b. on
c. until
d. at
33. Rooney is seen as an ____ part of
England's bid to win the World Cup in
Germany.
a. intangible
b. intact
c. intellectual

d. integral
34. The World Cup knockout stages are _____
to begin on 24 June - eight weeks away -
with the quarter-finals due to begin seven
days later.
a. scheduled
b. forecast
c. suspected
d. waited
35. Eriksson will name his provisional World
Cup squad on 8 May and his definitive one
_____15 May.
a. in
b. by
c. at
d. for
36. Rooney's position is remarkably similar to
____ England captain David Beckham
before the last World Cup in 2002.
a. that of
b. this of
c. those of
d. it of
37. The number of children under five who are
underweight _____ virtually unchanged
since 1990, despite a target to reduce the
number affected.
a. has remained
b. have remained
c. is remaining

d. are remaining
38. Half of all the under-nourished children in
the world live ____ South Asia.
a. on
b. at
c. from
d. in
39. UNICEF reported that poor ____ contributes
to about 5.6 million child deaths per year,
more than half the total.
a. nutritious
b. nutrition
c. nutritionist
d. nutritional
40. One of the UN's Millennium Development
Goals is to ____ extreme poverty and
hunger by 2015, which would mean halving
the proportion of children who are
underweight for their age.
a. enhance
b. ensure
c. eradicate
d. erect
41. UNICEF warned that the world was not on
track to _____ that goal.
a. encounter
b. require
c. meet
d. see
42. Bangladesh, India and Pakistan ____ half of

all the world's underweight children.
a. account for
b. count on
c. make up for
d. get rid of
43. Eastern and Southern Africa, where famine
regularly occurs, have made ____ progress
- with 29% of children undernourished.
a. few
b. a lot
c. many
d. little
44. In East Asia, China has ____ the number of
underweight children by an average of 6.7%
per year since 1990, but other countries in
the region are lagging behind.
a. accelerated
b. reduced
c. doubled
d. grown
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45. Central and Eastern Europe and the
Commonwealth of Independent States have
the world's_____, at just 5%.
a. the lowest childhood underweight
figures
b. lowest childhood underweight
figures
c. lowest of childhood underweight
figures

d. childhood underweight figures
lowest
46. Vitamins and minerals are key to children's
development, _____deficiencies can
increase the risk of common diseases.
a. however
b. but
c. furthermore
d. and
47. A lack of iodine in household diets leaves
37 million newborns vulnerable to learning
disabilities ______.
a. usually
b. generally
c. every year
d. occasionally
48. UNICEF is calling for range of ____
including things as simple as providing
vitamin A capsules, and fortifying foods with
iron and iodine.
a. measures
b. obstacles
c. measurements
d. measles
49. It also wants child nutrition to be a ____
component of national policies and budgets.
a. centralize
b. centrally
c. center
d. central

50. There should also be a special ____ on the
child's first two years of life and better
promotion of breastfeeding.
a. attention
b. detail
c. focus
d. reliance
51. The polar bear and hippopotamus are for
the first time listed as species ____ with
extinction by the world's biodiversity
agency.
a. threatening
b. threatened
c. threaten
d. to threaten
52. They are included in the Red List of
Threatened Species ____ by the World
Conservation Union (IUCN) which names
more than 16,000 at-risk species.
a. waited
b. written
c. published
d. blamed
53. Many sharks, and freshwater fish in Europe
and Africa, are ____ included.
a. new
b. newness
c. renewed
d. newly
54. The IUCN says that ____ of biodiversity is

increasing despite a global convention
committing governments to stem it.
a. loss
b. losing
c. lost
d. lose
55. Overall, 16,119 species are included in this
year's Red List, the most detailed and
authoritative ____ survey of the health of
the plant and animal kingdoms.
a. regularity
b. regularly
c. regularize
d. regular
56. Polar bears are ______ affected by loss of
Arctic ice, which the IUCN attributes to
climatic change.
a. particularly
b. specially
c. splendidly
d. especial
57. _____ that the snow caves where they raise
their young are melting earlier in the year.
a. There is also evident
b. It is also evidence
c. There is also evidence
d. They are also evidence
58. Polar bears are listed as Vulnerable to
Extinction based on forecasts that their
population will ____ by 50% to 100% over

the next 50 to 100 years.
a. increase
b. decline
c. double
d. soar
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59. In the tropics, the common hippopotamus
has entered the Red List for the first time
____ the population in the Democratic
Republic of Congo has declined
spectacularly - by about 95% in a decade.
a. although
b. for
c. because
d. due to
60. Sharks and rays are also disappearing at an
unprecedented ____ across the globe.
a. ranch
b. reach
c. race
d. rate
61. Some of these are fish ____ were once
common on dinner plates in the UK and
surrounding countries.
a. which
b. where
c. what
d. who
62. The angel shark has been ____ Extinct in
the North Sea and Critically Endangered

globally, while the common skate's status
has also been upgraded to Critically
Endangered.
a. declined
b. declared
c. decreed
d. deducted
63. With fisheries extending into ever deeper
zones of the ocean which are largely
unregulated, populations of many species
are set to decline ____.
a. sharply
b. slowly
c. immediately
d. briefly
64. The first optimistic note is that the overall
number of species in this Red List is not
_____ higher than in the last edition
published in November 2004, which
numbered 15,589 species on the brink.
a. slightly
b. vastly
c. essentially
d. significantly
65. The number of white-tailed eagles has ____
in many European nations, and the bird's
status has been downgraded from Near
Threatened to Least Concern.
a. reduced
b. dropped

c. failed
d. soared
66. A recent decision by the Indian government
to phase out a veterinary drug which was
poisoning the common vulture, causing
numbers to fall by 97%, is also cited as a
simple measure which can bring great ____.
a. succeed
b. success
c. successful
d. successfully
67. One of New York's most famous _____, the
Empire State Building, is celebrating its 75th
birthday.
a. landmarks
b. breakthroughs
c. incidents
d. symptoms
68. The Empire State Building opened in 1931
____ America's Great Depression, and took
just 13 months to construct.
a. on
b. while
c. during
d. because of
69. For 40 years, it was the world's tallest
building ____ the World Trade Center was
built and is once again New York City's
highest structure.
a. until

b. unless
c. because
d. during
70. The building has often ____ Hollywood, and
was famously captured on celluloid in the
1933 King Kong film.
a. attacked
b. attached
c. attracted
d. attributed
71. More than 3,000 workers were ____ in its
construction which provided jobs during a
time of great unemployment.
a. empowered
b. employed
c. emancipated
d. embellished
72. ____ immigrant workers were killed during
the operation.
a. The fourteen
b. Fourteen of
c. The fourteenth
d. Fourteen
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73. The building's spire was ____ supposed to
be a mooring point for air ships, but the idea
was quickly abandoned as dangerous.
a. original
b. originally
c. origin

d. originated
74. The building was in the headlines just last
week after a man attempted ____ from the
86th floor.
a. to parachute
b. parachuting
c. parachute
d. parachuted
75. A Picasso portrait of his lover Dora Maar
has been sold for $95.2m (£51.8m), the
second highest amount ____ paid for a
painting at auction.
a. always
b. rarely
c. once
d. ever
76. The 1941 masterpiece Dora Maar With Cat
was sold to an ____ buyer at Sotheby's in
New York on Wednesday.
a. anonymously
b. anonym
c. anonymous
d. anonymity
77. Its value ranked it behind ____ Picasso
piece, Boy with a Pipe, which fetched a
record $104 million in 2004.
a. other
b. others
c. another
d. each other

78. Dora Maar, who was also an artist, is said to
have helped with the execution of Picasso's
Guernica, his masterpiece ____ the horror
of the Spanish Civil War.
a. depicting
b. depicted
c. depicts
d. depiction
79. Her influence ____ the artist is thought to
have resulted in the most daring portraits of
his career.
a. of
b. on
c. from
d. with
80. ____ auction highlights included a new
record for a Matisse work, which sold for
$18.5m (£10m).
a. Other
b. Another
c. Others
d. One another
81. A scientific report commissioned by the US
government has concluded there is "clear
evidence" of climate change caused ____
human activities.
a. of
b. in
c. by
d. with

82. It found that temperatures have increased in
the lower atmosphere ____ at the Earth's
surface.
a. well as
b. as well
c. so well
d. as well as
83. Some 1.7 million people are thought to have
died in Cambodia between 1975 ____ 1979.
a. and
b. to
c. until
d. as well as
84. Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot died in 1998,
and his regime collapsed ____ afterwards,
but several senior Khmer Rouge figures are
still living freely in Cambodia.
a. short
b. shortage
c. shortly
d. shortened
85. In 2003, Cambodia and the UN agreed
____ to convene trials, but there are fears
the process could be undermined by the
dire state of Cambodia's judicial system.
a. join
b. jointly
c. joins
d. joint
86. Of the 30 officials selected, 14 will ____ as

judges and two as prosecutors.
a. define
b. play
c. consider
d. serve
87. The names of the appointees were not ____
available, but the justice minister said the
international officials came from the US, the
Netherlands, Poland, France, Australia and
Sri Lanka.
a. immaturely
b. immensely
c. immediately
d. immoderately
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88. At present two former regime leaders, Ta
Mok and Kang Keng Ieu, ____ Duch, are in
jail on genocide charges.
a. more commonly known as
b. known as more commonly
c. commonly more known as
d. as more commonly known
89. ____ every Cambodian family lost a relative
to starvation, disease, forced labor or
execution during the Khmer Rouge regime.
a. Most
b. Almost
c. Mostly
d. The most
90. A Toyota ____ has filed a $190m lawsuit in

the US, alleging that the carmaker's top
American boss sexually harassed her.
a. employment
b. employee
c. employees
d. employers
91. Toyota said it had a "zero tolerance" policy
towards sexual harassment, but declined to
make any ____ comment.
a. farther
b. far
c. further
d. furthest
92. Ms Kobayashi alleges that the sexual
harassment against her took place ____
she was working as Mr. Otaka's assistant in
New York.
a. during
b. because
c. in the meantime
d. while
93. UK researchers suggest that people born in
the spring or early summer face an
increased ____ of suicide.
a. risky
b. risks
c. risk
d. riskily
94. A study of 26,916 suicides in England and
Wales found that babies born in April, May

or June had a 17% higher risk of suicide
than ____ born in the autumn.
a. that
b. those
c. these
d. this
95. Tom Cruise has traversed New York on a
helicopter, fire truck, motorcycle and
speedboat to ____ his new movie, Mission:
Impossible III.
a. promote
b. propose
c. probe
d. prohibit
96. The latest adventure in his film series is
____ around the world this week.
a. relieved
b. returned
c. released
d. related
97. The film's publicists tried to keep his route
secret to generate ____ among fans and
paparazzi who hoped to catch a glimpse of
him around the city.
a. excited
b. exciting
c. excitedly
d. excitement
98. Cruise has embarked on a ____
promotional tour for the blockbuster film -

directed by Lost creator JJ Abrams - despite
the birth of his baby daughter on 18 April.
a. globe
b. globally
c. globalize
d. global
99. The BBC has defended its decision to air an
interview with convicted sex ____ and
former singer Gary Glitter.
a. abuser
b. abuse
c. abusive
d. abusively
100. At least 232 ____ have been received
since the footage was shown on Tuesday's
One O'Clock News and repeated in
subsequent bulletins.
a. complainers
b. complaints
c. complains
d. complaint
101. Middlesbrough boss Steve McClaren has
been ____ the next England manager,
ending months of speculation over Sven-
Goran Eriksson's successor.
a. agreed
b. appointed
c. appreciated
d. applied
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102. McClaren had looked set to miss out to
Portugal manager Luiz Felipe Scolari, who
was ____ the post by the Football
Association in April.
a. offset
b. offended
c. offered
d. omitted
103. When Scolari ruled himself out of
contention, the FA turned their ____ to the
45-year-old McClaren.
a. attention
b. observation
c. creation
d. direction
104. McClaren made his way to London from
his Yorkshire home on Thursday and
arrived ____ the FA's Soho Square
headquarters at 1540 BST (British Summer
Time).
a. on
b. in
c. from
d. at
105. Speculation over Eriksson's successor
was rife when the Swede ____ in January
he would be stepping down from his role as
England manager at the end of the World
Cup.
a. will announce

b. has announced
c. announced
d. announcing
106. McClaren will be by Eriksson's side during
this summer's World Cup in Germany, and
his reputation would be ____ by a
successful campaign.
a. marred
b. damaged
c. enriched
d. enhanced
107. Sven-Goran Eriksson is pleased that
Steve McClaren has been chosen to ____
him in the post after this summer's World
Cup.
a. succeed
b. success
c. successful
d. successfully
108. McClaren, who has ____ a four-year deal
as manager which starts on 1 August, will
continue to work alongside Eriksson during
the World Cup.
a. searched
b. signed
c. soared
d. soaked
109. McClaren's former boss in club football,
Sir Alex Ferguson, also backed the ____ to
move the Middlesbrough manager to the

England helm.
a. declaration
b. deception
c. decrease
d. decision
110. Ferguson feels that England will ____
from the continuity of promoting McClaren
from his role as Eriksson's number two.
a. result
b. originate
c. benefit
d. influence
111. The FA's director of football development,
Sir Trevor Brooking, is looking forward to
____ alongside the next England boss
McClaren.
a. work
b. working
c. worked
d. works
112. Middlesbrough chief executive Keith Lamb
thanked McClaren for ____ contribution
during his five years in charge at the
Riverside Stadium.
a. his
b. him
c. their
d. her
113. Here's our list of the 100 men and women
_____ power, talent or moral example is

transforming our world.
a. who
b. whom
c. which
d. whose
114. Crude oil prices have ____ for the second
day and are now down by $5 a barrel since
a government report showed that US petrol
reserves had increased.
a. failed
b. fallen
c. soared
d. controlled
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115. Concern that gasoline supplies would not
be able to meet demand ____ the summer
holiday months has been one of the factors
underpinning record prices.
a. while
b. in the meantime
c. during
d. although
116. Archaeologists in Cambodia have
completed the first part of ____ has been
called the world's largest jigsaw puzzle.
a. that
b. where
c. how
d. what
117. The Baphuon, one of ____ at the world-

famous Angkor complex, has been in
hundreds of thousands of pieces for
decades.
a. the largest and oldest temples
b. largest and oldest temples
c. the largest and oldest temple
d. the temples largest and oldest
118. Under the Khmer Rouge's brutal regime,
the plans for the temple's reconstruction
____.
a. were destroyed
b. destroyed
c. was destroyed
d. were destroying
119. The British embassy in Berlin is ____ a
conference on racism in football, comparing
the situation in Britain and Germany.
a. honoring
b. hoisting
c. hosting
d. hoping
120. The conference comes after a racist
attack on a German man of African origin
____ concerns about the safety of black
fans during the World Cup.
a. rose
b. raced
c. risked
d. raised
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1. A
2. B
3. A
4. C
5. D
6. C
7. B
8. D
9. A
10. C
11. D
12. A
13. B
14. C
15. D
16. B
17. A
18. C
19. C
20. D
21. A
22. B
23. D
24. A
25. B
26. A
27. C
28. C
29. D
30. D

31. C
32. B
33. D
34. A
35. B
36. A
37. A
38. D
39. B
40. C
41. C
42. A
43. D
44. B
45. B
46. A
47. C
48. A
49. D
50. C
51. B
52. C
53. D
54. A
55. D
56. A
57. C
58. B
59. C
60. D

61. A
62. B
63. A
64. D
65. D
66. B
67. A
68. C
69. A
70. C
71. B
72. D
73. B
74. A
75. D
76. C
77. C
78. A
79. B
80. A
81. C
82. D
83. A
84. C
85. B
86. D
87. C
88. A
89. B
90. B

91. C
92. D
93. C
94. B
95. A
96. C
97. D
98. D
99. A
100. B
101. B
102. C
103. A
104. D
105. C
106. D
107. A
108. B
109. D
110. C
111. B
112. A
113. D
114. B
115. C
116. D
117. A
118. A
119. C
120. D

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