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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined
part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 1. A. hidden
B. minor
C. written
D. kitten
Question 2. A. studio

B study

C. stupid

D. student

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the
other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 3. A. attractive
B. sociable
C. dynamic
D. conservative
Question 4. A. entertain

B. enjoyable

C. anniversary

D. introduce

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that

needs correction in each of the following questions.
Question 5. Adult humans have more than a trillion cells in his bodies.
A
B
C
D
Question 6. Rumors began circulating that the Prime Minister was seriously illness.
A
B
C
D
Question 7. A ten-thousand-dollars reward was offered for the capture of the escaped prisoner.
A
B
C
D
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each
of the following questions.
Question 8. The popular press often contains a lot more____________ than hard facts.
A. speculation
B. realism
C. influence
D. tolerance
Question 9. Only in the Civil War____________ killed or wounded.
A. soldiers in America
B. were so many American soldiers
C. many in America
D. so many American soldiers were
Question 10. Susan was sad because she wasn’t invited to any social events. She felt
____________

A. left out
B. turned out
C. omitted out
D. gone out
Question 11. The equipment in our office needs____________
A. moderner
B. modernizing
C. modernized
D. modernization
Question 12. I’ve been working ____________ quite a lot of pressure lately.
A. in
B. with
C. on
D. under
Question 13. Joe seemed to be in a good mood, ________ he snapped at me angrily when I
asked him to join us.
A. yet
B. so
C. for
D. and
Question 14. He gave me his personal____________ that his draft would be ready by Friday.
A. endurance
B. insurance
C. assurance
D. ensurance
Question 15. Several of my friends are ____________ reporters.
A. newspaper

B. newspapers

C. newspaper’s

D. newspapers’

Question 16. We have had the roof of our house _________.
A. to replace
B. replace
C. replaced
D. been replaced
Question 17. He gave her a mischievous ____________ as she handed him his order.
A. peer

B. peep

C. wink

D. blink


Question 18. No one died in the accident, ___________?
A. didn’t they
B. did he
C. didn’t he
D. did they
Question 19. Because of cutbacks in council spending, plans for the new swimming pool had to
be ___________.
A. stockpiled
B. overthrown
C. shelved
D. disrupted

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to
complete each of the following exchanges.
Question 20. ‘Can I give you a little more coffee?’ ‘_______’.
A. No, you’re welcome.
B. Yes, you’re right.
C. No, thank you.
D. Yes, I’m Ok.
Question 21. This suitcase s really heavy, and my back is killing me!’ ‘_______’.
A. I sometimes have a backache.
B. Oh, thanks for your help.
C. It’s very good of you to do that.
D. Shall I carry it?
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in
meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 22. The computer was experiencing an internal problem.
A. international
B. inner
C. outside
D. lasting forever
Question 23. His job was to splice electrical wires inside houses.
A. destroy
B. remove
C. connect
D. buy
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in
meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 24. It was a very wonderful opportunity for us to catch, so we should take
advantage of it.
A. destroy
B. break

C. hold
D. miss
Question 25. I need everybody's help. The wedding is tomorrow and we haven't even started
with the decorations yet. We have no time to lose.
A. a long time
B. almost no time C. very little time D. a lot of time to spare
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in
meaning to each of the following questions.
Question 26. Be he rich or poor, she will marry him.
A. She doesn’t want to marry him because he is poor.
B. She wants to marry him if he is rich.
C. She will marry him whether he is rich or poor.
D. She will marry him however poor he may be.
Question 27. When I met my long-lost brother, I was at a loss for words.
A. When the speaker met his brother, he was puzzled about what to say.
B. When the speaker met his brother, he had much to say.
C. When the speaker met his brother, he refused to say anything.
D. When the speaker met his brother, he had nothing pleasant to say.
Question 28. Donald could not help weeping when he heard the bad news.
A. Donald could not stop himself from weeping at the bad news.
B. Donald could not allow himself to weep at the bad news.
C. Donald could not help himself and so he wept.
D. Donald could not help himself because he was weeping.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best
combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.


Question 29. He cannot lend me the book now. He has not finished reading it yet.
A. As long as he cannot finish reading the book, he will lend it to me.
B. Having finished reading the book, he cannot lend it to me.

C. He cannot lend me the book until he has finished reading it.
D. Not having finished reading the book, he will lend it to me.
Question 30. His academic record at high school was poor. He failed to apply to that prestigious
institution.
A. His academic record at high school was poor as a result of his failure to apply to that
prestigious institution.
B. His academic record at high school was poor because he didn’t apply to that
prestigious institution.
C. Failing to apply to that prestigious institution, his academic record at high school was
poor.
D. His academic record at high school was poor; as a result, he failed to apply to that
prestigious institution.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate
the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.
The elementary means of communicating with other people is (31) ____ messages by
voice. This fact is widely acknowledged and we recognize the voice as a feature characterizing
the identity of a person. The array of voices is immeasurable as no two are exactly similar. They
can be nasal, resonant or shrill produced in accordance with the individual physical (32) _____
of the throat
One possible implementation of the art of voice recognition is voice profiling used by
police analysts as a method of (33) ____ court evidence in trials. Every year thousands of
audiotapes with recorded interviews or casual utterances are put to the purpose to help identity
the probable culprit. Specialists dealing with the voice investigation claim that people can give
themselves away by their accents, infections or other voice attributes like pitch, intensity and
loudness. A recorded sample is usually (34) _____ into electric impulses and later transformed
into a pictorial recording which is processed by a computer program. Very frequently voice
analysts have a stab at deciphering the relevant information which may be mingled with
background noise or other interfering sounds until they attain the desired results.
Thankfully, these efforts help the police detect individuals who threaten their victim by
phone or inform about bomb planting or those who make offensive calls (35) _____ the peace of

decent citizens.
Question 31. A. commuting
Question 32. A. tendencies
Question 33. A. substantiating
Question 34. A. reformed
Question 35. A. distracting

D. conveying
B. credentials
B. facilitating
B. exchanged
B. dismantling

C. discharging
C. assets
C. pledging
C. adjusted
C. disturbing

D. informing
D. properties
D. withstanding
D. converted
D. dispersing

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate
the correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 42.
Even with his diverse experience as an elected official at the state level, Andrew Johnson
was the first president of the United States ever to be impeached, primarily because of his violent

temper and unyielding stubbornness. His career started in 1828 with his collection to the city
council of Greenville, Tennessee, and after two years as an alderman, he took office as mayor.
His advancements followed in rapid succession when he was elected to the Tennessee state
senate, then as the state governor, and later to the U.S. House of Representatives for five
consecutive terms.
In 1864, Johnson ran for the office of vice-president on the Lincoln- Johnson ticket and
was inaugurated in 1865. After Lincoln’s assassination six weeks into his term, Johnson found
himself president at a time when southern leaders were concerned about their forced alliance
with the northern states and feared retaliation for their support of the secession. Instead, however,
with the diplomatic skill he had learned from Lincoln, Johnson offered full pardon to almost all
Confederates on the condition that they take an oath of allegiance. He further reorganized the
former Confederate states and set up legislative elections.
Congressional opposition to his peace- making policies resulted in gridlock between the
House and Johnson, and the stalemate grew into an open conflict on the issue of the
emancipation of slaves. While Johnson held the view that newly freed slaves lacked
understanding and knowledge of civil liberties to vote intelligently, Congress overrode Johnson’s
veto of the Civil Rights Bill, which awarded them citizenship and ratified the Fourteenth
Amendment. In the years that followed, Congress passed bills depriving the president of the
power to pardon political criminals, stripping away his status of commander-in-chief, and taking
away Johnson’s right to dismiss civil and executive officers from their duties. Johnson vetoed
each bill, and each veto was overridden. When Johnson dismissedvthe secretary of war, Edwin
Stanton, Stanton refused to step down and was supported by the House of Representatives, which
voted to impeach Johnson. At the trial, the Senate came one vote short of the two-thirds majority
necessary to remove him from office. After Johnson’s term expired, he returned to his home
state, but in 1875 he was elected senator and went back to Washington to take his seat.
Question 36. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Andrew Johnson’s career as a politician
B. Congressional decisions in the late 1800s
C. Andrew Johnson’s personal characteristics

D. Congressional decisions and procedures in the late 1800s
Question 37. What can be inferred from the first paragraph about Andrew Johnson’s work in
Tennessee?
A. He was represented to the posts five times.
B. His personality precluded him from important positions.
C. His work became known to the governor.
D. He was elected to several important posts.
Question 38. According to the passage, what led to Johnson’s downfall?
A. His personal characteristics
B. His waffling and hesitation
C. The state of the nation’s economy
D. His liberal position on slavery
Question 39. The author of the passage implies that when Johnson became president he
A. had already experienced political turmoil
B. was a dedicated supporter of civil rights
C. was a soft-spoken and careful diplomat
D. had an extensive background in politics
Question 40. According to the passage, Congress’s disapproval of Andrew Johnson’s policies
was
A. directed at his civic duties


B. short-lived and groundless
C. detrimental to his presidency
D. stopped as soon as it emerged
Question 41. In line 21, the word “pardon” is closest in meaning to
A. exonerate
B. parade
C. patronize
D. extricate

Question 42. According to the passage, the attempt to impeach Andrew Johnson
A. overwhelmed his supporters in Tennessee
B. succeeded as expected by the House
C. failed by a minimal margin
D. put an end to his political career
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate
the
correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.
Even before the turn of the century, movies began to develop in two major directions: the
realistic and the formalistic. Realism and formalism are merely general, rather than absolute,
terms. When used to suggest a tendency toward either polarity, such labels can be helpful, but in
the end they are just labels. Few films are exclusively formalist in style, and fewer yet are
completely realist. There is also an important difference between realism and reality, although
this distinction is often forgotten. Realism is a particular type, whereas physical reality is the
source of all the raw materials of film, both realistic and formalistic. Virtually, all movie
directors go to the photographable world for their subject matter, but what they do with this
material- how they shape and manipulate it- determines their stylistic emphasis.
Generally speaking, realistic films attempt to reproduce the surface of concrete reality
with a minimum of distortion. In photographing objects and events, the Filmmaker tries to
suggest the copiousness of life itself. Both realist and formalist film directors must select (and
hence emphasize) certain details from the chaotic sprawl of reality. But the element of selectivity
in realistic films is less obvious. Realists, in short, to preserve the illusion that their film world
is unmanipulated, an objective mirror the actual world. Formalists, on the other hand, make no
such pretense. They deliberately stylize and distort their raw materials so that only the very naive
would mistake a manipulated image of an object or event for the real thing. We rarely notice the
style in a realistic movie; the artist tends to be self-effacing. The filmmakers are more concerned
with what is being shown than how it is manipulated. The camera is used conservatively. It is
essentially a recording mechanism that produces the surface of tangible objects with as little
commentary as possible. A high premium is placed on simplicity, spontaneity, and directness. It
is not to suggest that these movies lack artistry, however, for at its best the realistic cinema

specializes in art that conceals art.
Question 43. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Styles of filmmaking
B. Filmmaking 100 years ago
C. Acting styles
D. Film plots
Question 44. With which of the following statements would the author be most likely to agree?
A. Most films are neither exclusively realistic nor formalistic.
B. Realistic films are more popular than formalistic ones.
C. Realism and formalism are outdated terms.
D. Formalistic films are less artistic than realistic ones.
Question 45. The phrase "this distinction" in the first paragraph refers to the difference between
A. general and absolute
B. physical reality and raw materials
C. formalists and realists
D. realism and reality


Question 46. Whom does the author say is primarily responsible for a style of film?
A. The producer
B. The camera operator
C. The director
D. The actors
Question 47. The word "
Copiousness"in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to
A. abundance
B. greatness
C. fullness
D. variety
Question 48. How can one recognize the formalist style?

A. it mirrors the actual world.
B. it obviously manipulated images.
C. it uses familiar images.
D. it is very impersonal.
Question 49. The word "
tangible"in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to
A. various
B. comprehensible
C. concrete
D. complex
Question 50. Which of the following films would most likely use a realist style?
A. A musical drama
B. An animated cartoon
C. A science fiction film
D. A travel documentary

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