Section One: Listening Comprehension Part A

2001 - 08 Section One: Listening Comprehension Part A 1. (A) He'll help Tina prepare for the meeting. (B) He's disappointed that he'll have to miss the meeting. (C) He often works extra hours. (D) He's afraid the meeting won't end on time. 2. (A) The man will take the camera to be repaired. (B) The woman will take a picture of the man. (C) The woman will show the man how to use the camera. (D) The woman will borrow the man's camera. 3. (A) He'd like to apply for a replacement card. (B) He needed to see a doctor two weeks ago. (C) He's pleased that the woman found the card. (D) He's glad he was finally able to get an appointment. 4. (A) She doesn't understand the man's question (B) She doesn't have time to repeat the explanation now. (C) She doesn't mind answering questions (D) Shell return soon. 5. A) The woman doesn't accept the man's apology. (B) The woman wasn't bothered by the delay. (C) The man didn't realize the woman was waiting. (D) The man waited a long time for the bus. 6. (A) The coat isn't warm enough to wear in cold weather. (B) She bought the coat last winter. (C) She needs to have the coat cleaned before next winter. (D) The coat is the only warm coat she owns. 7. (A) She won't be a candidate next year. (B) She doesn't believe the news. (C) The news doesn't upset her. (D) The news will disappoint Mary. 8. (A) Try to find the woman's roommate. (B) Buy tickets for the film festival. (C) Give the woman a ride to the bookstore. (D) Get a schedule for the woman. 9. (A) He doesn't know many composers of classical music (B) Annie might spend a lot of money on classical music. (C) He has known Annie's neighbor for many years. (D) Annie should try not to get sick. 10. (A) She'll probably be late for her appointment with the dentist (B) She won't be riding with her class to the museum. (C) She'll meet the man in front of the library. (D) She forgot that her class was going to the museum 11. (A) She thinks it will rain today. (B) Her hobby is collecting coins. (C) She'll change the money for the man. (D) She's keeping the money for an emergency. 12. (A) He studies engineering. (B) He has only recently become interested in philosophy. (C) He wasn't at the lecture. (D) He thinks Professor Warner is a good teacher. 13. (A) The reports should have been completed by today. (B) Only the first part of the report is due next Friday. (C) Some students didn't finish their reports on time. (D) Some students haven't started their reports yet. 14. (A) Spend thirty dollars on the painting. (B) Sell one of his paintings. (C) Look for a less expensive painting. (D) Buy the painting without the frame. 15. (A) Exercise less frequently. (B) Take less medicine each day. (C) Visit him as soon as possible. (D) Take a new kind of headache medicine. 16. (A) His job starts next week. (B) He's eager to start his new job. (C) His professor was mistaken about the job. (D) He believes the job interview went well. 17. (A) Janet didn't attend. (B) Janet's friends did a lot of the work. (C) The man wasn't invited. (D) It was canceled at the last minute. 18. (A) He's looking for another roommate. (B) He's sharing the room with his brothers. (C) He hasn't met his roommate yet. (D) He doesn't think the room is too small. 19. (A) The train to Middletown is often late. (B) The man has missed the train to Middletown. (C) The next train to Middletown leaves in eleven minutes. (D) Trains don't stop at Middletown in the evening. 20. (A) Wear his suit. (B) Prepare for cold weather. (C) Find out who's going to the party. (D) Dress informally. 21. (A) She's not sure she'll be seeing Julia. (B) She'll phone Julia later in the week. (C) She doesn't know Julia's phone number. (D) She doesn't think Julia knows about registration. 22. (A) Most of them were written near the end of the author's lifetime. (B) Many of them aren't included in the library's collection. (C) They were all highly praised by literary critics. (D) Many readers like to collect them. 23. (A) The man is a good student. (B) The man shouldn't work overtime. (C) She wishes that she had a job. (D) She doesn't want to work with the man. 24. (A) She doesn't expect to meet with Kevin today. (B) She can't wait any longer for Kevin. (C) Kevin is often late. (D) Kevin has probably overslept. 25. (A) The books are all required for the history course. (B) Some of the books are for courses other than history. (C) He plans to read more than just the books that are required. (D) He's worried he may not finish the required reading. 26. (A) Watch a movie on television. (B) Go out to dinner with the man. (C) Go to the tennis court. (D) Play in the tournament. 27. (A) She wishes she could help the man. (B) She has a bigger problem than the man has. (C) She knows a mechanic who can fix the man's car. (D) The man should buy a new car. 28. (A) She's pleased the man's schedule won't change. (B) She can't offer the man a flexible schedule. (C) Whoever works at the front desk must have a flexible schedule. (D) She doesnt need anyone else to work at the front desk. 29. (A) He wants the woman to repeat her question. (B) He agrees with the woman. (C) He wants to talk about the movie. (D) He wants to see the movie again. 30. (A) Professor Lane is liked by her students. (B) Professor Lane never gives high grades. (C) The man deserves the grade he received. (D) The man should phone Professor Lane to thank her. PartB 31. (A) How different kinds of pepper are produced. (B) Why white pepper is superior to dishes. (C) How the pepper plant is grown. (D) How various peppers are used in cooking. 32. (A) He read about it in a cookbook. (B) He grows his own herbs and spices. (C) He heard about it from a friend. (D) He studied it in cooking school. 33. (A) It's preserved in liquid. (B) The skin is removed. (C) It's dried in the sun. (D) It's freeze-dried. 34. (A) It's more pure than other types of pepper. (B) It helps maintain the color of certain black pepper. (C) It has a fruity flavor. (D) It's easier to grow. 35. (A) He answered all her questions correctly. (B) He received a good grade in cooking class. (C) She likes what he has just cooked. (D) She's impressed with his knowledge 36. (A) A story in prose. (B) A poem that rhymes. (C) A translation of a short literary work. (D) A journal about the process of writing. 37. (A) The class has been assigned to read than it is in English. (B) He was able to read it in French. (C) He isn't sure it's available in English. (D) He thinks it's an example of what the wants. 38. (A) It's pronounced differently in French it. (B) To write without using it is difficult both in English and in French. (C) Every word in the French author's professor book contained it. (D) It's commonly used in English to make poetry rhyme. PartC 39. (A) As the result of the moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. (B) As the result of the Earth's rotation. (C) As the horizontal movement of air. (D) As the vertical movement of air. 40. (A) It's the ultimate cause of winds. (B) It causes vertical movements of air. (C) It reduces differences in air pressure. (D) It's used to predict weather patterns. 41. (A) Air pressure. (B) Temperature. (C) Humidity. (D) Wind direction. 42. (A) How winds affect temperature. (B) Reasons for sudden increases in wind. (C) The origin of storm systems. (D) How vertical air movement influences weather. 43. (A) Factors that affect the ability to remember. (B) The influence of childhood memories on adulthood. (C) A proposal for future psychological research. (D) Benefits of a busy lifestyle. 44. (A) The need to exercise the memory. (B) How the brain differs from other body tissues. (C) The unconscious learning of a physical activity. (D) How nerves control body movement. 45. (A) Repeat it aloud. (B) Write it down. (C) Make a mental picture of it. (D) practice recalling it. 46. (A) Ask questions about the assigned reading. (B) Give an example of active learning. (C) Explain recent research on recalling childhood memories. (D) Make an assignment for the next class session. 47. (A) How they behave toward ants from other nests. (B) What they usually eat. (C) Why they are becoming extinct. (D) Why they were brought to California 48. (A) They protect Argentine ants that live in neighboring nests. (B) They gather food with Argentine ants from other nests. (C) They fight Argentine ants from other nests. (D) They generally build larger nests than other ant species do. 49. (A) They attack members of their own nests. (B) They recruit ants from other species into their nests. (C) They form large colonies made of several nests. (D) They hide from insects that attack their nests. 50. (A) They share the same few ancestors. (B) They can't be distinguished from native Californian ants. (C) They are evolving faster than native Californian ants. (D) Their future survival is in doubt. Section Two: Structure and Written Expression 1. Geothermal energy is a potentially inexhaustible energy source ______been tapped by humans for centuries but, until recent years, only on a small scale. (A) has it (B) has (C) that has (D) that it has 2. The importance of the hand, and more generally of the body, in children's acquisition of arithmetic_____. (A) can hardly be exaggerated (B) hardly exaggerated can be (C) can be exaggerate hardly (D) exaggerated can be hardly 3. ______ is present in the body in greater amounts than any other mineral. (A) Calcium (B) There is calcium (C) Calcium, which (D) It is calcium 4. _______ the evidence is inconclusive, it is thought that at least some seals have an echolocation system akin to that of bats, porpoises, and shrews. (A) Rather (B) Despite (C) Although (D) Why 5. The total mass of all asteroids in the solar system is much less ______ mass of Earth's Moon. (A) than that is the (B) than the (C) the (D) is the 6. Like bacteria, protozoans _______by splitting in two. (A) reproducing (B) reproduce (C) to reproduce (D) reproduction 7. ______main processes involved in virtually all manufacturing: extraction, assembly, and alteration. (A) There are three (B) Three (C) The three (D) Three of the 8. Most documentary filmmakers use neither actors _______studio setting. (A) or else (B) but not (C) nor (D) and 9. Salamanders are sometime confused with lizards, but unlike lizards ________no scales or claws. (A) that they have (B) to have (C) they have (D) are having 10. The province of Alberta lies along three of the major North American flyways Used by birds _______between their winter and summer homes. (A) the migration (B) migrating (C) migrate (D) and migrate 11. Astronomers estimate ______called the Pleiades in the constellation Taurus is 415 light-years away from Earth. (A) that a loose cluster of stars (B) a loose cluster of stars is (C) that is a loose cluster of stars (D) there is a loose cluster of stars 12. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, _____ the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938, is Best known for her novels about China. (A) won (B) winner of (C) to win (D) who the winner of 13. Stage producers Klaw and Erlanger were the first to eliminate arguments among leading performers _______in order of appearance, instead of prominence. (A) of whom list the program (B) the program listing (C) for them the program listed (D) by listing them on the program 14. During the decades after the United States Civil War, a host of technical advances made possible ______and uniformity of railroad service. (A) a new integration (B) for a new integration (C) that a new integration (D) and a new integration 15. Forests stabilize _____and retain precipitation, thereby helping to prevent erosion and regulate the flow of streams. (A) to the soil (B) the soil (C) where the soil (D) the soil is 16. Modern societies are such complex that they could not exist without A B C a well-developed system of law. D 17. Altitude, climate, temperature, and the length of the growing season both A B C determine Where plants will grow. D 18. The bathyscaphe, a free-moving vessel designed for underwater exploration, A consists of a Flotation compartment with a observation capsule attached underneath it. B C D 19. Water constitutes almost 96 percent of the body weight of a jellyfish, so if A B a jellyfish were to dry out in the sun, it would virtually disappeared. C D 20. The most important parameters affecting a rocket's maximum flight A velocity is the relationship between the vehicle's mass and the amount B C of propellant it can carry. D 21.There were once only eight major lakes or reservoirs in Texas, but A today there are over 180, many built to storing water against periodic B C D droughts. 22. All harmonized music that is not contrapuntal depends from the relationship A B of chords, which are either consonant or dissonant. C D 23. Expressionist drama often shows the influence of modern psychology by A B reflecting the frustrations inner of the dramatist. C D 24. It is the number, kind, and arrange of teeth that determine whether a mammal A B C is classified as a carnivore not the food that the animal actually eats. D 25. The sea otter is well adapted at its marine existence, with ears and nostrils A B C that can be closed under water. D 26. Petroleum, which currently makes up about four-tenths of the world's energy A production, supplies more commercial energy than any another source. B C D 27. Someone may refuse to recognize the seriousness of an emotionally threatening A B C situation and perceive as less threatening. D 28. Through experiments with marine organisms, marine biologists can increase A B our knowledge of human reproductive and development as well as our understanding C D of the nervous system. 29. When swollen by melting snow or heavy rain, some rivers routinely overflow A B C its banks. D 30. In 1884 Belva Lockwood, a lawyer who had appeared before the Supreme Court, A B became the first woman was nominated for President of the United States. C D 31. The taller of all animals, a full-grown giraffe may be eighteen feet or more high. A B C D 32. Physicists have known since the early nineteenth century that all A B matter is made up of tiny extremely particles called atoms. C D 33. Rain is slight acidic even in unpolluted air, because carbon dioxide A B in the atmosphere and other natural acid-forming gases dissolve in the C D water. 34. In a stock company, a troupe of actors performs in A a particular theater, presenting plays from its repertory of prepare B C D productions. 35. Established in 1860, the Government Printing Office prints and binds A B documents for all department of the United States government. C D 36. Ethnology, usually considered a branch of cultural anthropology, is A often defined as the scientifically study of the origin and functioning B C of humans and their culture. D 37. The one-fluid theory of electricity was proposing by A B Benjamin Franklin, a man famous for his wide interests and C D great attainments. 38. Probably not speech of so few words has ever been as celebrated as A B C D Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. 39. Generally, Abstract Expressionist art is without recognizable images A and does not adhere the Limits of conventional form. B C D 40. Although complete paralysis is rare with neuritis, some degree of A B C muscle weakness common. D Section Three: Reading Comprehension Questions 1-9 Glass fibers have a long history. The Egyptians made coarse fibers by 1600 B.C., and fibers survive as decorations on Egyptian pottery dating back to 1375 B c. During the Renaissance (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries A.D.), glassmakers from Venice used glass Line fibers to decorate the surfaces of plain glass vessels. However, glassmakers guarded their (5) secrets so carefully that no one wrote about glass fiber production until the early seventeenth century. The eighteenth century brought the invention of "spun glass" fibers. Rene-Antoine de Reaumur, a French scientist, tried to make artificial feathers from glass. He made fibers by rotating a wheel through a pool of molten glass, pulling threads of glass where the hot (10) thick liquid stuck to the wheel. His fibers were short and fragile, but he predicted that spun glass fibers as thin as spider silk would be flexible and could be woven into fabric. By the start of the nineteenth century, glassmakers learned how to make longer, stronger fibers by pulling them from molten glass with a hot glass tube. Inventors wound the cooling end of the thread around a yarn reel, then turned the reel rapidly to pull more fiber (15) from the molten glass. Wandering tradespeople began to spin glass fibers at fairs, making decorations and ornaments as novelties for collectors, but this material was of little practical use; the fibers were brittle, ragged, and no longer than ten feet, the circumference of the largest reels. By the mid-1870's, however, the best glass fibers were finer than silk and could be woven into fabrics or assembled into imitation ostrich feathers to decorate (20) hats. Cloth of white spun glass resembled silver; fibers drawn from yellow-orange glass looked golden. Glass fibers were little more than a novelty until the 1930's, when their thermal and electrical insulating properties were appreciated and methods for producing continuous filaments were developed. In the modern manufacturing process, liquid glass is fed (25) directly from a glass-melting furnace into a bushing, a receptacle pierced with hundreds of fine nozzles, from which the liquid issues in fine streams. As they solidify, the streams of glass are gathered into a single strand and wound onto a reel. 1. Which of the following aspects of glass fiber does the passage mainly discuss? (A) The major developments in its production (B) Its relationship with pottery making (C) Important inventors in its long history (D) The variety of its uses in modern industry 2. The word "coarse" in line 1 is closest in meaning to (A) decorative (B) natural (C) crude (D) weak 3. Why was there nothing written about the making of Renaissance glass fibers until the seventeenth century? (A) Glassmakers were unhappy with the quality of the fibers they could make. (B) Glassmakers did not want to reveal the methods they used. (C) Few people were interested in the Renaissance style of glass fibers. (D) Production methods had been well known for a long time. [...]... As an example of a topic taken up by realist writers (D) As an example of how setting can influence literary style 36 Which of the following wrote about life in rural New England? (A) Ellen Glasgow (B) Sarah Orne Jewett (C) Hamlin Garland (D) Mark Twain 37 Mark Twain is considered an important literary figure because he (A) was the first realist writer in the United States (B) rejected romanticism as... distinctive spatial organization depended on widespread private ownership of automobiles Los Angeles was a decentralized metropolis, sprawling across the desert landscape over an (20) area of 400 square miles It was a city without a real center The downtown business district did not grow apace with the city as a whole, and the rapid transit system designed to link the center with outlying areas withered away... emphasized the effect of the environment on humans, and the (10) influence of science Realists such as Joel Chandler Harris and Ellen Glasgow depicted life in the South; Hamlin Garland described life on the Great Plains; and Sarah One Jewett wrote about everyday life in rural New England Another realist, Bret Harte, achieved fame with stories that portrayed local life in the California mining camps... the use of gasoline engines in North America (C) a desire to put unproductive desert land to good use (D) innovative planning on the part of the city founders 48 The phrase "apace with" in line 21 is closest in meaning to (A) anew with (B) apart from (C) as fast as (D) at the middle of 49 It can be inferred from the passage that the spatial organization of Los Angeles contributed to the relative decline... generalization about plover behavior followed by specific examples (C) A comparison and contrast of the nesting behavior of plovers and other ground nesting birds (D) A cause-and-efleet analysis of the relationship between a prey and a predator Questions 20-28 The interrelationship of science, technology, and industry is taken for granted today—summed up, not altogether accurately, as "research and development."... is probably the most common pattern, but it is not invariable New areas of science have been opened up and fundamental discoveries made as a result of attempts to solve a specific technical or economic problem Conversely, scientists who mainly do basic research also serve as consultants on projects that apply research in practical ways (25) In sum, the science-technology-industry relationship may flow... camps (15) Samuel Clemens, who adopted the pen name Mark Twain, became the country's most outstanding realist author, observing life around him with a humorous and skeptical eye In his stories and novels, Twain drew on his own experiences and used dialect and common speech instead of literary language, touching off a major change in American prose style Other writers became impatient even with realism Pushing... authors (B) dialects (C) stories (D) relationships 32 According to the passage, a highly significant factor in the development of realist and naturalist literature was (A) the Civil War (B) a recognition that romanticism was unpopular (C) an increased interest in the study of common speech (D) an economic depression 33 Realist writers took an interest in all of the following EXCEPT (A) human relationships... to the relative decline there of (A) public transportation (B) industrial areas (C) suburban neighborhoods (D) oil fields 50 The visitors from the east coast mentioned in the passage thought that Los Angeles (A) was not accurately portrayed by Hollywood images (B) lacked good suburban areas in which to live (C) had an excessively large population (D) was not really a single city ... in novels such as Sister Carrie, grimly (25) portrayed a dark world in which human beings were tossed about by forces beyond their understanding or control Dreiser thought that writers should tell the truth about human affairs, not fabricate romance, and Sister Carrie, he said, was "not intended as a piece of literary craftsmanship, but was a picture of conditions." 29 Which aspect of late-nineteenth-century