Section One: Listening Comprehension Part A

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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

(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

(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

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 well-developed system of law

D

17 Altitude, climate, temperature, and the length of the growing season both

determine Where plants will grow

D

18 The bathyscaphe, a free-moving vessel designed for underwater exploration,

consists of a Flotation compartment with a observation capsule attached underneath it

19 Water constitutes almost 96 percent of the body weight of a jellyfish, so if

a jellyfish were to dry out in the sun, it would virtually disappeared

20 The most important parameters affecting a rocket's maximum flight

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

droughts

22 All harmonized music that is not contrapuntal depends from the relationship

of chords, which are either consonant or dissonant

23 Expressionist drama often shows the influence of modern psychology by

reflecting the frustrations inner of the dramatist

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

that can be closed under water

D

26 Petroleum, which currently makes up about four-tenths of the world's energy

production, supplies more commercial energy than any another source

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

our knowledge of human reproductive and development as well as our understanding

of the nervous system

29 When swollen by melting snow or heavy rain, some rivers routinely overflow

its banks

D

30 In 1884 Belva Lockwood, a lawyer who had appeared before the Supreme Court,

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

32 Physicists have known since the early nineteenth century that all

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

productions

35 Established in 1860, the Government Printing Office prints and binds

documents for all department of the United States government

C D

36 Ethnology, usually considered a branch of cultural anthropology, is

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

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

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

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