Section 1: Vocabulary and Grammar (25 points)
This section consists of 3 parts. Read the directions for each part before answering the questions. The time for this section is 25 minutes.
Part 1 Vocabulary Selection
In this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are 4 choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. There is only ONE right answer. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.
1. The explanation given by the manager yesterday was not at all _____ to us.
A. satisfy B. satisfied
C. satisfactory D. satisfying
2. Part of the funds will be used to _____ that old library to its original splendor.
A. rest B. recover
C. replace D. restore
3. This silk has gone right _____ and we have not sold a single piece of it for weeks.
A. out of fad B. out of pattern
C. out of custom D. out of fashion
4. The new Personal Digital Assistance contained a large _____ of information about
an individual life.
A. deal B. amount
C. number D. account
5. Primitive superstitions that feed racism should be _____ through education.
A. ignored B. exalted
C. eradicated D. canceled
6. _____ pollution control measures are expensive, many local governments hesitate
to adopt them.
A. Although B. However C. Because D. Moreover
7. The less the surface of the ground yields to the weight of the body of a runner,
_____ to the body.
A. the stress it is greater B. greater is the stress
C. greater stress is D. the greater the stress
8. Annie Jump Cannon, _____ discovered so many stars that she was called “the
census taker of the sky.”
A. a leading astronomer, B. who, as a leading astronomer,
C. was a leading astronomer, D. a leading astronomer who
9. Kingdom of Wonders, _____ in 1995 in Fremont, Calif., became an industry legend
for two toys: a talking bear and a ray-gun game.
A. find B. found
C. founded D. founding
10. Over a very large number of trials, the probability of an event _____ is equal to
the probability that it will not occur.
A. occurring B. to occur
C. occurs D. occur
11. Only one-fifth of Americans saw oil as the chief reason that the U.S. made a war
on Iraq, but 75 percent of the French and of the Russians believed _____.
A. to B. so
C. go D. do
12. Sadly, while the academic industry thrives, the practice of translation
continues to _____.
A. stack B. stage
C. stagnate D. stamp
13. Your blunt treatment of disputes would put other people in a negative frame of
_____, with the result that they would not be able to accept your proposal.
A. mind B. idea
C. intention D. wish
15. Uncle Vernon, quite unlike Harry Potter who looked nothing like the rest of the
family, was large, very fat, and _____, with an enormous black mustache.
A. neck-less B. neck-lace
C. reckless D. rack-less
16. Home to _____ and gangsters, officials and laborers, refugees and artists, the city
was, in its prime, a metropolis that exhibited all the hues of the human character.
A. magnates B. magnets
C. machines D. magnitudes
17. His _____ behavior made everyone nervous. He was always rushing to open doors
and perform other small tasks, apologizing unnecessarily for any inconvenience
that he might have caused.
A. oblivious B. observant
C. obsequious D. obsolescent
18. He was completely __________ by her tale of hardship.
A. taken away B. taken down
C. taken in D. taken up
19. Americans who consider themselves _____ in the traditional sense do not usually
hesitate to heap criticism in domestic matters over what they believe is oppressive
or wasteful.
A. pedestrian B. penchant
C. patriarch D. patriotic
20. As technological advances put more and more time between early school life and
the young person's final access to specialized work, the stage of _____ becomes
an even more marked and conscious period.
A. adolescence B. adjacency
C. advantage D. adventure
