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For questions 21-35, choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to each of the following questions.

Write
your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.

21.You have to call him _______ once because he won’t stay any longer.

A. for B. at C. by D. on

22. She's__________ between buying a house in the city or moving away.

A. torning B. wavering C. oscillating D. reckoning

23. She _________ listen to music, alone in her room, for hours when she knocks off.

A. will B. should C. can D. may

24. I find it astonishing that he ___________ be so rude to you.

A. can B. should C. would D. no article

25. I can't ____________ violent films. I will vomit should i watch one.

A. digest B. sip C. stomach D. agree

26. The museum's annual gala for charity attracts not only a very wealthy, but also a

very __________ crowd.

A. culture B. artful C. involved D. cultivated

27. I ski for the excitement, but I'm also always ___________ to the risks.

A. content B. contended C. alive D. willing

28. Managers have a wide __________ of control.

A. phase B. lapse C. decade D. span

29. He may be a very talented designer, but as a manager he's a dead _____________.

A. spot B. point C. dot D. loss

30. They went ___________ the job as if their lives depended on it.

A. about B. off C. at D. through


31. She’s completely taken ______________ preparing for her exams.

A. up with B. in for C. up for D. in with

32. We finished our very first yoga class, __________________.

A. our souls replenished

B. replenished our souls

C. our souls replenishing

D. got our souls replenishing

33. I think I've just _____________ my chances of getting the job.

A. sunk B. abused C.scattered D.spent

34. She's always talking - that's Claire all _________.

A. about B. over C. else D. that

35. The movie looks ______________ and slow by today’s standards.

A. onerous B. laboured C. industrialised D. highbrow

ANSWE
21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27.
R:
28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35.

For questions 36-40,write the correct form of each bracketed word in the numbered space
provided in the column on the right. 0 has been done as an example.

Tests of (0)________________(BEHAVIOR) inhibition at 14 months old can predict aspects of


adult personality – the youngest age this has been shown.

“Give me the child until he is seven, and I will give you the man,” the old Jesuit saying goes.
Many people have wondered if adult personality is set considerably earlier in life. Yet
science has provided few answers, thwarted by the challenges of running studies that take
decades to produce results.
Nevertheless, Dr Alva Tang of the University of Maryland and colleagues have tackled the
question, assessing 165 infants at 14 months old and then again decades later. Inevitably,
there was a substantial (36) ____________(DROP) in participation, but the
team write in Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences that they "provide the
strongest and earliest evidence showing that infants with an inhibited temperament at 14
months became introverted adults.”
Psychologists use behavioral inhibition (BI) to describe infants who, in the paper's words,
show “overly cautious, fearful, and (37) _____________(AVOID) responses to unfamiliar
people, objects, and situations compared to non-inhibited infants.” The same
characteristics have been identified in the young of many non-human species.

Infants in the study with high BI were more likely to be reserved and introverted adults
with fewer romantic relationships and they describe lower social functioning with friends
and family. High infant BI was also associated with anxiety and depression in adulthood.

The findings could provide an opportunity for early (38) ________________(INTERVENE)


that reduce the risk of mental illness, although there are dangers in marking a child as
bound for depression from such an early age.

Moreover, the authors acknowledge the size of the effects they found were modest. Many
children with high BI were not reserved at all as adults, let alone prone to depression.
Infant BI appears to be just one factor among many that shape adult personality.

Other scientists have shown BI tends to persist into early childhood, marked by greater
social (39)________________(WITHDRAW) and difficulties in forming peer relationships.
However, even those studies started at age 3 or 4 and relied on parental surveys.

Tang not only started earlier, but had trained observers assess the infants' behavior in a
new environment at 14 months, followed by conducting tests at 15. Participants'
brainwaves were then measured with EEGs and surveys at 26.

The paper acknowledges the subjects of the study were not


(40)__________________(PRESENT), being drawn from mostly upper-middle class suburbs in
the Washington DC area and overwhelmingly white. Given their backgrounds, it is
unsurprising that by 26, they were vastly more likely than the general population to have a
university degree and be in professional employment. Infant BI had no significant effect on
educational outcomes, career success, or even being in a romantic relationship when the
survey was done.

0.behavioral 36. 37. 38. 39. 40.


KEY:

ANSWE
21.B 22.B 23.A 24.B 25.C 26.D 27.C
R:
28.D 29.D 30.C 31.A 32.A 33.A 34.B 35.B

KEY:

0.behavioral 36. drop-off 37. avoidant 38. 39. 40.


intervention withdrawal representative
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