UEE PREPARATION COURSE

2019-2020

MOCK TEST FOUR

1. A. school B. tool C. route D. childhood
2. A. antecedent B. decent C. security D. illegal

3. A. curriculum B. determine C. marvelous D. equipment

4. A. epidemic B. competitive C. conservation D. disadvantaged

5. A great amount of information is widely available on the Internet, this is good for young people.
A B C D
6. In modern medicine, more and more doctors are using lasers replacing conventional surgery.
A B C D
7. However much effort he may make, he never succeeds his career.
A B C D

8. The boy forgot ________ the newspaper for his father on his way home.
A. to be bought B. to buy C. buying D. about buying
9. It is time for him ________ for a medical checkup. He may need the doctor’s advice.
A. had gone B. went C. to go D. going
10. The computers, ________ have just been upgraded, are at your disposal now.
A. that most of them B. most of which C. of which the most D. most of them
11. When I was younger, I _______ to smoke or drink.
A. wasn’t used B. didn’t used C. never used D. not used
12. Your hair is long. It wants ________.
A. to have it cut B. have cut it C. cutting D. to be cut it
13. Mary ________ lazy preparing her lesson last night.
A. should be B. shouldn’t be C. should have been D. shouldn’t have been
14. Tommy is very excited ________ his next trip abroad.
A. of B. with C. for D. about
15. Crop failure means ________, which leads to the death of many people each year.
A. famine B. desertification C. drought D. shortcoming
16. David’s wife is a terrible snob who looks ________ almost all his friends.
A. out for B. down upon C. up to D. forward to
17. The children ________ at the beautiful picture with a sense of wonder.
A. gazed B. stared C. admired D. glanced
18. We should be responsible for the _________ humans are doing to the environment.
A. hurt B. deficit C. destruction D. disadvantage
19. It is _________ for us to do anything about the chaotic traffic.
A. out of date B. without delay C. out of the question D. under any circumstances

20. Alice talking to her husband: Alice: “Bill will come to see you next Sunday.” Her husband: “________”
A. Is he? B. All at once . C. About time, too. D. He would, I know.
21. Two people talking about a book: S1: “________” S2: “Maybe in a week’s time.”
A. How fast did the author write it? B. How come she finished reading it late?
C. How long will you wait for me to finish it? D. How soon will they return us the book?

22. The doctor advised me not to assume too much work in the future.
A. absorb in B. take on C. go over D. come into
23. Stay wherever you are and wait for further instruction.
A. example B. additional C. immediate D. official

24. That writer is able to create many imaginary characters and events.
A. real B. imaginative C. fictional D. legendary
25. One of the major recent accomplishments is the development of laser in medical treatment.
A. failures B. deficits C. breakthroughs D. misconducts

26. He was unhappy until he received news from her.

A. Nothing made him happier than the news from her. B. She gave him some news that made him unhappy.
C. No news from her made him feel unhappy. D. Only after receiving news from her did he feel happy.

UEE PREPARATION COURSE Page 1

2019-2020 _ MOCK TEST 4
27. My last letter to him hasn’t been answered.
A. I have not written a letter to reply to him. B. We haven’t written to each other so far.
C. I wrote a letter to him without receiving any reply. D. He has given a reply to all my letters that I sent.
28. If the student number falls again, we will have to cancel the class.
A. If there is a cancellation of any class, the student number will fall again.
B. As a result of a decrease in the student number, we have had to cancel the class.
C. The less number of students attending the class, the less chances of it being cancelled.
D. We will cancel the class if there is another decrease in the student number.

29. It rains a lot in Southern Vietnam. It usually rains less in Northern Vietnam.
A. Northern VN usually receives less rain than does the South.
B. It doesn’t rain as much in the South as in the North of VN.
C. It not only rains much in the South, but it also rains that much in the North of VN.
D. Although it rains much in Northern VN, the South does not receive any.
30. You can borrow reference books in the library. You cannot take them out of it.
A. You can no longer read reference books in the library, but you can do it outside.
B. On no account should reference books be removed from the library.
C. If you borrow reference books in the library, you can read them anywhere.
D. Hardly have you borrowed reference books in the library when you have to read them there.

To grow more crops on the same amount of land, farmers use fertilizers and pesticides. Some plant new kinds
of grains that produce more food. These things help, but they don’t provide perfect (31)________. The chemicals in
fertilizers and pesticides can pollute water (32)________. The new seeds developed by scientists may have reached
the limit of what they can produce.
When hungry people can (33)________ no more out of existing farm-land, they search for more. Usually the
best land is already in use. People have to scratch new farm into steep hillsides or carve fields out of forests. As
people clear trees from hills and forests, they (34)________ the soil. Then rain and floods may strip the topsoil from
fields. Winds may blow it away. This process is called (35)________. Each year this wearing away of land steals
billions of tons of topsoil from farmers – soil they could have used to grow food.

31. A. plans B. solutions C. ways D. methods

32. A. givings B. contributions C. provisions D. supplies
33. A. coax B. persuade C. derive D. rob
34. A. expose B. clean C. work D. drain
35. A. contamination B. land reclaim C. erosion D. deforestation

The Roman alphabet took thousands of years to develop, from the picture writing of the ancient Egyptians
through modifications by Phoenicians, Greek, Romans, and others. Yet in just a dozen years, one man, Sequoyah,
invented an alphabet for the Cherokee people. Born in eastern Tennessee, Sequoyah was a hunter and a silversmith
in his youth, as well as an able interpreter who knew Spanish, French, and English.
Sequoyah wanted his people to have the secret of the “talking leaves,” as he called the books of white people,
and so he set out to design a written form of Cherokee. His chief aim was to record his people’s ancient tribal
customs. He began by designing pictographs for every word in the Cherokee vocabulary. Reputedly his wife, angry at
him for his neglect of garden and house, burned his notes, and he had to start over. This time, having concluded that
picture-writing was cumbersome, he made symbols for the sounds of the Cherokee language. Eventually he refined
his system to eighty-five characters, which he borrowed from the Roman, Greek, and Hebrew alphabets. He
presented this system to the Cherokee General Council in 1821, and it was wholeheartedly approved. The respond
was a phenomenal. Cherokees who had struggled for months to learn English lettering in school picked up the new
system in days. Several books were printed in Cherokee, and in 1828, a newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix, was first
published in the new alphabet. Sequoyah was acclaimed by his people.
In his later life, Sequoyah dedicated himself to the general advancement of his people. He went to
Washington D.C, as a representative of the Western tribes. He helped settle bitter differences among Cherokee after
their forced movement by the federal government to the Oklahoma territory in the 1830s. He died in Mexico in 1843
while searching for groups of lost Cherokee. A statue of Sequoyah represents Oklahoma in the Statuary Hall in the
Capitol building in Washington, D.C. However, he is probably chiefly remembered today because sequoias, the giant
redwood trees of California, are named for him.

36. The passage is mainly concerned with

A. the development of the Roman alphabet B. the accomplishments of Sequoyah
C. the pictographic system of writing D. Sequoyah’s experiences in Mexico
37. There is NO indication in the passage that, as a young man, Sequoyah
A. served as an interpreter B. made things from silver
C. served as a representative in Washington D. hunted game

UEE PREPARATION COURSE Page 2

2019-2020 _ MOCK TEST 4
38. What was Sequoyah’s main purpose in designing a Cherokee alphabet?
A. To record Cherokee custom B. To write books in Cherokee
C. To write about his own life D. To publish a newspaper
39. The word cumbersome in line 9 is closest in meaning to
A. awkward B. radical C. simplistic D. unfamiliar
40. In the final version of the Cherokee alphabet system, each of the characters represents a
A. word B. picture C. sound D. thought
41. All of the following were mentioned in the passage as alphabet system that Sequoyah borrowed from EXCEPT
A. Egyptian B. Roman C. Hebrew D. Greek
42. Why does the author mention the giant redwood trees of California in the passage?
A. Sequoyah took his name from those trees. B. The trees inspired Sequoyah to write a book.
C. Sequoyah was born in the vicinity of the redwood forest. D. The trees were named in Sequoyah’s honor.

While many nineteenth-century reformers hoped to bring about reform through education or by eliminating
specific social evils, some thinkers wanted to start over and remake society by founding ideal, cooperative
communities. The United States seemed to them a spacious and unencumbered country where models of a perfect
society could succeed. These communitarian thinkers hoped their success would lead to imitation, until communities
free of crime, poverty, and other social ills would cover the land. A number of religious groups, notably the Shakers,
practiced communal living but the main impetus to found model communities came from nonreligious, rationalistic
thinkers.
Among the communitarian philosophers, three of the most influential were Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, and
John Humphrey Noyes. Owen, famous for his humanitarian policies as owner of several thriving textile mills in
Scotland, believed that faulty environment was to blame for human problems and that these problems could be
eliminated in a rationally planned society. In 1825 he put his principles into practice at New Harmony, Indiana. The
community failed economically after a few years but not before achieving a number of social successes. Fourier, a
commercial employee in France, never visited the United States. However, his theories of cooperative living
influenced many Americans through the writings of Albert Brisbane, whose Social Destiny of Man explained Fourier-
ism and its self-sufficient associations or “phalanxes”. One or more of these phalanxes was organized in every
Northern state. The most famous were Red Bank, New Jersey, and Brook Farm, Massachusetts. An early member of
the latter was the author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Noyes founded the most enduring and probably the oldest of the
utopian communities, the Oneida Community of upstate New York. Needless to say, none of these experiments had
any lasting effects on the patterns of American society.

43. The main topic of the passage is

A. Nineteenth-century schools B. American reformers
C. The philosophy of Fourier-ism D. Model communities in the nineteenth-century
44. Which of the following is NOT given in the passage as one of the general goals of communitarian philosophers?
A. To remake society B. To spread their ideas throughout the United States
C. To establish ideal communities D. To create opportunities
45. The Shakers are mentioned in line 6 as an example of
A. a communal religious group B. radical reformers
C. rationalistic thinkers D. an influential group of writers
46. Which of the following is closets in meaning to the word thriving in line 9?
A. prosperous B. famous C. failing D. pioneering
47. The “phalanxes” described in the second paragraph were an idea originally conceived by
A. Albert Brisbane B. Robert Owen C. Charles Fourier D. John Humphrey Noyes
48. Why does the author mention Nathaniel Hawthorne in line 17?
A. He founded Brook Farm in Massachusetts.
B. He was a critic of Charles Fourier.
C. He wrote a book that led to the establishment of model communities.
D. He was at one time a member of the Brook Farm community.
49. Which of the following communities lasted longest?
A. New Harmony B. The Oneida Community C. Red Bank D. Brook Farm
50. Why did the author probably divide the passage into two paragraphs?
A. To compare nineteenth-century reforms with twentieth-century reforms
B. To present an overview of a concept in the first paragraph and specific examples in the second
C. To contrast the work of utopian thinkers with that of practical reformers
D. To give the causes for a phenomenon in the first paragraph and its consequences in the second

THE END OF THE TEST

UEE PREPARATION COURSE Page 3

2019-2020 _ MOCK TEST 4