PH14.

PRACTICE TEST 14
Question 1: The way the film eventually got made _____ , like the story itself, a certain
ring of destiny to it.
A. Looks B. Has C. Indicates D. feels
Question 2: The man was________of manslaughter by the jury.
A. Blamed B. Arrested C. Charged D. convicted
Question 3: Although the new library service has been very successful, its future is
______ certain.
A. by all means B. by no means C. by any chance D. at any rate
Question 4: You have to be______certain before you decide.
A. Deathly B. Deadly C. Deadened D. dead
Question 5: With _____ 5,000 tigers remaining in the world today, time is quickly
running out for this beautiful animal.
A. as fewer than B. so few as C. as few as D. not fewer than
Question 6: Mary is_________still somewhere inside the building, but we can’t be certain
that our information is correct.
A. Apparently B. Accidentally C. Mainly D. definitely
Question 7: Cigarette smoking has been ______ breast as well as lung cancer.
A. concerned to C. caused by
B. originated from D. associated with
Question 8: The hospital owes ___________for the construction of the new wing.
A. twenty millions of dollars to theC. the government twenty million dollars
government D. to the government twenty million
B. for the government twenty milliondollars
dollars
Question 9: _________ Nam Cao is a realistic writer, but he still used a lot of romance in
his stories.
A. On the whole C. On my part
B. On the contrary D. On the other hand
Question 10: “Well, cats are very good at catching mice around the house.” -
“___-----_______.”
A. No, dogs are very good, too C. You can say that again
B. Yes, I hope so D. Nothing more to say
Question 11: A giraffe is a (n) _____ animal. It has quite a long neck.
A. long-neck C. long- necked D. lengthened-
B. neck long neck
Question 12: It is a serious operation for a woman as old as my grandmother. She's very
frail. I hope she______
A. comes round B. gets away C. puts through D. pulls through
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Question 13: People in this village have got an_________appetite for the news.
A. Insatiable B. Inevitable C. Inedible D. inexorable
Question 14: His change of job has ____________ him with a new challenge in life.
A. Led B. Presented C. Initiated D. introduced
Question 15: The little girl is carrying a________bag on her arm.
A. canvas heavy striped shopping C. striped shopping heavy canvas
B. heavy striped canvas shopping D. striped heavy canvas shopping
Question 16: The modern automobile is a_______composed of more than 14,000 parts.
A. system of complex technical C. complex technical system that
B. complex technical system D. system is technically complex
Question 17: ________ when they learned that the chairman would not be able to join the
meeting.
A. When they realized why they were allC. However professional they tried to be
there in that early time of the day seen
B. Hardly had the committee learned theD. It wasn’t until they got a phone call
reason of the meeting about an urgent meeting the next day
Question 18: Most whole milk undergoes homogenization, ______hot milk is pumped
through valves to break up and permanently disperse the fat globules.
A. a process C. a process in which
B. which process D. which is a process
Question 19: ________ seemed a miracle to us.
A. That he recovered so soon C. When he had recovered so soon
B. His being recovered so soon D. His recover after so soon
Question 20: The invention of the compound microscope (which allowed much higher
magnification through multiple lenses) made _____ the great strides in life sciences.
A. it possible B. possibly C. possible D. it was possible

Choose the option A, B, C, or D to show the underlined part that needs correcting.
Question 21: Some dentists advocate the use of salt for brushing teeth rather than buying
commercial teeth powder or paste
A. advocate B. the use of salt C. rather than D. teeth powder
Question 22: The fascinating students watched the great variety of fish in the aquarium
for hours on end.
A. Fascinating B. great variety C. in D. on end.
Question 23: Anyone reproducing copyrighted works without permission of the holders
of the copyrights are breaking the law.
A. Reproducing B. without permission

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 C. copyrights D. are breaking the law.
Question 24: The arthropods, including insects and spiders, are great economic and
medical significance.
A. Including B. are great C. economic D. significance.
Question 25: The concentration of hemoglobin in branchiopod blood varies inverse with
the oxygen content of the surrounding waters.
A. Concentration B. inverse with C. content D. surrounding
Question 26: Should we really speak of the “breakdown” of families when we are perhaps
witnessing new family forms and a new social structure arising late capitalism?
A. Should we B. we are perhaps C. family forms D. arising
Question 27: Economy is heavy dependent on industry, and economic growth has always
been of greater concern than environmental preservation.
A. heavy dependent on C. of greater concern
B. has D. environmental preservation.
Question 28: On the bottom of the New York MetroCard have three arrows and little
white letters that say "Insert this way/This side faces you." What is it about that
instruction that is so impossible to understand?
A. On the bottom of C. is it about
B. Have D. that is
Question 29: Televisions are now an everyday feature of most households in the United
States, and television viewing is the number one activity leisure.
A. an everyday feature C. television viewing
B. most households D. activity leisure.
Question 30: In general, novels are thought of extended works of prose fiction depicting
the inner and outer lives of their characters.
A. of extended works C. outer lives
B. depicting D. their

Complete each of the following sentences with a suitable preposition or particle.

Question 31: He expected his daughter to fetch and carry ……………….him all day.
Question 32: She’s got the business of buying birthday present down ……………….a fine
art.
Question 33:
A: I’ve got some questions I’d like to ask you.
B: Right, fire ……………….!
Question 34: With several of their planes temporarily ……………… of commission, the
airline is losing money.
Question 35: The statue stood…………….well to the passing of time.
Question 36: I’ve only had time to dip ……………….the report.

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Question 37: Our first sight of the dingy little hotel did not inspire us ……………….much
confidence.
Question 38: I just can’t manage ……………….just £50 a week.
Question 39: You can’t expect promotion to be handed to you ……………….a plate.
Question 40: When he listens to music, he’s lost ……………….the world.

Give the correct form of the word in capital in the following passage.
Question 41: Jenny has sent me a very __________ letter explaining why she didn’t do what
she promised. APOLOGY
Question 42: The _________ of this document is wrong! There’s no page 13. PAGE
Question 43: For the sake of convenience, please do not _______ the Internet after use.
CONNECT
Question 44: In delivery of goods, several kinds of soft materials are now used to avoid
_______ of glassware. BREAK
Question 45: The general director was blamed for his _______ of the company’s business.
HANDLE
Question 46: You must realize that such ___________ can not be tolerated. OBEY
Question 47: It’s essential that the application forms be sent back before the ______. LINE
Question 48: His work brought him fame, but little ______ reward. MONEY
Question 49: Scientists are beginning to believe that the __________ of the planets in this
century is not impossible. COLONY
Question 50: It is dangerous for an _____________ driver to drive a car in the center of Paris
during the mid-day rush. EXPERIENCE

Choose the option A, B, C, or D that best fits each blank in the following passage.
In the north-west corner of the island paradise Isla Perlita, nestling in the shadow of Mount
Machu, lies the sleepy village of San Lorenzo . Off the beaten (51)_______ , there is nothing
out of the ordinary about this quaint little village -nothing, that is, apart from the magnificent
five-star Bay Hotel. The Bay, as it is known locally, is a recent development catering for
(52)_______travellers who enjoy luxury holiday-making. Famous throughout the island for
the outstanding quality of its accommodation and the excellence of its cuisine, the Bay
(53)_______ 30 guest suites, each with a charm and character of its own. Each suite looks
(54)_______ Falmer Beach, commanding breathtaking views of the four miles of white sand,
which gently shelves into the crystal clear waters of the Crepuscan Sea.
Falmer Beach, commanding breathtaking views of the four miles of white sand, which gently
shelves into the crystal clear waters of the Crepuscan Sea. At the heart of the Bay Hotel is
personal, efficient and unobtrusive service. (55)_______ staff anticipate your every need in
an atmosphere of quiet professionalism and genuine friendliness. (56)_______ , the Bay
Hotel is a place to get away from the stresses of everyday life, and whether it is (57)_______
away the hours soaking (58)_______ the sun or taking advantage of the wide range of
recreational activities that the hotel has on offer, you can be sure that a holiday at the Bay
truly is the holiday of a lifetime. Air Perlita flies direct to Isla Perlita once a fortnight from
Gatwick. It is advisable to book well in (59)_______ , especially during high season
(January through March) as flights fill up quickly. For air (60)_______, hotel tariffs and
general terms and conditions, please see pages 67 and 68 of this brochure.

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QUESTION 51: _____?
A. Path B. Track C. Road D. way
QUESTION 52: _____?
A. Disconcerting B. Distinctive C. Discerning D. discriminated
QUESTION 53: _____?
A. Announces B. Claims C. Asserts D. boasts
QUESTION 54: _____?
A. back on B. onto C. into D. down
QUESTION 55: _____?
A. Preoccupied B. Attentive C. Concentrated D. Undivided
QUESTION 56: _____?
A. All over B. For all C. Above all D. All along
QUESTION 57: _____?
A. Whiling B. Wearing C. Wending D. winding
QUESTION 58: _____?
A. Up B. In C. Out D. off
QUESTION 59: _____?
A. Anticipation B. Time C. Hand D. advance
QUESTION 60: _____?
A. Fees B. Rates C. Fares D. tenders

Read the text and think of a word that best fits each gap. Use ONLY ONE word in each
gap.
Most people I know would never go to a martial arts movie, even if you paid them, but I defy
anyone (61)………… to enjoy 70 minutes in the dark with Jackie Chan. For a start, Chan is
simply interested in evading the bullies who want to do him over - and if he bumps into
someone as he's running away, he's always apologetic. His screen persona is never
(62)………. to bombast. Chan is a likeable, bumbling everyman who tries to extricate
himself from scrapes with his astounding athletic (63)…………: as he leaps up the side of a
building, you would swear he was on wires. With the kind of skills and agility normally
(64)……….. to monkeys and flies, Chan seems capable of scuttering up any surface. And it
is extremely rare for him to (65)…………. on the offensive.
The films of lesser action stars like Jean-Claude Van Damme provide a diet of relentless
violence, punctuated every now and (66)………… by some semi-moronic 'witticism', but
Chan's balletic altercations with his enemies are as a (67)………. oriented around the art of
comic evasion. True, nobody could ever win a screen-writing Oscar for one of his films:
they're the sort of film where villains will frequently deliver lines like “I'm sorry we didn't
get the tape, four of our guys got blown up”. They (68)………….. to be a series of stunt
sequences, all devised by Chan himself, wrapped around the most tenuous of plots. He uses
no stunt double or state of the art technology or computer-generated tricks. He is simply a

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person of great charm with an enormous flair (69)……… physical comedy. And what is so
amazing is that this seasoned campaigner should still be making (70)………. films at the age
of fifty.

Read the passage and choose the best option A, B, C, or D to answer the questions.
The human criterion for perfect vision is 20/20 for reading the standard lines on a Snellen
eye chart without a hitch. The score is determined by how well you read lines of letters of
different sizes from 20 feet away. But being able to read the bottom line on the eye chart
does not approximate perfection as far as other species are concerned. Most birds would
consider us very visually handicapped. The hawk, for instance, has such sharp eyes that it
can spot a dime on the sidewalk while perched on top of the Empire State Building. It can
make fine visual distinctions because it is blessed with one million cones per square
millimeter in its retina. And in water, humans are farsighted, while the kingfisher, swooping
down to spear fish, can see well in both the air and water because it is endowed with two
foveae – areas of the eye, consisting mostly of cones, that provide visual distinctions. One
foveae permits the bird, while in the air, to scan the water below with one eye at a time. This
is called monocular vision. Once it hits the water, the other fovea joins in, allowing the
kingfisher to focus both eyes, like binoculars, on its prey at the same time. A frog’s vision is
distinguished by its ability to perceive things as a constant motion picture. Known as “bug
detectors”, a highly developed set of cells in a frog’s eyes responds mainly to moving objects.
So, it is said that a frog sitting in a field of dead bugs wouldn’t see them as food and would
starve.
The bee has a “compound” eye, which is used for navigation. It has 15,000 facets that divide
what it sees into a pattern of dots, or mosaic. With this kind of vision, the bee sees the sun
only as a single dot, a constant point of reference. Thus, the eye is a superb navigational
instrument that constantly measures the angle of its line of flight in relation to the sun. A
bee’s eye also gauges flight speed. And if that is not enough to leave our 20/20 “perfect
vision” paling into insignificance, the bee is capable of seeing something we can’t –
ultraviolet light. Thus, what humans consider to be “perfect vision” is in fact rather limited
when we look at other species. However, there is still much to be said for the human eye. Of
all the mammals, only humans and some primates can enjoy the pleasures of color vision.
Question 71. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. limits of the human eye D. eye variation among different
B. perfect vision species
C. different eyes for different uses
Question 72. The word “criterion” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to
A. standard B. need C. expectation D. rule
Question 73. The phrase “without a hitch” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to
A. unaided C. with little hesitation
B. without glasses D. easily
Question 74. According to the passage, why might birds and animals consider humans very
visually handicapped?

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A. humans can’t see very well in either airC. the main outstanding feature of human
or water eyes is color vision
B. human eyes are not as well suited to ourD. human eyes can’t do what their eyes
needs can do
Question 75. The word “that” in paragraph 1 refers to
A. foveae C. ones
B. areas of the eye D. visual distinctions
Question 76. According to the passage, “bug detectors” are useful for
A. navigation C. avoiding bugs when getting food
B. seeing moving objects D. avoiding starvation
Question 77. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true
A. kingfishers have monocular vision C. hawks eyes consist mostly of cones that
B. bees see patterns of dots can allow it to scan with one eye at a time
D. humans are farsighted in water
Question 78. The phrase “paling into insignificance” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to
A. fading away C. without colored light
B. of less importance D. being reduced to little importance
Question 79. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. eyes have developed differently in eachC. bees have the most complex eye
species D. perfect vision is not perfect
B. humans should not envy what they
don’t need

Rewrite each sentence so that it begins with the words and the meaning stays the same.
Question 80. Julia soon calmed down and explained her problem.
-> Julia soon pulled ................................................
Question 81. If you should get caught doing this. You will go to prison.
-> Were ……………..……… ……………………….
Question 82. I didn’t realise how much he was influenced by his brother.
-> I didn’t realise the extent..……………...........
Question 83. It was more of an argument than a discussion.
->It was not so ………………………………………………….
Question 84. It is hardly likely that he took poison.
-> He is ………………………………………………………….

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