PART A
1. (A) Peter didn't pay Bill two times.
(B) Peter didn't pay the phone company.
(C) Peter is the second in line to pay.
(D) Peter forgot to call Bill.
2. (A) The course is closed for registration.
(B) The instructor decides who can enroll.
(C) Registration for this course is permitted.
(D) The instructor doesn't give students
permission.
3. (A) We expected only fourteen people to
come.
(B) Forty people came to work in the shop.
(C) More people came than had been acted.
(D) We expanded the shop to include forty
people.
4. (A) It’s better to change this job.
(B) Betty decided to take the job.
(C) In my opinion, Betty should change her.
(D) I thought Betty was taking John with her.
5. (A) If she dropped Jack off.
(B) If she took his jacket to be cleaned.
(C) If she was leaving Jack.
(D) If she had cleaned his jacket yet.
6. (A) The teachers didn't go to the meeting.
(B) The meeting on Wednesday was crowded.
(C) The teachers knew about the meeting.
(D) Everyone forgot about the meeting.
7. (A) He was nice to give up his part.
(B) He gave a party for the man.
(C) He was kind to do his part.
(D) He was kind to come to the party.
8. (A) Pharmacists shouldn't carry boxes to the
station.
(B) Paper goods are not usually sold in drug
stores.
16. (A) There is no room on the third floor.
(B) Room 7 is ready for the third meeting.
(C) The room is on a different floor.
(D) The floor in this room is dirty.
17 (A) After he broke a glass, he had to use cup.
(B) After the flat, he's been using a spare tire.
(C) When he broke the glass, he cut himself.
(D) He has been using different glasses
18. (A) My brother had an idea for our father’s
gift.
(B) My brother wants to buy our father a pool.
(C) We wanted to bake a pie for our father.
(D) We celebrated our father’s birthday.
19. (A) Ann will be 21 next month.
(B) No one now lives next to Ann.
(C) Ann moved here three weeks ago.
(D) Ann is going on a 21-day vacation.
20. (A) If he could sell her a product to remove
grease.
(B) If he knew he had a stain.
(C) If he wanted to remove his shirt.
(D) If she had a crease in her shirt.
21. (A) She approves.
(B) He is good at tennis.
(C) He was nice to clean the house.
(D) She wants to come, too.
22. (A) He is going out of town.
(B) He is expecting guests.
(C) He is changing companies.
(D) He is moving to another town.
23. (A) At an amusement park.
(B) In a restaurant.
(C) On the sidewalk.
(D) Near a parking meter.
 (C) Mobile pharmacies are not stationed here.
(D) The pharmacy needs to order paper
goods.
9. (A) The exam seems to be easier than it first
appeared.
24. (A) Buying vegetables.
(B) He thinks the exam appears to cover the
(B) Planting a garden.
material.
(C) Cooking a meal.
(C) He thinks they made the exam difficult on
(D) Loading a truck
purpose.
(D) The exam is more difficult than he
thought.
10. (A) The number of the unemployed has been
increasing.
(B) Drama clubs have been helping the 25. (A) Can you hear this noise?
unemployed. (B) Do you know this sound?
(C) Unemployed actors can find work in (C) Where would you prefer?
drama. (D) Where is this sound coming from?
(D) Dramas about the unemployed are
gaining popularity.
11. (A) Linda's grades don't leave much room for
improvement.
26. (A) At a craft show
(B) Linda deserves better grades in her
(B) At a bookstore
courses.
(C) At a hardware store
(C) Linda's grades aren't as high as they
(D) At a video rental shop
should be.
(D) Linda's grades should be left alone.
12. (A) She had to add salt to her hamburger. 27. (A) A gas station attendant
(B) She had a hamburger at 1:30. (B) A university course grader
(C) She needs something to drink. (C) An income tax accountant
(D) Her hamburger was excellent. (D) A technical team leader
28. (A) She is upset that she forgot to send the
card.
13. (A) They dropped her sandwich. (B) She thinks the man should share
(B) She didn't have food on her mind. responsibility.
(C) They will bring her a sandwich. (C) She has been forgetting a lot of things
(A) (D)She should be on her way home. lately.
(D) She is asking whether the man sent his
own card.
14. (A) Doug is too old to go on a boat.
(B) Ducks can't be transported by boat.
(C) Doug doesn't like to vote.
(D) Doug is too young to vote.
15. (A) Harry is working to buy new shoes.
(B) Harry's shoes are at school.
(C) Harry is a student.
(D) Harry walks to the seashore.
Part B
31. (A) In a film studio
(B) In a record company
(C) At an art gallery
(D) At a movie theater
33. (A) The drawings are made.
(B) The story is created.
(C) The shots are framed.
(D) The artists are organized.
35. (A) At a county fair
(B) In the woods
(C) On a sidewalk
(D)On a playground
37. (A) They shed their leaves in the fall.
(B) There are fewer daylight hours.
(C) Young trees require a blanket.
(D) Red and yellow are prettier that green.
PART C
39. (A) It changes climatic conditions.
(B) It controls the indoor environment.
(C) It circulates water particles in the air.
(D) It reduces overhead expenditures.
41. (A) To replace it with fresh air
(B) To create a breeze
29. (A) Go for dinner
(B) Order Italian food
(C) Mail her report
(D) Finish her report
30. (A) She believes her services should be
noticed.
(B) She is taking a two-week leave.
(C) She was promoted to the position of a
manager.
(D) She is planning to take another job.
32. (A) He thinks his children should watch
educational programs.
(B) His daughters are too old to watch
cartoons.
(C) He isn't a child any longer.
(D) He doesn't want to watch cartoons.
34. (A) To make cartoons a form of graphic art
(B) To enhance the visual and auditory
elements
(C) To add action to animation
(D) To speed up the feature plot
36. (A) In the evening
(B) In the morning
(C) In the fall
(D) In the spring
38. (A) She doesn't care about his exph
(B) She doesn't understand scientific
(C) She doesn't believe the man.
(D)She doesn't like autumn.
40. (A) By cleaning off dirt and dust
(B) By modifying the temperature
(C) By removing and adding moisture
(D) By bringing in and taking out air
42. (A) Hardly ever in cold regions
(B) Exclusively in business settings
 (C) To retard heat conduction (C) Basically as it does in summer
(D) To remove local moisture (D) Mainly as needed for repairs
43. (A) They can dress comfortably. 44. (A) Business and finance
(B) They become tired. (B) Law and science
(C) They feel alert. (C) Sports
(D) They stay healthy. (D) Chief editors
45. (A) Copy editing 46. (A) Many reports have been filed.
(B) Approaching people (B) Many reporters have been laid off.
(C) Writing (C) Many publications have closed.
(D) Typing (D) Many are hiring new specialists.
47. (A) They will stay sluggish. 48. (A) It represents an essential supply of water.
(B) They may continue to decrease. (B) Its sources can be renewed indefinitely
(C) They are likely to expand. (C) It always provides a usable source water.
(D) They may be difficult to break into. (D) Its development is important in the
United States.
49. (A) Increased rain and agricultural irrig 50. (A) Several years
(B) Increased use and contamination (B) Centuries
(C) Airborne bacteria and atmospheric (C) Dozens of years
oxygen (D) Thousands of years
(D) Surface runoff and turbulence

STRUCTURE

1. Bacterial cultures are used commercially in the preparation of food products such
that yogurt, sour cream, and vinegar.
Anyone with absolute, or perfect, pitch are able to identify by ear any note
at some standard pitch or to sing a specified note at will.
Sea horses usually live along the shore among seaweed and other plants to which
they cling to by their tails.
Babies have soft spots between the bones of their skulls, which allowing for further
growth.
T.S.Elot, who a poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor, was a leader of
the Modernist movement in poetry.
The Pacific Ocean comprises almost the entire boundary western of North and
South America.
Established in 1948, the State University of New York is
the singly largest university system in the United States.
Photography disseminates information about humanity and nature, records
the visible world, and extension human knowledge into areas the eye cannot
penetrate.
Because of their rapidly changing economically fortunes, many frontier towns of the
American West underwent spectacular fluctuations in population in the nineteenth
century.
Virtually no disease exists today for which there is no drug that can be
given, neither to cure the disease or to alleviate its symptoms.
Calcium is essential for blood clotting, for the action of certain enzymes, and for the
normal contraction and relax of muscles.
The large collection of the Williams College Museum of Art includes ancient and
medieval art, but much exhibits are modern or contemporary.
The technique of spectroscopy allows analyst of incoming light after it has
been separated into its component wavelengths by passage through a prism.
Today, fifty years after its construction, the Alaska Highway conveys 40,000
vehicles in normal year.
Since prehistoric times, artists have been arranged colors on surfaces in ways that
express their ideas about people, the world, and religion.
Few substances look less alike than coal and diamonds, yet both are fashioned from
same elemental carbon.
Meteorologists can program their computes to scan for a specific set of weather
criteria, such as falling barometric pressure, increase cloud cover, and
rising humidity.
Obsidian is formed when siliceous lava cools too rapidly to crystallized into rock-
forming minerals.
European settlers in North America moved from the Atlantic coast across 3,000 miles
forests, grasslands, deserts, and mountains until they reached the Pacific Ocean.
Philosophy tries to discover the nature of true and knowledge and to find what is of
basic value and importance in life.
In this world of high technology, it is easy to forget that the most
important tools ever developed for learning is still the book.
The element potassium makes up less than one half percentage of the human body.
Twenty thousand years ago a sheet of ice a thousand meters thick covered the
coastal region which the cities of Vancouver and Juneau now are located.
The Crow, Blackfoot, and Sioux tribes traditionally adorned they dwellings and
costumes with colorful and highly valued beaded decorations.
In the late 1800’s, United States painter Thomas Eakins develop a broad, powerful
Realist style that became almost expressionistic in his later years.
 READING

With Robert Laurent and William Zorach

1. The word “medium”in line 5 could be used to 2. The word “dictates” in line 8 is closest in meaning
refer to to
(A) stone or wood (A) reads aloud
(B) mallet and chisel (B) determines
(C) technique (C) includes
(D) principle (D) records
3. What is one of the fundamental principles of 4. How does direct carving differ from the
direct carving? nineteenth-century tradition of sculpture?
(A) A sculptor must work with talented (A) Sculptors are personally involved in the
assistants. carving of a piece.
(B) The subject of a sculpture should be (B) Sculptors find their inspiration in neoclassical
derived from classical stories. sources.
(C) The material is an important element in a (C) Sculptors have replaced the mallet and chisel
sculpture. with other tools.
(D) Designing a sculpture is a more creative (D) Sculptors receive more formal training.
activity than carving it
5. The word “witnessed” in line 23 is closest in 6. Where did Robert Laurent learn to carve?
meaning to (A) New York
(A) influenced (B) Africa
(B) studied (C) The South Pacific
(C) validated (D) Paris
(D) observed
7. The phrase “a break with “ in line 30 is closest 8. The piece titled The Priestess has all of the
in meaning to following characteristics EXCEPT
(A) a destruction of (A) The design is stylized.
(B) a departure from (B) It is made of marble.
(C) a collapse of (C) The carving is not deep.
(D) a solution to (D) It depicts the front of a person.
Birds that feed in flocks commonly retire together into roosts.
9. What does the passage mainly discuss? 10. The word “conserve “ in line 3 is closest in
(A) How birds find and store food meaning to
(B) How birds maintain body heat in the winter (A) retain
(C) Why birds need to establish territory (B) watch
(D) Why some species of birds nest together (C) locate
(D) share
11. Ptarmigan keep warm in the winter by 12. The word “magnified”in line 6 is closest in
(A) huddling together on the ground with meaning to
other birds (A) caused
(B) building nests in trees (B) modified
(C) burrowing into dense patches of (C) intensified
vegetation (D) combined
 (D) Digging tunnels into the snow
13. The author mentions kinglets in line 9 as an
example of birds that
(A) protect themselves by nesting in holes
(B) nest with other species of birds
(C) nest together for warmth
(D) usually feed and nest in pairs
15. Which of the following statements about lesser 16. The word “counteracted”in line 24 is closest in
and common kestrels is true?
(A) The lesser kestrel and the common kestrel
have similar diets.
(B) The lesser kestrel feeds sociably but the
common kestrel does not.
(C) The common kestrel nests in larger flocks
than does the lesser kestrel.
(D) The common kestrel nests in trees; the
lesser kestrel nests on the ground.
17. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in
the passage as an advantage derived by
birds that huddle together while sleeping?
(A) Some members of the flock warn others of
impending dangers.
(B) Staying together provides a greater amount
of heat for the whole flock
(C) Some birds in the flock function as
information centers for others who are
looking for food.
(D) Several members of the flock care for the
young.
Before the mid-nineteenth century, people in the United States ate most foods only in
season.
20. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) Causes of food spoilage
(B) Commercial production of ice
(C) Inventions that led to changes in the
American diet
(D) Population movements in the nineteenth
century
22. The word “prevent”in line 4 is closest in
meaning to
(A) estimate
(B) avoid
(C) correct
14. The word “forage”in line 12 is closest in meaning
to
(A) fly
(B) assemble
(C) feed
(D) rest
meaning to
(A) suggested
(B) negated
(C) measured
(D) shielded
18. Which of the following is a disadvantage of
communal roosts that is mentioned in the
passage?
(A) Diseases easily spread among the birds.
(B) Groups are more attractive to predators than
individual birds.
(C) Food supplies are quickly depleted.
(D) Some birds in the group will attack the others.
19. The word “they”in line 25 refers to
(A) a few birds (B) mass roosts
(C) predators (D) trees
21. The phrase “in season” in line 2 refers to
(A) a kind of weather
(B) a particular time of year
(C) an official schedule
(D) a method of flavoring food
23. During the 1860's, canned food products were
(A) unavailable in rural areas
(B) shipped in refrigerator cars
(C) available in limited quantities
(D) a staple part of the American diet
 (D) confine
24. It can be inferred that railroad refrigerator cars
25. The word “them“ in line 14 refers to
came into use
(A) before 1860 (A) refrigerator cars
(B) perishables
(B) before 1890
(C) growers
(C) after 1900
(D) distances
(D) after 1920
26. The word “fixture” in line 20 is closest in 27. The author implies that in the 1920's and 1930's
meaning to home deliveries of ice
(A) luxury item (A) decreased in number
(B) substance (B) were on an irregular schedule
(C) commonplace object (C) increased in cost
(D) mechanical device (D) occurred only in the summer
29. Which of the following types of food
28. The word “Nevertheless” in line 24 is closest in
preservation was NOT mentioned in the
meaning to
passage?
(A) therefore
(A) Drying
(B) because
(B) Canning
(C) occasionally
(C) Cold storage
(D) however
(D) Chemical additives
30. Which of the following statements is supported by the passage?
(A) Tin cans and iceboxes helped to make many foods more widely available.
(B) Commercial ice factories were developed by railroad owners.
(C) Most farmers in the United States raised only fruits and vegetables.
(D) People who lived in cities demanded home delivery of foods
The ability of falling cats to right themselves in midair and land on their feet has been a
source of wonder for ages.
31. What does the passage mainly discuss? 32. The word “process”in line 10 refers to
(A) The explanation of an interesting phenomenon (A) the righting of a tumbling cat
(B) Miracles in modern science (B) the cat's fall slowed down
(C) Procedures in scientific investigation (C) high-speed photography
(D) The differences between biology and physics (D) a scientific experiment
34. Which of the following can be
33. Why are the photographs mentioned in line 16
inferred about high-speed
referred to as an “experiment”?
photography in the late 1800's ?
(A) The photographs were not very clear.
(A) It was a relatively new technology.
(B) The purpose of the photographs was to
(B) The necessary equipment was easy to obtain.
explain the process.
(C) The resulting photographs are difficult to
(C) The photographer used inferior equipment.
interpret.
(D) The photographer thought the cat might be
(D) It was not fast enough to provide new
injured
information
35. The word “rotates” in line 19 is closest in 36. According to the passage, a cat is able to right
meaning to itself in midair because it is
(A) drops, (B) turns (A) Frightened, (B) small
 (C)controls, (D) touches (C) Intelligent, (D)flexible
37. The word “readily”in line 24 is closest in 38. How did scientists increase “the speed of their
meaning to perceptions a thousandfold”(lines 25-26)?
(A) only (A) By analyzing photographs
(B) easily (B) By observing a white cat in a dark room
(C) slowly (C) By dropping a cat from a greater height
(D) certainly (D) By studying Newton's laws of motion
The changing profile of a city in the United States is apparent in the shifting definitions
used by the United States Bureau of the Census
39. What does the passage mainly discuss? 40. According to the passage, the population of the
(A) How cities in the United States began and United States was first classified as rural or urban
developed in
(B) Solutions to overcrowding in cities (A) 1870
(C) The changing definition of an urban area (B) 1900
(D) How the United States Census Bureau (C) 1950
conducts a census (D) 1970

42. Prior to 1900, how many inhabitants would a town

41. The word “distinguished”in line 3 is closest in have to have before being defined as urban?
meaning to (A) 2,500
(A) differentiated(B) removed (B) 8,000
(C) honored (D) protected (C) 15,000
(D) 50,000
43. According to the passage, why did the
Census Bureau revise the definition of
44. The word “those”in line 9 refers to
urban in 1950?
(A) boundaries
(A) City borders had become less distinct.
(B) persons
(B) Cities had undergone radical social change.
(C) units
(C) Elected officials could not agree on an
(D) areas
acceptable definition.
(D) New businesses had relocated to larger cities.
45. The word “constituting” in line 16 is closest in
meaning to 46. The word “which ”in line 18 refers to a smaller
(A) located near (A) population (B) city
(B) determined by
(C) calling for (C) character (D) figure
(D) making up
47. Which of the following is NOT true of an
SMSA?
48. By 1970, what proportion of the population in
(A) It has a population of at least 50,000
the United States did NOT live in an SMSA?
(B) It can include a city's outlying regions.
(A) 3/4 (B) 2/3 (C) 1/2 (D) 1/3
(C) It can include unincorporated regions.
(D) It consists of at least two cities.
49. The Census Bureau first used the term “SMSA” 50. Where in the passage does the author mention
in (A) 1900 (B) 1950 (C) 1969 (D) names used by social scientists for an urban
1970 area?
(A) Lines 4-5 (B) Line 7-8
(C) Line 21-23 (D) Line 27-29