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A NO CHANGE B completion
B loss C complement
C lose D comment
A NO CHANGE B proceed
B chore C proceeds
C core D cede
A NO CHANGE A NO CHANGE
4. Robert believes that everyone in the world should be 9. The partnership proved to be a success, as Jane's
fascinated by his research project, but most non- strengths complimented Joe's weaknesses.
scientists find it a bit of a boar.
A NO CHANGE
A NO CHANGE
B complemented
B bore.
C contemplated
C bohr.
D compelled
D boer.
10. The tyrant and his descendants reined over the
5. Romeo was faced with a life-changing decision: people of St. Guinevere for 300 years.
whether to honor his family or pursue his love, Juliet.
A NO CHANGE
A NO CHANGE
B reigned
B wither
C rained
C weather
D waned
D when
11. The great Genghis Khan tried to illicit fear in his
6. Surprisingly, bacon is a great compliment to caramel- enemies.
flavored ice cream.
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A NO CHANGE A NO CHANGE
B elicit B patients.
C elucidate C patents.
D exude D patinas.
12. The students watched as the beekeeper collected 17. After her professor's explanation about using MLA
honey and calmly allowed the bees to envelop her arm style in academic papers, the student raised her hand.
without being stung. "But how do I sight a tweet?" she asked.
A NO CHANGE A NO CHANGE
B envelope B site
C develop C side
D develope D cite
13. It takes courage to except when you're wrong and 18. The whether is rapidly changing in our northwest
humbly apologize. broadcast area; just today, we've seen snow, rain, and
sunshine.
A NO CHANGE
A NO CHANGE
B accept
B wealthier
C expect
C weather
D intercept
D wether cừu đực
14. A sincere enthusiast of oral history, Roy G. Bivens
seized every opportunity to tell an epic tale. 19. In many cultures, it is considered rude to not accept
food as a guest in someone’s home. Guests should
A NO CHANGE always eat a small portion of whatever they are served,
even if they don’t like it.
B orally
A NO CHANGE
C aura
B incept
D aural
C except
15. Overtired and under stress from his holiday orders,
the chocolatier could not decide whether to envelope D receipt
the pretzels in dark chocolate or almond bark.
20. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. effected great social
A NO CHANGE change through his leadership in nonviolent protests for
civil rights.
B redevelop tái phát triển
A NO CHANGE
C develop
B affected
D envelop bọc
C afflicted
16. Dr. Solo looked at his empty waiting room and
sighed. Though he'd moved to the area months ago, he D inflicted
had still not acquired many patience.
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văn phòng phẩm
21. The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia 26. Any serious fisherman will tell you that the best way
was the most powerful ever recorded. Many geologists to catch a fish is to remain stationery and quiet,
still flock to the cite to explore the enormous and still whether you cast your line from a boat or the shore.
active crater.
A NO CHANGE
A NO CHANGE
B stagnant đình trệ
B sight
C sanctuary thánh địa
C site
D stationary đứng im
D side
27. The American journalist Nellie Bly profoundly
22. The Bubonic Plague, also known as the Black effected investigative journalism with her undercover
Death, spread across Europe in the 1300s and inflicted story of a women’s mental institution.
a third of the human population.
A NO CHANGE
A NO CHANGE afflict: làm đau
B affected inflict: gây thiệt
B afflicted infected: bị lây nhiễm
C afflicted
C irritated
D infected
D effected
28. Most of his team members groaned when they saw
23.Please insure that this mishap does not happen the huge "surprise" obstacle at the end of the race, but
again. Masudi took it as an opportunity to test his mettle.
A NO CHANGE A NO CHANGE
B ensure B medal.
C sure C metal.
D secure D meddle.
24. The doctor will proscribe nasal spray to those 29. In 2005, a shepherd in Turkey lost most of his flock
suffering from allergies. when a single sheep wondered off a cliff and the 1,499
others followed it.
A NO CHANGE
A NO CHANGE
B prescribe
B wanders
C scribe
C wandered
D predetermine
D wonders
25. Bruce was discrete about his true identity as
Batman. 30. The man I spoke to had an accent so thick that I
could barely understand him.
A NO CHANGE
A NO CHANGE
B disagree
B assent
C concrete
C ascent
D discreet
D essence
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31. Although the table appeared to be carved out of a D though
single block of wood, it was actually composed of six
discrete parts. 36. If Impressionist paintings truly depict daily life in
1800s France, then people spent a good deal of time
A NO CHANGE laying in parks or by the riverside.
B secrete A NO CHANGE
C discreet B allaying
D replete C lying
C a memorial A NO CHANGE
D a balmoral B alimentary
C through A NO CHANGE
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B elude B memorial
C exclude C immortal
D preclude D moral
41. Because Pinocchio was a marionette that lacked 46. In order to ensure an orderly distribution of his late
many human characteristics, his friend Jiminy Cricket wife's assets, George needed to have the property
served as his official conscious. appraised.
A NO CHANGE A NO CHANGE
B conscient. B apprised.
C cornichon. C apprehended.
D conscience. D appreciated.
42. South Carolina succeeded from the Union on 47. The modern Abrahamic religions draw from extant
December 20, 1860; five more states followed suit in texts that have caused controversy for millennia.
January of 1861.
A NO CHANGE
A NO CHANGE
B exiled
B acceded
C extent
C exceeded
D exigent
D seceded
48. When she sailed or played basketball, Natalya
43. This beautiful flower is indigenous to this island. observed and calculated practical physics problems in
her head. When she had to sit through a classroom
A NO CHANGE lectern on physics, she became disinterested and fell
asleep.
B indigent
A NO CHANGE
C indignant
B letter
D indigo
C lector
44. I’d like too go with you two, too.
D lecture
A NO CHANGE
49. According to Theodore Schultz, education is a
B to major form of human capitol: a nation which invests in
scholarship will generate greater economic growth than
C two would otherwise be possible.
D tutu A NO CHANGE
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50. When he encountered one section of Mars' she was living on public assistance when she wrote the
indignant population, the Red Martians, John Carter first Harry Potter book.
was impressed by their advanced technology and
wealthy culture. A NO CHANGE
A NO CHANGE B imminence
B indicative C innocence
C indigent D immanence
D indigenous 55. Despite the company's hints that the phone launch
was immanent, the eager consumers had to wait
51. When Ignatius saw the very large "DO NOT months for the bugs in the new operating system to be
ENTER" sign hanging from the door of the abandoned fixed.
house, he had an original and ingenuous idea: he
turned around, walked away, and everyone lived A NO CHANGE
happily ever after.
B eminent
A NO CHANGE
C imminent
B ingenious
D innominate
C ingenues
56. With a desire to track the illegal elephant ivory
D igneous trade, the journalist devised an ingenuous solution.
With the aid of his team and a skilled taxidermist, he
52. During a class discussion on Shakespeare's King developed fake elephant tusks and equipped them with
Lear, the English professor cited Christopher Moore's GPS devices.
Fool as a re-telling of the Elizabethan tragedy, rather
than one grand allusion to it. A NO CHANGE
A NO CHANGE B ingenious
B illusion C igneous
C delusion D ingenue
D elution 57. The potential investor shook her head and turned
back to the room one last time. "I just can't put down
53. Medieval physicians advised their patients based that kind of capitol without a guarantee of a return," she
on the Theory of Humors, which was a diagnostic said, and closed the door.
practice that considered several things, including a
person's temperament; their illness with relationship to A NO CHANGE
the four "elements" (earth, air, fire, and water); and the
"qualities" (hot, cold, wet, and dry) of those elements. B capitulation
A NO CHANGE C capital
B adviced D caption
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B proscribed,
C inscribed,
33D
D described, 34B
59. The warm classroom, combined with the monotone 35C
voice that the professor afflicted upon his students, put
them all to sleep. 36C
A NO CHANGE 37A
B inflected
38D
C inflicted
39A
40B
D affected
41D
60. After he made the mistake of using the wrong verb
form, Jake's French teacher apprised him of the proper 42D
usage.
43A
A NO CHANGE 44A
B excised 45A
C apprized 46A
D appraised 47D
48B
49D
50B
51A
52A
53A
54C
55B
56C
57B
58C
59A
60B