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1. (A) She doesn't have an appointment. 8. (A) He was too busy to take it.
(B) Her problem is complicated. (B) He did well on it.
(C) She must live somewhere else. (C) He left some questions unanswered
(D) Her apartment isn't far away. on it.
(D) He took it two times.
2. (A) She can use his phone if she wants.
(B) There's no charge for phone calls. 9. (A) Breaking the glass.
(C) His phone is out of order too. (B) Warming the lid.
(D) She can call him later if she likes. (C) Hitting the lid.
(D) Filling the jar.
3. (A) He couldn't find it.
(B) It was too hard to solve. 10. (A) It was too expensive.
(C) It was simpler than he'd thought. (B) She bought it at the shop next door.
(D) He solved it even though it was hard. (C) It was given to her as a gift.
(D) She paid very little for it.
4. (A) He cleaned up after cooking.
(B) He forgot to put the pots and pans 11. (A) She doesn't want to discuss the traffic.
away. (B) She didn't have to go downtown today.
(C) He was out in a terrible storm. (C) She was in the traffic herself.
(D) He put some plants in the kitchen. (D) She thinks the traffic was better today.
5. (A) He studied forestry in school. 12. (A) The classes aren't interesting.
(B) He worked in a forest. (B) Classes have been canceled.
(C) He read a lot of books about trees. (C) The weather is pleasant.
(D) His father taught him. (D) It isn't very sunny today.
6. (A) How many pages he must write. 13. (A) Gary doesn't need a audio player.
(B) What Professor Barclay discussed. (B) She wants her audio player back.
(C) How long the class lasted. (C) She's glad Gary is finally here.
(D) When the paper is due. (D) Gary can keep her audio player.
7. (A) She doesn't like any music except 14. (A) Stay inside and read it.
classical. (B) Look in it for advertisements for
(B) There is some classical music she umbrellas.
doesn't like. (C) Cover her head with it.
(C) She likes classical music, but she can't (D) Throw it away.
play it.
15. (A) She originally supported Margaret.
(D) Classical music doesn't interest her at
(B) She can no longer support Ed.
all.
(C) Ed has dropped out of the race.
(D) She's not interested in the election.
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16. (A) She and her brother painted the 24. (A) To improve his game quickly.
apartment. (B) To take more lessons.
(B) Her brother owes her some money. (C) To train with a professional.
(C) Her brother painted the apartment by (D) To teach people to play tennis.
himself.
25. (A) Wrap the present.
(D) She painted her brother's apartment.
(B) Playa game.
17. (A) Give him a map. (C) Point out a problem.
(B) Cut his hair for him. (D) End the discussion.
(C) Drive him to the lake.
26. (A) He wants to buy some books.
(D) Show him another route.
(B) Two of the books are the same.
18. (A) Hanging it. (C) He needs some matches.
(B) Buying it. (D) The couple is a good match.
(C) Painting it.
27. (A) Neither street goes downtown.
(D) Framing it.
(B) California Street is better than Oak
19. (A) Borrow Stephanie's computer. Street.
(B) Buy her own computer. (C) There's not enough time to go
(C) Save some money. downtown.
(D) Stay home and complete her (D) He can take either street.
assignment.
28. (A) It was hard to hear.
20. (A) He doesn't need to practice anymore. (B) It wasn't true.
(B) His team has won a lot of games. (C) It was surprising.
(C) He doesn't want to play volleyball. (D) It wasn't very interesting.
(D) His.team needs to improve.
29. (A) The handle on the suitcase is broken.
21. (A) She seems to be feeling better. (B) His hands are already full.
(B) She has quite an imagination. (C) The luggage is too heavy for him.
(C) She takes beautiful pictures. (D) He'll be happy to help.
(D) She's too sick to go out.
30. (A) She had to prepare for an exam.
22. (A) Lou has been here once before. (B) She'd passed the physics test.
(B) They'll start when Lou arrives. (C) She was going camping.
(C) Lou has already started. (D) She'd dropped the physics class.
(D) Everyone is getting hungry.
23. (A) She thinks they're reasonably priced.
(B) She doesn't like them at all.
(C) She'd buy them if she had enough
money.
(D) She doesn't need them, but she still
likes them.
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Section 1 • Listening Comprehension 417
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Part B
Directions: This part of the test consists of extended conversations between two speakers. After
each of these conversations, there are a number of questions. You will hear each conversation and
question only once, and the questions are not written out.
When you have heard the questions, read the four answer choices and select the one-(A),
(B), (C), or (D)-that best answers the question based on what is directly stated or on what can
be inferred. Then fIll in the space on your answer sheet that matches the letter of the answer that
you have selected.
Don't forget: During actual exams, taking notes or writing in your test book is not permitted.
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31. (A) They are both studying social 35. (A) At a university.
anthropology. (B) At a television station.
(B) Both of them are going to the museum (C) At a newspaper office.
on Saturday. (D) At a hospital.
(C) They both have the same teacher.
36. (A) He needs a well-paying position.
(D) Both of them have studied
(B) He was told to by a professor.
anthropology before.
(C) He wants the experience.
32. (A) In the morning. (D) He recently lost another job.
(B) In the afternoon.
37. (A) Drama.
(C) In the evening.
(B) Journalism.
(D) Only on Saturdays.
(C) Telecommunications.
33. (A) Relationships between parents and (D) History.
children.
38. (A) Talk to Ms. Wagner.
(B) The tools used by ancient people.
(B) Drop a class.
(C) Leadership in contemporary society.
(C) Change his major.
(D) Marriage customs.
(D) Complete a form.
34. (A) He found it uninteresting.
(B) He found it useful.
(C) He found it fascinating.
(D) He found it difficult.
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Part C
Directions: This part of the test consists of several talks, each given by a single speaker. After
each of these talks, there are a number of questions. You will hear each talk and question only
once, and the questions are not written out.
When you have heard each question, read the four answer choices and select the one-(A),
(B), (C), or (D)-that best answers the question based on what is directly stated or on what can be
inferred. Then fill in the space on your answer sheet that matches the letter of the answer that you
have selected.
Here is an example.
You will hear:
The lecture concerns a lunar eclipse, a topic that would typically be discussed in an astronomy
class. The choice that best answers the question, "In what course is this lecture probably being
given?" is (C), "Astronomy." You should fill in (C) on your answer sheet.
Here is an example.
You will hear:
Sample Answer
You will read: (A) The Earth's shadow moves across the .\1oon
(B) Clouds block the view of the Moon.
(C) The Moon moves between the Earth and the Sun.
(D) The Sun can be observed without special equipment.
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From the lecture you learn that a lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth moves between the Sun and
the Moon and the shadow of the Earth passes across the Moon. The choice that best answers the
question, "According to the speaker, which of the following occurs during a lunar eclipse?" is (A),
"The Earth's shadow moves across the Moon."
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39. (A) A football game. 45. (A) As confusing.
(B) Jet transportation. (B) As innovative.
(C) The Hindenburg disaster. (C) As amusing.
(D) Lighter-than-air craft. (D) As wasteful.
40. (A) Early twentieth century airships. 46. (A) To standardize daylight saving time.
(B) Blimps. (B) To establish year-round daylight saving
(C) Jet aircraft. time.
(D) Modern airships. (C) To abolish daylight saving time.
(D) To shorten daylight saving time.
41. (A) The age of zeppelins ended in disaster
there. 47. (A) A program the city is starting.
(B) It was there that the first blimp was (B) The uses of recycled materials.
designed. (C) A proposed schedule.
(C) Helium was first substituted for (D) A recent newspaper article.
hydrogen there.
48. (A) Newspapers.
(D) It was there that the last zeppelin was
(B) Aluminum cans.
built.
(C) Plastic bottles.
42. (A) They would be safer. (D) Glass containers.
(B) They would use less fuel.
49. (A) The north.
(C) They would be faster.
(B) The east.
(D) They could fly higher.
(C) The south.
43. (A) The Uniform Time Act. (D) The central.
(B) The role of daylight saving time in
50. (A) Look in the local newspaper.
wartime.
(B) Keep listening to radio.
(C) Ways to save energy.
(C) Stop by the recycling center.
(D) The history of daylight saving time.
(D) Call the radio station.
44. (A) In the spring.
(B) In the summer.
(C) In the fall.
(D) In the winter.
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Answer Keys
Structure and Written Expression
Time: 25 minutes
This section tests your ability to recognize grammar and usage suitable for standard written
English. This section is divided into two parts, each with its own directions.
Structure
Directions: Items in this part are incomplete sentences. Following each of these sentences, there
are four words or phrases. You should select the one word or phrase-(A), (B), (C), or (D)-that
best completes the sentence. Then fill in the space on your answer sheet that matches the letter of
the answer that you have selected.
Example!
(A) that
(B) is
(C) of
(D) being
This sentence should properly read "Pepsin is an enzyme used in digestion." You should fill in (B)
on your answer sheet.
Example II
This sentence should properly read "No large natural lakes are found in the state of South
Carolina." You should fill in (D) on your answer sheet.
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1. Dairy farming is _____ leading agricultural 6. ____ vastness of the Grand Canyon, it is
activity in the Unites States. difficult to capture it in a single photograph.
2. Although thunder and lightning are produced 7. Speciation, ___, results when an animal
at the same time, light waves travel faster population becomes isolated by some factor,
____, so we see the lightning before we hear usually geographic.
the under.
(A) form biological species
(A) than sound waves do (B) biological species are formed
(B) than sound waves are (C) which forming biological species
(C) do sound waves (D) the formation of biological species
(D) sound waves
(A) the most are important (A) When combined physically or chemically
(B) are the most important (B) combined when physically or chemically
(C) the most important are (C) the physical and chemical combination
(D) that are the most important (D) it is combined physically and chemically
4. The discovery of the halftone process in 9. The dawn redwood appears _____ some 100
photography in 1881 made it ____ million years ago in northern forests around
photographs in books and newspapers. the world.
5. Flag Day is a legal holiday only in the state of 10. Beginning in the Middle Ages, composers of
Pennsylvania, ____ Betsy Ross sewed the first Western music used a system of notating their
American flag. compositions _____ be performed by
musicians.
(A) which
(B) where (A) will
(C) that (B) that
(D) has (C) and when to
(D) so they could
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11. Civil Rights are the freedoms and rights ____ 14. Franklin D. Roosevelt was ____ the great
as a member of a community, state or nation. force of radio and the opportunity it provided
for taking government policies directly to the
(A) may have person people.
(B) may have a person who
(C) a person may have (A) as the first President he understood fully
(D) and a person may have (B) the first president that to fully understand
(C) the first President fully understood
(D) the first President to understand fully
12. Richard Wright enjoyed success and influence
____ among Black American writers in his
era. 15. During the late fifteenth century ____ of the
native societies of America had professions in
(A) were unparalleled the fields of arts and crafts.
(B) are unparalleled
(C) unparalleled (A) only a few
(D) the unparalleled (B) a few but
(C) few, but only
(D) a few only
13. ____ of large mammals once dominated the
North American prairies the American bison
and the pronghorn antelope.
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Written Expression
Directions: In questions 16-40, each sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four
underlined parts of the sentence are marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). Identify the one underlined word
or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct. Then, on your answer sheet,
find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you
have chosen.
The sentence should read, "The four strings on a violin are tuned in fifths." Therefore, you should
choose (B).
The sentence should read, "The research for the book Roots took Alex Haley twelve years." Therefore, you
should choose (C).
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16. The firstly naval battle of the Revolutionary War was fought off the coast of Machias, Maine in June, 1775.
A first B C D
17. The public ceremonies of the Plains Indians are lesser elaborate than those of the Navajo, in the Southwest.
A B less C D
18. In some species of fish, such the three-spined stickleback, the male, not the female, performs the task of
A B such as the C
caring for the young.
D
19. When she retires in September 1989, tennis champion Christine Evert was the most famous woman athlete
A retired (V2) B C D
in the Unites States.
20. The ancient Romans used vessels equipped with sails and banks of oars to transporting their armies
A B C D to transport
21. Dinosaurs are traditionally classified as cold-blooded reptiles, but recent evidence based on eating habits,
A B
posture and skeletal structural suggests some may have been warm-blooded.
C structures D
22. Since the Great Depression of the 1930‘s, social programs such as Social Security have been built into the
A B
economy to help avert severity business declines.
C D severe
23. In the 1970‘s consumer activities succeeded in promoting laws that set safety standards for automobiles,
A B C
children’s clothing and a widely range of household products.
D wide
24. Zoos in New Orleans, San Diego, Detroit, and the Bronx have become biological parks where animals
A B
roams free and people watch from across a moat.
C roam free D
25. In human beings as in other mammal, hairs around the eyes and ears and in the nose prevent dust, insects,
A mammals B C
and other matter from entering these organs.
D
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26. The Rocky Mountains were explored by fur traders during the early 1800‘s, in a decades preceding the
A B C the D
United States Civil War.
27. The works of the author Herman Melville are literary creations of a high order, blending fact, fiction,
A B C
adventure, and subtle symbolic.
D symbol
28. Each chemical element is characterized to the number of protons that an atom of that element contains, called
A B by C
its atomic number.
D
29. The body structure that developed in birds over millions of years is well designed for flight, being both
A B C
lightly in weight and remarkably strong.
D light
30. From 1905 to 1920, American novelist Edith Wharton was at the height of her writing career, publishing
A B
of her three most famous novels.
C her D
31. In the early twentieth century, there was considerable interesting among sociologists in the fact that in the
A interest B
United States the family was losing its traditional roles.
C D
32. Although pure diamond is colorless and transparent, when contaminated with other material it may appear in
A B C
various color, ranging from pastels to opaque black.
D colors
Concerned with
33. Comparative anatomy is concerned to the structural differences among animal forms.
A B C D
34. A seismograph records oscillation of the ground caused by seismic waves, vibrations that travel from its
A B C their
point of origin through the Earth or along its surface.
D
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35. Electric lamps came into widespread use during the early 1900‘s and have replaced other type of fat, gas, or
A B types
oil lamps for almost every purpose.
C D
36. Located in Canada, the Columbia Ice field covers area of 120 square miles and is 3,30 feet thick in
A covers an area B C
some places.
D
37. Composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein Ⅱ brought to the musical Oklahoma! extensive
A B
musical and theatrical backgrounds as well as familiar with the traditional forms of operetta and musical
C familiarity D
comedy.
38. Because of its vast tracts of virtually uninhabited northern forest, Canada has one of the lowest population
A B C
density in the world.
D densities
39. Rice, which it still forms the staple diet of much of the world’s population, grows best in hot, wet lands.
A which still B C D
40. Government money appropriated for art in the 1930‘s made possible hundreds of murals and statues still
A B
admiration in small towns all over the Unites States.
C admirable D
Questions 1-11
5. What will probably be the first stage of change as the Sun becomes a red giant?
(A) Its core will cool off and use less fuel.
(B) Its surface will become hotter and shrink.
(C) It will throw off huge amounts of gases.
(D) Its center will grow smaller and hotter.
6. When the Sun becomes a red giant, what will conditions be like on Earth?
(A) Its atmosphere will freeze and become solid.
(B) It will be enveloped in the expanding surface of the Sun.
(C) It will become too hot for life to exist.
(D) It will be nearly destroyed by nova explosions.
8. According to the passage, which of the following best describes the sequence of stages that
the Sun will probably pass through?
(A) Yellow dwarf, white dwarf, red giant, black giant
(B) Red giant, white dwarf, red dwarf, nova explosion
(C) Yellow dwarf, red giant, white dwarf, black dwarf
(D) White dwarf, red giant, black dwarf, yellow dwarf
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(D) Objective
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Section 3 • Reading Comprehension 433
15. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word "comparatively" in line 17?
(A) Relatively
(B) Contrarily
(C) Incredibly
(D) Considerably
16. The phrase "on-again-off-again" in line 20 could be replaced by which of the following with the
least change in meaning?
(A) Intermittent
(B) Unsolicited
(C) Ineffectual
(D) Gradual
17. The completion of the Erie Canal was financed by
(A) the state of New York
(B) private companies
(C) the federal government
(D) DeWitt Clinton
18. The actual cost of building the Erie Canal was
(A) five million dollars
(B) less than had been estimated
(C) seven million dollars
(D) more than could be repaid
19. The word "tolls" in line 26 is closest in meaning to which of the following?
(A) Jobs
(B) Grants
(C) Links
(D) Fees
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20. Which of the following is NOT given in the fourth paragraph as an effect of the building of the
Erie Canal?
(A) It allowed the East Coast to trade with the Great Lakes area.
(B) It took water traffic away from the Mississippi River.
(C) It helped determine the outcome of the Civil War.
(D) It established Boston and Philadelphia as the most important centers of trade.
21. What can be inferred about railroads in 1849 from the information in the last paragraph?
(A) They were being planned but had not yet been built.
(B) They were seriously underdeveloped.
(C) They had begun to compete with the Erie Canal for traffic.
(D) They were weakened by the expansion of the canal.
22. The word "warranted" in line 35 is closest in meaning to
(A) guaranteed
(B) justified
(C) hastened
(D) prevented
23. At what point in the passage does the author focus on the beginning of construction of the
Erie Canal?
(A) Lines 3-5
(B) Lines 10-13
(C) Lines 16-18
(D) Lines 25-26
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31. In line 17, the phrase "pick up" could best be replaced by which of the following?
(A) Perceive
(B) Lift
(C) Transmit
(D) Attack
32. All of the following are mentioned as possible factors in drawing insects to weakened trees
EXCEPT
(A) thermal changes
(B) smells
(C) sounds
(D) changes in color
33. It can be inferred that, at the time the passage was written, research concerning the distress
signals of trees
(A) had been conducted many years earlier
(B) had been unproductive up to then
(C) was continuing
(D) was no longer sponsored by the government
Questions 34--41
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Questions 42-50
45. It can be inferred from the passage that two-thirds of the film Modern Times
(A) is completely unforgettable
(B) takes place outside a factory
(C) is more critical than the other third
(D) entertains the audience more than the other third
46. Which of the following could best replace the phrase "losing his mind" in lines 19-20?
(A) Getting fired
(B) Doing his job
(C) Going insane
(D) Falling behind
47. The word "This" in line 24 refers to which of the following?
(A) The machine
(B) The food
(C) The assembly line
(D) The scene
48. According to the passage, the purpose of the scene involving the feeding machine is to show
people's
(A) ingenuity
(B) adaptability
(C) helplessness
(D) independence
49. The word "utter" in line 25 is closest in meaning to which of the following?
(A) Notable
(B) Complete
(C) Regrettable
(D) Necessary
50. The author would probably be LEAST likely to use which of the following words to describe
the film Modern Times?
(A) Revolutionary
(B) Entertaining
(C) Memorable
(D) Satirical