take 18

grammar

1.

A : You've been so kind to me.

B : If there's anything else I can do for you, please don't hesitate ______________.

(a) letting me know (b) to let me know (c) me to let know (d) knowing me to let

2.

A : Coffees's on me today. I own ___________ for a favor.

B : What favor?

(a) to you (b) you (c) yours (d) of you

3.

A : Do you think Julio‘s going to make up for the classes he missed?

B : I‘m sure he’ll manage one way or ____________.

(a) other (b) others (c) another (d) some others

4.

What is particularly ___________ is the sharp increase in armed robbery.

(a) worry (b) worrying (c) worried (d) to worry

5.

The child was ________ for by a very nice babysitter while her mom went to work.

(a) caring (b) to care (c) cared (d) been cared

6.

__________ to going to college, she worked at a variety of odd jobs to save money.

(a) Committed (b) Committing (c) She having committed (d) She committed

7.

(a) A : Do you have the computer technician‘s number?

(b) B : I used to have it. What a second.

(c) A : Oh, never mind. I can ask John.

(d) B : Wait, I get it! Here you are.

8.

(a) A : Do you find it easily to get along with foreign colleagues?

(b) B : Absolutely. I feel lucky to work with people from all around the world.

(c) A : how about cultural differences? It must get confusing.

(d) B : We have a few, but we can always work it out.

9.

(a) Is December 25 really the day Jesus was born? (b) No one really knows for sure. (c) All is known is that Christian leaders in 336 A.D. set the date to December 25. (d) They wanted a Christian holiday to eclipse Saturnalia, the popular pagan holiday in Rome.

10.

(a) Many people daydream about winning a million dollars in the lottery. (b) As more and more states set up lottery games, more and more people are rushing to buy tickets and dream. (c) The states view lotteries as a way to make money. (d) Only about half of how they take in is actually given back as prize money.

vocabulary

1.

A : Sorry to ___________ you, but can you check this out for me?

B : No problem. What is it?

(a) knock (b) stick (c) bother (d) touch

2.

A : I can‘t ____________ Brian anymore!

B : What‘s wrong? I thought you got along well.

(a) stand (b) swallow (c) attach (d) break

3.

A : I can‘t believe Wayne said that to me!

B : Don‘t take it ___________. I don’t think he meant to offend you

(a) sincerely (b) personally (c) full (d) straight

4.

A : After the heated argument, they no longer are on speaking ____________.

B : Well, I thought they would break up eventually.

(a) terms (b) conditions (c) relatives (d) connections

5.

A : The show starts at 4:30, but your class finishes at 4:50, doesn‘t it?

B : Well, honestly, I don‘t have any _______ about leaving it a little early just this once.

(a) subs (b) butts (c) qualms (d) fibs

6.

The origins of Valentine‘s Day are ________ in mystery.

(a) blanketed (b) converted (c) shrouded (d) surrounded

7.

In the devastating War of the Triple Alliance, Paraguay lost two-thirds of all its adult males and much of its ___________.

(a) country (b) region (c) territory (d) terrain

8.

Paparazzi or celebrity photographers will ___________ whatever extremes necessary to capture “the shot.”

(a) make (b) take (c) run (d) meet

9.

China is expected to launch a _________ spacecraft, which would make the sountry the third to put people in space.

(a) staffed (b) peopled (c) manned (d) populated

10.

Use ordinary household wax paper, a tracing wheel, and a pattern to ___________ any pattern fit in minutes.

(a) turn (b) pass (c) lead (d) make

reading

1.

One may have a favorite author or series of stories. Sometimes he or she may be unable to wait for the next installment of a particular television program. A devoted fan of any of these may probably come across the phenomenon of fan fiction. This is when fans write their own stories ___________. Thanks to the Internet, fan fiction is now becoming a worldwide phenomenon through until recently it was limited to small groups of individuals.

(a) changing all the characters

(b) using their favorite characters

(c) to make themselves well0known

(d) to make their debut

2.

A total solar eclipse only occurs because of a cosmic coincidence. From Earth, the apparent size of the Moon is ________________ the apparent size of the Sun. This is not the case for any other planet in the solar system, so only Earth witnesses such close-fitting solar eclipses. The Sun is 400 times bigger in fact, but it is also 400 times further away. So the Moon blocks out the Sun when soincide in the sky.

(a) much larger than

(b) much smaller than

(c) almost the same as

(d) not comparable with

3.

You're on the Titanic Ⅱ. It has just hit an iceberg and is sinking. And, as last time, there are not enough lifeboats. The captain shouts, "Women and children first!" But this time, another voice is heard: " Why women?" Why, indeed? The evolutionary psychologists might say that ladies-to-the-lifeboats is an instinct that developed to perpetuate the species: women are indispensable child bearers. You can repopulate a village if the women survive and only a few of the men, but you cannot repopulate a village if the men survive and only a few of the women. The problem with this kind of logic, however, is its _______________. It recapitulates in all seriousness the geneticist's old witticism that a chicken is just an egg's way of making another egg. But humans are more than just egg layers. And chivalrous traditions are more than just disguised survival strategies.

(a) irrefutable truth

(b) widespread prejudice

(c) verifiable hypothesis

(d) depressing reductionism

4.

I am a firm believer in the power of music. I play the piano, flute, guitar, and saxophone. Though I once dreamed of becoming a conductor or a guitarist, I now use my music to help heal my patients, having long been interested in music as a healing tool. I believe music can prove cathartic for some patients with emotional problems, stress and grief. I do give CDs away to patients if I fell it is appropriate, after I have dine some probing to see if music is important to them. But I don't use music therapy ________________. I am a very conventional doctor, but I do like to use other sources for emotional problems where conventional medicine has little to offer.

(a) to replace medicine

(b) to make money

(c) to make myself well-known

(d) to familiarize my patients with music

5.

Sometimes called the "scientific method," inductive reasoning draws conclusions from supporting evidence. The starting point is a hypothesis, or supposition, "which is to be proved true or untrue." If, for example, you think that there has been an "inflation" in college grades over the last ten years or so-your hypothesis-you might try to get some evidence from published sources, from college records, and from personal inquiry among senior members of the faculty. As a result of your research, you may be able _________________.

(a) to start thinking about inducive reasoning

(b) to hypothesize based on supporting evidence

(c) to draw some conclusion about the truth of your hypothesis

(d) to better understand the scientific method

6.

As children advance through puberty, they are confronted with the dilemma of becoming aware of their own sexual needs together with society's demand that these needs not be satisfied. Our society does not yet fully condone any form of premarital sexual release. The conflict is further heightened in today's society, for with advancing technology and the need for more and more education and training to compete successfully, marriage and its privilege of socially sanctioned sexual expression, _______________.

(a) are fully satisfied

(b) are further delayed

(c) come to be more decent

(d) are increasingly attractive

7.

Iranian-born Shahin, well known for his mixing of persian and Western sounds, recently returned to Iran on an extraordinary journey of rediscovery after having made his life in the U.S. He returned feeling a stranger in his homeland but believing that East and West had much to learn from each other. "I felt like a stranger in my homeland because having lived in the States for most of my life, I feel ______________ to the Western way of life and the Western ideology," he said. "But at the same time, the spiritual side that comes out of Eastern hemisphere is a very deep and refreshing one," he added.

(a) awkward

(b) an affinity

(c) an outsider

(d) an apathy

8.

The jeeps turned into a little settlement of a little settlement of a hundred mud houses and the children came running, as delighted to see us as they would have been to see their Santa Claus, bringing them the maize and the protein that would stop their little bodies being blown up like balloons and turning them fat from hunger. The chief was grateful for the food sacks supplied by the aid agencies who had taken us to the village, but he kept talking about a borehole, and that when he had that he could irrigate some of the fields and keep the maize growing even of the rains failed. And that is the key to tackling this crisis. The aid is a stopgap to prevent people from dying, but _____________ is the way forward.

(a) a humanitarian crisis

(b) a long-term solution

(c) a true reconciliation

(d) the treatment of disease

9.

It is not unfair to say that the early history of the colonies is, in some respect, the history of ____________. For is was from Virginia that many of the ideas came that transformed America from a group of docile colonies into a hotbed of revolutionary fervor. And, it was from this large mid-Atlantic colony that numerous leaders Appeared in all fields ranging from politics and agriculture to military affairs and art. It is not surprising, therefore, that four of the first five American presidents were Virginians.

(a) the revolution

(b) the colony of Virginia

(c) the politics and military affairs

(d) the first 13 independent stats

10.

The majority of hangovers are the result of drinking too much too quickly. For most people, it doesn't matter whether you drink cheap wine or champagne, or whether you're mixed your with whiskey. It simply comes down to ________________ in which you've marinated your brain and body. It's all related to the amount of ethanol one consumes in a given period or time. If you drink too much too quickly, your liver can't digest it all. As it turns out, your liver can deal with approximately one drink per hour. Keep your intake at that level and unless you're prone to headaches, you should be fine.

(a) the quality of alcohol

(b) the ability to digest

(c) your mental state

(d) the amount of alcohol

11.

It's too cold. You're too busy. You can think of every reason in the book to get out of exercising. Well, we've rounded up the expertise of fitness trainer Alster Hanman. He's squashing those excuses with the hottest indoor workout this winter! There's no need to venture out to the gym. And don't even think of trying to brave the sleet or show. You can _____________ and still get the same effects. Try Alster's workout any time, any place.

(a) try playing outdoors

(b) register at a sports center

(c) work out in a warm place

(d) replace workout with dancing

12.

An adequate analysis of the discussion of a problem or subject matter identifies and reports the major issues, or basic intellectual oppositions, in that discussion. This does not imply that disagreement is always the dominant feature of every discussion. ____________, agreement in most cases accompanies disagreement: that is, on most issues, the opinions or views that present opposite sides of the dispute are shared by several authors, often by many. Seldom do we find a solitary exponent of a controversial position.

(a) In addition

(b) On the contrary

(c) As a result

(d) For example

13.

South Florida is close to perfect as a rider's as a rider's paradise. We've certainly got the weather. The terrain is relatively flat and the scenery with all its greenery is top-notch. _____________, South Florida is also home to drivers who define the word "boneheaded," so finding a safe spot to cycle, free from cars that turn right from the left lane, could be a challenge depending on where you live. For some reason, most of tony Coral Gables and people-magnet South Beach haven't hit upon the concept of bike paths. Paved bike paths and trails abound everywhere else in Miami-dade and Broward. These are some of our favorites.

(a) Unfortunately

(b) Comparably

(c) Reluctantly

(d) Interestingly

14.

Evidence has been found in Mexico that an ancient people developed a writing system more than 2.500years ago. Inscriptions on a cylinder-shaped seal and fragments of a plaque demonstrate that the Olmec people used a form of words in about 650 B.C. That is about 350 years earlier than the writings accredited to the Mayan civilization who had been thought to have written the first words in America. The new findings focus on the word-pictures or glyphs found on the artefacts unearthed near a center of the Olmec civilization.

Q. Who had been assumed to have written the first words in America?

(a) Ancient explorers

(b) Mexican scholars

(c) The Mayan civilization

(d) The Olmec civilization

15.

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Q. What is this advertisement about?

(a) Magazine subscription

(b) An online shopping service

(c) Information searching service

(d) Delivery service

16.

One of the more unusual happenings of this year has been having two students staying with us for two months. One girl from China was with us for a term, and Calos reappeared form Colombia for a couple of months to complete his PhD degree, and we had a full house. Carlos was the first student sho stayed with us and that was such a good experience that we never found it an imposition, although it did made for a busy house! While they were here they just became part of the family and we had lots of fun and also valuable times of fellowship. One other advantage was that we often had delicious food cooked for us!

Q. What can be inferred from the passage?

(a) The foreign students were better at cooking than the family.

(b) The family took the students everywhere they went.

(c) The students might sty longer than scheduled.

(d) The family may host other foreign students.

17.

Celebrate our new trains. We're so proud of our new trains, we'd like you to join in the celebrations. What's so special about these new trains? They're sleek, modern, and fast. And you will enjoy a refreshingly different traveling experience. You can listen to Mirage FM on the at-seat audio system; charge your mobile phone or laptop at the socket by your seat; and enjoy CDs, magazines, books, snacks and even freshly-ground coffee at The Shop. You'll love travelling on our new train. Everyday, there are 140 services on new trains from London, 31 from Manchester, 25 from Bristol, and services have doubled in Newcastle.

Q. What is the passage about?

(a) A train time table.

(b) A train service advertisement.

(c) The new design of a train manufacturer.

(d) The free use of mobile phones or laptops on a train.

18.

A report found English teenagers face a wider range of problems than parents were aware of/ Almost 42% of all parents in the survey listed drugs as the biggest threat teenagers faced/ But a third of young people said managing relationships with parents, family or lovers was their biggest problem. Only 19% of teenagers said drugs were their main concern. Bullying was picked out as the biggest worry for 13%of teenagers but only by 7% of parents. Among 10% of teens, pregnancy and sex were the biggest problem. The research shows parents have little idea about the problems teenagers really face.

Q. Which of the following is the biggest concern English teenagers identified?

(a) Bullying

(b) Drugs

(c) Managing relationships

(d) Pregnancy and sex

19.

Darwin was expected to follow his father and become a doctor, and in 1825, at the age of sixteen, his father removed him from Shrewsbury and entered him in the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. He found all of hid classes except chemistry dull. After two years at Edinburgh, he quit school and went to live with his uncle Josiah Wedgewood. After he abandoned medicine, his father urged him to attend Cambridge University to study to be a clergyman. At Cambridge he met John Steven Henslow who helped him regain his interest in nature. It was Henslow who was influential in getting Darwin the position of naturalist on the boat The Beagle. In April of 1831, he finally graduated from the university.

Q. Which of the following is correct according to the passage?

(a) Darwin's father had practiced medicine.

(b) Darwin was not interested in chemistry.

(c) Darwin had disobeyed his father to become a clergyman.

(d) At Cambridge, Darwin's interest in navigation grew.

20.

Make sure your old car is clean inside and out before you shop it around to dealers. Know its condition-its strong points and its weak ones. Once you're at the dealership, push the virtues of your product, such as the optional equipment and accessories, its desirability in the market place, and any brand recommendations or awards by used-car guides or magazines. Don't mention its defects-let the dealer point those out, but don't deny or lie about them either. Know the cost of required repairs, and remind the dealer it will cost him or her less to make repairs than it will you.

Q. What is the advice about?

(a) How to buy a car

(b) How to repair a car

(c) How to sell your car

(d) How to locate a car

21.

Most wood chairs and assembled chairs use wood glue and fasteners on the legs. Over time these legs can become loose and eventually could fall apart. Turn that chair upside down. Remove the loose leg from the hole that it is inserted into. Fill the hole with some carpenter's glue available at a hardware store. Then re-insert the leg. Drill a small hole through the leg and into the body of the seat, Install a screw into the hole and tighten. If you are repairing several sections of the chair use an adjustable strap or an old bicycle inner tube to hold it all together while the glue sets up. Let the chair sit for 24hours and you now have one solid chair.

Q. What kind of instruction is given in the passage?

(a) How to fix your chair.

(b) How to make your own chair.

(c) How to assemble a chair.

(d) How to disjoint a chair.

22.

What is depression? What does this common word really mean? It is actually a broad term that covers four distinct varieties of illness. Of them, Major Depression Disorder is a serious depression that in adolescence lasts on average from seven to nine months. It has many similarities to adult depression-sadness, pessimism, sleep and appetite disturbance, decrease in concentration; but in other ways it is distinct. For instance, anxiety symptoms and irritability are more common in depressed teenagers than adults, Adolescents frequently have "atypical" form of MDD. This is characterized by being overly sensitive to the environment and responding to perceived negative interactions. with symptoms opposite of the classic picture-eating and sleeping too much, for instance, rather than not enough.

Q. Which or the following is the most distinct symptoms of adolescents MDD?

(a) Sadness, pessimism, sleep and appetite disturbance

(b) Anxiety symptoms and irritability

(c) Eating and sleeping too much

(d) Being overly insensitive to the environment

23.

Two Irishmen were to begin the 1,040 kilometer journey from the South Pole to Patriot Hills at the edge of Antarctica. Their lightweight sledgelike buggies, made of titanium and aluminum alloys and capable of speeds up to 48 kilometers per hour were designed by an engineer, Kieron Bradley. The pair are confident there will be enough wind to keep them moving and they will each be carrying five different-sized kites to make best use of any breezes. The expedition has been timed to coincide with midsummer in Antarctica, giving them 24-hour sunlight that will enable them to travel for up to 18 hours a day. However thy will still have to endure temperatures of around minus 20 degrees Celsius. They expect to complete their journey in under 14 days, as opposed to around 60 days for a conventional dog-and-human-hauled sledge expedition.

Q. Which is correct according to the article?

(a) The expedition will depend on wind for mobility.

(b) Two Irishmen are going to fly over the South Pole in kite-buggies.

(c) A conventional dog-and-human sledge expedition is slower but safer.

(d) South Pole expeditions are usually made in midsummer.

24.

One of the most famous of Spain's fiestas is La Tomatina, which takes place on the last Wednesday in August in the Small Valencian town of Bunol, Although fa from an ancient festival-it dates back only to 1944 or 45-it's been seized on with gusto by locals and foreigners alike. On the appointed day, tons of tomatoes are deposited at either end of the town, and these fruits are then crushed and thrown by the assembled masses. This continues until the entire party is reduced to the kind of soupy mass. at which point everyone repairs to the pub.

Q. Which is correct about Ls Tomatina according to the passage?

(a) It is one of the oldest fiestas in Spain.

(b) Both local and foreign people enthusiastically participate.

(c) Many celebrants enjoy a tomato soup.

(d) It originated to encourage farmers producing tomatoes.

25.

Chaucer is undoubtedly as fine a writer as you find in England during the late Middle Ages. But his preeminence has cast a shadow over the rest of the literature-there's still little critical work on writers such as Gower, who has real flashes of brilliance. The same can be said of Elizabethan drama; Shakespeare has so dominated critical attention that the achievements of other writers have often been overlooked. This is not to say that neither Shakespeare nor Chaucer deserve the attention with which they are lavished. They most certainly do. But to understand them properly, we need to understand them in context. Fortunately, over the last twenty-five or thirty years, this has been happening.

Q. Which of the following is the main point of the passage?

(a) Chaucer and Shakespeare have been overestimated.

(b) Shakespeare is the supreme author in English literature

(c) Chaucer and Shakespeare should be understood in context.

(d) Chaucer is responsible for Gower's understimation.

26.

The existence of advertising in public accounting creates a new environment to which firms are still adapting. This new environment is largely the result of increased competition and a clientele which is increasingly more bottom-line oriented. In order to compete, firms must place more emphasis on marketing and accept it as a cost of doing business. The result of this will be more difficult penetration and an increasingly limited number of small firms in the business. Market pressures are also creating situations where ethical issues such as independence and integrity are questioned, making it imperative that the AICPA(Amarican Institute of Certified Public Accountant) create guidelines from which the evolving profession must base itself.

Q. What is the passage about?

(a) The impotance of accounting ethics today

(b) Advertising restrictions that should be enforced

(c) The need for more supervision of accounting practices

(d) The influence of marketing on accounting business

27.

When Nelson Mandela was released after 27years of imprisonment, people wondered how he would break the enforced silence of his long incarceration-would he be challenging or conciliatory? He spoke in the evening of his release at a rally in Cape Town. He said the factors that forced the ANC to take up its arms struggle still existed and he urged the world not to relax sanction, But he aloe called President de Klerk a man of integrity and he appealed to whites to join in shaping a new South Africa.

Q. When Mandela was released from the imprisonment, what was his political attitude?

(a) Both challenging and conciliatory

(b) Cooperative and submissive

(c) Resistant but challenging

(d) Critical but submissive

28.

Obesity has become a serious threat to U.S.adults' life. Its prevalence among U.S.adults nearly doubled in the past decade to 21percent. People drive longer distances, everything is done by machines, and they spend all their time on computers. For them, eating healthy foods requires effort, while eating a bad diet is relatively inexpensive. Excess fat causes a host of related health problems, For example, the rising rate of obesit corresponds with an increase I the prevalence of diabetes, which afflicts more than one out of 12 adults. Each year, an estimated 300,000 U.S.adults die of causes related to obesity, and diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death.

Q. Which of the following is correct according to the passage?

(a) Obesity is the primary cause of the death of American adults.

(b) Excess fat is more dangerous than alcohol abuse.

(c) Obesity is more common than diabetes among American adults.

(d) Diabetes is a cause of obesity.

29.

Malaria is probably the greatest health hazard for people traveling to tropical countries. (a)Unfortunately, there is vaccine against the mosquito-borne parasite which causes the disease. (b)If you are going to a high-risk area, you will need to use insect repellents and take anti-malarial drugs to help protect you. (c)However, anti-malarial drugs have side effects, so consult your physician first. (d)It is especially important to get a checkup before extensive travel.

30.

I do enjoy having friends around for a meal, whether it's simple supper or more of a special occasion, where three or four courses are called for, (a)I find that people prefer a starter which is light and I certainly look to recipes which are easily prepared in advance. (b)Home-made soups are delicious and wholesome and they are alse very healthy, making use of fresh seasonal ingredients. (c)Salads are always a popular starter and require very little preparation time. (d)It is not necessary to make a home-made stock if the main ingredients are robustly flavored.33

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