take 26

grammar

1.

A : They're going to vote against the proposal, aren't they?

B : Yes, I'm afraid ______________.

(a) that's what's going to happen (b) that what is going to happen

(c) what is going to happen (d) of that is going to happen

2.

A : Can you make an exception in this case?

B : I don't have ______________ to do that, sir.

(a) the authority (b) authority (c) the authorities (d) authorities

3.

A : What's the new manager like?

B : He's very easy to ______________.

(a) back in no time (b) in no time back (c) back no time (d) back in time

4.

I never saw him get mad __________ her like that before.

(a) to (b) in (c) about (d) at

5.

Dont hold __________ with the same sex when you travel to Canada.

(a) hands (b) hand (c) a hand (d) the hands

6.

The committee did not have time for lunch because the meeting did not end __________ three in the afternoon.

(a) at (b) through (c) by (d) till

7.

(a) A : May I ask a bit more about your sales figures?

(b) B : Sure. Go ahead

(c) A : Whats your market share?

(d) B : It was seventy-five percents last year

8.

(a) A : I think they should raise the drive age.

(b) B : Well, they're in the process of discussing it.

(c) A : Dont you think 23 should be the minimum age?

(d) B : I'm not sure.

9.

(a) Currently, Galileo is circling Io, the largest of Jupiter's four moons. (b) Io - described in news accounts as "fiery" and "unstable" - is located in the middle of one of Jupiter's intense radiation belts. (c) So far, this radiation has caused crippling computer malfunctions, and has triggered a fault in the onboard computer's memory. (d) To consider NASA's history with space probes, it wouldn't be surprising if they lost control of Galileo.

10.

(a) How do you nurture children? (b) Breastfeeding, safe water, sanitation. Good nutrition, immunization, education? Of course. (c) Yet the effect of all these factors remarkably can be enhanced by the addiction of one more thing: loving adult contact. (d) And it is particularly important during the first 36 months of life.

vocabulary

1.

A : When is the video phone going to be __________?

B : Very soon.

(a) discharged (b) released (c) traded (d) happened

2.

A : He's treating me so well theses days. I cant help thinking that he wants something.

B : Is he that __________?

(a) clear (b) transparent (c) glassy (d) clean

3.

A : Did you make an appointment?

B : I didn't know I needed one, She doesn't take __________?

(a) walk-ins (b) interviews (c) makeovers (d) impromptus

4.

A : Why didn't you show up for class?

B : My alarm didn't __________.

(a) break up (b) run up (c) sound off (d) go off

5.

A : The manager is so __________.

B : Yes. You have to give the answers he likes.

(a) lenient (b) picky (c) upset (d) humdrum

6.

If you really want to understand him, try putting yourself in his __________.

(a) moods (b) mouth (c) framework (d) shoes

7.

An exhibit of contemporary textiles is __________ until April 30 at the National Gallery.

(a) presenting (b) displaying (c) running (d) opening

8.

Visitors to Europe will have a rare opportunity this month to __________ behind-the-scenes glimpses of cultural sites and monuments.

(a) enjoy (b) like (c) tour (d) sample

9.

My grandfather __________ built this house with his own two hands.

(a) fundamentally (b) practically (c) generally (d) typically

10.

The CEO acknowledged the fact that advanced technology means nothing unless it brings __________ benefits to the customers it is meant to serve.

(a) tangible (b) implicit (c) specific (d) evident

reading

1.

At the time, I was 11 and my mother, a teacher at St. Eugene's Elementary School, was 52. It was a Friday night, and my mother, father, and myself were in the small kitchen. She was describing to him an in the day. Even though I don't recall the content of the words, I __________. She was recounting a strong disagreement that she had with the principal of the school. My mother was angry. She moved her arm up to her face and let out a very loud and deep sound. It was not a sound I had heard form my mother. It was more like a sound made by an animal. I had rarely seen my mother angry. I had never seen this form of anger. On Saturday afternoon she had a stroke. On Sunday afternoon she died.

(a) was not listening to her as carefully as I should have

(b) still remember how happy she looked then

(c) do recall her tone and actions

(d) could not understand what they were arguing about

2.

Los Angeles may have become a burgeoning metropolis by the 1920s, but there were few venues for classical music concerts. With the founding of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1919, the city had its own professional orchestra, but there was a problem with theaters and concert halls. They could be hot and stuffy, especially during the summer months. With such perfect weather conditions outside, however, why not __________________? The answer was the Hollywood Bowl, which officially opened in 1922 and entirely changed the experience of listening to orchestral music by presenting that music outdoors.

(a) air-condition those theaters and concert halls

(b) go out and enjoy the weather, instead of listening to boring music

(c) build more theaters and music halls

(d) have an open-air venue taking advantage of the climate

3.

As a psychiatrist working with Vietnam veterans who suffer form severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, I have observed how that unhealed combat trauma disables the basic social and cognitive capacities required for democratic participation. Loss of their participation in the democratic process is sad, but for Vietnam combat veterans with PTSD representing just around one-thousandth of the current American population, __________________. But what would happen in a democracy where every citizen was a soldier or former soldier and warfare was more or less constant, as was the case in ancient Athens?

(a) it hardly threatens the process itself

(b) American democracy is seriously maimed by the loss

(c) Politicians gave been characteristically unmindful of it

(d) It in unfair for them to be left out

4.

Conditions in the camp were less than comfortable. We were allowed one bucket of water a day to be used at our expense (including showers). The outhouse was little more than a hole in the ground that stank quite a bit, and after doing your business, paper was only allowed to be thrown into a small bin on the side, which you had to burn later. We also had to check for scorpions before sitting down, or in fact, before doing much of anything. Heat was another issue, as most know who have been to this region. Maybe it was not really an issue of heat, but of humidity. No matter what we did, we _________________.

(a) enjoyed it to the full

(b) ended up covered with sweat

(c) were tireless and full of energy

(d) scarcely ever improved

5.

For a poor village housewife bread does not have the same meaning as it does for the wealthy Parisian businessman. She has much less choice, and is close to the source of supply. Also, bread plays a very different role in the family diet. The same is true for the law within a single country or even thin a single town. For example, the possession of cocaine is illegal. Now that means one thing to the petty dealer who sees it as his sole hope of __________________, quite another to the recreational user, quite another to non-criminals who live on the same street as the gangs, and quite another to law enforcement officers.

(a) making his name in the world

(b) appealing to the law

(c) laying his hands on the substance

(d) escaping from his ghetto

6.

Testing language has traditionally taken the form of testing knowledge about language, usually the testing of knowledge of vocabulary and grammar. However, there is much more to being able to use language than knowledge about it, Dell Hymes proposed the concept of communicative competence. In communicative competence, In communicative competence, he included not only the ability to form correct sentences, but also the ability to use them at appropriate times. Since Hymes first proposed the idea in the early 1970s, it has been expanded considerably, and various types of competencies have been proposed. However, the basic idea of communicative competence remains __________________, both receptively and productively, in real situations.

(a) to be defined

(b) the ability to use language appropriately

(c) difficult for students and teachers

(d) the same as ever

7.

For almost four centuries, the royal administration in Ireland distinguished between the Gaelic Irish populations in the hinterlands of Leinster, Munster, and Ulster, and the English population centered in Dublin. The Irish parliament of 1613-1615, however, gave legal force to a new, equally impermeable cleavage between the two components of the Anglo-Irish colonial community: the 'New English' who were recent Protestant transplants sent from England, and the Catholic 'Old English' who were natives of Ireland. What caused this shift from racial to __________________ discrimination?

(a) systematic

(b) social

(c) political

(d) religious

8.

Based on the Run Punch by Elmore Leonard, the film tells of Jackie (Pam Grier), a woman in her mid-forties who works as a flight attendant for a small airline. She acts as courier for Ordell Robbi (Samuel L. Jackson) who, as a gun dealer, needs her to bring his earnings across the border from Mexico. When __________________, Jackie must decide between remaining loyal to Robbi or working with the authorities to bring him to justice. Grier's performance is complex and accomplished. She plays a woman who cannot face the prospect of "starting over" again after her life takes a disastrous wrong turn. The ruthlessness and savvy she exhibits in the face of her crisis is not connected to her being a career criminal, but rather to an understandable need to find security and sanity in her middle age.

(a) offered a deal by her agent

(b) faced with all possibilities

(c) asked to work a new schedule

(d) intercepted by federal agents

9.

Sunday's Catholic mass at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn has a new member of the flock - indicted club owner and suspected mobster Chris Paciello. Paciello hasn‘t discovered God behind bars like so many prisoners before him, says a source inside the jail. He uses the holy ceremony as a cover to hold meetings with fellow members of the Bath Avenue crew. They are the bunch of Bensonhurst hoodlums with whom Paciello, the tough guy with the movie-star looks, is charged with murder, robbery, and racketeering. Maybe they're swapping pasta recipes. But _________________ is that they're discussing how to defend themselves at their upcoming trial.

(a) a more likely scenario

(b) what appears unclear

(c) the last straw

(d) the happening

10.

We don't want to spoil anyone's New Year's Eve party, but there are sings that a new global wine lake is starting to fill up. Tim Atkin, the respected English journalist who was named editor of Harpers magazine, warned that the wine industry will face a flood of low-quality, cheap wines as a global grape __________________ hits the market within the market within the next five years. Atkin pointed out that wine production is increasing by 9% a year, and global consumption by 2%.

(a) demand

(b) surplus

(c) production

(d) supply

11.

After the endless rounds of holiday parties, with those ubiquitous canapes, dips and chips, lavish entrees and spectacular desserts, it's time to get back to a healthier way of eating. Even those who haven't overindulged will enjoy these simple, light meals. Luckily, healthy doesn't have to mean dull. The entrees we feature this month are as sustaining and delicious as they are imaginative, offering wonderful flavor with a minimum of fat. And because all the recipes are quick to prepare, they'll __________________.

(a) gratify the palate of even the pickiest eaters

(b) help every type of weight watcher

(c) fit into the busiest of weekday schedules

(d) be of great help to those on a prescribed diet

12.

If there's story to tell about your product, there's no better place to tell the story than television. The CD-I from Philips Consumer Electronics is a great example of this. A few years back. Not one of the competing electronics manufacturers stood out as clearly superior, and consumers, going into stores, didn't know what they were looking at. But then Philips launched an 　'infomercial'　 about its new product, and all of a sudden people knew what was what, The key was to pre-educate the customer before he or she got to the store, and the result was increased sales and decreased __________________.

(a) in-store demonstration time

(b) retail prices

(c) after-sales warranties

(d) control of product marketing

13.

One Christmas eve all of my family and other relatives got together at Grandma and Grandpa's house to sing Christmas carols. As the hour was growing late we were all about to leave, when my nana suddenly decided she was going to take down the tree and all of our little ones started to help her. She was the kind of person who was always cleaning, and sitting in front of the artificial tree, she said, 　"I don't want to be one of those people who leave their tree up till after New Years Day."　 The moment she said that, the tree fell on her and she yelled for us to help her. __________________, we were laughing so hard that we could barely stand up. From that year on she left the tree up and had someone else take it down.

(a) Strangely enough

(b) Needless to say

(c) To our dismay

(d) Annoyed

14.

An open-ended questionnaire regarding various aspects of the mutual-help program of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) was administered to a sample of 25 AA members. The questionnaire was designed to examine which elements of the AA program its members considered most important in helping them overcome problems with alcohol. Our typical sample member was in his/her 30's, a member of AA for at least 5 years, attended between 8 and 15 meetings a month, and became involved with AA either through a court order or through hospitalization.

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

(a) The AA program currently has 25 members.

(b) People with at least five years of alcoholic related problems can join the program.

(c) The questionnaire was mainly for analyzing the causes of alcoholism

(d) The questionnaire included questions about personal background

15.

Dear Rockefeller Humanities Applicant,

Thank you for your interest in the Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship Program sponsored by the Smithsonian Institute's Center for Educational Initiatives and the Inter-UNIVERSITY research Program.

Enclosed please find the application form.

Please submit 10 copies plus accompanying materials (resume, research proposal. List of publications, samples of relevant work) by the indicated deadline. Faxed applications will not be accepted. Please remind those you have asked to send their letters of recommendation directly to our office also by the indicated deadline.

Q. Which of the following is correct about the application process for the fellowship?

(a) Applicants must send in a copy of their transcripts with their application

(b) The application form should be kept on a sealed envelope at all times.

(c) Letters of recommendation should not be sent in by the applicants themselves.

(d) Accompanying materials are mailed to the applicants along with the application form.

16.

John McKern, a clean-cut, 54-year-old fish biologist with the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers, gazes at the dark blue water below. He is standing on Lower Granite Dam, the uppermost of jour federal dams in eastern Washington that block the Snake River on its way toward the mighty Columbia, Built in the 1960s and 70s, the dams produce some of the Pacific Northwest's vaunted cheap electricity and create deep waters for barges to carry grain and lumber from the interior port of Lewiston, Idaho, to the world beyond. But there's a crisis on the river: The famous salmon and steelhead that have used this stretch of river for tens of thousands of years on their way to and from the ocean are spiraling toward extinction, and the dams have proven to be one engine of their destruction.

Q. What does this article most probably advocate?

(a) Building more hydro-electric facilities on the upper Columbia River.

(b) Promoting the farming of endangered fish species for posterity.

(c) Removing dams that threaten the survival of a vital ecosystem.

(d) The transportation of grain and lumber by barge to coastal shipping points

17.

Abstract

Objective: To determine the number, instigators, nature and outcome of complaints concerning elderly patients treated at a single hospital over a one year period.

Subjects: The patients aged 65 years and above.

Method: An analysis of a computerized database of all complaints made in a single year.

Results: 1.44 Complaints were made per 1000 occasions of service to elderly people (95% confidence intervals, 1.10-1.69). This was similar to the overall complaints were made by advocated rather than by elderly patients themselves, and 96% related to communication or treatment issues. Many complaints resulted in an explanation and/or an apology and, to date, none has resulted in litigation.

Q. Which of the following will be TRUE of the conclusion to the abstract above?

(a) elderly patients make many more complaints than other patients.

(b) Most complaints by elderly patients are resolved through legal procedures

(c) Elderly patients themselves do not complain much.

(d) Elderly patients do not cope well with long-term hospitalization.

18.

Early one morning, a mother went in to wake up her son. "Wake up, son. It's time to ho to school!"　 But the son said he didn't want to go, and she said to him, "Give me two reasons why you don't want to go." "Well," he said, "the kids hate me for one, and the teachers hate me, too!" "Oh, that's no reason not to ho to school. Come on now and get ready," said the mother, At that, the son asked her for two reasons why he should go to school. She answered, "Well, for one, you're 52 years old, and for another, you're the Principal!"

Q. What is the best title for the passage above?

(a) Never Too Old to Go to School

(b) The Hateful Principal

(c) All Work and No Play

(d) Every Mother's Son

19.

Buddhism is one of the major religions of the world. It was founded by Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, who lived in northern India from 560 to 480 BC. The time of the Buddha was a time of social and religious change, the development of trade and cities, the breakdown of old tribal traditions, and the rise of many new religious movements that answered the demands of the times. These movements came from the Brahmanic tradition of Hinduism but were also reactions against it. Of the new sects, Buddhism was the most successful and eventually spread throughout India and most of Asia.

Q. Which statement about Buddhism is correct?

(a) It became one of the major religions of the world in 500 BC.

(b) It was founded in an era of religious chaos in India.

(c) It completely opposed the traditional customs of Hinduism.

(d) It was first introduced to Indians by tribes from other parts of Asia.

20.

A small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness to the stand in a trial-a grandmotherly, elderly woman, He approached her and asked, "Mrs. Jones, do you know me?" She responded, "Why, yes, I've known you, Mr. Williams, since you were a little boy. I used to babysit you for your parents, And you've been a real disappointment to me. You lie, you cheat on your wife, you manipulate people and talk about them behind their backs. You think you're a rising big shot when you haven't the brains to realize you will never amount to anything more than a paper. Yes, I know you."

Q. How would the man feel after hearing the woman?

(a) Regretful

(b) Embarrassed

(c) Pleased

(d) Flattered

21.

A man was driving down a country road when he spotted a farmer standing in the middle of a huge field of grass. He pulled the car over to the side of the road and noticed that the farmer was just standing there, doing nothing, looking at nothing. The man hot out of the car, walked all the way over to the farmer and asked him, "Ah excuse me, mister, but what are you doing?" The farmer replied, "I'm trying to win the Nobel Prize." "How?" Asked the man, puzzled. "Well I heard they give the Nobel Prize to people who are out standing in their field."

Q. What is the best title for the passage?

(a) The Fastest Way to Win the Nobel Prize

(b) The First Nobel Prize-Winning Farmer

(c) The Origin of the Nobel Prize for Agriculture

(d) The Nobel Prize Misunderstood

22.

If there's anything more boring than a juicy parable with a moral at the end, it's the moral without the parable, and such is Scott Kalvert's film. Of course the original book by Jim Carroll was more than this; he struck a personal note, of a kid who despite his suffering tried to turn his experience into poetry. The problem with the film version is that the hero of the story is so desperately sick and unhappy that the romanticism which was shown in the movie seems unconvincing. He plays basketball at night in the rain after his best friend dies of leukemia, and it just looks wet, not touching.

Q. Which is correct according to the passage?

(a) The movie chose an unlikely topic

(b) The movie was very realistic.

(c) The movie lacked the emotional appeal of the original.

(d) The movie had a parable with a moral at the end.

23.

When we first started researching a biography of Walt Disney, we didn't know what we'd find, To be absolutely honest, part of the inspiration for us to write such a book was that it would hive us an excuse to visit Disneyland and Walt Disney World over and over again, Fortunately, what we discovered was an absolutely gripping story of a truly phenomenal man. He rode a real roller coaster of life, and the wonderful part is that he seemed to enjoy almost every dip and swerve of the ride.

Q. Which of the following best describes the author's view of Walt Disney?

(a) He was more a businessman than an artist

(b) His life didn't deserve a full-length biography

(c) He liked children and childlike things

(d) He enjoyed taking risks and lived a life full of adventure.

24.

The Brooklyn Bridge trying Manhattan Island to Brooklyn is truly a miracle bridge. In 1863, a creative engineer named John Roebling and his son, Washington, planned and began to build their dream bright against the chorused advice of all bridge-building experts. The project was only a few months under construction, when a tragic accident on the site took the life of John Roebling and left Washington with permanent brain damage. Unable to walk or talk, he still devised a code of instructions to tap out to his engineers with one finger, the only part of his body he could move. Thirteen years later, the spectacular Brooklyn Bridge was finally completed.

Q. Which of the following best explains why the author terms the Brooklyn Bridge a 'miracle bridge?'

(a) It was completed in record construction time.

(b) It was built by one man.

(c) It used what was then state-of-the-art bridge-building technology.

(d) One man's incredible willpower made its completion possible.

25.

Of all December technology industry casualties, one company's demise went unnoticed by almost everyone, except for 8-year-old girls and their parents, Canadian company Patriot Computers went belly up on December 7, and with it went the Barbie computer and the Hot Wheels computer, designed as the "Girl" and the "Boy" computer respectively. We're not crying over Patriot Computers' demise; after all, the Barbie and Hot Wheels computers had sexist flourishes. But we are saddened for the 3,100 parents who shelled out $599 for computers they will never receive.

Q. What is the author most concerned with in the passage above?

(a) The difficulties being faced by the Canadian technology industry

(b) Sexist biases within the computer industry

(c) Consumer losses resulting from a bankrupt business

(d) The displacement of old-style toys by computers

26.

A state appeals court said a divorced woman can move with her daughter to California and rely on the Internet to help the girl keep in touch with her father back in New Jersey, Kyron Henn-Lee's former husband had objected when she told his she wanted to take their 9-year-old daughter, Katherine, from New Jersey to Brea, California, and build a Web sit for father and child to communicate. But a three-judge panel said the Internet would provide a "creative and innovative" way for Thomas J. McCoy and his daughter to keep in touch. Under the ruling, the online visits through a Web site with video capability will not cost McCoy any of the 66 days he is entitled to spend with his daughter is person each year.

Q. Which of the following is best title for the passage?

(a) A New Visitation Tool

(b) The First Divorce Case through the Internet

(c) Girls Prefer the Net to Father

(d) Cyber-Justice

27.

When it began to get dark, our anticipation grew. At about 10 in the evening, we would be going out in groups and starting to patrol the area. It meant we would walk around the premises for about two hours and then walk back. Exciting, huh? Not really, the exciting thing was what we were looking for; either tracks of a set-up trespasser or the actual scene of trespassing. Flashlight, sneaker, whistles, bug repellant, and cameras were put on, applied, or clipped on. We all knew it was for sport and there was no real danger, but everyone was quite thrilled and even nervous.

Q. Which of the following best describes the mood of the passage?

(a) Hesitant

(b) Humorous

(c) Expectant

(d) Ominous

28.

Sophocle's Oedipus Rex

Directed by Douglas Campbell

Stratford Festival Theater, Stratford, Ontario, Canada July 31-October 11

Reviewed by Laurel Bowman, University of Victoria

This year's production of Oedipus Rex at Stratford is essentially a revival of the influential 1954/55 Stratford production, and has the same strengths and weaknesses of the original, John Leberg's designs of the set and especially of the costumes and masks are based on the 1954 designs by Tanya Moseiwitsch. Douglas Campbell, who played Oedipus in 1955 and directs this year's production, has used Tyrone Guthrie's direction of the earlier productions as a guideline for his own efforts, Campbell's son Benedict takes his place in the tile role.

Q. What can best be inferred regarding the reviewer's opinion of the play?

(a) The production proves the same play can be directed and produced differently.

(b) The actor-director has understood the play better than his predecessor.

(c) It is worth seeing for the set and costumes, but not for the acting.

(d) The play is hardly original.

29.

New Zealand's spectacular scenery owes its origins to natural processes that continue to shape and move the physical environment. (a) Its major cities are located on harbours, many of which are remnants of ancient volcanoes. (b) The capital city is Wellington, but it is not the largest. (c) Auckland, the largest city, is built on a volcanic field that has recorded 20 eruptions in the past 20,000 years. (d) The most recent of them is estimated to have happened between 600 and 800 years ago.

30.

The first vegetarian I knew was unhealthy; I just knew she'd be fine if only she'd eat a steak once in a while. (a) It was years before I learned her problems were unrelated to died. (b) Like meat eaters, some vegetarians are unhealthy while others never fall ill. (c) In general, though, vegetarians are much less prone to the diseased of excess heart attacks, breast cancer, osteoporosis that plague our culture, because those diseases are the products of a high-fat died. (d) Most vegetarians do, therefore, fall a victim to the occasional cold.13

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