PRACTICE TEST 12.

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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three
in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 1: A. stopped B. married C. passed D. talked
Question 2: A. allow B. tomorrow C. slowly D. below

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of
primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 3: A. offer B. canoe C. country D. standard
Question 4: A. popularity B. communicate C. recommend D. documentary

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the
following questions.
Question 5: Far more people reside in California than in other any state.
A B C D
Question 6: State universities bear the name of their state, and its achievements are recognized as
A B C D
state achievements.
Question 7: When I got home, Irene was lying in bed thinking about what a wonderful time shes
A B C D
had.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 8: The traffic in town was very ___________ and I arrived home earlier than expected.
A. light B. weak C. little D. few
Question 9: The witnesss account was not ___________ with the facts.
A. matched B. reliable C. consistent D. confirmed
Question 10: He is very ill, and the doctors are not sure whether he will ______ it through the night.
A. last B. survive C. endure D. make
Question 11: _________ you have the money in your account, you can withdraw up to $100 a day.
A. Unless B. Although C. Provided that D. As soon as
Question 12: I suggest we ___________ outside the cinema tomorrow at 8:30.
A. meet B. meeting C. met D. will meet
Question 13: I hope we will be able to avoid ___________ anyone.
A. disappointment B. disappoint C. disappointed D. disappointing
Question 14: Is he really ___________ to judge a brass band contest?
A. efficient B. skillful C. capable D. competent
Question 15: No matter how angry he was he would never ___________ to violence.
A. resort B. recourse C. exert D. resolve
Question 16: The move to a different environment had brought about a significant ________ in Marys
state of mind.
A. impact B. effect C. influence D. change
Question 17: His house is nothing out of the __________; its just an average five-room house.
A. normal B. usual C. ordinary D. typical
Question 18: The school __________ a system of monthly tests in place of an annual exam.
A. took B. gathered C. collected D. adopted

Question 19: It is not surprising that he became a writer because he always longed to see his
name__________.
A. in type B. in print C. in letters D. in edition

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following
exchanges.
Question 20: Peter is talking to Mary.
Peter: Im having some friends over for lunch this Saturday. Would you like to join us?
Mary: ______
A. Can I take a rain check? B. Come on. Its your turn.
C. Thanks, but I mustnt. D. As a matter of fact, I do.
Question 21: I think that the youth are high-flying but inexperienced ____________
A. There s no doubt about it. B. Certainly

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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word in each
of the following questions.
Question 22: A brief outline of the course and bibliography were handed out to the students at the first meeting.
A. discarded B. showed up C. distributed D. contribute
Question 23: Most deserts are enormous sandy areas.
A. mysterious B. narrow C. immense D. aerial

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to in dicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s)
in each of the following questions.
Question 24: As children we were very close, but as we grew up we just drifted apart.
A. not as serious as before B. as friendly as before
A. not as childlike as before D. not as sympathetic as before
Question 25: In daily lives, one should have more advocates to help in case of need.
A. enemies B. colleagues C. allies D. friends

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the
following questions.
Question 26: It is nearly as expensive to take a train from London to Edinburgh as it is to fly from London to New York.
A. A train journey to Edinburgh from London costs only a little less than a flight from London to New York.
B. You can choose which you like as train and plane fares are exactly the same from London to Edinburgh and to New York.
C. It is sometimes even more expensive to go from London to Edinburgh by train than it is to fly from London to New York.
D. It costs a lot more to fly to New York than it does to take a train to Edinburgh from London.
Question 27: Had the advertisement for our product been better, more people would have bought it.
A. The advertisement for our product was good, so more people would buy it.
B. Not many people bought our product although the advertisement was good.
C. Fewer people bought our product despite its good advertisement.
D. Due to our bad advertisement for our product, fewer people bought it.

Question 28: You must make allowances for his inexperience.

A. You shouldnt pay attention to his experience.
B. You shouldnt take his inexperience into account.
C. Although he was inexperienced, we must let him in.
D. He was not allowed to go because of his inexperience.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in
the following questions.
Question 29: She tried very hard to pass the driving test. She could hardly pass it.
A. Although she didnt try hard to pass the driving test, she could pass it.
B. Despite being able to pass the driving test, she didnt pass it.
C. No matter how hard she tried, she could hardly pass the driving test.
D. She tried very hard, so she passed the driving test satisfactorily.
Question 30: They drove fifteen miles off the main road. Also, they had nothing to eat for the day.
A. They neither drove fifteen miles off the main road nor had anything to eat for the day.
B. Not only did they drive fifteen miles off the main road, they also had nothing to eat for the day.
C. They drove fifteen miles off the main road until they had something to eat for the day.
D. Driving fifteen miles off the main road, they eventually had something to eat for the day.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word
or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.
What is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and what is its purpose? The Association of Southeast
Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a multilateral organization which was (31)_______ to give Southeast Asian states a forum to
communicate with each other. Since the region had a long colonial past and a history of endemic warfare, there has never
been much peaceful and constructive (32) _______between kings, presidents and other officials. A neutral forum was,
(33) _______, a very useful development for all of those countries.
ASEAN was formed as a result of the Bangkok Declaration of 1967 and initially had five members: Thailand,
Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore. Brunei (34) _______ joined in 1984 after it had won independence

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from Britain. Vietnam became the seventh member of the group, officially joining in 1995. After several years of
negotiation, Myanmar and Laos joined in 1997 and the final member of the ten, Cambodia, joined in 1999. The only (35)
_______ state in Southeast Asia which is not a member of ASEAN is now East Timor.

Question 31: A. created B. made C. done D. discovered

Question 32: A. interflow B. interaction C. interference D. intercommunity
Question 33: A. nevertheless B. moreover C. therefore D. however
Question 34: A. subsequently B. fortunately C. approximately D. surprisingly
Question 35: A. dependent B. independent C. independently D. independence

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer
to each of the questions from 36 to 42.
One of the most important social developments that helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of
public education was the effect of the baby boom of the 1950's and 1960's on the schools. In the 1920's, but especially in
the Depression conditions of the 1930's, the United States experienced a declining birth rate every thousand women
aged fifteen to forty-four gave birth to about 118 live children in 1920, 89.2 in 1930, 75.8 in 1936, and 80 in 1940. With
the growing prosperity brought on by the Second World War and the economic boom that followed it, young people married
and established households earlier and began to raise larger families than had their predecessors during the Depression.
Birth rates rose to 102 per thousand in 1946, 106.2 in 1950, and 118 in 1955. Although economics was probably the most
important determinant, it is not the only explanation for the baby boom. The increased value placed on the idea of the
family also helps to explain this rise in birth rates. The baby boomers began streaming into the first grade by the mid-
1940's and became a flood by 1950. The public school system suddenly found itself overtaxed. While the number of
schoolchildren rose because of wartime and postwar conditions, these same conditions made the schools even less
prepared to cope with the flood. The wartime economy meant that few new schools were built between 1940 and 1945.
Moreover, during the war and in the boom times that followed large numbers of teachers left their profession for better-
paying jobs elsewhere in the economy.
Therefore, in the 1950's and 1960's, the baby boom hit an antiquated and inadequate school system.
Consequently, the "custodial rhetoric" of the 1930's and early 1940's no longer made sense; that is, keeping youths aged
sixteen and older out of the labor market by keeping them in school could no longer be a high priority for an institution
unable to find space and staff to teach younger children aged five to sixteen. With the baby boom, the focus of educators
and of laymen interested in education inevitably turned toward the lower grades and back to basic academic skills and
discipline. The system no longer had much interest in offering nontraditional, new, and extra services to older youths.

Question 36: What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. The teaching profession during the baby boom
B. Birth rates in the United States in the 1930's and 1940
C. The impact of the baby boom on public education
D. The role of the family in the 1950's and 1960's
Question 37: The word "it" refers to____.
A. 1950 B. economics C. the baby boom D. value
Question 38: The word "overtaxed" is closest in meaning to____.
A. well prepared B. heavily burdened C. plentifully supplied D. charged too much
Question 39: The public school of the 1950's and 1960's faced all of the following problems EXCEPT ____.
A. a declining number of students B. a shortage of teachers
C. old-fashioned facilities D. an inadequate number of school buildings
Question 40: According to the passage, why did teachers leave the teaching profession after the outbreak of the war?
A. They needed to be retrained. B. They were dissatisfied with the curriculum.
C. Other jobs provided higher salaries. D. Teaching positions were scarce.
Question 41: The word "inadequate" is closest in meaning to____.
A. deficient B. expanded C. innovative D. specialized
Question 42: Which of the following best characterizes the organization of the passage?
A. The second paragraph presents the effect of circumstances described in the first paragraph.
B. The second paragraph provides a fictional account to illustrate a problem presented in the
first paragraph.
C. The second paragraph argues against a point made in the first paragraph.

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 D. The second paragraph introduces a problem not mentioned in the first paragraph.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer
to each of the questions from 43 to 50.
Galaxies are not evenly distributed throughout the universe. A few are found alone, but almost all are grouped in
formations termed galactic clusters. These formations should not be confused with stellar clusters, globular clusters of
stars that exist within a galaxy. The size of galactic clusters varies enormously, with some clusters containing only a dozen
or so members and others containing as many as 10,000. Moreover, galactic clusters themselves are part of larger clusters
of clusters, termed superclusters. It is surmised that even clusters of superclusters are possible.
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is part of a galactic cluster called the Local Group, which has twenty members and is
typical in terms of the types of galaxies it contains. There are three large spiral galaxies: Andromeda, the largest galaxy
in the group; the Milky Way, the second-largest galaxy; and the Trianglum Spiral, the third largest. There are also four
medium-sized spiral galaxies, including the Large Cloud of Magellan and the Small Cloud of Magellan. There are four
regular elliptical galaxies; the remainders are dwarf ellipticals. Other than our own galaxy, only Andromeda and the Clouds
of Magellan can be seen with the naked eye, and the Clouds are visible only from the Southern Hemisphere.
In the vicinity of the Local Group are several clusters, each containing around twelve members. The nearest
cluster rich in members is the Virgo Cluster, which contains thousands of galaxies of all types. Like most large clusters, it
emits X-rays. The Local Group, the small neighboring clusters, and the Virgo Cluster form part of a much larger cluster of
clusters the Local Supercluster.
The existence of galactic clusters presented a riddle to scientists for many years the missing mass problem.
Clusters are presumably held together by the gravity generated by their members. However, measurements showed that
the galaxies did not have enough mass to explain their apparent stability. Why didnt these clusters disintegrate? It is now
thought that galaxies contain great amounts of dark matter, which cannot be directly observed but which generates
gravitational pull. This matter includes gas, dust, burnt-out stars, and even black holes.
Question 43: Which of the followings does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Cluster and superclusters of galaxies.
B. The incredible distance between galaxies.
C. An astronomical problem that has never been solved.
D. A recent development in astronomy
Question 44: The word evenly is closest in meaning to ____________.
A. paradoxically B. predictably C. relatively D. uniformly
Question 45: What conclusion can be made about galaxies that are NOT found in clusters?
A. They are outnumbered by galaxies that do occur in clusters.
B. They are not actually galaxies but parts of galaxies.
C. They are larger than other galaxies.
D. They have never been observed.
Question 46: In the Local Group, which of the following types of galaxies are most numerous?
A. Large spirals B. Draft ellipticals
C. Medium sized spirals D. Regular ellipticals
Question 47: All of the following are visible from somewhere on Earth without a telescope EXCEPT
______.
A. The Triangulum Spiral
B. Andromeda
C. The Clouds of Magellan
D. The Milky Way
Question 48: According to the passage, the Local Group and the Virgo Cluster have which of the
following in common?
A. Both emit X-rays.
B. Both are small clusters.
C. Both are rich in galaxies.
D. Both are part of the same supercluster.
Question 49: The word riddle is closest in meaning to ____________.
A. clue B. theory C. tool D. puzzle
Question 50: As used throughout the passage, the word members refers to ___________.
A. galaxies B. stars C. clusters D. scientists

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