The word "attained" in line 24 is closest in meaning to A required B achieved C observed D merited Newspaper publishers in the United States have long been enthusiastic users and distrib
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Section One: Listening Comprehension
1 (A) She wants the man to make a
reservation for her
(B) They don't need a reservation tonight
(C) They should make reservations for next
weekend
(D) She thinks the restaurant will be crowded
tonight
2 (A) Get her watch fixed
(B) Purchase a watch for the man
(C) Cancel the next meeting
(D) End the meeting early
3 (A) Take the class with a different professor
(B) Take a class in a different subject
(C) Ask the professor if she can take the class
(D) Complete the required courses this term
4 (A) He isn't sure who won the game
(B) The game won't be played until next week
(C) It started raining after the game was over
(D) It probably will rain next week
5 (A) The book had been misplaced on the
shelf
(B) He can probably get a copy of the book for
the woman
(C) He will call the warehouse to see if the book
is available
(D) The woman should check to see if other
bookstores have the book
6 (A) He used to have problems doing the
assignments
(B) The woman should become a tutor
(C) The woman won't have difficulty in her next
class
(D) The woman needs help with her
assignments
7 (A) Buy the cheaper ice cream
(B) Buy the brand of ice cream he usually buys
(C) Choose an ice cream that tastes good
(D) Get ice cream at a different store
8 (A) He didn't enjoy the game because the
team lost
(B) He's impressed by the efforts of the team
(C) The woman is wrong about who won the game
(D) The players could have won if they'd tried harder
9 (A) The woman already knew about the increase in fees
(B) The dorms will be cheaper than off-campus housing
(C) The woman thinks the man should move out
of the dorm
(D) The woman is pleased she won't have to pay the higher fees
10 (A) He didn't know that David was having a problem
(B) The woman doesn't know much about accounting
(C) David hasn't started working on his project yet
(D) David is going to ask the woman for help
11 (A) Invite his family to go to Alaska with him
(B) Get advice on how to organize the trip (C) Make a flight reservation as soon as possible
(D) Borrow money from his family
12 (A) He'd like to go for a walk another time (B) He doesn't want to walk in the rain (C) He's on his way to check out a book (D) He only has time for a short walk
13 (A) She doesn't speak French very well (B) She may be too busy to help
(C) She didn't attend the French Club meeting yesterday
(D) She hadn't heard about the activities fair
14 (A) She needs to relax
(B) The man should try harder to concentrate (C) She has almost finished the reading
assignment
(D) The music will bother her
15 (A) Speak to his previous employer (B) Get a job working on campus
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(D) Get a job application form from her
16 (A) She will wash the sweater
(B) The sweater has the wrong label
(C) The man can get another sweater
(D) The manufacturer will repair the sweater
17 (A) He's very busy Friday night
(B) He hasn't seen his parents for a long time
(C) He's sorry that he missed dinner
(D) He accepts the woman's invitation
18 (A) Discuss her report with the man
(B) Give the man her history notes
(C) Work on an assignment
(D) Answer the man's questions
19 (A) She's going to spend the whole year in
New York
(B) She plans to travel somewhere other than
New York
(C) She decided not to take a vacation this year
(D) She won't be able to travel until later in the
year
20 (A) She doesn't think that she looks like the
student
(B) Many of her students look alike
(C) She isn't related to the student
(D) Her daughter isn't in her class
21 (A) The woman will probably not be able to
get the call she's waiting for
(B) The woman's phone call isn't important
(C) He'll call the phone company for the
woman
(D) He'll try to repair the "woman's phone
22 (A) He also plans to drop a class
(B) He also waited in line for a long time today
(C) He doesn't know where to go to drop a class
(D) He missed the deadline for dropping a class
23 (A) The man should use a new printer
(B) The man's primer isn't set up correctly
(C) There is nothing wrong with the man's
printer
(D) She can't help the man right away
24 (A) The woman should wear his scarf to the
game
(B) It will be cold at the game
(C) The woman should borrow another sweater (D) He'll go home and get another scarf
25 (A) She understands why the man seems unhappy
(B) She will help the man change his diet (C) The man should see a doctor
(D) The doctor has already explained the problem to her
26 (A) The number of people who voted was very low
(B) The vote was very close
(C) Congressman Baker didn't run for office (D) She was not pleased with the results
27 (A) He's sorry that the woman didn't like the book
(B) He can order the math book for the woman (C) It's too late for the woman to get a refund (D) The woman bought the book less than ten days ago
28 (A) He was pleased with the art in the collection
(B) He prefers small art exhibits to large ones (C) He hasn't visited the art gallery yet
(D) He doesn't enjoy going to art galleries
29 (A) He'd like to invite the woman for lunch (B) He didn't expect to join the woman for lunch
(C) He can help the woman solve the math problem
(D) He wants to postpone his lunch meeting with the woman
30 (A) Vote for the man
(B) Read the man's speech
(C) Introduce the man to the class president (D) Tell her friends to vote in the election
31 (A) The early history of bookbinding (B) How old books become valuable
(C) Economical ways to protect old books (D) Why some books deteriorate
32 (A) They are often handled improperly by readers
(B) The paper is destroyed by chemicals (C) The ink used in printing damages the paper (D) The glue used in the binding loses its
strength
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(B) They are slowly falling apart
(C) They were not made from wood pulp
(D) They should be stored in a cold place
34 (A) It's very expensive
(B) It hasn't proven to be totally effective
(C) It can be damaging to some books
(D) It can't be used on books published before
1850
35 (A) Get some books for the man to look at
(B) Ask the man to look over her notes
(C) Continue her research in the library
(D) Find more information on how books are
preserved
36 (A) To plan an exhibit of the student's
artwork
(B) To discuss different whaling techniques
(C) To prepare for a visit to a museum
(D) To review information for an examination
37 (A) Iron from old ships
(B) Wood found floating in the ocean
(C) Seashells of unusual shapes and colors
(D) The bones and teeth of whales
38 (A) To occupy their free time
(B) To bring good luck
(C) To earn extra money
(D) To take part in art competitions
39 (A) They were used in the home
(B) They were used to decorate the ship
(C) They were used to catch whales
(D) They were sold to art dealers
40 (A) The importance of anthropology to
modern society,
(B) A good source of information about a
society
(C) Attitudes toward culture in the 1940's
(D) The relationship between anthropology and
the military
41 (A) Students might not consider them to be
an important part of culture
(B) They symbolize the rebellion of youth in the
1950's
(C) They are discussed in the student's textbook
(D) They have been worn for hundreds of years
42 (A) To show how politics have changed over the years
(B) To point out that T-shirts often provide personal information
(C) To illustrate how the printing on clothing has improved
(D) To support that T-shirts are a form of art
43 (A) Places where T-shirts are not acceptable (B) Images that are currently printed on T-shirts (C) Names of people who have made T-shirts popular
(D) Ways that T-shirts represent American culture
44 (A) Successful business practices
(B) Famous inventors
(C) Public health concerns
(D) Unsuccessful inventions
45 (A) They drank from public water fountains (B) They passed around a cup of water
(C) They drank from personal tin cups that they carried with them
(D) They bought a paper cup of water
46 (A) To demonstrate the importance of public health laws
(B) To point out that without luck businesses will not succeed
(C) To explain how traveling led to new inventions
(D) To illustrate the importance of having the right product at the right time
47 (A) How grasshoppers find food
(B) How grasshoppers fight other insects (C) How grasshoppers communicate with each other
(D) How grasshoppers escape from danger
48 (A) To correct a common misunderstanding about grasshoppers
(B) To help explain how well grasshoppers can jump
(C) To compare the size of grasshopper with that of other insects -
(D) To show how quickly grasshoppers respond
to danger
49 (A) They detect nerve impulses transmitted
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(B) They sense how far a grasshopper has
jumped
(C) They detect changes in air pressure
(D) They help a grasshopper find food
50 (A) The number of impulses transmitted to the grasshopper's legs
(B) The age of the grasshopper
(C) The number of sensory organs the grasshopper has
(D) The size of the nerves that control walking
Section Two: Structure and Written Expression
1 Among the 450 artworks in the White
House art collection
(A) as is Mary Cassatt's Young Mother and
Two Children
(B) is Mary Cassatt's Young Mother and Two
Children
(C) which is Mary Cassatt's Young Mother
and Two Children
(D) Mary Cassatt's Young Mother and Two
Children
2 An unconsolidated aggregate of silt
particles is also termed silt, _ a
consolidated aggregate is called siltstone
(A) which
(B) why
(C) whereas
(D) whether
3 In 1864 the American Shakespearean actor
Edwin Booth gained critical acclaim when he
Hamlet at the Winter Garden
Theatre in New York City
(A) perform
(B) performed
(C) had been performing
(D) having performed
4 are chiefly derived from
petroleum
(A) Plastics today
(B) There are plastics today
(C) Because today plastics today
(D) Due to plastics today
5 Most tangerine trees and their flowers and
fruits resemble the orange, although
tangerines are generally smaller
(A) of those
6 Ohio, the center of _ the Hopewell culture, has the greatest concentration of ancient burial mounds in the United States
(A) called (B) what is called (C) that is called (D) is called
7 , such as jazz, are often played from memory rather than from a written score
(A) Of some types music (B) Music some of types (C) Some types of music (D) Types of music some
8 During the 1850', reform movements _temperance and the abolition of slavery gained strength in the United States
(A) advocating (B) they had advocated (C) to advocating (D) to advocate when
9 Many meteorites are thought to have origin ated from _ that once existed between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter (A) where a planet or planets
(B) a planet or planets so (C) which a planet or planets (D) a planet or planets
10 The modern automobile is a composed of more than 14,000 parts
(A) complex technical system (B) system of complex technical (C) complex technical system that (D) system is technically complex (B) which of those 11 over 100 years since the
(C) those of
(D) which are of
invention of the square-bottomed paper bag (A) Now is
(B) Now it has
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(D) It is now
12 The novelist John Dos Passes developed a
style of fiction incorporating several
documentary devices to his works
(A) lent realism
(B) that lending realism
(C) to lend realism
(D) of whos e realism lent
13 In Earth's infancy, its surface was warm
enough for life the young Sun
was fainter than it is today
(A) in spite of
(B) whether
(C) neither of which
(D) even though
14 The invention of the compound microscope (which allowed much higher magnification through multiple lenses) made _ the great strides in life sciences
(A) it possible (B) possibly (C) possible (D) it was possible
15 Hares generally have longer ears and hind legs than rabbits and move by jumping running
(A) rather to be (B) rather than (C) are rather (D) as rather
16 Lake trout, fish usually finding in deep, cool lakes, are greenish gray and are
A covered with pale spots
B
17 During the first 20 years of the space age, the United States spent more than 90
A B
billion dollars onto its civilian and military space programs
18 Vitamins A and C and most of the B vitamins are retain in foods that have
been canned
D
19 Ella Baker spent her adult life working for social change by lecturing, writing,
A teacher, and organizing adult literacy programs
B
20 Gold can combined with silver in any proportion, but alloys with 50 to 60 percent
A silver are the_strongest
D
B C
21 The camera obscura, a lensless precursor of the photographic camera, consists_of
A
a darkened chamber, with light pass into it through a single tiny hole
B C D
22 Lumber production was the main industry in Michigan until the early 1900's,
which the automobile industry was established in Detroit
D
23 Twenty minutes of vigorous exercise every day is very effect in helping a person
A
to maintain physical fitness
D
B C
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A B bureau, overly one thousand unpublished poems were discovered,
25 Rocks form within Earth are called intrusive or plutonic rocks because the
A B magma from which they form often intrudes into neighboring rock
26 Most fish swim by moving their tails from side to side , with little relatively body
A
undulation
B C D
27 In its life expectancy, although in most other things, the Sun is a typical star
28 Machines need energy to function, whether it is animal or human muscle, wind or
waters currents, or heat-generated energy, such as steam
29 The modern violin, the smallest and versatile instrument in the violin family, is
tuned in fifths and produces tones ranging over four and a half octaves
30 Norman Rockwell was a meticulous artist who paintings portrayed family
incidents and well-defined characters with a wealth of supporting details
31 By the late twelve century, stained glass had emerged in Europe as an integral
A B C D
part of Gothic architecture
32 The United States, a nation with a highly diversified economy, is a major
A exporter of grain, fruit, chemical, aircraft, and cars
B
33 Canada began cultivation wheat intensively in 1910, which led to a demand for
A tools, machines, housing, and building supplies
B
34 Magnesium has little structural strength and must be alloyed with another metals
A B such as aluminum and zinc when it is to be subjected to stress
35 Orchid seeds take up to eighteen months to mature before they sprout, and the
young plants may need another two years to reach at the flowering stage
36 The oldest public edifice in Washington D.C., the White House was originally
A B constructed in the 1790's, also has been rebuilt or extensively remodeled
C three times since
D
37 Mitosis is the normal process by which a cell divides, each new cell ending up
with a same number of chromosomes as the parent cell
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38 There are a series of large-scale wind patterns all over Earth are called prevailing
A winds that have a direct effect on weather and climate
B
39 1n June, 1846, near Sacramento, California, a number of new settlers rebelled in
the Bear Flag Revolt and proclaiming California an independent republic
D
40 A mutation is result of a definite biochemical change in a gene that causes the
offspring to vary in some characteristic from the parents
Section Three: Reading Comprehension
Question I~9
The first birds appeared during late Jurassic times These birds are known from four very good skeletons, two incomplete skeletons, and an isolated feather, all from the Solnhofen limestone of Bavaria, Germany This fine-grained rock, which is
extensively quarried for lithographic stone, was evidently deposited in a shallow
(5) coral lagoon of a tropical sea, and flying vertebrates occasionally fell into the water and were buried by the fine limy mud, to be preserved with remarkable detail In this way, the late Jurassic bird skeletons, which have been named Archaeopteryx, were fossilized And not only were the bones preserved in these skeletons, but so also
were imprints of the feathers If the indications of feathers had not been preserved in
(10)association with Archaeopteryx, it is likely that these fossils would have been
classified among the dinosaurs, for they show numerous theropod characteristics
Archaeopteryx were animals about the size of a crow, with an archeosaurian type of skull, a long neck, a compact body balanced on a pair of strong hind limbs, and a
long tail The forelimbs were enlarged and obviously functioned as wings
(15) Modern birds, who are the descendants of these early birds, are highly
organized animals, with a constant body temperature and a very high rate of
metabolism In addition, they are remarkable for having evolved extraordinarily
complex behavior patterns such as those of nesting and song, and the habit among
many species of making long migrations from one continent to another and back
(20)each year
Most birds also have very strong legs, which allows them to run or walk on the ground as well as to fly in the air Indeed, some of the waterbirds, such as ducks and geese, have the distinction of being able to move around proficiently in the water, on land, and in the air, a range in natural locomotor ability that has never been attained (25)by any other vertebrate
1 According to the author, all of-the following
evidence relating to the first birds was found
EXCEPT
(A) nesting materials
(B) four skeletons in good condition
(C) two fragmented skeletons
(D) a single feather
2 The word "preserved" in line 8 is closest in
meaning to
(A) confused with others (B) gradually weakened (C) protected from destruction (D) lost permanently
3 It can be inferred from the passage that the Archaeopteryx were classified as birds on the basis of
(A) imprints of bones (B) imprints of feathers
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(D) skeletons
4 The word "they" in line 11 refers to
(A) indications
(B) fossils
(C) dinosaurs
(D) characteristics
5 Why does the author mention "a crow" in
line 12?
(A) to indicate the size of Archaeopteryx
(B) To specify the age of the Archaeopteryx
fossils
(C) To explain the evolutionary history of
Archaeopteryx
(D) To demonstrate the superiority of the
theropod to Archaeopteryx
6 It can be inferred from the passage that
theropods were
(A) dinosaurs
(B) birds
(C) Archaeopteryx
Questions 10-19
(D)crows
7 The word "constant" in line 16 is closest in meaning to
(A) comfortable (B) combined (C) consistent (D) complementary
8 The author mentions all of the following as examples of complex behavior patterns evolved
by birds EXCEPT (A) migrating (B) nesting (C)singing .(D) running
9 The word "attained" in line 24 is closest in meaning to
(A) required (B) achieved (C) observed
(D) merited
Newspaper publishers in the United States have long been enthusiastic users
and distributors of weather maps Although some newspapers that had carried the
United States Weather Bureau's national weather map in 1912 dropped it once the
novelty had passed, many continued to print the daily weather chart provided by
(5) their local forecasting office In the 1930's, when interest in aviation and progress in
air-mass analysis made weather patterns more newsworthy, additional newspapers
started or resumed the daily weather map In 1935, The Associated Press (AP) news
service inaugurated its WirePhoto network and offered subscribing newspapers
morning and afternoon weather maps redrafted by the AP's Washington, B.C., office (10)from charts provided by the government agency Another news service, United Press
International (UPI), developed a competing photowire network and also provided
timely weather maps for both morning and afternoon newspapers After the United
States government launched a series of weather satellites in 1966, both the AP and
UPI offered cloud-cover photos obtained from the Weather Bureau
(15) In the late 1970's and early 1980's, the weather map became an essential
ingredient in the redesign of the American newspaper News publishers, threatened
by increased competition from television for readers' attention, sought to package
the news more conveniently and attractively In 1982, many publishers felt
threatened by the new USA Today, a national daily newspaper that used a page-wide, (20)full-color weather map as its key design element That the weather map in USA
21 Today did not include information about weather fronts and pressures attests to the largely symbolic role it played Nonetheless, competing local and metropolitan
newspapers responded in a variety of ways Most substituted full-color temperature
maps for the standard weather maps, while others dropped the comparatively drab
(25)satellite photos or added regional forecast maps with pictorial symbols to indicate
rainy, snowy, cloudy, or clear conditions A few newspapers, notably The New York Times, adopted a highly informative yet less visually prominent weather map that
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Ironically, a newspaper's richest, most instructive weather maps often are
(30)comparatively small and inconspicuous
10 What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) The differences between government and
newspaper weather forecasting in the United
States
(B) The history of publishing weather maps in
United States newspapers
(C) A comparison of regional and national
weather reporting in the United States
(D) Information that forms the basis for weather
forecasting in the United States
11 The word "resumed" in line 7 is closest in
meaning to
(A) began again
(B) held back
(C) thought over
(D) referred to
12 According to the passage, one important
reason why newspapers printed daily weather
maps during the first half of the twentieth
century was
(A) the progress in printing technology
(B) a growing interest in air transportation
(C) a change in atmospheric conditions
(D) the improvement of weather forecasting
techniques
13 What regular service did The Associated
Press and United Press International begin to
offer subscribing newspapers in the 1930's?
(A) A new system of weather forecasting
(B) An air-mass analysis
(C) Twice daily weather maps
(D) Cloud-cover photographs
14 The phrase "attests to" in line 21 is closest
in meaning to
(A) makes up for
(B) combines with
Question 20-30
(C) interferes with (D) gives evidence of
15 The word "others" in line 24 refers to (A) newspapers
(B) ways (C) temperature maps (D) weather maps
16 The word "drab" in line 24 is closest in meaning to
(A) precise (B) poor (C) simple (D) dull
17 In contrast to the weather maps of USA Today, weather maps in The New York Times tended to be
(A) printed in foil color (B) included for symbolic reasons (C) easily understood by the readers (D) filled with detailed information
18 The word "prominent" in line 27 is closest
in meaning to (A) complex (B) noticeable (C) appealing (D) perfect
19 The author uses the term "Ironically" in line 29 to indicate that a weather map's appearance
(A) is not important to newspaper publishers (B) does not always indicate how much information it provides
(C) reflects how informative a newspaper can be (D) often can improve newspaper sales
Some animal behaviorists argue that certain animals can remember past events,
anticipate future ones, make plans and choices, and coordinate activities within a
group These scientists, however, are cautious about the extent to which animals can
be credited with conscious processing
(5) Explanations of animal behavior that leave out any sort of consciousness at all
and ascribe actions entirely to instinct leave many questions unanswered One
example of such unexplained behavior: Honeybees communicate the sources of
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the dance conveys the position of the food relative to the sun's position in the sky,
(10)and the speed of the dance tells how far the food source is from the hive Most
researchers assume that the ability to perform and encode the dance is innate and
shows no special intelligence But in one study, when experimenters kept changing
the site of the food source, each time moving the food 25 percent farther from the
previous site, foraging honeybees began to anticipate where the food source would
(15) appear next When the researchers arrived at the new location, they would find the
bees circling the spot, waiting for their food No one has yet explained how bees,
whose brains weigh four ten-thousandths of an ounce, could have inferred the
location of the new site
Other behaviors that may indicate some cognition include tool use Many
(20)animals, like the otter who uses a stone to crack mussel shells, are capable of using
objects in the natural environment as rudimentary tools One researcher has found
that mother chimpanzees occasionally show their young how to use tools to open
hard nuts In one study, chimpanzees compared two pairs of food wells containing
chocolate chips One pair might contain, say, five chips and three chips, the other
(25)our chips and three chips Allowed to choose which pair they wanted, the
chimpanzees almost always chose the one with the higher total, showing some sort
of summing ability Other chimpanzees have learned to use numerals to label
quantities of items and do simple sums
20 What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) The role of instinct in animal behavior
(B) Observations that suggest consciousness in
animal behavior
(C) The use of food in studies of animal
behavior
(D) Differences between the behavior of
animals in their natural environments and
in laboratory experiments
21 Which of the following is NOT discussed
as an ability animals are thought to have?
(A) Selecting among choices
(B) Anticipating events to come
(C) Remembering past experiences
(D) Communicating emotions
22 What is the purpose of the honeybee
dance?
(A) To determine the quantity of food at a site
(B) To communicate the location of food
(C) To increase the speed of travel to food
sources
(D) T identify the type of nectar that is available
23 The word "yet" in line 16 is closest in
meaning to
(A) however
(B) since
(C) generally
(D) so far
24 What did researchers discover in the study
of honeybees discussed in paragraph 2?
(A) Bees are able to travel at greater speeds than scientists thought
(B) The bees could travel 25% farther than scientists expected
(C) The bees were able to determine in advance where scientists would place their food (D) Changing the location of food caused bees
to decrease their dance activity
25 It can be inferred from the passage that brain size is assumed to
(A) be an indicator of cognitive ability (B) vary among individuals within a species (C) be related to food consumption
(D) correspond to levels of activity
26 Why are otters and mussel shells included
in the discussion in paragraph 3?
(A) To provide an example of tool use among animals
(B) To prove that certain species demonstrate greater ability in tool use than other species (C)
(D)
27 The word "rudimentary" in line 21 is closest in meaning to
(A) superior