Skills 15-19: Sentences with Inverted Subjects and Verbs Skills 20-23: Problems with Subject/Verb Agreement EXERCISE 8A: Find and correct the errors in the following essay.. The number i
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8A Inversions and Agreement
Errors in inversions and agreement are covered in the Structure section of this book You may want to review these skills
Skills 15-19: Sentences with Inverted Subjects and Verbs Skills 20-23: Problems with Subject/Verb Agreement
EXERCISE 8A: Find and correct the errors in the following essay (The number in paren- theses at the end of each paragraph indicates the number of errors in that paragraph.) The essay discusses the following topic
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Some people prefer to work for a company, while others prefer to work for themselves Discuss the advantages of each position Then indicate which you prefer and why
Something very important for students to decide as they near the end of their studies are whether should they work for another company or go into business for themselves As a university student, this decision about my future are one that | face soon myself To me, each of these positions have clear advantages, in
particular depending on the stage of your career (4 errors)
There is numerous advantages to working for another company, particularly early in your career One of the advantages are that working in someone else's
company provide a situation with the security of a regular paycheck and less
responsibility than you would have you were to be the owner of the company Also, not until you start your own business you need to come up with the finances to back the company Thus, all of this indicate that it is better to work for other
people early in your career while you are gaining the knowledge and experience you need to start your own company (6 errors)
Then, later in your career, it may be advantageous for you to go into business for yourself The main reason for going into business for yourself are that in your own company you are able to decide on what direction do you want your company to
go However, only when you have gained enough knowledge and experience are it a good idea to go into business for yourself This is when will you be ready to deal with the responsibility, pressure, and financial needs of owning a company (4 errors)
Nothing are more important to me than having my own company one day However, what seems very clear to me now is that beginning my career working in someone else's company are best In this situation, not only | can work with more security and less pressure, but | can also build up my financial resources and learn from others Then, | should manage to gain enough experience, knowledge, and contidence and build up my financial resources, | hope eventually to open my own company,
where can | determine exactly how would | like the company to operate (6 errors)
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Errors in parallel, comparative, and superlative structures are covered in the Structure sec-
tion of this book You may want to review these skills
Skills 24-26: Problems with Parallel Structure Skills 27-29: Problems with Comparatives and Superlatives
EXERCISE 8B: Find and correct the errors in the following essay (The number in paren-
theses at the end of each paragraph indicates the number of errors in that paragraph.)
The essay discusses the following topic
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
The primary reason to get an education is to succeed financially
Support your response with reasons and examples
1 lam a university student, and | am studying in the university for a number of
reasons Of course, one of my reasons for going to school, studying hard, and
obtain a university degree is to succeed financially; the more money | make, it will be
better for me However, financial success is not my most importantest reason for
going to the university Instead, | am going to the university for a much broad
reason than that: | believe that a university education will give me a much rich and
better life, not just in a financial way (5 errors)
2 One way that a university education makes your life enjoyabler is to give you the
opportunity to have a career that you really desire and appreciative Having a career
that you like is much better than a job that just pays the bills |, for example, am
studying to be a marine biologist | will have the better career for me; | will be rewarded
not only in terms of money and also in terms of enjoyment of my career (5 errors)
3 Another way that a university education can enrich your life is to provide a
broadest knowledge, understand, and appreciation of the world around you than
you already have It provides you with an understanding of both the history of your
own culture and to influence history on the present It also provides you with an
understanding of other cultures and shows you that other cultures are neither
exactly the same as nor they are completely different from your own culture Finally,
it provides you with an understanding of the universe around you and showing you
how the universe functions (5 errors)
4, Thug, in getting a university education, | can say that financial success is
certainly one goal that | have However, the goal of financial success is not as
important as | have another goal My primary goal in getting a university education
is the goal of achieving a more full life, certainly one with financial security but more
importantly one that is rewarding both in terms of professional opportunities or in
terms of awareness and understanding of life around me The closer | get to
achieving this goal, | will be happier (4 errors)
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Errors in verbs are covered in the Structure section of this book You may want to review these skills
Skills 30-32: Problems with the Form of the Verb Skills 33-36: Problems with the Use of the Verb Skills 37-38: Problems with Passive Verbs
EXERCISE 8C: Find and correct the errors in the following essay (The number in paren- theses at the end of each paragraph indicates the number of errors in that paragraph.) The essay discusses the following topic
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When something unexpected happens, how do you react? Use
examples to support your response
When something unexpected happens, different people reacted in a variety of ways | wish | could reacted calmly to unexpected situations However,
unfortunately, | usually react with panic The following example shows my usual
reaction to situations when | have be completely unprepared for them (3 errors)
This example of the way that | react to unexpected situations has occurred in history class last week The professor had told us that we will be covering the
material in Chapters 10 through 12 in class on Thursday By the time | arrived in class, | have read all of the assigned material, and | understood most of what | had study While | was relax in my chair at the beginning of class, the professor
announces that there would be a pop quiz on the material in the assigned chapters
| was preparing on the material because | have studied all of it thoroughly before
class (8 errors)
However, | was face with an unexpected situation, and | do not react well to unexpected situations Instead of feeling relaxed at the announcement of the
unexpected quiz because | was 50 prepared, | was completely fill with anxiety by the situation As the professor was write the questions on the board, | become more and more nervous | was unable to think clearly, and | knew that | would done a bad job on
the quiz because this was what always happens to me when | feel panic As | stared
at the questions on the board, | had been unable to think of the correct answers It was ag if | had not prepare at all for class Then, the professor collected the papers from the class, including my basically blank piece of paper Just after the papers had
been collecting, the answers to all the questions came to me (9 errors)
You can seen from this example that my usual reaction to something unexpected is to panic In the future, | hoped that | will learn to react more calmly, but up to now | had not learned to react this way On the basis of my past behavior, however, it seems that | currently had a stronger tendency to react with panic than
with calm (4 errors)
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Errors in nouns and pronouns are covered in the Structure section of this book You may
want to review these skills
Skills 39-42: Problems with Nouns Skills 43-45: Problems with Pronouns
EXERCISE 8D: Find and correct the errors in the following essay (The number in paren-
theses at the end of each paragraph indicates the number of errors in that paragraph.)
The essay discusses the following topic
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What part of your high school experience was the most valuable? Use
reasons and examples to support your response
| was not a very good athleticism in high school, but | wanted with all of mine
heart to be on the football team My desire to be on the team had little to do with
athletics and was perhaps not for the best of reasons; the strong stimuli for | to
make the team was that team members were well-known in the school and he
became very popular This desire to be on the football team in high school, and the
fact that through hard worker | managed to accomplish something that | wanted
50 much, even if its was something petty, turned out to be the single most valuable
experiences of my years in high school (8 errors)
| had to work very hard to make the football team in high school, and for some
time this seemed like an impossible goals A large amount of students in my school,
more than a hundred and fifty of them, spent many of theirs afternoons trying out
for a team with less than forty positions After a lot of hard work on my part, and
atter | had demonstrated to the coaches that he could count on me to keep going
long after everyone was exhausted, | managed to make the team as a secondary
play Even with so many effort, | was never going to be a sports phenomena or even
a member of the first team, but | did accomplish my goal of making the team
(8 errors)
The valuable lesson that | learned through this experience was not the joy of
competitor or the much benefits of teamwork, several lesson very commonly
associated with participation in team sports Instead, the valuable lesson that |
learned was that hard work and determination could be very important in helping !
accomplish each goals that | want to reach Even if others have more talent, | can
work harder than it does and still perhaps find successor where them do not
(8 errors)
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Errors in adjectives and adverbs are covered in the Structure section of this book You may want to review these skills
Skills 46-48: Problems with Adjectives and Adverbs Skills 49-51: More Problems with Adjectives
Skills 52-55: Problems with Articles
EXERCISE 8E: Find and correct the errors in the following essay (The number in paren- theses at the end of each paragraph indicates the number of errors in that paragraph.) The essay discusses the following topic
Some students prepare early, while other students procrastinate
Which type of student are you? Support your response with reasons and examples
1 | understand that it seems importantly for a students to prepare early their
assignments rather than procrastinate in getting assignments done However,
although | understand this clear, | always seem to wait until the finally minute to get assigning projects done There are two reasons why | regular procrastinate on
my assignments academic in spite of the fact that this is not a best way to get
my work done (9 errors)
2 One reason that | tend to be a eternal procrastinator is that | work much more efficient under pressure than | do when | am not under pressure For example, | can accomplish s0 much more in a two-hour period when | have a definitely deadline in two hours than | can during an alike period without the pressure of a deadline
strict Without a deadline, the two-hour period seems to fly by with minimally
accomplishment, but with an rapid approached deadline | seem quite capably of making every minute of the two-hour period count (10 errors)
3 Another reason that | tend to procrastinate is that if | start preparing early, it takes generally more of my time If, for example, | have paper due in six weeks, | can start working on the paper now and work on it on a day basis, and that paper will take up a lot of my time and energy during the followed six weeks However, if | wait
to begin work on the paper until week before it is due, | have to go off some place where | can be lone and spend all of my time and energy that week on the paper, but
it will only take one week of my time valuable and not six weeks (7 errors)
4, In summary, it seems that | always wait until the last minute to complete an assignments because | am afraid that | will waste too much time by starting early
It would be good idea, however, for me to make a effort to get work done efficient and early 0 that | do not always have to feel tensely about getting work done at a
last minute (6 errors)
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Errors in prepositions and usage are covered in the Structure section of this book You may want to review these skills
Skills 56-57: Problems with Prepositions Skills 58-60: Problems with Usage
EXERCISE 8F: Find and correct the errors in the following essay (The number in paren-
theses at the end of each paragraph indicates the number of errors in that paragraph.)
The essay discusses the following topic
Some people avoid confrontations at all costs, while other people seem to seek them out Discuss each type of person Then indicate which type of person you are and why
1 Some people make their best to avoid confrontations, while another people
often seem to get involved confrontations There can be problems with either type
of behavior; thus, | always try to be dislike people at either extreme and remain
moderate in my approach at confrontation (5 errors)
2 To some people, confrontation should be avoided for all costs These people will
make nothing even after something terribly wrong has happened to them They, for
example, stay silent when they are pushed around or when they are blamed
something they did not do Unfortunately, it is quite probable that others will take
advantage from people alike this Thus, people who avoid confrontations will find
that they do not get as much out life as they deserve because other always take
advantage of them (7 errors)
3 Alike people who avoid confrontations, others individuals go to the opposite
extreme; they take part for confrontations too easily When something small
happens accidentally, they become enraged and do a big deal of it as if they had
been terribly wronged Ferhaps, for example, someone accidentally bumps in them or
mistakenly says something offensive; in this type of situation, they create a
serious confrontation While it is true that other people will try hard not to provoke
this type of person, it is also true that other will do an effort to avoid spending
much time in the company of such a person Thus, people who get involved in
confrontations easily will find it hard to develop close friendships and relationships
with anothers (8 errors)
4, | try to make the right thing by avoiding either extreme type of behavior | always
try to behave in an alike manner, without overreacting or underreacting If someone
offends me with chance, | try to brush it and keep in going as if nothing had happened
me If someone intentionally succeeds on bothering me, however, | try to react without
anger but with a reaction that shows that behavior alike this is unacceptable In this
way, | do not do the mistake of wasting time on unimportant situations, but |
prevent others instances of bad behavior toward me for recurring (11 errors)
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SECTION 1 LISTENING COMPREHENSION
Time—approximately 35 minutes (including the reading of the directions for each part)
In this section of the test, you will have an opportunity to demonstrate your ability to understand
conversations and talks in English There are three parts to this section Answer all the questions on
the basis of what is stated or implied by the speakers you hear Do not take notes or write in your test
book at any time Do not turn the pages until you are told to do so
PartA
Directions: In Part A you will hear short conversations between two people After each conversation,
you will hear a question about the conversation The conversations and questions will not be
repeated After you hear a question, read the four possible answers in your test book and choose the
best answer Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that
corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen
On the recording, you hear:
(man) That exam was just awful
(woman) Oh, it could have been worse
(narrator) What does the woman mean?
In your test book, you read: (A) The exam was really awful
(B) It was the worst exam she had ever seen
(C) It couldn't have been more difficult
(D) It wasn’t that hard
You learn from the conversation that the man thought the exam was very difficult and that the
woman disagreed with the man The best answer to the question, “What does the woman mean?” is
(D), “It wasn’t that hard.” Therefore, the correct choice is (D)
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2 (A)
(B) (C) (D)
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(B)
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(B) (C) (D)
5 (A)
(B) (C) (D)
6 (A)
(B) (C) (D)
7 (A)
(B) (C) (D)
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(B)
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Carla does not live very far away
What Carla said was unjust
He does not fear what anyone says
Carla is fairly rude to others
She thinks it’s an improvement
The fir trees in it are better
It resembles the last one
It is the best the man has ever done
He graduated last in his class
He is the last person in his family to graduate
He doesn't believe he can improve gradually
He has finally finished his studies
He’s surprised there were five dresses
It was an unexpectedly inexpensive dress
He would like to know what color dress it was
The dress was not cheap
Leave the car somewhere else
Ignore the parking tickets
Add more money to the meter
Pay the parking attendant
He does not like to hold too many books at one time
There is no bookstore in his neighborhood
It’s not possible to obtain the book yet
He needs to talk to someone at the bookstore
It was incomplete
It finished on time
It was about honor
It was too long
She needs to use the man’s notes
Yesterday's physics class was quite boring
She took some very good notes in physics class
She would like to lend the man her notes
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(A) (B) (C) (D)
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(A) (B) (C) (D)
It’s her birthday today
She’s looking for a birthday gift
She wants to go shopping with her
dad
She wants a new wallet for herself
He prefers cold water
His toes are too big
The pool felt quite refreshing
He didn’t go for a swim
She just left her sister’s house
Her sister is not at home
She not exactly sure where her
sweater is
She doesn't know where her sister lives
She doesn’t have time to complete additional reports
She cannot finish the reports that she
is already working on
She is scared of having responsibility for the reports
It is not time for the accounting reports to be compiled
He's had enough exercise
He’s going to give himself a reward for the hard work
He's going to stay on for quite some time
He would like to give the woman an exercise machine as a gift
He cannot see the huge waves
The waves are not coming in
He would like the woman to repeat what she said
He agrees with the woman
The exam was postponed
The man should have studied harder Night is the best time to study for exams
She is completely prepared for the exam
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Students who want to change
schedules should form a line
It is only possible to make four
changes in the schedule
It is necessary to submit the form
quickly
Problems occur when people don't
wait their turn
In a mine
In a jewelry store
In a clothing store
In a bank
A visit to the woman’s family
The telephone bill
The cost of a new telephone
How far away the woman’s family
lives `
She hasn’t met her new boss yet
She has a good opinion of her boss
Her boss has asked her about her
impressions of the company
Her boss has been putting a lot of
pressure on her
The recital starts in three hours
He intends to recite three different
poems
He received a citation on the third of
the month
He thinks the performance begins at
three
Choose a new dentist
Cure the pain himself
Make an appointment with his dentist
Ask his dentist about the right way to
brush
It is almost five o’clock
The man doesn't really need the
stamps
It is a long way to the post office
It would be better to go after five
o'clock
The article was placed on reserve
The woman must ask the professor
for a copy
The woman should look through a
number of journals in the library
He has reservations about the
information in the article
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(B) (C) (D)
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(A) (B) (C) (D)
He needs to take a nap
He hopes the woman will help him to calm down
The woman just woke him up
He is extremely relaxed
She doesn’t think the news report is false
She has never before reported on the news
She never watches the news on television
She shares the man’s opinion about the report
Management will offer pay raises on Friday
The policy has not yet been decided
The manager is full of hot air
The plane has not yet landed
He doesn't believe that it is really
snowing
The snow had been predicted
The exact amount of snow is unclear
He expected the woman to go out in the snow
She's going to take the test over again
She thinks she did a good job on the exam
She has not yet taken the literature exam
She’s unhappy with how she did
The door was unlocked
It was better to wait outside
He could not open the door
He needed to take a walk
He nailed the door shut
He is heading home
He hit himself in the head
He is absolutely correct
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