PRACTICE TEST 8

A. MULTIPLE CHOICE (30 PTS):

I. LEXICO-GRAMMAR: Choose the best options to complete the following sentences. (20
pts)
1. As my brother discovered the fact that I am in a relationship, I have to _____ to stop him from
telling mom.
A. keep my distance B. give the shirt off my back C. collect his
thoughts D. grease his palm
2. We've been led up the ______ path about the position of our hotel - it's much farther from the
beach than what the advertisement said!
A. rocky B. mountain C. garden D. muddy
3. If the pandemic does not ameliorate, our company will surely ______.
A. fall afoul B. hit out of the park C. go down the tubes D. go under the
knife
4. The business model you propose sounds amazing, but whether it might succeed in reality is
where ______.
A. rubber meets the road B. the shoe pinches C. the puck is heading D. hell freezes
over
5. Jack, your passion won't help you afford a living in this big city, wake up and smell ______.
A. the tea B. the coffee C. the soda D. the roses
6. After our twenty-mile hike, I ate a hamburger and it tasted like the best food in the world.
Hunger is the best ______.
A. dish B. seasoning C. chef D. sauce
7. Don’t let insurance companies pull the ______ over your eyes - ask for a list of all the hidden
charges.
A. silk B. mask C. ribbon D. wool
8. Given the competitiveness of the National Contest, I have to knock it out of the ______ or I won’t
be able to win any prizes.
A. park B. nail C. roof D. ring
9. Mary finally decided to ______ and broke up with Jack after having been together for 4 years.
A. get off her case B. take the plunge C. play possum D. jump the gun
10. Their company is so debt-ridden that I think it’s safe to say they’re ______ at this stage.
A. down for the count B. down in the dumps C. down at the heel D. down to the
last penny
11. Not getting the promotion felt like a real kick in the ______ as I’d put in so much hard work for
the company.
A. head B. teeth C. back D. leg
12. After days, the police resorted to ______ tactics to break up the protest.
A. strong-arm B. breakneck C. hard-up D. clawback
13. I had been feeling very down in the dumps after being given the sack, but took ______ when a
prestigious employment agency booked two interviews for me.
A. stride B. shine C. heart D. issue
14. Malaysians should embrace their natural generosity and not let hard times ______ their spirit to
help others in need.
A. dampen B. moisten C. drench D. deluge
15. This conservative, evangelical megachurch, just outside San Diego, is a ______ of activity on a
Sunday morning.
A. mast B. home C. seat D. hive
16. Regional parliaments allow ______ for remote parts of the country or islands far from the
capital.
A. self-government B. self-sufficiency C. self-regulation D. self-support
17. The well-known ______ clash between the President and the rebel leader is not making things
easier.
A. character B. mood C. enemy D. personality
18. Having lost her mother at an early age, Mary felt she had become a mere ______, having to do
absolutely everything for her five brothers and sisters.
A. taskmaster B. workmate C. slavedriver D. workhorse
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19. If you need help, please don’t hesitate to call me. I can be there ______.
A. in a fix B. in a flash C. in a daze D. in the bag
20. Discussions on the issue of expansion of the company have been in ______ since the outbreak
of the disease in the area.
A. hitch B. limbo C. feud D. core
21. I’m afraid that Tim doesn’t take much care over his homework. He usually does it ______.
A. any old how B. any how C. how on earth D. how come
22. Don’t ______ in judgment on my driving when yours is worse.
A. put B. plead C. sit D. take
23. Despite saying that gender is not important, Tony had made it ______ clear that he preferred
having a baby boy.
A. painfully B. unduly C. abundantly D. pure

24. This relationship is unlikely to get anywhere - for one thing, they are both ______ and will never
tolerate the others.
A. highly-strung B. boisterous C. rambunctious D. stand-offish
25. Please follow the doctor's advice, he is in ______ earnest about the epidemic.
A. grave B. sincere C. deadly D. pure
26. Twenty years serving the business as second in ______ to his father has helped him gain
precious experience for his career.
A. authority B. command C. decree D. junction
27. The example ______ at the end of the essay not only failed to support the student’s arguments
but even made it look messy.
A. added up B. thrashed out C. toyed with D. tacked on
28. The whole journal includes stories and pictures ______ women and children in mountainous
regions around the world.
A. strayed from B. shed from C. stalked from D. culled from
29. Please tell Severus to come to my office should you see him, I need him to help me ______ the
applications that have no chance of succeeding.
A. make out B. sift out C. leaf through D. muddle
through
30. As an inexperienced first-time traveller, I was ______ by a local vendor, who charged me $40 for
a little souvenir fridge magnet.
A. ragged on B. eaten away C. ripped off D. torn up
31. I’m afraid that the herring we had for dinner has given me ______.
A. sickness B. indisposition C. infection D. indigestion
32. The facilities at many schools today are still ______ inadequate.
A. sadly B. woefully C. regrettably D. grimly
33. You can’t always depend on ______ on time.
A. the trains’ arriving B. the trains to arrive C. the arriving of trains D. the train that
arriving
34. The picking of the fruit, ______, takes about a week.
A. whose work they receive no money B. as they receive no money for that work
C. for which work they receive no money D. they receive no money for it
35. It is the recommendation of many psychologists ______ to associate words and remember
names.
A. that a learner uses mental images B. mental images are used
C. a learner to use mental images D. that a learner use mental images
36. You ______ then; otherwise, the policeman wouldn’t have stopped you.
A. could have been speeding B. must have been speeding
C. might have been speeding D. ought to have been speeding
37. Although the Moon appears ______, it reflects on average only 7 percent of the light that falls
on it.
A. bright to the eye B. brightly to the eye C. bright in the eye D. brightly in the
eye
38. ______, I’d like to talk about myself as the happiest person in the world.
A. Be that it may B. Strange as it might sound
C. How much strange it may be D. Strange though might it sound

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39. ______ technically proficient; it also explores psychological questions.
A. Not only is Barbara Astman’s artwork B. Not only Barbara Astman’s artwork
C. Barbara Astman’s artwork, which is not only D. Barbara Astman’s artwork not only
40. You could have done ______ inviting Sam to the party.
A. nothing as well as B. better or worse than C. more or less instead ofD. a lot worse
than
II. GUIDED CLOZE: Read the text below and decide which answer best fits each space.
(10 pts)
IS THE SENSE OF BEAUTY INNATE OR LEARNED?
Beauty is the (41) ______ of a thing or person that gives you pleasure. Inner beauty refers to
psychological factors, such as intelligence, kindness, compassion, and honesty. Outer beauty, or
physical attractiveness, refers to factors such as looks, health, youthfulness, and symmetry.
Is the ability to (42) ______ physical or psychological attractiveness innate or learned? Is
beauty objective or subjective? There is some (43) ______ that the sense of beauty is subjective
and culturally relative. The popular saying “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” tells us that
different people have different opinions about what is beautiful. For example, most Westerners
(44) ______ a woman with a wide mouth attractive, while many Chinese regard a woman with a
small mouth as beautiful. During part of China’s history, women with big feet were considered to
be ugly. Traditional Chinese foot-binding was (45) ______ to keep a woman’s feet tiny and thus
“beautiful”. To people in the modern world, the foot-binding of women was painful, horrible, and
ugly. These two examples suggest that some ideas about beauty are learned and (46) ______ to
change.
On the other hand, research indicates that a (47) ______ for beautiful faces occurs early in a
child’s development. A small child plays with facially attractive dolls longer than with facially
unattractive dolls. Children innately pay attention to the beauty of nature.
People from various cultures and periods of time may have slightly different ideas about
beauty. (48) ______, they usually share many standards of beauty. A kind, honest, and intelligent
individual is attractive. So is a healthy, youthful person with a mathematically average face and a
(49) ______ body. The appreciation of many aspects of both inner beauty and outer beauty is
innate.
Many aspects of beauty have been valued throughout human history. Our (50) ______ of
beauty is innate, though that innate sense may be influenced by the environment.
41.A. quality B. sense C. idea D. thought
42.A. comment B. define C. share D. denounce
43.A. option B. format C. evidence D. science
44.A. consider B. discover C. conclude D. doubt
45.A. intended B. viewed C. decided D. accused
46.A. resistant B. aimed C. meant D. subject
47.A. preference B. prefer C. preferment D. preferring
48.A. In addition B. Nonetheless C. For example D. Accordingly
49.A. well-done B. well-made C. well-proportioned D. well-formed
50.A. notion B. criticism C. concern D. Imagination

B. WRITTEN TEST (70 PTS)

I. READING COMPREHENSION (20 points)
Passage A
Read the following passage and choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits
best.
THE MUSEUM OF FAILED PRODUCTS
Our business editor paid a visit to the graveyard of good ideas
In an unremarkable business park outside the city of Ann Arbor in Michigan stands a poignant
memorial to humanity’s shattered dreams. It doesn’t look like that from the outside, though. Even
when you get inside, it takes a few moments for your eyes to get used to what you’re seeing. It
appears to be a vast and haphazardly organized supermarket; along every aisle, grey metal
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shelves are crammed with thousands of packages of food and household products. There is
something unusually cacophonous about the displays and soon enough you work out the reason:
unlike in a real supermarket, there is only one of each item.
The storehouse, operated by a company called GfK Custom Research North America, has
acquired a nickname: the Museum of Failed Products. This is consumer capitalism’s graveyard or,
to put it less grandly, it’s almost certainly the only place on the planet where you’ll find A Touch of
Yogurt shampoo alongside the equally unpopular For Oily Hair Only. The museum is home to
discontinued brands of caffeinated beer and self-heating soup cans that had a regrettable
tendency to explode in customers’ faces.
There is a Japanese term, mono no aware, that translates roughly as “the pathos of things”. It
captures a kind of bittersweet melancholy at life’s impermanence – that additional beauty
imparted to cherry blossoms, for their fleeting nature. It’s only stretching the concept slightly to
suggest that this is how the museum’s manager, an understatedly stylish GfK employee named
Carol Sherry, feels about the cartons of Morning Banana Juice in her care or about Fortune
Snookies, a short-lived line of fortune cookies for dogs. Every failure, the way she sees it,
embodies its own sad story on the part of designers, marketers, and salespeople. It is never far
from her mind that real people had their mortgages, their car payments, and their family holidays
riding on the success of products such as A Touch of Yogurt.
The Museum of Failed Products was itself a kind of accident, albeit a happier one. Its creator,
a now retired marketing man named Robert McMath, merely intended to accumulate a “reference
library” of consumer products, not failure per se. And so, starting in the 1960s, he began
purchasing and preserving a sample of every new item he could find. Soon, the collection outgrew
his office in upstate New York and he was forced to move into a converted granary to
accommodate it. Later, GfK bought him out, moving the whole lot to Michigan. What McMath
hadn’t taken into account was the three-word truth that was to prove the making of his career:
most products fail. According to some estimates, the failure rate is as high as ninety percent.
Simply by collecting new products indiscriminately, McMath had ensured that his hoard would
come to consist overwhelmingly of unsuccessful ones.
By far the most striking thing about the museum, though, is that it should exist as a viable,
profit-making business in the first place. You might have assumed that any consumer product
manufacturer worthy of the name would have its own such collection – a carefully stewarded
resource to help it avoid making errors its rivals had already made. Yet the executives who arrive
every week at Sherry’s door are evidence of how rarely this happens. Product developers are so
focused on their next hoped-for success, so unwilling to invest time or energy thinking about their
industry’s past failures that they only belatedly realize how much they need to access GfK’s
collection. Most surprising of all is that many of the designers who have found their way to the
museum have come there to examine – or been surprised to discover – products that their own
companies had created, then abandoned.
It isn’t hard to imagine how one downside of the positive thinking culture, an aversion to
confronting failure, might have been responsible for the very existence of many of the products
lining its shelves. Each one must have made it through a series of meetings at which nobody
realized that the product was doomed. Perhaps nobody wanted to contemplate the prospect of
failure; perhaps someone did but didn’t want to bring it up for discussion. By the time the truth
became obvious, the original developers would have moved to other products or other firms. Little
energy would have been invested in discovering what went wrong. Everyone involved would have
conspired, perhaps without realizing what they’re doing, never to speak of it again. Failure is
everywhere. It’s just that most of the time we’d rather avoid confronting that fact.
51. According to the writer, what is the reason why the storehouse does not resemble a
supermarket?
A. its appearance on the outside B. the dimly-lit space
C. the size of the building D. the range of
products on each shelf
52. What is the writer’s main purpose in paragraph 2?
A. to provide an idea of what the museum contains
B. to give reasons why these products were rejected by consumers
C. to explain how obvious it was that self-heating cans failed
D. to illustrate how the museum is organized and operated
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53. What is Carol Sherry’s attitude to the failed products?
A. She feels particularly attached to some products. B. She has
sympathy for the people inventing them.
C. She prefers failed products to successful ones. D. She appreciates the concepts behind
the products.
54. According to the writer, Mr. McMath failed to realize that his collection would ______.
A. be better if it were more selective B. grow so quickly
C. contain so many failed products D. be so difficult to store
55. The word “indiscriminately” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. in a planned way B. in an expected way C. in an unexpected way D. in an
unplanned way
56. According to the writer, what is remarkable about the product developers who visit GfK?
A. their ignorance of the existence of the collection B. the lack of
attention paid to previous failures
C. the way they dismiss their own companies’ failures D. their tendency
to repeat past failures
57. What point is the writer making in the last paragraph?
A. that failure should have been prevented B. that failure is an acceptable part of life
C. that people are afraid to talk about failure D. that thinking negatively often leads to
failure
Passage B
Read the following passage and choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits
best.
Lomborg's book entitled The Skeptical Environmentalist caused an uproar when it was
published in 1998. The author’s beef is with the litany of doom espoused by certain
environmental activists. We have all heard the main points several times: natural resources
are running out; the world's population is too big and growing at an alarming rate; rivers,
lakes, oceans and the atmosphere are getting dirtier all the time. Forests are being destroyed,
fish stocks are collapsing, 40,000 species a year are facing extinction, and the planet is
warming disastrously. The world is falling apart and it is our fault.
Nonsense, says Lomborg. These are just scare stories put about by ideologues and
promulgated by the media. There is little evidence that the world is in trouble, he claims, and a
good deal more that suggests that we have never had it so good. Air quality in the developed
world has improved markedly over the past 100 years. The average inhabitant of the
developing world consumes 38% more calories now than 100 years ago, and the percentage of
people threatened with starvation has fallen from 35% to 18%. The hole in the ozone layer is
more or less fixed; the global warming theory has been much exaggerated. And though we
worry incessantly about pollution, the lifetime risk of drinking water laden with pesticides at
the European Union safety limit is the equivalent of smoking 1.4 cigarettes. In short the world
is not falling apart; rather the doom mongers have ted us all down the garden path.
‘Lomborg’ is the dirtiest word in environmental circles at the moment. Henning Sorenson,
former president of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, maintains that his fellow
countryman is wrong, dangerous and lacking the professional training even to comprehend the
data he presents. These are strong words. Sorenson was referring specifically to Lomborg’s
opinions on mineral resources, but this book contains sufficient biological nonsense to add
ignorance of at least one more discipline to the charge sheet For example, long term growth in
the number of species on Earth over the past 600m years - itself a disputed issue, though you
would not know it - is accredited to ‘a process of specialisation which is both due to the fact
that the Earth’s physical surroundings have become more diverse and a result of all other
species becoming more specialised.’ One really has to look further than a United Nations
Environment Programme report to understand such complex issues. And surely only a
statistician could arrive at a figure of 0.7% extinction of all species on Earth in the next 50
years, when respectable estimates of total diversity range from 2m to 500m species (not 2m-
80m, as Lomborg claims).
However, my greatest concern is with Lomborg’s tone. He is clearly committed to
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 Ehrlich, whom professionals have been ignoring for decades. This selective approach does not
inspire much confidence: ridiculing idiots is easy. Who better to manipulate data in support of
a particular point of view than a professional statistician? And who to trust with the task less
than someone who argues like a lawyer?
The reader should be wary in particular of Lomborg’s passion for global statistics:
overarching averages can obscure a lot of important detail. The area of land covered with trees
may not have changed much in the past 50 years, but this is mostly because northern forests
have increased in area while the biologically richer tropical ones have declined. If you want to
see how the global trend translates into one particular local context, go to northern Scotland
and gaze over the immense plantations of American conifers that have replaced Britain’s
biologically unique native peatlands. And to balance the books, the area of these noisome tree
farms has to be reflected by deforestation somewhere else in the world, let's say Madagascar,
for example. That the global forest area has remained more less constant actually tells us
nothing about the state of the environment.
So have we been led down the garden path by the environmentalists? Lomborg argues a
convincing case with which I have much sympathy, but the reader should perhaps follow the
author's lead and maintain a healthy scepticism. And if you come away with the nagging
suspicion that Lomborg has a secret drawer of data that does not fit his convictions, then you
are quite probably a cynic.
58. What is not mentioned by Lamborg as one of the environmental problems?
A. Depleted natural resources B. Increasing occurrence of natural
disasters
C. Excessive growth of the world population D. Extinction of a large number of animal
species
59. Lomborg believes that
A. environmental pessimists have misrepresented the facts.
B. not enough is being done to curb the world's population explosion.
C. we are abdicating our responsibility in caring for the planet
D. the dimensions of the global warming problem have been underestimated.
60. What evidence does Lomborg provide to support his point of view?
A. The media have helped to spread panic. B. Cigarette smoking does not pose a
lifetime risk.
C. Overeating is becoming considerably more common D. People tend to
live longer than in the past.
61. Lomborg is unpopular in the environmental world because
A. he is not capable of understanding the complexities of environmental research.
B. he makes use of unsupported claims to propose new theories.
C. he simplifies existing data to support his own spurious claims.
D. as a statistician he doesn't have the necessary background to attack existing findings.
62. What do Lomborg and the writer have in common?
A. A mistrust of lawyers B. A contempt for some environmentalists
C. A selective approach to global problems D. An admiration for statisticians
63. Why does the writer mention Scotland and Madagascar?
A. As an example of deforestation
B. As evidence that available data on forests is insufficient
C. To show that global statistics can be misleading.
D. To show how natural vegetation is being threatened by imported trees.
64. Which of the following square brackets [A], [B], [C], [D] best indicates where in the
paragraph the sentence “Human life expectancy has soared.” can be best inserted?
[A] Nonsense, says Lomborg. ‘These are just scare stories put about by ideologues and
promulgated by the media. There is little evidence that the world is in trouble, he claims, and
a good deal more that suggests that we have never had it so good. [B] Air quality in the
developed world has improved markedly over the past 100 years. [C] The average inhabitant
of the developing world consumes 38% more calories now than 100 years ago, and the
percentage of people threatened with starvation has fallen from 35% to 18%. [D] The hole in
the ozone layer is more or less fixed; the global warming theory has been much exaggerated.
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Passage C
In the text below, six paragraphs have been removed. Read the text and choose from
paragraphs A-G the one which fits each gap. There is ONE extra paragraph which you
do not need to use.
MONEY - THAT'S WHAT I WANT!
Money has a far more complex hold on us than most economists are willing to admit. Mark Buchanan
tries to find out why.
Cash, currency, greenbacks, dosh. Just words, you might say, but they carry an eerie
psychological force. Chew them over for a few moments, and you will become a different person.
Simply thinking about money seems to make us more self-reliant and less inclined to help others.
And it gets weirder; just handling cash can take the sting out of social rejection and even diminish
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Yet money stirs up more stress and envy than any other tool ever could. We just can't seem to
deal with it rationally. But why? Our relationship with money has many facets. Some people seem
addicted to accumulating it, whilst others can't help maxing out their credit cards and find it
impossible to save for a rainy day. As we come to understand more about money's effect on us, it
is emerging that some people's brains can react to it as they would to a drug, while to others it is
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On the surface, this might seem unnecessary. Surely money is just cold, unemotional stuff? We
know already that it takes a variety of forms, from feathers of old, through gold coins, and dollar
bills to data in a bank's computer. The value of $100 is supposed to lie in how much food or fuel it
can purchase and nothing else. You should no more care about being short-changed $5 at the
supermarket checkout than losing the same amount when borrowing money to buy a $300 000
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To understand how this affects our behaviour, some economists are starting to think more like
evolutionary anthropologists. Daniel Ariely of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of
them. He suggests that modern society presents us with two distinct sets of behavioural rules.
Social standards of behaviour, which are 'warm and fuzzy', are designed to foster long-term
relationships, trust and cooperation.

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Economic exchange has been going on throughout human history, so it is possible that our
ancestors evolved an instinctive capacity for recognizing the difference between situations suited
to these different behavioural rules, and that this could have developed well before the invention
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Kathleen Vohs and colleagues at the University of Minnesota got student volunteers to complete
an activity in which they had to arrange a series of discs into two patterns. But before doing this,
they were asked to make sensible phrases either from a group of words that had nothing to do
with money or from a group of money-related words.

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Vohs suggests there is a simple dynamic at work here. 'Money makes people feel self-sufficient,’
she says. 'They are more likely to put forth effort to attain personal goals, and they also prefer to
be separate from others.' The touchy-feely side of us may disapprove of such behaviour, but it is
useful for survival.
A. In reality we are not that rational. Instead of treating cash simply as a tool to be wielded
with objective precision, we allow money to reach inside our heads and tap into the
ancient emotional parts of our brain, often with unpredictable results.
B. This is all the stranger when you consider what money is supposed to be: nothing more
than a medium of exchange that makes economic life more efficient. Just as an axe allows
us to chop down trees, money allows us to have markets that, traditional economists tell
us, dispassionately set the price of anything from a loaf of bread to a painting by Picasso.
C. The trick is to get the correct balance between these two mindsets. Psychological studies
have found a general trade-off between the pursuit of extrinsic aspirations such as wealth
and fame and intrinsic ones, such as building and maintaining relationships.
D. Either way, we appear immediately and subconsciously to recognize the cues associated
with the realm of market norms. Experiments published recently reveal that even a
passing contact with concepts linked to money puts us into a market-oriented mentality,
making us think and behave in characteristic ways.
E. Then there is a set of market norms. These revolve around money and competition, and
encourage individuals to put their own interests first.
F. And, of course, whichever way we regard it, having a pile of money means that you can
buy more things, so it is virtually synonymous with status - so much so that losing it can
lead to severe depression. In these cash-strapped times, perhaps by developing an insight
into the psychology of money, we can improve the way we deal with it.
G. It turned out that those who had been primed with the latter set worked on the main task
for far longer before asking for help. In a related experiment, these individuals were also
significantly less likely to help anyone asking for assistance.
II. OPEN CLOZE (10 PTS): Read the text below and complete each space with ONE
suitable word.
Many artefacts (71) ______________ enduring cultural significance from the last century were
made from plastic. It was always confidently assumed that this rather mundane (72)
______________ was virtually indestructible.
(73) ______________ that some of these artefacts have become museum pieces, we have
discovered that this
(74) ______________ was sadly mistaken.
The degradation of plastics is worrying both scientists and historians, who are (75)
______________ against time to save our plastic heritage before it crumbles into dust. Our love
affair with plastics stems in large (76) ______________ from the fact that they can be (77)
______________ into just about any shape imaginable. When it comes to longevity, however, they
have a serious (78) ______________: their chemical structure breaks down when they are exposed
to air and sunlight.
Many now argue that we must consider the cultural legacy we will be (79) ______________
future generations. Without urgent intervention many artefacts will be lost forever. But developing
effective conservation strategies is difficult because what (80) ______________ to preserve one
type of plastic can have a catastrophic effect on the lifespan of another.
III. WORD FORMATION: (20 PTS)
PART 1: Complete each sentence, using the correct form of the word in parentheses.
81. Some __________________ employers try to take advantage of the undocumented status of
some workers to pay them lower wages. (SCRUPLE)
82. The __________________ costs of renting accommodation may prevent many people from
migrating to big cities. (PROHIBIT)
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83. Sadly, students of color in this area receive a __________________ share of corporal
punishment. (PROPORTION)
84. She has a softly __________________ voice that would melt anyone listening to her singing.
(FLUENT)
85. WHO needs to be free to investigate the origin of the virus as people all want real answers,
not a _______________ political solution. (FUNCTION)
86. It is vital that we __________________ this realm if we ever want to get anything done effective
in securing it. (MYSTERY)
87. Under the old system many women amass secret savings __________________ to their
husbands. (KNOW)
88. Tim won affection from general public for his __________________ personality and humility.
(ASSUME)
89. Reduction in government spending will __________________ further cuts in public services.
(NECESSARY)
90. Much of the financial support for people living in the flooded regions came from
__________________ of citizens from all over Vietnam. (BENEFIT)
PART 2: Fill in the blank with an appropriate form of one of the words given in the box
to make a meaningful passage.
PRIVATE PUSH AMOUNT SOCIAL HARM

ROCKET ERR DESPAIR DRAMA BUD

There are a myriad of lifestyle issues affecting the youth of today. Such is the pressure heaped on
many school-goers to achieve academic excellence by their parents that these unrealistic
expectations are causing children to become hopelessly depressed. Indeed, some, in their (91)
__________________ to escape and their sense of guilt at being unable reach the levels of success
demanded of them by their (92) __________________ parents, either rebel in what is
(93) __________________ to a cry for help, or, worse still, engage in (94) __________________. It is no
coincidence that suicide rates, especially amongst young males, have been rising steadily for
some time now. These are tough times to be a teen.
Then there are those who get hooked on the internet; the virtual world becomes their reality. For
these teens, their social circle shrinks (95) __________________ until, at last, their friendship sphere
is limited solely to their online
(96) __________________. Not alone do they commonly suffer from sleep (97) __________________ on
account of their destructive addiction to game play and net-surfing, their behaviour may become
so (98) __________________ and peculiar over time as to be considered (99) __________________. And
while they sit at their computer screens hidden away in splendid isolation from the real world,
such is the lack of exercise they get that their calorie intake far exceeds what is necessary for
them to maintain a stable weight. In essence, due to their sedentary lifestyle, their weight
(100) __________________ until such time as they become morbidly obese.

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IV. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION: (20 PTS)
Rewrite the following sentences with the given words or beginning in such a way that
their meanings remain unchanged. You MUST NOT change the given words in any way.
101. After a week on the beach in Tunisia, I have a great suntan. BERRY
 After a week on the beach in Tunisia, I _________________________________________________________________
102. After years of arguing, the sisters agreed to forget their differences.
HATCHET
 After years of arguing, the sisters______________________________________________________________________
103. People have been suffering financially since the government raised
taxes. PINCH
 People have been____________________________________________since the government raised taxes.
104. Charles Johnson’s new film will certainly give you something to think
about. FOOD
 Charles Johnson’s new film will certainly________________________________________________________________
105. If I don’t have a cup of coffee with my lunch, I become weak and faint
by three o’clock. STEAM
 If I don’t have a cup of coffee with my lunch, I __________________________________by three o’clock.
106. Some people would have been shocked, but she knew how to accept
and deal with adversities. STRIDE
 Whereas some people would have been shocked,______________________________________________________
107. As part of its cost-cutting exercise, a lot of workers were made
redundant by the company. OFF
 Many a_______________________________________by the company as part of its cost-cutting exercise.
108. After a hard-working day tackling burdensome problems, she fell
asleep incredibly fast. LIGHT
 She went_______________________________after a hard-working day tackling burdensome problems.
109. Sally should have made sure she downloaded all the notes of the
lecture she missed before consulting the professor. ONUS
 _________________________________________________________________________________to the professor.
110. In practice, Tim has handed the business over to his daughter.
INTENTS
 To all______________________________________________________________________hands of his daughter.
THE END

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