I. Choose the correct answer to fill in each of the blank. 70%
1. ( ) The teacher ____ the importance of being on time for class.
A. inventedB. ruinedC. emphasizedD. wasted
2. ( ) Karen's interesting use of words added a new ____ to the story.
A. pause B. dimension C. population D. member
3. ( ) My _____ was spent fishing and playing sports.
A. children B. brother C. childhood D. brotherhood
4. ( ) Tanya's father was angry when she told him she got a ____ on her arm.
A. tattoo B. court C. bomb D. curve
5. ( ) George tried to ____ the past by creating a 60's-themed restaurant.
A. omit B. refuse C. compare D. revive
6. ( ) Mary is taking ____ for her sore back.
A. medication B. poison C. principle D. income
7. ( ) I walked ____ Samuel on the street but I didn't recognize him.
A. over B. by C. off D. through
8. ( ) My English teacher is a ____. She won't allow any mistakes in my work.
A. musician B. biologist C. perfectionist D. tourist
9. ( ) William is so ____. Nothing ever bothers him.
A. easygoing B. impolite C. sneaky D. stingy
10. ( ) I felt really ____ at the party so I went home early.
A. in and out B. out of place C. on the ball D. by the way
11. ( ) My husband and I had a(n) ____ dinner on our anniversary.
A. similar B. foreign C. homesick D. intimate
12. ( ) Karen's life was filled with ____ because she couldn't play soccer with
her broken ankle.
A. victory B. progress C. suffering D. income
13. ( ) Tom boasted____ he was the best student in the class.
A. that B. of C. at D. off
14. ( ) My dress is too ____ for the party, so I'm buying a fancy one.
A. rare B. precious C. ordinary D. skillful
15. ( ) I hold Mr. Fox in the highest ____. He's the greatest teacher.
A. regard B. success C. creation D. concern
16. ( ) Tom annoyed me by ____ about how smart he was.
A. boasting B. commanding C. excusing D. referring
17. ( ) All that is left of the ancient civilization is a few ____.
A. steams B. values C. ruins D. nets
18. ( ) We ____ the furniture closer to the main door of the building.
A. positioned B. sped C. produced D. sensed
19. ( ) The fence that ____ my house needs to be repaired.
A. concerns B. increases C. surrounds D. folds
20. ( ) Mr. Brown buys ____ products to sell in his small shop.
A. even B. wholesale C. loud D. overall
21. ( ) Paul wants to open a small ____ store that sells golf equipment.
A. homesick B. retail C. skillful D. whole
22. ( ) Mark has a lot of ____ for his new hobby. He really loves it!
A. memory B. advise C. enthusiasm D. scenery
23. ( ) Let's just ____ at home today and watch movies.
A. shut B. vote C. lounge D. shake
24. ( ) The rich man's son was ____, but then returned home safely.
A. offered B. kidnapped C. hunted D. accepted
25. ( ) Many people watched as the rocket was ____ this morning.
A. produced B. launched C. accepted D. invented
26. ( ) After ______around in the rain, Danny shivered uncontrollably.
A. walking B. walk C. being walking D. walked
27. ( ) The boy ______in the yard is David.
A. is playing B. who played C. playing D. who plays
28. ( ) Cancel the match if it ____.
A. will rain B. is going to rain C. rain D. rains
29. ( ) What _____ you doing at eight o’clock last Sunday morning.
A. were B. are C. is D. was
30. ( ) The basketball game _____ before we arrived.
A. has started B. started C. had started D. starts
31. ( ) The professor suggests Miranda ______the speech contest.
A. join B. joins C. joined D. joining
32. ( ) She is ____ addicted to cigarettes that she is unable to quit.
A. such B. so C. too D. much
33. ( ) It’s the body _____ was found on the roof.
A. which B. where C. that D. whose
34. ( ) Who’s ______in this accident?
A. the luckier one B. the luckiest one C. the most lucky one
D. the lucky one
35. ( ) How do you make your dog ____ so well?
A. to behave B. behaving C. behaved D. behave
II. Reading Comprehension. 30%
1What makes it rain? 2Rain falls from clouds for the same reason anything falls to Earth. 3The Earth’s gravity pulls it. 4But every cloud is made of water droplets or ice crystals. 5Why doesn’t rain or snow fall constantly from all clouds? 6The droplets or ice crystals in clouds are exceedingly small. 7The effect of gravity on them is minute. 8Air currents move and lift droplets so that the net downward displacement is zero, even though the droplets are in constant motion.
9Droplets and ice crystals behave somewhat like dust in the air made visible in a shaft of sunlight. 10To the casual observer, dust seems to act in a totally random fashion, moving about chaotically without fixed direction. 11But in fact dust particles are much larger than water droplets and they finally fall. 12The average size of a cloud droplets is only 0.0004 inch in diameter. 13It is so small that it would take sixteen hours to fall half a mile in perfectly still air, and it does not fall out of moving air at all. 14Only when the droplet grows to a diameter of 0.008 inch or larger can it fall from the cloud. 15The average raindrop contains a million times as much water as a tiny cloud droplet. 16The growth of a cloud droplet to a size large enough to fall out is the cause of rain and other forms of precipitation. 17This important growth process is called “coalescence.”
36. ( ) What is the main topic of the passage?
A. The mechanics of rain B. The weather patterns of North America
C. How Earth’s gravity affects agriculture D. Types of clouds
37. ( ) The word “minute” in sentence 7 is closest in meaning to which of the
following?
A. second B. tiny C. slow D. steady
38. ( ) The word “motion” in sentence 8 is closest in meaning to
A. wind B. change C. movement D. humidity
39. ( ) Ice crystals do NOT immediately fall to Earth because
A. they are kept aloft by air currents
B. they combine with other chemicals in the atmosphere
C. most of them evaporate
D. their electrical charges draw them away from the earth
40. ( ) The word “random” in sentence 10 is closest in meaning to
A. unpredictable B. perplexing C. independent D. abnormal
41. ( ) What can be inferred about drops of water larger than 0.008 inch in diameter?
A. They never occur.
B. They are not affected by the force of gravity.
C. In still air they would fall to earth.
D. In moving air they fall at a speed of thirty-two miles per hour.
42. ( ) How much bigger is a rain drop than a cloud droplet?
A. 200 times bigger B. 1,000 times bigger
C. 100,000 times bigger D. 1,000,000 times bigger
43. ( ) In this passage, what does the term “coalescence” refer to?
A. The gathering of small clouds to form larger clouds
B. The growth of droplets
C. The effect of gravity on precipitation
D. The movement of dust particles in the sunlight.
1Beneath the deep oceans that cover two-thirds of the Earth are concealed some of the most tantalizing secrets of our planet. 2There the crust of the Earth is thinner and the unknown mantle – the layer beneath the crust – lies closest, tempting scientists to drill into it. 3The first such attempt, the ambitious Project Mohole, got under way during the 1960’s and proved the value of deep-sea drilling by making several test holes in the mantle beneath the crust before spiraling costs led to its cancellation.
4Soon afterward, however, work began on the more modest Deep Sea Drilling Project, which is not aimed at reaching the mantle but at exploring the crust itself. 5This venture uses a special ship, the Glomar Challenger, which can be held precisely in position in the sea – without any anchor – by sound-wave guiding systems and computer-controlled propellers. 6From this stable platform, scientists lowered drilling pipes into waters four miles deep to scoop up cores of ocean sediment and bedrock. 7Analysis of the fossil contents has indicated that the ocean floors spread, moving continents around the Earth.
44. ( ) The passage mainly discusses
A. analysis of fossils in the ocean
B. exploration beneath the ocean bottom
C. the composition of the Earth’s crust
D. the construction of the Glomar Challenger
45. ( ) According to the passage, one of the objectives of Project Mohole was to
A. increase public support for underwater experimentation
B. test the ocean bottom for unusual ocean sediment
C. estimate the age of the Earth’s crust
D. study the Earth’s mantle
46. ( ) The word “spiraling” in sentence 3 is closest in meaning to which of the following?
A. Rising B. Necessary C. Unpredictable D. Circular
47. ( ) It can be inferred from the passage that Project Mohole originally was intended to
A. involve deeper drilling than the Deep Sea Drilling Project
B. cost less than the Deep Sea Drilling Project
C. employ fewer scientists than the Deep Sea Drilling Project
D. yield more fossil discoveries than the Deep Sea Drilling Project
48. ( ) The expression “more modest” in sentence 4 is closest in meaning to
A. more sophisticated B. more timid
C. less ambitious D. less controversial
49. ( ) The word “precisely” in sentence 5 is closest in meaning to which of the following?
A. Exactly B. Clearly C. Economically D. Practically
50. ( ) According to the passage, computers are used on the Glomar Challenger in order to
A. measure the spread of the ocean floors
B. lower its drilling pipes into the water
C. keep it in one place
D. detect the location of the Earth’s mantle