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TEST 1

Recent research suggests some chiropractic techniques may be dangerous (1) ----

patients. Chiropractors have been taking their lumps lately. And not all of the criticism

has come from their usual critics in the medical profession. (2) ----, some

chiropractors themselves are cautiously calling for reforms. The most recent and

most disturbing news (at least as far as chiropractors are concerned) (3) ---- at a

recent meeting of the American Stroke Association in Texas. There, neurologists

from Toronto University reported analyzing 156 cases of stroke and finding that nearly

40 percent of them had (4)---- resulted from chiropractic neck manipulation. This

hands-on treatment had caused tearing in the inside walls of the neck arteries,

resulting in clots that blocked blood (5) ---- to the brain, bringing on the strokes.The neurologists called for a ban on the procedure.

1. A) with B) against C) to D) for E) towards2. A) Similarly B) In addition C) Consequently D) In brief E) Indeed

3. A) was announced B) were announced C) was announcing D) announcingB) announced

4. A) casually B) apparently C) generously D) awkwardlyE) uselessly

5. A) pressure B) count C) pulse D) flowE) cell


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TEST 2

There are several drugs (6) ---- the market that can delay the symptoms of

Alzheimer's disease,(7) ---- none that can prevent it. As the Nun Study shows,

however, (8) ---- simple changes in diet and lifestyle may help postpone the onset

of dementia. Some of these suggestions like (9) ---- a good education or wearing a

bike helmet make good (10) ---- in their own right. For others, you may want to

consult your doctor especially if you have a family history of Alzheimer's.

6. A) in B) on C) at D) over E) around

7. A) whereas B) for C) since D) but E) therefore

8. A) nearly B) definitely C) cautiously D) respectfully E) relatively

9. A) to get B) to be getting C) getting D) for getting E) of getting

10.A) problem B) criticism C) sense D) dimension E) attitude


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TEST 3

The ancients (11) ---- natural processes as manifestations of power by irresponsible

gods; today we think of them as manifestations of energy acting on or through

matter. Volcanic (12) ---- and earthquakes no longer reflect the erratic behavior

of the gods of the under world: they arise (13) ---- the action of the earth's

internal heat on and through the surrounding crust. The source of the energy lies

(14) ---- the material of the inner earth. In many directions, of course, our

knowledge is still incomplete: only the question of what the lavas are made of can

as yet be satisfactorily answered. The point is not (15) ---- we now pretend to

understand everything, but that we have faith in the orderliness of natural

processes.

11. A) discovered B) designed C) justified D) encountered

E) regarded

12. A) evaluations B) considerations C) installations D) projections

E) eruptions

13. A) from B) of C) out D) off

E) into

14. A) on B) in C) at D) from

E) near

15. A) what B) which C) how D) while

E) that


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TEST 4

Unlike the scientist, the engineer is not free to select the problem (16) ---- interests

him; he must solve the problems as they (17) ----, and his solutions must (18) ----

conflicting requirements. Efficiency costs money, safety adds complexity, and

performance increases weight. The engineering solution is the optimum solution, the

most desirable end result taking (19) ---- account many factors. It may be the

cheapest for a given performance, the most reliable for a given weight, the

simplest for a given safety, or the most (20) ----.for a given cost. Engineering is

optimizing.

16.A) what B) which C) whose D) how E) why

17.A) raise B) cause C) arouse D) arise E) happen

18.A) satisfy B) succeed C) bring D) obtain E) prevent

19.A) out of B) off C) into D) of E) for

20.A) eligible B) efficient C) inevitable D) prosperous E) qualified


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TEST 5

In medieval times rivers were the veins of the body politics (21) ---- economics.

Boundaries between states or shires, they were crossed by fords which became the sites

of towns, or bridges which were often (22) ---- of battle. (23) ---- rivers the people of

that time depended for food, power and (24) ----. Rivers were also the most important

source of power. Every stream (25) ---- its mills, not only for grinding corn, but for all

the industrial processes of the time, such as cleansing and thickening cloth or driving the

hammers of the works.

21.A) also B) in addition C) but also D) as well as E) alike

22.A) points B) weapons C) cases D) directions E) tactics

23.A) For B) With C) Across D) Along E) Upon

24.A) polcy B) transport C) current D) production E) investment

25.A) has B) had had C) had D) having E) were having


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TEST 6

We must (26) ---- from the work of those who have studied the (27) ---- of life that

given a planet only approximately like our own, life is almost certain to start.(28) ----

the planets in our solar system we are now pretty certain the Earth is the only one (29)

---- life can survive. Mars is too dry and poor in oxygen, Venus is (30) ---- too hot, and

so is Mercury, and the outer planets have temperatures near absolute zero and

hydrogen-dominated atmospheres.

26.A) conclude B) dedicate C) integrate D) establish E) diagnose

27.A) stem B) initial C) origin D) inclination E) process

28.A) Yet B) Just C) As well as D) But for E) Of all

29.A) of which B) on which C) that D) in that E) in which

30.A) very B) extremely C) more D) far E) so


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TEST 7

(31) ---- his discussions it was (32) ---- person who put forward a thesis for

examination, never Socrates himself. It was always the other person's ideas that (33)

----. According to him, if one is truly virtuous, he will always act well and never

badly. Therefore his theory makes virtue identical with the knowledge of how

to act, based on a (34) ---- understanding of human good, his view implies that

one who possesses this knowledge will always act well and never badly. Knowledge,

(35) ----, turns out to be the sufficient condition acting virtuously and well.

31. A) Of B) On C) From D) In E) Beyond32. A) the other B) other C) another D) others E) each other33. A) were being tested B) had tested C) have tested D) tested

E) have been tested

34. A) pretty B) subsequent C) quite D) ratherE)comprehensive

35.A) though B) thus C) as D) fairly E) in theory


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TEST 8

There were no attendants at home; they (36) ---- to make merry (37) ---- honor of

the time. I had told them that I should not return until the morning, and had given

them explicit orders not to(38) ---- from the house. These orders were sufficient, Iwell knew, to insure their immediate disappearance, one and all, as soon as myback was turned. I had (39) ---- laid the first tier of the masonry when I discovered

that the intoxication of Fortunato had in a great measure worn off. The earliest (40)

---- I had of this was a low moaning cry from the depth of the recess.

36. A) had absconded B) have absconded C) were absconding D) were absconded

E) absconded

37. A) out B) from C) in D) for E) on

38. A) stir B)relate C) approach D) swing

E) step out

39. A) no sooner B) scarcely C) hence D) never

E) consequently

40. A) indication B) honesty C) talent D) propriety

E) reasoning


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TEST9

Science and technology have come to pervade every aspect of our lives and, as a

result, society (41) ---- at a speed which is quite unprecedented. There is a great

technological explosion around us, generated (42) ---- science. This explosion is

already freeing (43) ---- numbers of people from their traditional bondage to

nature, and now (44) ---- we have it in our power to free (45) ---- once and for all

from the fear which is based on want.

41.A) are changing B) was changed C) change D) is changing

E) had changed

42.A) with B) by C) in D) for

E) against

43.A) many B) lots of C) vast D) scarce

E) several

44.A) at the latest B) latest C) for the last D) last of it

E) at last

45.A) manhood B) humane C) humanness D) mankind

E) men


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TEST 10

(46) ---- the remarkable growth of organized camping means the eventual death

of the more independent kind is hard (47) ----. Municipalities naturally want to

secure the campers site fees and other custom. Police are wary of itinerants (48) --

-- cannot be traced to a recognized camp boundary or to four walls. But most

probably it will all depend upon campers (49) ----: how many fires they cause; how

much litter they (50) ----; in short, whether or not they wholly alienate landowners

and those who live in the countryside.

46.A) Whether B) Because C) Whereas D) If E) As though

47.A) for saying B) of saying C) to say D) in saying

E) to be said

48.A) of whom B) which C) of those D) of which E) who

49.A) people B) dwellers C) folk D) residents

E) themselves

50.A) are leaving B) have left C) left D) leave

E) had left


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TEST 11

Although truth and (51) ---- may be the most powerful impulses to show moral

courage, there are (52) ----.Compassion is one of these. Tentatively it can be

suggested that this is the main influence upon those (53) ---- the abolition of

capital punishment. It is recognition of compassions part that leads the upholders

(54) ---- capital punishment to accuse the abolitionists of sentimentality in being

more sorry for the murderer than for his (55) ----.

51.A) justice B) knowledge C) courtesy D) eternity E) decision

52.A) another B) many C) the rest D) others E) plenty

53.A) to urge B) which urge C) urged D) who urging E) who urge

54.A) to B) about C) of D) in E) against

55.A) guilty B) innocence C) survival D) victim E) friend


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TEST 12

Anthropology was (56) ---- definition impossible as long as the (57) ---- between

ourselves and the primitive, ourselves and the barbarian, ourselves and the pagan, held

sway (58) ---- peoples minds. It was necessary first to arrive at that degree of

sophistication (59) ---- we no longer set our own belief over against our neighbors

superstition. It was necessary to recognize that these institutions which are based on the

same premises, let us say the supernatural, must (60) ---- together, our own among the

rest.

56.A) as B) with C) in D) by E) for

57.A) distinctions B) references C) origins D) roots E) assumptions

58.A) beneath B) on C) over D) alongside E) of

59.A) which B) where C) why D) how E) while

60.A) have been considered B) be considerable C) considerD) be considered E) have considered


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TEST 13

People who travel frequently on business or (61) ---- pleasure often suffer some form of

health problems, (62) ---- over half of these problems can easily be prevented. The most

common (63) ----, a headache, (64) ---- by taking along an ample supply of aspirin or

other pain reliever. Another common affliction is motion sickness caused by the constant

movement of the vehicle. Ginger capsules, sold in most health-food stores, have been

found (65) ---- as a remedy.

61.A) in B) with C) for D) on E) of

62.A) and B) for C) all D) yet E) ailment

63.A) disaster B) medication C) treatment D) disorder E) ailment

64.A) avoidable B) is avoiding C) can be avoided D) avoids E) has avoided

65.A) effectively B) efficiently C) sufficiently D) effective E) efficiency


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TEST 14

Greg Louganis, the famous diver, (66) ---- to study dance when he was three. He didnt

do well in school. Many years later, he found out that it was because he had a reading

(67) ----, dyslexia. In 1976, at the Summer Olympics, he won the silver medal for

platform diving. At the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics, he won gold medals for both

platform and springboard diving. He usually makes (68) ---- 75 and 100 dives a day. He

keeps (69) ---- shape by dancing, and he gets ready for important dives (70) ----

Believe in Yourselves.

66.A) has started B) starts C) was starting D) started E) started

67.A) achievement B) talent C) aptitude D) loss E) problem

68.A) almost B) many C) as well as D) at least E) between

69.A) up B) off C) for D) in E) at

70.A) by singing B) sung C) that sings D) who sings E) of the song


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TEST 15

(71) ---- the estimated size of only the known Universe, this little planet Earth is but

a speck in a stellar vastness (72) ---- great that our minds cannot encompass it. To

believe that we humans could be the only possible intelligent life form is simply

ridiculous. Skeptics frequently (73) ---- UFO believers as fringe personalities and

oculists who can't accept modern society, yet a 1999 Gallop poll showed that 72 %

of all people believe that UFOs are (74) ----. Nevertheless, science, political and

religious powers will always continue trying to convince this vast majority that we are

crazy! Obviously, they feel the common knowledge and acceptance (75) ---- an alien

intelligence would challenge their powers.

71. A) Notwithstanding B) Based on C) Overall D) Due toE) In contrast with

72. A) so B) highly C) considerably D) veryE) too

73. A) portray B) portraying C) is portraying D) portrayedE) portrays

74. A) imagination B) fantastic C) factual D) realisticE) real

75. A) that B) for C) about D) inE) on


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TEST 16

The primary purpose of office automation (76) ---- communication between

members of an organization and between the organization and its environment.

Office automation is intended to facilitate all types of communication, (77) ---- oral

and written, an ideal ( expensive) system would allow people to communicate the

medium of their choice: data, document, image, voice, or video. The movement (78)

---- open systems, the equipment and (79) ---- made by different manufacturers

and covering various aspects of office operations are becoming interconnected. You

will note that the principal unit of an office automation is a workgroup of (80) ----

network.

76. A) is to facilitate B) facilitates C) is facilitating D) facilitateE) will facilitate

77. A) also B) alike C) similar D) and E) both

78. A) of B) for C) in D) from E) toward

79.A) colleagues B) software C) executives D) prospectE) schedule

80. A) rural B) systematic C) civic D) localE) intersection


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TEST 17

"Uncle Al was his name," my friend, Jessie, told me (81) ---- morning at school.

"Last night as I was doing my homework, I heard a noise and I looked up and (82) -

--- in the corner of my room was my Uncle Al." "Didn't you tell me that one of your

uncles died a month ago? What was his name 'cause I thought you said your Uncle Al

died?" I interrupted her. "Yes, my Uncle Al did die, but (83) ---- he was, standing

(84) ---- the corner of my room last night! I was too frightened to say a word at first

but when I finally found my (85) ---- I screamed for my mother. Uncle Al just

disappeared after that."

81. A) in B) a C) for D) one E) since

82. A) stood B) standing C) was standing D) was stood E) had stood

83. A) what B) who C) that D) where E) there

84. A) in B) at C) on D) to E) over

85. A) attitude B) sound C) soul D) voice E) temper


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TEST 18

Beauty and form, in this case, did follow function. It was the Titanic's careful

design and construction that led the press to (86) ---- her as "unsinkable." She had

a double-hulled bottom (87) ---- fifteen watertight bulkheads across the hull and

automatic watertight doors that could be closed from the bridge. Six separate

watertight compartments housed Titanic's twenty-nine boilers that drove her

reciprocating steam engines. Titanic was constructed (88) ---- steel plates riveted to

each other and to a steel frame also held together by rivets. With its builders (89)

---- the new technology of hydraulic riveting, over three million rivets held the Titanic

together. Titanic was fashioned out of the finest steel with the latest (90) ----.

86. A) ascribe B) describe C) subscribe D) prescribe E) inscribe87.A) adding B) plus C) in conclusion D) all in all E)in essence88. A) of B) by C) from D) with E) through89.A) were used B) were using C) using D) use E) to use90.A) industry B) technology C) manufacture D) technology

E) tactics development


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TEST 19

In the last 20 years, computer, electronic and space technologies (91) ---- at a

breakneck pace, greatly complicating the (92) ---- African-Americans work, play and

learn. (93) ---- these and other developments, including downsizing and the fierce

competition for spaces in top colleges and universities, there is a growing consensus

(94) ---- experts that parents and educators must expose students to computer

technology as early as possible. Eventually, according to experts, computer literacy

and math and science mastery will be (95) ---- students who lack these skills will be

at a definite disadvantagein the classroom and in the workplace.

91. A) multiplying B) have been multiplied C) are multiplying D) have multiplied

E) multiplies92. A) time B) way C) period D) process

E) procedure

93.A) Given B) Unless C) As long as D) But forE) As far as

94.A) around B) between C) of D) aboutE) among

95.A) such importance that B) too important to C) so important thatD) very important as E) so important as to


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TEST 20

In 1950, the first computer chess program was written by Alan Turing, a British

researcher (96) ---- the field of digital computers. At the time, Turing had to settle

with a simulation of the execution of his program (97) ---- pencil and paper. Turing's

program was a (98) ---- player, but it served well its main purpose: it showed that

computers can play chess. In the same year, Claude Shannon plotted a plan of action

for computers to eventually be programmed to play good chess. Given the (99) ----

low speed of computers in the 1950 it was not clear (100) ---- computers would

ever be able to beat humans even in games as simple as checkers.

96. A) pioneers D) has pioneered C)pioneered D) who pioneered

E) was pioneered

97. A) with B) for C) by D) in E) on

98. A) gifted B) terrific C) fantastic D) clever E) terrible

99. A) exceedingly B) gloriously C) gradually D) greatly E) simultaneously

100. A) why B) where C) whether D) what E) that


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TEST 21

Cuba has survived more than 40 years of US sanctions intended to (101) ---- the

government of Fidel Castro. It has also defied predictions that it would not

withstand the collapse of its main supporter, the Soviet Union. (102) ---- the fall of

the US-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959, Cuba has been a one-party

state led by Castro, who exercises control (103) ---- virtually all aspects of Cuban life

through the Communist Party and its affiliated mass organizations, the government

bureaucracy and the state security apparatus. Exploiting the US-Soviet Cold War, Castro

was for decades able to rely on strong Soviet backing, including annual subsidies

(104) ---- $4-5 billion, and succeed in building reputable health and education

systems. But, at least partly because of the US trade sanctions, he failed to diversify

the economy, (105) ---- continues to depend on sugar exports.

101. A) topple B) back C) assist D) prop E) enhance

102. A) As B) Before C) When D) Until E) Since

103. A) by B) for C) along D) over E) from

104. A) worths B) worth C) was worth D) worthy E) worthing

105. A) which B) who C) that D) as E) of which


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TEST 22

More recent archaeological excavations at the (106) ---- city of Babylon in Iraq

uncovered the foundation of the palace. Other findings include the Vaulted Building

with thick walls and an irrigation well near the southern palace. A group of

archaeologists surveyed the area of the southern palace and reconstructed the Vaulted

Building as the Hanging Gardens. However, the Greek historian Strabo (107) ---- that

the gardens were situated by the River Euphrates. So others argue that the site is

(108) ---- far from the Euphrates to support the theory since the Vaulted Building

is several hundreds of meters away. They reconstructed the site of the palace and

located the Gardens in the area stretching from the River (109) ---- the Palace. On

the river banks, recently (110) ---- massive walls 25 m thick may have been

stepped to form terraces, the ones described in Greek references.

106. A) antiquated B) ancient C) antic D) antecedent E) predecessor

107. A) had stated B) states C) was stating D) would state E) has stated

108. A) very B) so C) quite D) pretty E) too

109. A) by B) along C) to D) aside E) across

110. A) discovery B) discovering C) to discover D) discovers E) discovered


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TEST 23

The people who think that it is immoral to make a rational decision (111) ---- ending

life certainly have the right to consider their own death in this light and to endure to

the very end (112) ---- pain awaits them and their families. But they have flowed

over into the idea that it is their right also to control those others of us who view the

matter (113) ----. There are societies here and there that do not put up roadblocks

when a person decides to end life. However, the idea that each person's life is his own

is too radical or too abstruse for consumption in the United States. This is the attitude

that I hope (114) ----, and soon. It is the attitude that I hope to help soften by

explaining that my suicide plan is bringing me and those (115) ---- to me a measure

of security that my life can end in as spirited a way as possible.

111. A) to B) for C) in D) about E) toward

112. A) whether B) whatever C) why D) which E) that

113. A) closely B) largely C) differently D) entirely E) impatiently114. A) will change B) changing C) that is changing D) changes E) to change115. A) near B) around C) close D) opposite E) contrary


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TEST 24

Most people today are all too familiar (116) ---- the devastating effects of HIV,

the human immunodeficiency virus. The virus, which is transmitted by blood-to-blood

(117) ----, may produce no symptoms for years. But typically within 10 to 15 years

it destroys key cells of the immune system and causes AIDS (acquired

immunodeficiency syndrome). (118) ---- of immunity enables microorganisms that

would normally be kept in check to proliferate (119) ---- and can allow life-

threatening cancers to develop. So far in the U.S. alone, AIDS (120) ---- more than

350,000 people and has become the principal cause of death among those 24 to 44

years old. Another 750,000 Americans harbor the virus, part of some 30 million who

are affected worldwide.

116. A) with B) to C) about D) of E) for

117. A) touch B) fusion C) contact D) flow E) transfer

118. A) Loss B) Drop C) Missing D) Lack E) Losing

119.A) sedately B) mildly C) uncontrollably D) passively

E) specially

120. A) kills B) has killed C) is killing D) killed E) have killed


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1D 2E 3A 4B 5D 6B 7D 8E 9C 10C 11E 12E 13A 14B 15E 16B 17D 18A 19C 20B

21D 22A 23E 24B 25C 26A 27C 28E 29B 30D 31D 32A 33A 34E 35B 36A 37C 38E 39B 40A

41D 42B 43C 44E 45D 46A 47C 48E 49E 50D 51A 52D 53E 54C 55D 56D 57A 58C 59E 60D

61C 62D 63E 64C 65D 66D 67E 68E 69D 70A 71E 72A 73A 74E 75A 76A 77E 78C 79B 80D

81D 82B 83E 84A 85D 86B 87B 88A 89C 90D 91D 92B 93A 94E 95C 96D 97A 98E 99A 100C

101A 102E 103D 104B 105A 106B 107A 108E 109C 110E 111D 112E 113A 114A 115C

116A 117C 118D 119C 120B

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