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PRACTICE TEST 15

Choose the answer that best fts the blank in each sentence or substitutes or theunderlined words or phrases.Question 1. In fact the criminals ___________into because the front door was wide open and sothey just walked in.A.needn't have broken B.didn't need breakC.didn't need to break D.needn't to have brokenQuestion 2. The city libraries present a gloomy picture of the ___________who used to ock the

libraries every evening.A. gradual reduction of readers B.gradual readers reductionC. gradual readers of reduction D.reduction gradual readersQuestion 3. I have looked through the report, but I must admit, only ___________.A.supercially B.thoroughly C.carefully D.seriouslyQuestion 4. ! "#orry, I$m late% ! "_______________%A.&ou are welcome B.o, I don$t mindC.(ll right. )ell done D.ot to worry. *etter late than neverQuestion 5. ! +)ho wrote this poem+ ! +It's said ___________ written by one of the *rontesisters.+A.to be B.to have been C.to being D.to having beenQuestion 6. (fter -ill had realied that the new computer was not what she really wanted, she

__________ it for an other one.A.dropped B.traded C.turned down D.boughtQuestion 7. The new campus parking rule __________many students.A.a/ects B.e/ect C.has an inuenceD.e/ectiveQuestion 8. 0uman carelessness has been ___________ damaging marine life.A.accused of B.prevented C.said to D.warned againstQuestion 9. "If only I hadn$t lent him all my money1% !"_____________%A.)ell, you did, so it$s no use crying over spilt milk. B.(ll right. &ou will be 23.C.#orry, I have no idea. D.I$m afraid you will have to do it.Question 10. (nne was not ___________ to think that the test was too di4cult.A.who B. the one who C.the only one D. among thepeople

Question 11. The teacher always ______that the student make an outline before writing thecomplete essay.A.reports B.tells C.says D.recommendsQuestion 12. 2nly if you do what you tell others ___________ as they are told.A.will they do B.they will do C.they won't do D.won't theyQuestion 13. + )ould you like another co/ee+ ! +_______________________+A.I'd love one B.)illingly C.5ery kind of your part D.It's a pleasureQuestion 14. "6o you have a minute, 6r 3eith% !"____________________%A.)ell. I$m not sure when B.7ood, I hope soC.#ure. )hat$s the problem D.#orry, I haven$t got it here.Question 15. 0e had changed so much since the last time we met that I ___________him.

A.could recognie B.could hardly recognieC.wouldn't have recognied D.don't recognieQuestion 16. _________of transportation has given someone the idea for a new type of toy.A.8ostly forms B.8ost every form C.(lmost forms D.(lmost every formQuestion 17. 0elen is ___________ seafood, so she never tries these delicious dishes.A.allergic to B.tired of C.keen on D.preferable toQuestion 18. ___________one day by a passing car, the dog never walked proper again.A.0aving injured B.Injuring C.Injured D.To be injuredQuestion 19. ___________ you to be o/ered that job, would you have to move to another cityA.#hould B.)ere C.0ad D.9rovided thatQuestion 20. If too many species ___________ out, it will upset the ecosystem.


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A.disappear B.die C.go D.e:tinctQuestion 21. ( trust employee was discovered to have _______ condential plans to acompeting company.A.stolen B.spread C.rumored D.leakedQuestion 22. 9oor management brought the company to ___________of collapse.A.the edge B.the foot C.the ring D.the brinkQuestion 23. It never ___________ his mind that his dishonesty would be discovered.A.crossed B.came C.spunk D.passed

Question 24. The doctors are e:amining the dog __________the child for rabies, which is adangerous disease ___________immediate treatment.A.biting; re


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B.9atient people will secure jobs even in an instable job market.C.2nly persistent job seekers can nd jobs.D.In land jobs are only available to persistent jobs applicants.Question 36. 2nce the airline announced its ticket sale, the telephone in the main o4cewould not stop ringing.A.9eople kept calling the airline main o4ce since its announcement of ticket sale.B.If the airline didn't announce a ticket sale, its telephone would stop ringing.C.The airline telephone was ringing because they announced a ticket sale.

D.obody called the airline until it announced its ticket sale.Question 37. + I'm sorry for what happened but you will just have to accept the truth+, Caurasaid to her friend.A.Caura took the responsibility for what happened.B.Caura didn't mean to tell the truth.C.Caura apologied to her friend for what had happened.D.Caura consoled her friend.Question 38. It is widely believed that hard work makes success.A.9eople think that success is when you work hard.B.*elievers of success think that we should work hard.C.8any people think that success at work is hard.D.8any people believe that if you want to succeed, you should work hard.

Question 39. To get to work on time, they have to leave at D.?? a.m.A.They always leave for work at D.?? a.m.B.7etting to work on time, for them, means leaving at D.?? amC.They have to leave very early to catch a bus to work.D.Ceaving at D.?? am, they have never been late for work.Question 40. *ali has far better beaches than -ava, which make it more attractive to tourists.A.*ali is more popular with tourists because it has more beaches than -ava.B.*ali attracted more tourists than -ava because its beaches are much farther.C.Tourists prefer the beaches in *ali to those in -ava because they are far better.D.*ali is more popular with tourists because its beaches are much better than those of -ava

Read the passage and choose the best option to fll in each gap

If you're an environmentalist, plastic is a word you tend to say with a sneer or a snarl. Ithas become a symbol of our wasteful, throw!away society. *ut there seems little doubt it ishere to stay, and the truth is, of course, that plastic has brought enormous E41F ________evenenvironmental evil it's the way society chooses to use and E42F ___________them.

(lmost all the >? or so di/erent kinds of modern plastic are made from oil, gas or coal non!renewable natural E43F ____________. )e E44F _____________well over three million tones ofthe stu/ in *ritain each year and, sooner or later, most of it is thrown away. ( high E 45F

__________ of our annual consumption is in the form of packaging, and this E46F _________aboutseven per cent by weight of our domestic refuse. (lmost all of it could be recycled, but verylittle of it is, though the plastic recycling E47F _______is growing fast.

The plastics themselves are e:tremely energy!rich they have a higher caloric E48F_________than coal and one E49F ____________of +recovery+ strongly favoured by the plastic

manufacturers is the E50F __________ of waste plastic into a fuel.Question 41. A.savings B.pleasures C.benets D.protsQuestion 42. A.abuse B.endanger C.store D.disposeQuestion 43. A.processes B.resources C.products D.fuelsQuestion 44. A.import B.consign C.remove D.consumeQuestion 45. A.amount B.proportion C.portion D.rateQuestion 46. A.makes B.carries C.takes D.constitutesQuestion 47. A.industry B.manufacture C.plant D.factoryQuestion 48. A.demand B.e/ect C.value D.degreeQuestion 49. A.medium B.method C.measure D.mechanismQuestion 50. A.melting B.conversion C.change D.replacement


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Choose one word whose main stress pattern is dierent rom the others'.Question 51. A.application B.advisable C.denial D.adventureQuestion 52. A.volunteer B.competition C.advantage D.capabilityQuestion 53. A.acceptance B.condence C.apologie D.diversityQuestion 54. A.consume B.proportion C.conscious D.

empowerQuestion 55. A.aborigine B.geographical C.undergraduate D.parallelism

Read the ollowing passage and choose the best answer or each o the ollowingquestions

)hat we today call (merican folk art was, indeed, art of, by, and for ordinary, everyday+folks+ who, with increasing prosperity and leisure, created a market for art of all kinds, andespecially for portraits. =itiens of prosperous, essentially middle!class republics whetherancient Gomans, seventeenth!century 6utch burghers, or nineteenth!century (mericans have always shown a markedtaste for portraiture. #tarting in the late eighteenth century, theHnited #tates contained increasing numbers of such people, and of the artists who could meettheir demands.

The earliest (merican folk art portraits come, not surprisingly, from ew Bnglandespecially =onnecticut and 8assachusetts for thiswas a wealthy and populous region and

the center of a strong craft tradition. )ithin a few decades after the signing of the 6eclarationof Independence in AD, the population was pushing westward, and portrait painters could befound at work in western ew &ork, 2hio, 3entucky, Illinois, and 8issouri. 8idway through itsrst century as a nation, the Hnited #tates's population had increased roughly ve times, andeleven new states had been added to the original thirteen. 6uring these years the demand forportraits grew and grew, eventually to be satised by the camera. In AJKL the daguerreotypewas introduced to (merica, ushering inthe age of photography, and within a generation thenew invention put an end to the popularity of painted portraits. 2nce again an original portraitbecame a lu:ury, commissioned by the wealthy and e:ecuted by the professional.

*ut in the heyday of portrait painting from the late eighteenth century until the AJ>?'s

anyone with a modicum of artistic ability could become a limner, as such a portraitist was

called. Cocal craftspeople sign, coach, and house painters began to paint portraits as aprotable sidelineM sometimes a talented man or woman who began by sketching familymembers gained a local reputation and was besieged with re


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Question 61. The phrase ushering inin line AN is closest meaning toA.beginning B.demanding C.publishing D.increasingQuestion 62. The relationship between the daguerreotype and the painted portrait is similarto the relationship between the automobile and theA.highway B.driver C.horse!drawn carriage D.engineQuestion 63. (ccording to the passage, which of the following contributed to a decline in thedemand for painted portraits

A.The lack of a strong craft tradition B. The westward migration of manypaintersC.The growing preference for landscape paintings D.The invention of the cameraQuestion 64. The author implies that most limnersA.received instruction from traveling teachers B.were womenC.were from wealthy families D.had no formal art trainingQuestion 65. The phrase worth their whilein line OA is closest in meaning toA.essential B.educational C.protable D.pleasurable


o educational medium better serves as a means of spatial communication than the

atlas. (tlases deal with such invaluableinformation as population distribution and density. 2neof the best, 9ennycooke's )orld (tlas, has been widely accepted as a standard owing to the


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Question 72. The phrase in term oused in the passage is closest in meaning toA.for considering aspects B.in spite of C.with a view to D.in regard toQuestion 73. It can be inferred from the passage that maps can be used toA.pinpoint ethnic strife in each country B. identify a shortage of


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Choose the answer that best fts the blank in each sentence or substitutes or theunderlined words or phrases.Question 1. In fact the criminals ___________in to because the front door was wide open andso they just walked in.A.needn't have broken B.didn't need breakC.didn't need to break D.needn't to have brokenQuestion 2. The city libraries present a gloomy picture of the ___________who used to ock the

libraries every evening.A. gradual reduction of readers B.gradual readers reductionC. gradual readers of reduction D.reduction gradual readersQuestion 3. I have looked through the report, but I must admit, only ___________.A.supercially B.thoroughly C.carefully D.seriouslyQuestion 4. ! "#orry, I$m late% ! "_______________%A.&ou are welcome B.o, I don$t mindC.(ll right. )ell done D.ot to worry. *etter late than neverQuestion 5. ! + )ho wrote this poem+ ! + It's said ___________ written by one of the *rontesisters.+A.to be B.to have been C.to being D.to having beenQuestion 6. (fter -ill had realied that the new computer was not what she really wanted, she

__________ it for an other one.A.dropped B.traded C.turned down D.boughtQuestion 7. The new campus parking rule __________many students.A.a/ects B.e/ect C.has an inuenceD.e/ectiveQuestion 8. 0uman carelessness has been ___________ damaging marine life.A.accused of B.prevented C.said to D.warned againstQuestion 9. "If only I hadn$t lent him all my money1% !"_____________%A.)ell, you did, so it$s no use crying over spilt milk. B.(ll right. &ou will be 23.C.#orry, I have no idea. D.I$m afraid you will have to do it.Question 10. (nne was not ___________ to think that the test was too di4cult.A.who B. the one who C.the only one D. among thepeople

Question 11. The teacher always ______that the student make an outline before writing thecomplete essay.A.reports B.tells C.says D.recommendsQuestion 12. 2nly if you do what you tell others ___________ as they are told.A.will they do B.they will do C.they won't do D.won't theyQuestion 13. + )ould you like another co/ee+ ! +_______________________+A.I'd love one B.)illingly C.5ery kind of your part D.It's a pleasureQuestion 14. "6o you have a minute, 6r 3eith% !"____________________%A.)ell. I$m not sure when B.7ood, I hope soC.#ure. )hat$s the problem D.#orry, I haven$t got it here.Question 15. 0e had changed so much since the last time we met that I ___________him.

A.could recognie B.could hardly recognieC.wouldn't have recognied D.don't recognieQuestion 16. _________of transportation has given someone the idea for a new type of toy.A.8ostly forms B.8ost every form C.(lmost forms D.(lmost every formQuestion 17. 0elen is ___________ seafood, so she never tries these delicious dishes.A.allergic to B.tired of C.keen on D.preferable toQuestion 18. ___________one day by a passing car, the dog never walked proper again.A.0aving injured B.Injuring C.Injured D.To be injuredQuestion 19. ___________ you to be o/ered that job, would you have to move to another cityA.#hould B.)ere C.0ad D.9rovided thatQuestion 20. If too many species ___________ out, it will upset the ecosystem.


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A.disappear B.die C.go D.e:tinctQuestion 21. ( trust employee was discovered to have _______ condential plans to acompeting company.A.stolen B.spread C.rumored D.leakedQuestion 22. 9oor management brought the company to ___________of collapse.A.the edge B.the foot C.the ring D.the brinkQuestion 23. It never ___________ his mind that his dishonesty would be discovered.A.crossed B.came C.spunk D.passed

Question 24. The doctors are e:amining the dog __________the child for rabies, which is adangerous disease ___________immediate treatment.A.biting; re


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B.9atient people will secure jobs even in an instable job market.C.2nly persistent job seekers can nd jobs.D.In land jobs are only available to persistent jobs applicants.Question 36. 2nce the airline announced its ticket sale, the telephone in the main o4cewould not stop ringing.A.9eople kept calling the airline main o4ce since its announcement of ticket sale.B.If the airline didn't announce a ticket sale, its telephone would stop ringing.C.The airline telephone was ringing because they announced a ticket sale.

D.obody called the airline until it announced its ticket sale.Question 37. + I'm sorry for what happened but you will just have to accept the truth+, Caurasaid to her friend.A.Caura took the responsibility for what happened.B.Caura didn't mean to tell the truth.C.Caura apologied to her friend for what had happened.D.Caura consoled her friend.Question 38. It is widely believed that hard work makes success.A.9eople think that success is when you work hard.B.*elievers of success think that we should work hard.C.8any people think that success at work is hard.D.8any people believe that if you want to succeed, you should work hard.

Question 39. To get to work on time, they have to leave at D.?? a.m.A.They always leave for work at D.?? a.m.B.7etting to work on time, for them, means leaving at D.?? amC.They have to leave very early to catch a bus to work.D.Ceaving at D.?? am, they have never been late for work.Question 40. *ali has far better beaches than -ava, which make it more attractive to tourists.A.*ali is more popular with tourists because it has more beaches than -ava.B.*ali attracted more tourists than -ava because its beaches are much farther.C.Tourists prefer the beaches in *ali to those in -ava because they are far better.D.*ali is more popular with tourists because its beaches are much better than those of -ava

Read the passage and choose the best option to fll in each gap

If you're an environmentalist, plastic is a word you tend to say with a sneer or a snarl. Ithas become a symbol of our wasteful, throw! away society. *ut there seems little doubt it ishere to stay, and the truth is, of course, that plastic has brought enormous E41F ________evenenvironmental evil! it's the way society chooses to uses and E42F ___________them.

(lmost all the >? or so di/erent kinds of modern plastic are made from oil, gas or coal!non!renewable natural E43F ____________. )e E44F _____________well over three million tones ofthe stu/ in *ritain each year and, sooner or later, most of it is thrown away. ( high E 45F

__________ of our annual consumption is in the form of packaging, and this E46F _________aboutseven per cent by weight of our domestic refuse. (lmost all of it could be recycled, but verylittle of it is, though the plastic recycling E47F _______is growing fast.

The plastics themselves are e:tremely energy!rich! they have a higher caloric E48F_________than coal and one E49F ____________of +recovery+ strongly favoured by the plastic

manufacturers is the E50F __________ of waste plastic into a fuel.Question 41. A.savings B.pleasures C.benets D.protsQuestion 42. A.abuse B.endanger C.store D.disposeQuestion 43. A.processes B.resources C.products D.fuelsQuestion 44. A.import B.consign C.remove D.consumeQuestion 45. A.amount B.proportion C.portion D.rateQuestion 46. A.makes B.carries C.takes D.constitutesQuestion 47. A.industry B.manufacture C.plant D.factoryQuestion 48. A.demand B.e/ect C.value D.degreeQuestion 49. A.medium B.method C.measure D.mechanismQuestion 50. A.melting B.conversion C.change D.replacement


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Choose one word whose main stress pattern is dierent rom the others'.Question 51. A.application B.advisable C.denial D.adventureQuestion 52. A.volunteer B.competition C.advantage D.capabilityQuestion 53. A.acceptance B.condence C.apologie D.diversityQuestion 54. A.consume B.proportion C.conscious D.

empowerQuestion 55. A.aborigine B.geographical C.undergraduate D.parallelism


)hat we today call (merican folk art was, indeed, art of, by, and for ordinary, everyday+folks+ who, with increasing prosperity and leisure, created a market for art of all kinds, andespecially for portraits. =itiens of prosperous, essentially middle!class republics whetherancient Gomans, seventeenth!century 6utch burghers, or nineteenth!century (mericans have always shown a markedtaste for portraiture. #tarting in the late eighteenth century, theHnited #tates contained increasing numbers of such people, and of the artists who could meettheir demands.

The earliest (merican folk art portraits come, not surprisingly, from ew Bnglandespecially =onnecticut and 8assachusetts for thiswas a wealthy and populous region and

the center of a strong craft tradition. )ithin a few decades after the signing of the 6eclarationof Independence in AD, the population was pushing westward, and portrait painters could befound at work in western ew &ork, 2hio, 3entucky, Illinois, and 8issouri. 8idway through itsrst century as a nation, the Hnited #tates's population had increased roughly ve times, andeleven new states had been added to the original thirteen. 6uring these years the demand forportraits grew and grew, eventually to be satised by the camera. In AJKL the daguerreotypewas introduced to (merica, ushering inthe age of photography, and within a generation thenew invention put an end to the popularity of painted portraits. 2nce again an original portraitbecame a lu:ury, commissioned by the wealthy and e:ecuted by the professional.

*ut in the heyday of portrait painting from the late eighteenth century until the AJ>?'s

anyone with a modicum of artistic ability could become a limner, as such a portraitist was

called. Cocal craftspeople sign, coach, and house painters began to paint portraits as aprotable sidelineM sometimes a talented man or woman who began by sketching familymembers gained a local reputation and was besieged with re


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Question 61. The phrase ushering inin line AN is closest meaning toA.beginning B.demanding C.publishing D.increasingQuestion 62. The relationship between the daguerreotype and the painted portrait is similarto the relationship between the automobile and theA.highway B.driver C.horse!drawn carriage D.engineQuestion 63. (ccording to the passage, which of the following contributed to a decline in thedemand for painted portraits

A.The lack of a strong craft tradition B. The westward migration of manypaintersC.The growing preference for landscape paintings D.The invention of the cameraQuestion 64. The author implies that most limnersA.received instruction from traveling teachers B.were womenC.were from wealthy families D.had no formal art trainingQuestion 65. The phrase worth their whilein line OA is closest in meaning toA.essential B.educational C.protable D.pleasurable


o educational medium better serves as a means of spatial communication than the

atlas. (tlases deal with such invaluable information as population distribution and density.2ne of the best, 9ennycooke's )orld (tlas, has been widely accepted as a standard owing tothe


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A.the cartogram B.the geographical sie C.population D.each countryQuestion 72. The phrase in term oused in the passage is closest in meaning toA.for considering aspects B.in spite of C.with a view to D.in regard toQuestion 73. It can be inferred from the passage that maps can be used toA.pinpoint ethnic strife in each country B. identify a shortage of

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