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Unit 1
1.
…as Camille
lashed
northwestward across the Gulf of Mexico.
A. strike violently
B.
pass by
C. move slowly
D.
stride
2.
…gray
clouds
scudded in from the Gulf on the
rising wind.
A. go smoothly
B. go straight
and fast
C. go
up and down
D. go violently
3.
…lifted the entire roof off the house
and
skimmed it 40 feet through the air.
A. hit violently
B. move lightly over
C. go fast and quietly
D.
move gradually away
4.
One wall began crumbling on the
marooned group.
A. stay
brave and along
B. leave hopeful
C. stay
helpless
D. leave helpless and alone
5.
…and 709 small
businesses were
demolished or severely
damaged.
A. destroy
B.
reduce
C. increase
D.
beat
6.
Richelieu
Apartments were smashed apart as if by a gigantic
fist, and 26 people perished.
A. incarnate
B. die
C. increase
D. submit
7.
Debris flew as
the living-room fireplace and its chimney
collapsed.
A. small
individual parts
B. completely
good places
C. well preserved pieces
D. scattered broken pieces
8.
With two walls
in their bedroom sanctuary
beginning to
disintegrate…
A. a warm
place
B. shelter
C.
a clean place
D. a harm place
9.
Pop Koshak
raged silently, frustrate
d at not being
able to do anything…
A. discourage
B. bring about good result
C. come out fruitfully
D. worry about the result
10.
We can prop
it up with our heads and shoulders!
A. support
B. place
C. suspend
D. propose
Unit 3
1. However intricate
the ways in which animals communicate with each
other, they do not indulge
in anything
that deserves the name of conversation.
A. difficult
B. complicated
C. invalid
D. simple
2. Suddenly they
see the moment for one of their best anecdotes,
but in a flash the conversation
has
moved on and the opportunity is lost.
A. short amusing story
B.
long tedious talk
C. uninteresting writing
D. exciting information
3.
The
conversation
had
swung
from
Australian
convicts
of
the
19th
century
to
the
English
peasants of the 12th
century.
A.
criminal
B. aggressor
C.
captain
D. captor
4.
Perhaps
it
is
worth
trying
to
speak
it,
but
it
should
not
be
laid
down
as
an
edict,
and
made
immune
to change from below.
A. secure
B.
impure
C. odorous
D. revival
5. The phrase has always been used a
little pejoratively and even facetiously by the
lower classes.
A. sharp
B. distasteful
C. contemptuous D. penetrating
6
. The King’s English is a
model—
a rich and instructive one--but
it ought not to be an ultimatum.
A. the general opinion
about the character, qualities, etc.
B. state of being in demand
C. something
that provokes or annoys
D. final statement of conditions to be
accepted
7.
It
was
an
Australian
who
had
given
her
such
a
defi
nition
of
“the
King’s
English,”
which
produced
some
rather
tart
remarks
about
what
one
could
expect
from
the
descendants
of
convicts.
A. different
B. sarcastic
C. loaded
D. special
8.
One could have expected that it would be about
then that the phrase would be coined.
A. happen
B. coincide
C. comfort
D.
invent
9. After five centuries of
growth, of tussling with the French of the Normans
and the Angevins and
the Plantagenets
and at last absorbing it, the conquered in the end
conquering the conqueror.
A. have a hard struggle or fight
B. raise to a higher grade
C. come to a
lower level or state
D. make the
greatest possible use of
10.
When E. M. Forster writes of “the
sinister
corridor of our
age,” we sit up at th
e vividness of
the phrase, the force and even terror
in the image.
A. not pretended
B. suggesting
evil
C.
happening in the same time
D. giving orders
Unit 4
1.
Let
all
our
neighbors
know
that
we
shall
join
with
them
to
oppose
aggression
or
subversion
anywhere in the
Americas.
A.
rebuilding
B. succession
C.
destroying
D. salvage
2.
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of
science instead of its terrors.
A. call forth
B. take down
C.
put up
D. take the form of
3. For I
have sworn before you and Almighty God the same
solemn oath our forebears prescribed
nearly a century and three-quarters
ago.
A. order or direct
B. produce
C. protect
D. agree
4. We offer not a pledge but a request:
that both sides begin anew the quest for peace,
before the
dark powers of destruction
unleashed by science engulf all humanity in
planned or accidental
self-destruction.
A. swallow up
B.
consider about
C. clean up
D. imprint on
5. Together let us explore the stars,
conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the
ocean depths and
encourage the arts and
commerce.
A. cut into many
small parts
B. go round in circle
C. draw
together into a small space
D. put an end to; destroy
6. We observe today not a victory of
party but a celebration of freedom.
A. celebrate
B. preserve
C. orate
D. help
7
.
…and
unwilling
to
witness
or
permit
the
slow
undoing
of
these
human
rights
to
which
this
nation has always been
committed
A.
showing
B.
laziness
C. cover
D. destruction
8. and
unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of
these human rights to which this nation
has always been commit
ted…
A. pledge
B. omit
C. refrain
D. repeat
9. …each generation of
America
ns has been summoned to give
testimony to its national loyalty.
A. evidence
B.
witness
C. liberation
D. trial
10. Let both sides,
for the first time, formulate serious and precise
proposals for the inspection and
control of arms…
A. prediction
B. warm speech
C. expectation
D. examination
Unit 5
1.
“Can
you mean
,
” I said
incredulous
ly, “that people
are actually wearing raccoon coats
again?”
A.
unbelieving
B.
increasing
C. industrious
D. unimproved
2.
She was not yet of pin-up proportions but I felt
sure that time would supply the lack she already
had the makings.
A. property
B. portions
C. massages
D. dimensions
3. I reeled back, overcome with the
infamy of it.
A. being famous for
B. being shameful
C. being
honest
D. being refused
4.
“I’11 never do that
again,” she promised
contritely.
“Are you mad at me?”
A. sad
B. honest
C. penitent
D. overjoyed
5.
“Right!” I cried
exultantly,
“One hundred percent right.”
A. triumphant
B. foreign
C. exhausted
D. overflowing
6. That
Walter Pidgeon is so dreamy. I mean he fractures
me.
A. break.
B. combine
C. disagree
D. repeat
7. I had long coveted Polly Espy.
A. surround
B. cover
C. avoid
D. desire
8.
All right. Let’s try
Contradictory Premises.
A.
take out
B. be
contrary to
C. withdraw
D. be relevant to
9.
“Listen,” he said,
clutching my arm eagerly.
A.
grasp tightly
B. hang
loosely
C. touch softly
D. hold lightly
10.
Raccoon
coats
are
unsanitary.
They
shed.
They
smell
bad.
They
weight
too
much.
They’re
unsightly.
A. invisible
B. ugly
C. precipitate
D. provisional
Unit 6
1. Today
Lysenko
’
s theory is
discredited, and there is now only one genetics.
A. doubt
B.
disgrace
C. believe
D. disappear
2.
The world looks more homogenous because it is more
homogeneous.
A. phonetic
B. uniform
C. unidentified
D. linguistic
3.
It will reappear in different ways until it is not
only accepted but universally regarded as an
asset.
A. storage
B. price
C. benefit
D.
approval
4. But the idea of a world car
was inevitable.
A. preventable
B. unavoidable
C. unnecessary
D. doubtful
5. He is
cosmopolitan.
A. systematical
B. political
C.
identical
D.
international
6.
…
machines soon generated
propositions which evaded all tradition.
A. explain
B.
exhaust
C. avoid
D. intrude
7. It has thus undermined an article of
faith: the thingliness of things.
A. imply
B.
weaken
C. emphasize
D. minimize
8.
Reminiscing on the early work of Fancis Picabia
and Marcel Duchamp
…
A. Reinforcing
B. Recollecting
C. Recovering
D. Responding
9. It was the
automotive equivalent of the International Style.
A. version
B. equal
C. variation
D.
variety
10. The universalizing
imperative of technology is irresistible.
A. command
B. order
C. tendency
D. imperil
Unit 8
1. The main features of craftsmanship
have been very lucidly expressed.
A.
cleverly
B. reliably
C. obscurely
D. clearly
2.
Man, being afraid of his newly won freedom, was
obsessed by the need to subdue his doubts
and fears by developing a feverish
activity.
A. cruel
B. savage
C. excited
D. rash
3. No wonder that this puts a premium
on slovenly work, on slowdowns, and on other
tricks to get
the same pay check with
less work.
A. clean and tidy
B. careful and cleanC. careless and
untidy D. slow and neat
4. Most
important of all, he hates himself, because he
sees his life passing by, without making any
sense beyond the momentary intoxication
of success.
A.
exhilarationB. extrication
C. extinction
D. extraction
5.
It
is
a
hostility
toward
work
which
is
much
less
conscious
than
our
craving
for
laziness
and
inactivity.
A. craft
B. desire
C. statue
D. design
6. There are, of course, many useful
and labor saving gadgets.
A. appliance
B. figure
C. plan
D. handtool
7. The craftsman’s way of livelihood
determines and
infuses his entire mode
of living.
A. fill
B. confuse
C. contain
D. misuse
8. Work became
, in Max
Weber’s terms, the chief factor in a system of
“inner
-worldly asceticism
,”
an answer to man’s sense of aloneness
and isolation.
A. aesthetics
B. self-denial
C. self-criticism
D. ascent
9. Work appears as
something unnatural, a disagreeable, meaningless
and stultifying condition of
getting
the pay check, devoid of dignity as well as of
importance.
A. stupid
B. amazing
C. not stimulating
D. not
dull
10. P. Drucker, observing workers
in the automobile industry, expresses this idea
very succinctly.
A. clearly
B. successfully
C. concisely
D. continuously
Unit 14
1. Those ad campaigns celebrating the
Big Apple, those T-
shirts with a heart
design proclaiming “I
love New York,”
are signs,
pathetic in their
desperation, of how the mighty has fallen.
A. possible
B. passionate
C. pitiful
D. annoying
2. New York was never a good convention
city.
A. custom
B. contention
C.
conscience
D. consciousness
3. To win in New York is to be uneasy;
to lose is to live in jostling
proximity
to the frustrated