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Directions: In each question, decide which
of the choices given will most suitably complete
the sentences
if inserted
at the
place marked. Write your choices
on the Answer Sheet.
31.
The secretary was
harshly
——
by her boss for
misplacing some important files.
A) rebuked
B
）
teased
C) washed
D) accused
32.
The jet airliner has
——from the Wright
brothers’ small airplane.
A) Involved
B) evolved
C) devolved
D)
revolved
33. Chinese
products enjoy high international prestige because
of their, quality.
A)
Indistinctive B) indisputable
C) indispensable D) indistinguishable
34. This can something that
the students may not have comprehended in English.
A) Signify B)
specify
C) clarify D)
testify
35. I must you on
your handling of a very difficult situation.
A) meditate
B) complement C) elaborate
D) compliment
36. I've had
my car examined three times now but no mechanic
has been able to the problem.
A) deduce
B) notify
C) highlight D) pinpoint
37. Architectural pressure
groups fought unsuccessfully to save a terrace of
eighteenth century houses from _
A) abolition
B)
demolition
C) disruption
D) dismantling
decided to rent a flat, we____
contacting all the accommodation dt, agencies in
the city.
A) set out B) set
to
C) set about
D) set off
39. The police
decided to the department store after they had
received a bomb warning.
A)
evict
B) expel
C) abandon D) evacuate
40. If the work-force
respected you, you wouldn't need to your authority
so often,
A) affirm
B)
restrain
C) assert D)
maintain
41. Miss Rosemary
Adang went through the composition carefully to
all errors from it.
A)
eliminate
B)
terminate
C) illuminate D)
alleviate
42. Several
months previously, the workers had petitioned the
company for a 25 percent wage increase and of
stricter safety
regulations.
A) implement
B) endowment
C) enforcement D) engagement
43. The rebel army __ the
democratic government of the, country lawlessly.
A) overthrew
B)
overtook C) overturned
D)
overruled
44. Judges are
____increasingly heavy
fines for minor driving offences
A). B) demanding
C) imparting D) imposing
45.
The of all kinds of necessary goods was caused by
natural calamity.
A)
variety
B) scarcity
C) solidarity D) commodity
46. It is essential to be
on the for any signs of movement in the
undergrowth since there are poisonous snakes in
the area.
A)
guard
B) care
C) alert
D) alarm
47. She
took up so many hobbies when she retired that she
had hardly any time
A) in
hand B) at hand
C) on her
hands D) at her hand
48.
Working with the mentally handicapped requires
considerable -`_ of patience; and understanding.
A) means
B) stocks
C) provisions D) resources
49. He still suffers from a
rare t2-opical disease which he, while working to
Africa.
A) infected
B) incurred
C )
contracted
D) infested
50. Giving up smoking is just one of
the ways to heart
diseases.
A) ward off
C)
push off
B) put
off
D) throw
off
51. There is no
for
hard work and perseverance of you want to succeed.
. A) alteration
B) equivalent
C)
alternative D)substitute
52. What the film company needs is an
actor who can take on any kinds of
roles.
A) diverse
B) versatile C)
variable
D) changeable
53. With their modern, lightweight
boat, they soon the older vessels in the race.
A) overran
B) exceeded
C) outstripped
D) caught up
54. Research suggests that,
heavy
penalties do not act
as a
to potential
criminals. .
A)
deterrent
B)
prevention
C) safeguard D) distraction
55. There has been so much media of the
coming election that people have got bored with
it.
A) circulation
B) concern
C) broadcasting
D) coverage
56. You've done
more of the work than I have recently so I'll give
up my day off' in
A) offset
B)redress
C)herald
D) compensate
with the usual formalities since we all
know each other
57. I think
we can______with the usual formalities since we
all know each other already.
A) dispose B) dispatch
C) dispense
D) discharge
58. He joined a computer dating scheme
but so far it hasn't a suitable patter.
A) come by
B)
some across
C) come up with
D) come round to
59. Have you thought what
the _ might be if you didn't win your case in
court?
A) applications B)
connotations
C)
implications D) complications
64. I thought 1 saw water in the
distance but it must have been an optical
A) perception
B) delusion C) illusion
D) deception
61.
He was intensely_____ by the way the shop
assistant spoke to him.
A) intervened
C)
injected
B) irritated
D) insulated
62. The people who were _ hurt in the
accident were taken to the only hospital in the
immediate_________
A)
vicinity
B) mobility
C) velocity D)
integrity
63. With all his
experience abroad he was a major to the company.
A) attendant
B) asset
C) attachment D) attribute
64. Don't thank me for helping in the
garden. It was pleasure to be working out of
doors.
A) mere
B) sheer C) plain D) simple
65. The peace of the public library was
by the sound of a transistor radio.
A) shuttered
B) shattered
C)
smashed
D) fractured
66. It is
doubtless that those who wish to succeed should be
A) aggressive
B) possessive
C) cooperative D) conventional
67. The damp and cold
weather had painfully the patient's rheumatism.
A) activated
B)aggregatedC) aggravated D)
accelerated
68.1 utterly
your argument. In my opinion, you have distorted
the facts.
A) dispute
B)
refute
C) confound
D) decline
69.1 think you will find
that the inconvenience of the diet is by the
benefits.
A) out looked B)
outranked
C) outfought D)
outweighed
70. A good
friend is one who will you when you arc in
trouble.
A) stand for
B) stand by
C) stand up to
D) stand over
Part III. Reading Comprehension (30
paints)
Directions
There
are
6
passages
in
this
pail.
Each
Passage
is
followed
by
some
questions
or
unfinished
statements.
Each
question or unfinished
statement is given four suggested answers marked
A), B), C) and D). You should choose the one best
answer and write the corresponding
letter on the Answer Sheet.
Passage One
Some
of the earliest diamonds known came from India. In
the eighteenth century they were found in Brazil,
and in 1866, huge
deposits were found
near Kimberley in South Africa. Though evidence of
extensive diamond deposits has recently, been
found
in South Africa, the continent of
Africa still produces nearly all the world's
supply of these stones.
The
most valuable diamonds are large, individual
crystals of pure crystal lint carbon. Less perfect
forms, known as 'boars'
and 'carbonado'
arc clusters of tiny crystals. Until diamonds are
cut and polished, they do not sparkle lice those
you sec on a
ring--they just look like
small, blue-grey stones.
In
a rather crude form the cutting and polishing of
precious stones was an art known to the Ancient
Egyptians, and in the
Middle
Ages
it
became
1Lidcspread
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north-west
Europe.
However,
a
revolutionary
change
in
the
methods
of
cutting
and
polishing was made in 1476 when Ludwig
Van Berquen of Bruges in Belgium invented the use
of a swiftly revolving wheel
with its
edge faced with fine diamond powder. The name
'boast' is given to this fine powder as well as
the natural crystalline
material
already mentioned. It is also gimp to badly flawed
or broken diamond crystals, useless as jewels,
that are broken into
powder for
grinding purposes, the so-called `industrial'
diamonds.
Diamond itself is
the only material hard enough to cut and polish
diamonds--though recently, high-intensity light
beams
called lasers have been developed
which can bore holes in them. It may be necessary
to split or cleave the large stones before
they arc cut and polished. Every
diamond has a natural line of cleavage, along
which it may be split by a sharp blow with a
cutting edge.
A
fully cut 'brilliant' diamond has 58 facets, or
faces, regularly arranged. For cutting or
faceting, the stones arc fixed into
copper holders and held against a
wheel, edged with a mixture of Oil and fine
diamond dust, which is revolved at about 2,500
revolutions
a
minute.
Amsterdam
and
Antwerp,
in
Holland
and
Belgium
respectively,
have
been
the
centre
of
the
diamond
cutting and
polishing industry for over seven centuries.
The
jewel
value
of
brilliant
diamonds
depends
greatly
on
their
colour,
or
`water'
as
it
is
called.
The
usual
colours
of
diamonds are white,
yellow, brown, green or blue- Surrounding rocks
and take on their color. thus black ,red and even
bright
pink diamonds have occasionally
been found.
The trade in
diamonds Is not only in the valuable gem stones
but also in the industrial diamonds mentioned
above. Zaire
produces 70% of such
stones. They are fixed into the rock drills used
in mining and civil engineering, also for edging
band
saws for cutting stone. Diamond-
faced tools are used for cutting and drilling
glass and fine porcelain and for dentists' drills.
They are used as bearings in watches
and other finely balanced instruments. Perhaps you
own some diamonds without knowing
it--
in your wristwatch!
71.
'Carbonado' is the name given to
A) only the very best diamonds
B) lumps of pure carbon
C) Spanish diamonds
D)
diamonds made up of many small crystals
72. The art of cutting and
polishing precious stones remained crude until
A) the fourteenth century
B) the fifteenth century
C) the
sixteenth century
D)
the seventeenth century
73. During faceting, diamonds are held
in copper holders
A) to facilitate accurate
cutting
B) to make them
shine more brilliantly
C)
so that they can revolve more easily
D) as a steel holder might damage the
diamond
74. The
value order of `water' in diamond, _
A) is more important than
their colour
B)
ranges from blue-white upwards
C) ranges from blue-white
downwards
D) has never
been reliably established
75. Industrial diamonds are used
A) for a wide range of
purposes
B) mainly for dentists'
drills
C) for decoration in
rings and watches
D)
principally in mass-produced jewellery
Passage Two
Just
about
everyone
knows
the
meaning
of
`value
though
you'd
never
know
it
from
the
excesses
of
the
Eighties.
Clever
campaigns often allowed marketers to
charge more for their product and reap ever-higher
profits. It worked like a dream until
suddenly,
facing
difficult
economic
times,
consumers
work
up. Now,
to
the
extent that
they're
buying,
many
consumers
are
choosing the car that
delivers the most for the money--not necessarily
the one they coveted as a status symbol a few
years ago,
they are shifting to the
toothpaste that works from
the ones with it slickest promotions. Companies
that understand this new
consumer have
come up wit something new:
A
word
of
caution
is
necessary.
In
marketing,
watchwords
quickly
metamorphos
into
buzzwords--and
value
is
no
exception. We're not taping about ads
that merely boast of a product's value or even
such legitimate sates tools as price cuts and
discount:
Used
correctly,
value
marketing
amounts
to
much
more
than
just
stashing
prices
distributing
coupons.
It
means
giving
the customer an improved product, with adds,
features and enhancing the role of marketing
itself:
In value marketing,
marketing becomes part of the system for
delivering value t( the consumer. Instead of
merely shaping
image, such a program
might offer enhance guarantees or longer
warranties, ads that educate rather than hype,
membership club:
that build loyalty,
frequent-buyer plans, improved communications with
customer. through 800 numbers, or package design
that
makes the product easier to use or
more environmentally friendly.
These
and
other
value-marketing
techniques
can
be
expensive.
They
can
tncar
added
production
and
marketing
costs
added to lower unit
prices, Even so, the principle involved in value
marketing value for money, an improved product,
enhanced
=Nice, and added features--are
just %fiat U_S_ business needs to enhance its
competitiveness in the global marketplace. That's
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