Part III Vocabulary and Structure (20 minutes)
Directions: There are 3.0. incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
41. You would be ________ a risk to let your child go to school by himself.
A) omitting
B) attaching
C) affording
D) running（D）
42. He is always here; it’s ________ you’ve never met him.
A) unique
B) strange
C) rare
D) peculiar（B）
43. There has been a great increase in retail sales, ________?
A) does there
B) isn’t there
C) hasn’t there
D) isn’t it（C）
44. We’d like to ________ a table for five for dinner this evening.
A) preserve
B) retain
C) reserve
D) sustain（B）
45. Although a teenager, Fred could resist ________ what to do and what not to do.
A) being told
B) telling
C) to be told
D) to tell（A）
46. The European Union countries were once worried that they would not have ________ supplies of petroleum.
A) proficient
B) efficient
C) potential
D) sufficient（D）
47. In fact, Peter would rather have left for San Francisco than ________ in New York.
A) to stay
B) stayed
C) staying
D) having stayed（B）
48. He soon received promotion, for his superiors realized that he was a man of considerable ________.
A) ability
B) future
C) possibility
D) opportunity（A）
49. Britain ahs the highest ________ of road traffic in the world—over 60 cars for every mile of road.
A) popularity
B) density
C) intensity
D) prosperity（B）
50. How is it ________ your roommate’s request and yours are identical?
A) if
B) so
C) what
D) that（D）
51. In my opinion, he’s ________ the most imaginative of all the contemporary poets.
A) in all
B) at best
C) for all
D) by far（D）
52. He didn’t have time to read the report word for word: he just ________ it.
A) skimmed
B) observed
C) overlooked
D) glanced（A）
53. The leader of the expedition ________ everyone to follow his example.
A) promoted
B) reinforced
C) sparked
D) inspired（D）
54. What a lovely party! It’s worth ________ all my life.
A) remembering
B) to remember
C) to be remembered
D) being remembered（A）
55. Who would you rather ________ with you, George or me?
A) going
B) to go
C) have gone
D) went（D） 56. The ________ goal of the book is to help bridge the gap between research and teaching, particularly between researchers and teachers.
A) intensive
B) concise
C) joint
D) overall（D）
57. The owner and editor of the newspaper ________ the conference.
A) were attending
B) were to attend
C) is to attend
D) are to attend（C）
58. We left the meeting, there obviously ________ no point in staying.
A) were
B) being
C) to be
D) having（B）
59. Their products are frequently overpriced and ________ in quality.
A) influential
B) inferior
C) superior
D) subordinate（B）
60. The neighborhood boys like to play basketball on that ________ lot.
A) valid
B) vacant
C) vain
D) vague（C）
61. These people once had fame and fortune; now ________ is left to them is utter poverty.
A) all that
B) all what
C) all which
D) that all（A）
62. To our ________, Geoffrey’s illness proved not to be as serious as we had feared.
A) anxiety
B) relief
C) view
D) judgment（B）
63. Many people like white color as it is a ________ of purity.
A) symbol
B) sign
C) signal
D) symptom（A）
64. The residents, ________ had been damaged by the fire, were given help by the Red Cross.
A) all of their homes
B) all their homes
C) whose all homes
D) all of whose homes（D）
65. This research has attracted wide ________ coverage and has featured on BBC television’s Tomorrow’s World.
A) message
B) information
C) media
D) data（C）
66. I would never have ________ a court of law if I hadn’t been so desperate.
A) sought for
B) accounted for
C) turned up
D) resorted to（D）
67. Investigators agreed that passengers on the airliner ________ at the very moment of the crash.
A) should have died
B) must be dying
C) must have died
D) ought to die（C）
68. The energy ________ by the chain reaction is transformed into heat.
A) transferred
B) released
C) delivered
D) conveyed（B）
69. ________ their work will give us a much better feel for the wide differences between the two schools of thought.
A) To have reviewed
B) Having reviewed
C) Reviewing
D) Being reviewed（C）
70. During the process, great care has to be taken to protect the ________ silk from damage.
A) sensitive
B) tender
C) delicate
D) sensible（C） |
