SECTION I – MULTIPLE CHOICE [15 MINS] (20 points)

There are twenty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words, phrases or
statements marked A, B, C and D. Choose ONE word, phrase or statement that BEST completes the
sentence. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.

1. _______ I like economics, I like sociology 6. I parked my bike behind the building, but
much better. now it’s gone. It _____________.

a) As much as a) may be stolen

b) So much b) must be stolen
c) How much c) must have been stolen
d) Much as
d) must have stolen
2. It is futile to discuss the matter, because
__________ going to agree upon anything 7. I suppose these apples are for _________.
today.
a) us three
a) neither you nor I are b) we three
b) neither you nor me is c) our three
c) neither you nor I am d) three us
d) neither me nor you are
8. _______ the end of the film, more and more
3. They overcame all the difficulties and people left the cinema.
completed the project two months ahead of
time, _______ is something we had not a) To
expected.
b) At
a) which c) By
b) it d) Towards
c) that
d) what 9. She was ordinarily of a peaceful ______, but
this time she felt the blood boil within her.
4. He is quite worn out from years of hard
work. He is not the man ______ he was a) appetite
twenty years ago. b) disposition
c) morality
a) which d) perception
b) that
c) who 10. The headquarters of this textile company is
d) whom in London while its 20 _______ companies
are located in different parts of the world.
5. She would have been more agreeable if she
had changed a little bit, __________? a) duplicated
a) hadn’t she b) subsidiary
b) hasn’t she c) inferior
c) wouldn’t she d) inclusive
d) didn’t she
11. Many modern language teachers make 16. Reading is an active thinking process
occasional use of teaching aids such as ________ the interaction between the reader
computers and tape recorders, but only a few and the print.
use them systematically as an _____ part of
their work. a) containing
b) indulging
a) incredible c) involving
b) individual d) resolving
c) integral
d) associate 17. In some cases, a sentence may
grammatically acceptable, but ______ in
12. Living in the country side has its implication.
_________ as well as advantages.
a) ambitious
a) inferiority b) affirmative
b) setbacks c) approximate
c) drawbacks d) ambiguous
d) validity
18. For Europeans, life is a career; for
13. The air that holds a maximum amount of Americans, it is a _______ of hazards.
water vapor is ________, like a sponge
unable to hold any more water. a) success
b) recession
a) saturated c) succession
b) quantified d) procession
c) ventilated
d) immersed 19. Reading efficiency means the ____ of
reading task within an appropriate time
14. Electric wires in your house are ______ frame and with appropriate comprehension.
with poor conductors like rubber.
a) accomplishment
a) segregated b) commitment
b) insulated c) contentment
c) isolated d) complement
d) severed
20. In the past, major disasters, such as wars,
15. The enemy are now in a very difficult plagues and earthquakes, could destroy only
situation; they can neither advance not a _____of the human race and environment.
_________.
a) fraction
a) resign b) fragment
b) retreat c) friction
c) retrieve d) fiction
d) repel