Part III Vocabulary and Structure (20 minutes)
Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this pert . 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 centre.
1. The company ____ a rise in salary for ages, but nothing has happened yet. (1分)
A. is promised |
B. has been promising | C. is promising | D. promised |
2. The doctor was asked to go back to the hospital because of _____ case. (1分)
A. an operation |
B. an emergency | C. a treatment | D. an incident |
3. Life is a candle ____ to burn ever brighter. (1分)
A. being meant |
B. meaning | C. to mean | D. meant |
4. Mrs. Lackey was awakened by the ringing of the bedside phone 12 hours after her husband's boat had been _____. (1分)
A. wrecked |
B. collapsed | C. decayed | D. fired |
5. No one needs to feel awkward in _____ his own customs. (1分)
A. Pursuing |
B. following | C. chasing | D. seeking |
6. It's time _____ about the traffic problem downtown. (1分)
A. something was done |
B. everything is done | C. anything will be done | D. nothing to be done |
7. When they had finished playing, the children were made to ____ all the toys they had taken out. (1分)
A. put off |
B. put out | C. put up | D. put away |
8. There is an undesirable ____ nowadays to make films showing violence. (1分)
A. direction |
B. tradition | C. phenomenon | D. trend |
9. My father did not go to New York; the doctor suggested that he _____ there. (1分)
A. not to go |
B. hadn't gone | C. not go | D. wouldn't go |
10. Most people who travel in the course of their work are given travelling _____. (1分)
A. income |
B. allowances | C. wages | D. pay |
11. He failed to supply the facts relevant ____ the case in question. (1分)
12. Young people's social environment has a _____ effect on their academic progress. (1分)
A. gross |
B. solid | C. complete | D. profound |
13. In Britain, and on the Continent too, the Japanese are sometimes viewed _____ a threat to domestic industries. (1分)
A. like |
B. with | C. for | D. as |
14. The service operates 36 libraries throughout the country, while six ______ libraries specially serve the countryside. (1分)
A. Mobile |
B. drifting | C. shifting | D. rotating |
15. Physics is the present-day equivalent of _____ used to be called natural philosophy, from which most of present-day science arose. (1分)
A. that |
B. all | C. which | D. what |
16. Before he started work, I asked the builder to give me an _____ of the cost of repairing the roof. (1分)
A. assessment |
B. estimate | C. announcement | D. evaluation |
17. We often advise him not to drink more wine _____ is good for his health. (1分)
A. as |
B. than | C. that | D. but |
18. When Jack was eighteen he _____ going around with a strange set of people and staying out very late. (1分)
A. took to |
B. took for | C. took up | D. took on |
19. Although not an economist himself, Dr. Smith has long been a severe critic of the government's _____ policies. (1分)
A. economical |
B. economy | C. economic | D. economics |
20. We grow all our own fruit and vegetables, ____ saves money, of course. (1分)
A. which |
B. as | C. that | D. what |
21. It is rather ____ that we still do not know how many species there are in the world today. (1分)
A. misleading |
B. embarrassing | C. boring | D. demanding |
22. _____ is the center of our planetary system was a difficult concept to grasp in the Middle Ages. (1分)
A. It is the sun and not the earth |
B. Being the sun and not the earth | C. The sun and not the earth | D. That the sun and not the earth |
23. A friendship may be _____, casual, situational or deep and lasting. (1分)
A. identical |
B. original | C. superficial | D. critical |
24. Just as the builder is skilled in the handling of his bricks, _____ the experienced writer is skilled in the handling of his words. (1分)
25. A good teacher must know how to _____ his ideas. (1分)
A. convey |
B. display | C. consult | D. confront |
26. I'd rather you _____ those important documents with you. (1分)
A. don't take |
B. didn't take | C. won't take | D. not take |
27. To call the music of another music-culture "primitive" is ____ one's own standards on a group that does not recognize them. (1分)
A. putting |
B. emphasizing | C. forcing | D. imposing |
28. The prisoner has been ____ of many privileges that average citizens enjoy. (1分)
A. ensured |
B. informed | C. deprived | D. convinced |
29. Every camera we sell comes with a two-year _____. (1分)
A. guarantee |
B. safety | C. confirmation | D. conservation |
30. While in London, we paid a visit to the hospital founded _____ the nurse Florence Nightingale. (1分)
A. in line with |
B. in favour of | C. in honour of | D. in place of |