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Section One

This section is designed to measure your ability to recognize language that is appropriate for standard written English. There are two types of questions in this section, with special directions for each type.

Part 1. Structure

Directions: Questions 1-30 are incomplete sentences. Beneath each sentence you will see four words or phrases, marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence.

1. I am familiar with the Grand Hotel. I don't know ... times I've been there.



2. I've never seen ...



3. "Do you know ... that woman is?" - "I would say that she is at least sixty."



4. If we ... salt, the soup would have been tastier.



5. In most states a sales tax ranging from two percent to ten percent ... on most purchases of luxury items.



6. We couldn't enter the castle. The guard ... let us in.



7. We will serve dinner to our guests soon. We had better ... now.



8. Born in 1924, Shirley Chisholm became ... elected to the Congress of the United States.



9. "Where do you live now?" - "I live in Kansas City; my ... ."



10. Geysers have often been compared to volcanoes ... they both emit hot liquids from below the Earth's surface.



11. Tom and Mary will be ... at the party.



12. The rainy season is over, and the weather is nice. We can ... sports.



13. "The Harrisons will go to Colorado for a vacation." - "Who will ... their pets?"



14. "Where is ABC Store?" - "It is ... the apartment house."



15. Refrigerating meats ... the spread of bacteria.



16. "I don't want to buy anything in this store, do you?" - "Yes, I'd like to buy ... ."



17. I wish I ... with Linda.



18. The 1984 Democratic Convention ... in San Francisco.



19. The Flower Market in San Francisco is ..., and was established in the 1930's.



20. Since the storm came ..., it did a lot of damage in the village.



21. "When you visited Jack, did you find his house easily?" - "No, I had ... finding it."



22. Vasco Nunez de Balboa ... the Pacific Ocean in 1513.



23. Writing home in 1711, the governor of Quebec stated that war with the Iroquois ... at all costs.



24. The audience cheered after the curtain went down. The performance ...



25. Not only ..., it also performs an essential function in the reproduction of the plant.



26. "Are you ... in our products?" - "Yes, we are."



27. Despite recent developments in the genetics of cystic fibrosis, there is still ... cure for this deadly disease.



28. When Mary got home, ... .



29. It was very cold yesterday. The winter is just around the corner." - "I think that today will be ... yesterday."



30. Why do you always want to use ... pens?



Part 2. Written Expression

Directions: In questions 31-40 each sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked (A), (B), (C) and (D). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct.

31. Americas faith in the rule of law explains the conviction which many held, and many foreigners could not understand, that President Nixon should be removed from office after the Watergate Scandal.



32. "The Starlight Cafe" is a good place for order seafood but not to order meat.



33. Jute is used to making yarn, twines, and ropes and is blended with hard fibers to produce stronger types of rope.



34. It was an uneventful four days journey for Apollo 11 from Cape Kennedy in Florida, to the moon



35. Noise is an external and exsessive stimulus that increases rather than decreases your tension.



36. The most common question that people ask a writer is whether or not has he experienced what he has written about.



37. Having children to accompany their parents to the supermarket is more educative than trying to teach them directly.



38. Neither too many rest nor a diet of rich food is good for the body.



39. An internationally famous ballerina, Maria Tallchief demonstrated that the quality of ballet in North America could equal those of the ballet in Europe.



40. Long ago, I gave up to try to learn swimming as I could not get over my fear of water.



Section Two

Reading Comprehension

Directions: In this section you will read two passages followed by questions.

Passage 1

Directions: You are to choose the one best answer, (A), (B), (C), or (D) to each question. Questions 41-45 are based on the following passage:

In 1920, after some thirty-nine years of problems with disease, high costs, and politics, the Panama Canal was officially opened, finally linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by allowing ships to pass through the fifty-mile canal zone instead of traveling some seven thousand miles around Cape Horn. It takes a ship approximately eight hours to complete the trip through the canal and costs an average of fifteen thousand dollars, one tenth of what it would cost an average ship to round the Horn. More than fifteen thousand ships pass through its locks each year.
The French initiated the project but sold their rights to the United States, which actually began the construction of the project. The latter controlled it until the end of the twentieth century when Panama took over its duties."

41. Who currently controls the Panama Canal?



42. The word LOCKS in the last line of Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to...



43. On the average, how much would it cost a ship to travel around Cape Horn?



44. In what year did the construction of the canal start?



45. Which of the following is NOT true?



Questions 46 through 50 are based on the following passage:

Passage 2

As a result of the recent oil crisis, 9.9 million of California's 15 million drivers were subjected to an odd-even plan of fuel rationing. The governor signed a bill forcing drivers with license plates ending in odd numbers to buy fuel only on odd-numbered days, and those ending in even numbers - on even-numbered days. Those whose plates were all letters or specially printed had to follow the odd-numbered plan as well.
Exceptions were made only for emergencies and out-of-state drivers. Those who could not get fuel were forced to walk, bike, or skate to work.
This plan was expected to eliminate the long lines at many service stations. Those who tried to purchase more than twenty gallons of fuel or tried to fill a more than half filled tank would be fined and possibly imprisoned.

46. Which of the following is NOT true?



47. Those who violated the rationing program



48. The fuel rationing plan is not used on



49. California was forced to adopt this plan because



50. What is the maximum amount of fuel that the drivers are allowed to buy?