17. The Eternal Golden Castle was built in 1874 by the famous Qing official Shen Baozhen _____ safeguard the coast and to defend Taiwan against Japanese invasions.
(A) in order to
(B) in order for
(C) owing to
(D) thanks to
3. In the United States, you can’t buy
medicine such as antibiotics over-the-counter. You can only get them with a(n) ______.
(A) prescription
(B) description
(C) subscription
(D) inscription
26. A: If you give me a ride, I’ll help you with your history
report.
B: ______.
(A) It’s a deal. (B) It’s out of the question.
(C) It depends. (D) It matters a great deal.
Outrunning the other players on the football “field, I saw Jack score” the winning touchdown.
(A) field, I saw Jack score (B) field, I saw Jack scoring
(C) field, Jack scored (D) field, Jack scoring
13. Nancy bought her brother a toy truck for Christmas, and _______he gave her a new doll.
(A) however (B) in turn (C) other than that (D) without exception
Vidal Sassoon was _____ with revolutionizing hairdressing during the 1960s, and went on to found a multi-million dollar international business of fashion and beauty products.
(A) accused (B) credited (C) regarded (D) declared
Nancy: Richard often backs out at the last moment.
Clare: I agree with you. _____________. (A) He is not a man of his word. (B) He does not drive carefully. (C) He is a person who writes with his left hand. (D) He was injured.
16. Frankly speaking, _______ your timely help, I couldn’t have dealt with that problem all by myself.
(A) if it were not for (B) if it had not been for (C) if there were not for (D) if there had not been for
He was burned out from taking so many business trips. So, he decided to settle down in a quaint, _____ village to run his own store. (A) tranquil (B) succulent (C) quenchless (D) circumvented
12. Ms. Goodrum’s handmade carpets fit in well in her simple country house. The cabin had a rustic _____.
(A)garment (B)ambiance (C)captivity (D)tranquil
32. Lecture notes should never __________ many words, for
the presence of such a mass of words will make the notes
difficult to __________ and understand at a later stage.
(A) connect with …… instigate (B) consist of ……
assimilate (C) mark by …… deliberate (D) refer
to …… extinguish
20Speakers of any dialect of English who reside for a long periods of time in a region where a different dialect is spoken
normally converge themselves to the speech; upon returning to their home region, they converge back to their native dialect.
This is called _________.
(A)speech accommodation (B)cooperative principles (C)language shifting (D)code switching
28. Modern theory of the isolation effect emphasizes perceptual_____ and accompanying differential attention to the isolated item as necessary for enhanced memory.
(A) salience (B) ambiguity (C) extremity (D) paradox
34. She ________ the phone.
(A) responded to my proposal by hanging up
(B) responded to my proposal when hanging up
(C) responded my proposal while hanging down
(D) responded my proposal and hang down
IV. Correction
6. We need a more __ approach to this problem so that we can avoid the same mistakes the first team made.
(A) rigorous (B) rumored (C) competitive (D) competent
49.Which of the followings is NOT what we can learn from the Corpus about vocabulary?
(A) Contexts of use. (B) Meanings and forms. (C) Collocations. (D) Frequency.
24. Student A: The whole cafeteria is deserted. It’s so quiet in here.
Student B: I think everyone in our school is more worried about
their exams _____ eating.
(A) than (B) by (C) then (D) without