1. Though I had requested a _____________ critique of my work, I was not prepared for the harsh criticism that I received.
(A) commodious
(B) candid
(C) benign
(D) compensatory

47. What is the main idea of the passage? (A) Helicopter parents like to work together with their children’s employers. (B) Helicopter parents usually would work for their children in the workplace. (C) Helicopter parents never comply with their children’s employers in the workplace. (D) Helicopter parents may have both positive and negative effect on the workplace.

48. How could employers involve protective parents in hiring employees they need? (A) specifically ask parents to join the employment interviews (B) specifically attract parents with outstanding children (C) strategically talk to parents with great strengths (D) strategically make parents allies in the workplace

49. According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true? (A) According to a 2007 university survey, around 25% of parents involved in college graduates’ job applications. (B) The relationship between young and parental generations becomes closer in the current days. (C) Young workers’ close relationship with parents is detrimental to the employers’ goals of recruitment in the workplace. (D) Compared to their own age as a child, parents of today’s college students spend much more time with their kids.

50. What can be inferred from this passage? (A) Those who ask for parents’ involvement in job application are usually incompetent young workers. (B) The cooperation between employers and protective parents may bring to a success in the workplace. (C) Most helicopter parents used to be very experienced employers who know how to discipline young workers. (D) The more conflict between employers and helicopter parents, the more difficult the youth generation could find a good job.

2. He enjoys the harbor city as he has a ______ for water sports. (A) precipitation (B) predilection (C) porridge (D) postmortem

3. Dr. Frankenstein’s lack of _____________prevented him from considering what he would do with his creature once he brought it to life. (A) foibles (B) fidelity (C) erudition (D) foresight

4. The politician _____________in his speech when he saw his opponent enter the lecture hall. (A) dissipated (B) stuttered (C) diluted (D) studded

5. “If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between, is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.” —Philip Freneau (A) solid (B) failing (C) eternal (D) feeble

6. As Abraham Lincoln put it in 1861, the “Declaration of Independence” gave promise that “in due time the weights should be _____________from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance.” (A) lifted (B) placed (C) expected (D) born

7. Fearing that the instructor might get angry, the pupils bowed to him _____________. (A) obliviously (B) obsequiously (C) obstructively (D) omnisciently