4. Although the women’s rights movement in the United States is thought
______ as a recent development, its beginnings date back almost one
hundred and sixty years.
(A) up
(B) over
(C) by
(D) of
30. The school _____ was worried about the lack of qualified English teachers in rural schools.
(A) humanoid (B) prospect (C) regimen (D) superintendent
31.(Error Correction ) In choosing between two alternate sets(A ) of pleasure one
could not necessarily decide which(B ) was preferable by an
arithmetical calculation, nor could(C ) one necessarily do so
even if(D ) one was omniscient.
8. Marty ____ control of the Parent-Teacher Association after his children graduated from elementary school.
(A) penetrated (B) dribbled (C) relinquished (D) elucidated
22. The power company is not ______ the damage ______ the 8-scale earthquake which is beyond its control.
(A) liable to…results in
(B) reliable with…resulting in
(C) reliable on…results from
(D) liable for…resulting from
7. Some people say that society today is so corrupt and immoral that the only measure to correct it is a
moral _____.
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42. The director of Jokers Hill says the property promises to be one of North American leading field research
stations. (A)The director (B)promises (C)North American (D)field
29. Certain TV stations try to make as much money as possible from news departments, sometimes
to the ____ of journalists who aspire to truthfulness in their reporting of stories.
(A) complement (B) rationale (C) detriment (D) detraction
16. On the east of the valley rose a ___________ wall of stratified rock, two thousand or three thousand feet high, stretching off towards the Arkansas.
(A)tentative (B)precipitous (C)gregarious (D)counterfeit
50. Is the climate of Malaysia ______?
(A) somehow similar to Philippine (B) somewhat like that of Philippine
(C) so much like Philippine (D) similar like Philippine
18 Children initially deploy the speech of others in order to communicate with others in their sociocultural environment. This
social speech goes underground as inner speech, first passing through a stage of ________.
(A)holophrastic speech (B)two-word speech (C)telegraphic speech (D)egocentric speech
21 Which of the following is a performative utterance?
(A) It is extremely hot. (B) I am exhausted. (C) It is a City Hall. (D) He promises to do the dishes.
22 De Saussure argued that the "sign" was composed of both a signified, an abstract concept or idea, and a signifier, the perceived
sound/visual image. In different language systems, there are different words used to describe the same objects or concepts.
Thus, the relationship between signified and signifier is ______.
(A) arbitrary (B) controversial (C) flexible (D) closely related
19. Why don’t you ______ Bonnie? She’s going to the
supermarket, and she can get the butter you need.
(A) go along with (B) company along with
(C) get along with (D) accompany with
21. A historian does not only describe events, but tries to explain _____ occur in the first
place.
(A)to them what cause
(B)what causes them to
(C)to what causes them
(D)what to cause them
48.Which of the following techniques is NOT for teaching phonemic awareness?
(A) Segment and delete phonemes. (B) Identify or match letter sounds and names.
(C) Identify or manipulate vowels and consonants. (D) Identify or match rhyming sounds.
35. During the early days of education in the U.K., (A )few formal schools existed, and (B )the ones that do (C )were costly and, therefore, (D )reserved for children of the wealthy.
41.Which of the followings refers to the textual competence based on Backman’s model of communicative
language ability?
(A) Phonology and graphology. (B) Vocabulary and morphology.
(C) Sensitive to dialects and register. (D) Cohesion and rhetorical organization.
40. A new product ( A)should be judged not ( B)by the promises made in commercials
and advertisements, ( C)but also by the results ( D)demonstrated in actual use.
25.Governments face a __________:whether to spend money on the space program or to use the money to improve life here on Earth.
(A) dilemma (B) diploma (C) detention (D) defiance
24. He was not sure he’d like the work, but he took the job
_______.
(A) for better than ever (B) none the worse for it
(C) for better or for worse (D) better late than never
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2. My low opinion of Brian was _____ (e)d when I learned he
had faked an auto accident in order to file a dishonest
insurance claim.
(A) fabricate (B) turbulent (C) deride (D) validate
2. The daily opening and nightly closing of the leaves of a tamarind tree was observed, but they also found that a _____ plant inside a dark room
would continue its daily cycles of leaf movement in the absence of sunlight.
(A)heliotrope (B)malapropism (C)perquisite (D)theocracy
9. I read some wonderful reviews of this new novel on the internet, but personally, I found it ______ .
(A)overrated (B)overwhelmed (C)overreacted (D)overhauled
11. My son’s English teacher Mr. Levinson is probably the most _____ collector I have ever seen. He collects almost anything, from basketball cards
to beer bottles.
(A)transitory (B)avid (C)benevolent (D)feasible
20. While you are a college student, your education will both take place within and outside the context of formal study.
(A)While (B)both (C)take place (D)outside
24. My mother believes that using praise to _____ a child into meeting her needs is often more
effective than using seduction.
(A) adopt (B) coerce (C) deduce (D) undermine
46.Why is understanding the genre of a text important in reading for information in pre-reading?
(A) Genre types can help decide whether the text will be significant to read.
(B) Different genres organize textual information in different but predictable ways.
(C) Genre identification is the goal of pre-reading stage.
(D) A genre has the same features and cultural roles across languages.
47.What do the sounds in ai (as in rain), ay (as in day), ea (as in teach), and ea (as in bread) refer to?
(A) Vowel Digraph. (B) Homophones. (C) Blends. (D) Diphthongs.