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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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.