(I) Countries throughout the world appear to be determined to avoid war at any cost. (II) In both France and Germany, governments are seeking to introduce more flexibility into the labour markets. (III) Germany plans to make it easier to fire workers, at least in small firms. (IV) It also plans to curb unemployment and make jobseekers take unattractive jobs. (V) The French are working on similar lines, but hampered by their 35-hour-week.
A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V
A) for B) of
C) about D) in
E) to
Regardless of the stresses today, you can ___ great understanding and sensitivity to the needs of others.
A) contest
B) demonstrate
C) inherit
D) engage
E) persuade
------, there's a lot of truth in the saying that an orchestra is only as good as its conductor.
A) Though there are exceptions
B) If the orchestra were in better shape
C) Since his abilities as an orchestra builder are very impressive
D) Once they had gained international recognition
E) Since music critics are involved in a serious controversy
The changing climate will have negative effects on all parts of the world; depending on people’s
location and lifestyles, however, there will be great differences in the subsequent health hazards that
human populations face.
A.No matter how and where people live, the subsequent health hazards will be terribly great after
the varying climate negatively affects all regions of the world.
B.Based on their lifestyles and geographical location, human populations all over the world will experience
health risks to be brought about by adverse effects of the changing climate.
C.Whether all regions of the world will be negatively affected by the incremental climate change largely
depends on people’s location and ways of life, yet human populations will end up with health risks.
D.Since all parts of the world are likely to be adversely influenced by the globally changing climate, human
populations have been subject to resultant health risks, regardless of how and where they reside.
E.All regions of the world will be adversely affected by the changing climate, but the resulting health risks to human populations will vary greatly, depending on where and how people live.
Anyone looking for a way to do something for the environment need look no further than their own home. In its struggle to [16] ---with the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to [17] ---1990s levels, the EU [18] ---to reduce energy consumption in the home. This is [19] ---surprising since the EU's 160 million buildings are [20] ---responsible for a staggering 40% of all energy consumed by its 15 states.
16. A) coincide
B) agree
C) augment
D) compete
E) comply
The essay should introduce the various ways that English is used throughout the world by people who come from many different countries and backgrounds. _____ It should then lead into the way that learning English can increase opportunities for a person who only spoke one language prior to learning English. This can include job opportunities and education opportunities, along with the opportunity to study the way that science works, because English is the official language of scientific studies.
A) Contrary to popular belief, the English language is quite a conservative language
B) These languages have greatly influenced the English language in terms of both grammar and vocabulary
C) Such a wide variety of words from various languages makes English a truly international language
D) The essay should talk about how English speakers are able to communicate more comfortably with a wide variety of people
E) Since English has been affected by different languages, its grammar is a bit more complicated
According to the passage ____.
A) there are several major divisions within the field of linguistics
B) sociolinguistics is the study of language as a sociocultural phenomenon.
C) both behaviourists and cognitive theory have the same idea
D) psycholinguists study the relationship between language and cognition
E) innateness theory stress that a child has a talent to learn language at birth
Computers are now part of our everyday lives and there seems to be nothing out of the ordinary about them. However, the computers of the (17)______ are a different position. They are already beginning to sound (18) ______ science fiction. Supercomputers, many (19)______ more powerful than today's fastest machines, could be contained in a tiny drop of liquid. (20) ______ would not be built of silicon, (22) DNA, the stuff of life itself.
19.
A) conditions B) ways
C) times D) degrees
E) testiest
The most significant political change in eastern
communism in
East and
the most prosperous of the Soviet satellite countries,
stagnation and environmental degradation. Waves of
East Germans registered their discontent with
worsening conditions by massive illegal emigration to
the West. This exodus together with evidence of
widespread official corruption led to the resignation of
Honecker. His successor, Egon Krenz, promised
reforms, but he was nevertheless faced with
continuing protests and continuing mass emigration.
In the end, on 4 November 1989, the government, in
a move that acknowledged its powerlessness to hold
its citizens captive, opened its border with
Germans to travel to the West. In a matter of days,
the Berlin Wall, which had been the embodiment of
the Cold War, the Iron Curtain, and the division of
East from West, was demolished by groups of
ordinary citizens. Jubilant crowds from both sides
walked through the gaping holes that now permitted
men, women, and children to take the few steps that
symbolized the return to freedom and a chance for
national unity.
As pointed out in the passage, in the late 1980s,----.
A) Honecker and Krenz were fully committed to the
ultimate unification of East and
B)
prosperity that the other Soviet satellite states
became envious of its economic success
C) the East German government, already corrupt
and disliked by the people, was no longer able to
prevent mass emigration to the West
D) Honecker introduced extremely austere
economic measures in order to improve
worsening conditions and get rid of corruption
E) East Germany adopted a policy of cooperation
with West Germany so that the effects of the
Cold War could be eliminated
It is difficult to ___ and repair the equipment.
A) brush
B) call
C) calculate
D) cancel
E) calibrate
In the passage, the fact that the descendants of the European settlers cannot come to terms with the
accomplishments of the American Indians shows that —.
A) they have had a fixed, predetermined and prejudiced attitude towards the American Indians
B) the Anglo-Saxon approach to the Indians is complex and unbiased in nature
C) people living in Midwestern America think in a way that resembles those of Europeans
D) no civilization other than the Phoenicians and the Vikings could construct big cities like Cahokia
E) the way the American Indians had lived for centuries has little to offer to European Americans
Mrs Turner : How did the meeting go?
Mr Turner : -----
Mrs Turner : And is that due to your clever advertising techniques?
Mr Turner : I suppose it is. To some extent anyway.
A) Everyone's rather concerned because we're facing more competition than formerly.
B) Well enough. Actually, there wasn't much to discuss and the chairman wanted to keep it short.
C) It was a waste of time, as usual. There wasn't even anything of importance on the agenda.
D) Fine. Four out of the five new products on the market are really selling well.
E) Remarkably well. It was as if everyone had decided to be as agreeable as possible!
There was no ____against him but Steven was accused of starting the fire.
A) chart
B) charm
C) cheat
D) clue
E) charity
If you ---- a badly rotten tooth, you ---- it pulled out.
A) had / have had to have
B) will have / would have to have
C) have / have to have
D) had had / had to have
E) could have / will have to have
Blood vessel ___ will be especially serious among people who have, or are at risk of, heart disease.
A) consistency
B) constriction
C) conflict
D) conformity
E) conjunction
Very eager to succeed through her looks,----.
A) she would have deceived many people
B) on account of the interference coming from the outsiders
C) she will probably fail due to her lack of qualifications
D) with regard to the crucial information you asked for
E) she will fail to achieve her unrealistic goals
Doug : Do you remember those tools I lent when you were building that bookshelf? Well, I’d like them back now.
Tom : -----
Doug : I do and urgently because I have to fix one of the stairs before someone falls and gets hurt.
Tom : Well, if I don’t come across them, I’ll buy you a new set.
A) Thanks for reminding me; I’ve been meaning to give them back to you for weeks.
B) Honestly, I don’t know where they are. Do you need them for something?
C) Remember? I returned them a while ago.
D) What do you mean? I thought you said I could keep them.
E) I found one of your tools in your driveway. It must have fallen out while you were bringing the box out of your car.
(I) By the fall of 1933, Germany had become a oneparty state. (II) Soon afterward, the socialist and communist left were crushed by the Nazi regime. III) Almost all non-Nazi organizations were either abolished or forced to become part of the Nazi system. (IV) At the same time, party propaganda sought to impress citizens with the regime’s ideology. (V) In fact, the 1928 election in Germany was a turning point for the Nazis.
A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V
---- that consists of physically distinct parts, each with different properties.
A) By the end of the eighteenth century Lavoisier and others had examined many compounds
B) Millions of substances have been characterized by chemists
C) The various materials we see around us are either substances or mixtures of substances
D) A heterogeneous mixture is a mixture
E) The word “matter” is the general term used to refer to the materials around us
The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, ____ the northern coast of North America _____ waterways through the Canadian Arctic.
A) with / on
B) through / in
C) under / with
D) along / via
E) from / through
A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V
Interviewer : Have you worked in this kind of job before?
Candidate : Yes, once, during my summer vacation.
Interviewer : ______
Candidate : No, I haven’t, but I do have professional qualifications
and enthusiasm.
A) So, you really haven’t much experience.
B) In that case you are the sort of person we are looking for.
C) Tell me about your work background in more detail.
D) Did you enjoy the work you did?
E) Then you may know my brother; he was the managing director there.
There is no likelihood that our domestic cats will ___; their problem is the opposite one.
A) discern
B) disclose
C) discharge
D) disconcert
E) disappear
It is a fact that colour blindness is a .............. transmitted defect in which a person cannot distinguish each colors.
A) genetically B) constantly
C) attentively D) enduringly
E) imminently
---- studying Japanese alphabet for the first time, I hadn’t realized how difficult it was.
A) While
B) After
C) Until
D) Since
E) When
Industry as a whole was badly affected by the restrictions, but it was the high technology sector that suffered most ________.
A) blatantly B) randomly
C) reasonably D) tightly
E) acutely
Sometimes organisms modify their own microclimate. For instance, trees modify the local climate within a forest so that in summer the temperature is usually lower, and the relative humidity greater, than outside the forest. The temperature and humidity beneath the litter of the forest floor differ still more; in the summer this area is considerably cooler and moister than the surrounding forest. ---- The cooler daytime microclimate in their burrows permits them to survive until night, when the surface cools off and they can come out to forage or hunt.
A) As another example, many desert-dwelling animals burrow to avoid surface climatic conditions that would kill them in minutes.
B) An area’s climate comprises the average weather conditions that occur there over a period
of years.
C) One of the most important climatic factors is temperature, which comprises both average
temperature and temperature extremes.
D) Precipitation is greatest where warm air passes over the ocean, absorbing moisture, and is then
cooled, such as when humid air is forced upwards by mountains.
E) Actually the tropics are hotter and less variable in climate than are temperate and polar areas.
The human brain contains more than 100 billion neurons, ___ .
A) most brains exhibit a visible distinction
B) the brain controls a wide variety of functions
C) the brain undergoes transitions from wakefulness to sleep
D) each linked to as many as 10,000 others
E) neurons are electrically active brain cells
19.
A) some
B) much
C) more
D) any
E) few
Oil, the world's most sought-after substance often seems to course the countries-----.
A) when there was a sudden influx of money
B) thought they had grown rich
C) whether this was actually the case
D) where it is found
E) If it were encourage people to take out loans
She put off replying to the letter until she had fully studied the matter and determined the policy to be pursued.
A) Konuyu iyice inceleyip izlenecek politikayı saptayana kadar mektuba cevap vermeyi erteledi.
B) Konuyu iyice inceleyip, izlenecek politikaya karar verdikten sonra mektuba cevap vermeyi uygun buldu.
C) Mektubu cevaplamayı bir kenara bırakıp sadece konu ile ilgilendi ve izlenecek politikayı saptadı.
D) Konuyu tam olarak inceleyip, benimsenecek politikayı belirlemeden mektuba cevap vermek istemedi.
E) Ancak sorun iyice tartışılıp izlenecek politika belirlenince, mektubu cevaplamayı
