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......... The faltering economy they inherited was now under additional pressure from those newly unemployed, including the million-man army of the former regime. There were critical shortages of foreign exchange and gold, much of which had been stolen in the final days of the war. There were also at least two million new refugees, nearly 10% of the population. Virtually, the country was in a stole of total bankruptcy.
A) The end of the war in Vietnam brought massive problems to the new leaders of the country
B) In the first place, all industry was nationalised by the new Vietnamese government
C) One unexpected problem facing the new government was continuing military activity
D) One solution to the urban problems facing Vietnam was continuing military activity
E) In their first months in power Vietnam’s new leaders succeeded in persuading hundreds of thousands of people to move back to their farms
A housing benefit is for people on low income, although it can't apply to mortgages or home loans and can only apply to rent payments, explains Citizens Advice Bureau on its AdviceGuide website. ____ because he's paying a form of rent. If a couple is renting a room or apartment, only one of them may apply for housing benefits, and a single person can apply only if he is solely responsible for paying rent.
A) It is essential when you're living apart from your parents for the first time
B) A person sharing a room in a house or a flat can apply for housing benefits
C) It is surely enjoyable to live with people of your own age
D) However, sharing a flat does have some distinct disadvantages on the other hand
E) I've always been on the lookout for someone I can get on well with
Çocuk hırsızları, cezaevindeki arkadaşlarını serbest bıraktırma anlaşması için bir çocuğu araç olarak kullandılar.
A) The kidnappers who used a child as a means of making a deal to get their friends in prison have been released.
B) The kidnappers wanted to use a child to get their friends in prison released.
C) The kidnappers were able to get their friends in prison released by using a child as a means of making a deal.
D) The kidnappers used a child as a means of making a deal to get their friends in prison released.
E) The kidnappers made a deal to get their friends in prison released in return for a child they abducted.
As far as I was concerned, the last speaker was quite ____ on the need to resume fighting.
A) adamant
B) extreme
C) intense
D) consecutive
E) ambiguous
Shakespeare’in ailesi, idamı, 13. yüzyıl ortasında kayda geçmiş olan Warwickshire’lı eşkiya William Sakspere’e dayanmaktadır.
A) It is to William Shakespeare, a Warwickshire robber in the mid-13th century, whose hanging is recorded, that Shakespeare’s family is related.
B) William Shakespeare was a mid-13th century Warwickshire robber whose hanging was recorded and to whom Shakespeare’s family can be traced.
C) Shakespeare’s family can be traced back to a Warwickshire robber, William Shakespeare, who was hung some time in the mid-13th century.
D) Shakespeare’s family goes back to the Warwickshire robber William Shakespeare, whose hanging was recorded in the mid-13th century.
E) Shakespeare’s family has been traced back to William Shakespeare, a Warwickshire robber, whose hanging in the mid-13th century was recorded.
An ideal anticancer drug ---- cancer cells without harming normal cells, but no such drug ----.
A) would destroy / exists
B) destroyed / existed
C) may have destroyed / has existed
D) has destroyed / had existed
E) had destroyed / would exist
A) so
B) yet
C) for
D) and
E) already
18.
A) However
B) Furthermore
C) Much as
D) While
E) Since
There is no sharp distinction between science and engineering. That is why engineers and scientists are often confused in the minds of the general public. While scientists explore nature in order to discover general principles, engineers apply established principles drawn from mathematics and science in order to develop economical solutions to technical problems. The work of engineers is the link between perceived social needs and commercial applications. Engineers consider many factors when developing a new product. For example, in developing an industrial robot, engineers precisely specify the functional requirements; design and test the robot’s components; integrate the components to produce the final design; and evaluate the design's overall effectiveness, cost, reliability, and safety. This process applies to the development of many different products, such as chemicals, computers, engines, aircraft, and toys.
We understand from the passage that ................
A) it is very hard for engineers to find economical solutions to technical problems
B) various branches of science play an important role in finding cheap solutions to economic problems
C) engineers have to focus on many variants while working
D) every body accurately knows what engineers and scientists do
E) engineers have to reach general principles first in order to develop a product
We ---- adequate resources to National Disaster Organisations to equip them so that they ---- us in case of a disaster in the future.
A) may provide / have to help
B) had better / could have helped
C) should provide / can help
D) can provide / would rather help
E) have to provide / should help
Andrew: - Software engineers have programmed a computer to investigate suspicious deaths. That sounds interesting.
Mark: - Tell me more about the programme.
Andrew: - ----
Mark: - Sounds sensible. In detective fiction, the police are invariably on the wrong track because it appears to be the most likely one.
A) The problem is obviously the huge volume of information you would have to put in.
B) One can only learn the truth by asking relevant questions.
C) The software also has a 'truth maintenance' programme.
D) I suppose it could help to prevent miscarriages of justice.
E) It's designed to help detectives explore lines of enquiry other than the obvious ones.
For two decades after World War II, mass production reigned supreme. Mass production techniques pushed companies into standardized products, long product life cycles, and rigid manufacturing, emphasizing efficiency and low cost over flexibility. Special orders cost more. But today's consumers are very choosy. They want quality, value and products specially tailored to their needs, but always at the lowest possible price. For now mass customization has come to the fore. Mass customization uses information technology to produce and deliver products and services designed to fit the specifications of individual customers. Companies can customize products in quantities as small as one with the same speed and low cost as mass production methods. Mass customization systems use information taken from the customer to control the flow of goods.
We learn from the passage that mass production -----.
A) has now regained its previous popularity
B) was the leading method of production in the twenty years or so that followed World War II
C) can easily be adapted to meet the needs of individual customers
D) can be very profitable because of the wide appeal of its goods
E) gives priority to quality and longevity in the goods produced but ignores aesthetic qualities
A generation ago, few parents would have thought that teaching their baby to read was a possibility. But over the past decade or so, many parents have become convinced that they (15)— their children for a life-time of success by tutoring them (16)— infancy in reading, math, computer skills, and the like. Books and articles offering advice on such matters as teaching babies to read, and even getting them to pass entrance exams for exclusive preschools have proliferated. Do parents who follow all this advice (17)— a smarter child? (18)—some educators think so, many are doubtful. For example, there is no evidence that a child who learns to read unusually early goes on to experience more success than children who learn to read at a (19)— normal age.
17.
A) get along with B) stand up to
C) get through D) stand against
E) end up with
The President ____ out his promise to reduce taxation.
A) ceased
B) categorized
C) carried
D) caught
E) cast
In Spanish literature, a la divino is the recasting
of a secular work as a religious work, or more —,
a treatment of a secular theme in religious terms
through the use of allegory, symbolism, and
metaphor.
A) externally
B)respectively
C) primarily
D) generally
E) decisively
Andy : There are several posts advertised here for Marine Biogeochemists. You might take a look at them.
Roger : I certainly will. Are they offering research opportunities?
Andy : ______
Roger : Thanks. I do so want to get back into a laboratory again.
A) What's wrong with the research we're doing here?
B) I expect so. I haven't read them very you know.
C) Why do you ask that? Are you interested in research?
D) Why are you so interested in research? There's no money in it.
E) Yes, they are. That's why I'm drawing your attention to them.
Alec : How are you getting on with that book of short stories James gave you?
Malcolm : -----
Alec : Why was that?
Malcolm : Well, all the stories make strange things seem ordinary, and ordinary things strange. It's rather disturbing at first.
A) Fine now, but I found it a bit difficult to get into at first.
B) l haven't even begun to read it.
C) It's too modern for me; it's also too literary
D) To be honest, l don't really like autobiography.
E) Grand. lrish Murdoch is one of my favourite writers.
We understand from the passage that we have no evidence, ----.
A) as to what sort of parts Shakespeare played
B) to suggest that Shakespeare was popular in his day
C) as to whether or not Shakespeare actually did rest out his property
D) about when Shakespeare was writing his plays
E) that the destruction of the Globe had any serious impact on Shakespeare's life
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
The author clearly states that ----.
A) DDT presents no health risk whatsoever
B) DDT can now be used for agriculture,
particularly in Africa
C) African countries have won a victory over malaria
D) DDT has never been used in houses
E) there are those who claim the power of DDT is exaggerated
They lived a life of ___ until the war stripped them of their fortune.
A) emotion
B) emptiness
C) ease
D) empower
E) emphasis
I almost ____into the tree; what a narrow escape!
A) crashed
B) correlated
C) corrected
D) convened
E) cooperated
US Internet giant Google has suffered a ____ in its bid to create a digital library of the world's books.
A) blow
B) breath
C) blubber
D) barrier
E) barrel
Clinically, high-sensation-seekers who risk their well-being for something exciting and novel are known to have the” thrill-seeking” gene. .............. Psychologists explain these people as pursuers of new, complex and exciting sensations.
A) However, we can argue that it is the social circumstances that determine one’s personal traits
B) Therefore high-sensation-seekers are genetically different from low-sensation-seekers, who are not in search of excitement or intense sensations
C) Consequently, high–sensation-seekers are highly susceptible to injury and even death
D) What leads to high–sensation-seekers towards destructive behaviour still remains a mystery
E) However, high-sensation-seekers were usually regarded as clever and assertive as opposed to low-sensation-seekers who were called passive and timid
The applicants inability to punctuate correctly on her resume, was surely what led to her job ___ being rejected.
A) accounts
B) approaches
C) applications
D) amendments
E) ambitions
He was advised to confirm the booking but failed to do so.
A) He won’t confirm the booking although he is advised to.
B) It is always advisable to confirm a booking but he never does so.
C) The booking should have been confirmed but he forgot to do so.
D) They told him it was best to confirm the booking but he didn’t listen to them.
E) As the booking was not confirmed, they won’t listen to his complaints.
For the time being, people are concentrating ------ making use ------the irrigation systems that have already been installed.
A) by / with B) for / in
C) at/into D) over / from
E) on/of
The 18,108 islands of Indonesia, about 6,000 (22) ---- are inhabited, are scattered around the equator, which (23) ---- the country a tropical climate. (24) ---- populated islands are Java, where about half of the population lives, Sumatra and New Guinea. Due to its location on the edges of tectonic plates, it’s easy to say that Indonesia (25) ---- by earthquakes and tsunamis quite often. It is also rich in volcanoes. Because of its (26) ---- climatic conditions, flora and fauna differ greatly across the country.
24.
A) Larger
B) The largest
C) Largely
D) The larger
E) Much larger
---- stomach functions and other gastrointestinal activities are related to emotional states ---- throughout history.
A) That / has been known
B) While / have been known
C) These / were known
D) Whether / could be known
E) Such / had been known
In England, transportation had improved a great deal during the years before 1830, but moving heavy
materials, particularly coal, remained a problem. It is therefore significant that the first modern railway, built in 1825 for the transportation of coal, ran from the Durham coal field of Stockton to Darlington near the coast. Coal had traditionally been transported short distances via tramways, or tracks along which horses pulled coal carts. The Stockton-to-Darlington railway was a logical extension of a tramway, designed to answer the transportation needs arising from constantly expanding industrialization. The man primarily responsible for the design of the first steam railway was George Stephenson, a self-educated engineer who had not learned to read until he was seventeen. The locomotives on the Stockton-Darlington line travelled at fifteen miles an hour, the fastest rate at which machines had yet moved goods overland. Soon they would move people as well,transforming transportation in the process.
It is clear from the passage that the steam railway ----.
A) had been in use in England before Stephenson introduced new techniques
B) remained a local facility and played no role in the industrialization of England
C) was a solution to meet the transportation needs of England’s industry
D) was invented in the first place for travel between Stockton and Darlington
E) had little impact on the transformation of transportation in nineteenth-century England
Mine-clearing efforts made more progress last year than ever before. But there is concern about future progress because international support decreased for the first time. The European Commission, the United States and eight other major donors decreased their financing of 'mine action,' which is defined as clearing mines and destroying supplies of them. It also includes mine risk education and survivor assistance. Seven hundred forty square kilometers, an area about the size of New York City, was cleared of mines last year. It is the most land cleared in one year since modern de-mining efforts started in nineteen eighty. Yet the number of reported casualties from landmine explosions was eleven percent higher than in the previous year. Landmines killed at least two thousand people and wounded more than five thousand others last year. About eighty percent of the victims were civilians. What is more, numbers of reported casualties are often less than half of the real number. More than one hundred fifty governments have joined the Mine Ban Treaty, banning the use, production and trade of landmines. Twenty-nine still have to finish mine-clearing within the next few years. But thirteen might not meet that goal.
We learn from the passage that the concern
about mine-clearing ----.
A) has decreased due to increasing
international interest
B) has proved to be baseless
C) has resulted from diminishing support
D) has vanished thanks to the Mine Ban
Treaty
E) will never be made public
This was a ____ step on the road from dictatorship to democracy.
A) deep
B) deferred
C) definite
D) defective
E) decisive
If you ---- the alarm clock last night, you ---- late for the meeting.
A) had set / wouldn’t be
B) set / wouldn’t have been
C) will set / aren’t
D) have set / weren’t
E) would set / hadn’t been
Upon this bed spread a........ of five or six inches of broken stone, which stoneshould be free from any earthy mixture.
A) symptom
B) shift
C) nutrient
D) layer
E) supplement
BBC4, a comparatively new TV channel, has a character of its own. From the start it aimed to be “a place to think”, and it was always designed as something “that the commercial market would never do”, says Roly Keating, its controller and formerly head of arts at the BBC. Its first week’s schedule indeed verged on a parody of non-commercial TV, with township opera from South Africa and a performance by a Senegalese singer in a London church hall. A top-rated show will typically draw some 50,000 viewers – almost negligible in television terms. Yet that narrow appeal makes BBC4 a model of what a publicly financed broadcaster ought to do. It has roamed into territory where its ratings-driven sister channel, BBC1, seldom dares to tread. Despite a tiny 35m budget, it boasts an intelligent prime-time talk show and a world news programme so internationally minded that its London provenance is barely visible. BBC4 may wear its gravity a little too heavily at times, but it supplies a variety and thoughtfulness unavailable on prime time BBC1. The more the other BBC channels chase the ratings, and the more that BBC4 refuses to be dictated to by them, the more the channel looks like a model for what BBC television could look like.
It is clear from the passage that, since BBC4 is publicly financed, it ----.
A) has to give viewers the kind of programmes they want
B) has a large budget with which to work
C) is under no pressure to attract large numbers of viewers
D) is under an obligation to offer a great variety of programme
E) is often severely criticized for the subjectivity of its news programmes
The passage is concerned with how ----.
A) Mojibake get incorporated for use on the Internet
B) English will always be the dominant language on the Internet
C) lesser-used languages often get overlook when doing statistical studies
D) Internet technology has changed to accommodate languages other than English
E) languages other than English can make themselves more popular on the Internet
The Maya were a diverse people ----.
A) whose culture has developed through the centuries
B) so artisans sculpted strikingly lifelike clay figurines
C) but they tied boards around their babies' heads, making the skulls grow flat or elongated
D) when they were several disparate groups with their own languages
E) where their jewellery and artifacts have been photographed with care
Education is the most effective tool to ___ all diseases around the globe.
A) collect
B) combat
C) clump
D) coincide
E) combine
Why people continue to pollute the ocean with all forms of contamination from sewage to solid ---- such as plastic containers remains a mystery to environmentalists.
A) abilities
B) wastes
C) oaths
D) expectations
E) budgets
According to the passage, elephants can be a serious problem ................
A) if you want to capture their photographs
B) when the new law has been passed to stop hunting
C) when they are put in the same reserve with rhinoceroses
D) unless they are brought up in a proper family environment
E) if they are not treated as human being infants when they are born