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1.

As regards the proposals for the treaty on


economic co-operation, my government has
certain _____ concerning them.

5.

A) suggestively

A) complications

B) functionally

B) reservations

C) seldom

C) disturbances

D) incredibly

D) restrictions
E)

2.

If he feels hes being criticised hell


sometimes make _____ dogmatic statements.

E)

Surely no one on the Council would dare to


dispute the _____ of his dismissal.

6.

A) recurrence

So long as they continue to _____ the


resolutions of the Security Council, they will
face growing international pressure.

B) promotion

A) provide

C) legitimacy

B) admit

D) adoption

C) defy

E)

D) undertake

inference

E)
3.

The accounting of the proceedings given by


their legal adviser was perfectly _____ but
not at all complimentary.

7.

A) restrictive

C) taken over

D) sensitive

D) turned off

accurate

E) broken away

He was absolutely _____ in his refusal to


allow any more workers to be made
redundant.

8.

A) determined

As managing director he is expected to _____


himself the sole responsibility for launching
the campaign.
A) make for

B) decadent

B) take upon

C) disturbed

C) care for

D) shy
E)

The tragedy would never have happened if


they had not _____ from the main group.

B) cut out

C) innocent

E)

describe

A) run out

B) compulsive

4.

safely

reductions

D) bring about

diffident

E) lock into

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9.

The influence _____ Freud _____ the


generation that followed was even stronger.

13. I was lucky enough to get home _____ the


thunderstorm was beginning.

A) through / over

A) till

B) from / to

B) so as to

C) off / towards

C) in time for

D) by / upon

D) up to

E)

E)

of / on

10. There is nothing remarkable _____ the


subject matter of his novels, but he will
always be remembered _____ his delightfully
vivid settings.

14. She is one of those rare critics ____


judgements have a common sense basis.
A) what
B) which

A) about / for

C) whom

B) from / in

D) whose

C) in / from

E)

D) out of / through
E)

just as

that

of / over

11. On the night we went to the opera, Domingo


was not singing, but _____ we enjoyed
ourselves enormously.

15. The Old Wives Tale is one of _____


impressive novels I have read for a long time.
A) a more

A) in case

B) most

B) on the contrary

C) the most

C) moreover

D) least

D) whatever

E)

E)

the little

nevertheless

12. _____ the terrible state of the roads following


the heavy rains, it is almost impossible to
reach the village except in a tractor.
A)

Unfortunately

B)

Owing to

C)

Even so

D)

Except for

E)

In spite of

16. _____ of the information he gave me was


unfortunately out of date.
A) The more
B) None
C) Many
D) Some
E)

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17. He was delighted to learn that _____ people
really do appreciate his music.
A) any

21. One feels that there _____ any noticeable


improvement in the human rights problem in
Africa until all the African countries _____
their economic difficulties.

B) little

A) cannot be / will overcome

C) a little

B) hasnt been / had overcome

D) a few
E)

C) wont be / overcome

much

D) wouldnt be / would be overcome


E)

wasnt / have overcome

18. I have to admit I found his argument most


disturbing, _____ ?
22. As I _____ you yesterday, the undersecretary
_____ over this afternoons discussions.

A) have you
B) havent you

A) have told / was presiding

C) didnt you

B) told / will be presiding

D) do you
E)

C) would have told / had presided

dont you

D) will tell / has presided


E)

19. Before I got to the end of his article I felt I


knew everything there _____ about the North
America Free Trade Agreement.
A) was to know
B) is known

would tell / has been presiding

23. The Pacific markets _____ extremely


competitive since the manufacturing capacity
of many Far Eastern countries _____ to
improve at the turn of the decade.

C) had known

A) are becoming / begins

D) is being known

B) had become / would begin

E)

C) became / have begun

has to be known

D) were becoming / would have begun


20. By the time he _____ his report to the
screening committee, others _____ up with
better proposals.
A) has presented / had come
B) presents / will have come

E)

have become / began

24. If they _____ out some market research for


the new product they _____ such heavy
losses in sales.

C) will present / came

A) have carried / had been spared

D) had presented / would have come

B) carried / will be spared

E)

C) carry / have been spared

was presenting / will be coming

D) had carried / could have been spared


E)

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would have carried / were spared

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25. At the meeting, even though he spoke well,
he was unable to ____ the other members.
A) compete

29. To be a leader it is not enough to be hard


working and knowledgeable; one must also
be able to inspire ____ .
A) denial

B) persuade

B) restraint

C) reinterpret

C) discretion

D) agree
E)

D) confidence

dispute

E)
26. It was felt that the EC had ____ on a program
of economic change that the member states
could not sustain.
A) surpassed

30. People who are constantly in the public eye


must learn to remain ____ in the face of
criticism.
A) composed

B) relieved

B) resultant

C) embarked

C) appreciated

D) specified
E)

D) outrageous

retired

E)
27. One major aim of the new constitution is to
prevent the ____ of power by any majority.
A) misuse

A) trials

C) completion

B) precautions

D) issue

C) efforts

existence

D) objections
E)

28. When they called Bronson to head office Im


quite sure it was not their ____ to promote
him to branch manager.
A) avidity

attempts

32. He has behaved ____ on many occasions, so


this instance of impoliteness is hardly
surprising.

B) impression

A) shyly

C) prediction

B) endearingly

D) disposition
E)

restored

31. As the conditions of the expedition are likely


to be severe, you had better take necessary
____

B) compromise

E)

reservation

C) sensitively

intention

D) readily
E)

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inconsiderately

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33. Most children are able to walk ____ holding
on to anything when they are fifteen months
old.
A) for

37. Living conditions in a poor village are


obviously unhygienic, ____ life in a
sophisticated city is also potentially
dangerous.
A) since

B) from

B) but

C) with

C) as

D) without
E)

D) moreover

to

E) even though
34. ____ the time a child reaches school age he
ought to be able to dress himself fairly
quickly.
A) On

38. A child who is allowed to explore and find


things out for ____ soon develops selfconfidence.
A) themselves

B) For

B) him

C) In

C) each other

D) At
E)

D) himself

By

E)
35. ____ any change in the condition of the
patient, be sure that the nurse in charge is
informed.
A) In the event of

39. Apparently both countries are seeking a facesaving compromise but it is unlikely that ____
will ever again gain the confidence of the
world.

B) However slight

A) each

C) With the exception of

B) neither

D) Owing to
E)

C) either

In favour of

D) the other
E)

36. I finally learned what had happened ____ the


nurse was wheeling him into the operating
room.
A) in case

the rest

40. Probably they didnt ____ appreciate the risks


involved in entering the competitive world of
automobile manufacture.

B) so that

A) too

C) just as

B) quite

D) during
E)

one another

C) more

as soon as

D) so
E)

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as

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41. For a while Matisse felt under the influence
of Gooier and, later, under ____ of Cezanne.

45. For several years now she ____ as private


secretary to the bank manager.

A) these

A) has been working

B) those

B) worked

C) some

C) was working

D) much

D) works

E)

E)

that

42. The new Prime Minister is generally regarded


as ____ effective leaders the country has had
in decades.

used to work

46. When they heard a gunfire across the border,


the relief workers in the camp knew that
another group of refugees ____ before long.

A) another

A) are arriving

B) the most

B) had arrived

C) the other

C) will arrive

D) one of the most

D) would be arriving

E)

E)

more than

43. Jane Tate will go far in the film world since


she has a remarkable talent for ____ even the
most conflicting emotions.

could have arrived

47. Last weeks supplementary budget package


____ to prevent Japans economy from
plunging even lower.

A) depicting

A) is being designed

B) having depicted

B) has designed

C) being depicted

C) was designed

D) depict

D) would be designed

E)

E) had designed

having been depicted

44. Today coffee prices are far below the


required rate; hence, growers are unable to
pay their debts and cooperatives find it hard
____ .

48. In some quarters it is felt that the minister


____ the political stature that he needs to
recast the countrys economic policy.

A) surviving

B) may have lost

B) survive

C) would have lost

C) to survive

D) had lost

D) survived
E)

A) was losing

E)

to have survived

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lost

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49. The ____ concerning total disarmament have
broken down without leading any fruitful
results.

53. The insurance company immediately sent a


team of specialists to ____ the damage
caused by the floods.

A) intentions

A) undermine

B) complaints

B) assess

C) negotiations

C) undertake

D) commitments

D) anticipate

E)

E)

involvements

50. Hes nearly 80 years old but still works for a


couple of firms in an ____ capacity.
A) inessential

54. The surgeon was ____ embarrassed to learn


that a piece of bandage had been left inside
the abdomen.
A) outstandingly

B) irrelevant

B) nervously

C) elective

C) sensitively

D) advisory
E)

D) loosely

injudicious

E)
51. It is only too obvious that the majority of
children in the developing countries arent
receiving ____ nourishment.
A) adequate

extremely

55. The Chief of the Intelligence Service told me


____ that there would soon be several
important changes made in the organisation.
A) crucially

B) consistent

B) skilfully

C) successive

C) confidentially

D) collective
E)

safeguard

D) laterally

respectable

E) considerably
52. The judge warned the prosecutor that he
must ____ from ridiculing the accused.
A) refrain

56. The special committee has been called to


discuss in detail the ____ in higher education.
A) retention

B) prevent

B) references

C) derive

C) apologies

D) conclude
E)

D) reliance

withdraw

E)

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innovations

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57. The executive committee was of the opinion
that the motion must be passed ____ .
A) in truth

61. The lecture he gave was highly complicated


with the result that ____ people were
capable of following it.
A) lesser

B) at all costs

B) a few

C) by heart

C) few

D) in connection
E)

D) more

at all

E)
58. The board consist ____ a good cross-section
of local business representatives.
A) upon

62. Of the rock samples we have so far worked


on, this is probably ____ valuable.
A) the most

B) by

B) most

C) up

C) many

D) of
E)

most

D) little

around

E)
59. Despite long and tiring discussions, the two
delegations have failed to come to terms
____ the issue of refugees.

least

63. I couldnt help admiring the professional


manner in ____ he dealt with the crisis.

A) towards

A) whose

B) under

B) that

C) around

C) whom

D) down

D) which

E)

E)

over

60. A number of distinguished physicians were


invited to give ____ opinions on family
planning.

what

64. ____ far reaching the benefits of the new


policy may be, the country quite simply
cannot afford it.

A) ours

A) Whatever

B) its

B) However

C) its

C) Whatsoever

D) their

D) Wherever

E)

E)

own

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65. ____ the interest rates are concerned, it looks
as if the inflation has at least been curbed.

69. From the report, it looked as if he ____ a


crucial role in smuggling.

A) As far as

A) has played

B) Owing to

B) had played

C) By way of

C) is playing

D) Just as

D) has been played

E)

E)

As regards

66. It is expected that, by mid-1992, the allied


troops ____ out of the Gulf.
A) must be pulling

70. It is time the members of the European


Community ____ into the open their fears
concerning economic recession.
A) have brought

B) will have pulled

B) should bring

C) have pulled

C) brought

D) are being pulled


E)

was played

D) are bringing

should pull

E)
67. Reinforced concrete was used for the new
buildings ____ there should ever be another
landslide in the vicinity.

will bring

71. If you ask me, they seem to ____ the


takeover for quite some time now.

A) due to

A) have to contemplate

B) in spite of

B) contemplate

C) according to

C) have been contemplating

D) in case

D) be contemplated

E)

E)

instead

68. The witness finally admitted that he did


remember ____ someone standing by the
entrance.

have been contemplated

72. Recently, the Agricultural Bank ____ to write


off the debts of the farmers in the
earthquake area.

A) being seen

A) was being instructed

B) to see

B) had instructed

C) to have seen

C) will be instructed

D) having been seen

D) instructed

E)

E)

having seen

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has been instructed

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73. The topics included in the conference
programme are not as ____ as one might
have hoped.

77. They raised no ____ to his prolonged leave of


absence since they didnt want to lose him
altogether.

A) obsessed

A) refutation

B) illuminated

B) refusal

C) preoccupied

C) objection

D) varied

D) refund

E)

E)

disposed

74. At the opening of the new production of Aida


the guest soprano gave a superb, a truly ____
performance.

78. The criticism he made concerning the annual


fiscal report was ____ to the point.
A) remarkably

A) dazzling

B) immediately

B) declining

C) incessantly

C) disappointing

D) preferably

D) recalling
E)

E)

incompetently

degrading

75. Diplomatic relations between the two


countries, which were ____ during the war,
have not yet been restored.

79. I would like to open a private old peoples


home but I dont know yet how to ____ it.
A) look through

A) defeated

B) set about

B) established

C) rush upon

C) severed

D) put on

D) determined
E)

compulsion

E)

featured

76. If the situation in Somalia improves, a


significant part of the allied forces will be
____ .

turn on

80. He was rather ____ when he learned that his


proposal had been turned down.

A) enclosed

A) hurried on

B) withdrawn

B) sent away

C) encouraged

C) found out

D) recruited

D) seen to

E)

E)

sustained

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put out

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81. Research into the causes of cancer is ____
vital importance if we are to learn how to
control the disease.

85. Some of the board members are convinced


that the price quoted is ____ high to be
accepted.

A) on

A) more

B) with

B) so

C) in

C) little

D) of

D) too

E)

E)

under

82. The economy of most Middle Eastern


countries is largely based ____ oil exports.
A) with

as

86. John said he couldn't make it on Tuesday or


Wednesday; I told him I couldnt ____ .

B) upon

A) either

C) about

B) also

D) onto

C) too

E)

D) neither

for

E)

83. In his new job he will be responsible ____ the


coordination of relief to the refugees.
A) about

87. I suspect the most interesting developments


in space exploration have been the most
recent ones, ____ ?
A) arent are

B) to

B) are they

C) for

C) is it

D) at
E)

D) do I

from

E)

84. As far as I am concerned he is one of ____


talented lawyers the company has ever had.
A) most

havent they

88. Surely were in a position now ____ we can


afford to pay for the best legal advice.
A) where

B) the most

B) which

C) more

C) what

D) mostly
E)

as well

D) that

least

E)

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whom

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89. ____ decision he makes well have to accept
it.

93. No new staff ____ appointed since the two


companies ____ merged.

A) Whenever

A) are / would be

B) Whatever

B) were / have been

C) Whatsoever

C) are going to be / have

D) Wherever

D) would have been / are being

E)

E)

Whoever

90. The doctor advised him to have monthly


check-ups ____ any return of symptoms
might be detected immediately.

94. Today the telephone ____ an indispensable


part of our daily life but ____ so.
A) had been / had not always been

A) if ever

B) has been / is not always

B) in case

C) is / has not always been

C) such as

D) will be / would not always be

D) even though
E)

have been / were

E)

was / couldnt always have been

so that

91. If you really ____ to promote him, you ____


so right away.

95. In the end I ____ him for the election since


the attitude of the delegates ____ so
completely.

A) are meaning / did

A) didnt propose / had changed

B) meant / will have to do

B) have proposed / will change

C) have meant / had to do

C) am proposing / would have changed

D) mean / must do

D) could not have proposed / is changing

E)

E)

were meaning / had done

92. One way of ____ waste is ____ such things as


glass and paper.

had not proposed / changed

96. I ____ him taking notes frantically while the


minister ____ the troops.

A) cut down / recycling

A) saw / had addressed

B) cutting down / to recycle

B) could see / was addressing

C) cutting down / recycle

C) see / was addressing

D) cut down / recycling

D) had seen / would be addressing

E)

E)

being cut down / to have recycled

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have seen / addressed

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97. His study of the situation covers a great deal
of relevant material but does not tackle the
real issues _____ enough.

101.In a child, curiosity normally suggests


intelligence and is welcomed; but an _____
adult is best avoided.

A) disturbingly

A) indefinite

B) outrageously

B) indulgent

C) vaguely

C) indecisive

D) adequately

D) impartial

E)

E)

currently

98. At present the rate of economic growth is


very satisfactory, but _____ when foreign
competition makes itself felt this will not be
the case.

102.I am not _____ that his proposal actually will


lead to an improvement in the situation.
A) impressed
B) deterred

A) enthusiastically

C) convinced

B) eventually

D) refrained

C) considerably

E)

D) effectively
E)

inquisitive

deserved

preferably

99. Serbian _____ in Bosnia has been strongly


condemned by the civilised world but little
serious action has been taken against it.

103.It is a society that is _____ to waging war on


all forms of environmental pollution.
A) regarded

A) conduct

B) preferred

B) settlement

C) referred

C) investment

D) committed

D) treaty

E)

E)

compliment

100.In view of the severe economic recession his


appointment to this office was regarded as
highly _____

104.Many of the pictures sent from outer space


are presently on _____ in the public library.

A) refutable

A) duty
B) display

B) compulsory

C) account

C) persuasive

D) exchange

D) appropriate
E)

upheld

E)

considerable

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reinforcement

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105.One way _____ cutting down waste is to
recycle such things _____ glass and paper.

109. _____ of the information he gave could have


been found in any encyclopaedia.

A) of / as

A) A few

B) to / of

B) Many

C) as / off

C) Few

D) in / to

D) Much

E)

E)

with / in

106. Some of these new drugs, capable _____


curing a variety of diseases, are sometimes
hazardous _____ use or disposal.

A great many

110. The director has promised that _____ finds a


solution to this particular problem will be
well awarded.

A) about / with

A) who

B) for / at

B) whoever

C) by / through

C) the one

D) in / by

D) whomsoever

E)

E)

of / in

107. As he failed to reply in time, the organisers


took his name _____ the list.
A) below

111. I was immensely impressed by both the


qualifications and the personality of the
candidate, but _____ on the selection
committee was.

B) to

A) all the rest

C) in

B) several others

D) by
E)

C) many

off

D) hardly anyone else


E)

108. Why don't you take your lawyer with you to


the meeting _____ there are problems he can
deal with for you?

most of the others

112. Several members of the research team


haven't handed in their reports yet, and I
must admit I haven't _____

A) whether

A) as well

B) even if

B) too

C) as ever

C) either

D) unless
E)

anyone

D) also

in case

E)

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neither

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113. The judge ruled that the evidence given by
the witnesses at the trial was not substantial
_____ to prove the doctor guilty of
negligence.

117. By the end of the 20th century all the


countries in the European Community _____
a political union.
A) formed

A) already

B) have formed

B) alright

C) are forming

C) enough

D) are being formed

D) fairly
E)

E)

114. Weren't they supposed _____ a detailed


study of the area before they chose the site
for the new factory?

118. The banks complained that they _____


adequate notice regarding this new
monetary policy.
A) are not being given

A) to have to make

B) are not given

B) to have made

C) haven't given

C) making

D) had not been given

D) having made
E)

E)

119. Hardly ever _____ such a gathering of


distinguished scientists from so many
different countries.

A) has got

A) there was

B) gets

B) there has been

C) was getting

C) has there been

D) had got

D) would there have been

will be getting

E)

116. Until the very last minute we could not find


out whether or not he _____ to sign the
treaty.

there had been

120. The rescue workers _____ able to rescue


some of those who _____ still alive under the
rubble.

A) will agree

A) should be / were

B) would agree

B) may be / are

C) has agreed

C) might have been / have been

D) is going to agree
E)

will not be giving

to be made

115. Since he became the chairman of the


company he _____ used to working late, and
he seems to enjoy it.

E)

will have formed

still

D) will be / would be

has to agree

E)

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121. They have had to agree to provide free
lunches, but obviously they have had done so
____ .

125. A well organised company that knows its


products are of a high standard does not fear
____ .

A) faultlessly

A) conversion

B) precisely

B) concentration

C) exceedingly

C) competition

D) reluctantly

D) departure

E)

E)

extraordinarily

122. Unfortunately, few children behave in such a


____ manner towards the old and infirm.
A) ridiculous

126. When births outnumber deaths, the


population increases; when the ____ is true,
then it falls.
A) opposite

B) considerate

B) growth

C) restricted

C) proportion

D) fragile
E)

D) rate

progressive

E)
123. The development of the experimental
method to verify the theories had the ____
effect and there was a rapid increase in
scientific knowledge.

decreases

127. In the past, too, people relied on plant


substances to ____ a wide range of illnesses.
A) recover

A) adverse

B) cure

B) reluctant

C) infect

C) appropriate

D) undermine

D) erroneous
E)

pretension

E)

restrain

partial

124. We will have to hire more workers soon; we


cant put it off ____ .
A) plainly

128. Industry is slowly realising that the manner


in which waste products are being ____ of is
of vital importance to the environment.

B) supremely

A) forwarded

C) emphatically

B) exposed

D) intensely

C) composed

E)

D) disposed

indefinitely

E)

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129. I was astonished to learn how such an
experienced man as Dr Foster could be ____
by her tricks.

133. As regards the decision to modernise the


mines in the region, here is a report which
contains ____ relevant information.

A) locked up

A) another

B) found out

B) any

C) run over

C) many

D) made up

D) a

E)

E) some

taken in

130. I dont know how the nurse ____ the


constant demands of that elderly patient.

134. Of all the medicines we have tested, this is


obviously ____ effective.

A) thinks over

A) much

B) changes over

B) more

C) puts up with

C) the most

D) wakes up

D) a little

E) turns on

E) less

131. After that last incident, even the manager


admits that we can ____ their services.

135. An hour after the accident he was conscious


____ to describe how it had happened.

A) go on

A) enough

B) do without

B) more

C) put out

C) as well

D) show off

D) so much

E) break into

E) fairly

132. Following the bomb explosion in the


shopping centre, the police have been
warning people to ____ any suspiciouslooking parcel.

136. The project he has in mind is ____


complicated to be feasible.
A) very
B) too

A) rely on

C) so

B) run through

D) such

C) take over

E) as

D) watch out for


E) send for

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137. This patient is not as seriously ill as ____ I
examined a little while ago.
A) whom

141. Ambitious plans ____ the expansion of the


railway network have had to be abandoned
due to lack ____ funds.
A) in / of

B) other

B) on / about

C) some other

C) from / in

D) one another

D) for / of

E) the one

E) over / on
138. The manager told Brian to do the job ____
and not pass it on to ____ assistant.
A) ourselves / their

142. ____ the world there has been a growing


sense of disillusionment with the United
Nations and its policies.

B) themselves / hers

A) For

C) himself / ours

B) Among

D) himself / his

C) On

E) yourself / my

D) From
E) Throughout

139. Recently hes had a novel published, the title


of ____ I cant recall at the moment.
143. The physicist I work with was bitterly
disappointed ____ that his experiments had
not produced the desired results.

A) which
B) whom
C) whose

A) learning

D) what

B) on learning

E) that

C) having learned
D) to be learned

140. Clearly, you werent very impressed by the


way he managed the press conference; I
must say I wasnt ____ .
A) neither

E) to be learning

144. ____ able to get hold of any new supporting


evidence since I saw you last?

B) too

A) Will you be

C) either

B) Would you be

D) as well

C) Have you been

E) also

D) Had you been


E) Are you

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145. On the third day of the shipwreck they gave
up all hope of finding any ____ .
A) deserters

149. The argument he has put forward is hardly


____ with the information we have so far
received on the case.
A) reflective

B) survivors

B) representative

C) conclusions

C) arbitrary

D) suppliers

D) resistant

E) discrepancies

E) compatible
146. Since the firm has been found negligent by
the court, his claim for ____ for the accident
hasnt been accepted.
A) compensation

150. I dont approve of the methods he is using,


but his ____ aim, as regards the project, is
admirable.
A) conclusive

B) reduction

B) ultimate

C) employment

C) controversial

D) relevance

D) convenient

E) cooperation

E) deplorable
147. As he has adamantly withstood all kinds of
political pressure on this issue for so long, it
is unlikely that he would ____ at this stage.

151. I have looked through the report, but I must


admit, only ____ .

A) reinforce

A) carefully

B) relent

B) thoroughly

C) pursue

C) superficially

D) compete

D) seriously

E) dispose

E) experimentally

148. The British entry into the European


Community has ____ a new line of policy.
A) negotiated

152. The allocation made by the budget


committee can be used ____ to finance work
on child health.
A) plainly

B) confined

B) excessively

C) resented

C) extremely

D) constituted

D) remarkably

E) refunded

E) solely

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153. In an effort to ____ the rate of inflation many
banks have raised their interest rates.

157. It is just possible that there is ____ reason


behind his refusal of this award.

A) run out of

A) other

B)

B) another

watch out

C) stand by

C) the others

D) put out

D) any

E) keep up with

E) rather

154. As my secretary will be away for a couple of


days, would you be kind enough to ____ my
correspondence?

158. Even in classical times there were people


with a ____ ethical approach to education
than one can find in our time.

A) play back

A) few

B) bring off

B) most

C) take care of

C) more

D) return to

D) little

E) turn off

E) much

155. Plenty of evidence has come to light to prove


that he has been involved ____ smuggling.
A) through

159. Local authorities have always given ____


importance to the improvement of
recreational facilities.
A) any

B) at

B) some

C) by

C) too

D) in

D) quite

E) over

E) many
156. The high rate of inflation obviously puts a
great strain ____ the majority of working
families.

160. There were many casualties on both sides,


but more on the enemy side than ____ .

A) on

A) ours

B) in

B) them

C) beyond

C) we

D) through

D) their

E) by

E) our

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161. The government is determined to improve
the communications system ____ the costs
involved will be a serious burden on the
budget.

165. Following a noticeable improvement in the


general economic scene, unemployment too,
seems ____ a turn for the better.
A) having taken

A) so that

B) to have taken

B) while

C) to be taken

C) despite

D) taking

D) as if

E) to have been taken

E) even though

162. ____ well one may think of him, one must


admit that hes too old for the job.
A) So

166. For nearly a decade most governments in the


world ____ to find ways of combating
environmental problems.

B) Although

A) were tried

C) Even

B) would have tried

D) However

C) try

E) As

D) could try
E) have been trying

163. Have you seen the display of the books


written by the visiting professor ____ is going
to talk this afternoon on the future of the
European Community?

167. By the end of this term of office, he ____ all


the projects he has already undertaken.
A) has completed

A) whose

B) will have completed

B) whom

C) completed

C) who

D) had completed

D) which

E) is completing

E) what

164. The minister said to his under-secretary:


You will check that all the details are
correct, ____ ?
A) arent you

168. Before the nationwide vaccination campaign


____ , the infant mortality rate ____ to an
alarming extent.
A) is being introduced / would rise

B) will you

B) will be introduced / rose

C) could you

C) had been introduced / has risen

D) wont you

D) will be introduced / was rising

E) are they

E) was introduced / had risen

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169. Many of the critics clearly regarded several
of the paintings on ____ as of poor quality.
A) discovery

173. Theres nothing very brilliant about the


report, but he has ____ collected all the data
needed.
A) infectiously

B) display

B) recklessly

C) occasion

C) considerably

D) approval

D) restrictively

E) account

E) conscientiously
170. The report issued by the National Health
Council draws attention to the hazards of
____ to X rays.
A) resistance

174. What really surprised everybody was that he


saved the company from bankruptcy quite
____ .
A) extremely

B) involvement

B) relatively

C) confinement

C) dependently

D) exposure

D) single-handedly

E) implication

E) responsively
171. Hes clever, he seems to know by instinct
where someone is ____ and strikes there.
A) conceited

175. Before I send this article to the editor, Id be


grateful if you could ____ it for me.
A) watch out

B) sufficient

B) look up

C) vulnerable

C) break through

D) informative

D) take over

E) critical

E) go through
172. It was decided at the board meeting that
more funds should be allocated to getting
the firms products ____ more widely.
A) publicized

176. I had my doubts about her when I took her


on, but now Im pleased to say that she has
____ to be a talented executive.
A) taken up

B) priced

B) run over

C) curtailed

C) turned out

D) expanded

D) made out

E) confirmed

E) carried on

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177. Though he got other people to do research
for him in the archives he ____ wrote the
whole report

181. ____ wins will be expected to take the rest of


us for a meal.
A) Whoever

A) too

B) Who

B) himself

C) Whomever

C) also

D) Whomsoever

D) as well

E) Whatever

E) thus

178. At present ____ car is being repaired so we


shall have to go in ____ .
A) my / yours

182. Today, ____ rapid transportation and


communications, the whole world is
becoming one community with common
economic interests.
A) as long as

B) mine / your

B) in spite of

C) their / us

C) just as

D) his / our

D) because of

E) hers / theirs

E) such as
179. ____ the manager looks shy, youthful and
mild, he is in fact a rare combination of
discipline, energy and intellect.

183. Of all the drugs that have been prescribed so


far, this has proved to be ____ effective one.

A) So that

A) most

B) Even so

B) the most

C) Although

C) more

D) Therefore

D) just as

E) in case

E) the more

180. Considering there are millions of hungry


people in the world, it shouldnt be difficult
to appreciate ____ important it is for us to
find new sources of food.

184. Under the present circumstances we dont


have to take the case to the court ____ ?
A) do we
B) have we

A) just

C) is it

B) why

D) isnt it

C) what

E) dont we

D) that
E) how

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185. It was clear that he wasnt impressed by the
way the business was run, and I must admit
____ .

189. If we are to get out of this political mess,


someone ____ the lead, and the sooner they
start the better.

A) I also was

A) has taken

B) I did too

B) should have taken

C) I wasnt either

C) had to take

D) neither did I

D) must have taken

E) so did I

E) will have to take

186. The way of life ____ which he was drawn


ultimately led ____ the collapse of his
business.

190. It is hoped that by the end of the century the


growth rate of the world population ____
substantially.

A) with / up to

A) will have been curbed

B) from / out of

B) would have been curbed

C) by / into

C) has been curbed

D) into / to

D) will curb

E) through / down to

E) will have to be curbed

187. ____ first consulting us I dont think he had


any right to reach such an agreement ____
the strikers.

191. Obviously there ____ a remarkable


improvement in the condition of the patient
since he ____ surgery.

A) By / over

A) is / undergoes

B) After / on

B) was / has undergone

C) Before / from

C) will be / had undergone

D) In / to

D) has been / underwent

E) Without / with

E) would have been / would undergo

188. It wouldnt have surprised me if he ____


after that incident.

192. By the time Brahms ____ to compose his


symphonies, this form ____ well established.

A) resigned

A) was beginning / would have been

B) had resigned

B) had begun / was

C) were to resign

C) began / had been

D) has resigned

D) has begun / has been

E) wouldve resigned

E)

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193. Among the problems facing bridge engineers,
the most serious ones are those of ____ and
repair.
A) improvement

197. Bartok was influenced as much by the


musical innovations of Debuasy and
Starvinsky as by East European, ____
Hungarian, folk music.
A) exceedingly

B) reassessment

B) notably

C) determination

C) appropriately

D) distinction

D) vehemently

E) maintenance

E) adequately
194. The two major political parties in Britain
have currently ____ to extreme and radically
different approaches to the solution of
Britains economic problem.
A) referred

198. Due to the industrialisation and colonisation,


the nineteenth century ____ the greatest
expansion of wealth the world had ever
known.
A) brought about

B) obsessed

B) put off

C) committed

C) held up

D) implied

D) gave in

E) meant

E) set off
195. It now appears that while US leaders are still
willing for the nation to exert itself abroad
and give large amounts of foreign assistance,
the American public is ____ to go along with
these policies.

199. The two archaeologists have tried hard to


read the inscription in old Latin, but I do not
think they have ____ what it really means.
A) got away with

A) spontaneous

B) written off

B) precarious

C) taken after

C) competitive

D) made out

D) reluctant

E) brought up

E) deliberate

196. It is ____ surprising that the art of ancient


America remains the most mysterious and
the least accessible.

200. The children of today are healthier and


better ____ than those of the past, and far
fewer of them die in infancy.

A) urgently

A) disposed of

B) notably

B) fed up

C) indifferently

C) rounded up

D) elaborately

D) looked into

E) hardly

E) cared for

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201. Naturally I will come to you for advice
whenever I feel in need of ____ .

205. Could this possibly be the firms new buyer


____ reputation, if we are able to believe the
newspapers, is not quite what it should be.

A) them

A) whom

B) one

B) which

C) some

C) whatever

D) none

D) what

E) a few

E) whose
202. Weve had some pretty good directors over
two years but Dr Radeliffe is ____ the most
capable of them all.
A) by far

206. ____ takes on the task of investigating these


particular allegations is going to run into a lot
of difficulties.
A) Someone

B) over all

B) Anyone

C) just so

C) Whatsoever

D) as much

D) Whoever

E) too much

E) Whichever
203. The committee showed their wholehearted
approval of the designs he submitted and
____ .
A) me, too

207. His scheme, with all its shortcomings, will


inevitably be pushed through ____ we can
produce one, by Tuesday, which is obviously
much more feasible.

B) so did I

A) how

C) so have I

B) so that

D) so we do

C) unless

E) we also have

D) moreover
E) in case

204. The other climbers were all for giving up the


attempt, but it was ____ impossible to
convince him of the need to do so.

208. ____ he gives the appearance of sincerity and


reliability, just remember that you cant trust
him an inch.

A) too

A) Though

B) such

B) That

C) quite

C) As far as

D) as

D) Nevertheless

E) much

E) So

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209. On that occasion, he really was ____ luck; it
was as if every thing had combined ____ him.
A) up to / through

213. When that happened, their hopes ____


because the army ____ its most trusted
leaders.
A) wane / would lose

B) away from / behind

B) are waning / loses

C) out of / against

C) waned / had lost

D) into / upon

D) were waning / has lost

E) onto / over

E) have waned / lost


210. Few sociologists will admit that a city is
distinct ____ a village merely ____ the
number of its inhabitants.

214. They ____ the advantages and the


disadvantages of the takeover when I ____
them an hour or so later.

A) of / for

A) will discuss / would rejoin

B) from / by

B) have discussed / am rejoining

C) to / over

C) are discussing / will rejoin

D) in / though

D) were discussing / rejoined

E) off / in

E) would discuss / had rejoined


211. Water has a moderating effect on
temperature, ____ summer and midday heat,
and winter and midnight cold.
A) diminished

215. The doctors are of the opinion that if the


disorder ____ a few months earlier, it ____
treated successfully.
A) had been diagnosed / could have been

B) having diminished

B) were diagnosed / would be

C) to diminish

C) has been diagnosed / will be

D) being diminished

D) is being diagnosed / is being

E) diminishing

E) were to be diagnosed / has been


212. Of course nobody knows what the outcome
of the election ____ but at the moment
Malcolm ____ as the most likely candidate.

216. We still ____ that any changes in the law


along these lines ____ to our advantage.

A) would have been / is being regarded

A) had believed / will have been

B) is / has been regarded

B) believed / had been

C) was / would have been regarded

C) have believed / would be

D) will be / is regarded

D)

E) has been / has been regarded

E) believe / will be

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217. The rise in energy ____ has led to a reduction
of fossil fuels that the world must use.
A) redundancy

221. Industry as a whole was badly affected by


the restrictions, but it was the high
technology sector that suffered most ____ .
A) blatantly

B) efficiency

B) randomly

C) consumption

C) reasonably

D) suitability

D) tightly

E) conformity

E) acutely
218. We must find some way to give them fairly
complete and realistic picture of the
situation, but without ____ them too much.
A) depressing

222. Few, if any, of the statements could be ____


substantiated by concrete experimental
evidence.
A) intentionally

B) intimidating

B) successively

C) restricting

C) restrictedly

D) complementing

D) impressively

E) embittering

E) conclusively
219. Any child left to its own devices for too long
is likely to ____ on some dangerous
enterprise.
A) assert

223. Hes basically a very reallient person so you


can be sure hell soon ____ this
disappointment.
A) make out

B) entice

B) put through

C) embark

C) get over

D) reproach

D) look up

E) reduce

E) fall through
220. One defect seems inherent in a purely
classical education namely, a too ____
emphasis on the past.
A) recurrent

224. Whatever the pressures put upon him, I think


it is highly unlikely that James would ever
____ anyone.
A) walk away with

B) repressive

B) give in to

C) coherent

C) make up for

D) exclusive

D) get away with

E) deceptive

E) fall through

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225. He invariably gets what he wants but
unfortunately this is usually ____ the
expense of others.

229. We know nothing at all about the companys


new chairman ____ that hes just had his
fiftieth birthday.

A) out of

A) since

B) from

B) instead

C) up to

C) in case

D) at

D) on condition

E) through

E) except

226. Public attention focuses ____ infant


mortality as a prime indicator of changes in a
societys health.

230. For a business to be really successful, team


work is essential and the members of team
must be support of ____ .

A) on

A) each of them

B) to

B) the others

C) at

C) themselves

D) over

D) one another

E) into

E) the other one

227. He looked ____ nervously ____ his shoulder


hoping that no one was paying him any
attention.
A) out / of

231. The testimony of the second witness didnt


surprise me at all; ____ the account he gave
was more or less what I had expected from
him.
A) on the other hand

B) up / through

B) as a matter of fact

C) back / over

C) conversely

D) down / from

D) consequently

E) in / for

E) nevertheless
228. ____ hard he works, hell never be the equal
of his father, hes just not capable of it.
A) So

232. I dont like the timetable they have given me;


all my classes are after lunch but I would
____ rather teach in the morning.

B) However

A) much

C) As

B) more

D) Whatever

C) as

E) Just as

D) just
E) even

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233. Ive given up expecting them to act sensibly
but their behaviour on this occasion was
____ irrational than usual.

237. Of course my suspicions ____ by the


confused way in which she ____ out her
answers to my questions.

A) the most

A) have been awakened / was stammering

B) so much

B) were awakened / stammered

C) even more

C) awakened / stammers

D) ever so

D) would have awakened / had stammered

E) the more

E) would have been awakened / has


stammered

234. ____ of the questions they asked at the


interview were ____ what I expected.
A) Some / more

238. When he ____ that very rash promise he


didnt realise what he ____ himself in for.
A) will make / would let

B) Each / such

B) has made / lets

C) All / so

C) made / was letting

D) Any / about

D) was making / has let

E) None / quite

E) makes / is letting
235. Of course, it can never be proved, but just
the same, some people think that it ____
better for these children if they had been
forcibly taken away from their families.

239. Indeed, on both sides, it ____ that the


decisive battles ____ on the plains of
Flanders and Northeast France.

A) may have been

A) has to be foreseen / has been fighting

B) had been

B) has been foreseen / has been fought

C) will have been

C) could have been foreseen / will fight

D) would have been

D) had been foreseen / would be fought

E) must be

E) will be foreseen / could be fought

236. Actually, most of the crimes that ____ last


year were not connected with violence, but
this is not the picture that ____ up from
watching TV coverage of the topic.

240. The outbreak of fire underground ____ an


excellent opportunity for ____ a no smoking
rule.

A) were committed / builds

A) will prove / to be enforced


B) has provided / having enforced

B) have been committed / has been built

C) would provided / to enforce

C) were being committed / was built

D) had provided / being enforced

D) had committed / would built

E) provided / enforcing

E) would be committed / had been built

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241. As a result of continuing economic recession,
a huge _____ in the budget seems inevitable.
A) redundancy

245. He devised an _____ scheme whereby the


rate of unemployment in the country could
be brought down sharply.
A) irrelevant

B) improvement

B) unstable

C) profit

C) ingenious

D) distinction

D) untamed

E) deficit

E) illegible
242. The recent economic figures _____ that the
country is slowly coming out of the crisis.
A) commit

246. I was greatly impressed by the way the judge


conducted the trial, _____ when it came to
summing up the case.

B) imply

A) particularly

C) incur

B) completely

D) evolve

C) sufficiently

E) invoke

D) effectively
E) respectively

243. When the rate of exchange began to rise


again, he felt _____ to call a meeting of the
financial staff.
A) obliged

247. As soon as the leak in the boiler was noticed,


one of the engineers was naturally _____ .
A) taken after

B) blamed

B) run down

C) consumed

C) made out

D) omitted

D) sent for

E) rewarded

E) turned up
244. As far as we are concerned, the evidence put
before the court was not _____ enough to
convict the man.

248. At the board meeting, his suggestion was


_____ as it seemed politically controversial.

A) subsequent

A) put out

B) conclusive

B) taken out

C) adamant

C) held in

D) earnest

D) burst into

E) consecutive

E) cast aside

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249. When the relief workers reached the scene
of the disaster, they immediately began to
help _____ who could do nothing for _____ .

253. The scheme has been _____ consideration


for a long time now, but I doubt whether it
will ever be put _____ effect.

A) that / himself

A) under / into

B) them / their

B) within / through

C) those / themselves

C) for / to

D) these / ourselves

D) in / off

E) us / yourself

E) over / ever

250. The very idea of establishing a literary


canon has become _____ controversial that
the people running the Library of America
have wisely avoided using the term.

254. It was _____ his efforts that the two sides


finally agreed to hold talks _____ the
principles of economic cooperation.
A) by / through

A) too

B) ever / for

B) as

C) through / on

C) such

D) with / at

D) so

E) without / from

E) more

251. They havent met for twelve years or more,


but I understand they still write to _____ at a
regular interval.

255. I was forced to admit that there was a drop


in sales towards the end of the year _____ he
had predicted.

A) the other

A) such as

B) each other

B) even so

C) themselves

C) in case

D) the others

D) just as

E) one other

E) so far as

252. It was foolish of me to turn down such an


offer; in fact _____ I think about it, _____ I
regret it.
A) as much / so much more

256. Under these circumstances he should never


have been allowed to take charge of the
operation _____ he was the most senior of
the officers available.

B) the more / as much

A) whyever

C) much / as much

B) whether

D) the most / so much

C) even though

E) the more / the more

D) whenever
E) so that

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257. Why cant you admit that _____ hard he
works, he will never manage to achieve what
his elder brother has achieved?

261. It seems likely that, by the end of the week,


the costs involved in the construction of the
bridge _____ by the Ministry.

A) unless

A) would have been announced

B) whatsoever

B) would be announced

C) though

C) are being announced

D) whenever

D) will have been announced

E) however

E) have been announced

258. Many more people would doubtless have


attended the debate _____ they had known
in advance who the principal speakers were.

262. They set up a liaison office in East Africa for


marketing their goods but now they wish
they _____ so.

A) if only

A) had not done

B) while

B) have not done

C) since

C) would not do

D) after

D) would not have done

E) until

E) never do

259. Our delegates hadnt shown themselves


willing to come to terms, those from other
countries _____

263. Had they apologised for deliberately


overcharging me, I _____ a complaint with
the Consumers rights Office.

A) would be, too.

A) will not have filed

B) wouldnt have, either.

B) may not have filed

C) had not, either.

C) would not have filed

D) have had, too.

D) was not filing

E) would have, too.

E) may not file

260. In recent decades the efficiency of the United


Nations _____ by a growing number of
countries.

264. We _____ no problems whatsoever with the


dam since it _____ forty years ago.

A) will have been questioned

A) had / has been constructed


B) have had / was constructed

B) was questioned

C) had had / had been constructed

C) had been questioned

D) are having / is constructed

D) would be questioned

E) were having / was being constructed

E) has been questioned

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265. The ____ was not a happy one at the time,
but looking back on it I suppose Im glad it
occurred.

269. The contemporary world economy differs


____ from what the traditional economic
theorists of the 1930s envisaged.

A) improvement

A) primarily

B) regression

B) likely

C) encounter

C) conversely

D) intention

D) profoundly

E) compromise

E) intimately

266. Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau were concerned


in their writings with the question of a
proper ____ between the public good and
the right of individuals to exercise free will.
A) balance

270. In recent years ____ complex and persistent


problems in economic and social fields have
led people to wonder why once comfortable
answers no longer seem adequate to todays
questions.
A) generously

B) demonstration

B) inadvertently

C) responsibility

C) increasingly

D) interest

D) ingeniously

E) solidarity

E) leisurely

267. Questions of race, ethnicity, and religion


have been a ____ source of conflict in
American education.

271. Since the 1950s modern dance in Europe and


America has ____ a vigorous process of
creativity.
A) cast

A) previous

B) explored

B) perennial

C) constituted

C) vulnerable

D) relaxed

D) naughty

E) followed

E) casual

268. The United States has long prided itself on


being a melting pot of culturally ____
peoples.

272. The assassination by terrorists of Signor Aldo


Moro, five times Prime Minister of Italy, in
May 1978 was ____ by everyone as an act of
barbarism.

A) diverse

A) applauded

B) redundant

B) appealed

C) incoherent

C) reiterated

D) entire

D) condemned

E) substantial

E) restrained

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273. There ____ many efforts to eradicate racism,
but very little success ____ .

277. The orders were that we ____ the area


within hours to prevent further loss of life.

A) were / had been achieved

A) had evacuated

B) had been / would have been achieved

B) have to evacuate

C) have been / has been achieved

C) will have evacuated

D) are / was achieved

D) had to evacuate

E) may be / will have been achieved

E) shall have to evacuate

274. He ____ his paper by saying that the entire


history of human race ____ by transfers of
cultural and technological advance from one
civilisation to another.

278. Economic
recession
and
rising
unemployment, coupled ____ continued
increases ____ retail food prices, have
curtailed consumption.

A) concluded / had been marked

A) with / in

B) concludes / would have been marked

B) through / through

C) has concluded / was marked

C) by / for

D) had concluded / is marked

D) at / about

E) will conclude / was being marked

E) within / over

275. Evaporation ____ the process by which a


solid or liquid ____ into vapour by heat.
A) had been / resolved
B) was / had resolved

279. In Ethiopia, primitive farming practices and


uncontrolled clearing of natural vegetation
have transformed much of the countrys
highlands ____ bare landscapes, but all
destroyed ____ erosion.

C) has been / was resolved

A) above / of

D) may be / has resolved

B) for / with

E) is / is resolved

C) into / by
D) in / under

276. The Etruscans, who ____ a great part of Italy


about 900 BC, ____ from Asia Minor.
A) had colonised / originally came
B) colonised / had originally come
C) were colonised / have originally come

E) to / at

280. The advance in the steel industry has been


marked ____ a progressive increase ____
size, complexity and capital outlay.
A) at / of

D) have colonised / originally come

B) with / to

E) were colonising / might originally come

C) over / from
D) by / in
E) under / through

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281. The answer to the question ____ great art
can exist independently of religion will, ____
, depend on societys moral and aesthetic
values.

285. The Deputy Prime Minister announced that it


was ____ early to propose amendments in
the
legislation
concerning
industrial
relations.

A) what / in the same way

A) as well as

B) even if / in due course

B) just so

C) whether / to a large extent

C) just as

D) so that / in short

D) as soon as

E) since / now and again

E) as yet too

282. Thailand has lost half of its forests ____ its


population has ____ doubled in recent
decades.
A) as / more than

286. Activists are those in a political movement


who insist on taking active steps towards
their objectives ____ merely putting forward
an action program.
A) in order to

B) just as / mostly

B) rather than

C) so as / soon

C) as far as

D) in case / quite

D) in that

E) because of / much

E) so long as
283. Clifford Goertz, probably ____ famous
anthropologist in the world today, has
revolutionised the way anthropology is
taught on campuses.

287. He is diplomatically qualified ____ to


negotiate for a mutual reduction of the
armed forces in the region.

A) more

A) enough

B) most

B) though

C) the most

C) as well as

D) the more

D) not only

E) a

E) also

284. Holding a yellow umbrella in his hand he said


he didnt know ____ it was, and added that it
was not ____ .
A) which / him

288. As he was not satisfied with the contents of


the document, he declined to sign it, and
none of the members attempted to persuade
him to, ____
A) also

B) whose / his

B) too

C) who / her

C) as well

D) whom / us

D) either

E) that / theirs

E) yet

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289. If we are serious about suppressing terrorism
we shall have to ____ stronger measures
than those currently in practice.
A) require

293. I am horrified at the turn things have taken


and am convinced that he is ____ of much
better treatment than that which he is
receiving.
A) rebutting

B) revise

B) deserving

C) adopt

C) defending

D) abduct

D) safeguarding

E) suspend

E) indulging
290. When an unknown but gifted artist is finally
recognised, his paintings can become
valuable ____ in the future.
A) rates

294. Progress in materials research is ____ to


overcoming such problems as the finiteness
of the worlds resources and possible
shortages of strategic materials.

B) accounts

A) crucial

C) sales

B) inexpensive

D) interests

C) adamant

E) assets

D) subversive
E) subsequent

291. It is ____ ten years since AIDS caught the


worlds attention.
295. Despite the gusty wind they were able to put
out the fire before it ____ .

A) formidably
B) generously

A) fell off

C) pertinently

B) was taken into account

D) roughly

C) was held out

E) inevitably

D) got out of hand


E) broke up

292. The new ceramics, which have little in


common with the chinaware we use in our
kitchens everyday, are being used ____ in
engines and electronics.
A) depressingly

296. I dont know how we are going to ____ the


expected surge of immigrants into the
country.
A) run through

B) seemingly

B) cope with

C) increasingly

C) put out

D) discouragingly

D) take down

E) obligingly

E) look over

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297. Of all the policies put into effect by the
Thatcher governments ____controversial was
the economic one.

301. The lawyer decided to call ____ of the


witnesses only and paid no attention to
____.

A) most

A) both / others

B) the more

B) the two / any other

C) the most

C) two / the others

D) more

D) some / another

E) mostly

E) any / some others

298. If the others hadnt voted in favor of the


younger candidate, I probably wouldnt have
done so ____ .
A) even

302. Several experts were working on the project,


and each came up with some interesting
proposals, and naturally ____ claimed that
____ was the best.
A) many /each

B) too

B) some / its

C) also

C) we / it

D) as well

D) all / he

E) either

E) each / his
299. Today the expansion of knowledge in
astronomy, physics, chemistry, and biology is
____ vast and complex, and multiplying ____
quickly to be mastered fully.

303. We are prevented ____ completing the


project ____ time due to unforeseen
circumstances.

A) so / that

A) from / on

B) just as / as

B) in / by

C) as well / as

C) by / in

D) so / so

D) at / over

E) too / too

E) for / about

300. Scientists rely on computers to model


phenomena ____ would ____ be difficult to
observe.
A) whereby / in case

304. The Hollywood studio system in film making,


which began ____ 1920 and flourished from
the early 1930s ____ the 1950s is unique in
Western culture.
A) throughout / into

B) such as / nonetheless

B) around / through

C) which / nevertheless

C) by / until

D) that / otherwise

D) within / over

E) so that / in fact

E) along/ till

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305. ____ the embargo imposed on us is lifted in
the near future, we cant hope for any
economic recovery.
A) Whereas

309. For a hundred years or so some critics ____


that poetry is dying and all that time poets
____ poems that later generations recognise
as great.
A) have maintained / have been writing

B) While

B) maintained / wrote

C) Because

C) had maintained / were writing

D) In case

D) maintain / are writing

E) Unless

E) would maintain / had been writing


306. ____ proving useful in many scientific fields,
computers-generated
knowledge,
____
Professor Hayes acknowledges, is not
without pitfalls.

310. What I ____ is that we ___ to think seriously


about a thorough reform in the legal system.
A) have proposed / should have begun

A) Although / because

B) had proposed / were beginning

B) Since / while

C) am proposing / begin

C) While / as

D) was proposing / have begun

D) As long as / even if

E) proposed / had begun

E) Once / whether or not

307. ____ suggestion he may make as regards the


tax rate, lets not give any response ____ we
have discussed the matter thoroughly
together.
A) However / when

311. When the Italian astronomer Giovanni


Schiaparelli ____ a map of Mars in 1877, he
____ a large number of straight linear
features, which he called canali that is
channels.

B) Whatever / until

A) publishes / has noted

C) Whyever / after

B) had published / was noting

D) Whatsoever / while

C) has published / notes

E) Whenever / before

D) published / noted
E) would have published / had noted

308. Most newspapers are of the opinion that if a


majority of Scots really ____ independence,
the British Parliament has no option but ____
to their wishes.

312. If we ____ the terms of the contract, all the


paint-work in the building ____ finished by
th
the 15 of next month.

A) did want / had acceded

A) are to meet / will have to be

B) wanted / have acceded

B) were meeting / will be

C) had wanted / would have acceded

C) met / would have had to be

D) do want / to accede

D) had met / is being

E) would have wanted / acceded

E) will meet / was being

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313. Asthma is a common ____ in which the
airways lining the lung become inflamed.
A) diagnosis

317. When the chairman tried to explain his views


to the shareholders at the ____ general
meeting, he was shouted down by them with
cries of Resign!.

B) disease

A) annual

C) fury

B) minimal

D) patient

C) essential

E) recovery

D) ultimate
E) recurrent

314. From the report released today it appears


that oil tankers suffer their major ____ on
their return journeys.
A) spills

318. Because of their high toxic contents, none of


these chemicals can ____ be permitted for
export to any country.

B) costs

A) fruitfully

C) repairs

B) adequately

D) drills

C) presently

E) crews

D) notoriously
E) equivocally

315. People curious to get some idea of what it is


like to be black in a country ____ by whites
need look no further than Dennis Williamss
new novel Crossover.
A) tempted

319. I dont know how we are going to ____ the


expected surge of immigrants into the
country.
A) look over

B) undermined

B) run through

C) perpetrated

C) put out

D) run

D) take down

E) deemed

E) cope with
316. It is plain that the United Nations will not lift
the sanctions unless the Iraqi government
fully ____ with the Security Council
resolutions.
A) matches

320. The Jewish immigrants, who ____ the boat in


England, formed the bulk of the ethnic
groups arriving in a country historically wary
of foreigners.
A) took after

B) elaborates

B) got off

C) complies

C) turned up

D) resumes

D) made up

E) accomplishes

E) showed off

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321. As the decade ____ to wind down, Mark
Morris ____ as our centurys youngest great
choreographer.

325. If they ____ what sort of a person he was,


they ____ him their support.
A) would know / didnt give

A) has begun / had stood

B) knew / wont give

B) will begin / is standing

C) had known / wouldnt have given

C) was beginning / has stood

D) would have known / hadnt given

D) begins / stands

E) have known / havent given

E) is beginning / has been standing

322. Of the many attempts that ____ to regulate


language one way or another, very few ____
.

326. I dont imagine he wrote the speech ____ but


____ did so, certainly made a good job of it.
A) for them / whomsoever

A) were made / had succeeded

B) of his / somebody

B) have been made / have succeeded

C) by him / they

C) are made / succeeded

D) himself / whoever

D) could have been made / will succeed

E) themselves / whichever

E) are being made / may have succeeded

323. An acorn, left to itself becomes an oak, and a


geneticist ____ its DNA to make it grow into
an elm may justly be said ____ with its
natural course.

327. As ____ of our employees can afford cars of


____ own, they all have to rely on public
transport.

A) altering / to have interfered

A) few / them

B) having altered / to interfere

B) some / his

C) to alter / having interfered

C) none / their

D) being altered / interfered

D) most / our

E) to have altered / to be interfering

E) many / its

324. In the past few months, our company


director ____ more mettle than most
industrialists ____ in an entire career.

328. There are situations ____ the best way to


heal the patient is to help him die peacefully.

A) had shown / have done

A) from where
B) in that

B) showed / would do

C) whence

C) shows / did

D) for whom

D) was showing / may have done

E) in which

E) has shown / do

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329. Hes certainly going to recommend that the
changes in the structure of the company be
introduced step by step, and ____ .
A) so I am

333. ____ the recent rise in unemployment largely


affects
eastern
Germany,
there
is
considerable unrest in western Germany,
too.
A) Since

B) so am I

B) In case

C) so do I

C) Although

D) I do, too

D) Unless

E) I also do

E) Until
330. Do you really believe that the party
programme ____ it now stands, is
democratic ____ to influence the vote in our
favour.

334. ____ he was campaigning for re-election last


year, he promised that ____ re-elected, he
would undertake to restructure the party.

A) as / enough

A) Wherever / lest

B) since / also

B) Because / while

C) where / as well

C) As / since

D) such as / too

D) While / unless

E) that / even

E) When / if

331. Private investments play ____ important a


part in the countrys long-running economic
expansion ____ no government dares to
increase taxation on personal savings.

335. ____ the terms of the forthcoming trade


agreement, Japan wins parity ____ the
United States.
A) Through / above

A) too / that

B) By / of

B) such / as

C) From / from

C) much / so

D) Under / with

D) so / that

E) After / over

E) as / as

332. His proposals ____ the new social security


policy seems more viable than any of the
others.
A) by way of

336. We have yet to take ____ consideration the


problem of how large future national armies
should eventually be, regardless ____ their
current size.

B) due to

A) onto / at

C) owing to

B) in / in

D) in case of

C) for / with

E) as regards

D) under / from
E) into / of

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337. The Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace seeks an individual to launch a
research project on the information
revolution and its ____ on international
affairs.

341. Since most of the worlds commercial apples


lack genetic diversity, they are unable to
____ a disease or a pest.
A) put away
B) hold up

A) impact

C) fight off

B) involvement

D) get off

C) reference

E) break out

D) linkage
E) comparison

338. Unlike Europes stone castles and cathedrals,


Americas historical buildings are often
wood-framed and so subject to ____ from
moisture and insects.

342. The atmosphere ____ the earth as if it were a


huge roof.
A) breaks up
B) makes for

A) rebuke

C) hangs over

B) deficiency

D) puts off

C) damage

E) runs over

D) obsession
E) frustration

339. Physically speaking, the Pacific Basin includes


not only all those countries bordering on the
Pacific coast but also the Pacific island
nations ____ across the ocean.
A) adopted

343. The objective of this project is to increase the


depth of awareness and understanding in the
world, about the causes and consequences of
the HIV epidemic through ____ policies and
programmes.

B) based

A) innovative

C) grafted

B) decadent

D) scattered

C) meagre

E) expanded

D) ambiguous
E) poignant

340. Nearly half of the worlds countries have


____ capital punishment in law or in practice,
and some two dozen of them have done so
formally since 1985.
A) accused
B) abolished

344. Launched as the new regulatory authority for


the countries banking and insurance sector,
the National Financial Services Management
will extend its activities so as ____ to cover
more than 40% of the national economy.
A) exceptionally

C) executed

B) ultimately

D) entailed

C) inherently

E) frustrated

D) fluently
E) apparently

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345. They claim that their aim is to establish long
term cooperation ____ their customers, ____
a basis of partnership and mutual trust.

349. It wont be easy to find a replacement for


him, for ____ takes over is likely to meet the
same fate.

A) for / over

A) what

B) with / on

B) which

C) by / through

C) wherever

D) from / in

D)

E) among / for

E) Whichever

346. The collapse of Rome left ____ its wake a


large variety of ethnic communities ____
which modern European states emerged.

whoever

350. The majority of ____ are apprehensive about


new computer programmes, until weve
actually tried them out for ____ .

A) before / of

A) him / himself

B) at / through

B) us / ourselves

C) over / by

C) them / themselves

D) in / from

D) ours / us

E) within / with

E) theirs / ours

347. Germanys weight in the European Union is


known, ____ what is not known, even to the
Germans themselves, is ____ they are to use
it.

351. Marxism ____ an important movement in


Britain even though it ____ its origin here.
A) would never have been / takes
B) had never been / would take

A) but / how

C) never was / has taken

B) in case / because

D) would never be / would have taken

C) unless / why

E) has never been / took

D) lest / until
E) otherwise / where

348. Edward Gibbons great book The History of


the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
informs us ____ mankinds predilection for
faction, augmented by environmental and
cultural differences, is ____ determines
history.

352. The history of the Venetian Republic ____ to


an end in 1797 when Venice ____ over to
Austria by Napoleon.
A) was coming / would have been handed
B) had come / has been handed
C) comes / had been handed
D) came / was handed

A) why / that

E) would come / was being handed

B) as / whereby
C) that / what
D) how / whoever
E) so that / whatever

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353. More than half of the 850 asylum seekers
currently detained in Britain ____ in prison
with no right of appeal, even though the vast
majority ____ with any offence, let alone
convicted.

357. As far as I remember, it was in China that


they first met and got interested in the dam
project, ____?
A) dont I
B) wasnt it

A) were held / are not charged

C) do I

B) are being held / have not been charged

D) was it

C) have been held / would not be charged

E) did they

D) being held / had not been charged


E) will be held / were not being charged

354. Over the past two decades, the Corsicans


____ their idyllic island, which was wrested
by France from the Genoese in 1768, ____
into terrorism, corruption and economic
decline.

358. The East European countries are strongly


convinced that European Economic aid, ____
welcome, is not a substitute for market
access and eventual membership of the
European Union.
A) just as

A) have seen / sink

B) lest

B) had seen / sank

C) since

C) saw / to sink

D) when

D) would have seen / had sunk

E) though

E) would see / had been sinking

355. For observers of international politics, March


1998 ____ as a month when the worlds
superpower relations ____ a hopeful new
turn.

359. One gathers from the press that a large


majority of the people are not in favour of
the impeachment proceedings, and, frankly,
Im not, ____ .
A) either

A) will be remembered / may have taken

B) too

B) had been remembered / would have


taken

C) also

C) may be remembered / took

D) as well

D) has been remembered / would take

E) even so

E) would be remembered / will have taken

356. Apparently, the talks held between the two


governments concerning the prevention of
drug-trafficking have not been constructive
____ to produce any positive results.

360. The fundamental problem for North Africa is


that the region has ____ people ____ the arid
environment can support.

A) just

B) so many / that

B) as well

C) such / as

C) also
D)

A) not only / but also

D) more / than

enough

E) as much / as

E) so that

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361. Fish farming in the world seems to be
destined to expand, but it is ____ early to
predict the likely extent of growth in this
field.

365. British TV is still stuck ____ a regulatory


structure designed ____ a bygone age.
A) off / within
B) up / in

A) as well

C) away / by

B) enough

D) through / over

C) too

E) with / for

D) as
E) so far

362. We are confident that the management and


the workforce will get on well together as
long as ____ respects ____ .
A) the other / another

366. In their discussions concerning the proposed


defence strategies, NATO diplomats found
they could not agree ____ what the alliance
was ____ , what weapons it would threaten
to use and in what circumstances.

B) both / itself

A) on / for

C) the one / another

B) about / into

D) everyone / themselves

C) with / over

E) each / the other

D) by / about
E) before / through

363. The term "aborigines" signifies the original


inhabitants of any country, ____ the native
tribes of Australia.
A) with regard to
B) due to

367. Today the United States, still by far ____


prosperous country in the world, is
increasing its working hours ____ creating a
more positive balance between work and
leisure time.

C) in spite of

A) the more / as well as

D) in particular

B) most / in spite of

E) according to

C) more / than
D) the most / instead of

364. Although the American writer Katherine


Anne Porter used a variety of places ____ the
setting of her short stories and novels, she
frequently came ____ to the scenes of her
early days.
A) through / over
B) within / in

E) the / just as

368. In developing new collective defence


policies, America and her European allies will
____ be drawn closer together ____ drift
irreversibly apart.
A) either / or

C) for / back

B) not only / but also

D) without / for

C) so / that

E) under / up

D) both / and
E) just as / so

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369. The telephone is at the centre of innovative
technologies ____ may alter forever ____ we
receive and use information.
A) which / but
B) so that / since

373. The book of "a thousand and one nights" is a


collection of fascinating tales of the Orient,
of Mixed Indian, Persian, Arabic, and
Egyptian origination, and first ____ in Europe
by Antoine Galland's French translation in
the early eighteenth century.

C) that / how

A) having known

D) as / although

B) to know

E) whereas / in case

C) to be known
D) made known

370. The editor thought that the new series of


articles would prove very popular, but
actually hardly ____ seems to have been
impressed by it.
A) nobody

E) to be made known

374. There have been some art critics who ____ in


depreciation of Van Gogh that he ____ a
draughtsman all his life.

B) anyone

A) had maintained / has remained

C) the other

B) have maintained / remained

D) any other

C) were maintaining / had remained

E) somebody

D) maintained / would have remained


E) will maintain / remains

371. Originally the sonnet was an Italian poetical


form which attained great popularity in the
Renaissance, and ____ it was natural, ____
not essential for Shakespeare and his
contemporaries to use it.
A) hence / if
B) while / though

375. The Romanian Privatisation Authority


announced last week that Renault of France
____ to be the sole bidder for a majority
stake in the national car company, Dacia,
which ____ cheap cars for the domestic
market.

C) since / however

A) would turn out / had made

D) furthermore / rather than

B) has turned out / made

E) already / even

C) would have turned out / is making


D) is turning out / has made

372. The report presents a general overview of


the problems that ____ when a disaster ____
nation.
A) would have been encountered / will hit
B) are encountered / will hit
C) have been encountered / had hit
D) had been encountered / was being hit
E) will be encountered / hits

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376. At the Brussels meeting over the last
weekend Madeleine Albright, The American
secretary of State, ____ her allies that future
NATO missions ____ them further afield, but
not all over the world.

380. The current social security system is ____


popular, partly because its universal and
partly because retirement benefits are
related to contributions, so most people
think the system is fair.

A) assures / is taking

A) extremely

B) has assured / will have taken

B) likely

C) assured / would take

C) eventually

D) had assured / took

D) indispensably

E) was assuring / will take

E) favourably

377. The 1990s have been a general ____ in aid to


poor countries, largely because of fiscal
pressures in many rich countries.

381. She is the oldest person in the village, to be


precise, 92 years old and has a ____ word of
advice for everyone.

A) consumption

A) fanciful

B) decline

B) faithful

C) contingency

C) credible

D) conviction

D) futile

E) expenditure

E) kindly

378. The whole business of having meals at fixed


____ is nothing but a social convention and,
in modern life, a matter of convenience.
A) approaches

382. Our challenge is to ____ our clients with the


best possible advice and support, enabling
them to take the right direction at both
strategic and operational levels.
A) expand

B) substances

B) consult

C) intervals

C) improve

D) requirements

D) provide

E) proportions

E) respect
379. Space research is largely a branch of pure
science, independent of any applications
which ____ from it.
A) enforce

383. It is a book rich in ideas and beauty, a book


that ____ and tries to answer great
fundamental questions and demands the
most active reading one is capable of.

B) insure

A) raises

C) reduce

B) attains

D) restore

C) casts

E) stem

D) alludes
E) accomplishes

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384. Before the meeting begins, it would be
advisable to remind him that he is not on any
account
to
____
the
subject
of
unemployment insurance.

388. Today a very wide spectrum of biological


scientists are needed, both to develop the
biotechnology of the next millennium and to
ensure the ____ of life in our planet.

A) look through

A) explanation

B) bring up

B) process

C) take back

C) exhaustion

D) break out

D) duration

E) make out

E) conservation

385. The river Danube rises in Germany and ____


through central Europe and into the Black
Sea.

389. A hundred years ago the chestnut ____ a


quarter of the hardwood trees in America.
A) turned down

A) cruises

B) got through

B) spreads

C) made up

C) flows

D) made out

D) conducts

E) put down

E) covers

386. Anti-lock brakes (ABS) help you to maintain


steering control of your car even while
braking on ____ roads.

390. Evidence of racial bias in sentencing helped


to convince certain states in America to ____
capital punishment in the late 1960s and
early 1970s.

A) lonesome

A) keep down

B) fast

B) rule against

C) reckless

C) put out

D) slippery

D) point out

E) stagnant

E) break through

387. ____ populated, rural Northumberland is one


of the most unspoiled countries in England.
A) Sparsely

391. Natural disasters have been defined as


ecological disruptions exceeding the
adjustment capacity of a community and
____ outside assistance.

B) Nearly

A) stepping up

C) Primarily

B) putting up with

D) Suitably

C) look after

E) Efficiently

D) calling for
E) dealing with

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392. It is hard for a tiger, especially an
inexperienced one, to ____ how to attack an
animal that is facing it.

396. The ridicule that ____ upon him by leading


scientists of the day ____ to the novelty of
his thinking.

A) figure out

A) is being heaped / would testify

B) keep away

B) has been heaped / testified

C) rule out

C) had heaped / has testified

D) fall back

D) was heaping / had testified

E) run over

E) was heaped / testifies

393. He ____ that the forests ____ to their natural


inhabitants, that is, to all varieties of living
things.

397. When I ____ as a fully licensed geneticist in


1961, I thought I knew everything there was
____ about genetics.

A) suggests / be returned

A) had been graduated / to be known

B) suggested / to be returned

B) graduated / to know

C) has suggested / to have been returned

C) was graduated / to have known

D) had suggested / are being returned

D) have been graduated / known

E) would have suggested / return

E) have graduated / to have been known

394. With the help of satellite images, the


Indonesian government ____ that it is the
timber companies which ____ the mass
destruction of their rain forests.

398. Perhaps these people are ____ ignorant to


realise ____ serious a threat these fertilisers
are to their health.
A) more / than

A) will show / would have caused

B) so / why

B) would have shown / had caused

C) as much / as

C) had shown / were causing

D) too / just how

D) shows / had been causing

E) not only / but also

E) has shown / are causing

395. By the late 1980s, a surge of prosperity ____


across Southeast Asia, but in some countries
of the region the economic structure ____
sufficiently to the benefit from this trend.

399. I would have thought that only ____ naive


worker could be deceived by ____
assurances.

A) would sweep / could not have developed

A) the more / neither


B) a most / each

B) would have swept / has not developed

C) the most / such

C) was sweeping / had not developed

D) a much / any

D) has swept / was not developed

E) most / same

E) could have swept / was not developing

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400. The motive was ____ aesthetic and social
____ they sought to bring good design within
the reach of the ordinary man.
A) so / in that

404. I sent an e-mail to everyone in the


department, asking for articles for this
special issue, but ____ there has been no
response.
A) so long

B) both / because

B) on time

C) just as / that

C) until then

D) as much / as

D) even later

E) too / therefore

E) so far
401. He said I was submitting my application form
rather late. But now I find ____ have still not
submitted ____ .
A) most / their

405. The crisis is particularly serious ____ a whole


series of related issues ranging from
unemployment to health benefits are
involved.

B) none / any

A) so as

C) many / it

B) as well as

D) others / theirs

C) in order that

E) a few / these

D) as for
E) since

402. In order to understand the implications of


research ____ brain development one has to
make a systematic study ____ what children
know.

406. He felt that soil drainage should be kept to a


minimum ____ much of the rainfall could be
retained ____ soil moisture.
A) so that / as
B) even though / such as

A) on / into

C) whereas / like

B) for / by

D) whereby / such

C) through / beyond

E) whether / or

D) over / at
E) after / before

403. The arrival of Europeans in America


dislocated traditional ways of life and altered
the world ____ recognition.

407. If we are to prevent the flow of toxic


materials into the water reservoirs of the
country, there is no other possible scheme
available, ____ ?

A) for

A) isn't it
B) aren't we

B) beyond

C) is there

C) at

D) isn't there

D) off

E) are we

E) from

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408. It looks ____ the hiring committee isn't
impressed by his qualifications, and I don't
think the manager of the company is, ____ .

412. For the present, the party is expected to put


its differences aside and campaign ____ for a
victory at the forthcoming elections.

A) like / also

A) vigorously

B) as if / either

B) awkwardly

C) so that / as well

C) precisely

D) though / too

D) distinctly

E) just as / neither

E) reluctantly

409. 1. If you want that post you'd better apply


quickly; the last day for ____ applications is
Friday.

413. Industry has developed rapidly in certain


countries as raw materials are ____ available
there.

A) reversing

A) repeatedly

B) withholding

B) scarcely

C) enforcing

C) consequently

D) submitting

D) abundantly

E) committing

E) indefinitely

410. In this paper I should like to report some of


the results of an ____ study of two hundred
London families.

414. I wasn't at all impressed by the ____ he gave


me.
A) distribution

A) extreme

B) explanation

B) intrinsic

C) determination

C) intensive

D) complication

D) emphatic

E) negotiation

E) apparent

411. Recent studies have shown that smokers are


more ____ to common colds and flu than
non-smokers.

415. The problem of how to ____ the vast


quantities of waste we produce, requires our
urgent attention.

A) feasible

A) bring up

B) susceptible

B) win over

C) applicable

C) find out

D) reliable

D) put off

E) responsible

E) deal with

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416. Once the children have grown up I shall start
travelling again, and I'm really ____ that.
A) passing on to

420. Over the last few years, consumer interest in


organic agriculture ____ up dramatically, and
demand ____ currently ahead of supply.
A) has shot / is

B) waiting up for

B) shot / was

C) looking forward to

C) had shot / had been

D) making up for

D) is shooting / has been

E) going along with

E) was shooting / would be


417. Infectious diseases are those which are
caused ____ an invasion of the body ____
organisms from outside.
A) through / with

421. Orwell ____ at that moment that when the


white man ____ tyrant it is his own freedom
that he destroys.
A) perceived / would turn

B) by / by

B) has perceived / turned

C) over / through

C) had perceived / has turned

D) in / without

D) would perceive / will turn

E) upon / within

E) perceived / turns
418. I did manage to keep my temper but I
couldn't refrain ____ pointing ____ that what
he had done was wrong.
A) in / at

422. Thesiger's passionate belief that traditional


societies around the world ____ against the
modern onslaught ____ fierce criticism.
A) were protected / will attract

B) at / to

B) have been protected / had attracted

C) by / away

C) are being protected / was attracting

D) for / off

D) ought to be protected / has attracted

E) from / out

E) would have been protected / would


attract
419. it ____ a mistake to think that all bacteria are
harmful, for, without some species, we ____
for long.
A) is / had not survived

423. All the reports ____ handed in last week, but


some of them still ____ me.
A) should have been / haven't reached

B) would be / could not survive

B) were / didn't reach

C) will be / have not survived

C) have been / won't reach

D) has been / would not have survived

D) had been / didn't reach

E) had been / did not survive

E) would have been / don't reach

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424. David Dickinsons new play is a fairy-tale
romance, ____ a pregnant woman searches
for the father of her child during a torrential
rainstorm.

428. Though they had ____ government backing


____ a potential home market, the company
poured billions of dollars into the project and
lost everything.

A) who

A) with / less

B) by whom

B) neither / nor

C) that

C) some / any

D) in which

D) no / without

E) whose

E) few / more

425. The true ecologist need not be a specialist at


all, ____ his views should reflect the practical
wisdom of ordinary people.

429. More importantly, Dobson's book is a


reminder of ____ powerful and radical green
thinking can be.

A) for

A) ever so

B) where

B) how far

C) whether

C) wherever

D) in case

D) much more

E) that

E) just how

426. ____ half of the budget of the US National


Institute on Ageing is spent on research into
Alzheimers disease.

430. You didn't have to invite all those people out


for lunch, so why ____?
A) didn't you

A) As much as

B) did you

B) More of

C) have you

C) Rather than

D) haven't you

D) Other

E) don't you

E) The most

427. Great natural disasters cause ____


widespread death ____ massive social
disruption and outbreaks of epidemic
disease.

431. This poem is generally supposed ____ in the


fifteenth century, but some people date it
even earlier.
A) being composed

A) much / as

B) to be composed

B) so much / that

C) having been composed

C) not only / but also

D) to have composed

D) as / as

E) to have been composed

E) no sooner / than

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432. The failure so far to produce evidence of life
on any planet but ____ has given continued
strength to the belief in the uniqueness of
Earth.

436. Even prior to the 1930's, Swedish banks


played an important role ____ the financing
____ long-term industrial projects.
A) at / for

A) us

B) for / in

B) their

C) in / of

C) ours

D) by / with

D) our

E) into / over

E) them

433. The problem with antiseptics is that ____


killing germs they ____ kill the surrounding
tissues.

437. In Belgium, compensation ____ accidents at


work and occupational illness is exclusively
the concern ____ employers.

A) far / from

A) over / from

B) so far as / too

B) in / by

C) as much as / both

C) from/ for

D) besides / as well

D) for / of

E) as well as / also

E) at / over

434. Beethovens seventeen string quartettes


hold ____ the same position in chamber
music ____ his symphonies hold in the
orchestral repertoire.

438. More than ____ invention of the last eighty


years or so, television has been the most
harmful to family life.
A) some other

A) as / that

B) another

B) much / as

C) the other

C) quite / whether

D) any more

D) just / what

E) any other

E) thus / than

435. Post offices don't have enough space to cope


____ the tremendous increase ____ demand
for PO boxes.

439. Our sales are down again this month, ____.

A) with / in

A) and they also are


B) and so are theirs
C) and neither are theirs

B) on / of

D) but theirs aren't either

C) up / for

E) but they are too

D) for / upon
E) through / from

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440. Several important ports, ____ export timber,
are situated on the shores of the White Sea.
A) most of which

444. One oil company in particular claims ____


its beast to balance economic progress with
environmental care and social responsibility.
A) to be done

B) that many of them

B) having done

C) those which

C) doing

D) whichever of them

D) having been done

E) of which they

E) to have to
441. Once the occupying forces ____, many
seemingly innocent people were accused of
____ with the enemy.
A) were leaving / to have been collaborated

445. Had it not been for the variety and flexibility


of its trades, Huddersfield, like so many of
the other textile towns, ____ into a decline in
the 20th century.

B) were leaving / to have been collaborated

A) was going

C) have left / being collaborating

B) had gone

D) will leave / collaborating

C) would have gone

E) had left / having collaborating

D) would go
E) had been gone

442. Although the metropolitan theatres ____ a


monopoly there for a long time, recently
several private theatres ____.
A) would hold / are being opened

446. ____ the letters written by so many parents,


the headmaster agreed not to expel the
boys.

B) had hold / had been opened

A) In response to

C) were holding / will be opened

B) With reference to

D) held / have been opened

C) In case of

E) have held / were opened

D) Apart from
E) Pertaining to

443. In 1906 at Boazky several thousand


cuneiform tablets ____ and most of them
____ now on exhibit in the Anatolian
civilizations museum in Ankara.
A) have been discovered / were

447. Henry VII's foreign policy was unheroic and


unspectacular, ____ did he go to war and
that was when he invaded France.
A) this once

B) were discovered / are

B) never before

C) have been discovered / had been

C) once again

D) would have been discovered / are being

D) only once

E) had discovered / have been

E) once more

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448. Bennett's novel the old Wives's Tale is the
one ____ he is likely to be best known by
posterity.

452. His doctor ____ advising him to take it easy


for a while and stop all overtime but he
didn't listen.

A) whose

A) made up

B) for whom

B) kept on

C) by which

C) ran through

D) in which

D) left out

E) that

E) played down

449. In a blizzard, the ____ of very low


temperatures, strong wind and suffocating
snow often proves fatal.
A) expectation

453. Our understanding of the development of


behaviour has long been hampered by the
tendency to ____ sharply between "innate"
and "acquired" behaviour.
A) exclude

B) endurance

B) separate

C) engagement

C) distinguish

D) consistence

D) infer

E) combination

E) assess
450. I'm afraid I can't ____ the signature on this
painting but it has been signed.
A) make out

454. the government has recently made one


million dollars ____ for research grants
concerning the prediction of earthquakes.

B) take out

A) conditional

C) find out

B) available

D) turn back

C) suitable

E) put down

D) considerable
E) vulnerable

451. The top research universities in the U.S.A.


are ____ the fact that women researchers are
encountering substantial barriers to career
advancement.
A) waiting for

455. The ozone layer may still act like a protective


blanket, but scientists continue to worry
about the sun's ____ lethal effects.
A) potentially

B) pulling out of

B) equivalently

C) facing up to

C) indifferently

D) trying out

D) approximately

E) turning up

E) abruptly

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456. Owing to the shortages in some building
materials and labour ____ in some trades,
the building industry began to make more
use of prefabricated.

460. Even quite late in the twentieth century


many men assumed that entry into certain
professions was their _____ right.
A) independent

A) components

B) exclusive

B) immunity

C) adequate

C) reliably

D) excessive

D) cavity

E) unaccountable

E) scarcity

457. If the _____of profits falls in one area of


activity, entrepreneurs may move their
resources to an industry where the returns
are higher.

461. Bacteria have remarkable capacity for


_____tolerance to previously lethal drugs.
A) acquiring
B) denouncing

A) phase

C) deceiving

B) liability

D) repudiating

C) level

E) recovering

D) supply
462. Because critical periods occur throughout
pregnancy, a woman should continuously
_____her health.

E) policy

458. In many countries training for industry has


always been considered to be _____the
concern of industry itself, not of the state.

A) keep in with
B) put up with

A) socially

C) find out

B) primarily

D) take good care of

C) suitably

E) look up to

D) firmly
E) reputedly

459. A basic _____of amphibious warfare is


undoubtedly command of the sea.
A) withdrawal

463. In the early twentieth century, a number of


scientists, who had been trained as
physicists, were interested in the study of
biological organisms, and their efforts
_____the field we now call molecular
biology.
A) took leave of

B) involvement

B) made up for

C) determination

C) gave rise to

D) concession

D) showed up

E) requirement

E) fell apart

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464. In the introduction to this book, the writer
_____a foreign policy that makes world
peace the top priority.

468. Diesel engines are more efficient than


gasoline engines _____the fact that a larger
proportion of the fuel used is burned.

A) calls for

A) consequently

B) holds out

B) following

C) keeps up

C) owing to

D) puts on

D) contrary to

E) brings about

E) so that

465. _____the past few decades South Korea,


Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong have
achieved the fastest rates _____economic
growth the world has ever seen.

469. The great bulk of industrial work nowadays


involves the use of machines, and it is certain
that mechanization will proceed _____in the
future.

A) Within / at

A) as well as

B) During / of

B) on the other hand

C) In / over

C) just as

D) After / in

D) ever since

E) Over / about

E) further still

466. The works of the ancient Greek physician


Hippocrates commonly known as the
"Hippocratic Collection", consist _____about
70 works, _____which only a relatively small
number are possible by him.

470. Let's take the ferry to Bandrma from where


it's only a short drive to Bursa, _____driving
all the way from stanbul to Bursa.
A) as well as

A) of / of

B) more than

B) in / for

C) besides

C) for / in

D) instead of

D) at / about

E) except for

E) by / within

467. _____the computerized Dutch auction


system, the flower industry gets flowers into
our homes when they are still _____their
best.

471. Few things _____unnerved the Spanish


conquerors of the New World _____the
prospect of death on Aztec sacrificial stone.
A) as / as

A) Under / at

B) so / as

B) At / in

C) not only / but also

C) From / with

D) neither / nor

D) Until / to

E) so / that

E) Within / for

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472. Some anthropologists think that man today
is _____honest _____he was hundreds and
thousands of years ago.

476. Physics, as it _____at the end of the


nineteenth century _____to as classical
physics.

A) much / as

A) has been known / might be referred

B) the less / than

B) is known / has been

C) the least / of

C) had been known / had been referred

D) little / as

D) was known / is referred

E) less / than

E) might have been known / was referred

473. Until the eighteenth century comparative


linguistic studies
did
not progress
_____beyond the stage where ancient Greek
and Roman grammarians had left them.

477. Sometimes people select certain foods that


they believe _____their physical appearance
and
avoid
those
they
believe
_____detrimental.

A) so much as

A) have improved / would have been

B) too much

B) are improving / were

C) either

C) improve / might be

D) very much

D) improved / had been

E) just in case

E) would have improved / have been

474. Julius Caesar _____a great historian if the


making of history _____him the time and
the inclination to write it.
A) could be / could have allowed

478. Much health education in recent years


_____towards the view that heavy drinker
_____subject for amusement but for
practical help.
A) has been directed / is not

B) would be / allowed

B) had been directed / was not

C) had been / would have allowed

C) was being directed / wouldn't be

D) would have been / could allow

D) is directed / won't be

E) could have been / had allowed

E) is being directed / hasn't been


475. Early in 1940, when Europe was already at
war, Hitler _____the sale of uranium from
the Czech mines he _____over.
A) has banned / has taken

479. It is not unusual for advertising campaigns


_____even before the new products
_____onto the market.
A) to have been launched / have come

B) had banned / took

B) being launched / will come

C) banned / had taken

C) to be launched / come

D) bans / was taking

D) having been launched / are coming

E) was banning / had been taking

E) to have been launched / will have come

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480. Galileo originated the method of controlled
experiment _____now forms the basis of
scientific investigation.

484. The distinction between a language and a


dialect is a _____difficult one.

A) what
B) who
C) where
D) whom

A)

precisely

B)

notoriously

C)

compulsively

D)

suitably

E)

flexibly

E) which

481. Now that formal _____has been given by the


government, the project team can be
recruited.
A)

reference

B)

apprehension

C)

approval

D)

expression

E)

determination

485. Japan is often _____as an example of a


country that has managed to keep its
national defence orientated industries
entirely separate from foreign-owned
companies.
A) deduced
B) delayed
C) deceived
D) withdrawn
E) cited

482. Certain new findings suggest that young


calves may be more _____than older cows
to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BS .
A)

reluctant

B)

hazardous

C)

intimate

D)

susceptible

E)

relative

486. The general feeling in the court was that


several of the witnesses were
_____information that could have a direct
bearing upon the case.
A) expressing
B) withholding
C) avoiding
D) disrupting
E) declining

483. Champions of the green movement regard


the internal combustion machine as one of
the biggest _____in history.
A)

disasters

B)

rejections

C)

admissions

D)

denials

E)

illusions

487. The population of the underdeveloped


countries is growing so fast that the
agricultural activities there are unable to
_____the progressively rising demand for
food.
A) keep up with
B) look out for
C) make sure of
D) bring up
E) sort out

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488. Among the Maori of New Zealand, each
community has developed its own way of
_____crimes and has chosen a number of
different punishments to match them.

492. It's not considered safe to leave your


computer on when you are not in the office,
so you _____do so.
A) don't have to

A) holding up

B) mustn't

B) coming along

C) needn't

C) dealing with

D) haven't got to

D) paying for

E) don't need to

E) taking over
493. If she _____to the interview in a more
positive state of mind, she _____a better
impression.

489. He insisted that mountaineering _____a


sport for him, but a passion that _____his
whole life.

A) will go / would make

A) hadn't been / would dominate

B) goes / has made

B) isn't / has dominated

C) had gone / might have made

C) hasn't been / is dominating

D) would go / had made

D) wouldn't be / is dominating

E) has gone / makes

E) wasn't / had dominated

490. The judges of the international tribunal at


The Hague _____, on 1st February 2002, that
charges relating to all three wars
_____together.

494. The traditional idea that Asia was the cradle


_____primeval man has had to be modified
_____the light of the discovery of human
fossils of great antiquity in Africa.

A) would agree / had been heard


B) have agreed / have been heard
C) were agreed / will be heard
D) agreed / would be heard

A)

to / over

B)

for / from

C)

by / under

D)

from/within

E)

of/in

E) had agreed / were heard

491. When he moved from Ethiopia where he


_____, to England, his experiences
_____quite unlike those of his
contemporaries at school.

495. Naturally I was rather disappointed


_____the results of the experiment, but
actually I wasn't really surprised _____them.

A) had been born / were


B) is born / will be
C) would be born / would be
D) has been born / are
E) was born / will be

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by/to

B)

over/for

C)

for/by

D)

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496. When the personnel manager announced
that everybody had to do overtime because
they were _____ schedule, this caused a
great deal of ill will _____ the staff.
A)

near/for

B)

off/in

C)

back / from

D)

below / between

E)

behind / among

497. Little is known about life on the ocean floor


_____ scientists have only recently
developed the technology for exploring it.

500. The impression I got was that the director


has completely given up _____ hopes he
may at one time have cherished.
A)

as many

B)

such

C)

every

D)

any

E)

so many

501. The evolution of a parliamentary democracy


_____ came about over a long period of time
and _____ then the process was a rough
one.

A)

yet

A) simply / as

B)

as

B) only / even

C)

though

C) hardly / since

D)

whereas

D) just / up to

E)

while

E) really / so

498. Of the company's three accountants, only


one is useful; _____ deserve to be sent
away.
A)

they both

B)

all the others

C)

both the others

D)

each one

E)

each of them

502. The post is mine _____I agree to stay with


the firm for at least three years.
A) in case
B) conditionally
C) if
D) whether
E) accordingly

499. The young sociologist _____ article was


published in the "National Geographic" had
travelled 1700 miles across Australia's
western wilderness.

503. They are in no way responsible; we must face


the fact that we have only _____ to blame.
A) itself

A)

whose

B) ours

B)

who

C) them

C)

that

D) themselves

D)

which

E) ourselves

E)

whom

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504. The micro air vehicles they are working on
are _____ small that it will be almost
impossible to detect them with radar.

508. In the wake of yet another financial scandal,


the chief accountant handed in his _____ to
the director.

A) too

A) retirement

B) as

B) redundancy

C) such

C) promotion

D) so

D) resignation

E) more

E) vacancy

505. Acid rain only became a _____


environmental issue in the 1980s following
groundbreaking studies in the 1970s.

509. The American constitution with its various


constraints _____ to protect citizens, can
actually shield criminals.

A) previous

A) discovered

B) deceitful

B) complained

C) reckless

C) persuaded

D) destructive

D) designed

E) prominent

E) displayed

506. Using the dam to generate power would not


_____ the treaty with the neighbouring
country, but diverting water out of the river
would.

510. The foreman has a way of making most


people do what he wants, but somehow I
don't think he'll manage to _____ the new
director!

A) intimidate

A) get around

B) betray

B) make up for

C) violate

C) turn over

D) convert

D) keep up with

E) fetch

E) rule out

507. The _____ that terrorists use to move money


from regions that finance them to their
target country are often identical to those
used by criminal gangs.

511. The man who created the first computer


virus has been sentenced to 20 months in an
American federal prison, and it is generally
agreed that he has been _____ very lightly.

A) regulations

A) shown up

B) methods

B) let off

C) provisions

C) taken down

D) laws

D) given up

E) admissions

E) brought in

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512. The members of the special commission on
crime, some of _____ were appointed by the
mayor, still meet on a regular basis.
A) that

516. Unfortunately, _____ current productivity


growth looks impressive, the rise in profits
over the coming years is likely to prove
disappointing.
A) since

B) whose

B) just as

C) whom

C) even though

D) who

D) if

E) which

E) which
513. _____ the Civil War, those years turned out
to be a golden era for the magazine industry.
A) Despite

517. The biggest accounting issue raised _____


the energy company is _____ accounting
standards.

B) Obviously

A) by / over

C) Although

B) to / to

D) Pertaining to

C) for / under

E) Nevertheless

D) through / within
E) from / into

514. Unfortunately, _____ stamping out the


drugs' trade, these programmes are simply
forcing drug growers to move into more
inaccessible regions.

518. Crying, which starts _____ birth, is an alarm


system that attracts the parent and it can be
switched off _____ parental attention.

A) besides

A) with / after

B) rather than

B) at / by

C) in addition to

C) for / with

D) due to

D) from / for

E) as for

E) by / through
515. Indeed, the situation is such that the
chairman has finally promised to implement
_____ the committee recommends.
A) whoever

519. Since 1998, the US federal government has


more than doubled its spending _____
defence _____ biological and chemical
weapons.

B) however

A) for / with

C) if ever

B) of / to

D) as ever

C) on / against

E) whatever

D) in / from
E) with / over

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520. Items _____ display in this museum were
obtained _____ mosques, Turkish baths,
fountains and caravansarays dating back to
the Ottoman period.

524. While the parades for the opening of


parliament _____ , the president _____ a
sobering message for his countrymen.
A) had rehearsed / prepared

A) on / from

B) have been rehearsed / has prepared

B) in / by

C) were being rehearsed / was preparing

C) for / out of

D) are rehearsing / is preparing

D) within / of

E) had been rehearsed / would prepare

E) with / at

521. Following four Mars mission losses, an


independent report paints a very clear
picture of _____what ails the US space
programme, _____what must be done to fix
it

525. Though we still _____a long way to go, a lot


_____in developing new medical procedures
to deal with diseased tissue.
A) had had / had been accomplished

A) whether / though

B) had / has been accomplished

B) either / or

C) have had / was accomplished

C) how / and

D) are having / was being accomplished

D) thus / that

E) have / is being accomplished

E) not only / but also

526. Soon, customs officers _____to use X-ray


technology _____cavities in vehicles for
drugs.

522. Basically a country has two objectives in


imposing tariffs; one is to raise revenue for
government, _____is to protect home
industries by raising the price of competing
goods from abroad.

A) have been able / having scanned


B) are able / scanning

A) other

C) were able / to be scanned

B) both

D) will be able /to scan

C) another

E) would have been able / to have scanned

D) the other
E) each

523. This part of Africa is growing greener again


_____that families who fled to wetter coastal
regions are starting to go home.

527. As acquisition opportunities within the EU


_____less, western European energy
companies _____to turn eastwards in the
hunt for expansion opportunities.

A) so far

A) grow / are being forced

B) to such an extent

B) will grow / would have been forced

C) even so

C) are growing / would be forced

D) as a result

D) have grown / had been forced

E) even more

E) grew / have been forced

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528. If Britain _____the euro, say in 2004, the
stability pact _____highly important.

532. He admitted that he was resigning from the


post because he felt it did not make
sufficient call on the combative and _____
elements of his nature.

A) will be joining / is becoming


B) has joined / will have become

A) introverted

C) will have joined / will become

B) self-assertive

D) would join / has become

C) reserved

E) were to join / would become

D) self-contained
E) submissive

529. Whatever else _____the British empire for


so long, it was not Britain's education
system.

533. If he wants the contract, he must let us know


by Tuesday; we can't keep the offer open
_____ .

A) was sustained
B) has sustained

A) infinitely

C) sustains

B) decisively

D) sustained

C) conclusively

E) to have sustained

D) reluctantly
E) indefinitely

530. A fresh look at the final months of the


presidency of John F. Kennedy _____ that a
second Kennedy term might have produced a
rapprochement with Cuba.
A) promises

534. Many African governments are


_____
financial collapse and survive only on the
strength of aid and donations from
international organizations.

B) describes

A) in line with

C) inflicts

B) in the case of

D) indicates

C) in excess of

E) involves

D) on the verge of
E) in place of

531. Sometimes a seemingly modest business


deal can change the whole _____ of an
industry.
A) expansion
B) expression
C) course

535. By the early 1990s nuclear weapons could be


designed, tested and maintained _____
complete secrecy, without having to worry
_____ enemies exploiting information from
live tests.
A) from/over

D) relapse

B) by/for

E) vitality

C) in / about
D) within / with
E) through / by

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536. _____ James assures me that he's telling the
truth, I'm pretty sure that he's actually telling
a lie.
A) On the contrary

540. Much to everyone's surprise, the steel


workers' union actually supported the
takeover, and managed to secure further
pension rights for its members _____ .
A) in the process

B) Just as

B) as it happened

C) So as

C) in its place

D) Whenever

D) in accord

E) As if

E) on a level
537. With the help of a fifth of the white voters
Mr Jackson was elected mayor of Atlanta in
1973, and _____ became the first black
mayor of a major southern city.

541. Since there _____ nothing in the way of pay


rises or bonuses for two to three years, the
new taxes _____ a great deal of distress.

A) nevertheless

A) had been / caused

B) thus

B) has been / had caused

C) even so

C) will be / would have caused

D) yet

D) would have been / are going to cause

E) otherwise

E) will have been / are causing

538. It seems, from the Chinese experience, that


an authoritarian state can open its economy
to international forces
_____
either
collapsing or becoming more democratic.

542. Over the past three years, the US economy


_____ badly hurt by unforeseen events, but
housing _____ to move up to set sales
records in both 2001 and 2002.

A) without

A) would be / would have continued

B) including

B) had been / has contin

C) so as

C) has been / continued

D) therefore

D) was / continues

E) Whether

E) is being / would continue

539. In the US the weakening of the dollar is


making foreign wines pricier and domestic
ones, _____ , more attractive.
A) on account

543. Presumably, the main concern of the


Japanese central bank at present _____ to
avoid _____ for any large-scale financial
collapse.
A) will be / having blamed

B) in addition

B) has been / having been blamed

C) on condition

C) was / to be blamed

D) in competition

D) is / being blamed

E) incomparison

E) would be / to have been blamed

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544. For the time being, people are Concentrating
_____ making use _____ the irrigation
systems that have already been installed.

548. Each year, large amounts of carbon


monoxide are _____ into the atmosphere by
automobiles and factories.

A) by / with

A) absorbed

B) for /in

B) emitted

C) at / into

C) exchanged

D) over / from

D) repulsed

E) on / of

E) compelled

545. As the new field-worker will be working in


close _____ with several others, make sure
you select someone with an agreeable
personality.
A) uniformity

549. The first two paragraphs _____ the


particular requirements of the digital
environment as the source of data and as a
means of producing maps and other
visualisations
A) lay emphasis on

B) suspicion

B) run out of

C) collaboration

C) break through

D) discretion

D) stop short of

E) productivity

E) look down on
546. Sponsorship is being increasingly allowed in
schools provided it is regarded as being
_____ with educational curricula.
A) considerate

550. Professional tennis, which got its start in


1926 when the French player Suzanne
Lenglen _____ 50,000 US dollars for a tour,
only _____ full recognition in 1968.

B) predictable

A) had been paid / has received

C) decisive

B) was paid / received

D) compatible

C) has been paid / would receive

E) provocative

D) is paid / receives
E) would be paid / had received

547. The discovery of a _____ cancer-causing


chemical in foods like crisps, chips and
cereals caused shock waves around the
world when it hit the headlines earlier this
year.

551. Once the director _____ just how much was


at stake, he _____ immediate steps to deal
with the dispute.

A) potentially

A) realizes / will take

B) remarkably

B) has realized / had taken

C) controversially

C) had realized / took

D) memorably

D) realized / takes

E) concisely

E) would realize / has taken

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552. The once radical notion that birds _____
from dinosaurs _____ stronger and stronger
since palaeontologists first started taking it
seriously a couple of decades ago.

556. More than 29 million Africans are now


infected with HIV, and the disease is killing
_____ Africans ___________ all the
continent's wars combined.

A) descended / has grown

A) so many / as

B) have descended / grew

B) either / or

C) had descended / had grown

C) more / than

D) descend / is growing

D) not only / but also

E) are descending / was growing

E) both / and

553. Throughout his term in office, President


Clinton _____ by allegations relating to the
Whitewater real estate deal in which he and
his wife, Hillary Clinton, _____ prior to the
1992 election.

557. He did _____ better in the interview _____


any of the other applicants.
A) much / as
B) rather / than

A) is dogged / are involved

C) as / for

B) had been dogged / were involved

D) still / with

C) was dogged / had been involved

E) far / from

D) has been dogged / have been involved


558. Geographical Information System tools
provide specialised functions for spatial data
input, processing, analysis and output, _____
569. Database Management System tools
provide more advanced functions for storing
and managing large spatial databases.

E) was being dogged / may have been


involved

554. The essays taken together tell the story of


how the US became an economic power
______________ a scale unprecedented
_____ history.

A) that
B) due to

A) for / with

C) while

B) at / by

D) whether

C) with / from

E) in that

D) thought / at
E) on / in

555. _____ the surprise of the archaeologists, the


structures turned out to be the remains
_____ two domed tombs, each over a
thousand years old.

559. Photosynthesis is the process _____ green


plants manufacture carbohydrates, using the
energy of sunlight.
A) as when

A) To / of

B) on which

B) At / from

C) where

C) For / by

D) by which

D) With / over

E) since

E) By / through

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560. Their Prime Minister has been able to act
more aggressively in the past year because
he has _____ his power within the
government.

564. In the past 30 years , our knowledge of the


ancient Maya civilization has increased _____
as a result of the decipherment of a newly
discovered script.

F) Recommended

A) significantly

A) Reduced

B) alternatively

B) Compelled

C) suspiciously

C) Consolidated

D) persuasively

D) impaired

E) conditionally

561. Pakistan _____ the Indus and its tributaries


for almost half of its irrigation supplies.
A) turns back

565. _____ providing luxury on every imaginable


level, a five- star hotel should also have the
ability to take you by suprise.
A) with a view to

B) waits for

B) in excess of

C) takes to

C) consequent on

D) pulls up

D) in need of

E) relies on

E) in addition to
562. The auroras are caused by the _____ of solar
winds with gases in the Earth's atmosphere.
A) intersection

566. Ancient Peruvian textiles have survived in an


excellent state of preservation _____ The dry
conditions of much of the country.

B) completion

A) with regard to

C) interaction

B) in comparison with

D) perception

C) in case of

E) distraction

D) owing to
E) in opposition to

563. It seems strange to us now that miners and


others employed in dangerous work should
not have demanded the provision of _____
Headgear.

567. Exciting new research is transforming


industrial robotics, offering the promise of
whole new generation of _____ intelligent
machines

A) forceful

A) more

B) obstructive

B) much

C) relentless

C) any

D) protective

D) mostly

E) intensive

E) too

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568. He is hoping that, by the time he _____ for
the grant, his book on Egyptiant, silverwork
_____
A) has to apply/ will have been published

572. The software has been designed to help


detectives solve complex cases _____
prompting them to explore lines _____
enquity other than the obvious ones.
A) through / to

B) had applied/ had been published

B) by / of

C) was to apply / has been published

C) from/ into

D) will be applying/would have been


published

D) over / with

E) would have applied / will be published

E) into / for

569. It seems that, even if big western companies


_____ to help develop lifesaving GM (
genetically modified ) seeds for the
underdeveloped countries, only South Africa
___to accept them.

573. Recent findings have suggested that, in


ancient times too, man was capable _____
causing rapid and decisive changes _____ the
genetic make-up of staple crops.
A) in / for

A) will be willing/ is ready

B) to / of

B) has been willing / will be ready

C) of / in

C) had been willing/ would be ready

D) from / over

D) would be willing/ was ready

E) with / into

E) were willing / would be ready

570. The big test _____ over the next few weeks
when the government _____ to introduce a
plan to include drug coverage in Medicare.

574. _____ helmets had been revived for soldiers


and extended to many workers, safety head
coverings for athletes almost inevitably
followed.

A) is coming/ will be expected


B) comes/ was expected

A) while

C) has come/ is expecting

B) before

D) will come / is expected

C) although

E) would come / would be expected

D) once
E) until

571. Seafarers' records _____ back to 1590 _____


it possible to visualize the behaviour of one
of the planet's most mysterious phenomena :
its magnetic field.
A) dating / have made

575. These novels illustrate the author's _____


for the struggles of young people and the
proper help that should be given.

B) to date / would make

A) deceit

C) being dated/ had made

B) obligation

D) to be dated / are making

C) alteration

E) to have been dated / will make

D) disturbance
E) concern

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576. The quartet's rendering of Mozart is _____
good, but l have mixed feelings about the
Schubert collection.

580. China's economic boom _____ a growing


need for energy that _____ only foreign
supplies.

A) exceptionally

A) will produce / used to satisfy

B) sensitively

B) produced / had satisfied

C) preferably

C) is producing / could satisfy

D) impulsively

D) has produced / can satisfy

E) impartially

E) would produce / would have satisfied

577. The book is surprisingly lucid and manages to


make the controversial field of evolutionary
psychology _____ to the average intelligent
reader.

581. They hope that by surrounding city centres


and likely terrorist targets with "soft walls",
they _____ it impossible for hijacked planes
_____ anywhere near them.

A) susceptible

A) will make / to get

B) conducive

B) make / having got

C) available

C) make /to have got

D) indulgent

D) have made / to be got

E) exclusive

E) are making / getting

578. America's subsidies to its cotton farmers


have long been a noteworthy example of the
harm that rich countries' subsidies _____ on
the poor.

582. New DNA evidence hints that "African Eve",


the150,000 year-old female ancestor of every
person on Earth, _____ in Tanzania or
Ethiopia.

A) enforce

A) has lived

B) provide

B) is used to living

C) exceed

C) may have lived

D) inflict

D) would live

E) employ

E) would be living

579. As Egypt _____ the biggest irrigation


project, the Pharaohs' dream of spreading
their kingdoms into the desert is coming
true.

583. Socrates _____ that we _____ with the


improvement of our souls.
A) must have said / would be concerned
B) had said / had to be concerned

A) puts off

C) was saying / should have been concerned

B) embarks on

D) has said / had been concerned

C) breaks up

E) said / should be concerned

D) tries on
E) shows up

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584. _____ its vast forests, Myanmar was
thought to possess the largest number of
tigers _____ India.

588. The most devastating human impact on


environments can be seen on islands _____
settlers have introduced new animals and
plants.

A) For/with

A) which

B) In / for

B) to whom

C) At / to

C) what

D) With / after

D) to which

E) Through / by

E) whom
585. Though the most important factors in pricing
decisions are production costs and the level -- demand, broader company objectives must
also betaken _____ consideration.

589. Human activity has destroyed _____ plant


species that collective action is essential for
the conservation of those that remain.

A) in / out of

A) more

B) of / into

B) so many

C) with / for

C) many more

D) between / by

D) the most

E) on / under

E) as many

586. Until people realize that they have to


develop new skills, there's no way the
economy can improve, _____ ?

590. A fair proportion of the workforce now work


their homes, a _____ that has been
made possible by computers.

A) is there

A) disturbance

B) can there

B) destination

C) can it

C) circumstance

D) have they

D) support

E) can they

E) denial

587. _____ they are accessible by boat only,


these islands are still largely undeveloped.
A) Even

591. North Korea is _____ to abandon its


nuclear programme without specific security
guarantees from America and promises of
lost of aid.

B) As if

A) sincere

C) Although

B) nasty

D) Conseguently

C) boastful

E) Since

D) unlikely
E) provisional

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592. Pharmaceutical firms are wary of
devoting money to new antibiotics whose
sales can be _____ limited by the
development of resistance in the target
microbes.
A) accurately

596. Over this period, according to a report


recently issued by the Hispanic Studies
Center in Los Angeles, Mexicans received
14.5 billon US dollars from relatives
working in the United States, which is
almost _____ Mexicos earnings from
foreign oil sales.

B) adequately

A) as

C) severely

B) just as

D ) complacently

C) as well as

E) confidently

D) as much as
E) as far as

593. In an aircraft the cabin lights are dimmed


during take-off and landing to help
passengers to _____ themselves to
darkness in the event of an emergency.

597. The origin of sex is _____


puzzle _____ its prevalence.

A) modify

A) too / for

B) accustom

B) so/so

C) resume

C) as / as

D) associate

D) that / such as

E) relate

E) very / more like

594. Jean Chretien _____ after more than ten


years as Canadas prime minister.

598. In business, every trend contains the seeds of


_____ counter-trend.

A) steps down

A) itself

B) makes out

B) its own

C) runs out

C) any one

D) holds up

D) any

E) points out

E) ones own

595. The United States spends _____ on armed


forces _____ do all other countries
combined.

much of a

599. If you _____ a car, you _____


performance, not its appearance.
A) were buying/had been considering

A) so much / that

B) were buying/would have considered

B) both / and

C) bought / had considered

C) not only / but also


D) neither / nor

D) have bought / would have been


considered

E) more / than

E) are buying / should be considering

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600. Whats really _____ issue is the political
structure _____ which Soviet communism
was erected.

604. Following World War Il, job prospects for


young people _____ greatly, which allowed
them _____ more prosperous than their
parents.

A) at / on

A) had improved / to have felt

B) for / from

B) have improved / feeling

C) to / through

C) improved / to feel

D) by / in

D) were improving / having felt

E) over / with

E) would have improved / having to feel


601. Provincial governments play a big role in
the lives of Canadians, _____ primary
responsibility _____ health, education and
welfare.

605. Unless you use your computer _____ , you


can't expect it to function well.
A) surely

A) through / over

B) particularly

B) at / about

C) recently

C) from / to

D) properly

D) by / of

E) soundly

E) with / for

602. China, which _____ much of Mongolia from


the end of the seventieth century until the
early twentieth century, still, _____ the
oil, coal, uranium, and empty grasslands of
its former possessions.

606. In China's largest psychiatric facility there is a


serious lack of resources but the staff try
hard to _____ this in their treatment of the
patients.
A) come up with

A) was ruling / has coveted

B) go in for

B) had ruled / may have coveted

C) put up with

C) has ruled / coveted

D) set oat for

D) ruled / covets

E) make up for

E) rules / is coveting

603. The choices we make and the lives we lead


_____ by the values we _____ .

607. It's worth remembering that his _____ of


the downward trends in output over recent
years is not the only one.

A) would be influenced / are holding

A) interpretation

B) are influenced / hold

B) departure

C) had been influenced / were holding

C) compliance

D) must have influenced / had hold

D) discretion

E) have been influenced / were holding

E) intention

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608. The Gulf countries have achieved substantial
progress _____ regional integration _____
the past 20 years.
A) through / of

612. In Kuwait, foreign companies are presently


taxed at 55 per cent of profits, whereas the
Kuwaitis themselves pay _____ or _____
tax depending on their status.
A) less / least

B) into / with

B) little / no

C) for / on

C) more / less

D) over / by

D) few / fewer

E) towards / over

E) less / none
609. In the case of opera, the benefits of being
able to experience the whole production
from the comfort of your armchair are very
_____ .

613. Slow-motion photography can reveal things


that happen _____ fast for the human eye
to see.

A) subtle

A) more

B) demonstrative

B) as

C) deliberate

C) than

D) excessive

D) too

E) attractive

E) such

610. The analysis of a story _____ its central


conflict is likely to be especially fruitful, for it
rapidly takes us to what is truly _____ issue
in the story.

614. He _____ in a line of work that was


dependent solely on his ability to win the
trust of others, and one in which very close
relationships --- necessary.

A) by / over

A) was engaged / were

B) from / with

B) would have been engaged / will be

C) through / at

C) will be engaged / could be

D) with / about

D) had been engaged / are

E) towards / above

E) is engaged / would be

611. For the control of the deadly brain disease in


cows (BS , surveillance is being stepped up in
Canada, but the US claims to be testing
enough cattle already to _____ the risk.

615. The term "radical", in politics, refers to


anyone with opinions _____ extreme _____
the main current of a country's major
political party or parties.

A) assert

A) so / as

B) assess

B) more / than

C) consult

C) only / that

D) exceed

D) not only / but also

E) discourage

E) either / or

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616. The auditing of accounts means the official
inspection of a company's accounts by a
qualified accountant, and this _____ by law
each year.

620. A strong _____ exists between a countrys


wealth and the freedom afforded its citizens.
A) coincidence
B) correlation

A) had been required

C) consideration

B) requires

D) determination

C) is required

E) interpretation

D) required
E) would have been required

617. Applicants _____ the ability to work well in


a multicultural environment and _____ to
work to tight deadlines.

621. Satellite television transmission now makes


it_____ for us to watch events as they unfold
in other countries.
A) worldwide

A) have had / had been able

B) substantial

B) should have / be able

C) aware

C) must have / were able

D) commonplace

D) will have / had had

E) liable

E) could have / have had

618. Old Danish, one of the languages of the


Vikings who _____ in parts of Britain during
the 9th to 11 centuries, _____ a strong
influence on the development of English.
A) have settled / had had

622. Latin American countries on average export


only about 10 per cent of their products to
other Latin American countries but _____ 20
per cent of them to the US.
A) almost

B) had settled/would have

B) fairly

C) settle/has

C) respectively

D) settled/had

D) initially

E) would settle / will have

E) extensively
619. One day humans _____ on Mars if US
President Bush's recently announced plans
_____ to fruition.
A) could be walking / come

623. Until the sixteenth century, when the first


international postal agreement was _____ ,
there was no postal system as we know it
today.

B) would walk / had come

A) assigned

C) can be walking /will come

B) maintained

D) would have walked / come

C) enacted

E) will be walking / might come

D) seized
E) conducted

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624. There has been increasing pressure in the US
to _____ the amount of funding allocated
to foreign aid,and instead, use the funds to
improve the domestic economy.

628. Severity of autism ranges _____ those who


are mutec and have no functional behaviour
_____ individuals with high IQ scores.
A) into / among

A) make up for

B) in / about

B) point out to

C) between/ of

C) keep up with

D) through/ for

D) cut down on

E) from / to

E) take up with
629. Most companies would prefer to
concentrate _____ domestic rather than
foreign markets because of their greater
familiarity _____ their ownenvironments.

625. Many parts of rural America _____ to


reflect the values and traditions of the
European immigrants who _____ in the
country during the nineteenth century.

A) in / of

A) continued / have arrived

B) on / with

B) have continued / would have arrived

C) over / by

C) continue / arrived

D) at / from

D) would have continued / were arriving

E) for / to

E) will continue / would arrive

626. With few exceptions, most totalitarian


governments _____ more liberal since 1989
when the Berlin Wall _____ .

630. Management must learn to determine


market conditions in the countries _____ it
is doing business.

A) became / falls

A) where

B) are becoming / would fall

B) what

C) were becoming / has fallen

C) as for

D) had become / was falling

D) of which

E) have become / fell

E) so that

627. Of all the arts it _____ to classical music that


Germany _____ the greatest contribution.
A) had been / made
B) is / has made

631. _____ the growth in e-mail and fax


transmissions, many communications are
still best handled by face-to-face or voice-tovoice contact.
A) Contrary to

C) has been / had made

B) In spite of

D) was / will have made

C) By means of

E) might be / would have made

D) Since
E) As regards

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632. _____ by making an internal analysis can a
company set the overall rationale for its
international activities.

636. At present, interest rates are comparatively


_____ ; lets hope they remain that way.
A) frequent

A) Still

B) uneasy

B) While

C) consecutive

C) Only

D) comprehensive

D) Until

E) steady

E) Just as

633. _____ an organization depends on


collaborative arrangements, _____
likely it is to lose control over
decisions.

637. In some parts of Western Europe, _____ in


France, Denmark and Sweden, cohabitation
has become almost as common as marriage.
A) completely

A) Not only / but also

B) deceptively

B) Neither / nor

C) notably

C) Either / or

D) voluntarily

D) When / then

E) relatively

E) The more / the more

634. A corporations formulation of its


international strategy will greatly determine
_____ it will benefit more from
protectionism or from some other means for
countering international competition.

638. What are some of the things that


differentially affect siblings and help _____
their success or failure?
A) pursue
B) recognize

A) so

C) recreate

B) as

D) determine

C) unless

E) reinstate

D) whether
E) whereby

635. The laws concerning the breeding of animals


for research could turn out to be to the
_____ of medical research.

639. Solar heating never _____ in the US because


of the cost and limited winter sunlight in
most areas.
A) caught on

A) admission

B) played up

B) detriment

C) turned over

C) exclusion

D) waited on

D) preference

E) looked back

E) cohesion

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640. Having read so many contemporary
American writers, I _____ to feel impatient
with the kind of fiction that _____ in
England.

644. For decades presidents have been coming


_____ plans to deal with the fact that one
day the world will run _____ its key source
of energy: oil

A) was beginning / will have been written

A) up with / out of

B) had begun / has been written

B) out of / up against

C) have begun / would have been written

C) down to / away from

D) would begin / is being written

D) up for / through

E) began / was being written

E) over to / into

641. Cross-border shopping is a fundamental right


under EU law and _____ as a form of tax
evasion.

645. Philosophers have debated the relation


_____ thought and emotions _____ at least
two millennia.

A) must not have been regarded

A) from / over

B) had not been regarded

B) over / in

C) should not be regarded

C) between / for

D) would not have been regarded

D) in / by

E) was not being regarded

E) through / to

642. He certainly _____ party members last


weekend when he announced that he _____
to regain his party chairmanship.

646. _____ little respect the British people may


feel for the monarchy, they are still not likely
to change to a republic.

A) has shocked / had not sought

A) As far as

B) would have shocked / will not seek

B) Whatever

C) had shocked / would not have sought

C) Such a

D) was to shock / is not seeking

D) However

E) shocked / would not seek

E) Just as

643. The 1980s _____ a surge of new interest


_____ the definition of intelligence.

647. All of the worlds major national parks are


included on the map, _____ are most of the
important reserves of lesser statu.
A) as

A) have brought / to be expanding

B) as well

B) had brought / having expanded

C) such

C) were bringing / to have expanded

D) which

D) brought / in expanding

E) that

E) would have brought / to expand

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648. His latest novel is about people who take
their work seriously, _____ thats being a
mother, a nurse or a soldier.

652. The Allied bombing campaign against


Germany in World War II exacted terrible
damage on the countrys factories,
transportation network, population, and
_____ very limited fuel-production capacity.

A) even so
B) as if

A) already

C) unless

B) solely

D) besides

C) immediately

E) whether

D) inadequately
E) rightly

649. Hviz is Europes largest warmwater lake and


visitors can swim there even in winter,
_____ helps extend the tourist season.
A) thus

653. Soccers many creative possibilities _____ in


part from its being played on such a large
field.

B) which

A) entail

C) nor

B) consist

D) too

C) conclude

E) so

D) claim
E) derive

650. Anthony Powell, the contemporary British


novelist, shows in his writing great familiarity
with the work of Proust while avoiding much
direct _____ to him.
A) interest
B) dependence

654. Kosrae is the smallest of the four island


states that _____ the Federated States of
Micronesia (FSM), the largest and most
populous political entity that emerged after
World War II.

C) quotation

A) keep away

D) reference

B) tie up with

E) obsession

C) make up
D) set down

651. Despite its small population and _____


remoteness, Australia occupies a powerful
position in global science in general and life
science in particular.
A) ultimate

E) take on

655. Investigations by modern doctors _____


that Catherine the Great of Russia _____
from syphilis.

B) sizeable

A) have suggested / has suffered

C) relative

B) suggest / suffered

D) extensive

C) had suggested / was suffering

E) recurrent

D) may have suggested / would have suffered


E) suggested / suffers

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656. This morning it _____ in the news that the
great Italian tenor Pavarotti _____ of
pancreatic cancer soon after midnight.
A) had been reported / died

660. The Worldwatch Institute reported last year


_____ approximately four of the five
McDonalds restaurants that opened every
day in 2005 were outside the United States.
A) if

B) is reported / would die

B) as

C) is being reported / dies

C) while

D) was reported / had died

D) when

E) has been reported / could have died

E) that
657. The United States _____ expensive hightech solutions to the problem of land-mine
clearance, but simpler methods _____
more preferable.
A) should pursue / were

661. One of the worlds worst space flight


disasters occurred on 28 January 1986,
_____ the shuttle Challenger exploded soon
after take-off, killing the crew of seven.
A) if

B) pursues / had been

B) so that

C) pursued / will have been

C) even if

D) would pursue / would have been

D) when

E) has pursued / may be

E) just as
658. People who travel _____ airlines all have
stories _____ how bad the experience is
when things go wrong.
A) with / for
B) in / of
C) on / about

662. The discovery in 2001 of a juvenile dinosaurs


spectacularly preserved fossil with feathers
does indicate the dinosaur-bird connection,
_____ it also casts new light on the mystery
of why nature invented feathers in the first
place.
A) whether

D) at / over

B) where

E) through / to

C) but
D) so

659. Scientists have studied the health status of


native people in the South Pacific _____
decades, and have noted the explosion of
diet-related disease _____ the area.
A) for / in
B) throughout / over
C) through / about

E) whereas

663. Contrary to perceptions outside Canada, the


majority of Canadians are descended from
the English, the Scots, and the Irish _____
from the French.
A) rather than

D) by / off

B) more than

E) of / at

C) such as
D) and so
E) also

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664. Because of the wide variety of ethnicity in
the United States, people speak English as
_____ their native _____ their adopted
tongue.
A) rather / than

668. Certain nations have _____ the use of


prenatal diagnostic techniques to select the
sex of an unborn child; but, bribery and
human ingenuity have made it easy for
prospective parents to by- pass the statute.
A) removed

B) either / or

B) outlawed

C) more / than

C) explored

D) so much / as

D) sustained

E) well / as

E) retained
665. Volcanoes are built by the _____ of their
own eruptive products, which are lava, ash
flows, airborne ash and dust.
A) accumulation

669. The British government _____ details of the


next stage of its genetically modified
cropfield trials, thus _____ off a now
familiar cycle of debate and demonstration.

B) destruction

A) has released / setting

C) explosion

B) will release / to set

D) instability

C) would have released / having set

E) growth

D) is releasing / to have set


E) released / to be set

666. China and India serve as models for Africa


because their experiences hold lessons for
developing countries on how to manage
_____ economic and political
transformation.

670. Training schemes in the United Kingdom


_____ by the government as unemployment
_____ .

A) deceitful

A) were encouraged / will have worsened

B) persuasive

B) would be encouraged / had been


worsened

C) accessible

C) have been encouraged / has worsened

D) irregular

D) had been encouraged / may worsen

E) gradual

E) are encouraged / would have worsened


667. In the largely closed economies of the Gulf,
private as well as public funds have _____
turned to real estate and equity markets,
fuelling a dangerous speculative boom.
A) unlikely

671. After the Germanic invasions, Celtic


cultures, which in pre-Roman times _____
most of Western Europe, _____ almost
entirely to the British Isles.
A) had covered / were confined

B) nominally

B) have been covering / have been confined

C) rapidly

C) had been covering / would be confined

D) still

D) have covered / could have been confined

E) tightly

E) were covering / had been confined

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672. An Indian drug company has offered to
supply an anti-AIDS drug _____ sufferers in
developing countries _____ less than onetwentieth of the standard cost in the West.
A) in / to

676. Several species of birds in Vietnam vanished


during the war, _____ they began to
reappear in the 1980s and their gradual
return has been encouraged by Vietnamese
villagers.
A) but

B) at / over

B) since

C) with / for

C) unless

D) to / at

D) when

E) on / with

E) if
673. The main attention at the World Economic
Forum, when it was not focused _____
China, centred on Africas remarkable
economic growth _____ the past couple of
years.

677. Countries are interested _____ in their


absolute economic welfare, _____ in how
well they are performing compared to other
countries.

A) in / with

A) both / as well as

B) on / over

B) as / as

C) of / towards

C) so much / as

D) by / at

D) more / but

E) from / through

E) not only / but also

674. In child development, play and exploration


are similar _____ they are both intrinsically
motivated behaviours and not directed by
external goals.

678. A structural formula is a chemical formula


that shows how the atoms are bonded to
_____ in a molecule.
A) another

A) on the other hand

B) others

B) whereas

C) the others

C) otherwise

D) each other

D) after

E) every other

E) since

675. At present, the European Union imports


about one quarter of its gas and one third of
its oil from Russia, _____ countries such as
Slovakia, Finland, Poland, Hungary, the Baltic
states and the Ukraine are totally or very
heavily dependent on Russian energy.

679. Good leadership is about tackling big


challenges, and the first and most important
step in this process is recognizing which
_____ should take precedence over the
others.
A) obsessions

A) even though

B) emissions

B) since

C) debates

C) whether

D) candidates

D) while

E) issues

E) in case

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680. By the 14th century, the Holy Roman Empire
was little more than a _____ federation of
the German princes who elected the Holy
Roman emperor.

684. The price of crude oil _____ by 40% this year


due to the continuing risk of disruption in the
Middle East, which _____ for one-third of
global production.

A) negotiable

A) surges / accounted

B) current

B) had surged / has accounted

C) prescriptive

C) has surged / accounts

D) loose

D) surged / had accounted

E) recurrent

E) will surge / could have accounted

681. Roman numerals are expressed by letters of


the alphabet and are _____ used today
except for formality or variety.
A) courteously

685. At the end of 1998, Estonia _____ the strict


citizenship requirements that _____ the
countrys Russian minority from gaining
citizenship.
A) relaxes / kept

B) arguably

B) had relaxed / have kept

C) consecutively

C) has relaxed / were keeping

D) equivalently

D) relaxed / had kept

E) rarely

E) will relax / are keeping


682. The Gulf, the Indian Ocean and the South
China Sea are increasingly seen as potential
trouble zones that could _____ energy
supplies from the Middle East to Asia.

686. An ideal anticancer drug _____ cancer cells


without harming normal cells, but no such
drug --.

A) increase

A) would destroy / exists

B) disrupt

B) destroyed / existed

C) consume

C) may have destroyed / has existed

D) involve

D) has destroyed / had existed

E) expand

E) had destroyed / would exist

683. Dublin is a fairly easy city to _____ because


of its frequent and efficient bus and
underground services.
A) get around

687. Despite the official ban _____


demonstrations, 2008 has seen Egyptians
take to the streets _____ massive numbers
on several occasions.
A) about / by

B) make over

B) over / at

C) set up

C) for / with

D) get on

D) of / through

E) go with

E) on / in

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688. According to the generally accepted
platetectonics theory, scientists believe that
Earths surface is broken _____ a number of
shifting plates, which average _____ 50
miles in thickness.

692. In the early twentieth century, the motor car


was one of the first major consumer products
to be _____ mass produced _____ mass
marketed.
A) such / as

A) up / above

B) more / than

B) at / for

C) so / as

C) down / beyond

D) as / as

D) into / about

E) both / and

E) of / below

689. The island groups in the Pacific are often


called Oceania, _____ this name does not
imply that they are the remains of a
continent.

693. The bodys immune system attacks and


eliminates _____ bacteria and other foreign
substances _____ cancer cells.
A) not only / but also
B) rather / than

A) whether

C) such / that

B) but

D) as well as / and

C) just as

E) just as / as

D) whereby
E) so that

690. _____ most people who commit suicide are


depressed, having depression correctly
diagnosed and treated is the most important
step towards preventing suicide.
A) As long as

694. The genetic fingerprinting technique, which


was developed in the UK and is now used as
a _____ of legal identification, determines
the pattern of certain parts of the genetic
material DNA that is unique to each
individual.

B) Although

A) benefit

C) Because

B) sufficiency

D) Even if

C) structure

E) Unless

D) combination
E) means

691. Algeria is particularly keen to increase its gas


exports _____ OPEC production quotas
restrict its oil exports.
A) since

695. In existentialism, it is argued that people are


responsible for, and the _____ judge of,
their actions.

B) that

A) expansive

C) so that

B) sole

D) as if

C) previous

E) whereas

D) irresistible
E) prevalent

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696. By the start of the 1990s, popular music had
become _____ globalized, with seventy per
cent of all production resting in the hands of
just five companies.

700. Nineteenth-century military helmets _____


than they now appear, but even at their best
they _____ the way to the future of head
protection.

A) possibly

A) have been better designed / do not point

B) negligently

B) could be better designed / would not point

C) rarely

C) are better designed / will not point

D) significantly

D) may have been better designed / did not


point

E) respectively

E) can be better designed / had not pointed


697. The League of Nations, established in Geneva
in 1920, included representatives from states
throughout the world, but was severely
weakened by the US decision not to become
a member, and had no power to _____ its
decisions.

701. Cabbage _____ as early as 2000 B.C., and


the commercial varieties now _____
Brussels sprouts, common cabbage,
sprouting broccoli, and kohlrabi.
A) might have been cultivated / have included

A) impress

B) had been cultivated / included

B) compel

C) would be cultivated / used to include

C) accomplish

D) would have been cultivated / can include

D) implicate

E) was cultivated / include

E) enforce

698. In the resort areas of Greece, travel agents


offer a wide range of excursions on airconditioned coaches _____ qualified guides.

702. Foreign policy is composed of the goals


sought, values set, decisions made and
actions taken _____ states and the national
governments acting _____ their behalf.

A) accompanied by

A) by / on

B) put up with

B) at / from

C) adapted to

C) about / for

D) designed for

D) over / between

E) turned into

E) in / among

699. The ruins of ancient Troy _____ as breathtaking as those of Ephesus or Aphrodisias,
but, for anyone who has ever read Homers
Iliad or Odyssey, they have a romance few
places on Earth _____ .
A) have not been / hoped to have matched

703. A priori knowledge _____ Western


philosophy is knowledge that is independent
_____ all particular experiences, as opposed
to a posteriori knowledge, which derives
from experience alone.

B) had not been / would hope to match

A) at / for

C) may not be / can hope to match

B) through / by

D) are not / hoped to match

C) in / of

E) could not have been / hope to match

D) beside / towards
E) with / from

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704. _____ not all negative thoughts and feelings
are bad for health, specific emotional states,
especially stress and depression, have now
been linked to heart trouble of all kinds.
A) When

708. Geometry is usually divided into pure


geometry, which roughly embraces the plane
and solid geometry dealt with by Euclid, and
analytical or coordinate geometry, _____
problems are solved using algebraic
methods.

B) Suppose that

A) in that

C) As if

B) in which

D) Whenever

C) by whom

E) Though

D) which
E) whichever

705. The Danish poet and novelist Jeppe Aakjr


grew up in the Jutland farming area and
_____ was well aware of the harsh
conditions endured by farm labourers in his
country.

709. Many cell phones now have the same _____


as personal computers.
A) functionality

A) on the contrary

B) ambition

B) even so

C) care

C) so

D) worry

D) stil

E) attentiveness

E) nevertheless

706. _____ the US and Brazil both occupy the


American continent, the northern location of
the former and the southern location of the
latter plainly mark a real distinction and
bring important policy consequences.

710. During the 1970s, the West African state of


Nigers economy flourished from uranium
production, but when uranium prices fell in
the 1980s, its _____ period of prosperity
ended.
A) unpredictable

A) As long as

B) various

B) After

C) brief

C) Now that

D) excessive

D) Only if

E) successive

E) Although

707. _____ Windsor Castle, occupying _____


area of hectares, is among the most
beautiful royal residences in Europe.

711. _____ poor after World War II, Crete is now


thriving from tourism.
A) Necessarily
B) Adequately

A) The / an

C) Accurately

B) An / the

D) Tentatively

C) This / such an

E) Desperately

D) The most / such


E) That / Some

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712. Cities in China are growing fast as millions of
people _____ to urban areas.
A) gather

716. Although she _____ properly yet, the


recipient of the worlds first face transplant
_____ well, according to the first scientific
report of the operation.

B) migrate

A) hadnt smiled / would have done

C) occupy

B) didnt smile / will do

D) issue

C) doesnt smile / may have done

E) increase

D) couldnt have smiled / does


E) cant smile / is doing

713. Located in Central Europe, Germany is _____


of the North German Plain, the Central
German Uplands, and the Southern German
Highlands.
A) spread out
B) brought together

717. To protect whales and dolphins _____ the


coast of Hawaii, a court in California has
temporarily banned the US navy from using
powerful sonar equipment _____ a military
exercise in the area.

C) held out

A) at / over

D) made up

B) in / on

E) taken down

C) before / through
D) off / during

714. Recent excavations in Algeria _____ that


Homo erectus _____ there between 500,000
and 750,000 years ago.

E) within / with

718. As it had in World War I, Argentina


proclaimed neutrality _____ the outbreak of
World War II, but in the closing phase it
declared war _____ the Axis powers.

A) have indicated / resided


B) had indicated / has resided
C) indicated / would reside

A) over / after

D) could have indicated / had been residing

B) for / with

E) indicate / had resided

C) at / on
715. German Chancellor Merkel is under pressure
from power companies, which _____ to
invest in newpower generation projects
unless they _____ exemptfrom tough
emission requirements.
A) refused / have been

D) about / through
E) from / above

719. During the wars _____ followed the French


Revolution, Belgium was occupied by France
and later annexed.

B) refuse / are

A) whether

C) have refused / had been

B) who

D) had refused / will be

C) when

E) were refusing / are to be

D) that
E) as

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720. The private sector in the Gulf states employs
mostly expatriate workers, _____ the
majority of nationals are employed in the
public sector with higher wages and job
protection.

724. Few Arab governments have any legal _____


to monitor arms trade.
A) interpretation
B) framework

A) so that

C) judgement

B) just as

D) adoption

C) while

E) obsession

D) unless
E) in case

721. A series of gas discoveries in recent years in


the Western Desert of Egypt means that a
range of new export projects must be
developed _____ the country is to make full
use of its new reserves.

725. European companies are stepping up their


investment in the Libyan gas sector, as the
Libyan government is increasingly _____ to
welcome them.
A) tentative
B) essential

A) lest

C) obvious

B) although

D) similar

C) after

E) keen

D) as if
E) if

722. Hundreds of deep fjords that cut into the


coastline give Norway an overall oceanfront
of _____ 12,000 miles.

726. Consumers in the Gulf countries have _____


higher real purchasing power because of
sustained low inflation.
A) inclusively

A) more than

B) pensively

B) just as

C) considerably

C) the same as

D) faintly

D) so far as

E) bilaterally

E) as well as

723. Made out of metal so that it conducts the


charge, the lightning rod is usually located
_____ high _____ possible because of
lightnings tendency to strike the nearest
object to it.

727. For the worlds automotive industry, this


years Dubai Motor Show is a rare
opportunity to _____ serious business with
wealthy customers in the Middle East.
A) lift

A) so / as

B) purchase

B) as / as

C) relate

C) more / than

D) conduct

D) both / and

E) satisfy

E) not only / but also

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728. The major component of most gallstones is
cholesterol, though some are _____ of
calcium salts.

732. About 20 to 40 per cent of pancreatic cancer


cases are cured _____ chemotherapy
followed _____ radiation therapy or
surgery.

A) swept away

A) about / over

B) kept away

B) from / to

C) broken down

C) with / by

D) looked after

D) of / into

E) made up

E) at / through
729. There _____ various indications that the
current financial crisis _____ a damaging
effect on technology companies.

733. The objective _____ a proper diet is to


achieve and maintain a desirable body
composition and a large capacity _____
physical and mental work.

A) are / is having
B) were / will have

A) through / through

C) had been / has had

B) on / within

D) have been / would have had

C) at / across

E) would have been / had had

D) of / for
E) after / between

730. Russia _____ earlier this week that it _____


all its troops out of Georgia.
A) had announced / pulled
B) announces / would have pulled

734. Gang violence is deplorable and cannot be


tolerated, _____ simply cracking down on
it is not the solution.

C) announced / had pulled

A) so that

D) is announcing / has pulled

B) whereby

E) has announced / was

C) but
D) when

731. With its superior firepower, NATO _____


any battle, but it _____ the war in
Afghanistan.
A) had won / loses
B) can win / is losing

E) so long as

735. The Caucasus is a strategically vital region


_____ could play a critical role in the
European Unions future energy security.

C) has won / lost

A) whereas

D) would have won / had lost

B) who

E) is winning / was losing

C) as
D) whereby
E) that

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736. _____ inflation and unemployment rise
sharply in Europe, the solidarity of the
European Union could break down in some
damaging ways.

740. With the Soviet Union in decline in 1990, the


United States emerged as the _____
superpower.
A) excessive

A) If

B) accurate

B) As if

C) sole

C) Unless

D) initial

D) Until

E) adequate

E) Even though

737. In the current financial crisis, Italy is alone


among the big European countries in having
_____ a bank rescue fund _____ a stated
figure for the sum it is ready to make
available.

741. The economies of most oil-producing nations


in the Middle East rely _____ on exporting
oil, just as the economy of the West,
particularly that of the United States,
depends on petroleum imports.
A) reluctantly

A) more / than

B) prosperously

B) neither / nor

C) brutally

C) such / as

D) previously

D) so / that

E) heavily

E) just / as

738. Deep-sea diving can cause medical problems


_____ air embolism and decompression
sickness, which can be fatal if not treated
promptly.

742. No achievement can please Islamic


extremists more than a break with what they
_____ as the Christian West.
A) exclude
B) confirm

A) as regards

C) abolish

B) as far as

D) view

C) also

E) establish

D) such as
E) just as

739. The body loses large amounts of iron when


red blood cells are lost through bleeding, and
this causes a _____ of iron.

743. After World War II, the United States began


to _____ Britains role as the leading foreign
player in Iranian politics.
A) take over

A) deficiency

B) hold up

B) display

C) put off

C) failure

D) keep out

D) supplement

E) look after

E) recurrence

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744. More than 50 years ago, six European
nations _____ to submit their coal and steel
industries to common management, so that
no single country _____ the weapons of war
to be used against another.

748. The modern era of Shakespeare scholarship


has been marked _____ an enormous
amount of investigation _____ the
authorship, text, and chronology of his plays.
A) from / at

A) have agreed / had fabricated

B) by / into

B) agreed / could fabricate

C) down / over

C) had agreed / have fabricated

D) out / of

D) agree / will fabricate

E) in / for

E) may have agreed / had been fabricating


749. Soil pollution is caused by the presence of
toxic compounds, chemicals, salts,
radioactive materials, or disease-causing
agents _____ enter the soil through
industrial waste and pesticides.

745. North Korea still _____ a vast police state


that _____ a network of concentration
camps spanning the country.
A) was maintaining / has included

A) when

B) had maintained / would include

B) whereby

C) is maintaining / had included

C) just as

D) maintains / includes

D) while

E) maintained / will include

E) that
746. Most anthropologists think man _____
South America around 12,000 years ago,
although some --- it much earlier.

750. The search for new sources of energy is a


continuing one, _____ the one provided by
the fossil fuels will eventually run out.

A) has settled / may have put

A) since

B) settles / are putting

B) so that

C) had settled / were putting

C) even if

D) was settling / had put

D) unless

E) settled / have put

E) whenever
747. _____ some cancers, the best therapy is a
combination _____ surgery, radiation, and
chemotherapy.
A) With / through
B) About / in

751. In the Renaissance period, there was a wide


range of classical texts available to humanist
scholars, _____ some of these texts had
survived only in fragments or were only
available in Greek.

C) For / of

A) so long as

D) At / within

B) before

E) On / to

C) whether
D) in case
E) but

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752. Chinas art market is growing bigger all the
time, and it is doing _____ at the expense of
America and Britain.

756. The average life expectancy has increased


_____ in most developed countries,
especially in the United States.

A) so

A) severely

B) as well

B) appropriately

C) as such

C) defectively

D) just in case

D) accurately

E) almost

E) dramatically

753. In art history, primitivism is a notion crucial


to 20th-century art and modern thinking
_____ a specific movement or group of
artists.

757. To achieve and _____ fitness, a person


needs to exercise only 30 minutes three
times a week.
A) maintain

A) in that

B) determine

B) instead of

C) include

C) the same as

D) demonstrate

D) rather than

E) train

E) whereas

754. Skin has a rich blood supply that delivers


oxygen to all its _____ .

758. Often thought of as the smallest unit of living


organisms, a cell is _____ of many even
smaller parts, each with its own function.

A) symptoms
B) shifts

A) broken down

C) nutrients

B) made up

D) layers

C) run out

E) supplements

D) taken after
E) turned up

755. Through the ages, drugs have been


enormously _____ in relieving suffering and
in preventing and treating diseases.
A) current

759. To the astronomers of the Middle Ages, the


most important classical authorities on
natural philosophy _____ Aristotle and
Ptolemy, since both _____ frameworks that
explained the whole universe.

B) persistent

A) had been / created

C) beneficial

B) are / have created

D) excessive

C) were / had created

E) profound

D) have been / create


E) may have been / were creating

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760. Though warfare _____ a characteristic
feature of international relations in the Late
Bronze Age, the most powerful states of the
time in the Mediterranean basin _____ a
balance of power that stabilized trade and
diplomacy.

764. _____ the causes of alcoholism are various,


alcohol use is a major factor.
A) When
B) Although
C) Just as

A) had remained / were creating

D) If

B) remained / created

E) Whether

C) has remained / would have created


D) remains / had created

765. Much of the immune systems machinery is


geared towards killing or eliminating
invading microbes _____ they have been
recognized.

E) must have remained / have created

761. Although their responses _____ as obvious


as those of animals, plants _____ the
capacity to respond to light, gravity, water,
touch, and other stimuli.

A) once
B) although
C) even if

A) may not be / have

D) in case

B) have not been / had

E) whereby

C) were not / have had


D) had not been / are having
E) would not be / would have had

766. The structures around the eye protect it


_____ allowing it to move freely in all
directions.
A) since

762. Homer _____ the Byzantines was


simultaneously a literary model, an
instructional textbook, and a guide _____
personal morality and wisdom.

B) while
C) even though
D) because

A) into / within

E) whereas

B) through / around
C) down / before
D) after / above
E) for / to

767. The age at which puberty begins seems to be


influenced by a childs general health and
nutrition _____ by socioeconomic and
hereditary factors.
A) also

763. From the mid-fifteenth century _____ ,


Lisbon began to emerge as a significant
market _____ slavery.

B) so long as
C) as well as

A) up / about

D) both

B) away / in

E) either

C) out / round
D) on / of
E) over / at

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768. The solar calendar the Egyptians developed
was _____ accurate and sophisticated than
the Mesopotamian lunar calendar.
A) the most

772. Generally considered to be the greatest


composer of the 20th century, Igor
Stravinskys long life _____ continents,
cultures and eras.
A) fetched

B) most

B) reversed

C) the more

C) spanned

D) more

D) magnified

E) as

E) acquired
769. In cases involving childrens injuries, the
most effective _____ are directed at
parents.

773. Geology, the science of the Earth, is _____


several branches including mineralogy,
petrology, stratigraphy, palaeontology and
tectonics.

A) benefits
B) exceptions

A) divided into

C) purposes

B) designed for

D) disturbances

C) troubled by

E) interventions

D) brought upon
E) settled into

770. With a bit of adaptation, _____ technology


could help us to eventually establish a colony
on Mars.
A) explicit
B) impartial
C) reserved

774. Modern humans, Homo sapiens, _____ in


Africa around 200,000 years ago and by
about 30,000 years ago they _____ all other
forms of early humans, such as Neanderthals
and Homo erectus.
A) have been evolving / replaced

D) current

B) would evolve / are replacing

E) supplementary

C) were evolving / have replaced


D) evolved / had replaced

771. Despite dramatic increases in trade


worldwide, countries still differ _____ in the
extent to which they engage in trade.
A) reluctantly
B) substantially
C) attentively

E) had evolved / had been replacing

775. Tablet computers _____ some advantages


for form-filling or updating your status on a
social network, but you _____ it hard to get
any real work done.

D) pleasingly

A) are offering / must find

E) incidentally

B) have been offering / should find


C) can offer / will have to find
D) had offered / would have found
E) might offer / could find

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776. The official Lincoln Heritage Trail passes
_____ west-central and southern Illinois
_____ about 1,100 miles, visiting many of
the major sites in Abraham Lincolns life
along the way.

780. Little Caesar, often called the grandfather of


the gangster movie, was produced at the
beginning of the sound era, and _____ it
shows its age in some areas, it is still an
effective thriller.

A) down / beneath

A) even

B) by / below

B) because

C) through / for

C) while

D) into / upon

D) so

E) along / at

E) besides

777. In addition to its preoccupation _____ the


legacy of neorealism, Italian cinema also
shifted _____ internationalism during the
1970s.

781. _____ the role of the school in developing


students civic values, most proponents of
citizenship education agree that it should
involve a range of democratic values such as
the sense of public responsibility.

A) with / towards

A) At least

B) to / over

B) In spite of

C) for / at

C) In comparison to

D) of / in

D) With regard to

E) about / by

E) Rather than
778. The food industry is vulnerable to the charge
that it contributes to mortality _____
actively seeking to increase consumption of
unhealthy foods _____ which profits
depend.

782. Lead was used for centuries to make the


pipes _____ water flowed from reservoirs to
houses and public buildings such as baths.
A) through which

A) at / for

B) with which

B) by / on

C) on which

C) against / into

D) at which

D) with / from

E) of which

E) in / at

779. Geopolitics provides various ways of looking


at the world and is highly visual, readily
embracing maps, tables, and photographs
_____ .

783. Central government has called for tighter


regulations on coastal development and is
launching an _____ to remove illegal beach
homes and hotels.

A) from now on

A) observation

B) as a consequence

B) initiative

C) at most

C) investment

D) instead

D) entitlement

E) sooner

E) attachment

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784. Classifying is a fundamental cognitive process
that refers to the sorting of objects, events,
living things, and phenomena into clusters
according to their _____ characteristics.
A) additional

788. Conger eels, which _____ any large marine


eels of the family Congridae, _____ in
shallow water, hiding in crevices during the
day and are active by night, feeding on fish
and crabs.
A) were to be / used to live

B) relative

B) used to be / will live

C) common

C) are to be / might have lived

D) ultimate

D) are / live

E) necessary

E) could be / have lived


785. 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.

789. In general, the body _____ nutrients best


from foods in which the nutrients are diluted
and dispersed among other ingredients that
_____ their absorption.

A) externally

A) can absorb / would have facilitated

B) respectively

B) absorbs / may facilitate

C) primarily

C) were to absorb / would facilitate

D) decisively

D) has absorbed / used to facilitate

E) generally

E) might absorb / must have facilitated

786. Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska is a Germanborn American physician who founded the
New England Hospital for Women and
Children and _____ greatly to the
acceptance of women as medical
professionals.

790. In feudal Japan, the za were any _____ the


mercantile or craft associations that
flourished _____ 1100 and 1590.
A) in/up to
B) at/through

A) pertained

C) of / between

B) attributed

D) over / before

C) owed

E) under / from

D) contributed
791. people interested in learning to fly, and it
could also serve effectively as an air taxi
_____ short-haul routes.

E) applied

787. European Union foreign ministers have urged


the Serb authorities to _____ the two
fugitives by the end of March.

A) between / over
B) to / at

A) set out

C) towards / in

B) tidy up

D) among /under

C) s tep down

E) for / on

D) take off
E) turn over

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792. Geochronology is the branch _____ geology
that deals with the dating _____ the Earth by
studying its rocks and contained fossils.
A) in/from

796. The Atatrk Dam, which is _____ the largest


dams in the world, is capable of generating
8.9 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity
annually from the run-off of the vast lake
_____ its construction created.

B) of/of

A) such as / of which

C) within/through

B) one of / that

D) among/in

C) more than / which

E) about / inside

D) other than / some of


E) between / where

793. Presumably they will find the terms


acceptable, but _____ they raise any
objections, we need to listen to them.

797. The basic unit of currency of the Ottoman


Empire was the silver ake in which all the
revenues and _____ of the state were
calculated.

A) in case
B) as if
C) until

A) precautions

D) while

B) conventions

E) since

C) expenditures
D) placements

794. Highlights of the Great Wisconsin Cheese


Festival include cheesecake contests and
cheese-carving, _____sculptors transform 18
kg blocks of cheddar cheese into objects of
beauty.
A) from that

E) establishments

798. A new historical record offers _____


evidence that Africans and their descendants
contributed enormously to the formation of
Mexican culture.

B) how

A) frustrating

C) what

B) inferior

D) in which

C) redundant

E) whatever

D) devastating
E) compelling

795. _____ other areas of policy analysis, foreign


policy analysis also starts with a number of
central questions about the nature of what is
to be studied.
A) In place of

799. Scientists have developed a new blood test


for Alzheimers disease that can _____
identify 93% of people who have the
condition.

B) By means of

A) severely

C) As opposed to

B) accurately

D) lnstead of

C) separately

E) As in

D) abusively
E) incidentally

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800. Phobias are intense, irrational fears which
cannot be _____ even when the sufferer is
aware, as is usually the case, that there is no
reason for the fear.

804. _____ the news is out about tomatoes being


found for their cancer-fighting properties,
the question is how to get sufficient amounts
every day.

A) spoilt

A) Much as

B) undergone

B) While

C) foreseen

C) Now that

D) initiated

D) Just as

E) overcome

E) Even if

801. _____ the 47th anniversary of Winston


Churchills death, historians are reassessing
the complex figure who carried Britain _____
its darkest times.

805. On a sunny day, some patches of ground


warm up more quickly than others _____
the differences in topography.
A) similar to

A) From / with

B) on behalf of

B) At / of

C) as well as

C) To / for

D) because of

D) On / through

E) apart from

E) About / in

802. _____ philosophers had started to put


received wisdom to the test of rational
examination, another fundamental question
rapidly became obvious: How can we
know?

806. One of the challenging decisions that


hospitals are to make when purchasing a
technology-based system is _____ they
want to focus more on the doctor _____ the
patient.

A) Once

A) neither / nor

B) Only if

B) whether / or

C) Unless

C) rather / than

D) In case

D) as well / as

E) While

E) both / and

803. A symphony is like a castle with its own


Grand structure, _____ a short song will
have a different and less complex form more
like a cottage.

807. Forgery is the act of making, reproducing,


altering or signing a false document or other
instrument with the _____ of defrauding
others.

A) before

A) development

B) if

B) exception

C) although

C) intention

D) whether

D) determination

E) whereas

E) prediction

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808. The sense of smell, which has not been fully
understood yet, is much more _____ than
the sense of taste.
A) attainable

812. Unlike broadcast television, an interactive TV


service provider _____ customers to choose
which service to use at any given time,
whether it _____ shopping, watching a film
or playing games.

B) dedicated

A) has allowed / might have been

C) suitable

B) allows / is

D) sophisticated

C) allowed / would be

E) endurable

D) would allow / should have been


E) is allowing / was

809. The full stop is probably the most used form


of punctuation, partly because almost
everyone knows how to use it _____ .

B) redundantly

813. The tradition of sculpting in clay _____ as


early as AD 800, and ultimately it _____ as
the point of departure for related works that
were cast in metal.

C) dominantly

A) should have developed / has served

D) appropriately

B) has developed / had served

E) profoundly

C) may have developed / served

A) considerably

D) would have developed / will serve


810. The European System of Central Banks,
which _____ a single monetary policy for
the euro zone, consists of the European
Central Bank in Frankfurt together with 15
national central banks.

E) could have developed / will have served

814. When Sarpsborg was burned down _____


the Nordic Seven-Year War, Frederick II gave
permission for the inhabitants to move
_____ a place near the Glomma River.

A) regulates
B) signifies

A) after / away

C) expresses

B) at / by

D) provokes

C) in / over

E) acquires

D) during / to
E) through / from

811. Leaders with different political styles have


launched daring projects to take Japan out of
the economic recession, but in the long run,
they may _____ colliding with each other.
A) make out

815. Crystals are created _____ cooling and


crystallization take place at an appropriate
depth and with sufficient time.
A) until

B) give in

B) though

C) act out

C) so

D) fight off

D) before

E) end up

E) when

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816. _____ schools encourage children to read
printed books more often, the library, in its
traditional form, will eventually disappear.
A) Whenever

820. UNICEF is deeply committed to creating a


world in which all children, regardless of
their gender or socioeconomic background,
have _____ to free, compulsory and quality
education.

B) Whereas

A) access

C) Since

B) dedication

D) However

C) insight

E) Unless

D) addiction
E) tendency

817. Some popular diet books have misled


consumers with deceptive claims; _____ ,
they fail to provide an assessment of the
results of their treatment plans for obesity.
A) furthermore

821. In some countries, such as Brazil and Russia,


codes have been put in place to promote
_____ logging of forest ecosystems.
A) Applicable

B) nevertheless

B) Penetrable

C) even so

C) Notable

D) otherwise

D) Sustainable

E) on the contrary

E) Provable
818. The social sciences are a range of disciplines
within the arts an5d humanities _____
principal concerns are the study of various
aspects of society.
A) what

822. Before they are allowed to be used, all


medicines, including vaccines, are _____
tested to assess how safe and effective they
are.
A) incidentally

B) whose

B) hazardously

C) that

C) thoroughly

D) how

D) fatally

E) when

E) offensively
819. Generally, social media platforms can be
thought of as virtual meeting places which
function to encourage the exchange of media
content among users who are _____
producers _____ consumers.

823. Many scientists believe that our sanitized


surroundings are _____ allergic disorders in
children, which have doubled in the last
decade.

A) both / and

A) extracting

B) more / than

B) fulfilling

C) just / like

C) unifying

D) so / that

D) ensuring

E) such / as

E) fostering

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824. In non-literate societies, valuable
information about the past is often
enshrined in oral tradition poems, hymns
or sayings _____ from generation to
generation by word of mouth.

828. _____ the types of individuals it seeks to


attract, an organization _____ to consider
what methods to use to reach them.
A) To have established / could need
B) Having established / needs

A) taken off

C) Establishing / had needed

B) handed down

D) Established / needed

C) thrown up

E) Being established / will need

D) kept off
E) rooted out

825. By mapping equatorial rainfall since 800 AD,


scientists have _____ how tropical weather
may change over the next century.

829. Chinas rapid growth _____ trade is seen as


a plus for the Southeast Asian nations
because it helps to spur development _____
the region.

A) taken out

A) of / without

B) put aside

B) by / about

C) brought down

C) upon / over

D) figured out

D) at / under

E) counted upon

E) in / across

826. The physics of elementary particles in the


20th century _____ by the observation of
particles whose existence _____ by
theorists decades earlier.

830. As Antarctic glaciers collapse _____ the sea,


scientists struggle to find out what that
means _____ the rise of sea levels.
A) against / in

A) has been distinguished / was predicted

B) over / to

B) distinguished / is being predicted

C) around / along

C) was distinguished / had been predicted

D) on / for

D) is distinguished / has been predicted

E) from / behind

E) had been distinguished / was being


predicted

827. At the end of the First World War, the


leaders of victorious countries gathered at
Versailles, and there, they _____ to decide
what penalties Germany, Austria and other
allies _____ .

831. _____ lead was widely known to be


dangerous, by the early years of the 20th
century, it could be found in all manners of
consumer products.

A) tried / would have to pay

A) Since
B) Once
C) Only when

B) had tried / must have paid

D) Even though

C) were trying / were paying

E) Given that

D) used to try / might have paid


E) could try / should have paid

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832. Animals trapped in a stone called amber are
sometimes so well preserved that they look
_____ they have just died.
A) so that
B) in case
C) as though
D) even if
E) now that

833. The European Commission has put forward


that policies to cut greenhouse gases will not
work _____ individuals share the vision of a
low-carbon society.
A) provided that
B) after
C) but
D) while
E) unless

834. When modern coastal fish-farming began 30


years ago, no one was doing things right,
_____ for the environment _____ the
industrys long-term sustainability.
A) whether / or
B) such / as
C) so / that
D) either / or
E) as / as

835. _____ deriving two-thirds of its power


supply from fossil fuels, power producers in
India cannot get enough pipeline space to
distribute natural gas.
A) Despite
B) Besides
C) As a result of
D) By means of
E) Rather than

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