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Part One: Select the best one to complete the sentence.

1. The workers are paid _____. 6. That’s not _______ the holiday island of Tenerife,
(A) by the week but for space scientists and engineers, the barren
(B) with a week terrain here makes the ideal training ground for
(C) to a week Europe’s latest mission to the Red Planet.
(D) since a week (A) what most people think of
(B) how most people think of
2. ___ after lying dormant for hundreds of years is (C) how most people thinks of
hard to believe (D) most people think of
(A) It is seeds that can sprout
(B) Seed can sprout 7. There should be___ doubt of the strength of
(C) That seeds can sprout Australia’s commitment to the United States.
(D) Sprouting seeds (A) no
(B) not
3. _______used on crops and some chemicals used (C) none
in food processing may be harmful to health is widely (D) never
acknowledged.
(A) Some pesticides 8. Because of its need for physically fit recruits, the
(B) What some pesticides military has long advocated ____.
(C) That pesticides (A) and benefited of aerobic exercise
(D) Which pesticides (B) the benefits of aerobic exercise
(C) benefits aerobic exercise
4. Mr. Clinton will also write about people (D) how aerobic exercise the benefits
_________in the course of his post-presidency, a
group which is likely to include both well-known 9. The immune system defends the body against
figures like former President George H. W. Bush, as bacteria and viruses with the combination of an
well as people working in the trenches of public antibody with the antigenic determinants________ the
service. surface of invading organisms.
(A) which he has worked with (A) that located on
(B) whom he has worked (B) in which located on
(C) whom he has worked with (C) were located on
(D) who he has worked (D) located on

5. Because of climatic changes, human communities

now thrive in regions which were once home _____ 10. _____, he never begged for money.
glaciers and rocks. (A) Despite he was poor
(A) to no (B) Because he was poor
(B) to not (C) Poor as he was
(C) to none other (D) In spite of he was poor
(D) to nothing but
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11. The Boston researchers_______ the study 16. This door ought to ______ a week ago.
acknowledge that doctors pay high (A) have fixed
malpractice-insurance premiums and that litigation is (B) be fixed
expensive for all parties. (C) get fixed
(A) who conducted (D) have been fixed
(B) conducted
(C) which conducted 17. It is the first time the organization, which protects
(D) conduct rivers across the UK,______ for water pollution in the
10 years since it was created.
12. Whales regularly _____ air in order to keep (A) have been prosecuted
oxygen circulating within their respiratory systems. (B) has been prosecuted
(A) breaths (C) had prosecuted
(B) breath (D) had been prosecuted
(C) breathe
(D) breathes 18. An X-ray diffractometer enables chemists to
determine the arrangement of atoms, ions, and
13. The San Antonio forward ______one of the molecules _______crystals by means of scattering X
league’s best defenders for his ability to contain rays.
anyone from small guards to big forwards. (A) that constitutes
(A) is regarded as (B) that constituting
(B) which is regarded as (C) which constitute
(C) is regarded (D) constitute
(D) which is regarded
19. Scientists are beginning to recognize _____ a
14. Chemistry is ____ associated with four basic diverse range of activity.
needs of humans: food, clothing, shelter, and medical (A) that individual hormones having
services. (B) individual hormones having
(A) close (C) what individual hormones have
(B) closely (D) individual hormones have
(C) closed
(D) closing 20. ___________, functional magnetic resonance
15. Botanists once spoke of nectar as basically sugar imaging and positron emission tomography (PET)
water, but in the 1970s, when two researchers scanning, have been used for some time to capture the
checked hundreds of flower nectars, plenty of other waking brain at work—making decisions, feeling
ingredients________, including amino acids and frightened or joyous, coping with uncertainty.
alkaloids. (A) That the dream researchers’ new tool
(A) who turned up (B) The dream researchers’ new tools
(B) which turned up (C) With the dream researchers’ new tools
(C) where turned up (D) With The dream researchers’ new tool
(D) turned up.
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Part Two: Identify the ONE underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence
to be grammatically correct.

21. He finds it difficult to show his feelings. It spends some time to get close to him, but once you do, you

realize that he is a good person.

22. Those who identified as suspicious will be examined more thoroughly; for some, the agency will bring in

local police to conduct face-to-face interviews and perhaps run the person’s name against national criminal

databases and determine whether any threat exists.

23. Turquoise is a beautiful and fashionable gem but neither particularly rare or durable.

24. Energy metabolism and requirements are customary expressed in terms of the calorie, a heat unit.

25. The experts know many things that won’t work in curing AISD, so they are that much closer to find one

that will.

26. Google has said the browser improperly steers people to Microsoft’s search engine instead of Google’s

more popular technology, but the Justice Department disclosed in their legal papers last week that it will take

no action.

27. Even as it crops up in the far corners of Europe and Africa, the virulent bird flu that raised fears of a

human pandemic has been largely snuffed out in the parts of Southeast Asia where it claimed its first and most

numerous victim.
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28. The report that some birds guide African natives to honeybee hives were for a long time discredited by

the scientific community.

29. The most stock exchanges assign the marker-making duties for each stock to a specialist responsible for

the operation of that market.

30. Considering the unanimity of opinion on this one main point that capital punishment is a bad idea, the

gathering was in some ways more a revival meeting for activists then a debate.

31. You can’t image how annoying it is to have to deal with customers. Sometimes, I really wish I could quit.

32. In last November, the Government Accountability Office released a report to the science committee,

calling the satellite project “a program in crisis” that was at least $3 billion over budget and from 17 months to

three years behind schedule.

33. My suitcase was very heavy that I had to ask for help to carry it from the taxi to the check-in counter.

34. Their behavior was completely unacceptable. Apart from not returning back the money we lent them,

when we called to remind them, they insulted us.

35. For the past 10 years, I have been suffered from an arthritic condition that causes chronic pain in my neck

that radiates into the right side of my face and right shoulder and arm.

36. The Pistons’ bounding intensity and Tayshaun Prince’s timely 29 points subdued a Heat team

that on the verge of making its first N.B.A. finals appearance.

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37. I got off at the wrong bus stop and when I realized my mistake, the bus was already gone. Then I had to

wait another twenty minutes for another bus to come.

38. Every two week I have to travel to Mainland China to attend a meeting with our clients. I look forward to

finishing this project because I don’t like traveling so much.

39. Well aware of her own vulnerable to panicky frustration, Lucy Kincheloe made a point to remind herself

there was no real hurry.

40. The pharmaceutical industry consists of hundred of companies that discover, develop, produce, and sell

drug products.

41. The competition is part of the space agency’s Centennial Challenges program, which aims to foster

innovation by offering prizes to teams that can to solve a range of problems.

42. Life guarding is a profession in that lifeguards employ advanced medical and management techniques to

both prevent accidents or rescue accident victims.

43. Academic debates in philosophy frequently concern the processes governing thought and conduct and how

they impact what understood about reality.

44. After the mechanization of agriculture, city residents could reliable on farmers to produce food.

45. An antigen is a substance that, when introduced into an organism, induces an immune response consisted

of the production of a circulating antibody.

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46. Tree canopies are crucial to the survival of the rain forest, which houses unique animal species, provides

needed medicines, and increase the earth’s diversity.

47. The 11-members team discovered 39 new species of frogs, butterflies, birds, mammals and plants in the

pristine 3,700 square-mile area.

48. A computer is an apparatus build to perform routine calculations with speed, reliability, and ease.

49. A folk medicine, opium has been used to relieve pain, reduce such drives as hunger and thirst, induce sleep,

and easing anxiety and depression.

50. While a vast body of descriptive data is available on plant development, many problems remain unsolving.