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Words Meaning 6.

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8.
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10. (D) preserve.
(E) understand.

15.
The opposite of properly in “..., if used
properly, the new resources...” is:

(A) correctly.
(B) insistently.
11. (C) disproportionately.
(D) in good order.
(E) inadequately.

16.
Check the only correct statement.

(A) “decreasing” (line 13) is the opposite of

12. diminishing.
Which alternative contains a correct (B) “ideal” (line 34) could be substituted by
correspondence of meaning? appropriate.
(A) “underplay” (line 4) is the opposite of (C) “collaborators” (line 42) and assistants are
“minimize”. antonyms.
(B) “unequivocal” (line 7) means the same as (D) “rudimentary” (line 50) means
“clear”. sophisticated.
(C) “trends” (line 25) and “tendencies” are not (E) “authentic” (line 60) and real are synonyms.
synonyms.
(D) “acknowledge” (line 32) means “acquire”. 17.
(E) “substantive” (line 34) and “significant” Based on the meanings in Text II, the words
are antonyms. reveal opposite ideas in

13. (A) “…fierce…” (line 1) – passionate.

Check the correct pair of synonyms. (B) “…disrupt…” (line 11) – disturb.
(C) “…impending…” (line 13) – approaching.
(A) early (line 20) – quick (D) “…defective…” (line 21) – faultless.
(B) actually (line 36) – presently (E) “…acknowledge…” (line 29) – recognize.
(C) provides (line 41) – supplies
(D) lack (line 44) – loss
(E) achieving (line 51) – planning

14.
In “It may take better technology to cope with
the problems better technology creates.”, cope
with can be correctly substituted by:
(A) reduce.
(B) handle.
(C) reveal.

18.
The expression in bold type and the item in
brackets are semantically equivalent in
(A) “Weak prospects for a significant pick-up
in the medium term have raised questions
about…”– [drop].
(B) “The drying up of international
financing,”– [growth].
(C) “The revised plan for 2009-13 is based on
an average oil price of US$42/b and calls for
investments of around US$174.4bn,” –
[demands].
(D) “private operators sell the oil they produce
in exchange for a relatively low government
take of between 5% and 10%.”– [instead of].
(E) “A more dramatic approach under
consideration is to turn concession contracts
into production-sharing agreements with
Petrobras.” – [submit…to].
19.
According to line 16, "the euro area’s
economies are on the mend," which means that
they are:
(A) improving.
(B) stagnant.
(C) perfectly healthy.
(D) getting worse.
(E) in trouble.
20.
In the fragments “…their first plan fails to catch
on.” and “How can you break through to a
business model…” the expressions “catch on”
and “break through to” mean, respectively,
(A) arrange; find.
(B) work; discover.
(C) capture; give in.
(D) pick up; destroy.
(E) triumph; deteriorate.
21.
The pair of expressions that express opposing
ideas is
(A) “...stuck to...” (line 2) – abandoned.
(B) “...grows out of... ” (line 31) – develops
from.
(C) “...pursue.” (line 43) - follow.
(D) “...scupper...” (line 62) – ruin
(E) “...devising...” (line 75) – elaborating.
22.
Check the item in which “make up” is used in
the same sense as in the sentence “The
examples show that women make up an
increasing number of small, medium and large-
scale producers,”.
(A) Some non-governmental organizations are
making up parcels of old clothes to donate to
the Red Cross.
(B) North African entrepreneurs must make up
what they owe before the end of the month.
(C) Most workers in that company had to make
up all the work they missed when they were ill.
(D) The World Bank made up the money to the
amount the committee needed.
(E) Female representatives from all Middle East
countries make up the business committee.
23.
Check the option that contains a correct
correspondence of meaning.
(A) “...seeking...” and ‘refusing’ have similar
meanings.
(B) “...inept...” and ‘skillful’ express
contrastive ideas.
(C) “...assigns...” could not be replaced by
‘attributes’.
(D) “...tagged...” and ‘labelled’ are (A) The ships arrived in the harbor more than
antonymous. a day late.
(E) “...reassembled...” and ‘split up’ are (B) The diplomats had to find ways to harbor
synonymous. the political refugees.
(C) These rivers harbor different species of
fish, such as trout and bass.
(D) They wanted to harbor the fugitives who
streamed across the borders.
(E) She decided not to harbor resentment
24. against the man who accused her.
Check the option that contains a correct
correspondence of meaning.

(A) “roughly” and approximately are antonyms.

(B) “spurring” and preventing are synonyms.
(C) “replacements” and substitutions have the
same meaning.
(D) “brisker” could not be substituted by
quicker.
(E) “displaying” and showing express
contrasting ideas.

25.
Based on the meanings of the words taken from
Text 1, the relationship in each pair is defined
as

(A) “benefit” (line 2) and advantage are

antonyms.
(B) “famed” (line 2) and well-known are
synonyms.
(C) “convert” (line18) and transform have
opposite
meanings.
(D) “infancy” (line 33) and beginning express
contradictory
ideas.
(E) “generate” (line 37) and consume express
similar ideas

26.
In the sentence “A lot of people who are very
experienced with the ocean harbor a lot of
doubt that anyone can in a cost-effective way
put buoys in the water,” (lines 16-18), the word
‘harbor’ is used in the same meaning as in
Conjunctions

1.

4.

2.
5.
The boldfaced item introduces a result in

(A) “…children in Chile having to wear

protective clothing because an ozone hole was
letting in so much ultraviolet radiation.”
(B) “…the melting of the Greenland ice sheet
could result in a substantive sea level rise over
centuries rather than millennia.”
(C) “Many of my colleagues would consider
that kind of melt a catastrophe” so rapid that
mankind would not be able to adapt”
(D) “…system that pumps emissions
underground instead of releasing them into the
sky.”
3. (E) “Although the scientific data is not new,
this was the first time it had been looked at
together in its entirety,”

6.
Mark the sentence in which the idea introduced
by the word in bold type is correctly described.
(A) “Yet, there is little guidance on how you
can take action to control energy costs.” (lines
5-7) – addition
(B) “So why not treat energy costs in the same
way?” (lines 13-14) – contrast
(C) “This offers little incentive for saving
energy since individuals never see the impact
of their decisions,” (lines 33-34) – reason
(D) “One of the first issues people confront …
is whether they have executive support.” (lines
37-39) – exemplification.
(E) “And while there is a lot of talk about green
datacenters”, (lines 42-43) – cause
7.
Check the item in which the words in bold type
express an idea of purpose.
(A) “She’ll check databases (…) but rarely
books, even though she admits that an author
who spent years on a 300-page book might
have a unique perspective”.
(B) “Otherwise, they might as well not exist”.
(C) “… Yahoo and Microsoft are committing
hundreds of millions of dollars collectively to
scan books and other printed materials so they
can be indexed and retrieved online.”
(D) “Meanwhile, television shows formerly
locked up in network or studio vaults are
starting to emerge online”.
(E) “Instead of wasting time finding
information, they can focus more on assessing
its worth.”
8.
Check the item in which there is a correct
correspondence between the idea expressed by
the word in bold type and the idea in italics.
(A) “But why build a robot with pigmented
silicone skin, … makeup ?” (lines 14-15)
(But→ addition).
(B) “Besides the justification for making robots
anthropomorphic and bipedal…”. (lines 19-20)
(Besides →contrast)
(C) “Androids can thus elicit the most natural
communication.”(lines 23-24)
(thus →condition)
(D) “Because the android’s appearance is very
similar to that of a human ...” (lines 53-54)
(Because →reason).
(E) “Repliee, though, is so lifelike that it has
overcome the creepiness factor, ...” (lines 56-
57)
(though→ result)
9.
In “Thus, a vehicle needs 8 times the engine
power to...”, the word thus introduces a
(A) contrast.
(B) condition.
(C) concession.
(D) comparison.
(E) consequence.
10.
The boldfaced marker is synonymous with the
expression in parentheses in
(A) “In order to sustain the needs of an ever
globalized world,” - lines 9-10. (So as to)
(B) “Nonetheless, geological limitations will
disrupt this improbable scenario.” - lines 11-12.
(Moreover)
(C) “Nevertheless, this methodology is
dangerously defective on several key points…”
- lines 20-21. (Consequently)
(D) “Therefore, relying on the R/P ratio gives
a false impression of security…” - lines 35-36.
(Yet)
(E) “Moreover, OPEC countries continue to
present their reserves as flat…” - lines 56-57.
(However)
11.
The term in parentheses expresses the idea
introduced by the term in bold in
(A) “Instead, they made radical changes to
their initial models,” – (replacement).
(B) “Unfortunately, they are usually wrong.” –
(reason).
(C) “Alternatively, some good ideas take
something in customers’ lives that’s pretty
boring…” – (cause).
(D) “Next, you’ll need to identify some
analogs,” – (exemplification).
(E) “beliefs you hold about the answers to your
questions despite having no real evidence…” –
(consequence).
12.
Check the item in which the word(s) in
boldtype can be replaced in the sentence by the
one(s) in italics.
(A) “because women were not allowed to be
issued licenses in her country.” – thus
(B) “The women who … were among those
who made it despite the hurdles–”– in spite of.
(C) “But as statistics and anecdotal evidence
show many other women are held back,” –
moreover.
(D) “…since the public sector and oil-driven
models of the past have failed to create the
needed jobs.” – therefore.
(E) “such as the negative perception often
attached to working women in the Middle East
and North Africa.” – once.
13.
Mark the alternative that contains an expression
that is a correct replacement for the boldfaced
item(s).
(A) “Yet getting them to assess intelligently
what people mean from what they say…” –
For that reason
(B) “(unless, that is, someone is talking about
the healthy bacteria …)”– nevertheless
(C) “Words such as ‘never’, ‘failed’, and
‘prevent’ are tagged as ‘changing’ or
‘reversive’ words…”– Inasmuch as
(D) “...because they reverse the sentiment of
the word they precede.”– Since
(E) “Instead of simply adding up the number of
positive and negative mentions for each
concept,”– While
14.
Check the item where there is a correct
correspondence between the boldfaced word(s)
and the idea in italics.
(A) “If you’re job hunting in the professional or
service-oriented fields, we have good news.”–
consequence.
(B) “While new jobs are being created, they
don’t represent the majority of the open
positions workers will see this year.”–
exemplification.
(C) “Peer occupational groups, however, are
hiring at a brisker pace:”– addition.
(D) “On the other hand, if you’re looking in
the white-collar realm, you’re better set for
2008;” – condition
(E) “In short, computer and mathematical
experts continue to be a sought-after
demographic.” - concluding summary.

15.
The expression in boldtype expresses an 3.
addition in

(A) “Besides surfing, tourism and the ocean

views, California may get another benefit from
its famed coast: energy.” (lines 1-3)
(B) “If it is built, devices would convert the
wave’s energy into electricity,” (lines 17-19)
(C) “California will have to wait a few years,
4.
however, to see if wave energy will help the
state meet its goal for a third of its energy
needs…” (lines 23-25)
(D) “Currently there are few projects around
the world that generate electricity from the
ocean.” (lines 36-37)
(E) “PG&E estimates that together they
produce about 300 megawatts of power, less
than a single mid-sized coal plant.” (lines 37- 5.
39)

Modal Verbs

1. 6.

7.
In “… delegates in Bali should take action
immediately by public financing for
demonstration projects on new technologies…”
2.
(lines 51-53), the verb that can replace should
without changing the meaning of the sentence 10.
is Check the item in which the detached verb
expresses a necessity.
(A) will
(B) may (A) “It may seem curious that the dollar is
(C) might falling…” (line 10)
(D) would (B) “...America must borrow $2 billion each
(E) ought to business day.” (lines 27-28)
(C) “How much further might the dollar fall?”
8. (line 32)
The sentence in which “can” is used in the (D) “… the dollar could drop a lot lower,"
same sense as in “there is a great deal you can (lines 34-35)
do to push your green datacenter initiative (E) “…a weaker dollar should thus help to cut
forward.” (lines 49-50) is: America’s (…) deficit.” (lines 46-48)

(A) The employees will ask the manager if they 11.

can give their opinion on the issue.
(B) You can read my final report on energy
consumption if you want to.
(C) Stockholders can hardly wait to read the
company’s balance sheet.
(D) Can you tell me how many laptops the
company has?
(E) I don’t think you can find a solution for this
problem.
The verb phrase in bold conveys less certainty
in the fragment
(A) “but technological and financial hurdles
will have to be overcome first.”.
(B) “which should make it the largest-ever
deep-water oilfield discovery.”.
(C) “production from Tupi alone is expected to
reach around 1m b/d by 2012.” .
(D) “the extra capacity might lift Brazil’s
output to levels similar to…”.
(E) “which can be difficult owing to its
thickness…”.

9.
In “An Ishiguro made of circuitry and silicone
might soon be answering his own questions.”
(lines 64-66), “might” can be correctly
substituted by:

(A) must.
(B) shall.
(C) could.
(D) had to.
(E) ought to.
 2.

3.

4.

Other Issues

1.

5.
Mark the sentence that could also be completed
with ON, as in “to pass on the effects”.

(A) The board meeting may be put _____ until

next week.
(B) African nations always depended heavily
_____ food imports.
(C) Because of the elections on Thursday,
classes will be called _____ .
(D) The Minister’s assistants have to carry
______ many administrative duties.
(E) You should be concerned if your
application for a credit card has been turned
_____.

GABARITO

WORDS MEANING CONJUNCTIONS MODAL VERBS OTHER ISSUES

1.B 1.C 1.E 1.C

2.B 2.D 2.C 2.E
3.A 3.A 3.A 3.E
4.D 4.A 4.C 4.C
5.C 5.C 5.A 5.B
6.A 6.C 6.E
7.B 7.C 7.E
8.C 8.D 8.E
9.B 9.E 9.C
10.B 10.A 10.B
11.D 11.A 11.D
12.B 12.B
13.C 13.D
14.B 14.E
15.E 15.A
16.E
17.D
18.C
19.A
20.B
21.A
22.E
23.B
24.C
25.B
26.E