PART IV GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY (15 MIN)
There are thirty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases phrase marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. Choose one word or that best completes the sentence.
Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.
41.I can't give you that for nothing. What do you take me _____?
A. up
B. for
C. to
D. after
42.When Tom insulted the referee, he _____ by ordering him off the field.
A. replied
B. retorted
C. resolved
D. responded
43.Helen Keller's _____ over deafness, blindness, and muteness was a miracle.
A. improvement
B. success
C. advance
D. triumph
44.International _____ should be reduced when this agreement is signed.
A. pressure
B. nervousness
C. tension
D. strain
45.In spite of the heavy snow and hard rain, the buses still ran on _____.
A. list
B. plan
C. arrangement
D. schedule
46.Only a few people have _____ to the full facts of the case.
A. approach
B. admission
C. access
D. acquaintance
47.Let me _____ the broken glass before someone walks on it.
A. cover up
B. clear up
C. wash up
D. spring up
48.It is _____ of him to put everything in disorder in the room. He is so peculiar.
A. unconscious
B. aware
C. typical
D. unkind
49.John was young, _____, he was equal to this important task.
A. therefore
B. moreover
C. nevertheless
D. hence
50.Air is composed of _____ gases including hydrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide.
A. varied
B. variant
C. variable
D. various
51.You can't let the situation get worse. You must take _____.
A. decisions
B. sides
C. directions
D. steps
52.It's difficult to _____ with the knowledge that he is a failure.
A. feed
B. live
C. stay
D. get on
53.Millions of workers were on the streets in the greatest _____ of working class solidarity this country has ever seen.
A. demonstration
B. explanation
C. presentation
D. communication
54.My sister's professor had her _____ her paper many times before allowing her to present it to the committee.
A. rewritten
B. to rewrite
C. rewrite
D. rewriting
55.Scarcely had her husband arrived home _____ his wife started complaining.
A. when
B. that
C. than
D. and
56.Only ______ you have obtained sufficient data can you come to a sound conclusion.
A. when
B. that
C. than
D. and
57.I told him how to get there, but perhaps I _____ him a map.
A. should have given
B. ought to give
C. had to give
D. must have given
58.A body weighs _____ from the surface of the Earth.
A. less the farther it gets
B. the farther it gets, the less
C. less than it gets farther
D. less than it, the farther it gets
59.You never told us why you were late for the last meeting, _____?
A. weren't you
B. didn't you
C. had you
D. did you
60._____ it is you've found, you must give it back to the person it belongs to.
A. That
B. Because
C. Whatever
D. However
61._____ for you help, we'd never have been able to get over the difficulties.
A. Had it not been
B. If it were not
C. Had it not
D. if we had not been
62._____ neglecting our education, my father sent my brother and me to a summer school.
A. Accused of
B. Accusing of
C. That he was accused of
D. To be accused of
63.The prisoner stood there _____.
A. with his hands cuffed
B. with his hands cuffing
C. with his cuffed hands
D. with his cuffing hands
64.The leaders insisted on their _____ as ordinary people.
A. treating
B. be treated
C. being treated
D. having treated
65._____, I must do another experiment.
A. Be it ever so late
B. It is ever so late
C. It be ever so late
D. So late it be ever