Directions: In this section there are 30 sentences followed by four multiple choices. Choose one to complete the sentences. Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.

 

1.A child with healthy appetite rarely dislikes food _____ it is badly cooked.

 

A. unless       B. until      C. if          D. in that

 

2.No one can be _____ hasty in making the decision as it is such a critical case.

 

A. very         B. so       C. too         D. that

 

3._____ students have certain “gift” in common, they should be grouped together.

 

A. While       B. Where        C. When    D. As

 

4.       his graduation, he found a job with a decent income.

 

A. At          B. During     C. With       D. Upon

 

5.If these human initiatives are aided by special quality-control instruments, machines, and scientific sampling procedures, _______.

 

A. so much the better    B. the much better      C. so it’ll be better   D. be it the better

 

6.      writers, like Flaubert, will spend days trying to get one or two sentences exactly right.

 

A. Careful      B. Cautious    C. Scrupulous     D. Prudent

 

7.And the polluted water does not merely     the life of the sea but threatens the people who inhabit and visit its shores.

 

A. stiff        B. strife        C. stifle     D. strive

 

8.Such diseases as typhoid, paratyphoid, dysentery, polio, viral hepatitis and food poisoning are     _______ in the area, and there are periodic outbreaks of cholera.

 

A. epidemic    B. endemic     C. rife       D. rampant

 

9.An even greater risk     in the ageing underground gas-pipes.

 

A. larks        B. lures       C. lurches     D. lurks

 

10.Anti-materialists tent to     the importance of things.

 

A. derive        B. deride       C. deprive     D. drive

 

11.Later school start time’s contribution to teenagers’ academic performance is not an      one.

 

A. suspicious   B. vague      C. equivocal      D. equivalent

 

12.The undeveloped technology of the period       the construction of more delicate walls.

 

A. secluded   B. precluded      C. concluded     D. deluded

 

13.Human beings feature their creative ability to     trivial impulses into momentous consequences.

 

A. transform    B. translate    C. transmute     D. transmit

 

14.Hypocrisy is the       that vice pays to virtue.

 

A. contribute       B. attribute      C. distribute       D. tribute

 

15.Most of his study time is _____ by computer games.

 

A. absorbed       B. ingested      C. digested         D. devoured

 

16.Mary is very       as she is constantly changing her mind.

 

A. suspicious       B. capricious       C. delicious       D. precarious

 

17.The rich ___ themselves from contact with the poor.

 

A. resided       B. retreated     C. secluded        D. groped

 

18.He found it hard to choose furniture that was ____ with the modern style of the house.

 

A. constant       B. consistent        C. consequent       D. constituent

 

19.One’s _____ remark at the wrong moment could ruin the whole plan.

 

A. indiscreet       B. improper      C. inappropriate       D. impossible

 

20.The average Chinese people will _____ themselves for years to buy a house.

 

A. sting      B. stink       C. stint         D. stir

 

21.Our progress was _____ by the extreme weather.

 

A. hampered       B. forbidden      C. stopped       D. suspended

 

22.The negotiation had reached a(n)_____, with both parties refusing to make compromise.

 

A. dilemma      B. difficulty         C. embarrassment     D. impasse

 

23.This new laser printer is _____ with all leading software.

 

A. comparable       B. competitive      C. compatible        D. cooperative

 

24.Problems have been _____ by long neglect.

 

A. evacuated      B. agitated      C. decapitated       D. aggravated

 

25.A visitor must _____ to the customs of the country where he lives.

 

A. inform       B. conform     C. confirm          D. affirm

 

26.It is far too difficult for the young adult to _____ between truth and falsehood.

 

A. discern       B. discard      C. disperse       D. disregard

 

27.In the _____ light I could hardly make out the way home.

 

A. frail       B. failing      C. failed          D. fail

 

28.Drinking water before your meal will take the _____ off your hunger.

 

A. edge       B. edict      C. edible          D. eddy

 

29.Those who are _____ of profits will not always be happy.

 

A. insatiable       B. fond      C. insane          D. critical

 

30.It _____ on me that Johnson had been making us nobody but a fool all along.

 

A. dwelt       B. dawned      C. rested          D. lay

 

 

Directions: Identify the figure of speech in each of the following sentences. Choose the best answer from the box and write the corresponding letters of your answers on the Answer Sheet.

 

A. Metaphor B. Simile C. Oxymoron D. Personification E. Alliteration

 

F. Contrast G. Euphemism H. Metonymy I. Transferred Epithet J. Parallelism

 

1. I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats over valleys and hills.

 

2. The mother is undergoing the joyful pain, and the painful joy of childbirth.

 

3. Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned.

 

4. A thousand mustaches can live together, but not four breasts.

 

5. A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

 

6. He was both out of pocket and out of spirits by that catastrophe, failed in his health and prophesied the speedy ruin of the empire.

 

7. Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

 

8. The American society saw a gnawing poverty during the tears of the Great Depression.

 

9. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

 

10. Nest to health, heart, home, happiness for mobile Americans depends upon the automobile.

 

 

Directions: Choose a proper word from the box to fill in each blank in the following passage. Each word can be used only once. Write the corresponding letters of your answers on the Answer Sheet.

 

A.fit B.their C.therefore D.risks E.requirements

 

F.without G.little H.partly I.out of J.basis

 

K.appeal L.its M.majority N.however O.job

 

P.disregarding Q.no R.consideration S.Moreover T.occupation

 

Most worthwhile careers require some kind of specialized training. Ideally, therefore, the choice of an  1  should be made even before choice of a curriculum in high school. Actually,   2  , most people make several job choices during their working lives,  3  because of economic and industrial changes and partly to improve  4  position. The “one perfect job” does not exist. Young people should  5  enter into a broad flexible training program that will  6  them for a field of work rather than for a single  7  .

 

Unfortunately many young people have to make career plans  8  benefit of help from a competent vocational counselor or psychologist. Knowing  9  about the occupational world, or themselves for that matter, they choose their lifework on a hit-or-miss  10  . Some drift from job to job. Others  11  to work in which they are unhappy and for which they are not fitted. One common mistake is choosing an occupation for  12  real or imagined prestige. Too many high-school students -- or their parents for them -- choose the professional field,  13  both the relatively small proportion of workers in the professions and the extremely high educational and personal  14  . The imagined or real prestige of a profession or a “White-collar” job is  15 good reason for choosing it as life’s work.  16  , these occupations are not always well paid. Since a large proportion of jobs are in mechanical and manual work, the  17  of young people should give serious  18  to these fields.

 

Before making an occupational choice, a person should have a general idea of what he wants 19  life and how hard he is willing to work to get it. Some people desire social prestige, others intellectual satisfaction. Some want security; others are willing to take  20  for financial gain. Each occupational choice has its demands as well as its rewards.

 

 

Directions: Explain the following sentences in your own words and write your answers on the Answer Sheet.

 

1. A word that is more or less right, a loose phrase, an ambiguous expression, a vague adjective, will not satisfy a writer who aims at clean English.

 

2. This knack for going instinctively to the heart of a matter was the secret of his major scientific discoveries.

 

3. Much of human existence consists of efforts aimed at making sure that things don’t go wrong, fall apart, break down, or stop running until a decent interval has elapsed after manufacture.

 

4. The idea of using a product once or for a brief period and then replacing it, runs counter to the grain of societies or individuals steeped in a heritage of poverty.

 

5. The seeds must be carefully chosen; they must fall on good ground; they must be sedulously tended, if the vivifying fruits are to be at hand when needed.

 

6. Finally, with both of us combining our linguistic and imaginative resources, finally, after what seems another hour, we decode it.

 

7. Associating beauty with women has put beauty even further on the defensive, morally.

 

8. So, for me, one of the keenest pleasures of appetite remains in the wanting, not the satisfaction.

 

9. Economy is one powerful motive for camping, since the initial outlay upon equipment or through hiring it, the total expense can be far less than the cost of hotels.

 

10. For all the trouble procrastination may incur, delay can often inspire and revive a creative soul.

 

 

Directions: Write out the full form of the following words and write your answers on the Answer Sheet.

 

1. ASEAN      2. APEC   3. CIIE    4. BRICS    5. NBC

 

6. e-cigar       7. radar    8. Brexit   9. motel    10. ecotourism

 

 

Directions: Choose the best answer to each of the 10 multiple-choice questions. Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.

 

1. _____is the capital of Canada.

 

A.Vancouver    B. Ottawa    C. Montreal    D.York

 

2. U.S. presidents normally serve a (n) _____ term.

 

A. two-year     B. four-year   C. six-year    D. eight-year

 

3. Which of the following cities is NOT located in the Northeast, U.S.?

 

A. Huston.      B. Boston.    C. Baltimore.  D. Philadelphia.

 

4. _____is the state church in England.

 

A. The Roman Catholic Church  B. The Baptist Church

 

C. The Protestant Church       D. The Church of England

 

5. The novel Emma is written by_____.

 

A. Mary Shelley    B. Charlotte Brontë   C. Elizabeth C. Gaskell   D. Jane Austen

 

6. Which of the following is NOT a romantic poet?

 

A. William Wordsworth.   B. George Elliot.

 

C. George C. Byron.   D. Percy B. Shelley.

 

7. William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous for _____.

 

A. his poems     B. his plays    C. his short stories     D. his novels

 

8. Syntax is the study of _____.

 

A. language functions          B. sentence structures

 

C. textual organization         D. word formation

 

9. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language?

 

A. Arbitrariness.              B. Productivity.

 

C. Cultural transmission.       D. Finiteness.

 

10. The speech act theory was first put forward by _____.

 

A. John Searle   B. John Austin   C. Noam Chomsky   D. M.A.K. Halliday

 

 

Directions: The following passage contains 10 errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error. In each case only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.

 

For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.

 

For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “ ^ ” and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.

 

What is corporate culture? At its most basic, it’s described like 　　the personality of an organization, or simply as “how things are　done around here.” It guides what employees think, act, and feel.

 

Corporate culture is a wide term used to define the unique personality or character of a particular company or organization, and include such elements as core values and beliefs, corporate ethics, and rules of behavior. Corporate culture can be expressed in the company’s mission statement and other communications, in the architectural style or interior decoration, by what people wear to work, by how people address to each other, and in the titles given to various employees. How do you uncover the corporate culture of a potential employer? The truth is that you will never really know the corporate culture after you have worked at the company for a number of months, but you can get close to it through research and observation. Understanding culture is a two-step process, starting with the research before the interview and ending with observation at the interview. The bottom line is that you are going to spend a lot of time on the work environment and to be happy, successful, and productive, you will want to be in a place where you fit for the culture, a place where you can have voice, be respected, and have opportunities for growth.

1._______

 

2._______

 

3._______

 

4._______

 

5._______

 

6._______

 

7._______

 

8._______

 

9._______

 

10._______

 

 

Directions: In this section there are five reading passages followed by a total of twenty multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.

 

 

Stratford-on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry -- William Shakespeare -- but there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches. There is the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), which presents superb productions of the plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the Avon. And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come, not to see the plays, but to look at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Shakespeare’s birthplace and the other sights.

 

The worthy residents of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to their revenue. They frankly dislike the RSC’s actors, them with their long hair and beards and sandals and noisiness. It’s all deliciously ironic when you consider that Shakespeare, who earns their living, was himself an actor (with a beard) and did his share of noise-making.

 

The tourist streams are not entirely separate. The sightseers who come by bus -- and often take in Warwick Castle and Blenheim Palace on the side -- don’t usually see the plays, and some of them are even surprised to find a theatre in Stratford. However, the playgoers do manage a little sight-seeing along with their playgoing. It is the playgoers, the RSC contends, who bring in much of the town’s revenue because they spend the night (some of them four or five nights) pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants. The sightseers can take in everything and get out of town by nightfall.

 

The townsfolk don’t see it this way and local council does not contribute directly to the subsidy of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Stratford cries poor traditionally. Nevertheless every hotel in town seems to be adding a new wing or cocktail lounge. Hilton is building its own hotel there, which you may be sure will be decorated with Hamlet Hamburger Bars, the Lear Lounge, the Banquo Banqueting Room, and so forth, and will be very expensive.

 

Anyway, the townsfolk can’t understand why the Royal Shakespeare Company needs a subsidy. (The theatre has broken attendance records for three years in a row. Last year its 1,431 seats were 94 percent occupied all year long and this year they’ll do better.) The reason, of course, is that costs have rocketed and ticket prices have stayed low.

 

It would be a shame to raise prices too much because it would drive away the young people who are Stratford’s most attractive clientele. They come entirely for the plays, not the sights. They all seem to look alike (though they come from all over) -- lean, pointed, dedicated faces, wearing jeans and sandals, eating their buns and bedding down for the night on the flagstones outside the theatre to buy the 20 seats and 80 standing-room tickets held for the sleepers and sold to them when the box office opens at 10:30 a.m.

 

1. From the first two paragraphs, we learn that ________.

 

A. the townsfolk deny the RSC’s contribution to the town’s revenue

 

B. the actors of the RSC imitate Shakespeare on and off stage

 

C. the two branches of the RSC are not on good terms

 

D. the townsfolk earn little from tourism

 

2. It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that ________.

 

A. the sightseers cannot visit the Castle and the Palace separately

 

B. the playgoers spend more money than the sightseers

 

C. the sightseers do more shopping than the playgoers

 

D. the playgoers go to no other places in town than the theater

 

3. By saying “Stratford cries poor traditionally” (Line 2, Paragraph 4), the author implies that ________.

 

A. Stratford cannot afford the expansion projects

 

B. Stratford has long been in financial difficulties

 

C. the town is not really short of money

 

D. the townsfolk used to be poorly paid

 

4. According to the townsfolk, the RSC deserves no subsidy because ________.

 

A. ticket prices can be raised to cover the spending

 

B. the company is financially ill-managed

 

C. the behavior of the actors is not socially acceptable

 

D. the theatre attendance is on the rise

 

5. From the text we can conclude that the author ________.

 

A. is supportive of both sides

 

B. favors the townsfolk’s view

 

C. takes a detached attitude

 

D. is sympathetic to the RSC

 

 

Many things make people think artists are weird. But the weirdest may be this: artists’ only job is to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad.

 

This wasn’t always so. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for expressing joy. But somewhere from the 19th century onward, more artists began seeing happiness as meaningless, phony or, worst of all, boring, as we went from Wordsworth’s daffodils to Baudelaire’s flowers of evil.

 

You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen so much misery. But it’s not as if earlier times didn’t know perpetual war, disaster and the massacre of innocents. The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today.

 

After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depicting happiness? Advertising. The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.

 

People in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery. They worked until exhausted, lived with few protections and died young. In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in danger and that they would someday be meat for worms. Given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be a bummer too.

 

Today the messages the average Westerner is surrounded with are not religious but commercial, and forever happy. Fast-food eaters, news anchors, text messengers, all smiling, smiling, smiling. Our magazines feature beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes. And since these messages have an agenda -- to lure us to open our wallets -- they make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable. “Celebrate!” commanded the ads for the arthritis drug Celebrex, before we found out it could increase the risk of heart attacks.

 

But what we forget -- what our economy depends on us forgetting -- is that happiness is more than pleasure without pain. The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential for loss and disappointment. Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need art to tell us, as religion once did, Memento mori: remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it. It’s a message even more bitter than a clove cigarette, yet, somehow, a breath of fresh air.

 

6. By citing the examples of poets Wordsworth and Baudelaire, the author intends to show that ________.

 

A. poetry is not as expressive of joy as painting or music

 

B. art grows out of both positive and negative feelings

 

C. poets today are less skeptical of happiness

 

D. artists have changed their focus of interest

 

7. The word “bummer” (Line 5, paragraph 5) most probably means something ________.

 

A. religious     B. unpleasant    C. entertaining   D. commercial

 

8. In the author’s opinion, advertising ________.

 

A. emerges in the wake of the anti-happy art

 

B. is a cause of disappointment for the general public

 

C. replaces the church as a major source of information

 

D. creates an illusion of happiness rather than happiness itself

 

9. We can learn from the last paragraph that the author believes ________.

 

A. happiness more often than not ends in sadness

 

B. the anti-happy art is distasteful but refreshing

 

C. misery should be enjoyed rather than denied

 

D. the anti-happy art flourishes when economy booms

 

10. Which of the following is true of the text?

 

A. Religion once functioned as a reminder of misery.

 

B. Art provides a balance between expectation and reality.

 

C. People feel disappointed at the realities of modern society.

 

D. Mass media are inclined to cover disasters and deaths.

 

 

Not long after the telephone was invented, I assume, a call was placed. The caller was a parent saying, “your child is bullying my child, and I want it stopped!” The bully’s parent replied, “you must have the wrong number. My child is a little angel.”

 

A trillion phone calls later, the conversation is the same. When children are teased or tyrannized, the parental impulse is to grab the phone and rant. But these days, as studies in the U.S. show that bullying on the rise and parental supervision on the decline, researchers who study bullying say that calling moms and dads is more futile than ever. Such calls often lead to playground recriminations and don’t really teach our kids any lessons about how to navigate the world and resolve conflicts.

 

When you call parents, you want them to “extract the cruelty” from their bullying children, says Laura Kavesh, a child psychologist in Evanston, Illinois. “But many parents are blown away by the idea of their child being cruel. They won’t believe it.” In a recent police department survey in Oak Harbor, Washington, 89% of local high school students said they had engaged in bullying behavior. Yet only 18% of parents thought their children would act as bullies.

 

In a new U.S.PTA survey, 5% of parents support contacting other parents to deal with bullying. But many educators warn that those conversations can be misinterpreted, causing tempers to flare. Instead, they say, parents should get objective outsiders, like principals, to mediate.

 

Meanwhile, if you get a call from a parent who is angry about your child's bullying, listen without getting defensive. That’s what Laura McHugh of Castro Valley, California, did when a caller told her that her then 13-year-old son had spit in another boy’s food. Her son had confessed, but the victim’s mom “wanted to make sure my son hadn’t given her son a nasty disease,” says McHugh, who apologized and promised to get her son tested for AIDS and other diseases. She knew the chance of contracting any disease this way was remote, but her promise calmed the mother and showed McHugh’s son that his bad behavior was being taken seriously. McHugh, founder of Parents Coach Kids, a group that teaches parenting skills, sent the mom the test results. All were negative.

 

Remember: once you make a call, you might not like what you hear. If you have an itchy dialing finger, resist temptation. Put it in your pocket.

 

11. The word “bullying” probably means______.

 

A. frightening and hurting   B. teasing   C. behaving like a tyrant  D. laughing at

 

12. Calling to a bully’s parent ______.

 

A. has long existed but changed its content

 

B. is often done with careful thinking

 

C. often leads to blaming and misunderstanding

 

D. is used to warn the child not to do it again

 

13. According to the surveys in the U.S., _______.

 

A. bullying among adults is also rising

 

B. parents are not supervising their children well

 

C. parents seldom believe bullies

 

D. most parents resort to calling to deal with bullying

 

14. When bullying occurs, parents should_______.

 

A. help the bulling child get rid of cruelty

 

B. resort to the mediator

 

C. avoid getting too protective

 

D. resist the temptation of calling

 

15. Laura McHugh promised to get the bullied boy tested for diseases because________.

 

A. her son confessed to being wrong

 

B.she was afraid to annoy the boy’s parent

 

C.he was likely to be affected by these diseases

 

D.she wanted to teach her own son a lesson

 

 

For thousands of Canadians, bad service is neither make-believe nor amusing. It is an aggravating and worsening real-life phenomenon that encompasses behavior ranging from indifference and rudeness to naked hostility and even physical violence. Across the country, better business bureaus report a lengthening litany of complaints about contractors, car dealers, and repair shops, moving companies, airlines and department stores. There is almost an adversarial feeling between businesses and consumers.

 

Experts say there are several explanations for ill feeling in the marketplace. One is that customer service was an early and inevitable casualty when retailers responded to brutal competition by replacing employees with technology such as 1～800 numbers and voice mail. Another factor is that business generally has begun placing more emphasis on getting customers than on keeping them. Still another is that strident, frustrated and impatient shoppers vex shop owners and make them even less hospitable -- especially at busier times of the year like Christmas. On both sides, simple courtesy has gone by the board. And for a multitude of consumers, service went with it.

 

The Better Business Bureau at Vancouver gets 250 complaints a week, twice as many as five years ago. The bureau then had one complaints counselor and now has four. People complain about being insulted, having their intelligence and integrity questioned, and being threatened. One will hear about people being hauled almost bodily out the door by somebody saying things like “I don’t have to serve you!” or “This is private property, get out and don’t come back! ” What can customers do? If the bureau’s arbitration process fails to settle a dispute, a customer’s only recourse is to sue in claims court. But because of the costs and time it takes, relatively few ever do.

 

There is a lot of support for the notion that service has, in part, fallen victim to generational change. Many young people regard retailing as just a bead-end job that you're just going to do temporarily on your way to a real job. Young clerks often lack both knowledge and civility. Employers have to train young people in simple manners because that is not being done at home. Salespeople today, especially the younger ones, have grown up in a television-computer society where they’ve interacted largely with machines. One of the biggest complaints from businesses about graduates is the lack of inter-personal skills.

 

What customers really want is access. They want to get through when they call, they don’t want busy signals, they don’t want interactive systems telling them to push one for this and two for that -- they don’t want voice mail. And if customers do not get what they want, they defect. Some people go back to local small businesses: the Asian greengrocer, a Greek baker and a Greek fishmonger. They don’t wear name tags, but one gets to know them, all by name.

 

16.At a business place of bad service, the worst one can get is________.

 

A.indifference and rudeness

 

B.naked hostility and physical violence

 

C.having intelligence and integrity questioned

 

D.being insulted and threatened

 

17.One of the reasons for such ill feeling in the marketplace is that________.

 

A.shoppers are usually strident, frustrated and impatient

 

B.shoppers often take businesses to court

 

C.businesses use new technology instead of employees

 

D.businesses try every means to get customers

 

18.What changes have taken place at Vancouver Better Service Bureau in the past five years?

 

A.More effective.          B. Less bureaucracy.

 

B.More business.          D. Better staff.

 

19.Young clerks often lack interpersonal skills chiefly because they______.

 

A.are skilled in dealing with machines, not people

 

B.are not trained in simple manners at home

 

C.fall victims to generational change

 

D.take retailing to be a temporary job

 

20.The author’s attitude towards businesses and bad service is________.

 

A.attacking   B. understanding    C. regretting     D. warning

 

 

 

 

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