Part 1: CIRCLE the word/phrase (A, B, C or D) that best completes each of the sentences. (2,0pts)
1. I’ll give you the phone number of my hotel, so that you can reach me if anything happens. ______ anything happen, I want you to look after my children.
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A. Can
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B. Might
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C. Will
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D. Should
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2. I suppose you’re not serious, ______?
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A. don’t I
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B. do I
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C. are you
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D. aren’t you
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3. Nguyen Thi Anh Vien is a 19-year-old Vietnamese woman who is the fastest swimmer in Southeast Asia in ______ races.
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A. numerate
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B. numeral
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C. numeric
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D. numerous
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4. _____ are still ending up in prison – over 700 in 1972 – merely for using cannabis.
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A. So too many
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B. Far too many
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C. Quite too many
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D. Such too many
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5. A strong westerly ______ flattened the standing corn though it brought no rain.
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A. gale
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B. blizzard
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C. hurricane
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D. breeze
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6. After going to the zoo, the mall, and the movies, Cassie was sick of _______ to entertain her nieces.
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A. pushing the envelope
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B. turning the other cheek
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C. bending over backwards
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D. going against the grain
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7. Choose the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part.
At that time Herschel was a professional musician and only an amateur astronomer, one who had a knack for building telescopes.
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A. talent
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B. hobby
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C. liking
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D. pleasure
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8. If it wasn’t an accident, he ______ it on purpose.
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A. need have done
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B. should have done
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C. must have done
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D. ought to have done
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9. They played a great game and brought our local basketball teams to their ______.
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A. knees
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B. legs
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C. feet
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D. ankle
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10. Every large city has its shifting population of vagrants. But in most cases these are men, usually with an unhealthy appetite ______ alcohol.
11. Teachers like students to be _____ and listen to what they are saying.
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A. absorbed
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B. attentive
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C. prudent
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D. watchful
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12. Helen: “This is your first trip abroad, isn’t it?” – Peter: “______.”
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A. No, I haven’t been there before
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B. No, it’s expensive
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C. Yes, it sounds great
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D. Yes, so I’m looking forward to it
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13. Senior officials from ASEAN and other Pacific, _____ countries met in Canberra, Australia, in November 1989 to inaugurate APEC.
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A. Rim
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B. Edge
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C. Perimeter
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D. Border
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14. Choose the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part.
The study also notes a steady decline in the number of college students taking science courses.
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A. relative
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B. general
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C. continuous
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D. sharp
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15. ______ is medical technology that allows the prolongation of life artificially while the world is already over-populated?
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A. Of what use
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B. What use
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C. Of which use
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D. Which use
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16. Honour still ______, they got back into their lorries and were off again, this time trying to edge each other into a deep ravine that fell away at one side of the road.
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A. being unsatisfactory
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B. unsatisfactory
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C. unsatisfied
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D. unsatisfying
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17. I have lived near the railway for so long now that I’ve grown _____ to the noise of the trains.
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A. familiar
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B. accustomed
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C. aware
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D. unconscious
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18. We are short of clean safe drinking water, which is found to be the ______ in many third world countries.
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A. example
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B. event
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C. case
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D. object
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19. It is said that many children of high intelligence do not allow themselves to be “discovered” – for fear of becoming an _____.
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A. outage
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B. outcast
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C. outset
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D. outpost
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20. Until the current warming trend exceeds the range of normal climatic fluctuations, there will be, among scientists, considerable ______ the possibility that increasing levels of atmospheric CO2 can cause long-term warming effects.
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A. interest in
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B. uncertainty about
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C. enthusiasm for
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D. worry about
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