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2005-05
Section I
1.
(A) The man should go to the museum by shuttle bus.
(B) The next train leaves in25 minutes.
(C) The train will arrive at the museum before 10:30.
(D) The man just missed the shuttle bus to the museum.
2.
(A) She forgot to study for the exam.
(B) She had planned to go to the movie.
(C) The man should have invited her to the movies.
(D) The man should have studied for the exam.
3.
(A) A' new building
(B) Directions to the gym
(C) Going to the library
(D) New library hours
4.
(A) Take a different history course
(B) Use a computer in the lab
(C) Help him write his paper
(D) Return his computer as soon as possible
5.
(A) She got her watch where her sister works.
(B) She will help the man buy a watch.
(C) She had to work hard to buy a watch.
(D) The man should not buy a watch at her sister's store.
6.
(A) Find out if classes are cancelled
(B) Not go to classes tomorrow
(C) Turn on the radio
(D) Look to see if the storm has stopped
7.
(A) No one has recently seen her
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8.
(A) Try to fix what is wrong with the computer
(B) Ask someone else for help with the computer
(C) Turn on another computer
(D) Let the woman use his computer
9.
(A) She thinks the man should order the fish.
(B) She wants the man to choose quickly.
(C) She prefers the chicken
(D) She cannot decide what to eat
10.
(A) She should go home now to get the CD.
(B) She can return the CD to Tom later.
(C) She can borrow a CD from Tom when she sees him in class.
(D) She should not have taken Tom's CD home with her.
11(A) Cancel her appointment at the clinic
(B) Make an appointment at the clinic soon
(C) Begin practicing for the German test next week
(D) Arrange to take the German test at a later date
12.
(A) Rent the apartment she saw first
(B) Visit her new neighbors
(C) Look at other apartments before deciding
(D) Write a check for the rent
13.
(A) He likes to play basketball
(B) He is proud of his ability as a basketball player.
(C) He does not want to watch the basketball game.
(D) He is not on the basketball team.
14.
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15.
(A) The woman did not accept the job offer.
(B) The woman does not like her new job.
(C) The woman is planning to start a new job.
(D) The woman is looking for a job at a different bank.
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(A) Go to the party with the man
(B) Take her aunt to the party
(C) Invite the man to the play
(D) See a play with her aunt
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(A) She is looking for another job
(B) She will apply for financial aid next year.
(C) She thinks she will not need financial aid.
(D) She thinks she is not taking enough classes.
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(A) It is the only kind the restaurant has left,
(B) The woman does not have to pay extra for it.
(C) It is a specialty of the restaurant.
(D) He will replace it with a different dessert.
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(A) A small town can have negative qualities.
(B) It can be difficult to run a business in a small town.
(C) His family owns a business in his hometown.
(D) He would like to visit the woman's hometown.
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(A) He would like more time to prepare next time.
(B) He will not be able to attend the open house.
(C) He enjoyed working as a volunteer
(D) He will not be able to coordinate the program again.
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(A) He will meet the man and woman before his psychology class,
(B) He is in the same class as the man and woman.
(C) He is late for an appointment with the man and woman.
(D) He forgot to do his assignment for today's class.
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(A) She is looking for a job on campus.
(B) She can get the materials they gave out at the meeting,
(C) She went to the meeting with her roommate.
(D) She is too busy to help the man.
23.
(A) He probably will not be able to follow the professor's advice.
(B) He has not finished doing the research for his presentation.
(C) He does not understand what the professor means.
(D) He would like the professor to listen to him rehearse his presentation.
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(A) He knows who will be performing in the musical.
(B) He doubts that the theater group will perform a musical next year.
(C) The theater group needs to select a new director.
(D) The director has probably chosen the musical,
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(A) He has been sick recently.
(B) He is tired of looking for an apartment.
(C) He wants an apartment near his work.
(D) He has been looking for a new job for a long time.
26.
(A) The woman would not vote in the elections.
(B) Ben would be elected class president.
(C) Ben would not run for class president.
(D) The elections would be held later.
27.
(A) He did not recommend the lecture.
(B) He did not speak to the woman yesterday.
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29.
(A) He thinks the dry weather will change.
(B) He is already conserving water.
(C) Ways should he found to use less water.
(D) The dry weather will be worse than last summer.
30.
(A) Everyone should already have the new manual.
(B) The old manual should not be used anymore.
(C) The new manual has not been completed yet.
(D) The old manual will not be changed.
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(A) The class reading list
(B) Books about New York City
(C) A book by Theodore Dreiser
(D) A critical review of Sister Carrie
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(A) It is set in the city instead of the country.
(B) It does not try to teach a moral lesson.
(C) It is about a woman working in a traditionally male role.
(D) The main character gets into trouble.
33.
(A) Some British reviewers wrote favorably about it.
(B) Dreiser published it himself.
(C) An editor revised it.
(D) Dreiser rewrote it using a different style.
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(A) Their voice box is not positioned correctly yet.
(B) Their hearing is not good enough yet.
(C) They do not yet have the muscle control needed.
(D) Their brains are not yet adequately developed.
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(A) When children learn to say whole sentences
(B) In the first month of life
(C) When children start to go to school
(D) When children learn to associate sounds with meaning
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(A) Until what age vocabulary growth continues
(B) How children are able to learn language
(C) When die best time to start a foreign language is
(D) How to identity children with language disorders
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(A) The use of beads in Native American monetary systems
(B) Communication over long distances in North America '
(C) Difficulties encountered by native couriers
(D) Alliances between the Iroquois and the Algonquin
40.
(A) Adverse traveling conditions delayed the courier.
(B) The courier needed to hire a guide.
(C) The fees of several couriers were included in the charge.
(D) The letter contained a valuable item.
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41.
(A) The signing of a treaty
(B) A wedding feast
(C) The birth of a child
(D) A funeral
42.
(A) Planning a garden
(B) Feeding pets
(C) Attracting birds
(D) Preserving eggs
43.
(A) They use them in making nests.
(B) They like to eat them,
(C) They use them when mating.
(D) They drink water from them,
44.
(A) They are dried in the sun.
(B) They are soaked in water.
(C) They are cooled in the refrigerator.
(D) They are baked in the oven.
45.
(A) It makes them clean and free of germs.
(B) It makes them more visible for the birds.
(C) It makes them more nutritious.
(D) It makes them softer.
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(A) She is a good cook.
(B) She collects birds' nests.
(C) She likes to have birds visit her garden.
(D) She is a professional gardener
47.
(A) How to prevent landslides in populated areas
(B) How to repair damage to houses caused by heavy rains
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50.
(A) Frequent landslides
(B) Too much vegetation
(C) Water draining from another slope
(D) A wall that stops water from draining
Section II
PART A
1. The rock-fill dam, essentially an embankment like the earth -fill dam, uses rock instead of
earth-----~,
(A) and providing stability
(B) to provide stability
(C) stability is provided
(D) provides stability
2. The telegraph, invented in the mid-nineteenth century, remained even into the 1970's-------of
telecommunication.
(A) a principal system
(B) a system was principal
(C) that was a principal system
(D) a principal system when
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growing season, would renew only nitrogen in the soil, not trace elements. There is a
growing realization, therefore, (hat so-called organic farming makes good commercial
sense and would help minimize mineral depletion: Organic fanning essentially refers to
farming that does not depend on chemical fertilizers; rather, soils are invigorated by
applying manure and by plowing in crop wastes, such as corn stalks and bean vines, and
compost. These techniques return organic material and trace minerals back to the soils and
are to be commended. However, for maximum yields, a chemical fertilizer may be required
in addition to manure and plant waste.
Some critics of modern farming methods fear that the hardier varieties of fruits and
vegetables that have been developed to make shipment easier have resulted in loss of
vitamin content. This concern is unfounded because the creation of vitamins by plants is
an automatic biological process. Any variety of plant will make the full complement
of vitamins it needs, regardless of species.
10. The word "vital" in line 2 is closest in meaning to
(A) effective
(B) ideal
(C) unique
(D) necessary
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(A) plant that is typically grown on organic farms
(B) crop that can be rotated and used as fertilizer
(C) crop that replaces both nitrogen and trace elements in soil
(D) plant that has been thoroughly depleted of nutrients in recent years
12. The author mentions all of the following as an example of ways to renew trace minerals
in the soil EXCEPT
(A) plowing crop wastes into the soil
(B) organic farming
(C) using appropriate water
(D) growing the same crop year after year
13. The word "essentially" in line 15 is closest in meaning to
(A) probably
(B) biologically
(C) basically
(D) automatically
14. Which of the following does the passage identify as examples of plant waste products?
(A) Potassium and phosphates
(B) Clover
(C) Trace elements
(D) Com stalks and bean vines
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Questions 19-29
Animation traditionaily is done by hand-drawing or painting successive frames of an
object, each slightly different than the preceding frame. In computer animation, although
the computer may be the one to draw the different frames, in moat cases the artist will
Line draw the beginning and ending frames and the computer will produce the drawings
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between the first and the last drawing. This is generally referred to as computer-assisted
animation, because the computer is more of a helper than an originator.
In full computer animation, complex mathematical formulas are used to produce the
final sequence of pictures. These formulas operate on extensive databases of numbers
that define the objects in the pictures as they exist in mathematical space. The database
10 consists of endpoints, and color and intensity information. Highly trained professionals
are needed to produce such effects because animation that obtains high degrees of
realism involves computer techniques for three-dimensional transformation, shading,
and curvatures.
High-tech computer animation for film involves very expensive computer systems
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more than a giant image memory for viewing a single frame. It temporarily holds the image
for display on the screen,
A camera can be used to film directly from the computer's display screen, but for
the highest quality images possible, expensive film recorders are used. The computer
20 computes the positions and colors for ihe figures in the picture, and sends this information
to the recorder, which captures it on film. Sometimes, however, the images are stored on a
large magnetic disk before being sent to the recorder. Once this process is completed, it is
repeated for the next frame. When the entire sequence has been recorded on the film, the
film must be developed before the animation can be viewed. If the entire sequence does
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This approach can be very expensive and time consuming. Often, computer-animation
companies first do motion tests with simple computer-generated line drawings before
selling their computers to the task of calculating the high-resolution, realistic-looking
images.
19. What aspect of computer animation does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) The production process
(B) The equipment needed
(C) The high cost
(D) The role of the artist
20.According to the passage, in computer-assisted animation the role of the computer is to
draw the
(A) first frame
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a few tools, and a little training, several men could erect a rough shelter in a day, or a solid
house in a week, What is truly fascinating is that Native Americans quickly learned these
construction techniques and probably did as much as colonists to spread the practice of log
construction across the frontiers of colonial North America.
30. Which one of the following questions does the passage answer?
(A) What role did Native American men play in teaching their agricultural methods to
Scandinavian settlers?
(B) How did the interaction between Native Americans and Scandinavian settlers benefit both
groups?
(C) What hardships did the Scandinavian women settlers experience in North America?
(D) What caused a rivalry between the English and Scandinavian settlers in North America?
31. The word "fostered" in line 3 is closest in meaning to
(A) encouraged
(B) predated
(C) predicted
(D) rejected
32. In line 4, the word "notable" is closest in meaning to
(A) social
(B) predictable
(C) remarkable
(D) early
33.According to the passage, the Native American and Scandinavian cultures of the Delaware
Valley initially had all of the following in common EXCEPT
(A) loose organization
(B) farming experience
(C) metal fanning tools
(D) local autonomy
34. According to the passage, why were Scandinavian women easily able to understand
Native American horticulture?
(A) They had prior knowledge of most Native American plants.
(B) They had used similar cultivation practices in Scandinavia.
(C) They were helped by Native American and colonial men,
(D) hey were able to use Native American farming tools.
35. Why does the author contrast English and French settlers with Scandinavian settlers in
lines 14-18 ?
(A) To suggest that they learned at least some hunting skills from each other
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Questions 40-50
At the turn of the twentieth century, Americans who wished to travel between cities
either for work or for pleasure had limited options. The steam railroad offered the best,
the most reliable and the fastest means of transport. Electric railways (trams and trolleys)
Line provided reasonable intraurban and short-distance intercity travel They also offered some
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longer routes, but only in certain parts of the country. Horse-drawn coaches were neither
a competitive nor a comfortable alternative given the deplorable slate of the nation's
highways; and though bicycles were popular in both town and country, they, too, were
hampered by poor road surfaces. It took the mass production and ownership of cars,
together with increased attention to road construction, to bring the major breakthrough
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in travel in the 192Q*s. And alongside the rapid spread of the popular and individualistic
auto came the slower, but significant, growth of bus transport. Not only did buses largely
replace trams and trolleys in urban mass transit, they also opened up new avenues of
intercity travel both to those Americans who couH not afford cars and to those car owners
who preferred to leave distance driving to others.
No particular date marks the beginning of the American intercity bus industry because
so many individuals were attracted to it at about the same time by the large profits
available to those who could cany fare-paying passengers over public highways- These
ubiquitous bus pioneers came from all walks of life. Few knew much about transport or
about business, but they were willing to take a chance on a new venture that had low entry
costs. Frequently driving used vehicles, these drivers concentrated on local services
operated on a consumer-demand basis with the driver taking cash fares. There were no
formal schedules or routes. People became aware of the new service by word of mouth
or newspaper advertisements, but a regular commitment was not guaranteed. Bus drivers
frequently did not start until they Had a full load; and those who traveled on the early
buses were content with reaching iheir destination rather than enjoying a fast or
comfortable journey.
40, What is the main topic of the passage?
(A) The difficulties with various forms of public transportation in the 1920's
(B) The effect of poor roads on the development of rail transportation
(C) The differences between intraurban arid intercity transportation at the aim of the century
(D) The early development of bud transportation
41 What does the author imply about horse-drawn coaches at the turn of the twentieth
century?
(A) They were not available within cities.
(B) They did not provide as good service as the railroads.
(C) They were more popular than bicycles.
(D) They were strong competitors of trams and trolleys.
42. The word "deplorable" in line 6 is closest in meaning to
(A) unusable
(B) worn
(C) awful
(D) difficult
43. The word "hampered" in line 8 is closest in meaning to
(A) restrained
(B) supported
(C) favored
(D) damaged
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