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Part I Vocabulary and Structure (10%)

Direction: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a pencil.

1. The poor lady was too       and distressed to talk about the tragedy.

A. engaged                B. exhausted

C. ignorant                D. energetic

2. At fist       , the famous painting doesn't impress the audience at all.

  A. glance                  B. gaze

  C. stare                    D. view

3. Delegates agree to the plan in        , but there were some details they didn't approve.

  A. discipline                B. theory

  C. principle                 D. nature

4. I took the medicine 10minutes ago, but the bitterness is still         in my mouth.

 A. scattering                B. felling

 C. maintaining               D. lingering

5. Since the          of human history, human beings have been asking questions like "What is the essence of life."

  A. dusk                     B. dust

  C. twinkle                   C. Dawn

6. The eldest son              all the family members to discuss how to celebrate the 50th wedding

  anniversary of their parents.

  A. Clustered                 B. resembled

  C. assembled                 D. rendered

7. I must leave now,            ,if you want that book I'LL bring it you tomorrow .

  A. Accidentally               B. Incidentally

  C. Occasionally               D. Subsequently

8. My mother is a light sleeper,            to any sound even as low as the humming of mosquito.

  A. alert                      B. acute

  C. keen                      D. immune

9. The newly built factory is in urgent need of a number of skilled and              workers.

  A. consistent                  B. conscious

  C. confidential                 D. conscientious

10. As an outstanding scholar, he has become             to the research team.

  A. senior                      B. junior

  C. indispensible                C. independent

11. Sixteen days after the earthquake, 40people,        in their village, were rescued.

   A. trapped                   B. confined

   C. enclosed                  D. captured

12. Working far away from home, Jerry had to       from downtown to his office everyday.

A. wander                   B. commute

C. ramble                    D. motion

13. The finance minister has not been so       since he raised taxes to an unbearable level.

    A. famous                   B. favorable

    C. popular                   D. preferable

14. It is unimaginable for someone in such a high       in the govemment to behave so badly in public.

   A. situation                  B. position

C. profession                 D. appointment

15. Information given to employees must be        , clear and in easy-to-follow language.

   A．convenient                B．continuous

   C．constant                  D．concise

16. John was very upset because he was        by the police with breaking the law.

   A. sentenced                 B. arrested

   C. accused                   D. charged

17. David likes country life and has decided        farming.

  A. go in for                 B. go back on

  C. go along with             D. go through with

18. Jennifer has never really      her son's death. It's very hard to accept the face that she'll

never have a child.

A. come to terms with       B. come up against

C. come out with           D. come down to

19. A national debate is now      about whether we should replace golden weeks with paid

Vacations.

A. in the way              B. by the way

C. under way              D. out of the way

20. When a psychologist does a general experiment about the human mind, he selects people

           and asks them questions.

    A. at ease                 B. at random

    B. in essence              D. in sum