PartIII                Vocabulary                (20 minute)

Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part.For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) . Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. ª¤

31. Starting with the ________ that there is life on the planet Mars, the seientst
went on to develop his argument.ª¤
A) premise
B) pretext
C) foundation
D) presentation
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32. After several nuclear disasters, a ________ has raged over the safety of nuclear
energy.ª¤
A) quarrel
B) suspicion
C) verdict
D) controversy
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33. Their diplomatic principles complely laid bare their ________ for world conquest.ª¤
A) admiration
B) ambition
C) administration
D)orientation

34. The director gave me his ________ that he would double my pay if I did my job well.
A) warrant
B) obligation
C) assurance
D) certainty
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35. The Christmas tree was decorated with shining ________ such as colored lights and
glass balls.ª¤
A) ornaments
B) luxuries
C) exhibits
D) complements
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36. The two most important ________ in making a cake are flour and sugar .
A) elements
B) components
C) ingredients
D) constituents

37. Cultural ________ indicates that human beings hand their languages down from one generation to another.
A) translation
B) transition
C) transmission
D) transaction

38. We must look beyond ________ and assumptions and try to discover what is missing.
A) justifications
B) illusions
C) manifestations
D) specifications

39. No one imagined that the apparently ________ businessman was really a criminal. A) respective
B) respectable
C) respectful
D) realistic

40. If nothing is done to protect the environment, millions of spedes that are alive
today will have become ________ .
A) deteriorated
B) degenerated
C) suppressed
D) extinct

41. The ________ of the scientific attitude is that the human mind can suceeed in
understanding the universe.
A) essence
B) texture
C) content
D) threshold

42. The old lady has developed a ________ cough which cannot be cured completely in a short time.
A) perpetual
B) permanent
C) chronic
D) sustained

43. What the correspondent sent us is an ________ news report. We can depend on it
A) evident
B) authentic
C) ultimate
D) immediate

44. Having had her as a professor and adviser, I can tell you that she is an
_______ force who pushes her students to excel far beyond their own expectations.
A) inspirational
B) educational
C) excessive
D) instantaneous

45. Some researchers feel that certain people have nervous systems particularly ______  to hot, dry winds. They are what we call weather sensitive people.
A) subjective
B) subordinate
C) liable
D) vulnerable

46. Hurricanes are killer winds, and their ________ power lies in the physical damage
they can do.
A) cumulative
B) destructive
C) turbulent
D) prevalent

47. In some countries, students are expected to be quiet and ________ in the classroom.
A) skeptical
B) faithful
C) obedient
D) subsidiary

48. In spite of the ______economic forecasts, manufacturing output has risen slightly.
A) gloomy
B) miserable
C) shadowy
D) obscure

49. Body paint or face paint is used mostly by men in preª²literate societies in order
to attract good health or to _______ disease.
A) set aside
B) ward off
C) shrug off
D) give away

50. The international situation has been growing _____difficult for the last few years.
A) invariably
B) presumably
C) increasingly
D) dominantly

51. The prisoner was ______ of his civil liberty for three years.
A) discharged
B) derived
C) deprived
D) dispatched

52. Small farms and the lack of modern technology have ______ agricultural production.
A) blundered
B) tangled
C) bewildered
D) hampered

53. The Japanese scientists have found that scents ______ efficiency and reduce stress  among office workers.
A) enhance
B) amplilf
C) foster
D) magnify

54. All the students have to ______to the rules and regulations of the school.
A) confirm
B) confront
C) confine
D) conform

55. He ______ his head, wondering how to solve the problem
A) scrapped
B) screwed
C) scraped
D) scratched

56. As soon as the boy was able to earn his own living he ______ his parents' strict
rules.
A) defied
B) refuted
C) excluded
D) vetoed

57. The helicopter a light plane and both pilots were killed.
A) coincided with
B) stumbled on
C) tumbled to
D) collided with

58. To ______ is to save and protect, to leave what we ourselves enjoy in such good
condition that others may also share the enjoyment.
A) conserve
B) conceive
C) convert
D) contrive

59. Put on dark glasses or the sun will ______ you and you won' t be able to see.
A) discern
B) distort
C) distract
D) dazzle

60. In ______ times human beings did not travel for pleasure but to find a more
favourable climate.
A) prime
B) primitive
C) primary
D) preliminary