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Recent research suggests some chiropractic techniques may be dangerous (1) ---patients. Chiropractors have been taking their lumps lately. And not all of the criticism has come from their usual critics in the medical profession. (2) ----, some chiropractors themselves are cautiously calling for reforms. The most recent and most disturbing news (at least as far as chiropractors are concerned) (3) ---- at a recent meeting of the American Stroke Association in Texas. There, neurologists from Toronto University reported analyzing 156 cases of stroke and finding that nearly 40 percent of them had (4)---- resulted from chiropractic neck manipulation. This hands-on treatment had caused tearing in the inside walls of the neck arteries, resulting in clots that blocked blood (5) ---- to the brain, bringing on the strokes. The neurologists called for a ban on the procedure. 1. A) with B) against B) In addition C) to D) for E) towards D) In brief E) Indeed

2. A) Similarly

C) Consequently

3. A) was announced B) announced 4. A) casually E) uselessly 5. A) pressure E) cell

B) were announced

C) was announcing

D) announcing

B) apparently

C) generously

D) awkwardly

B) count

C) pulse

D) flow

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TEST 2

There are several drugs (6) ---- the market that can delay the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease,(7) ---- none that can prevent it. As the Nun Study shows, however, (8) ---- simple changes in diet and lifestyle may help postpone the onset of dementia. Some of these suggestions like (9) ---- a good education or wearing a bike helmet make good (10) ---- in their own right. For others, you may want to

consult your doctor especially if you have a family history of Alzheimer's.

6.

A) in

B) on

C) at

D) over

E) around

7. A) whereas

B) for

C) since

D) but

E) therefore

8. A) nearly

B) definitely

C) cautiously

D) respectfully

E) relatively

9. A) to get

B) to be getting C) getting

D) for getting

E) of getting

10. A) problem

B) criticism

C) sense

D) dimension

E) attitude

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TEST 3

The ancients (11) ---- natural processes as manifestations of power by irresponsible gods; today we think of them as manifestations of energy acting on or through matter. Volcanic (12) ---- and earthquakes no longer reflect the erratic behavior of the gods of the under world: they arise (13) ---- the action of the earth's internal heat on and through the surrounding crust. The source of the energy lies (14) ---- the material of the inner earth. In many directions, of course, our knowledge is still incomplete: only the question of what the lavas are made of can as yet be satisfactorily answered. The point is not (15) ---- we now pretend to understand everything, but that we have faith in the orderliness of natural processes. 11. A) discovered E) regarded 12. A) evaluations E) eruptions 13. A) from E) into 14. A) on E) near 15. A) what E) that B) which C) how D) while B) in C) at D) from B) of C) out D) off B) considerations C) installations D) projections B) designed C) justified D) encountered

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TEST 4 Unlike the scientist, the engineer is not free to select the problem (16) ---- interests him; he must solve the problems as they (17) ----, and his solutions must (18) ---conflicting requirements. Efficiency costs money, safety adds complexity, and performance increases weight. The engineering solution is the optimum solution, the most desirable end result taking (19) ---- account many factors. It may be the cheapest for a given performance, the most reliable for a given weight, the simplest for a given safety, or the most (20) ----.for a given cost. Engineering is optimizing.

16. A) what

B) which

C) whose

D) how

E) why

17. A) raise

B) cause

C) arouse

D) arise

E) happen

18. A) satisfy

B) succeed

C) bring

D) obtain

E) prevent

19. A) out of

B) off

C) into

D) of

E) for

20. A) eligible

B) efficient

C) inevitable D) prosperous E) qualified

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TEST 5

In medieval times rivers were the veins of the body politics (21) ---- economics. Boundaries between states or shires, they were crossed by fords which became the sites of towns, or bridges which were often (22) ---- of battle. (23) ---- rivers the people of that time depended for food, power and (24) ----. Rivers were also the most important source of power. Every stream (25) ---- its mills, not only for grinding corn, but for all the industrial processes of the time, such as cleansing and thickening cloth or driving the hammers of the works.

21.A) also

B) in addition

C) but also

D) as well as

E) alike

22.A) points

B) weapons

C) cases

D) directions

E) tactics

23.A) For

B) With

C) Across

D) Along

E) Upon

24.A) polcy

B) transport

C) current

D) production

E) investment

25.A) has

B) had had

C) had

D) having

E) were having

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TEST 6

We must (26) ---- from the work of those who have studied the (27) ---- of life that given a planet only approximately like our own, life is almost certain to start.(28) ---the planets in our solar system we are now pretty certain the Earth is the only one (29) ---- life can survive. Mars is too dry and poor in oxygen, Venus is (30) ---- too hot, and so is Mercury, and the outer planets have temperatures near absolute zero and hydrogen-dominated atmospheres. 26.A) conclude B) dedicate C) integrate D) establish E) diagnose

27.A) stem

B) initial

C) origin

D) inclination

E) process

28.A) Yet

B) Just

C) As well as

D) But for

E) Of all

29.A) of which

B) on which

C) that

D) in that

E) in which

30.A) very

B) extremely

C) more

D) far

E) so

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TEST 7

(31) ---- his discussions it was (32) ---- person who put forward a thesis for examination, never Socrates himself. It was always the other person's ideas that (33) ----. According to him, if one is truly virtuous, he will always act well and never badly. Therefore his theory makes virtue identical with the knowledge of how

to act, based on a (34) ---- understanding of human good, his view implies that one who possesses this knowledge will always act well and never badly. Knowledge, (35) ----, turns out to be the sufficient condition acting virtuously and well. 31. A) Of 32. A) the other B) On B) other C) From C) another D) In D) others C) have tested E) Beyond E) each other D) tested

33. A) were being tested E) have been tested 34. A) pretty E)comprehensive 35.A) though B) thus

B) had tested

B) subsequent

C) quite

D) rather

C) as

D) fairly

E) in theory

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TEST 8

There were no attendants at home; they (36) ---- to make merry (37) ---- honor of the time. I had told them that I should not return until the morning, and had given them explicit orders not to (38) ---- from the house. These orders were sufficient, I well knew, to insure their immediate disappearance, one and all, as soon as my back was turned. I had (39) ---- laid the first tier of the masonry when I discovered that the intoxication of Fortunato had in a great measure worn off. The earliest (40) ---- I had of this was a low moaning cry from the depth of the recess. 36. A) had absconded E) absconded 37. A) out 38. A) stir E) step out 39. A) no sooner E) consequently 40. A) indication E) reasoning B) honesty C) talent D) propriety B) scarcely C) hence D) never B) from B)relate C) in C) approach D) for D) swing E) on B) have absconded C) were absconding D) were absconded

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Science and technology have come to pervade every aspect of our lives and, as a result, society (41) ---- at a speed which is quite unprecedented. There is a great technological explosion around us, generated (42) ---- science. This explosion is already freeing (43) ---- numbers of people from their traditional bondage to nature, and now (44) ---- we have it in our power to free (45) ---- once and for all from the fear which is based on want.

41.A) are changing E) had changed

B) was changed

C) change

D) is changing

42.A) with E) against

B) by

C) in

D) for

43.A) many E) several

B) lots of

C) vast

D) scarce

44.A) at the latest E) at last

B) latest

C) for the last D) last of it

45.A) manhood E) men

B) humane

C) humanness D) mankind

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TEST 10

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(46) ---- the remarkable growth of organized camping means the eventual death of the more independent kind is hard (47) ----. Municipalities naturally want to secure the campers site fees and other custom. Police are wary of itinerants (48) --- cannot be traced to a recognized camp boundary or to four walls. But most probably it will all depend upon campers (49) ----: how many fires they cause; how much litter they (50) ----; in short, whether or not they wholly alienate landowners and those who live in the countryside.

46.A) Whether

B) Because

C) Whereas

D) If

E) As though

47.A) for saying E) to be said

B) of saying

C) to say

D) in saying

48.A) of whom

B) which

C) of those

D) of which

E) who

49.A) people E) themselves

B) dwellers

C) folk

D) residents

50.A) are leaving E) had left

B) have left

C) left

D) leave

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TEST 11

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Although truth and (51) ---- may be the most powerful impulses to show moral courage, there are (52) ----. Compassion is one of these. Tentatively it can be suggested that this is the main influence upon those (53) ---- the abolition of capital punishment. It is recognition of compassions part that leads the upholders (54) ---- capital punishment to accuse the abolitionists of sentimentality in being more sorry for the murderer than for his (55) ----.

51.A) justice

B) knowledge

C) courtesy

D) eternity

E) decision

52.A) another

B) many

C) the rest

D) others

E) plenty

53.A) to urge

B) which urge

C) urged

D) who urging

E) who urge

54.A) to

B) about

C) of

D) in

E) against

55.A) guilty

B) innocence

C) survival

D) victim

E) friend

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TEST 12 Anthropology was (56) ---- definition impossible as long as the (57) ---- between ourselves and the primitive, ourselves and the barbarian, ourselves and the pagan, held sway (58) ---- peoples minds. It was necessary first to arrive at that degree of sophistication (59) ---- we no longer set our own belief over against our neighbors superstition. It was necessary to recognize that these institutions which are based on the same premises, let us say the supernatural, must (60) ---- together, our own among the rest.

56.A) as

B) with

C) in

D) by

E) for

57.A) distinctions

B) references

C) origins

D) roots

E) assumptions

58.A) beneath

B) on

C) over

D) alongside

E) of

59.A) which

B) where

C) why

D) how

E) while

60.A) have been considered D) be considered

B) be considerable E) have considered

C) consider

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TEST 13

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People who travel frequently on business or (61) ---- pleasure often suffer some form of health problems, (62) ---- over half of these problems can easily be prevented. The most common (63) ----, a headache, (64) ---- by taking along an ample supply of aspirin or other pain reliever. Another common affliction is motion sickness caused by the constant movement of the vehicle. Ginger capsules, sold in most health-food stores, have been found (65) ---- as a remedy.

61.A) in

B) with

C) for

D) on

E) of

62.A) and

B) for

C) all

D) yet

E) ailment

63.A) disaster

B) medication

C) treatment

D) disorder

E) ailment

64.A) avoidable

B) is avoiding

C) can be avoided

D) avoids

E) has avoided

65.A) effectively

B) efficiently

C) sufficiently

D) effective

E) efficiency

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TEST 14

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Greg Louganis, the famous diver, (66) ---- to study dance when he was three. He didnt do well in school. Many years later, he found out that it was because he had a reading (67) ----, dyslexia. In 1976, at the Summer Olympics, he won the silver medal for platform diving. At the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics, he won gold medals for both platform and springboard diving. He usually makes (68) ---- 75 and 100 dives a day. He keeps (69) ---- shape by dancing, and he gets ready for important dives (70) ---Believe in Yourselves.

66.A) has started

B) starts

C) was starting

D) started

E) started

67.A) achievement

B) talent

C) aptitude

D) loss

E) problem

68.A) almost

B) many

C) as well as

D) at least

E) between

69.A) up

B) off

C) for

D) in

E) at

70.A) by singing

B) sung

C) that sings

D) who sings E) of the song

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TEST 15

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(71) ---- the estimated size of only the known Universe, this little planet Earth is but a speck in a stellar vastness (72) ---- great that our minds cannot encompass it. To believe that we humans could be the only possible intelligent life form is simply ridiculous. Skeptics frequently (73) ---- UFO believers as fringe personalities and oculists who can't accept modern society, yet a 1999 Gallop poll showed that 72 % of all people believe that UFOs are (74) ----. Nevertheless, science, political and religious powers will always continue trying to convince this vast majority that we are crazy! Obviously, they feel the common knowledge and acceptance (75) ---- an alien intelligence would challenge their powers. 71. A) Notwithstanding E) In contrast with B) Based on C) Overall D) Due to

72. A) so E) too 73. A) portray E) portrays 74. A) imagination E) real 75. A) that E) on

B) highly

C) considerably

D) very

B) portraying

C) is portraying

D) portrayed

B) fantastic

C) factual

D) realistic

B) for

C) about

D) in

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TEST 16

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The primary purpose of office automation (76) ---- communication between members of an organization and between the organization and its environment. Office automation is intended to facilitate all types of communication, (77) ---- oral and written, an ideal ( expensive) system would allow people to communicate the medium of their choice: data, document, image, voice, or video. The movement (78) ---- open systems, the equipment and (79) ---- made by different manufacturers and covering various aspects of office operations are becoming interconnected. You will note that the principal unit of an office automation is a workgroup of (80) ---network. 76. A) is to facilitate E) will facilitate 77. A) also B) alike C) similar D) and E) both B) facilitates C) is facilitating D) facilitate

78. A) of

B) for

C) in

D) from

E) toward

79. A) colleagues E) schedule

B) software

C) executives

D) prospect

80. A) rural E) intersection

B) systematic

C) civic

D) local

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TEST 17

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"Uncle Al was his name," my friend, Jessie, told me (81) ---- morning at school. "Last night as I was doing my homework, I heard a noise and I looked up and (82) --- in the corner of my room was my Uncle Al." "Didn't you tell me that one of your uncles died a month ago? What was his name 'cause I thought you said your Uncle Al died?" I interrupted her. "Yes, my Uncle Al did die, but (83) ---- he was, standing (84) ---- the corner of my room last night! I was too frightened to say a word at first but when I finally found my (85) ---- I screamed for my mother. Uncle Al just disappeared after that."

81. A) in

B) a

C) for

D) one

E) since

82. A) stood

B) standing

C) was standing

D) was stood

E) had stood

83. A) what

B) who

C) that

D) where

E) there

84. A) in

B) at

C) on

D) to

E) over

85. A) attitude

B) sound

C) soul

D) voice

E) temper

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TEST 18

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Beauty and form, in this case, did follow function. It was the Titanic's careful design and construction that led the press to (86) ---- her as "unsinkable." She had a double-hulled bottom (87) ---- fifteen watertight bulkheads across the hull and automatic watertight doors that could be closed from the bridge. Six separate watertight compartments housed Titanic's twenty-nine boilers that drove her

reciprocating steam engines. Titanic was constructed (88) ---- steel plates riveted to each other and to a steel frame also held together by rivets. With its builders (89) ---- the new technology of hydraulic riveting, over three million rivets held the Titanic together. Titanic was fashioned out of the finest steel with the latest (90) ----. 86. A) ascribe 87. A) adding 88. A) of 89. A) were used 90. A) industry B) describe B) plus B) by C) subscribe C) in conclusion C) from B) were using B) technology D) prescribe D) all in all D) with C) using C) manufacture D) use E) inscribe E)in essence E) through E) to use D) technology

E) tactics development

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TEST 19

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In the last 20 years, computer, electronic and space technologies (91) ---- at a breakneck pace, greatly complicating the (92) ---- African-Americans work, play and learn. (93) ---- these and other developments, including downsizing and the fierce competition for spaces in top colleges and universities, there is a growing consensus (94) ---- experts that parents and educators must expose students to computer technology as early as possible. Eventually, according to experts, computer literacy and math and science mastery will be (95) ---- students who lack these skills will be at a definite disadvantagein the classroom and in the workplace. 91. A) multiplying E) multiplies B) have been multiplied C) are multiplying D) have multiplied

92. A) time E) procedure

B) way

C) period

D) process

93. A) Given E) As far as

B) Unless

C) As long as

D) But for

94. A) around E) among

B) between

C) of

D) about

95. A) such importance that D) very important as

B) too important to E) so important as to

C) so important that

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TEST 20

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In 1950, the first computer chess program was written by Alan Turing, a British researcher (96) ---- the field of digital computers. At the time, Turing had to settle with a simulation of the execution of his program (97) ---- pencil and paper. Turing's program was a (98) ---- player, but it served well its main purpose: it showed that computers can play chess. In the same year, Claude Shannon plotted a plan of action for computers to eventually be programmed to play good chess. Given the (99) ---low speed of computers in the 1950 it was not clear (100) ---- computers would ever be able to beat humans even in games as simple as checkers. 96. A) pioneers D) has pioneered C)pioneered D) who pioneered

E) was pioneered

97. A)

with

B) for

C) by

D) in

E) on

98. A) gifted

B) terrific

C) fantastic

D) clever

E) terrible

99. A) exceedingly 100. A) why

B) gloriously C) gradually B) where C) whether

D)

greatly

E) simultaneously E) that

D) what

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TEST 21

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Cuba has survived more than 40 years of US sanctions intended to (101) ---- the government of Fidel Castro. It has also defied predictions that it would not withstand the collapse of its main supporter, the Soviet Union. (102) ---- the fall of the US-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959, Cuba has been a one-party state led by Castro, who exercises control (103) ---- virtually all aspects of Cuban life through the Communist Party and its affiliated mass organizations, the government bureaucracy and the state security apparatus. Exploiting the US-Soviet Cold War, Castro was for decades able to rely on strong Soviet backing, including annual subsidies (104) ---- $4-5 billion, and succeed in building reputable health and education systems. But, at least partly because of the US trade sanctions, he failed to diversify the economy, (105) ---- continues to depend on sugar exports.

101. A) topple

B) back

C) assist

D) prop

E) enhance

102. A) As

B) Before

C) When

D) Until

E) Since

103. A) by

B) for

C) along

D) over

E) from

104. A) worths

B) worth

C) was worth

D) worthy

E) worthing

105. A) which

B) who

C) that

D) as

E) of which

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TEST 22

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More recent archaeological excavations at the (106) ---- city of Babylon in Iraq uncovered the foundation of the palace. Other findings include the Vaulted Building with thick walls and an irrigation well near the southern palace. A group of archaeologists surveyed the area of the southern palace and reconstructed the Vaulted Building as the Hanging Gardens. However, the Greek historian Strabo (107) ---- that the gardens were situated by the River Euphrates. So others argue that the site is (108) ---- far from the Euphrates to support the theory since the Vaulted Building is several hundreds of meters away. They reconstructed the site of the palace and located the Gardens in the area stretching from the River (109) ---- the Palace. On the river banks, recently (110) ---- massive walls 25 m thick may have been stepped to form terraces, the ones described in Greek references.

106. A) antiquated B) ancient

C) antic

D) antecedent

E) predecessor

107. A) had stated B) states

C) was stating

D) would state

E) has stated

108. A) very

B) so

C) quite

D) pretty

E) too

109. A) by

B) along

C) to

D) aside

E) across

110. A) discovery

B) discovering C) to discover

D) discovers

E) discovered

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TEST 23

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The people who think that it is immoral to make a rational decision (111) ---- ending life certainly have the right to consider their own death in this light and to endure to the very end (112) ---- pain awaits them and their families. But they have flowed over into the idea that it is their right also to control those others of us who view the matter (113) ----. There are societies here and there that do not put up roadblocks when a person decides to end life. However, the idea that each person's life is his own is too radical or too abstruse for consumption in the United States. This is the attitude that I hope (114) ----, and soon. It is the attitude that I hope to help soften by explaining that my suicide plan is bringing me and those (115) ---- to me a measure of security that my life can end in as spirited a way as possible.

111. A) to

B) for

C) in

D) about

E) toward

112. A) whether

B) whatever

C) why

D) which

E) that

113. A) closely 114. A) will change 115. A) near

B) largely B) changing B) around

C) differently

D) entirely

E) impatiently E) to change E) contrary

C) that is changing D) changes C) close D) opposite

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TEST 24

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Most people today are all too familiar (116) ---- the devastating effects of HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus. The virus, which is transmitted by blood-to-blood (117) ----, may produce no symptoms for years. But typically within 10 to 15 years it destroys key cells of the immune system and causes AIDS (acquired

immunodeficiency syndrome). (118) ---- of immunity enables microorganisms that would normally be kept in check to proliferate (119) ---- and can allow lifethreatening cancers to develop. So far in the U.S. alone, AIDS (120) ---- more than 350,000 people and has become the principal cause of death among those 24 to 44 years old. Another 750,000 Americans harbor the virus, part of some 30 million who are affected worldwide.

116. A) with

B) to

C) about

D) of

E) for

117. A) touch

B) fusion

C) contact

D) flow

E) transfer

118. A) Loss

B) Drop

C) Missing

D) Lack

E) Losing

119. A) sedately E) specially 120. A) kills

B) mildly

C) uncontrollably

D) passively

B) has killed

C) is killing

D) killed

E) have killed

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