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EXPLANATION
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Spelling
Word Meaning
Structure
Comprehension and
Expression
(7 Minutes - 30 Points)
(7 Minutes - 40 Points)
(15 Minutes - 40 Points)
(20 Minutes - 50 Points)
PART I : Spelling
7 Minutes - 30 Points
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pollution
millitary
altitude
artificial
afection
distant
executive
desperate
sufficient
distinguish
mariage
Decoration
Corespond
Liable
Imitation
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Campain
Atractive
Garantee
Efficiency
usualy
Criticism
imoral
Addmission
hastily
Oppertunity
cristal
crucial
asure
Honerable
jeopardize
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insurunce
remedy
rigistration
equipped
inquirey
comercial
posibility
indulgence
maneuver
employement
discourge
forfeit
morgage
accelerate
complection
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memorandum
curriculum
havoc
obsticle
sarcrifice
politicial
trespass
warrent
preparation
intellegence
representitive
percolate
navigater
responsability
intuition
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61. ASPIRATION :
a. existing design
c. great piece
62. CHARACTERISTIC :
a. typical
c. complex
63. COMPETITION :
a. possibility
c. pressure
64. TRANSMIT :
a. navigate
c. release
65. DESPAIR :
a. lose hope
c. grow lonely
66. OUTSTANDING :
a. very good
c. quite useful
67. REGARDS :
a. high esteem
c. best wishes
68. TURBULENT :
a. strong
c. decent
69. TRAIL :
a. path
c. behavior
70. PARTICULAR :
a. famous
c. deniable
b. firm establishment
d. strong desire
b. available
d. equivalent
b. trouble
d. struggle
b. receive from
d. send out
b. become sad
d. feel hard
b. rather hopeful
d. really courageous
b. hopeful wishes
d. longing thoughts
b. current
d. stormy
b. train
d. treaty
b. specific
d. inventing
71. COHESIVE:
a. united
c. efficient
72. PROMPTLY:
a. steadily
c. willingly
73. COMMUNITY:
a. cooperative
c. minor
74. CONSTRUCTIVE:
a. relative
c. reduced
75. FUNDAMENTAL:
a. essential
c. available
76. CATEGORY:
a. capacity
c. class
77. AUTHORITARIAN:
a. aggressive
c. ambitious
78. EQUIVALENT:
a. norm
c. standard
79. PROCEDURE:
a. process
c. maintenance
80. AFFECT:
a. trouble
c. influence
b. derived
d. promising
b. quickly
d. steadfastly
b. interaction
d. social group
b. improving
d. conducive
b. monetary
d. deficient
b. derivation
d. plan
b. dominating
d. formal
b. common
d. same
b. task
d. plant
b. carry on
d. object to
End of Part II
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111. The foreman usually / was angry at / those men which / disagreed with him.
A
B
C
D
112. The reporter asked, / "where did / the fire first / break out?"
A
B
C
D
113. Neither Jim or Sam / would be / the person I would pick / to replace me.
A
B
C
D
114. If I were / rich, I'd buy / my parents / their own home.
A
B
C
D
115. There's / fewer / good roads in Korat / than in Cholburi.
A
B
C
D
116. If it had been possible, / we would of / given him / the work he wanted.
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B
C
D
117. The money was divided / equally / among / Sunee and Somsak.
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B
C
D
118. I don't see / as good / as Teera, my friend, / can.
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B
C
D
119. An increase in the sale / of books and records / are predicted / by the boss.
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B
C
D
120. Mali is / the best cook / of the two, / although she's younger.
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B
C
D
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Dialogue
The Board of Directors of a small private company is holding a meeting......
Chairman : As you know, sales of our cosmetics have been lower this year than last year
and .............(121).................
Suchart : Well, I think we need a major advertising campaign in newspapers and magazines.
We need to get our products back in the public eye.
Araya : Well, ..................(122)........................
I think an advertising compaign in women's magazines is a good idea. But I don't think
that newspaper advertisements have ever been shown to be effective for cosmetics.
Preecha : .............(123)................ Newspaper advertisements, if they are cleverly and carefully
Designed, can have an impact. Though I admit that the advantages from the use of
colour do make magazines a better bet. But, anyway, I believe that what we really need
are some new brands and I suggest that the R&D Department be asked to look into this
at once.
Sopin : ...........(124)............. We haven't had any new lines for nearly two years now. We must
Get some new products to our sales staff before the next Christmas season starts.
Weera : ...........(125)............. In my opinion the products we've got now are still winners.
There's no need to introduce new ones yet. I firmly believe that the problem lies with our
sales staff. They've become complacent. We must find some way to shake them up.
Chairman : Hmm.
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B. Directions : Read the text below and complete the statements in items
No. 126 - 135, by choosing A, B, C or D and mark X over
the letter of your choice for each item on your answer sheet.
TEXT
In the Soviet Union agriculture still remains a problem. The country that first launched
a man into space still finds it difficult to feed all its people year in and year out.
Some Soviets trace this relative backwardness all the way back to the Stalin era. The
forced collectivization of farming-forcing the peasants to give up their own land to work on
state farms from which most of the produce was taken by the State, was bitterly resented by
the peasants. Stalin's aim was to rapidly industrialize the Soviet Union. "We must catch
up with the West in ten years or they will crush us", he said in 1930. He may have been right.
But the upheavals to the population, the slaughter of animals, and the emphasis on industry
have left the Soviet Union with the legacy of a weak agricultural sector.
126. According to this passage the backwardness of Soviet agriculture can be
blamed on ..................
a. Stalin's policies
b. the peasants
c. poor production techniques
d. the West
127. When he became the leader of the Soviet Union around 1930, Stalin's main
aim was to ...................
a. defeat the West in a war
b. put a man into space
c. destroy Soviet agriculture
d. develop modern industry
128. From the first paragraph, what is the writer's attitude to the fact that
agriculture is a problem for the Soviet Union? He is............
a. angry
b. surprised
c. sad
d. excited
129. There are food shortages in the Soviet Union...........
a. every year
b. in some years
c. every other year
d. never
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A. "I will bet my money we will find organic compounds there," Dr. John Oro, an exo-biologist
of the University of Houston, told a news conference arranged by the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration.
B. "We are the first people in history who may be able to answer the question of how life began
because we are the first people not bound to Earth," Lynn Griffiths, a scientist at NASA
headquarters in Houston said.
C. In order to help Dr. Oro win his bet and to allow Dr. Griffiths to answer her question, the
spacecraft Galileo will be launched by NASA in the autumn of 1989. It is expected to
reach Europa in the mid-1990's.
D. A space biologist involved in a study of life in the universe said on Friday that he believed
organic compounds, a life form, would be found on Europa, which is a moon of the planet
Jupiter.
E. Exo-biologists study the beginning of life and they, together with the scientists who plan
NASA's space missions, have been discussing the beginning of life at the NASA Ames
Research Laboratory.
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