Part One: Structure and Written Expression

Direction: In each question decide which of the four choices given will most suitably complete the sentence if inserted at the place marked. Put the letter of your choice in the ANSWER SHEET. (20%)

1 .The doctor's ____ is that she'll soon be as good as new if she takes insulin and watches her diet.

A. agnosticism B. anticipation C. diagnosis D. prognosis

2. It is ____ understood by all concerned that the word no one who visits him ever breathe a syllable of m his hearing will remain forever unspoken.

A. uncommunicatively B. acceptably

C. tacitly D. taciturnly

3. ____ springs not out of true and deep admiration, but more often out of a self-seeking wish to identify with someone important or famous.

A. A compliment B. An adulatory

C. Flattery D. Praise

4. Leaving for work m plenty of time to catch the train will ___worry about being late.

A. rule off B. prevent C. avoid D. obviate

5. Nicholas Chauvin, a French soldier, aired his veneration of Napoleon Bonaparte so _____ and unceasingly that he became the laughingstock of all people in Europe.

A. vociferously B. patriotically

C. verbosely D. loquaciously

6. People suffering from ____prefer to stay shut in their homes and become panic-stricken m large public buildings and open fields.

A, acrophobia B. agoraphobia

C. claustrophobia D. xenophobia

7. All normal human beings are ____ at least to a degree --they get a feeling of warmth and kinship from engaging in group activities.

A. segregated B. congregational

C, gregarious D. egregious

8. He is ___ drinker, who has been imbibing for so long that he has figuratively speaking, grown old with the vice.

A. an inveterate B. an incorrigible

C. a chronic D. an unconscionable

9. We listened dumb-struck, full of_____, to the shocking details of the corruption of the ex-president of the compare.

A. incredality B. ingenuity

C. ingenuousness D. incredibility

10. Too much ___ can possibly lead to unhappiness, even to thoughts of suicide as few people have the courage to analyze themselves objectively and minutely.

A. retrospect B. retrospection

C. perspicacity D. perspicuity

11 .Hydrocarbons, ___ by engine exhausts, react with nitrogen oxides in the presence of sunlight to form complex toxic gases.

A. are given off B. give off

C. they are given off D. given off

12. He could hardly _____his temper when he saw the state of his office.

A. hold in B. hold up C. hold off D. hold out

13.The statesman was evidently ____by the journalist's questions and glared at him for a few seconds.

A. put down B. put out C. put across D. put away

14. ____ , it is widely used in making flares and fireworks.

A, As the brilliant white light that burning magnesium produces

B. Because of the brilliant white light of burning magnesium

C. The brilliant white light of burning magnesium

D. Burning magnesium produces a brilliant white light

15.____ to tell us that the interest of the individual should be subordinate to that　of the collective?

A. Were you used B. Are you used

C. Did you use D. Do you used

16.I would have gone to the lecture with you ____ I was so busy.

A. except that B. provided that C. but that D. only that

17.The detective watched and saw the suspect _____ a hotel at the comer of the street.

A. getting off the taxi and walking into

B. got off the taxi and walked into

C. get off the taxi and walk into

D. got off the taxi to walk into

18. The child is ____ all the evidence for his opinion.

A. not encouraged either to be critical or to examine

B. encouraged either to be critical nor to examine

C. either encouraged to be critical or to examine

D. neither encouraged to be critical nor to examine

19. To be sure, there would be scarcely no time left over for other things if school children __ all sides of every matter on which they hold opinions.

A. would have been expected to have considered

B. were expected to consider

C. will be expected to have been considered

D. were expected to have considered

20. Whenever work is being done, energy___ from one form into another.

A. converts B. converted C. is converted D. is being converted