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ENGLISH This section contains 29 questions.
The time allotted is 25 minutes.

The following section contains three types of questions: Sentence Completion, Restatement

and Reading Comprehension. Each question is followed by four possible responses. Choose
the response which best answers the question and mark its number in the appropriate place

on the answer sheet.

Sentence Completions (Questions 1-12)

This part consists of sentences with a word or words missing in each. For each question,
choose the answer which best completes the sentence.

1. The first vacuum cleaner was so large that a of men was needed to operate it.

(1) brake (2) kit (3) team (4) flame

2. The Canadian city of Dawson Creek lies near the between British Columbia and

the neighboring province of Alberta.

(1) column (2) border (3) angle (4) level

3. A red-tailed hawk that has its mate usually finds a new one quickly.

(1) heard (2) bought (3) seen (4) lost

4. Studies show that divorce has a long-lasting on both parents and children.

(1) precision (2) trend (3) seduction (4) impact

5. Researchers are creating computer programs that will be able to when and where

flooding will occur.

(1) destroy (2) predict (3) accept (4) ignore

6. Technical failures have forced the European Space Agency to the testing of its

new rocket launcher.

(1) delay (2) admit (3) spill (4) surround

7. Though it was an important whaling center, Nantucket is now primarily a summer

resort.

(1) formerly (2) namely (3) swiftly (4) partially

8. Although alcohol is both legal and widely available, it is as a drug as cocaine or

heroin.

(1) slight (2) private (3) stale (4) powerful

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