زبان عمومی کارشناسی ارشد 91 - شماره 3
PART A: Vocabulary
Directions: Choose the word or phrase (1), (2), (3), or (4) that
best completes each sentence.
1- He accused the environmentalists of trying to ---------- public opinion in their favor.
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4) summon |
3) convoke |
2) manipulate |
1) rotate |
2- He asserted that there's not a ---------- of truth in the story.
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4) vestige |
3) relic |
2) forte |
1) scar |
3- The chairperson proudly announced that the keynote speaker at the conference would be the ---------- primatologist Jane Goodall.
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4) eclectic |
3) eminent |
2) empirical |
1) expedient |
4- According to the experts, genetic ---------- is probably the most important factor in determining a person's health.
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4) fragmentation |
3) germination |
2) reliance |
1) inheritance |
5- Plant cell and tissue culture ---------- the growth and maintenance of plant tissues in a nutrient medium.
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4) approximates to |
3) meddles in |
2) involves |
1) spreads |
6- If the population continues to expand, Ehrlich argues, mass starvation and ecological disaster will be the ---------- consequence.
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4) introverted |
3) inevitable |
2) indiscriminate |
1) insatiable |
7- He's being kept in jail until the trial so that he can't ---------- any of the witnesses.
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4) intimidate |
3) vanish |
2) discard |
1) represent |
8- The operation of the free market maintains an ---------- between supply, demand and price.
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4) assent |
3) inspection |
2) affinity |
1) equilibrium |
9- Before you take calculus, you need more than a ---------- knowledge of algebra.
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4) circumspect |
3) mutual |
2) rudimentary |
1) transient |
10- In 1784 Benjamin Franklin first suggested daylight savings time as a means of cutting down ---------- consuming candles.
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4) of |
3) on |
2) for |
1) in |
PART B: Cloze Test
Directions: Read the following passage and decide which choice
(1), (2), (3), or (4) best fits each space. Then mark the correct choice on
your answer sheet.
Deficiency diseases are usually
associated with lack of vitamins or minerals. The effects of a vitamin or mineral
deficiency on the body depend on the function of the particular nutrient (11)
----------. For example, vitamin A is important for good vision, and severe
deficiency of this vitamin may cause blindness. (12) ---------- some vitamins
and minerals have many functions, (13) ---------- nutritional deficiencies can
therefore have wide-ranging effects on health.
Diets that lack a wide variety of foods may result in
vitamin deficiency diseases. For example, in countries (14) ---------- eat
maize as the staple food and only few other foods, diets may lack niacin, a B
vitamin. Such diets may cause pellagra, a deficiency disease (15) ---------- by
dermatitis, diarrhea, and dementia.
11-
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4) lacking |
3) to lack |
2) is lacking |
1) lacked |
12-
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4) Hence |
3) However |
2) Because |
1) Then |
13-
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2) which prolonged |
1) they prolong |
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4) to be prolonging |
3) prolonged |
14-
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2) where people |
1) in those people |
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4) that their people |
3) there people |
15-
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2) characterizing |
1) characterized |
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4) is characterized |
3) they characterize |



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