PART A: Vocabulary
Directions: Choose the word or phrase (1), (2), (3), or (4) that best completes each sentence.

1- Understanding the world economic conditions, the recent graduates spoke ---------- about job prospects for the future.

 4) luxuriously

 3) warily

 2) narrowly

 1) inaudibly

2- The English word “family” used to ---------- all the people in the house, including servants.

 4) denote

 3) predict

 2) participate

 1) ascertain

3- Greg’s excellent poem won the --------- of his friends.

 4) advent

 3) apex

 2) access

 1) acclaim

4- Your eyes need approximately 20 to 30 minutes to ---------- darkness.

 4) account for

 3) take in

 2) adjust to

 1) rely on

5- Critics condemned the novelist’s ---------- attempt to plagiarize Hemingway’s story.

 4) judicious

3) discreet

 2) felicitous

 1) brazen

6- When I had an awful sore throat, only warm tea would ---------- the pain.

 4) assimilate

 3) devastate

 2) mitigate

 1) prescribe

7- I have always liked your positive attitude; it has always ---------- affected our working relationship.

 4) favorably

 3) hastily

 2) candidly

 1) consciously

8- When the rain began to pour, the crowd at the baseball game quickly ----------.

 4) annihilated

 3) dispersed

 2) uncovered

 1) pacified

9- Everyone in the family enjoys seafood, so my uncle’s distaste for the salmon dish was an ----------.

 4) altercation

 3) anomaly

 2) autonomy

 1) accolade

10- Denise ---------- for weeks before she actually decided to accept the job offer.

 4) squandered

 3) regretted

 2) precluded

 1) vacillated

PART B: Cloze Test
Directions: Read the following passage and decide which choice (1), (2), (3), or (4) best fits each space.

    Later moralists, however-for instance, the 18th and 19th-century British utilitarians Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill-defined happiness (11) ---------- pleasure and the absence of pain. Others, still (12) ---------- happiness as a state of mind, have tried to distinguish it from pleasure on (13) ---------- that it is mental, not bodily; enduring, not transitory; (14) ---------- rational, not emotional. But these distinctions are open to question. A temporal dimension was added to eudaemonism in ancient times by Solon, who said, “Call no man happy till he is dead,” (15) ---------- that happiness and its opposite pertain, in their broadest sense, to the full course of one’s life. The contemporary moralists have tended to avoid the term.

11-

 4) as

 3) for example

 2) like

 1) such as

12-

 4) who regards

 3) regard

 2) have regarded

 1) regarding

13-

 4) grounds

3) a ground

  2) the grounds

 1) the ground

14-

 4) then

 3) and

 2) neither

1) but


15-

2) who suggested

1) and suggesting



4) by suggesting

 3) suggesting