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PRACTICE TEST C63

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs
from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

Question 1. A. column B. stupid C. situation D. studio

Question 2. A. like B. find C. mind D. film

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in
the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 3. A. generation B. American C. preparation D. independent
Question 4. A. recently B. conduct C. attitude D. marriage

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs
correction in each of the following questions.
Question 5. The more I got to know them, the fewer I liked them.
A B C D
Question 6. The rings of Saturn are so distant to be seen from Earth without a telescope.
A B C D
Question 7. Do you know how much Vitamin C does an onion have? As much as two apples do.
A B C D

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following
questions.

Question 8. The train whistle warned us of its ____________ departure.

A. previous B. imminent C. subsequent D. former
Question 9. Time and neglect had ____________ the property
A. deterioratedB. enhanced C. flourished D. acclimatized
Question 10. An artist ____________ will do his best to express innocence and inexperience in the child’s
face.
A. portraying a child B. who portray a child
C. he portrays a child D. portrayed a child
Question 11. Which ____________ agency do you work for?
A. ads B. advertised C. advertising D. advertisement

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Question 12. His face looks ____________, but I can’t remember his name.
A. similar B. alike C. memorable D. familiar
Question 13. There is a ____________ of skilled craftsmen in the industry.
A. warn B. fault C. lack D. short
Question 14. I know you’re annoyed, but you must try to control your ____________.
A. blood B. storm C. explosion D. temper
Question 15. You will have to go for an interview tomorrow, but don't worry. It's just a ____________
A. form B. format C. formation D. formality
Question 16. Mr. Jones knew who had won the contest, but he kept it under his ____________ until it was
announced publicly.
A. cap B. tongue C. hat D. umbrella
Question 17. A fire must have a readily available supply of oxygen. ________, it will stop burning.
A. Consequently B. Furthermore C. Otherwise D. However
Question 18. He is the manager of the factory. He’s ________it.
A. charged with B. charged C. in charge D. in charge of
Question 19. ________becoming extinct is of great concern to zoologists.
A. That giant pandas are B. Giant pandas are
C. Are giant pandas D. Giant panda is

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete
each of the following exchanges.

Question 20. Son: “What is the process of ________________, Dad?”

Father: “Well, it involves the heating of liquid such as milk in order to kill harmful
bacteria.”
A. industrialization B. pasteurization C. commercialization D. globalization
Question 21. ‘‘Well it was nice talking to you, but I have to dash.’’
‘‘_______________________’’.
A. Ok, see you. B. Yes, I enjoyed talking to you, too.
C. Well, another time. D. That’s nice.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 22. This dinosaur was known to be carnivorous.
A. vegetative B. nocturnal C. tardy D. flesh-eating
Question 23. His approach was so stealthy that no one noticed him coming.
A. fast B. secretive C. expected D. noisy

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

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Question 24. The International Organizations are going to be in a temporary way in the country.
A. soak B. permanent C. complicated D. guess
Question 25. The US troops are using much more sophisticated weapons in the Far East.
A. expensive B. complicated
C. simple and easy to use D. difficult to operate

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to
each of the following questions.

Question 26. It was his lack of confidence that surprised me.

A. He surprised me by his lack of confidence.
B. That his lack of confidence surprised me.
C. That he lacked of confidence surprised me.
D. What surprised me was his lack of confidence.
Question 27. I read two books, but I didn’t find them interesting.
A. None of the two books I read was interesting.
B. Either of the books I read weren’t interesting.
C. Neither of the books I read was interesting.
D. The two books I read wasn’t interesting.
Question 28. “I didn’t break the window,” Jim said.
A. Jim refused to break the window.
B. Jim denied breaking the window.
C. Jim admitted breaking the window.
D. Jim told he didn’t break the window.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each
pair of sentences in the following questions.

Question 29. Calling Jim is pointless. His phone is out of order.

A. It is useless calling Jim because his phone is out of order.
B. It’s no use to call Jim because his phone is out of order.
C. There’s no point calling Jim because his phone is out of order.
D. It’s worth calling Jim because his phone is out of order.
Question 30. His wife helped him. He was able to finish his book.
A. Without his wife’s help, he couldn’t have finished his book.
B. If it weren’t for his wife’s help, he couldn’t have finished his book.
C. But for his wife’s help, he couldn’t finish his book.
D. Hadn’t it been for his wife’s help, he couldn’t finish his book.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct

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word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

It stands to reason that a city like Los Angeles, which is home to the rich and famous, is also where
you find the Association of Celebrity Personal Assistants.
Celebrity Personal Assistants is a unique group among Hollywood professionals. (31)_______ the
lawyers and agents who rub shoulders with the stars and make millions, personal assistants (PAs) are not
paid well. They typically earn about $56,000 a year which, (32)_______ their round-the-clock obligations,
isn’t much by Hollywood standards. As for the job description, it’s also far from glamorous.
Responsibilities include doing laundry, fetching groceries and paying bills. So what's the attraction?
One celebrity PA says, ‘I don’t (33)_______ myself a vain or superficial person, but it would be wrong to
say that we all don't like being close to someone's that's powerful.’ But not everyone is qualified for the
job.
Rita Tateel teaches would-be assistants to the stars and begins her lessons with some (34)_______
truths: 'You must be in good health at all times, because you are running a celebrity's life. If you get sick
their life can't just stop. And you need to be flexible and able to (35)_______ in all kinds of hours. You
have to be a can-do person. If there’s one word that celebrities don't want to hear, that word is “no”.’

Question 31. A. However B. Unlike C. Despite D. Similarly

Question 32. A. given B. received C. spend D. being
Question 33. A. describe B. know C. consider D. think
Question 34. A. such B. hard C. heavy D. advice
Question 35. A. take B. adapt C. get D. put

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 42.

The ability of falling cats to right themselves in midair and land on their feet has been a source of
wonder for ages. Biologists long regarded it as an example of adaptation by natural selection, but for
physicists it bordered on the miraculous.
Newton's laws of motion assume that the total amount of spin of a body cannot change unless an
external torque speeds it up or slows it down. If a cat has no spin when it is released and experiences no
external torque, it ought not to be able to twist around as it falls.
In the speed of its execution, the righting of a tumbling cat resembles a magician's trick. The
gyrations of the cat in midair are too fast for the human eye to follow, so the process is obscured. Either
the eye must be speeded up, or the cat's fall slowed down for the phenomenon to be observed. A century
ago the former was accomplished by means of high-speed photography using equipment now available in
any pharmacy. But in the nineteenth century the capture on film of a falling cat constituted a scientific
experiment.
The experiment was described in a paper presented to the Paris Academy in 1894. Two sequences

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of twenty photographs each, one from the side and one from behind, show a white cat in the act of righting
itself. Grainy and quaint though they are, the photos show that the cat was dropped upside down, with no
initial spin, and still landed on its feet. Careful analysis of the photos reveals the secret; as the cat rotates
the front of its body clockwise, the rear and tail twist counterclockwise, so that the total spin remains zero,
in perfect accord with Newton's laws. Halfway down, the cat pulls in its legs before reversing its twist and
then extends them again, with the desired end result. The explanation was that while nobody can acquire
spin without torque, a flexible one can readily change its orientation, or phase. Cats know this instinctively,
but scientists could not be sure how it happened until they increased the speed of their perceptions a
thousandfold.

Question 36. What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. The explanation of an interesting phenomenon
B. Miracles in modern science
C. Procedures in scientific investigation
D. The differences between biology and physics
Question 37. The word “process” in line 10 refers to
A. the righting of a tumbling cat
B. the cat's fall slowed down
C. high-speed photography
D. a scientific experiment
Question 38. Why are the photographs mentioned in line 16 referred to as an “experiment”?
A. The photographs were not very clear.
B. The purpose of the photographs was to explain the process.
C. The photographer used inferior equipment.
D. The photographer thought the cat might be injured.
Question 39. Which of the following can be inferred about high-speed photography in the late
1800's?
A. It was a relatively new technology.
B. The necessary equipment was easy to obtain.
C. The resulting photographs are difficult to interpret.
D. It was not fast enough to provide new information.
Question 40. The word “rotates” in line 19 is closest in meaning to
A. drops
B. turns
C. controls
D. touches
Question 41. According to the passage, a cat is able to right itself in midair because it is
A. frightened
B. small
C. intelligent

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D. flexible
Question 42. How did scientists increase “the speed of their perceptions a thousandfold” (lines 25-26)?
A. By analyzing photographs
B. By observing a white cat in a dark room
C. By dropping a cat from a greater height
D. By studying Newton's laws of motion

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.

With Robert Laurent and William Zorach, direct carving enters into the story of modern sculpture in
the United States. Direct carving - in which the sculptors themselves carve stone or wood with mallet and
chisel - must be recognized as something more than just a technique. Implicit in it is an aesthetic principle
as well: that the medium has certain qualities of beauty and expressiveness with which sculptors must bring
their own aesthetic sensibilities into harmony. For example, sometimes the shape or veining in a piece of
stone or wood suggests, perhaps even dictates, not only the ultimate form, but even the subject matter.
The technique of direct carving was a break with the nineteenth-century tradition in which the
making of a clay model was considered the creative act and the work was then turned over to studio
assistants to be cast in plaster or bronze or carved in marble.
Neoclassical sculptors seldom held a mallet or chisel in their own hands, readily conceding that the
assistants they employed were far better than they were at carving the finished marble. With the turn-of-
the-century Crafts movement and the discovery of nontraditional sources of inspiration, such as wooden
African figures and masks, there arose a new urge for hands-on, personal execution of art and an interaction
with the medium. Even as early as the 1880's and 1890's, nonconformist European artists were attempting
direct carving. By the second decade of the twentieth century, Americans — Laurent and Zorach most
notably — had adopted it as their primary means of working.
Born in France, Robert Laurent(1890-1970)was a prodigy who received his education in the United
States. In 1905 he was sent to Paris as an apprentice to an art dealer, and in the years that followed he
witnessed the birth of Cubism, discovered primitive art, and learned the techniques of woodcarving from
a frame maker.
Back in New York City by 1910, Laurent began carving pieces such as The Priestess, which reveals
his fascination with African, pre-Columbian, and South Pacific art. Taking a walnut plank, the sculptor
carved the expressive, stylized design. It is one of the earliest examples of direct carving in American
sculpture. The plank's form dictated the rigidly frontal view and the low relief. Even its irregular shape
must have appealed to Laurent as a break with a long-standing tradition that required a sculptor to work
within a perfect rectangle or square.

Question 43. The word “medium” in line 5 could be used to refer to

A. stone or wood
B. mallet and chisel

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C. technique
D. principle
Question 44. What is one of the fundamental principles of direct carving?
A. A sculptor must work with talented assistants.
B. The subject of a sculpture should be derived from classical stories.
C. The material is an important element in a sculpture.
D. Designing a sculpture is a more creative activity than carving it.
Question 45. The word “dictates” in line 8 is closest in meaning to
A. reads aloud B. determines C. includes D. records
Question 46. How does direct carving differ from the nineteenth-century tradition of
sculpture?
A. Sculptors are personally involved in the carving of a piece.
B. Sculptors find their inspiration in neoclassical sources.
C. Sculptors have replaced the mallet and chisel with other tools.
D. Sculptors receive more formal training.
Question 47. The word “witnessed” in line 23 is closest in meaning to
A. influenced
B. studied
C. validated
D. observed
Question 48. Where did Robert Laurent learn to carve?
A. New York
B. Africa
C. The South Pacific
D. Paris
Question 49. The phrase “a break with” in line 30 is closest in meaning to
A.a destruction of
B. a departure from
C. a collapse of
D. a solution to
Question 50. The piece titled The Priestess has all of the following characteristics EXCEPT
A. The design is stylized.
B. It is made of marble.
C. The carving is not deep.
D. It depicts the front of a person.

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