ENGLISH TEST 92

Indicate the sentence that is correct and closest in meaning to each of the following sentences

1: Although it is not a threat to humans, the Bespectacled Bear is killed as it does damage to agriculture.

A. People kill the Bespectacled Bear because of its damage to agriculture even though it is not a threat to humans.

B. As a threat to human and damage to agriculture, the Bespectacled Bear is killed.

C. The Bespectacled Bear is killed although it is neither a threat to humans nor damage to agriculture.

D. The Bespectacled Bear is killed as it does damage to agriculture and is a threat to humans.

2: Some scientists think that a meteor impact, which occurred around 65 million years ago, may have caused the extinction

of the dinasaurs.

A. The extinction of the dinosaurs could only have been caused by a meteor impact that occurred some 65 million years

ago.

B. According to some scientists, the extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by a meteor that struck Earth 65 million or so years

ago.

C. Some scientists reckon that the impact of a meteor that struck Earth some 65 million years ago need not have caused the

extinction of the dinosaurs.

D. In the opinion of some scientists, the extinction of the dinosaurs could have been the result of the impact of a meteor

which occurred roughly 65 million years ago.

3: There are two interesting things I found in The Last Leaf by O. Henry in addition to the general theme of death and

dying.

A. In The Last Leaf by O. Henry two interesting things about death and dying are additional themes I found.

B. The general theme of death and dying is the most interesting thing I found in The Last Leaf by O. Henry.

C. The general theme of death and dying is one interesting thing I found in The Last Leaf by O. Henry.

D. The general theme of death and dying is what I found interesting in The Last Leaf by O. Henry besides the other two

things.

4: Many have said that if he had not needed the money as a writer, he would have had the freedom to explore his potential.

A. Many have said that it was the need for money that made him explore his potential.

B. It has been said that without his need for money as a writer, he would have explored the freedom of his potential.

C. It has been said that because he needed the money as a writer, he didn’t have the freedom to explore his potential.

D. Many have said that he needed money as a writer more than his freedom to explore his potential.

5: When he asked which one I wanted, I said I didn’t mind.

A. He said I could choose between them, but I said it didn’t matter to me.

B. It was up to me to choose between them, but I really didn’t want to.

C. I would have done the choosing if they had asked me to.

D. He wanted me to choose for him and I agreed to do so.

Indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions

6: A. elaborately

B. flamingo

C. embryo

D. gazelle

7: A. entrepreneur

B. extracurricular

C. autobiography

D. disciplinary

8: A. e-book

B. quick-witted

C. in-depth

D. white-collar

Read the following passage and choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks

What is meant by the term economic resources? In general, these are all the natural, man-made, and human resources that

go into the (9) _________of goods and services. Economic resources can be broken down into (10) _________ general

categories: property resource – land and capital, and human resources – labor and entrepreneurial skills.

What do economists mean (11) __________land? Much more than the non-economist, land refers to all the natural

resources (12) ____ are usable in the production process: arable land, forests, mineral and oil deposits, and (13)______ on.

What about capital? Capital goods are all the man-made aids to producing, storing, transporting, and distributing goods and

(14) ______.

Capital goods differ from consumer goods in that (15) __________ satisfy wants directly, while the former do so indirectly

by facilitating the production of consumer goods. It should be noted that capital as defined here does not (16) ___________

to money. Money, as such, produces nothing. The term labor refers to the physical and mental talents of humans used to

produce goods and services (with the exception of a certain set of human talents, entrepreneurial skills, which will be

considered separately because of their special significance). Thus the services of a factory worker or an office worker, a

ballet (17) ___________ or an astronaut all fall (18) __________ the general heading of labor.

9: A. production

B. plant

C. using

D. doing

10: A. many

B. six

C. two

D. some

11: A. by

B. using

C. calling

D. with

12: A. these

B. they

C. what

D. that

13: A. so

B. come

C. such

D. go

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