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ENGLISH This section contains 27 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 1-11)

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. In nature, sodium is never found in its pure form; it is always with other elements.

(1) combined (2) announced (3) contrasted (4) amazed

2. While height is usually considered an in basketball, some excellent players are

quite short.

(1) advantage (2) appetite (3) accusation (4) annoyance

3. Because rich farmland covers sixty percent of Romania, many of the country's

inhabitants work in .

(1) construction (2) agriculture (3) science (4) industry

4. The egg cream, a once-popular drink, contains egg nor cream.

(1) neither (2) both (3) some (4) besides

5. Zoologists predict that by the end of the century there will be more tigers in than

in the wild.

(1) captivity (2) secrecy (3) exploration (4) formation

6. The long toes of the jacana this small tropical bird to walk easily on the floating

leaves of water plants.

(1) enforce (2) entrust (3) enact (4) enable

7. In 1981, an invisible cloud of poisonous gas out of a factory in Bhopal, India,

killing and injuring thousands.

(1) marched (2) leaked (3) struggled (4) crawled

8. The smog over Beijing makes it impossible to take a clear photograph of the city

from an airplane.

(1) dense (2) split (3) fake (4) bold

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