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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. Some animals, such as the opossum, are able to fool their enemies by to be dead.

(1) preferring (2) pretending (3) claiming (4) refusing

2. Every year, half of the Arctic ice pack and then refreezes.

(1) melts (2) pumps (3) gains (4) spoils

3. The of a reliable eyewitness is one of the most persuasive forms of evidence in a

trial.

(1) intrusion (2) nomination (3) hypocrisy (4) testimony

4. For years, economists have debated wage increases cause people to work more or

less.

(1) unless (2) although (3) whether (4) until

5. Many inhabit the Iranian desert, including miniature owls, lizards, and rock

hamsters.

(1) structures (2) cultures (3) creatures (4) signatures

6. Since ancient times, Egyptians have the warm climate and rich soil of the Nile

valley to produce some of the world's finest cotton.

(1) excluded (2) exploited (3) exported (4) extended

7. The Louisiana Purchase, in which the United States bought two million square

kilometers of territory from France, may be the most important land ever made by

the United States.

(1) acquisition
(2) illustration
(3) omission
(4) condemnation

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