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GRAMMAR

In the grammar section, there are two question types:

 In questions 1-13 you must click in the circle next to the word or phrase that correctly completes in
the sentence.

 In questions 14-25, you must click on the circle next to the incorrect word or phrase in the sentence.

You will be shown one example before each of the two different question types. You have 10 minutes to
review and answer the 25 questions.

SECTION ONE

For questions 1-13 select the word or phrase that CORRECTLY completes the sentence.

The students to visit a museum tomorrow.

(A) is going
(B) are going
(C) will going
(D) will be go

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1. Life was not it is nowadays. 7. My boyfriend and first met at a
party.
(A) as easy as
(B) so easy (A) I
(C) easier (B) me
(D) the easiest (C) mine
(D) ourselves
2. In this country, children to school
on Sundays. 8. Do you know the students to the
teacher?
(A) has gone
(B) have gone (A) they are listening
(C) go (B) who are watching
(D) is going (C) who is listening
(D) who are talking
3. Thunder occurs through air,
causing the heated air to expand and 9. Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood is neither
collide with layers of cooler air. journalistically accurate .

(A) an electrical charge passes (A) a piece of fiction

(B) an electrical charge (B) nor a fictitious work
(C) the passing of an electrical charge (C) or written in a fictitious way
(D) passes an electrical charge (D) nor completely fictitious

4. The new waiter has not made any 10. He lives in the same town ________ me.
mistakes.
(A) than
(A) foolish (B) that
(B) fool (C) like
(C) foolishness (D) as
(D) fooled
11. Jerry, are you enjoying this
5. Her essay is than yours. evening?

(A) the worst (A) yourselves

(B) worse (B) you
(C) wort (C) each other
(D) bad as (D) yourself

6. Rarely remove the entire root of a 12. How long in Taipei when you
dandelion because of its length and decided to move?
sturdiness.
(A) did you live
(A) the casual gardener (B) are you living
(B) does the casual gardener’s (C) you have been living
(C) can the casual gardener (D) had you been living
(D) casual gardener will
13. They collected money to help .

(A) poor man

(B) poorly
(C) the poor
(D) poor

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SECTION TWO

For questions 14-25, select the word or phrase that is NOT CORRECT in the sentence.

He is studying Law at the university in order to becoming an attorney.

(A) is studying
(B) in order to
(C) becoming
(D) an

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14. The citizens are becoming more and more 20. On mach 30 1981, President Reagan was
incensed about traffic accidents whenever shot at his was leaving a Washington hotel.
the accidents occur at that intersect.
(A) was
(A) are becoming (B) shot at
(B) incensed (C) his
(C) accidents (D) leaving
(D) intersect
21. An understanding of engineering theories
15. The witnesses saw that most of the fires in and problems are impossible until basic
the hills was extinguished. arithmetic is fully mastered.

(A) saw (A) engineering theories

(B) most of (B) are
(C) fires (C) is
(D) was (D) mastered

16. The phone rang again and again, but the 22. Once the address labeled for the package is
receptionist was not able to get much work typed, it can be sent to the mail room.
done.
(A) Once
(A) again and again (B) labeled
(B) but (C) it
(C) was not able (D) be sent
(D) much
23. There was no indication from the Senate
17. Fort Ticonderoga, a strategically important that he would agree with the decision made
fortification during the Revolution had since in the House.
been reconstructed and turned into a
museum. (A) There was
(B) no indication
(A) had (C) he
(B) been (D) made
(C) reconstructed
(D) turned 24. Although the car’s odometer reached
100,000, she decided that it was time to
18. At least one sample of each of the brands buy another car.
contains measurable amounts of aflatoxin,
and there is three which exceed the (A) Although
maximum. (B) odometer
(C) decided
(A) of each of (D) another
(B) contains
(C) there is 25. The scholarship that Wilson received to
(D) which exceed study history at Cambridge presented an
unique opportunity.
19. A radar images of Venus add details about a
planet dominated by volcanoes and lava. (A) The scholarship
(B) history
(A) A radar (C) Cambridge
(B) details (D) an
(C) a planet
(D) volcanoes and lava

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LISTENING

The listening section has three parts:

Part 1: four short conversations, each followed by 1 question

Part 2: one longer conversation, followed by 4 questions
Part 3: one lecture, followed by 6 questions

You will hear each conversation or lecture only one time. However, you may take notes while listening
and use your notes when answering the questions. You must answer each question before continuing. To
continue to the next question, click the “Next” button. In this section, you cannot use the “Back” button
to return to an earlier question. The number of questions and the amount of time you have to answer the
questions will be shown separately for each question in the “Question - Time Left” window on your screen.
Time is not counted while you are listening to the conversation or lecture.

Part 1

Now prepare to listen to 4 short conversations, and to answer 1 question after each.

You will have a total of 80 seconds to answer the 4 questions. This time will be shown in the “Time Left”
window.

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1. What are the speakers doing?

(A) Working
(B) Walking
(C) Taking the train
(D) Going to the store

2. Why is the woman late?

(A) She didn’t have the bus fare

(B) She had to walk to the bus stop
(C) She missed the bus
(D) The bus was delayed

3. Where does the man want to go?

(A) A restaurant
(B) A grocery store
(C) A post office
(D) A bank

4. Why did the man leave his old job?

(A) He didn’t get enough vacation time

(B) It wasn’t close to home
(C) The work was too slow
(D) The pay was too low

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Part 2

Now prepare to listen to 1 longer conversation, and to answer 4 questions about the conversation.

You will have a total of 2 minutes to answer the 4 questions. This time will be shown in the “Time Left”
window.

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5. How many kinds of land tortoises are there on Earth?

(A) One hundred and fifty-two

(B) One hundred eighty
(C) Forty
(D) Two hundred

6. Why the age of Marion’s tortoise can be verified only to some extent?

(A) Because it was caught at an elder age and no one knew how old it was when it was
caught
(B) Because nobody can assure if the tortoise sent to Mauritius Island was the same found
dead there
(C) Because scientists are not sure of when it exactly died
(D) Because the explorer who caught the tortoise did not take record of when she sent
the animal to Mauritius

7. Why the information about the Marion’s tortoise could be proven?

(A) Scientists followed the tortoise throughout its life

(B) Marion’s tortoise was the only tortoise on Mauritius
(C) The distinctive mark on its carapace made possible to identify it
(D) Marion de Fresne lived with the tortoise until its dead

8. What can be inferred about the island of Mauritius?

(A) Tortoises are the national animal

(B) More tortoises have been sent there after Marion’s tortoise
(C) There are no tortoises in the Island
(D) Currently, people go there to visit Marion’s tortoise

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Part 3

Now prepare to listen to a lecture, and to answer 6 questions about the conversation.

You will have a total of 3 minutes to answer the 6 questions. This time will be shown in the “Time Left”
window.

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9. What does the professor mainly discuss?

(A) The oldest known cave art

(B) How ancient cave art is dated
(C) The homes of Paleolithic humans
(D) How Paleolithic humans thought about animals

10. Why does the professor mention his daughter?

(A) To describe her reaction to seeing the paintings

(B) To explain the universal appeal of the Chauvet paintings
(C) To demonstrate the size of most of Paleolithic cave art
(D) To emphasize his point about the age of the Chauvet paintings

11. What is the professor’s opinion about the art at the Chauvet cave?

(A) It is extremely well done

(B) It probably reflected the artist’ religious beliefs
(C) It is less sophisticated than the art at Lascaux and Altamira
(D) It is probably not much older than the art at Lascaux and Altamira

12. According to the professor, what is the significance of charcoal marks on the walls of the
Chauvet cave?

(A) They suggest that Paleolithic people cooked their food in the cave
(B) They prove that people came to the cave long after the paintings were made
(C) They show how much light the Paleolithic artists needed for their work
(D) They were used in recent times to date the paintings

13. Compared with other Paleolithic art, what is unusual about the animals painted at the
Chauvet?

(A) Most of them are horses

(B) Many of them are dangerous
(C) Many of them are shown alongside humans
(D) All of them are species that are still found in France

14. Why does the professor ask why the Chauvet painters painted certain type of animals?

(A) To show that those animals were worshiped by Chauvet people

(B) To argue that there are better species to be depicted
(C) To infer they would have had an special meaning for that people
(D) To explain there is still a lot to be investigated

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READING

Part 1: The first passage is approximately 250 words in length, and is followed by 4 questions.

Part 2: The second passage is approximately 450 words in length, and is followed by 6 questions.

In this section you will have 20 minutes to read two passages and answer comprehension
questions about them. While there is time remaining, you may use the “Next” and “Back”
buttons to move forward and backward between both passages and all of the questions, and you
may change your answers if you wish.

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The Erie Canal
For a century before the Erie Canal was built, there was much discussion among the general
population of the Northeast as to the need for connecting the waterways of the Great Lakes with
the Atlantic Ocean. A project of such monumental proportions was not going to be undertaken
and completed without a supreme amount of effort.

The man who was instrumental in accomplishing the feat that was the Erie Canal was
DeWitt Clinton. As early as 1812, he was in the nation’s capital petitioning the federal
government for financial assistance on the project, emphasizing what a boom to the economy of
the country the canal would be; his efforts with the federal government, however, were not
successful.

In 1816, Clinton asked the New York State Legislature for the funding for the canal, and this
time he did succeed. A canal commission was instituted, and Clinton himself was made head of it.
One year later, Clinton was elected governor of the state, and soon after, construction of the
canal was started.

The canal took eight years to complete, and Clinton was on the first barge to travel the
length of the canal, the Seneca Chief, which departed from Buffalo on October 26, 1825, and
arrived in New York City on November 4. because of the success of the Erie Canal, numerous
other canals were built in other parts of the country.

1. It can be concluded from the passage that 3. The word “boom” as used in paragraph can
the information: be closest in meaning to:

a) Gives a cause followed by an effect (A) Detriment

b) Is in chronological order (B) Disadvantage
c) Lists opposing viewpoints of a problem (C) Benefit
d) Is organized spatially (D) Cost

2. According to the passage, when did Clinton 4. The passage mentions the “financial
ask the U.S. government for funds for the assistance” in order to:
canal?
(A) Show how wealthy Clinton was
(A) A hundred years before the canal was (B) Illustrate the importance of having a
built canal
(B) In 1812 (C) Demonstrate that it was necessary
(C) In 1816 funding support to build the canal
(D) In 1825 (D) Emphasize how hard was building a
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The Kennewick Man

In 1996, while competing in a boating race in Columbia Park along the Columbia River near
Kennewick, Washington, in the United States, Will Thomas stepped on something that felt like a
large, round rock in the river bed. Upon inspection, this “rock” had teeth: Thomas had
discovered a human skull. The bones of a nearly complete human skeleton were later unearthed
at the site This accidental discovery of “The Kennewick Man” may shed new light on the
development of the first human societies in North America.

Scientists have argued that the first humans came to North America during the last glacial
period, or ice age, via “Beringia,” commonly known as the Bering land bridge. As in any glacial
period, sea water levels were much lower than at other, more normal times; as a result, the
waters of the present-day Bering Strait did not exist. Instead, present-day eastern Siberia in
Russia and Alaska in North America were one continuous landmass. Thus, possible human
migration from Asia across this land bridge was unimpeded for thousands of years. It is known
that at least several thousand humans migrated from Eastern Siberia to North America via
Beringia during this time. The standard hypothesis has been that these migrators constituted a
single group of people with a common ancestral background, and that they were the first humans
to inhabit North America. Indeed, evidence from many archaeological sites, including the original
discovery in 1929 of ancient culture remains near Clovis, New Mexico, support this “Clovis First”
hypothesis.

New theories have emerged that the Beringia migration was not the only source of human
migration to North America during the prehistoric period, and perhaps not even the first.
Advances in DNA testing have allowed scientists to group the discovered remains of
Paleoamericans, or ancient Native Americans, according to five haplogroups1, labeled A, B, C, D,
and X. Among people in Northeast Asia and among Native Americans, haplogroups A, B, C, and D
are all commonplace, supporting the theory of a single-migration model via Beringia. However,
haplogroup X is different. It is found in only select locations in North America, and virtually does
not exist in Siberia. Furthermore, genetic mutations among this haplogroup suggest that people in
haplogroup X may have settled thousands of years earlier than populations from the other
haplogroups. This discovery gives weight to the possibility of earlier migrations to North America,
possibly via coastal routes along the Pacific Ocean or even from Europe via the North Atlantic.

The Kennewick Man may help resolve these competing theories. Anthropological2 analysis
and carbon-dating techniques show that the skeleton is approximately 9,000 years old, but that
the skeleton is distinctly different from most other Paleoamerican remains. A The Kennewick Man
had a relatively small face with a long, narrow skull. In contrast, Paleoamericans and modern
Native Americans tend to have larger faces with shorter, broader skulls and prominent
cheekbones. B Also, resin models of other important bones indicate key differences in size and
structure from those of other Paleoamericans. Indeed, of all current peoples, the Kennewick Man
possessed physical attributes most similar to Polynesians. C Present-day Polynesians, in turn, are
most likely descended from the ancient Jōmon, the original inhabitants of the Japanese islands,
who may have come into existence well over 15,000 years ago. D

The Jōmon culture is known to have been dependent upon the oceans for survival, building
primitive boats out of wood and using them for deep-sea fishing and exploration. If new theories
are correct, the Jōmon may have sailed along the coastline of Beringia, from Asia to Alaska, with
plenty of natural resources available to support the journey. This ocean-based journey could
have occurred before the migration across the Bering land bridge, with small Jōmon civilizations
developing along the Pacific coast. Later, when the land-based migrators made their crossing, the
resulting populations could have overwhelmed the established Jōmon population, eventually
resulting in the societies that constitute the ancestors of modern Native Americans.

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5. According to paragraph 1, which of the following is true about the discovery of “the Kennewick Man”

(A) Its skeleton was discovered before the skull was found
(B) It helped the first societies in North America to develop
(C) It was discovered after a purposeful search by an archaeologist
(D) At first, the finder thought he had stepped on a round rock

6. The word “inspection” in the passage is closest in meaning to:

a) Removal
b) Scrutiny
c) Concealment
d) Deliberation

7. What does the author imply about the “Clovis First” hypothesis in paragraph 2?

(A) It is synonymous with the standard hypothesis regarding migration to North America
(B) It suggests that most of the migrators to North America settled near present-day Clovis, New Mexico
(C) It suggests that some of the earliest settlers in North America migrated there in a manner other than
by using Beringia
(D) It proposes that the first migration to North America likely consisted of people with multiple
ancestral backgrounds

8. It is mentioned in paragraph 2 that all the following statements about the Bering land bridge migration
are true EXCEPT:

(A) The land bridge only existed because an ice age was occurring at the time of the migrations
(B) The standard hypothesis states that this migration constituted the first arrival of human inhabitants
in North America
(C) According to the standard hypothesis, the migration consisted of thousands of people over thousands
of years in various groups
(D) It was made possible by the fact that Siberia and Alaska were, at the time, one single landmass

9. Where would this sentence most logically occur in relation to the marked sentences in the passage?

This lends credence to the claim that the Kennewick Man may provide the first concrete evidence
that members of the Jomon people migrated to North America

A()B()C()D()

10. Choose the 3 sentences that best summarize the important ideas in the passage:

(A) The Kennewick Man was recently discovered by accident in the river bed of the Columbia River
near Kennewick, Washington
(B) The standard hypothesis has held that the first inhabitants of North America migrated there during
the last ice age via a landmass located where the Bering Strait now lies
(C) New DNA analysis techniques have shown that while some genetic markers can be found in both
Northeast Asia and Native American tribes, haplogroup X follows a different pattern
(D) The Kennewick Man’s skeleton reveals physical features that are similar to those of Polynesians,
who likely descended from the Jomon people
(E) The Jomon culture is known by anthropologists to have made use of wooden boats for both fishing
and exploration
(F) The Kennewick Man had a larger face and a shorter, broader skull with more prominent cheekbones
than most Paleoamericans

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WRITING

The writing section has 2 parts:

 Part 1: In this part, you will write a short note or a letter

 Part 2: In this part, you will write a longer essay

Topics will be given to you for both the note and the essay.

You have a total of 25 minutes to complete the Writing Section. For part 1 of the Writing Section you will
be presented with a simple situation or topic about which you will be asked to write a short note or letter.
For part 2 of the Writing Section you will be asked to write a longer essay expressing an opinion on a topic,
and you will be expected to support your answer. Once you finished, you must click “Next.” Once you
click on “Next” you cannot return to the previous question.

Part 1

For Writing Section 1 you will be asked to write a short note or letter (50-75 words) to respond to a simple
situation or topic. Type your answer on the keyboard. You have 5 minutes to complete the task. You must
click “Next” to indicate that you have finished. Once you click on “Next”, you cannot return to the
question.

1. Write about something that you considered it was a challenge and how you felt for this
achievement.

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Part 2

In the Writing Part 2 Section you will be required to write an essay of 175-225 words (maximum 250 words)
expressing an opinion on the given topic. To score well, you must give reasons and examples to support
your opinion. You will type your essay using a keyboard, and you will be allowed 20 minutes to complete
the assignment. Once you have completed your writing, you must click “Next”, you cannot make any more
changes.

2. Nowadays parents put too much pressure on their children to succeed. What is the reason for
doing this? Is this a negative or positive development? Give reasons or examples to support your
opinion.

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SPEAKING

The Speaking section has two parts:

 In the first part, you will both hear the question and see it printed on your screen
 In the second part, you will hear a statement that presents two differing opinions, or points of view,
on a topic. You will only hear the statement—it will not be shown on your screen. After you hear the
statement, you will be asked your thoughts on the topic.

In both Parts 1 and 2, you may take notes and use them to help you with your spoken responses.

Part 1

You will both hear and read a question. Answer the question giving specific reasons and examples that
support your answer. After you hear the question, you will have 30 seconds to prepare your answer, and
45 seconds to speak.

1. Imagine your life ten years in the future. Talk about one way you think your life will be different in
ten years than it is now. Use details to explain your answer.

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PART 2

Listen to a short statement presenting two differing opinions on a topic. Then express your thoughts on
the topic, giving specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
You will only hear the statement—it will not appear on your screen. After you hear the statement, you will
have 45 seconds to prepare, and 60 seconds to speak. Remember, you may take notes.

Now listen to the audio

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