police Officers fired up their siren, pulled me over, and pointed out that my car’s registration had outdated.
a b c d
2. i would rather you can give me an exact number of the people present at the meeting.
a b c d
3. what a mistake! you haven’t paid the least attention to the spelling.
a b c d
4. the slave would do anything his master asked him, for he is habitually obedient to his master.
a b c d
5. today’s plentiful supply of graduates mean increasing competition for jobs, disappointment for many in terms
a b c d
of pay or type of work and, for some, no job at all.

6. how good we are educated is simply a matter of how well we have adjusted ourselves to our lives and our
a b c d
environment.

7. despite our mass attendance at college and our mass exposure on culture, education remains an individual
a b c d
achievement.

8. many argue that even college had no impact on that part of your life, it would still be a good investment.
a b c d
9. in our generation american women are shaping new goals which are well reflected in the fiction on many
a b c
contemporary woman writers.
d
10. there are many interrelationships among philosophy, politics, economics and the science of
a b c d
ii. find the one choice that best completes the sentence. write your choice on the answer sheet. (10/150)
1. the food made for pregnant women is easy_________.
a. to be digested b. digested c. to digest d. digesting
2. buy your wife a present on her birthday, ________she should get angry.
a. lest b. otherwise c. however d. perhaps
3. the juvenile offender was released from custody on condition that he ________ out of trouble for six months.
a. would stay b. stays c. could stay d. stay
4. jane has recently bought_________
a. a new beautiful green hong kong jacket
b. a beautiful new hong kong green jacket
c. a new green beautiful hong kong jacket
d. a beautiful new green hong kong jacket
5. in vain ________to engage him in our group activities, and he didn’t show the least interest.
a. have we tried b. we tried c. did we try d. we had tried.
6. his success could not shield him from the racial prejudice _________rampant in those days.
a. being b that c. as d. so
7. as she grows her happy ______grew sour, and she often flew into violent rages.
a. disposition b. personality c. character d. temper
8. the typhoon could sweep off all the things in the village, _________.
a. whether they are high trees and buildings
b. be they high trees or buildings
c. should they be high trees or buildings
d. they are high trees or buildings
9. i prefer _________the examination today rather than ________ it for a whole week.
a. taking ... postponing b. to take ... postpone
c. taking ... postpone d. to take ... to postpone
10. the boy anticipates ________the first prize in the contest.
a. to win b. winning c. his winning d. to have won

iii. proofreading: (15/150): (do it in on the answer sheet)
the following passage contains 12 errors. each line contains a maximum of one error, and three are free from error. in each case only one word is involved. you should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way:
for a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.
for a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a "∧" and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.
for an unnecessary word, cross out the unnecessary word with a slash , "/" and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.
if the line is correct, place a tick "√" in the blank at the end of the line.
example: it is impossible ∧ any sentence in one language to have exactly (1)____for_____
the same meaning as any single sentence in another language. it is also (2) ____single__
impossible for any sentence in a particular language to have exactly (3) ____√_____
the same meaning as the other sentence in that same language. (4) any_____

the motion of the SUN along the ecliptic is, of course
merely a reflection of the revolution of the earth . (1) __________
around the sun, but the ancients believed earth was
fixed and the sun had an independent motion of its (2) __________
own, eastward among the stars. the glare of sunlight
hide the stars in daytime, but the ancients were aware (3) __________
that the stars were up there even at night, and the slow
eastward motion of the sun around the sky, in the (4) __________
rate of about thirty degrees each month, cause different
stars to be visible at night at different times of the (5) __________
year. the moon, revolves around the earth each month,
also has an independent motion in the sky. (6) __________
the moon, however, changes its position relatively
rapid. although it appears to rise and set each (7) __________
day, as is nearly everything else in the sky, we
can see the moon changing position during as short (8) ___________
an interval as a hour or so. the moon’s path around
the earth lies nearly in the same plane as the earth’s (9) ___________
path around the sun, so the moon is never seen very
far from the ecliptic in the sky. there are five other (10) __________
objects visible to the naked eye that also appear to
move in respect to the fixed background of stars (11) __________
on the celestial sphere. these are the planets mercury,
venus, mars, jupiter, and the saturn. all of which (12) __________
revolve the sun in nearly the same plane as the
earth does, so they, like the moon, always appear (13)__________
near the ecliptic. BECause we see the planets
from the moving earth, however, they behave in a (14)__________
complicated way, with their apparent motions on the
celestial sphere reflecting both their won dependent (15)__________
motions around the sun and our motion as well.