Ali Fard Moghaddam

PART A: Grammar and vocabulary
Directions: Questions 76-85 are incomplete sentences. Beneath each sentence you will see four words or phrases marked (1), (2), (3), and (4), Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Then mark your answer sheet.

76.Mary always likes to drive a/an --------- car.
1)little old red         2)little red old         3)red little old         4)old little red

77.------------ we don't use the car very often, we've decided to sell it.
1)while                      2)Since                      3)Though                  4)Whether

78The little boy was ---------- tired that he fell asleep during the lesson.
1)so                            2)too                          3)very                                    4)such

79.Mina --------- absent from class this morning. I didn't see her.
1)should have been                                   2)should be
3)must have been                                      4)must be

80.Researchers need to conduct further ---------- on this substance.
1)presentations      2)experiments         3)assignments         4)explorations

81.The windows were --------- all night because of the wind.
1)relaxing                 2)suffering               3)wrestling               4)rattling

82.His greatest ---------- is his ability to communicate with different people.
1)health                    2)energy                   3)weight                   4)strength

83.I want to go back to work if I can find somebody to ---------- the children.
1)call up                    2)call out                  3)look for                 4)look after

84.He didn't receive his letters because they were sent to a different ------- address.
1)willing                    2)mailing                  3)contrasting           4)surrounding

85.I --------- think she should be blamed for the difficulties she had been having.
1)personally                        2)powerfully           3)artificially              4)economically

PART B: Cloze Test
directions: Questions 86-90 are related to the following passage. Read the passage and decide which choice (1), (2), (3), (4) best fits each space. Then mark your answer sheet.

A band is a group of musicians who play their instruments together. In the past, bands usually (86) -------- wind instruments and (87) -------- played out of doors. Nowadays, however, bands can consist of almost any (88) ---------- and play both indoors and outdoors. The development of the band has been due largely to the (89) --------- of (90) ---------- instruments in schools since the 1960s. Bands now exist in a wide range of forms and sizes and play a wide variety of music.

86. 1)searched for2)waited for            3)turned down       4)consisted of
87. 1)normally        2)orally         3)rapidly                   4)firmly
88. 1)statements    2)instruments3)experiments      4)entertainments
89. 1)sort                 2)length        3)growth                  4)height
90. 1)central                        2)mental       3)musical                  4)chemical

PART C: Reading Comprehension
Directions: In this part of the test, you will read 2 passages; each passage is followed by five questions. Answer the questions by choosing the choice (1), (2), (3), or (4). Then mark your answer sheet.

Passage 1:
Books that tell children about the lives of real people, or about real things in the world, are nowadays not at all dull and not at all like lesson books. One of the best of the life stories, or biographies, of famous people is Mother Teresa by Anna Sebba. Other similar books are A Hand Upon time (about Charles Dickens) and Mountbatten: Hero. Some books are a part of a series, each title a separate biography of some famous person. There are many books about people who live ordinary lives but who represent the changing face of the world. There are books about people who have led their countries through times of great stress, and about people who work for and within a particular belief.
People have differing interest in life, and there are a great many books available to cover most hobbies and leisure activities. Subjects such as music, painting, camping, and crafts are covered for various age-groups, so that readers should always be able to find something of interest.

91.What is the subject of the passage?
1)Books                                             2)Real things in the world
3)Famous people                           4)Biographies

92.According to the passage, Mother Teresa is ---------- .
1)a life story                                                2)not a biography
3)a character of a little book      4)a book about the life of common people

93.The word "represent" in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to ----------.
1)enhance                2)include                  3)produce                4)show

94. Which sentence is NOT true?
1)There are many books about people who live ordinary lives but who represent world
2)There are books related to people's hobbies.
3)A Hand Upon Time is a book which is written by Charles Dickens.
4)There are books about people who have led their countries in times of great stress.

95.The writer believe that the reason why there are books about music, painting, etc is that ---------.
1)people have the same interests in life
2)there are a great many books available
3)people work for and within a particular belief
4)because readers do not have the same areas of interest

Passage 2:
The earliest human beings learned to measure time by the regular reappearance of certain events. The most obvious of these was the endless pattern of alternation between light and dark that we call day and night. We now know that day and night are caused by the rotation of the Earth on its axis, so that for part of the time a place on the globe faces toward the Sun and for the rest of the time it is turned away from it. To early people a day meant the span of time between sunrise and sunset. We still commonly use the word in this way to distinguish it from the period of darkness that we call night. But as law and civilization developed, it became necessary to identify days more accurately and work out when they began and ended.
Some days had to be set aside for market trading, and a regular number of days went by between one market day and the next. This was the origin of what we now call the week. The ancient Babylonians, the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Romans all evolved weeks of varying lengths. The Jews followed the Babylonians in setting one day aside for the rest from work. They called it the Sabbath, though the Jews invented their Sabbath for religious purposes.

96.It is pointed out in the passage that the origin of week was --------.
1)the days for market trading
2)the regular number of days that went by
3)the market days and the days between them
4)the days between one market day and the next

97.According to the passage, we have day and night because of the ------.
1)reappearance of certain events
2)rotation of the Earth on its axis
3)movement of the Earth round the Sun
4)endless pattern of shifts between light and dark

98.It is mentioned in the passage that the Sabbath was ----------.
1)the Jews' religious day                                      2)the Jew's religious
3)the Babylonians' and Jews' day for work    4)the Babylonians and Jews' week

99.Which sentence is NOT true, according to the passage?
1)The earliest human being could measure time.
2)There were weeks of varying lengths between different nations.
3)A day generally means the span of time between sunrise and sunset
4)It became necessary to identify days accurately even before there was any law.

100.The word "evolved" in the last paragraph is closest meaning to ------.
1)raised                     2)changed                3)developed                        4)increased