Part III  Vocabulary (20 minutes)
　　41. He is too young to be able to        between right and wrong.
　　A  discard      B  discern     C  disperse   D  disregard
　　42.  It was no       that his car was seen near the bank at the time of the robbery .
　　A  coincidence  B  convention  C  certainty   D  complication
　　43. The chairman of the board      on me the unpleasant job of dismissing good workers the firm can no longer afford to employ.
　　A  compelled    B   posed     C  pressed    D  tempted
　　44. The Timber rattlesnake is now on the endangered species list, and is extinct in two eastern states in which it once      .
　　A  thrived       B swelled      C  prospered   D  flourished
　　45. Some day software will translate both written and spoken language so well that the need for any common second language could       .
　　A  descend       B  decline     C  deteriorate   D  depress
　　46. Equipment not       official safety standards has all been removed from the workshop.
　　A  conforming to  B  consistent with  C  predominant over  D   providing for
　　47. For three-quarters of its span on Earth, life evolved almost      as microorganisms.
　　A precisely        B   instantly   C  initially    D  exclusively
　　48. I am not       with my roommate but I have to share the room with her ,because I have nowhere else to live.
　　A  concerned      B  compatible   C  considerate    D  complied
　　49. At first, the      of color pictures over a long distance seemed impossible ,but , with the painstaking efforts and at great expense ,it became a reality.
　　A  transaction     B  transmission    C  transformation  D transition
　　50. When the committee     to details , the proposed plan seemed impractical .
　　A   got down     B  set about       C  went off       D  came up
　　51.       to some parts of South America is still difficult ,because parts of the continent are still covered with thick forests .
　　A  Orientation     B  Access         C   Procession    D  Voyage
　　52. Mr. Smith had an unusual       : he was first an office clerk , then a sailor , and ended up as a school teacher.
　　A  profession      B  occupation      C   position       D  career
　　53. The mayor is a woman with great       and therefore deserves our political and financial support.
　　A  intention        B  instinct         C  integrity       D  intensity
　　54. You don’t have to install this radio in your new car . It’s an     extra.
　　A  excessive        B optional          C  additional      D  arbitrary
　　55. Poverty is not       in most cities although ,perhaps because of the crowded conditions in certain areas , it is more visible there.
　　A  rare             B  temporary       C  prevalent       D  segmental
　　56. An increasing proportion of our population ,unable to live without advanced medical      ,will become progressively more reliant on expensive technology.
　　A  interference       B  interruption     C  intervention      D  interaction
　　57. These causes produced the great change in the country that modernized the      of higher education from the mid-1860’s to the mid-1880’s
　　A  branch            B  category       C  domain          D scope
　　58. Crisis would be the right term to describe the      in many animal species .
　　A  minimization       B  restriction      C  descent          D  decline
　　59. The judge ruled that the evidence was inadmissible on the grounds that it was      to the issue at hand .
　　A  irrational           B  unreasonable   C  invalid           D  irrelevant
　　60. Fuel scarcities and price increases       automobile designers to scale down the largest models and to develop completely new lines of small cars and trucks .
　　A  persuaded            B  prompted     C  imposed          D  enlightened
　　61.The lost car of the Lees was found       in the woods off the highway .
　　A  vanished             B  scattered      C  abandoned        D  rejected
　　62.She worked hard at her task before she felt sure that the results would     her long effort.
　　A  justify               B  testify        C  rectify           D  verify
　　63. Preliminary estimation puts the figure at around $110 billion,      the $160 billion the President is struggling to get through the Congress.
　　A  in proportion to        B  in reply to     C  in relation to      D in contrast to
　　64 He is planning another tour abroad ,yet his passport will     at the end of this month.
　　A  expire                B exceed         C  terminate         D  cease
　　65. The local people were joyfully surprised to find the price of vegetables no longer ______    according to the weather.
　　A  altered                B  converted     C  fluctuated         D  modified
　　66. The wealth of  a  country should be measured      the health and happiness of its people as well as the material goods it can produce .
　　A  in line with             B  in terms of    C  in regard with      D  by means of
　　67. American companies are evolving from mass-production to      enterprises.
　　A  moveable              B  changing      C  flexible           D  varying
　　68. I tried very hard to persuade him to join our group but I met with a flat      .
　　A  disapproval             B  rejection      C  refusal            D  decline 
　　69. The manager gave one of the salesgirls an accusing look for her     attitude toward customers
　　A  impartial                B  mild         C  hostile            D  opposing
　　70. I never trust him because I always thought him as such a      character.
　　A  gracious                 B  suspicious   C   unique            D  particular

　　Part IV  Error detection and correction (15 minutes)

　　Part IV  Error detection and correction (15 minutes)

　　Part V  Writing (30 minutes)