Part III                          Vocabulary                    (20 minutes)
Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then, mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
31. Your job is not to make decisions but to         the decisions we make. 
   A) complete         B) accomplish           C) implement        D) supplement

32. As the population of the world increases and human needs expand, we must take care not to _______ all of our natural resources at once. 
   A) furnish          B) maximize             C) minimize         D) exhaust

33. He received a _______ wound soon after the battle began, and died two days later in a hospital. 
   A) mortal          B) moral                 C) slight           D) severe

34. There’s a  whole ____ of bills waiting to be paid.
   A) stock           B) stack                 C) number          D) sequence

35. Woodrow Wilson  ________ to preserve world peace by supporting the establishment of an organization to settle international disputes.
   A) succeeded       B) endeavored            C) engaged         D) enforced

36. It is _______in the Act that no pension can be paid to anyone under the age of sixty unless he is disabled.
   A) laid off         B) laid aside              C) laid down       D) laid out

37. Experts believe that children at the age of two or three are able to learn any language if they are _______it. 
   A) indulged in      B) involved in            C) exposed to       D) disposed of

38. When several people apply for the same job, ______is usually given to whoever has better qualifications. 
   A) superiority       B) inferiority            C) priority          D) minority

39. Several emergency measures were taken to ________ the financial pressure on the government. 
   A) eliminate         B) alleviate             C) reverse         D) upgrade

40. His capacities _______food and hard work were enormous. 
   A) of               B) for                 C) in              D) with

41. They were paying for their house ________of $2,000 a month for three years. 
   A) in turn           B) by appointment       C) by installation    D) in installments

42. She________ all criticism and calmly went on with the project. 
   A) smashed up       B) ticked off            C) fouled up       D) shrugged off

43. His plans are very________; he wants to master French, German, and Spanish before he is eighteen. 
   A) brilliant         B) applicable            C) ambitious       D) adjustable

44. The three-storey department building was ________by the newly constructed ten-storey office building on its side. 
   A) sneered         B) belittled              C) snuffed         D) dwarfed

45. The famous football star was________ with the murder of his ex-wife and her boy friend. 
   A) convicted       B) charged               C) blamed         D) accused

46. Young people’s social environment has a______ effect on their academic progress. 
   A) gross           B) solid                 C) complete       D) progressive

47. In manufacturing, cheaper materials are constantly being ______for the better and more expensive kinds. 
   A) replaced        B) transformed            C) displaced       D) substituted

48. In the__________ between performances, the famous actress toured Europe. 
   A) insertion        B) interaction             C) interim         D) intervention

49. Recently a number of cases have been reported of young children  ________a violent act previously seen on television. 
   A) modifying       B) accelerating            C) stimulating     D) duplicating

50. Any electric products sold in this famous department store will be ______for one year. 
   A) guaranteed      B) ensured                C) protected       D)assured

51. Non-smokers who must________ inhale the air polluted by tobacco smoker may suffer more than the smoker themselves. 
   A) involuntarily     B) instinctively            C) spontaneously   D) reluctantly

52. Information gathered by sensors is ________to the control center’s computer. 
   A) transacted       B) transmitted             C) radiated        D) transferred

53. Nobody________ when I complained about the food, so nothing was done about it. 
   A) turned to me     B) relied on me            C) backed me up   D) held me up

54. Many people take________ radios to the beach with them.  
   A) liable           B) purchasable            C) comfortable     D) portable

55. The drugs must________ in every way to the standards set up by the government. 
   A) correspond       B) confine               C) conform        D) comply

56. He clearly had no________ of doing any work, although it was only a week till the exam. 
   A) desire           B) ambition              C) willingness      D) intention

57. Although we had told them not to keep us waiting, they made no ________to speed up the deliveries.
   A) trial            B) attempt              C) action           D) progress

58. Linda will probably _______a good sum of money when her father dies because she doesn’t have any brothers.
   A) run away with    B) go for               C) get on with       D) come in for

59. The red spots first appeared on the forearm and then extended _______ to the shoulder.
   A) on the way       B) all along          C) in every way      D) all the way

60. We should not be made to ________the basic principle, namely, the need and desire of the adolescent to engage responsibility in the real pursuit of life and then to learn through responsibility.
   A) lose sight of      B) lost track of       C) become blind of   D) give way to

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