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Model Test 5
TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJOR
GRADE FOUR
CLOZE [15 MIN]
Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the best choice for each blank on your answer sheet.
A team of world-leading neuroscientists has developed a technique that allows them to look
(31)________ inside a person's brain and read their (32)________ before they act. The research breaks controversial (33)________ in scientists' ability to probe people's minds and eavesdrop (34)_______ their thoughts, and raises serious ethical issues over how brain-reading technology may be used in the future. The team used high-resolution brain scans to identify (35)________ of activity before translating them into meaningful thoughts, (36)________ what a person planned to do in the near future. It is the first time scientists have succeeded in reading intentions in this way.
\the scanner, we could look around the brain for this information and read out something (37)_________ from the outside there's no way you could (38)________ tell. It's like shining a torch around, looking for writing on a wall,\Brain Sciences in Germany.
The research builds (39)________ a series of recent studies in which brain imaging has been used to identify tell-tale activity (40)_________ lying, violent behaviour and racial prejudice.
If brain-reading can be refined, it could quickly be (41)________ to assist interrogations of criminals and terrorists, and even usher in a \of that name), where judgments are handed (42)________ before the law is broken, (43)________ of an incriminating brain scan.
\day we're not surprised and overwhelmed and caught on the wrong (45)________ by what they can do. These things are going to come to us (46)_________ years and we should really be prepared,\Haynes told the Guardian. The (47)_______ of brain scanners to judge whether people are likely to (48)_________ crimes is a contentious issue that society should (49)_________ now, according to Prof Haynes. \we prohibit it, we are also denying people who aren't going to commit any crime (50)_________ the possibility of proving their innocence.\
A. looking for B. to look for city.
D. of supporting
52. Many farmers came to the city, _______ jobs and for all the other legendary opportunities of life in the
C. supporting B. for supporting A. to support
GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY [15 MIN]
51. Of great significance the nationwide movement is _______ the Kampuchean people in their heroic struggle against the aggression of the Vietnamese.
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C. having looked for D. looked for
53. You _______ her in her office last Friday; she's been out of town for two weeks.
A. which occurring B. it occurs
C. and therefore occurring
A. needn't have seen
D. that occurs
B. might have seen C. must have seen D. can't have seen
54. Her husband and her eldest son had been killed _______.
C. nor has it sprung
A. many years before
D. nor can it spring
B. many years since C. many years ago D. many years from now
55. The course normally attracts 20 students per year, _______ up to half are from the East.
C. would get through
A. in which
D. could get through
B. for whom C. with which D. of whom
56. An earthquake is a shaking of the ground _______ when masses of rock beneath the surface of the earth change position.
C. would be selling; had not died
59. He _______ ice-cream on beach if his father _______ last year, leaving nothing but debts.
A. were to be selling; should die B. would not be selling; had died
58. Had he worked harder, he _______ the exams.
A. must have got through B. would have got through
57. Television was not invented by any person, _______ into being overnight.
A. nor did it spring B. nor does it spring
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D. would not be selling; had not died
60. You _______ all these parcels yourself. The shop would have delivered them if you had asked them.
A. before B. until
A. didn't need to carry
C. after
B. didn't have to carry
D. since
C. could not carry D. needn't have carried
61. In no country _______ Britain, it has been said, can one experience four seasons in the course of a single day.
A. better than B. more than C. other than D. rather than
62. \write as the way _______ you write it.\
A. what; that B. what; which C. what; how D. which; that
63. After people have learned that magnets attract things, centuries passed _______ they took note of the fact that magnets sometimes also repel things.
B. abused B. it were C. it was D. it to be
66. The joys of travel, having long _______ the disabled, are opening up to virtually anyone who has the means.
A. omitted B. echoed C. to echo D. having echoed
65. No one would imagine that that city was just a night's journey from here. It seemed as though _______ in another world.
A. it being of
64. I walked down the corridor, my footsteps _______ frighteningly through the empty deserted building.
A. echoing
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C. neglected
D. discarded67. Movie directors use music to _______ the action on the screen. A. contaminate B. compliment
B. intricate C. initiative D. incredible
71. He is the only person who can _______ in this case, because the other witnesses were killed mysteriously.
A. testify
C. contemplate
B. charge
D. complement
68. They stood gazing at the happy _______ of children playing in the park.
A. perspective B. view C. landscape D. scene
69. Some studies confirmed that this kind of eye disease was _______ in tropical countries.
C. intuitive
A. prospective
D. gracious
B. prevalent C. provocative
A. rotating
D. perpetual
70. Although the body is made up of many different tissues, these tissues are arranged in an _______ and orderly fashion.
C. varying
A. internal
B. alternating
73. The normal human daily cycle of activity is of some 7-8 hours' sleep _______ with some 16-17 hours' wakefulness. Broadly speaking, the sleep normally coincides with the hours of darkness.
C. accuse D. rectify
72. Of all the senses that help a small baby to distinguish his mother, there is the sound of her voice, his sense of smell, his sight, the _______ way she handles him, sight is predominant.
A. distinctive B. intensive
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D. following
74. His constant attempt to _______ his colleagues' achievement eventually caused his dismissal.
B. confirming C. conforming
A. withdraw
D. confronting
B. diminish C. restrain D. confine
75. According to a major U.S. newspaper, President Bush will _______ a mission to the country to investigate the cause of the sudden disappearance of the two diplomats.
A. assign B. dispatch C. undertake
B. hold back
D. execute
76. The students failed to meet the necessary _______ for admission to the course.
A. fulfillment B. requirements C. qualities D. competency
77. Another big issue _______ the new republic is the problem of the education of its citizens.
A. confining
D. compulsory C. give off D. work up
80. While a computer cannot replace an instructor, it can take over many _______ tasks to lessen the usual burden of the instructor.
A. routine B. serious C. generalized
78. That battle is of great significance when viewed in the _______ of the progress of the war.
A. notion B. perspective C. concept D. outlook
79. If either of you had been able to _______ your anger, the fight would have been avoided.
A. keep back
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