PRACTICE TEST FOR GIFTED STUDENTS - A

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 6: Ann: “Where’s Polly?” John: “She is in her room ______.”
A. studying B. is studying C. studies D. has studied
Question 7: ______Everglades is a large, low, wet region in the southern part of the US state of Florida.
A. The B. θ C. An D. Some
Question 8: It is possible ______ may assist some trees in saving water in the winter.
A. to lose leaves B. when leaves have lost C. that the loss of leaves D. the leaves are lost
Question 9: I called Jenny yesterday with a view ______ asking her about the project.
A. to B. of C. in D. for
Question 10: Pam broke her arm in the accident. It would have been much worse if she ___her seat belt at that time.
A. hadn’t worn B. hadn’t been for C. hadn’t been wearing D. had been wearing
Question 11: Having opened the bottle, ______ for everyone.
A. the drink was poured B. Mike poured the drink
C. Mike pouring the drink D. the drink was being poured
Question 12: He said there was nothing that happened, but I began to _ when he kept beating about the bush.
A. get cold feet B. smell a rat C. keep an eye on D. be off my head
Question 13: That he came up with all the ideas ______ a miracle to us.
A. were B. was C. to be D. have been
Question 14: My father gave me ______ as a birthday present on my birthday.
A. a digital useful alarm clock B. an alarm useful digital clock
C. a useful alarm digital clock D. a useful digital alarm clock
Ques 15: It is a serious operation for a woman as old as my grandmother. She's very frail. I hope she______.
A. comes round B. gets away C. puts through D. pulls through
Question 16: Tim looks so frightened and upset. He ______ something terrible.
A. must experience B. can have experienced
C. should have experienced D. must have experienced
Question 17: I don't suppose anyone will volunteer, ______?
A. does he B. do I C. will they D. won’t they
Question 18: The knee is _______ most other joints in the body because it cannot twist without injury.
A. to be damaged more than likely B. more likely to be damaged than
C. likely to be more than damaged D. more than likely to be damaged
Question 19: He became a millionaire by ______ of hard work and a considerable amount of luck.
A. dint B. process C. cause D. effect
Question 20: Most whole milk undergoes homogenization, ______hot milk is pumped through valves to
break up and permanently disperse the fat globules.
A. which process B. a process in which C. which is a process D. a process
Question 21: He considers shares to be a good long- ______ investment.
A. length B. time C. term D. age
Question 22: ______, the catfish is prized for its state.
A. With ugly look B. As looking ugly C. As it is looking ugly D. Ugly looking as it is
Question 23: Lan: “Well, cats are very good at catching mice around the house.”
Mai: “______”
A. You are welcome. B. Mind your words.
C. You can say that again. D. Nothing more to say.
Question 24: Studies have shown that the elderly who are pet owners have lower blood pressure than ______
who live without pets.
 A. elderly B. do the elderly C. for the elderly to do D. to the elderly
PART 2: ERROR RECOGNITION (1ms)

Most but not all of the following lines contain an unnecessary word. Pick out the word that is not
needed.

25. During the winter, most of London auctioneers have wine auctions. Some are of wines for
26. everyday drinking, but most are of the fine wines. Last winter, a dozen bottles of Lafite 1945
27. were knocked out down at £158 the bottle. A Mr. John Grisanti, a restaurateur from Memphis,
28. was paid £9,000 for a magnum – that is, a two-bottle size – of 1864 Lafite. He charged 30
29. people $1,500 each person for a dinner with a small glass of the wine. It was worth 10 times
30. more than the cost of the wine in publicity for his restaurant. Was it worth the money? Well, it is
31. doubtful if you would complain after which you had paid so much for a meal. One man in the
32. fine wine business says so: ‘As far as clarets are concerned, what confuses me is that there
33. are certainly people who are prepared to pay astronomical prices for wines which I know are
34. nothing but dishwater. Because there is no way that a bottle of wine at £1,000 is one hundred
times better than one that costs £10. Perhaps the top price you can pay for wine to enjoy
for drinking is £100 a bottle. Above £100, you are paying for something other than taste.

SPORT AND FITNESS

The British are very fond of sport, but many people prefer to watch ___(35)___ take part. Many go to
watch football, cricket, etc. at the ground, but many more sit at home and watch sport on television. Most
people today take relatively___(36)___. Over the last 30 or 40 years lifestyles have changed considerably and
many people now travel even the shortest distances by car or bus. ___(37)___ exercise combined with eating
too many ___(38)___ and sugary foods has meant that many people are becoming too fat. In recent years,
however, there has been a ___(39)___ interest in fitness among young adults and many belong to a sports club
or gym. In Britain most towns have an/a ___(40)___ football and cricket team, and people also have
opportunities to play sports such as tennis and golf. Older people may play bowls. Some people go regularly
to a sports center or leisure center. Some sports centers ___(41)___ classes in aerobics, step and keep-fit.
Some people ___(42)___ regularly at a local gym and do weight training and circuit training. Others go
running or jogging in their local area. For enthusiastic runners there are opportunities to take part in
___(43)___ runs, such as the London marathon. Other people keep themselves fit by walking or cycling.
Many people go abroad on a skiing holiday each year. Membership of a sports club or gym can be expensive
and not everyone can afford the subscription. Local sports centers are generally cheaper. Some companies
now provide sports facilities ___(44)___ their employees or contribute to the cost of joining a gym.

Question 35: A. to B. except for C. than D. rather than

Question 36: A. little general exercise B. a few general exercises
C. a little general exercise D. few general exercises
Question 37: A. The lack of B. Lack C. The lack D. Lack of
Question 38: A. fat B. rich C. fatty D. richly
Question 39: A. planting B. developing C. becoming D. growing
Question 40: A. professional B. well-known C. competent D. amateur
Question 41: A. grow B. propose C. pass D. arrange
Question 42: A. work out B. full in C. cough up D. find out
Question 43: A. distance away B. long-distance C. short-distance D. full distance
Question 44: A. to B. for C. with D. about

Read the following passage taken from Baron’s The Leader In Test Preparation TOEFL iBT and
mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
questions from 45 to 54.
Tulips are Old World, rather than New World, plants, with the origins of the species lying in Central Asia.
They became an integral part of the gardens of the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth century onward, and,
soon after, part of European life as well. Holland, in particular, became famous for its cultivation of the
flower.
 A tenuous line marked the advance of the tulip to the New World, where it was unknown in the wild. The
first Dutch colonies in North America had been established in New Netherlands by the Dutch West India
Company in 1624, and one individual who settled in New Amsterdam (today's Manhattan section of New
York City) in 1642 described the flowers that bravely colonized the settlers' gardens. They were the same
flowers seen in Dutch still-life paintings of the time: crown imperials, roses, carnations, and of course tulips.
They flourished in Pennsylvania too, where in 1698 William Penn received a report of John Tateham's "Great
and Stately Palace”, its garden full of tulips.
By 1760, Boston newspapers were advertising 50 different kinds of mixed tulip "roots”. But the length of
the journey between Europe and North America created many difficulties. Thomas Hancock, an English
settler, wrote thanking his plant supplier for a gift of some tulip bulbs from England, but his letter the
following year grumbled that they were all dead.
Tulips arrived in Holland, Michigan, with a later wave of early nineteenth-century Dutch immigrants who
quickly colonized the plains of Michigan. Together with many other Dutch settlements, such as the one at
Pella, Iowa, they established a regular demand for European plants. The demand was bravely met by a new
kind of tulip entrepreneur, the traveling salesperson. One Dutchman, Hendrick Van Der Schoot, spent six
months in 1849 traveling through the United States taking orders for tulip bulbs. While tulip bulbs were
traveling from Europe to the United States to satisfy the nostalgic longings of homesick English and Dutch
settlers, North American plants were traveling in the opposite direction. In England, the enthusiasm for
American plants was one reason why tulips dropped out of fashion in the gardens of the rich and famous.
Question 45: Which of the following questions does the passage mainly answer?
A. Where were the first Dutch colonies in North America located?
B. What is the difference between an Old World and a New World plant?
C. Why are tulips grown in many different parts of the world?
D. How did tulips become popular in North America?
Question 46: The word "integral" in line 2 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. interesting B. overlooked C. fundamental D. ornamental
Question 47: The passage mentions that tulips were first found in which of the following regions?
A. Western Europe B. India C. Central Asia D. North America
Question 48: The word "flourished" in line 8 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. were marketed B. were discovered C. thrived D. combined
Question 49: The author mentions tulip growing in New Netherland, Pennsylvania and Michigan in order to
illustrate how ______.
A. tulips grew progressively more popular in North America
B. imported tulips were considered more valuable than locally grown tulips
C. tulips were commonly passed as gifts from one family to another
D. attitudes toward tulips varied from one location to another
Question 50: The word "grumbled" in line 13 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. denied B. warned C. explained D. complained
Question 51: The passage mentions that one reason English and Dutch settlers planted tulips in their gardens
was that tulips ______.
A. were easy to grow B. made them appear fashionable
C. had become readily available D. reminded them of home
Question 52: The word "they" in line 17 refers to ______.
A. tulips B. immigrants C. plants D. plains
Question 53: According to the passage, which of the following changes occurred in English gardens during
the European settlement of North America?
A. They grew in size in order to provide enough plants to export to the New World.
B. They decreased in size on the estates of wealthy people.
C. They contained many new types of North American plants.
D. They contained a wider variety of tulips than ever before.
Question 54: The passage mentions which of the following as a problem associated with the importation of
tulips into North America?
A. They were no longer fashionable by the time they arrived.
B. Settlers knew little about how to cultivate them.
C. Orders often took six months or longer to fill.
D. They often failed to survive the journey.
 Read the following passage taken from Baron’s How to prepare for the TOEFL and mark the letter A, B, C,
or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 55 to 64.

According to the controversial sunspot theory, great storms on the surface of the sun hurl streams of solar
particles into the atmosphere, causing a shift in the weather on earth.
A typical sunspot consists of a dark center umbra surrounded by a lighter penumbra of light and dark
threads extending out from the center like a spoke a wheel. Actually the sunspots are cooler than the rest of
the photosphere, which may account for their color. Typically, the temperature in a sunspot umbra is about
4000 K.
Sunspots range in size from tiny granules to complex structures with areas stretching for billions of square
miles. About 5% of the pots are large enough so that they can be seen without instruments: consequently,
observations of sunspots have been recorded for several thousand years.
Sunspots have been observed in arrangements of one to more than one hundred spots, but they tend to
occur in pairs. There is also a marked tendency for the two spots of a pair to have opposite magnetic field
associated with any given sunspots is closely related to the spot’s size.
Although there is no theory that completely explains the nature and function of sunspots, several models
attempt to relate the phenomenon to magnetic fields along the lines of longitude from the north and south
poles of the sun.

Question 55: What is the author’s main purpose in the passage?

A. To argue for the existence of magnetic fields in sunspots
B. To describe the nature of sunspots
C. To propose a theory to explain sunspots
D. To compare the umbra and the penumbra
Question 56: The word controversial in line 1 is closest to ______.
A. open to debate B. very complicated C. widely accepted D. just in traduce
Question 57: Solar particles are hurled into space by ______.
A. small rivers on the surface of the sun B. underdetermined causes
C. changes the earth’s atmosphere D. disturbances of wind
Question 58: The word particles in line 2 refers to ______.
A. gas explosions in the atmosphere B. small pieces
C. liquid streams on the sun D. light ray from the sun
Question 59: How can we describe matter from the sun that enters the earth’s atmosphere?
A. Very small B. Very bright C. Very hard D. Very hot
Question 60: The sunspot theory is ______.
A. relatively new B. widely accepted
C. subject to disagreement D. not considered important
Question 61: The word they in line 7 refers to ______.
A. pots B. miles C. granules D. Structures
Question 62: The word consequently in line 7 could best be replaced by ______.
A. Nevertheless B. In this way C. Without doubt D. As a result
Question 63: In which configuration do sunspots usually occur?
A. In a configuration of two spots B. In groups of several thousand spots
C. In one spot of varying size D. In arrangements of one hundred or more spots
Question 64: How are sunspots explained?
A. Sunspots may be related to magnetic fields that follow longitudinal lines on the sun.
B. Sunspots are explained by storms that occur on the earth.
C. Sunspots have no theory or model to explain them.
D. Sunspots appear to be related to magnetic fields on the earth.

SECTION B: WRITING (4 POINTS)

Part I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence
printed before it.
Question 65. I rarely sleep in the afternoon.
 I’m not in …………………………………………………………………………………
Question 66. My grandfather had completely forgotten that he phoned me last night.
 My grandfather didn’t have ………………………………………………………………
Question 67. My brother-in-law is the most exasperating person I’ve ever met.
 I’ve yet ……………………………………………………………………......................
Question 68. Tim spoke to his lawyer before signing the contract.
 Tim didn’t ………………………………………………………………………………...
Question 69. His love increases with his admiration for her.
 The more …………………………………………………………………………………

PART 3: WORD FORM

Supply the suitable form of the words in brackets:

Different (70) _________ (conserve) efforts have been made in order to protect (71) _________ (danger)
species. The Red List – (72) _________ (globe) list of endangered and vulnerable animal species – has been
introduced to raise people’s awareness of conservation needs. Governments have enacted laws to protect
wildlife from commercial trade and (73) _________(hunt). Another conservational effort is the development
of wildlife habitat (74) _________ (reserve) as they are suitable for the (75) _________ (survive) of a wide
range of species.
The current globe extinction crisis is one of the (76) __________ (great) challenges to mankind. To
preserve the earth’s (77) __________ (value) biodiversity for future generations, the protection of endangered
species and their habitats should be a top (79) _______ (prior) for international organizations, (79)
__________ (govern) agencies, industry and individuals.

PART 4: PHRASAL VERBS (1ms)

Choose the correct word or phrase to complete each sentence.
81. Don’t ….....! I haven’t finished explaining yet!
a. hang up b. hold on c. hang on d. call up
82. It ...... out that the mayor had bribed several councillors to vote.
a. resulted b. pointed c. broke d. turned
83. I expect the new trend will soon ...... here.
a. catch up b. catch on c. take up d. identify with
84. It’s difficult to tell identical twins......
a. on b. out c. apart d. over
85. Paloma will have to ...... her antiques, because she needs the money.
a. part with b. take out c. move on d. clear up
86. I’ll use the credit card to ...... up before we check out.
a. take b. sum c. bottle d. settle
87. As darkness fell, there was nothing for it but to ...... for the nearest village.
a. call b. go c. make d. stand
88. There is no time to do anything but ...... briefly on the most important points.
a. touch b. run c. go d. pick
89. Owning an animal can really tie you ….
a. out b. down c. back d. off
90. Don’t worry if you make a mistake. Just ...... it out.
a. rule b. slip c. leave d. cross
PART 6. PREPOSITION: Fill in each blank with a suitable preposition : (1m)
91. You can deal with this __________ your discretion.
92. Dr. Smith sees patients only __________ appointment.
93. I ‘ll leave the key with the porter __________ convenience.
94. His life is __________ the balance but the doctors he will recover.
95. Keep you enthusiasm ___________ limits.
96. You can’t interfere; what he does is __________ no concern to you.
97. I’m not free just now, but come at 6; I’ll be __________ duty then.
98. We were late __________ account of the rain.
99. At first there was confusion, but we soon got the situation __________ control .
10. Have you anything to say __________ regard to the proposal?