PART III GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (15 min.)

there are twenty-five sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that correctly completes the sentence. Mark your answer on your answer sheet.

41. For many patients, institutional care is the most ______ and beneficial form of care.
A) pertinent
B) appropriate
C) acute
D) persistent
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42. Among all the changes resulting from the ______ entry of women into the work force, the
transformation that has occurred in the women themselves is not the least important.
A) massive
B) quantitative
C) surplus
D) formidable
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43. Mr. Smith became very ______ when it was suggested that he had made a mistake.
A) ingenious
B) empirical
C) objective
D) indignant
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44. Rumours are everywhere, spreading fear, damaging reputations, and turning calm situations
into ______ ones.
A) turbulent
B) tragic
C) vulnerable
D) suspicious
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45. The ______ cycle of life and death is a subject of interest to scientist s and philosophers alike.
A) incompatible
B) exceeding
C) instantaneous
D) eternal
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46. She remains confident and ______ untroubled by our present problems.
A) indefinitely
B) infinitely
C) optimistically
D) seemingly
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47. Fiber-optic cables can carry hundreds of telephone conversations ______.
A. simultaneously
B) spontaneously
C) homogeneously
D) contemporarily
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48. The police were alerted that the escaped criminal might be in the ______.
A) vain
B) vicinity
C) court
D) jail
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49. Whether you live to eat or eat to live, food is a major ______ in every family's budget.
A) nutrition
B) expenditure
C) routine
D) provision
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50. Now a paper in Science argues that organic chemicals in the rock come mostly room ______
on earth rather than bacteria on Mars.
A) configuration
B) constitution
C) condemnation
D) contamination
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