IV. Word Formations. (10 points, 1 point for each)
Directions: Complete each of the following sentences with the proper form of the word in
the brackets. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
41. (robber) Acting on inside information, the police were able to arrest the gang before the ______ occurred.
42. (attention) He was talkative, but since he seemed inclined to talk about me I was prepared to be an ______ listener.
43. (vary) I was impressed by the actors’ ______ ways of dealing with death: sadness, humors, silence, etc.
44. (suggest) They will need specific ______ for problems such as speech defects or backwardness in learning to walk or control of bodily functions.
45. (similar) The only ______ is that we are all certificated when we are born and when we die, and we are recognized by a certification of birth and death.
46. (efficient) Although examinations do the job quite ______, their side effects are also enormous.
47. (anxiety) The whole country was now so ______ to return to normal conditions that it took little notice of events in Europe.
48. (norm) Upbringing is ______ used to refer to the treatment and training of the child within the home.
49. (break) Hitler’s ______ promises included an attack on Poland, which Britain and France were bound by treaty to defend.
50. (intense) After many hours of surgery and weeks of ______ care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.
V. Gap Filling. (10 points, 1 point for each)
Directions: The following passage is taken from the textbook. Fill in the numbered gaps with the correct form of the words or phrases in the box (there are more words than necessary). Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
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On the north side of Trafalgar, famous for its Admiral Nelson (“Nelson’s Column”), its fountains and its hordes of pigeons, there stands a long, low building in classic style. This is the National Gallery, which contains Britain’s best-known 51. ______ of pictures. The collection was begun in 1824, with the purchase of thirty-eight pictures that included Horgarth’s satirical “Marriage à la Mode” series, and Titian’s “Venus and Adonis”.
The National Gallery is rich in paintings by Italian masters such as Raphael, Correggio, and Veronese, and it contains pictures 52. ______ of all European schools of art such as works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, Murillo, E1 Greco, and nineteenth century French masters. Many 53. ______. are especially attracted to Velasquez’s “Rokeby Venus” and Leonardo da Vinci’s “Virgin of the Rocks”.
On 54. ______ days, students and other young people are often to be seen having a sandwich lunch on the portico of the Gallery overlooking Trafalgar Square. Admission to the Gallery is free, as is the 55. ______ with other British national galleries and museums, which are maintained by money voted by Parliament. Bequests of pictures have been made to the galleries, 56. ______ on a generous scale, by private individuals.
Just behind the National Gallery 57. ______ the National Portrait Gallery, in which the visitors can see portraits of British monarchs since the reign of Richards II (1377 — 1399), and 58. ______ historical celebrities such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Cromwell. Many of the pictures are by well-known artists.
The National Gallery of British Art, better known as the Tate Gallery, was given to the nation by a rich sugar merchant, Sir Henry Tate, who had a taste for the fine arts. It overlooks the Thames, not far from the Houses of Parliament. English artists are 59. ______ well represented here, and the Tate also has a range of modern works, 60. ______ some sculptures, by foreign artists. This, of all the London galleries, is the young people’s gallery. It has been stated that three-quarters of its visitors are under twenty-five.
