ager lost his ______ just because his secretary was ten minutes late.
A) mood
B) temper
C) mind
D) passion
40. Great as Newton was , many of his ideas ______ today and are being modified by the work of scientists of our time.
A) are to challenge
B) may be challenged
C) have been challenged
D) are challenging
41. Please the careful when you are drinking coffee in case you ______ the new carpet.
A) crash
B) pollute
C) spot
D) stain
42. Id rather read than watch television ; the programs seem ________ all the time.
A) to get worse
B) to be getting worse
C) to have got worse
D) getting worse
43. Convenievce foods which are already prepared for cooking are ______ in grocery stores.
A) ready
B) approachable
C) probable
D) available
44. When I caught him ______ I stopped buying things there and started dealing with another shop.
A) cheating
B) cheat
C) to cheat
D) to be cheating
45. It is important that enough money ______ to fund the project.
A) be collected
B) must be collected
C) was collected
D) can be collected
46. Some old people dont like pop songs because they cant ____ so much noise.
A) resist
B) sustain
C) tolerate
D) undergo
47. If only the committee ______ the regulations and put them into effect as soon as possible.
A) approve
B) will approve
C) can approve
D) would approve
48. _____ one time, Manchester was the home of the most productive cotton mills in the world.
A) On
B) By
C) At
D) Of
49. ______ it or not ,his discovery has created a stir in scientific circles.
A) Believe
B) To believe
C) Believing
D) Believed
50. Mr. Morgan can be very sad ______ , though in public he is extremely cheerful.
A) by himself
B) in person
C) in private
D) as individual
Reading Comprehension
Directions: There are 4 reading passages in this part . Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage:
Statuses are marvelous human inventions that enable us to get along with one another and to determine where we "fit " in society. As we go about our everyday lives, we mentally attempy to place people in terms of their statuses. For example, we must judge whether the person in the library is a reader or a librarian ,whether the telephone caller is a friend or a salesman ,whether the unfamiliar person on our property is a thief or a meter reader , and so on . The statuses we assume often vary with the people we encounter, and change throughout lift. Most of us can , at very high speed , assume the statuses that various situations require. Much of social interaction consists of identifying and selecting among appropriate statuses and allowing other people to assume their statuses in relation to us. This means that we fit our actions to those of other people based on a constant mental process of appraisal and interpretation. Although some of us find the task more difficult than others, most of us perform it rather effortlessly…… A status has been compared to ready-made clothes. Within certain limits, the buyer can choose style and fabric. But an American is not free to choose the costume of a Chinese peasant or that of a Hindu prince. We must choose from among the clothing presented by our society. Furthermore, our choice is limited to a size that will fit, as well as by our pocketbook Having made a choice within these limits we can have certain alterations made, but apart from minor abjustments , we tend to be limited to what the stores have on their racks. Statuses too come ready made, and the range of choice among them is limited.
51. In the first paragraph, the writer tells us that statuses can help us ______.
A) determine whether a person is fit for a certain job
B) behave appropriately in relation to other people
C) protect ourselves in unfamiliar situations
D) make friends with other people
52. According to the writer, people often assume different statuses _____.
A) in order to identify themselves with oth
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