MODEL TEST TWO
STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION
The structure and written expression is designed to measure your ability to recognize language that is appropriate for standard written English. There are two types of questions in this section, with special directions for each type.
Part A: Structure
Directions: Question 1 – 15 are incomplete sentences. Beneath each sentence you will see for words or phrases, marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). You are to choose one word or phrases that best complete the sentence.
Look at the following examples.
Example I
The swimming instructor came ………….. if the apartment was still available.
| A. To see | B. Seeing |
| C. Saw | D. For seeing |
The sentences should be read “The swimming instructor came to see if the apartment was still available.” Therefore, you should choose A.
Example II
Bill and ……were invited to come to attend the annual meeting.
| A. me | B. my |
| C. I | D. Mine |
The sentences should be read “Bill and I were invited to come to attend the annual meeting.” Therefore, you should choose C.
Now begin work on the questions
1. Jimmy was one ………
A. of happy children of his class.
B. of the happiest children in his class.
C. of the happiest child in his class.
D. of the children was the happiest.
2. Mr. Duncan is a noted economist …………
A. as well as an effective lecturer.
B. ant too efficient lecture.
C. but he gives lecture very good.
D. However he gives lecture very good also.
3. Most Englishmen don’t object to ………..them by their first names.
A. that I call
B. to my calling
C. for calling
D. that I am called
4. If they want to fly during the Christmas holidays, travelers …….. Their reservations well in advance.
A. had better get
B. had better to get
C. had better got
D. had better getting
5. Automobile productions in Japan ………
A. has been rather erratic recently.
B. are going up and down all the time.
C. have taken slumps and rises in recent years.
D. has been erratically.
6. In 1774 delegates from all the colonies ……..attended the First continental congress.
A. Except the Georgia
B. But Georgia
C. Georgia
D. The exception is Georgia
7. All the participants as the conference are ……………
A. economy lectures
B. economics teachers
C. economic teacher
D. economic’s teachers
8. if is very difficult to stop the cultivation of marijuana because ……..
A. it grows well with little care.
B. it doesn’t care to grow well.
C. it grows very careless.
D. it grows with little intention.
9. In medieval times …….. his enemy by throwing down his gauntlet.
A. a man made a challenge
B. a challenging man
C. his challenges
D. the challenges of
10. Tommy told me that no other car could go …….
A. so fast like his new car.
B. as fast as his new car.
C. as fast like his car.
D. As fast as the car like him.
11. An elephant can lift ……….a ton with its trunk.
A. more
B. most
C. as much as
D. more of
12. Manufactures often sacrifice the quality of their products ……..
A. in place of to earn more profit.
B. for a larger profit margin.
C. instead of profit.
D. to gain more quantity of money.
13. Ancient civilizations such as Phoenicians ……..goods rather than use money.
A. used to trade
B. use to trade
C. was used to trade
D. got used to trade
14. …………………are prepared from flour or meal derived from some form of grain.
A. They are bakery products
B. Bakery products
C. With bakery products
D. While bakery products
15. The bodies of living creatures are organized into many different systems, each of which has …….function.
A. certainly
B. certain
C. it’s certainly
D. to be sure
Part B: Written Expression
Directions: In question 16 – 40, each sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four underlined pats of the sentence are marked (A), (B), (C) and (D). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct.
Look the examples.
Example I
Brenda must have called her brother last night, but she arrived home too late to call him.
A B C D
The sentence should be read “Brenda should have called her brother last night, but she arrived home too late to call him. “Therefore, you should choose A.
Example II
John hasn’t complete the assignment yet, and Linda hasn’t neither.
A B C D
The sentence should be read “John hasn’t complete the assignment yet, and Linda hasn’t either”. Therefore, you should choose D.
| 16. The head office of the factory can be found in Newton Street in Tokyo. |
| A B C D |
| 17. The new elected governor has not decided how to deal with the new problems yet. |
| A B C D |
| 18. Because there less participants than there were last night we must wait until the next |
| A B C D |
| meeting to vote. |
| 19. Jack sedom pays his bills on time, and his brother does so. |
| A B C D |
| 20. Sandra was upset last night because she had to do too many homeworks. |
| A B C D |
| 21. There were so much people trying to leave the burning supermarket that the police had |
| A B C |
| a great deal of trouble controlling them |
| D |
| 22. Our teacher had already given the homework assignment when he had remembered |
| A B C |
| that Tuesday was a public holiday. |
| D |
| 23. The company representative sold the manager a computer for two thousand dollars. |
| A B C D |
| 24. This old bridge was hitting by a large ship during a sudden storm last week |
| A B C D |
| 25. The price of crude palm oil used to be a great deal lower than now, wasn’t it? |
| A B C D |
| 26. The tenants don’t have any informations about the increase in rent for this area |
| A B C D |
| 27. The value of the rupiah declines as the rate of inflanation raises. |
| A B C D |
| 28. Three of the players from the Yankee has been chosen to take part in the all stars game. |
| A B C D |
| 29. Even through miss Indonesia loss the beauty contest held in Thailand, she was still |
| A B C |
| prettier than the others. |
| D |
| 30. Our schoolmaster objected to them wearing mini skirts for the inaugural dance at the |
| A B C |
| farewell party. |
| D |
| 31. After getting married for two months, Jane is finally used to cook on a gas stove. |
| A B C D |
| 32. Jack stopped to write his thesis because he had to take her mother to a hospital. |
| A B C D |
| 33. Jenny and her elder sister have just bought two new winters coasts at the clearance sale. |
| A B C D |
| 34. The president director refused to accept either of the three new proposals made by the |
| A B C |
| contactors. |
| D |
| 35. The captain and the crew divided the life preserver between the thirty frantic |
| A B C |
| passengers. |
| D |
| 36. The police offered a twenty-thousand-dollars reward for the capture of the escaped |
| A B C |
| cold-blooded killer. |
| D |
| 37. Elane wishes that we didn’t send her the chocolate yesterday because she was on a diet. |
| A B C D |
| 38. While she was away at the beach, she allowed her step-son use her car. |
| A B C D |
| 39. Mumps are a very common diseases with usually affects children. |
| A B C D |
| 40. He is planning on attending the ceremony next week and so we are. |
| A B C D |
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