Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
He applied for a teaching ______ at Bales University with great confidence.




A.employment
B.post
C.work
D.career

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.




A.habitat
B.attendance
C.candidate
D.wilderness

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given in each of the following questions.
When there is so much traffic on the roads, it is sometimes quicker to walk than to go by car.




A.There is so much traffic these days that it is more pleasant to walk than to drive.
B.The traffic is always so heavy that you’d better walk to work; it’s quicker.
C.It is faster to walk than to drive in the heavy traffic at certain time of the day.
D.During rush hours, walking gives me much more pleasure than driving in the heavy traffic.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given in each of the following questions.
They arrived too late to get good seats.




A.As they got there too late, there were no good seats left.
B.Although they were late, they found some good seats.
C.They got good seats some time after they arrived.
D.They had to stand for the whole show.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
Our astronauts chosen for fly spacecraft(A) were(B) selected from military test(C) pilots(D).




A.A
B.B
C.C
D.D

One of my best friends.................five credit cards.




A.have
B.has
C.does
D.do

The radiation levels from a computer display terminal..............well below presently accepted




A.is
B.are
C.was
D.has been

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.




A.alive.
B.ancient.
C.central.
D.vacant.

"I would be grateful if you could send me further details of the job," he said to me.




A.He flattered me because I sent him further details of the job.
B.He felt great because further details of the job had been sent to him.
C.He thanked me for sending him further details of the job.
D.He politely asked me to send him further details of the job.

Read the following passage, and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer for each of the blanks.
The first question we might ask is: What can you learn in college that will help you in being an employee? The schools teach a (51)....................... many things of value to the future accountant, doctor or electrician. Do they also teach anything of value to the future employee? Yes, they teach the one thing that it is perhaps most valuable for the future employee to know. But very (52)……… students bother to learn it. This basic is the skill ability to organize and express ideas in writing and in speaking. This means that your success as an employee will depend on your ability to communicate with people and to (53)....................... your own thoughts and ideas to them so they will (54)....................... understand what you are driving at and be persuaded.
Of course, skill in expression is not enough by itself. You must have something to say in the first (55)………. The effectiveness of your job depends (56)....................... your ability to make other people understand your work as they do on the quality of the work itself.
(57)………..one’s thoughts is one skill that the school can really teach. The foundations for (58)………….in expression have to be laid early: an interest in and an ear for language; experience in organizing ideas and data, in brushing (59)……..the irrelevant, and above all the (60)………. of verbal expression. If you do not lay these foundations during your school years, you may never have an opportunity again.
(59)




A.away
B.apart
C.aside
D.out