Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B,C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 41 to 50.
Postsecondary institutions and private schools are corporations under U.S. law. They are approved to operate as non-profit, for-profit, or public corporations (41)______ education and training. Increasingly, state authorities are requiring approved educational providers to apply (42)______ and receive accreditation as a condition of final and continued approval.
As corporate entities, U.S. institutions are internally self-governing and are (43)______ to make property, facilities, equipment, and utilities transactions; make their own personnel decisions; decide whom to admit to study and to graduate; (44)______ their own funds from outside sources; enter into contracts and compete for grants; and do most of the other things that corporations do. Institutions compete (45)______ one another for students, research funding, faculty, and other benefits. Public institutions may compete within the same state or territory for budget appropriations. It is the corporate nature of institutions and the competition within the system that (46)_____ Americans to refer to the concept of the educational or academic marketplace - an important distinctive element of the way U.S. education is organized.
Some institutions are governed (47)______ under multi-campus arrangements. These include most local public schools (governed by school districts) and many state community college and university systems. Whether single- or multi-campus, institutional corporations (48)______ by boards of citizens, both alumni and non-alumni, who are ultimately responsible for all operations. They appoint senior (49)______, such as principals, headmasters, presidents, and deans; and approve the actions taken (50)______ their name.




A.on
B.in
C.above
D.at

___ book I read recently about the housemaid who posed for___

Famous painting try vermeer was informative as well as entertaining.




A.A- any
B.Any – Φ
C.Φ – a
D.The – a

The crisis will never be solved until ___ sides sit down and talk ____




A.every – one another
B.each – some others
C.both- each other
D.either – the others

“Please bring me some fish soup,” he said to the waitress




A.He asked the waitress to bring him some fish soup
B.He asked the waitress bring him some fish soup
C.He asked the waitress bringing him some fish soup
D.He asked the waitress bring her some fish soup

The teacher said to class, “We shall discuss this subject tomorrow.”




A.The teacher told the class they would discuss that subject the next day
B.The teacher told the class they will discuss that subject the next day
C.The teacher said the class they would discuss that subject the next day.
D.The teacher told the class they discussed that subject the next day.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
After a few rounds of talks, both sides regarded the territory dispute as settled.




A.discussion
B.discomfort
C.disapproval
D.disadvantage

A.agreement
B.elephant
C.mineral
D.violent

____United States of America ___ nowadays____country to live in: ___pollution is at its summit there.




A.Φ – are – the worse – the
B.The – is – worst – a
C.The – is – the worst – Φ
D.The – are – worse – the

Because of___ long history of admitting immigrants from ___,the United States is a good example of population diversity.




A.its – everywhere
B.their – somewhere
C.their – somewhere
D.their – somewhere

Not ___ can be done to help her if she herself doesn’t put in quite ___effort to put her own life in order.




A.enough – many
B.so much – any
C.may – a great deal of
D.much- a lot of