Mustang is a
small, semi-wild horse of Mexico and the western plains
of the United States. Descendants of Arabian and barb
horses brought ___(1)___ North America by Spanish
explorers in the 16th century and ___(2)___ combined
with other breeds; mustangs ____(3)____ themselves to
the western habitat and multiplied in large numbers.
Subsequently many of them were captured, domesticated,
and bred by Native Americans. These domesticated horses
became known ____(4)___ Indian ponies. They had
remarkable endurance and intelligence and were valued as
saddle ponies. Today the several thousand mustangs that
remain in the wild are threatened ___(5)____ destruction
by ranchers who claim they damage grazing lands; they
are also rounded up and used for dog food.
1) A) to B) from C) at D) on E) out of
2) A) late B) lately C) latest D) latter E) later
3) A) adopted B) corrupted C) pacified
D) adapted E) wrapped
4) A) as B) to C) for D) with E) in
5) A) by B) with C) from D) onto E) into
Cyprus is an island ____(6)___ in the eastern
Mediterranean Sea, about 40 miles south of Turkey, 60
miles west of Syria, and 480 miles southeast of mainland
Greece. Its maximum length, ____(7)___ Cape Arnauti in
the west to Cape Apostolos Andreas at the end of the
north-eastern peninsula, ___(8)___ 140 miles; the
maximum north-south extent is 60 miles. With an area of
3,572 square miles, it is the third largest
Mediterranean island. Cyprus ____(9)___ of two states,
the Republic of Cyprus, which occupies the southern
two-thirds of the country, and the Turkish Republic of
Northern Cyprus, which ____(10)___ its declaration of
independence in 1983 has been recognized only by Turkey.
6) A) saturated B) gathered C) located
D) ranged E) named
7) A) from B) till C) by D) within E) since
8) A) are B) have C) has D) were E) is
9) A) deprives B) disposes C) consists
D) wards E) smacks
10) A) before B) as soon as C) by the time
D) until E) since
___(11)___ to a Cretan myth that was adopted by the
Greeks, Cronus, king of the Titans, upon learning that
one of his children was fated to dethrone him, swallowed
his children __(12)___ they were born. But Rhea, his
wife, saved the infant Zeus by substituting a stone
wrapped in swaddling clothes for Cronus to swallow and
hiding Zeus in a cave on Crete. There he was nursed by
the nymph Amalthaea and guarded by the Curetes, who
clashed their weapons to ___(13)___ the baby's cries.
After Zeus grew to manhood he led a revolt ____(14)___
the Titans and succeeded in dethroning Cronus, perhaps
with the assistance of his brothers Hades and Poseidon,
with ____(15)___ he then divided dominion over the
world.
11) A) Due B) Owing C) In order
D) In addition E) According
12) A) before B) the minute C) until D) while
E) now that
13) A) dangle B) debilitate C) dictate D) disguise E)
dodge
14) A) against B) among C) across D) at
E) after
15) A) who B) that C) whom D) whose
E) which
The Normans were originally pagan barbarian pirates from
Denmark, Norway, and Iceland who began to make
destructive plundering raids _____(16)___ European
coastal settlements in the 8th century. During the later
9th century ____(17)___ raids on the northern and
western coastlands of France grew ____(18)___ scale and
frequency, and the Vikings had secured a permanent
foothold on Frankish soil in the valley of the lower
Seine River by about 900. A Viking named Rollo, who had
already won a ___(19)___ as a great leader of Viking
raiders in Scotland and Ireland, soon ____(20)___ as the
outstanding personality among the new settlers.
16) A) on B) in C) into D) at E) under
17) A) they B) them C) its D) their E) it
18) A) on B) in C) at D) above E) below
19) A) reputation B) repetition C) recognizance
D) recognizor E) reduction
20) A) merged B) diverted C) distinguished
D) emerged E) extinguished
Vikings are the member of the Scandinavian seafaring
warriors who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe
from the 9th to the 11th century and ___(21)___
disruptive influence profoundly affected European
history. ___(22)___ pagan Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish
warriors were probably prompted to undertake their raids
by a combination of factors ___(23)___ from
overpopulation at home to the relative helplessness of
victims abroad. The exact ethnic composition of the
Viking armies is unknown ___(24)___ particular cases,
but the Vikings' expansion in the Baltic lands and in
Russia can reasonably be ___(25)___ to the Swedes.
21) A) whose B) of which C) who D) that
E) when
22) A) This B) That C) Their D) These E) Its
23) A) hailing B) ranging C) departing
D) shrinking E) telling
24) A) in B) on C) at D) to E) from
25) A) contributed B) ascribed C) attributed
D) demise E) confer
Charles Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity than had any
____(26)___ author during his lifetime. Much in his work
could appeal to simple and sophisticated, to the poor
and to the Queen, and technological developments as well
as the qualities of his work enabled his fame to spread
worldwide very ___(27)___. His long career saw
____(28)___ in the reception and sales of individual
novels, but ____(29)___ of them was negligible or
uncharacteristic or disregarded, and, ____(30)____ he is
now admired for aspects and phases of his work that were
given less weight by his contemporaries, his popularity
has never ceased and his present critical standing is
higher than ever before.
26) A) initial B) primary C) prior
D) previous E) early
27) A) quicker B) quickest C) quick
D) quickness E)quickly
28) A) enumerations B) fluctuations
C) elevations D) blasphemies
E) shepherds
29) A) any B) none C) every D) each
E) some
30) A) therefore B) moreover C) despite
D) in order that E) though
Whales have exploited ____(31)___ the available aquatic
habitats—the ocean sand the seas connected with them, as
well as estuaries and rivers. They are especially
numerous in the Antarctic Ocean, which is rich
___(32)___ plankton and other marine life. Some whales
are social, travelling in groups called schools, herds,
pods, or gams. Whales produce two basic types of
underwater sounds. The low-pitched signals, ___(33)___
the barks, whistles, screams, and moans audible to
humans, are used in social communication, ____(34)___
the brief clicks of high-intensity sound, usually
inaudible to the unaided human ear, are used to
____(35)___ or to identify food sources.
31) A) each B) all C) many D) much E) plenty
32) A) in B) on C) at D) from E) over
33) A) the same as B) similar to
C) different from D) such as
E) like
34) A) as B) while C) contrary to D) by contrast E) even
so
35) A) navigate B) separate C) estimate
D) devastate E) escalate
___(36)___ of the great figures of the 20th century,
Atatürk rescued the surviving Turkish remnant of the
defeated Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I. He
galvanized his people _____(37)___ invading Greek forces
who sought to impose the Allied will upon the war-weary
Turks and repulsed aggression by British, French, and
Italian troops. ____(38)___ these struggles, he founded
the modern Republic of Turkey, ____(39)____ he is still
revered by the Turks. He succeeded in restoring to his
people pride in their Turkishness, coupled with a new
sense of accomplishment ___(40)___ their backward nation
was brought into the modern world.
36) A) Many B) Much C) Plenty D) One
E) Some
37) A) against B) among C) across D) onto
E) into
38) A) In terms of B) In case of
C) With regard to D) Under
E) Through
39) A) on which B) in which C) at which
D) with which E) for which
40) A) because of B) on account of
C) inasmuch as D) due to E) notwithstanding
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