آزمون فروردین ماه 97 ept
آزمون ای پی تی فروردین 97 همراه با پاسخ تشریحی
Section One: Vocabulary
Read each statement below carefully and fill in the blank(s) with the best answer (1, 2, 3, 4)
1- Dr. Smith once said, no matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you would be more...... .
2- After the car accident, emergency technicians rushed to..... a heavy piece of metal from the patient's leg.
3- The coach...... her players together.
4- Rob should reduce his spending if he wants to..... the balance in his savings account.
5- Due to her mother's death, the memory of her mother seemed to........ in her mind every hour throughout the days.
6- Since the students want to impress their teacher, they....... perfect behavior in their class.
7- Usually people with really deep or smooth voices are chosen for....... in movies, since they have to keep the interest of the audience as they explain the story.
8- Large purchases must be........ at customs.
9- I'm trying to....... my work so that I can have a couple of days off next week.
10- Very high taxes have recently been...... on cigarettes.
11- Christopher hoped to...... his influence to make them change their minds.
12- There is a Serbian proverb which says that the glory of ancestors should not....... people from winning glory for themselves.
13- She is......... that people still risk travelling without insurance.
14- It seemed impossible that anyone could....... such pain.
15- Growth hormone is........ into the blood during sleep.
16- As soon as the last bell rings, students.......... out of the building and head for their buses.
17- It is important to............ the soil prior to planting.
18- Instead of doing nothing, the girl chose to......... those who started a rumor about her.
19- The investor could not......... the thought of losing his fortune, so he decided to sell his sinking business.
20- It is the responsibility of every resort to......... certain basic principles.
21- The President was...... by his advisers.
22- During the summer, it is not unusual for us to........ our supply of ice.
23- I'm sure that if we discuss this issue together, we can........ our problems in a satisfactory manner.
24- The judge was widely......... for his verdict.
25- He had a microphone........ in his pocket.
Section Two: Structure Part One
Read the following sentences. In each sentence, choose the number of the underlined word or group of words that is NOT correct.
26. Choose the incorrect answer.
Palm oil is a type of edible vegetable oil that is derived of the palm fruit, grown on the African oil palm tree. Oil palms are originally from Western Africa.
27. Choose the incorrect answer.
I considered buy the laptop but it turned out that the warranty coverage had expired.
28. Choose the incorrect answer.
The salesperson showed me an unfamiliar products, but I bought it because of the reputation of the manufacturer.
29. Choose the incorrect answer.
A variety of problems appeared after the product had been on the market for about six month .
30. Choose the incorrect answer.
An island is a body of land surrounded by water. Continents are also surrounded by water, but because they are so big . they are not consider islands.
31. Choose the incorrect answer.
Many problems are avoiding if you take the time to create a solid business plan.
32. Choose the incorrect answer.
When you are develop your business plan, it is a good idea to keep a resource library of valuable materials.
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Each teaching environment sets a tone and an expectation. For example, when students work active in groups, we ask them to use their voices.
34. Choose the incorrect answer.
When we ask them to attend to the teacher, we also request that they turn his "eyes front." When they work individually at their desks, we ask them not to bother other learners.
35. Choose the incorrect answer.
Teachers must signal a shift in tone when they ask students to reflect on their learning. Reflective teachers help students understand that he will now look back rather than move forward.
36. Choose the incorrect answer.
They will take a break from what they have been doing, step away from their work, and asks themselves, "what have I (or we) learned from doing this activity?"
37. Choose the incorrect answer.
Some teachers use music to signal the change in thinking. Others ask for silent thinking before students write about a lesson, a assignment, or other classroom tasks.
38. Choose the incorrect answer.
In the reflective classroom, teachers invite students to do meaning from their experiences overtly in written and oral form.
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Most classrooms in Iran are teacher-centered, with students paying attention to a presentation or quietly working in individual tasks.
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Students know they will not "fail" or make a "mistake," as those terms are generally defined. Instead, reflective students know they can produce personal insight and learn of all their experiences.
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We should be mindful of how others will be affected by ourselves decisions.
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The friendly action was the beginning of a strong relationship among my two favorite characters.
43. Choose the incorrect answer.
Even extraverts, who usually act or speak immediately, will choose their words based the impact to other people if they have an intuitive preference.
44. Choose the incorrect answer.
Some people let their mouth get ahead of their head. They are usually mortified to have caused hurt or embarrass to others.
45. Choose the incorrect answer.
Thinkers are objective in nature, and believe everyone else should be too. They believe on calling a spade a spade and speaking the truth even if it isn't so pretty.
46. Choose the incorrect answer.
The cinema did not emerge as a form of mass consumption until its technology evolved from the initial stage to the point where images were projected in a screen.
47. Choose the incorrect answer.
A modern Olympic Games or Olympics are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.
48. Choose the incorrect answer.
With the advent of projection in 1895-1896, motion pictures become the ultimate form of mass consumption.
49. Choose the incorrect answer.
In recent decades, the deserts, which already occupy approximate a fourth of the Earth's surface, have been increasing at an alarming pace.
50. Choose the incorrect answer.
Desertification is accomplish primarily through the loss of stabilizing natural vegetation and the subsequent accelerated erosion of the soil by wind and water.
51. Choose the incorrect answer.
In some regions, the increase in desert areas is occur largely as the result of a trend toward drier climatic conditions.
52. Choose the incorrect answer.
The process may be accelerated in subsequent decades if global warm resulting from air pollution increases.
53. Choose the incorrect answer.
There is little doubt, however, that desertification in most area results primarily from human activities rather than natural processes.
54. Choose the incorrect answer.
Expanding populations are subjecting the land to increasing pressures to provide them with food and fuel. In wet periods, the land may be able to respond to this stresses.
55. Choose the incorrect answer.
There are many benefits to consuming dried fruit. Many dried fruits provide high-qualities fiber, which helps to prevent heart disease, obesity, and some cancers.
Section Two: Structure Part Two
In each of the following sets of sentences, three sentences are grammatically correct and one sentence is not grammatical. Identify the incorrect sentence and mark your answer sheet.
56. Choose the incorrect answer.
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Section Three: Reading Comprehension
Directions: Read the passages and choose the one best answer, (1) , (2), (3) or (4), for each question.
Passage 1 When another old cave is discovered in the south of France, it is not usually news. Rather, it is an ordinary event. Such discoveries are so frequent these days that hardly anybody pays heed to them. However, when the Lascaux cave complex was discovered in 1940, the world was amazed. Painted directly on its walls were hundreds of scenes showing how people lived thousands of years ago. The scenes show people hunting animals, such as bison or wildcats. Other images depict birds and, most noticeably, horses, which appear in more than 300 wall images, by faroutnumbering all other animals. Early artists drawing these animals accomplished a monumental and difficult task. They did not limit themselves to the easily accessible walls but carried their painting materials to spaces that required climbing steep walls or crawling into narrow passages in the Lascaux complex. Unfortunately, the paintings have been exposed to the destructive action of water and temperature changes, which easily wear the images away. Because the Lascaux caves have many entrances, air movement has also damaged the images inside. Although they are not out in the open air, where natural light would have destroyed them long ago, many of the images have deteriorated and are barely recognizable. To prevent further damage, the site was closed to tourists in 1963, 23 years after it was discovered.
66- It can be inferred from the passage that........ .
67- According to the passage,........ appear most often on the cave walls.
68- All of the following are true EXCEPT:
69- According to the passage, all of the following have caused damage to the paintings EXCEPT........... .
70- The word "deteriorated" in line 16 is closest in meaning to.......... .
Passage 2
People appear to be born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inevitably that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical maturity guiding their growth. Not long after learning to walk and talk, they can set the table with impressive accuracy-one plate, one knife, one spoon, one fork, for each of the five chairs. Soon they are capable of noting that they have placed five knives, spoons, and forks on the table and, a bit later, which this amounts to fifteen pieces of silverware. Having mastered addition, they move on to subtraction. It seems almost reasonable to expect that if a child were secluded on a desert island at birth and received seven years later, he or she could enter a second grade mathematics class without any serious problems of intellectual adjustment. Of course, the truth is not so simple. This century, the work of cognitive psychologists has illuminated the subtle forms of daily learning on which intellectual progress depends. Children were observed as they slowly grasped or, as the case might be bumped into concepts that adults take for granted , as they refused, for instance, to concede that quantity is unchanged as water pours from a short stout glass into a tall thin one.Psychologists have demonstrated that young children, asked to count the pencils in a pile, readily report the number of blue or red pencils, but must be persuaded to find the total. Such studies have suggested that the rudiments of mathematics are mastered gradually, and with effort. They have also suggested that the very concept of abstract numbers-the idea of aloneness , a prerequisite for doing anything more mathematically demanding than setting a table-is itself far from innate.
71- Which of the following is Not mentioned in the passage?
72- Most small children believe that the quantity of water changes when it is poured into a container of different....... .
73- According to the passage, psychologists have shown that children........ .
74- The last sentence of the passage suggests that......... .
75- The phrase "take for granted" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to.......... .
Passage 3
Egyptian hieroglyphic writing was composed entirely of pictures, though the object depicted cannot be identified in every instance. The earliest examples that can be read show the hieroglyphs used as actual writing, that is, with phonetic values, and not as picture writing such as that of the Eskimos or American Indians. The origins of the script are not known. It apparently arose in the late predynastic period (just before 2925 B.C.). There were contacts between Egypt and Mesopotamia at this time, and it has been thought that the concept of writing was borrowed from the Sumerians. This is certainly possible, but, even if this was the case, the two systems were so different in their use of signs that it is clear that they developed independently. In the period of the third dynasty (2650-2575 B.C.), many of the principles of hieroglyphic writing were regularized. From that time on, until the script was replaced by an early version of Coptic (about the 3rd and 4tl1 centuries A.D.), the system remained unchanged. Even the number of signs used remained constant at about 700 for more than 2,000 years. With the rise of Christianity in the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D., came the decline and ultimate end not only of the ancient Egyptian religion but its hieroglyphics as well.
76- According to the passage, Eskimos and American Indians used......... .
77- The word "script" in line 5 refers to the.......... .
78- According to the passage, which of the following is Not true?
79- The word "constant" in line 14 is closest in meaning to........ .
80- The passage mainly focuses on to....... .
Passage 4
Diabetes is a chronic, often debilitating and sometimes fatal disease, in which the body either cannot produce insulin or cannot properly use the insulin it produces. Insulin is a hormone that controls the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood. Diabetes leads to high blood sugar levels, which can damage organs, blood vessels, and nerves. The body needs insulin to use sugar as an energy source. The pancreas is an organ that sits behind the stomach and releases hormones into the digestive system. In the healthy body, when blood sugar levels get too high, special cells in the pancreas (called beta cells) release insulin. Insulin is a hormone and it causes cells to take in sugar to use as energy or to store as fat. This causes blood sugar levels to go back down. Type 1 diabetes occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks and kills the beta ce1ls of the pancreas. No, or very little, insulin is released into the body. As a result, sugar builds up in the blood instead of being used as energy. About 5 to 10 percent of people with diabetes have type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes generally develops in childhood or adolescence, but can develop in adulthood. Type 1 diabetes is always treated with insulin. Meal planning also helps with keeping blood sugar at the right levels. Type 1 diabetes also includes latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA), the term used to describe the small number of people with apparent type 2 diabetes who appear to have immune-mediated loss of pancreatic beta cells.
81- According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
82- In Type 1 diabetes,........ .
83- Which of the following is true about Type 1 diabetes?
84- The best title for the passage is:
85- The word chronic in line 1 is closest in meaning to......... .
Section Four: Cloze Passage
Read the following passage and fill in the blanks with the most appropriate choice.
On January 12, 2010, a devastating earthquake ... (86) ... a magnitude of7.0 struck Haiti, killing more ... (87) . . . 160,000 and displacing close to 1.5 million people. Five years . . . (88) ... , scars of the tragedy remain in Port-au-Prince, says photographer Gael Turine, who ... (89) ... spent the last 10 years photographing the country. "When you ... (90) ... around the country's capital Port-au-Prince, you still see halfdestroyed buildings around town," he ... (91) ... TIME. "The wounds are still here, and everyone says ... (92) ... they're living in worse conditions than before." Given the costs of recovery ... (93) ... such a catastrophe, it might seem ... (94) ... that a poor country such as Haiti would still ... (95) ... the effects a half-decade later, if it weren't for the great help the Republic received in its aftermath. "When you look at the history of humanitarian relief, there's never been a ... (96) ... when such a small country has been the target of . . . (97) . . . a massive flow of money and assistance in such a short time," says Turine. "On paper, with that ... (98) ... money in a country the size of Haiti, we should ...(99) ... witnessed miracles; there should have been results." And yet the situation ...(100) ... the ground is really bad, says the Belgian photographer: "Two years ago, there were still refugee camps in Port-au-Prince's center.
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