فرنلیش - آزمون شهریور ماه 97 ept

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Section One: Vocabulary
Read each statement below carefully and fill in the blank(s) with the best answer
(1, 2, 3, 4).

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1. He ........... his will to leave everything to his sister.

destroyed

conveyed

established

altered

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2. Renovating the old house wasn’t a necessity, and if Alex wanted money
spent on it, he would likely ........... it on his own.

deny

initiate

elaborate

emphasize

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3. After Jake scratched the fender on his father’s car, he tried to ........... the
damage by parking the vehicle in the garage.

advance

mention

conceal

invent

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4. I used a smile to ........... my anger towards my boss.

retreat

disguise

collect

stimulate

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5. When you have children and work a full-time job, you may ........... your
appearance because it is not important anymore.

observe

decline

neglect

signify

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6. It is ........... to sell alcohol and drugs to someone who is under 18.

faithful

spiritual

potential

illegal

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7. The image ........... an old woman, who is feeling pain in her leg when she is
walking.

depicts

transforms

distinguishes

exposes

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8. Jane was trying hard to ........... each word and phrase as accurately as
possible.

inform

evolve

comprehend

manage

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9. During summer, most people can get enough vitamin D from a few minutes
of ........... to sunlight.

extension

transition

exposure

pressure

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10. The area was ........... beautiful, with green hills and a lot of waterfalls.

correctly

brightly

strikingly

healthily

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11. This hair tablet ........... your hair from the inside to make it healthy and
beautiful.

punishes

recognizes

exercises

nourishes

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12. Some traditional cultures require women to be ........... to men.

adequate

constant

compatible

obedient

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13. After school, some students always ........... around the building to talk to
their friends.

push

reside

linger

entertain

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14. We can support the current efforts to ........... the environment by avoiding
activities like cutting trees for wood.

compose

review

preserve

isolate

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15. One of the ........... issues facing us today is global warming.

crucial

initial

mental

facial

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16. The communications director was forced to ........... after only ten days on
the job.

resign

compare

handle

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17. The 31-year-old Nadal says he will ........... a doctor to make sure he is in
good physical conditions.

arrest

consult

resist

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18. The rise in shipping costs would ........... result in higher prices for people
buying the products.

cheerfully

eventually

loudly

patiently

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19. If waking up early isn’t ........... for you, you should not take the morning
shift.

valid

fallacious

feasible

boring

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20. Whenever my daughter gets in trouble, she will ........... a tale to explain her
unacceptable behavior.

evolve

suspect

adopt

fabricate

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21. Although the company would like to ........... the new insurance plans right
away, it has to wait until January to change the policies.

engage

suspect

implement

involve

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22. His unpleasant remark ........... an argument that almost cost them their
friendship.

influenced

agitated

preserved

triggered

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23. The criminal was able to ........... the police in the crowded mall.

allocate

prohibit

employ

elude

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24. In order to find the murderer, the detective would have to ........... the dark
building for evidence.

foster

investigate

avoid

oppose

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25. If the dam breaks it will ........... large parts of the town.

distribute

conduct

heighten

inundate

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.

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26. Choose the incorrect answer.

The Industrial Revolution was a time when a great numbers of new inventions
were introduced.

a time

numbers

were

when

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27. Choose the incorrect answer.

Barbara Jordan, the one of my heroes, was a strong champion of both civil and human rights.

the one

and

was

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28. Choose the incorrect answer.

As the wave passes, the water particles move around in a circle and return to its original position.

and

its

move

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29. Choose the incorrect answer.

The nights showed that astronauts could fly in space, do complex tasks, and to work outside their spacecraft.

their

to work

showed

in space

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30. Choose the incorrect answer.

As Earth orbits the sun, there are periods when the poles tilt either toward nor away from the sun.

the sun

either

are

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31. Choose the incorrect answer.

Filmmakers can break stereotypes by turning theirs cameras to capture shared human qualities.

theirs

stereotypes

qualities

shared

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32. Choose the incorrect answer.

In 1994, Mandela published his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, much of which he had been secretly written while in prison.

Mandela published

much of which

had been secretly written

autobiography

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33. Choose the incorrect answer.

Cancer is a disease in which cells grow and divide uncontrollably, damaging the parts of body around them. A cancer tumor begins as a single cell.

as a single cell

in which

uncontrollably,

parts of body around

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34. Choose the incorrect answer.

People can reduce their chances of developing cancer with avoiding smoking, eating a healthful diet, and protecting their skin from bright sunlight. When people inhale tobacco smoke, lung cancer and other forms of cancer may result.

their chances of developing

with avoiding smoking

a healthful diet

other forms of cancer may result

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35. Choose the incorrect answer.

There are a lot of safety rules that we must follow on science lab as well. One piece of equipment we well use most often is googles.

a lot of safety rules

on science

most often

One piece of equipment

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36. Choose the incorrect answer.

The very first step in the scientific method is to state the problem. Once you have done this you can go on some research and from a good hypothesis. Then we test this by doing an experiment. We then analyze all of our data and finally form a conclusion.

and finally form a conclusion

can go on some research

very first step

doing an experiment

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37. Choose the incorrect answer.

When doing a lab report two magic words must be included in the hypothesis.
Those two magic words are if then. The materials should be written as a list. Charts and graphs will find in the data section of the lab report.

doing a lab report

should be written

will find

must be included

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38. Choose the incorrect answer.

Atoms, the basic building blocks of matter, are made of three basic components: the protons, neutrons, and electrons. The protons and neutrons cluster together to form nucleus, the central part of the atom, and the electrons orbit the nucleus.

orbit the nucleus

the basic building blocks of

are made of

cluster together to form

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39. Choose the incorrect answer.

Electricity is the movement of charged particles, usually electrons, from one place to another. Materials that electricity can move through easy are called conductors. Most metals, such as iron, copper, and aluminum are good conductors of electricity.

through easy

the movement of

conductors of electricity

Materials that

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40. Choose the incorrect answer.

Objects usually have numbers equally of positive and negative charges, but it isn’t too hard to temporarily create an imbalance. One way scientists can create an imbalance is with a machine called a Van de Graaff generator.

too hard to temporarily

can create

numbers equally of

with a machine

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41. Choose the incorrect answer.

The sun evaporates water of lakes and oceans. As the air rises, it cools. The water vapor condenses into tiny droplets of water. The droplets crowd together and form a cloud.

rises

form a cloud

evaporates water of

condenses into

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42. Choose the incorrect answer.

Play allows children to use their creativity while develop their imagination, dexterity, and physical, cognitive, and emotional strength. Play is important to
healthy brain development.

Play allows children

strength

important

while develop

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43. Choose the incorrect answer.

Play also offers an ideal opportunity for parents to engage fully with their children. In spite the benefits derived from play for both children and parents, time for free play has been markedly reduced for some children.

In spite

for parents to engage

derived from

has been markedly

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44. Choose the incorrect answer.

This report addresses a variety of factors that have reduced play, including a
hurried lifestyle, changes in family structure, and increase attention to academics
and enrichment activities at the expense of recess or free child- centered play.

increase attention

a variety of factors

including

at the expense

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45. Choose the incorrect answer.

No single set of guidelines could do justice to the many factors that impact
children’s play, even if it was focus only on children living in the United States.

was focus

impact

set of guidelines

to the many factors

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46. Choose the incorrect answer.

Play is integral to the academic environment. It ensures that the school setting attends to the social and emotional develop of children as well as their cognitive development.

attends to

is integral to

emotional develop

ensures that the

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47. Choose the incorrect answer.

The newly exchange student who comes from Norway is surprisingly fluent in English.

newly

who

is surprisingly

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48. Choose the incorrect answer.

Basic chili powder consists ground, dried chilies blended with other spices.

dried

other spices

blended

consists

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49.Choose the incorrect answer.

The program about the Egyptian ruins were narrated by an English scientist and a French anthropologist .

were

anthropologist.

about

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50. Choose the incorrect answer.

Hope for a bicycle and a toy robot, my brother could not sleep at all on Christmas Eye.

could not sleep

Hope

and

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51. Choose the incorrect answer.

Because as many bicycles were stolen, he hired a guard to keep an eye on
them.

to keep

were stolen

them

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52. Choose the incorrect answer.

The glaciers seem motionless, but actually it is always on the move.

but

it is

seem

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53. Choose the incorrect answer.

In rain forests, trees and plants absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and replace its with oxygen.

its

from

absorb

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54. Choose the incorrect answer.

Most of the treasure that buried by the pirates has never been found.

the

Most of

that buried

has

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55. Choose the incorrect answer.

Ants trying to protect their colonies from storms by piling up sand against the wind.

their

against

trying

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.

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56. Choose the incorrect answer.

They spent three long, cool summers in the mountains.

He was interested in a dirty, old, Arabian brass lamp.

They lived in a brick white old house.

The college built a large, new, wooden dormitory.

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57. Choose the incorrect answer.

You could have passed the test if you had studied harder.

They told her that she can visit them next week.

They must have finished by now.

You should have told me where you were going.

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58. Choose the incorrect answer.

I sat the vase of flowers on the table.

The gallbladder sits on top of the liver.

A ladder has been set under the window.

I was born in Shiraz, but raised in Tehran.

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59. Choose the incorrect answer.

They have finally set a date for their wedding.

The judge came on the courtroom.

The cement will set in about an hour

Please sit where you can find a seat.

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60. Choose the incorrect answer.

I had to lie down for a moment.

We got the committee change the next meeting date.

They laid great stress on employees’ being on time.

I asked the waiter to get us an outside table.

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61. Choose the incorrect answer.

Make them to be quiet.

The children are being watched by a neighbor.

The directions require us to reboot the computer.

We had the contractor to replace the leaking window.

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62. Choose the incorrect answer.

The story was read by the whole class.

We were eating dinner when we got there.

The kids were busy helping the neighbors pick tomatoes.

The money had kept in a locked safe.

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63. Choose the incorrect answer.

The problem is very important, but it is not the matter of life and death.

It’s an angle of less than 60 degrees.

Happy people usually have quite a few friends.

We stopped in front of a small house. The house looked empty.

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64. Choose the incorrect answer.

We all slept late, but I slept the latest.

German cars are just as reliable as Japanese ones.

We are enjoying the most rapidly expanding economy in years.

Every one of our employees are important to the company’s success.

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65. Choose the incorrect answer.

It was too bad storm that all the crops were ruined.

I here were so many people in the restaurant that we couldn’t get in.

They have enough to survive the winter.

You haven’t worked enough to earn a vacation.

Passage 1
Life abounds in the open ocean. Scientists divide the ocean into different life
zones, based on the depth to which sunlight penetrates the water. The lighted
zone of the ocean is the upper 200 m or so. It is the home of the plankton that
make up the foundation of the food chain in the open ocean. Below about 200
m is the dark zone of the ocean. Animals living in this region feed on material
that floats down from the lighted zone, or they feed on each other. Plants do not
grow here.

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66. There are no plants below 200 m, most probably because ......... .

there is not enough light for photosynthesis

their roots cannot reach the ground

the water absorbs all the oxygen

they are eaten by the animals living there

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67. The passage mainly discusses ......... .

the organisms living in the ocean

how ocean organisms feed

the major life regions in the ocean

how deep the open ocean is

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68. The word “penetrates” in line 2 is closest in meaning to ......... .

makes a hole in

affects

travels into

warms

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69. It can be inferred from the passage that the plankton ......... .

is a small organism

can live in both dark and lighted zones

feed on each other

use sunlight for food production

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70. According to the passage, organisms living in the dark region ......... .

cannot make their own food

destroy the food chain

need light for photosynthesis

cannot move easily

Passage 2
European nations came to the Americas to increase their wealth and broaden
their influence over world affairs. The Spanish were among the first Europeans
to explore the New World and the first to settle in what is now the United States.
By 1650, however, England had established a dominant presence on the
Atlantic coast. The first colony was founded at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.
Many of the people who settled in the New World came to escape religious
persecution. The Pilgrims , founders of Plymouth, Massachusetts, arrived in 1620.
In both Virginia and Massachusetts, the colonists flourished with some assistance
from Native Americans. New World grains such as com kept the colonists from
starving while, in Virginia, tobacco provided a valuable cash crop. By the early
1700s, enslaved Africans made up a growing percentage of the colonial
population. By 1770, more than 2 million people lived and worked in Great
Britain’s 13 North American colonies.

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71- Some British colonics made money by ......... .

selling African slaves

creating useful art products

farming and selling tobacco

charging the Spanish colonies

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72. Paragraph 2 mainly discusses ......... .

where African slaves lived and worked

how different locations were named

how British colonies were established

when Plymouth, Massachusetts, was founded

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73. It can be inferred from paragraph 2 that British colonies developed ......... .

as a result of poverty

in desert areas

along the Atlantic coast

in the years following 1970

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74. All of the following are mentioned as factors contributing to the success of
British colonies EXCEPT ......... .

The Spanish

corn

Native Americans

tobacco

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75. According to the passage, Plymouth, Massachusetts, was founded by ...... .

Spanish settlers

religious settlers

native Americans

African slaves

Passage 3
In the 1920s, new technology allowed filmmakers to attach to each film a
soundtrack of speech, music, and sound effects synchronized with the action on
the screen. These sound films were initially distinguished by calling them talking
pictures, or talkies. The next major step in the development of cinema was the
introduction revolutionized the medium, quickly driving out silent movies, color
was adopted more gradually. The public was relatively indifferent to color
photography as opposed to black-and-white films, more and more movies were
filmed in color after the end of World War II, as the industry in American came
to view color an essential to attracting audiences in its competition with
television, which remained a black-and-white medium until the mid-60s. By the
end of the 1960s, color had become the norm for filmmakers.

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76. All of the following statements are supported by the passage, EXCEPT ..... .

the film industry fell into a serious crisis after the end of World War II

black-and-white films are no longer a major source of entertainment

the introduction of color to movies helped movie industry in its competition with TV

the arrival of sound films ended the popularity of silent movies

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77. The passage mainly talks about ......... .

the comparative effects of sound and color on movie industry

how color was introduced and how color films were made

how film making industry has survived

the effect of World War II on movie industry

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78. According to the passage, people didn’t show great interest in color movies
because they were ......... .

silent

less qualified

interesting

expensive

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79. It can be inferred from the passage that the introduction of sound films
......... .

was delayed until after the end of World War II

made color movies commercial

was an important milestone in the movie industry

occurred at the time of the introduction of color films

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80. According to the passage, which of the following is true?

Television didn’t become popular until the mid-60s.

The transition to color films was not as rapid as the transition to sound films.

The 1920s marked the end of sound films.

Color movies did not appear until the mid-60s.

Passage 4
Sometimes an animal copes with a changed situation, not by adapting to it,
but by moving away from it to another location. There, it may still have to adapt,
but the type of adaption may be easier. There are primitive races of man that
have attempted to avoid the pressures or changes that civilization brings. They
have had to adjust to living in remote or harsh conditions. Examples are the
pygmies of the Congo who have escaped into the thickest jungles which are full
of dangers. They have learned to obtain a living there and to cope with wild
animals. African Bushmen mange to live off the arid Kalahari Desert where there
is hardly any other life. Life is though for the Bushmen but they are left in peace.
These social adaptations could well lead to unlikely that any single person would
be aware of it taking place.

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81. Which of the following conclusions is supported by the passage?

Social changes may lead to biological changes over time.

The slow change is not taking place today.

Nobody knows how social changes happen.

There is not obligation for human beings to find a new location

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82. The best title for this passage is ......... .

Animal Adaptation Behavior versus Human Adaptation Behavior

Man and Adaptation to the Environment

Types of Adaptations

How Congo primitives and Bushmen Have Survived

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83. According to the passage, instead of adapting, an animal ......... .

goes around for finding a prey

prefers not to live in another environment

must find ways to feed itself

moves into a different habitat from time to time

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84. It can be inferred from the passage that ......... .

Bushmen used to live in humid places before moving to Kalahari Desert

for primitive human beings keeping the civilization alive was crucial

pygmies are short because of dealing with wild animals

primitives had to live in peaceful or harsh conditions

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85. According to the passage, an individual is unlikely to be aware of ............ .

cultural changes in new generations

biological adaptations derived from social adaptations

the first that the Bushmen should be left in peace

the similarity of single individuals

Section Four: Cloze Passage
Read the following passage and fill in the blanks with the most appropriate
choice.
On December 5, 2013, at the age 95, Nelson Mandela died at his home in
Johannesburg, South Africa. After suffering a lung infection in January 2011,
Mandela ...(86)... briefly hospitalized in Johannesburg to undergo ...(87)... for a
stomach ailment in early 2012. He was ...(88)... after a few days, later returning
to Qunu. Mandela would be hospitalized ...(89)... times over the next several
years - in December 2012, March 2013, and June 2013 - for further ...(90)... and
medical treatment relating to ...(91)... recurrent lung infection.
Following his June 2013 hospital visit, Mandela’s wile, Graca Machel. ...(92)...
a scheduled appearance ...(93)... London to remain at her husband’s side, and his
daughter. Zenani Dlamini, flew ...(94)... from Argentina to South Africa to be with
her father. Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s president, ...(95)... a statement in
response to public ...(96)... over Mandela’s March 2013 health scare, asking for
support in the form of ...(97)... : “We appeal to the people of South Africa and
the world to pray for our beloved Madiba and his family and to keep ...(98)... in
their thoughts,” Zuma said. ...(99)... the day of Mandela’s death, Zuma released
a statement ...(100)... to Mandela’s legacy: “Wherever we are in the country,
wherever we are in the world, let us reaffirm his vision of a society in which none
is exploited, oppressed or dispossessed by another,” he said.

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86. Choose the correct answer.

has

could

would

was

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87. Choose the correct answer.

examined

medical

physical

surgery

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88. Choose the correct answer.

asked

released

escaped

taped

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89. Choose the correct answer.

many

most

too

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90. Choose the correct answer.

tackling

giving

testing

tending

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91. Choose the correct answer.

its

hers

his

their

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92. Choose the correct answer.

demonstrated

cancelled

organized

supported

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93. Choose the correct answer.

for

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94. Choose the correct answer.

into

behind

inside

back

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95. Choose the correct answer.

acted

issued

decided

returned

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96. Choose the correct answer.

convict

convince

converse

concern

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97. Choose the correct answer.

prayer

employer

demander

leader

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98. Choose the correct answer.

themselves

him

them

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99. Choose the correct answer.

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100. Choose the correct answer.

speaking

announcing

supporting

appealing