2004 Ptests 5
2004 Ptests 5
2004 Ptests 5
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EXAMINATION
FOR
THE MICHIGAN CERTIFICATE
OF
PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH
ECPE
Practice Preliminary Tests
(with KEY)
Volume 5
Prepared by
Rodney A Coules
a. way
*b. road
c. travel
d. superhighway
VOCABULARY: Choose the word that most appropriately completes the sentence.
The first things we study in school are very _____.
a. sturdy
b. shifty
c. trusty
*d. elementary
READING : Read the passage, then answer the questions following it according to the information
given in the passage.
While I was getting ready to go to town one morning last week, my wife handed me a
little piece of red cloth and asked me if I would have time during the day to buy her
two yards of cloth like that.
The person telling the story is.
a. a married lady
b. an unmarried lady
* c. a married man
d. an unmarried man
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Practice Test 1
GRAMMAR
1. Are you going to Beths party?
_____ I wouldnt miss it for anything!
a. Youve got to be joking!
b. Fancy that!
c. Whod have thought it!
d. You bet!
CLOZE
(11) a. sense
c. sensitivity
b. senselessness d. sensation
(12) a. future
b. present
c. past
d. history
(13) a. solution
b. answer
c. way
d. idea
(14) a. on
b. from
c. to
d. with
(15) a. in
b. to
c. from
d. without
c. cooled
d. cooling
(17) a. that
b. these
c. which
d. whose
(18) a. chunks
b. root
c. sinks
d. source
(19) a. the
b. one
c. per
d. for
(20) a. require
b. consider
c. deem
d. propose
VOCABULARY
21. Everyone was shocked to hear that a
politician of his _____ would stoop so low.
a. credence
b. stature
c. guile
d. affinity
READING COMPREHENSION
31. What does the text tell us about the
microorganisms in question?
a. They produce valuable nutrients
for the rice plants.
b. They create aerobic conditions.
c. They help flooded conditions to
prevail.
d. They obtain food from the roots
of the rice plants
Practice Test 2
GRAMMAR
1. _____ I use your phone to give my mum
a call?
a. Would
b. May
c. Ought
d. Need
3.
CLOZE
(11)
a. change
b. differ
c. disagree
d. object
(12)
a. aggressive
b. energetic
c. active
d. occupied
(13)
a. that
b. and
c. they
d. who
(14)
a. Devoid
b. Free
c. Because
d. Without
(15)
a. in
b. from
c. with
d. of
(16)
a. complete
b. tough
c. solid
d. substance
(17)
a. thaw
b. melt
c. liquefy
d. condense
(18)
a. their
b. some
c. whose
d. all
(19)
a. lava
b. sheet
c. flow
d. crust
(20)
a. jump
b. hop
c. bound
d. skip
The
The flows,
VOCABULARY
21. Several fans have claimed that they were
_____ by security guards.
a. inundated
b. manhandled
c. acquiesced
d. cloaked
READING COMPREHENSION
This passage was taken from Discover, April
2002.
Some people hit the gym running in the morning
while others groggily slam the snooze button.
Neuroscientist Jeanne Duffy of Boston's Brigham
and Women's Hospital believes much of the
difference is rooted in biology - specifically, in
the innate sleep-wake cycle known as the
circadian rhythm.
Duffy and her colleagues studied sleep patterns
among 17 men who lived in a controlled
laboratory setting for one month. On average the
period of the circadian rhythm is around 24 hours,
but it varies from person to person.
The
researchers isolated the subjects from all cues that
could indicate the time of day in order to bring out
the natural circadian rhythm. Duffy then noticed
an eye-opening pattern: The circadian periods of
self-described "morning people" are consistently
shorter than those of the "night people." These
results bolster an earlier study, in which the same
team found that evening types awake at or shortly
after their peak hour of sleepiness, a stage in the
circadian cycle marked by grogginess, low body
temperature, and high levels of the hormone
melatonin in the bloodstream. Morning types, in
contrast, tend to wake well past the peak
sleepiness phase, even though they get up earlier
in the day.
"This explains why morning types are perkier
and feel more alert when they first get up.
Evening types are waking right when their
alertness is at its absolute worst," Duffy says.
These and other findings may elucidate why
people's sleep patterns become generally more
morninglike as they age, causing them to tire
early. She also hopes her work will illuminate the
mechanism behind delayed sleep phase syndrome,
which causes mild insomnia that can lead to
learning problems among many high-school
students.
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31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
Practice Test 3
GRAMMAR
1. Where are you from?
I was born in Paris, ___ till I was forty.
a. which I lived
b. where I lived
c. that I lived in
d. where I lived in
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CLOZE
A ten-inch-wide bronze disk, looted in
(11)
a. location
b. position
c. setting
d. site
(12)
a. thesaurus
b. treasure
c. loot
d. artifact
(13)
a. features
b. feature
c. featuring
d. featured
(14)
a. clutch
b. chest
c. cache
d. carcass
(15)
a. substantially
b. consequently
c. subsequently
d. frequently
(16)
a. extrications
b. excavations
c. extractions
d. excretions
(17)
a. sets
b. is setting
c. to set
d. setting
(18)
a. during
b. when
c. while
d. over
(19)
a. indicate
b. point
c. assure
d. suppose
(20)
a. which
b. that
c. what
d. it
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VOCABULARY
21. He is one of the most _____ writers on this
subject.
a. clandestine
b. captivated
c. prolific
d. majestic
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READING COMPREHENSION
This passage was taken from Natural History,
December 2002 - January 2003.
The chocoholics among us won't be surprised
to learn that people were sipping decoctions of
cacao a millennium earlier than archaeologists had
previously thought. All too often when ancient
ceramics are found, their well-meaning finders
give them a good wash - one of the worst things
that can happen to a piece of archaeological
evidence. But the spouts of some of the ceramic
vessels unearthed at a Preclassic (600 B.C A.D.
250) Maya site in northern Belize are long and
narrow - a shape that generally defies efforts at
cleaning - and so food and beverage residues from
the insides of those spouts remained intact. There,
W. Jeffrey Hurst of the Hershey Foods Technical
Center in Pennsylvania and his colleagues from
the University of Texas at Austin found traces of
theobromine, a relative of caffeine and a smoking
gun for an extract of the tree Theobroma cacao chocolate. Before Hurst's discovery, the oldest
known cacao residue had come from artifacts at
an Early Classic (A.D. 460-480) Maya site in
northeastern Guatemala.
According to documents from the time of the
Spanish Conquest, the Maya and Aztecs loved
chocolate froth even more than chocolate liquid,
and they created the prized foam by pouring the
liquid back and forth from one container to
another. The same froth, suggest the researchers,
could have been made in the earlier vessels by
blowing air through the spouts - a bit like the way
cappuccino is made today.
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Practice Test 4
GRAMMAR
1. What did you get Sue for Christmas?
I bought her two _____.
a. French, small crystal vases
b. small, French crystal vases
c. crystal, French small vases
d. small, crystal French vases
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CLOZE
Mysterious diseases have been striking reefbuilding corals worldwide.
(11)
a. remaining
b. returning
c. leaving
d. depositing
(12)
a. nominated
b. called
c. designated
d. named
(13)
a. thin
b. surface
c. shallow
d. shady
(14)
a. shores
b. reefs
c. beaches
d. shoals
(15)
a. scattered
b. spread
c. dispersed
d. contracted
(16)
a. freely
b. free
c. freed
d. freeing
(17)
a. raises
b. rises
c. arises
d. arouses
(18)
a. helping
b. donating
c. contributing
d. increasing
(19)
a. world
b. planetary
c. universal
d. global
(20)
a. link
b. bond
c. tie
d. joint
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VOCABULARY
21. Once again towns on the coast of Florida
have been _____ by a hurricane.
a. breached
b. battered
c. swayed
d. scattered
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READING COMPREHENSION
31. Nature has given many orchids the
ability described
a. to assist them in ensuring that
pollination of their flowers takes
place.
b. to attract wasps to build nests
c. to trap wasps for food.
d. to prevent the wasp population
from getting too large.
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Practice Test 5
GRAMMAR
1. Had you done as you were told, _____
in this dreadful situation now.
a. you wouldnt have been
b. you werent
c. you hadnt been
d. you wouldnt be
19
CLOZE
Recently
discovered
artifacts
plaque
(11)
a. remainder
b. remnants
c. rest
d. leftovers
(12)
a. belong
b. belonged
c. belonging
d. belongs
(13)
a. uncovers
b. reveals
c. shows
d. demonstrates
(14)
a. if
b. why
c. that
d. how
(15)
a. inventors
b. founders
c. creators
d. discoverers
(16)
a. also
b. likewise
c. and
d. both
(17)
a. predates
b. advances
c. projects
d. delays
(18)
a. base
b. basics
c. basement
d. basis
(19)
a. comprising
b. consisting
c. including
d. enveloping
(20)
a. disagree
b. argue
c. protest
d. object
The
the
__(19)__
that
of
the
Maya,
the
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VOCABULARY
21. A concerted effort must be made to collect
the rubbish _____ along most highways.
a. littered
b. strayed
c. strewn
d. polluted
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READING COMPREHENSION
This passage was taken from Archaeology,
January/February 2003.
Peruvian archaeologists have reconstructed the
scene of a grisly sacrifice that took place some
seven centuries ago on a beach 120 miles north of
Lima.
The remains of 187 men have been uncovered;
most were found with rope still tied around their
wrists and ankles. They had been kneeling when
they were stabbed through the heart and fell
forward or on their sides into the sand. "Field
investigations showed that the sacrificed bodies
weren't buried," says Hector Walde, chief
archaeologist. "Many of them were covered by
only an inch of sand and some had their heels
exposed." Larvae found in the hair of the
cadavers came from several generations of flies,
indicating that the bodies were watched over for
several days to keep away carrion-eating animals
and to allow them to be covered naturally by sand.
A large fishing net, ropes, fishing weights, and
ceramic vessels with food, found at the other end
of the beach, were associated with the victims.
It's believed that surviving family members placed
these objects there so that the men, presumably
fishermen, could continue their labors in the
afterlife.
Textiles covering the faces of some of the
victims helped archaeologists affiliate them with
the Chimu civilization, which began a military
campaign in the area at the end of the fourteenth
century. Researchers believe the fishermen were
sacrificed by order of the Chimu emperor
Minchancaman in gratitude to the sea god, Ni, for
success in battle.
Archaeologists first identified textiles and bits
of bleached bones on the beach at Punta Lobos in
1997 during an archaeological impact study for a
mining company that planned to build port
facilities in the area.
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ANSWER KEY
Practice Test 1
1. d
2. a
3. b
4. c
5. b
6. a
7. d
8. d
9. c
10.c
11.d
12.c
13.c
14.a
15.b
16.b
17.c
18.c
19.c
20.a
21.b
22.c
23.d
24.a
25.b
26.d
27.a
28.c
29.b
30.c
31.d
32.b
33.b
34.a
35.c
Practice Test 2
1. b
2. b
3. b
4. c
5. b
6. c
7. a
8. a
9. d
10.c
11.b
12.c
13.a
14.b
15.d
16.c
17.b
18.c
19.d
20.a
21.b
22.a
23.d
24.b
25.c
26.b
27.b
28.c
29.d
30.b
31.d
32.b
33.a
34.a
35.c
Practice Test 3
1. b
2. b
3. a
4. c
5. d
6. d
7. c
8. d
9. a
10.b
11.d
12.b
13.a
14.c
15.c
16.b
17.d
18.a
19.a
20.c
21.c
22.a
23.d
24.b
25.a
26.c
27.b
28.a
29.d
30.c
31.c
32.c
33.a
34.d
35.d
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Practice Test 4
1. b
2. c
3. d
4. a
5. b
6. b
7. c
8. a
9. d
10.a
11.c
12.d
13.c
14.b
15.b
16.a
17.a
18.c
19.d
20.a
21.b
22.c
23.a
24.d
25.d
26.a
27.b
28.a
29.a
30.c
31.a
32.c
33.b
34.d
35.a
Practice Test 5
1. d
2. b
3. b
4. b
5. a
6. a
7. c
8. b
9. b
10.d
11.b
12.b
13.c
14.c
15.d
16.d
17.a
18.d
19.c
20.b
21.c
22.a
23.b
24.c
25.a
26.d
27.a
28.c
29.b
30.d
31.d
32.a
33.a
34.c
35.b