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Michigan Proficiency exam-pack GCVRtest01
 


Grammar - Cloze - Vocabulary - Reading 75 minutes
This part of the examination Contains 120 questions,
numbered 1-120. There are 40 grammar, 20 cloze, 40 vocabulary and 20 reading comprehension questions.
The examiner will not explain any test questions.
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Each question counts the same. If you do not know the answer to a question, you may make a reasonable guess.
Each question has only one correct answer.
Work fast but carefully. You have 75 minutes to answer all 120 problems.

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question 1

"Has the order been shipped yet?" "It…. this morning, but I'd better check."

A supposed to send
B should have sent
C should send
D was to have been sent

question 2

"I hate having to commute to my new job." "Don't worry. You'll….in time.

A become use to
B get used to it
C be of use to it
D have use for it

question 3

She enjoys his company as he's an incredibly…. human being.

A considered
B considerate
C considerable
D considering

question 4

"Did you enjoy the film?" "…."

A Well I never
B Have I ever
C None whatsoever
D Did I ever

question 5

Meteorologists predict that this summer will be the warmest…. in years.

A than we have had
B that it has had
C that we have had
D than it will be

question 6

"I've never seen her in such a bad mood." "I know. I wonder what's…."

A gotten into her
B become of her
C wrong of her
D bothersome about her

question 7

"Are both of the twins good students?" "Pete's…. the two."

A more intelligent than
B the most intelligent of
C the more intelligent than
D the more intelligent of

question 8

….too late to take a bus, she called a taxi instead.

A It being
B Being
C As was
D It was

question 9

I've never been to the Middle East." , "…., but I'm planning to go in April."

A I haven't either
B Neither am I
C Me, too
D Nor am l

question 10

"Shall we have pizza or spaghetti?" "….is fine with me."

A Or one or the other
B One another
C Either one
D Both of them

question 11

"Would you like to come over later?" "….come to my house for a change?"

A Shall you
B Why not
C Why wouldn't you
D How about

question 12

John…. next summer on an archeological dig in Egypt.

A wishes he had spent
B hopes that he could
C wishes that he spends
D is hoping to spend

question 13

"The concert is all sold out." "….let's go to a movie."

A Just in case
B In case of that
C In any case
D In that case

question 14

There's something about him that reminds me…. my younger brother.

A about
B for
C of
D to

question 15

"I think you should reconsider."
"….you say, my mind is made up."

A No matter what
B Nevertheless
C Whichever
D In spite of

question 16

They spent the morning…. the ruins of the Medieval castle.

A in order to explore
B to explore
C exploring
D having explored

question 17

"I don't feel like cooking tonight." "Let's…."

A get something to deliver
B get something delivered
C have delivered something
D have something to deliver

question 18

"Did you see Suzy in New York?" "I would have…. more time."

A if I have had
B did I have
C had I had
D if I should have

question 19

"Is he always so stubborn?" "I….a more obstinate man!"

A will never yet meet
B still have to meet
C haven't met yet
D have yet to meet

question 20

"For the last time,…. turn down that radio?"
"Sorry, did you say something?"

A do you
B will you
C are you to
D shouldn't you

question 21

Everyone was in a good mood, .... the beginning of the vacation.

A as was
B being
C it being
D as being

question 22

It was inconsiderate of you .... a ride, as you were going that way.

A not offering him
B not to offer him
C not having offered
D to not offer to him

question 23

"So you've bought tickets for the trip?" "Yes, although I'd rather .... somewhere warmer than Norway."

A to go to
B we were going
C we would go
D it if we went

question 24

In the documentary, a number of unusual,…. phenomena were explained.

A occurred naturally
B naturally occurred
C naturally occurring
D occurring naturally

question 25

I visited Dan with a view .... up a business there.

A to set
B that I would set
C for setting
D to setting

question 26

In recent years, the company's success .... on the efforts of two or three key employees.

A is depending
B has depended
C was depending
D has been depending

question 27

.... 10,000 people are expected to take part in the demonstration.

A Most of
B So many as
C Much more
D As many as

question 28

.... the damage to the car that we decided to replace it.

A Such was extensive
B Extensive was
C So extensive was
D It was extensive

question 29

Greg searched the apartment for some aspirin but .... , he went out to the drugstore.

A finding none
B not finding
C didn't find any
D he found none

question 30

The new governor is popular with old and young….

A the same
B alike
C similarly
D besides

question 31

"Whose test results were better than yours? "……!"

A Everyone else's
B Everyone's else
C Everyone elses'
D Everyone else

question 32

Jack's friends put hi irritability .... to a lack of sleep.

A down
B away
C out
D forward

question 33

As a defense attorney, he works for clients who .... crimes.

A had falsely accused of
B are under false accusation for
C were falsely accusing for
D have been falsely accused of

question 34

I didn't realize the extent .... her older brother.

A which Annie admires to
B for which admires Annie
C which Annie admires
D to which Annie admires

question 35

"I left the car in the driveway."
"You .... that. The neighbors won't be able to get out."

A oughtn't to have done
B didn't ought to do
C ought not to do
D ought to have not done

question 36

Drive .... the windmill, then make your way to the lake on foot.

A until
B along
C as far as
D into

question 37

If I could .... get Peter's attention, I'd be able to ask his opinion.

A just
B soon
C almost
D immediately

question 38

.... down quickly, the information was difficult to read.

A Been jotted
B By jotting
C Having been jotted
D Jotted

question 39

The advertisers invented a slogan .... would appeal to young people.

A they believed that
B they believed
C they believed it
D that was believed

question 40

The majority of applicants were not .... to fill the vacancy.

A qualified well enough
B qualified enough well
C enough well qualified
D well qualified enough

 

question 41

Michigan Proficiency exam Cloze test 01

Please read the cloze test and choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to fill in the blanks.

Cloze Test01 questions 41 - 60

CLOZE 1
Perched 7,710 ft. high (41)…. the sun-splashed Andes, the ancient Inca city of Machu Picchu is certainly one of the world’s
most (42)…. sights. (43) .... further feed the fancy, as one U.S. website proprietor proclaims tongue in (44)…. , it is far away and has a strange-sounding name. The (45)…. was not detected by the Spaniards and was only discovered (46) .... a 1911 expedition led by Yale University professor Hiram Bingham.
Like the conquistadors centuries (47)…. him, Bingham was seeking a (48)…. city - but not this one. He was on the (49)…. of Vilcabamba, the “lost city of the Incas”, (50) .... which the Incas last, futile rebellion against the Spanish conquerors was launched. Gingham believed he had found it here, (51)… modern scholars do not agree.
Machu Picchu was apparently constructed(52)…. the mid- 15th and the early or mid-16th century.

Its (53)…. location - paired (54)…. the discovery of a (55)…. number of female skeletons at the site - (56)…. led many scientists to believe the city primarily served a religious purpose, perhaps as a sanctuary for the Virgins of the Sun, an elite Inca social group.
Peru’s upkeep of the site has recently come under (57)…. particularly since authorities announced plans to open a cable-car system that would (58)…. tourist access to it - and since a crane collapsed during the recent filming of a beer commercial, damaging the (59)…. ruins. UNESCO declared Machu Picchu a World Heritage Site in 1983, and has said it is considering taking over (60)…. of the site to ensure its protection.

Please read the cloze test and choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to fill in the blanks.

A amid
B below
C at
D amiss

question 42

A breathless
B breath
C breathtaking
D breathing

question 43

A none
B with
C far
D to

question 44

A nose
B cheek
C teeth
D lips

question 45

A city
B Inca
C weird
D mountain range

question 46

A about
B at
C on
D in

question 47

A after
B on
C in
D before

question 48

A lost
B loose
C loosen
D loosened

question 49

A trace
B track
C tractor
D traction

question 50

A where
B by
C from
D onto

question 51

A when
B despite
C therefore
D but

question 52

A in
B on
C before
D upon

question 53

A forbidden
B forbidding
C forbid
D forbade

question 54

A onto
B against
C to
D with

question 55

A hefty
B sizable
C bulky
D wide

question 56

A was
B has
C have
D it

question 57

A shot
B doubt
C fire
D check

question 58

A enlighten
B double
C constrict
D disperse

question 59

A priceless
B costly
C worth
D original

question 60

A control
B guide
C succeed
D directive

question 61

VOCABULARY

61. The school lunch program is backed by…. from the federal government.

A subsidiaries
B subsistence
C funding
D fundamentals

question 62

The executive was dismissed for…. the terms of his contract.

A fracturing
B upholding
C divulging
D breaching

question 63

The child…. illness to get out of taking the history test.

A forged
B feigned
C rehearsed
D manifested

question 64

She watches her weight but enjoys…. a pizza now and then.

A indulging in
B gnawing on
C feeding on
D catering to

question 65

Wise investors prefer…. their assets to investing all their money in a single stock.

A deferring
B diverting
C differentiating
D diversifying

question 66

Packaged breads contain additives that help…. the growth of mold.

A accelerate
B retard
C defy
D promote

question 67

If you want to get ahead in life, you must be assertive and…. .

A kill two birds with one stone
B beat around the bush
C hit the sack
D take the bull by the horns

question 68

If diplomatic efforts fail, the government may be forced to…. military intervention.

A resort to
B appeal to
C refer to
D refrain from

question 69

The car rides so…. that you are barely aware of its motion.

A firmly
B gracefully
C smoothly
D efficiently

question 70

The incident…. a series of angry protests around the country.

A triggered
B liberated
C duplicated
D truncated

question 71

After years of hard use, our living room furniture is not as…. as it used to be.

A flimsy
B sturdy
C filthy
D poised

question 72

The welfare of her children takes…. over all of her other concerns.

A effect
B offense
C exception
D precedence

question 73

Those two must have…. as they've disliked each other from the very start.

A got out of bed on the wrong side
B got off on the wrong foot
C let the cat out of the bag
D been slow on the uptake

question 74

The region is one of the most…. populated in the world.

A spaciously
B sparingly
C sparsely
D spuriously

question 75

A fire in the baggage compartment caused a…. in the plane's electrical system.

A malfunction
B malformation
C miscarriage
D misconception

question 76

The reputable gallery…. paintings by early 20th-century women artists.

A settles for
B settles on
C deals in
D deals out

question 77

She may be over eighty but there is still a youthful…. in her eye.

A freckle
B speckle
C sparkle
D trickle

question 78

We found the excess of violence in the film highly…. .

A defensive
B repentant
C exceptional
D objectionable

question 79

The television station was…. with complaints after airing the controversial show.

A deluged
B overcome
C innovated
D bombed

question 80

The truth is sometimes cruel and extremely hard to….

A grind
B chew
C swallow
D consume

question 81

The red curtains .... with the orange bedspread.

A clashed
B associated
C opposed
D concurred

question 82

The tourists had no choice but to leave the country, as their visas had ....

A expired
B ceased
C finalized
D terminated

question 83

The bookcase has two .... shelves and one adjustable shelf

A immovable
B idle
C stationary
D stagnant

question 84

The contract you signed is legally…. .

A obliging
B binding
C entailing
D compelling

question 85

Having been fired from his last three
positions, his career prospects are…. .

A inept
B bleak
C futile
D vain

question 86

The country imported a large quantity of wheat to .... existing stocks.

A refurbish
B accomplish
C replenish
D diminish

question 87

The two men almost came to…. over the parking space.

A strikes
B fists
C blows
D punches

question 88

It was hot in the room, so Harry .... his sweater

A cast
B shed
C dispensed
D dropped

question 89

The research showed that the substance is .... and will not harm human beings.

A bland
B neutral
C blameless
D innocuous

question 90

John walked away without a backward…. .

A glance
B glimpse
C gaze
D gape

question 91

Ben was staring into space, his face…. of all expression.

A devoid
B lacking
C absent
D deficient

question 92

The patient's family was .... on his progress.

A imparted
B updated
C acquainted
D familiarized

question 93

Some of her friends had already joined a gym, and Janet followed their ....

A step
B suit
C act
D plan

question 94

Resistance to the plan eventually .... out, and the new factory was built.

A shrunk
B petered
C dwindled
D waned

question 95

Students find it easy to concentrate in the….atmosphere of the library.

A hushed
B muffled
C stiffing
D taciturn

question 96

I don't trust Jeff entirely because he has a tendency to .... the truth.

A mutate
B amend
C convert
D distort

question 97

The children played with the toy for a few days, then the .... wore off.

A novelty
B oddity
C innovation
D incentive

question 98

Security will be .... for the president's visit.

A signed up
B closed in
C stepped up
D forked out

question 99

Generous to .... , David tipped the waiter over 30%.

A a wealth
B a fault
C a level
D an excess

question 100

The burglar's…..helped him hide the stolen goods.

A assailant
B adversary
C accomplice
D adherent

question 101

Please read the passage and choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D.

Michigan Proficiency Reading Test01

Reading 1a  -> Questions 101-105

 Fire was a regular visitor to most North American forests long before Europeans settled this continent. Nevertheless, almost from its founding in 1905, the U.S. Forest Service adopted a rigid policy: Don't let fires get started - ever.

There were, to be sure, a few people who insisted that it wasn't quite that simple. One was the great conservationist John Muir, who had long noted the "inviting openness" of the forests covering California's Sierra Nevada, and remarked that these open forests seemed relatively impervious to fire. The reason was that the Sierra forests had always been periodically burned over. Fires, starting by lightning, regularly consumed underbrush and litter - needles, cones and dead branches - on the forest floor where most fires star, which thereby prevented a build up of dangerous tinder. The result was that fires moved slowly in the Sierra Nevada and only on the ground. Muir had warned, as early as 1896, that total exclusion of fires would destroy this natural inoculation. The professionals unfortunately, paid little attention.

Wildfire in fact involves a "triangle" of causes: weather, ignition and fuel. "Fire weather" - a suitable combination of drought, heat and wind - occurs annually in California and other places with a dry-summer, and periodically in most other temperate and tropical regions. Ignition will occur wherever men are careless or malicious or the turbulent air gives birth to lightning. and fuel will exist as long as trees drop their leaves and needles to the ground or dried matted grasses accumulate in open country. Therefore, say today's experts, since weather is beyond man's control, and ignition is only partly controllable, fuel would seem to be the point at which to attack wildfire.

Please read the passage and choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D.

101. Before European settlement, the forests of the Sierra Nevada...

A were never touched by fire
B suffered occasional burning of the underbrush
C were severely burned on one occasion
D were regularly devastated by fire

question 102

Fires in the great forests are most often started by...

A man's carelessness
B arsonists
C the U.S. Forest service
D electrical storms

question 103

The naturally caused fires were harmless to the forests because...

A they moved slowly
B storms would soon put them out
C the trees were strong enough to resist fire
D they only moved on the ground

question 104

Forests fires only occur in...

A bare region
B temperate and tropical regions
C the Mediterranean area
D areas which are not wet and cold

question 105

105. The best way to prevent forest fires seems to be to...

A let leaves and needles pile up under the trees
B clear leaves and needles from under the trees
C forbid people to enter the forests
D control the weather

question 106

Please read the passage and choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D.

Michigan Proficiency Test01

Reading 1b  ->  Questions 106-110

Plants, like animals, use oxygen to burn food stored their cells for energy. In animals this process produces a lot of heat, part of which is used to help maintain a steady body temperature. Being rather sedentary, though, plants generally use less fuel and thus produce much less, heat. But ,zoologists in Australia have found one plant that puts out as much heat as many a more mobile life-form. The sacred lotus, or Nelumbo nucifera, can regulate its temperature, keeping its flowers at 86 to 95 degrees, even if  the air around it is as cool as 41 degrees.    

 Most of the time the lotus behaves like other plants, its temperature fluctuating with the ambient heat, or lack of it. But during its four-day flowering period, the plant changes: its flowers begin to warm up. This was discovered when researchers inserted hair-thin metallic probes attached to a temperature meter into new flower buds and into three different parts of mature flowers: the petals, the stamens, and the receptacle, which houses the plant’s female reproductive parts. The lotus was monitored during its entire flowering period.
    The buds’ temperature, initially as low as 55 degrees, soared to an average of 90 degrees and held steady from the beginning to the end of flowering. Eighteen budding lotuses yielded the same result. How the flowers shift into high gear, however, is a mystery.    

 What does the lotus gain from all this heat output? Botanists have suggested that Arum lilies heat their flowers to better disperse their scent. But the Australian researchers think that the lotus is catering to the various beetle species that pollinate it. To fly, the beetles must warm up their muscles to about 86 degrees by shivering violently, a process that requires time and energy. By providing heat, N. nucifera may be increasing the efficiency of its pollinators, allowing the beetles to spend more time pollinating and less time shivering.

Please read the passage and choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D.

106. Generally speaking, plants burn less fuel in their cells than animals because they…

A are not able to store fuel as efficiently.
B are not as active as animals.
C have no need to produce heat.
D can exist at lower temperatures.

question 107

How does the sacred lotus differ from most other plants?

A Its temperature is not affected by the air around it.
B It is pollinated exclusively by a rare species of beetle.
C Sometimes its heat output is more like that of an animal.
D It easily withstands cold due to its ability to produce heat.

question 108

What do scientists believe about the sacred lotus and the beetles that pollinate it?

A The beetles are attracted to the flower because of its unusually warm temperature.
B The beetles would shiver to death, were it not for the plant's ability to warm their muscles.
C The plant's heat helps spread the scent of the flower, ensuring that pollinators are attracted.
D The plant's heat output results in the beetles' being able to pollinate it more effectively.

question 109

109. What is true about the sacred lotus?

A Its reproductive anatomy resembles that of other plants.
B It is the only plant that can produce heat when flowering.
C The plant has a constant temperature except when flowering.
D Its temperature fluctuates wildly during the flowering period.

question 110

What is not true about the researchers who studied the lotus?

A They think they understand why the plant produces such heat.
B They think they understand how the plant produces such heat.
C They used special equipment to monitor the plant as it flowered.
D They repeated their experiment on more than a dozen specimens.

question 111

Please read the passage and choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D.

Michigan Proficiency Test01

Reading 1c   ->  Questions 111-115

    Over its 1500-year-history, the English language has changed beyond recognition. In the 5th century AD, West Germanic invaders brought their language Old English the British isles, pushing the Celtic-speaking natives to peripheral areas. Three centuries later, Northern Germanic words were introduced as a consequence of the Viking invasions. Viking contributions to vocabulary are still identifiable today in words such as dream and skirt. It is estimated that around one sixth of all Old English words have survived and are still used, albeit in an altered form, in Modern English vocabulary.
    The next influential event for the English language was the Norman Conquest, following which the new nobility continued to speak their
own language. Old French, while English remained as the language of the peasants. For this reason, there are a variety of examples of the existence of two entirely different English words with a similar meaning (beef and cow, for instance).

As time passed, some French words entirely replaced their English equivalents and frequently new words (gentleman, for example) were formed from a combination of French and English parts. When relations with France became strained for political reasons, and the activities of the English-speaking merchant class became important, the dominance of Old French gave way to Middle English. In written form, Middle English is intelligible (although with some difficulty) to speakers of Modern English.    

Around 500 years ago, the revival of classical scholarship encouraged the incorporation of many Greek and Latin words into the language. At around the same time, a dramatic change in pronunciation, took place which greatly affected the vowel sounds of the language. Thus, a Modern English speaker would have been unable to understand spoken Middle English but quite capable of comprehending Early Modern English. With the development of the printing press spelling and grammar were largely standardized, bringing the language much closer to the form we speak today.

Please read the passage and choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D.


111. Why would a person today have difficulty understanding Middle English?

A Many words have changed.
B It sounded different.
C There were too many foreign influences
D It did not use the same vowels

question 112

After the Norman Conquest…

A French replaced English.
B English remained the main language.
C two different languages were spoken.
D a new language developed.

question 113

Before the development of the printing press…

A English grammar was very difficult.
B English was pronounced differently.
C there were many Greek and Latin words in the English language.
D the same words were often spelled differently.

question 114

Before the West Germanic invasion, the people in the British Isles…

A spoke Old English.
B spoke Celtic.
C spoke Northern Germanic
D had been invaded by the Vikings.

question 115

The rising merchant class spoke…

A Old French
B Middle English.
C Modern English.
D combination of French and English.

question 116

Please read the passage and choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D.

Michigan Proficiency Test01

Reading 1d   ->  Questions 116-120

The year 1685 to 1700 were the period of Louis’s middle age. Abroad, the King maintained France’s glory, though at a lesser pitch, while at home he did much to foster notable advances in science. For Louis personally, it was a period of domestic contentment. In 1685 Louis was forty-seven. His health continued to be excellent. His body was naturally robust and stood up well to long hours of work, to pleasure and hard physical exercise.

Yet since the age of eight, Louis’s scrupulous First Doctors had recorded a succession of headaches and spells of tiredness, pimples and rashes, chills and sore throats; by the year 1685 this Diary of the King’s Health ran to several hundred pages. With only the Diary to go on, one would suppose that Louis was what Scarron claimed to be: a walking textbook of ailments. According to Vallot, his earliest doctor, Louis had a warm, bilious temperament. Like most of his courtiers he ate too much game and highly spiced sauces; for his consequent disorders there was one staple treatment: purging and bleeding, bleeding and purging.

Medicine was still bedeviled by astrology - in 1658 Louis’s surgeon-in-ordinary had advised that the King should be bled in the first and last quarters of the moon, “because then the humors have returned to the center of the body” - and tended to ask interesting though misguided questions: “Can nature do more than education to make a hero?” “Are pretty women more fertile than others?” Doctors were treated as figures of fun, and, in the presence of the King, Moliere once chaffed his physician, a certain Mauvillain: “We reason with one another; he prescribes the remedies; I omit to take them and I recover.”

Please read the passage and choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D.

116. Louis…

A did much to retain France's glory but at home was rebuked for his attempts to hinder any scientific advances.
B encouraged growth and development in the field of science.
C couldn't care less about the notable advances in the field of science.
D did much to thwart notable advances in science.

question 117

According to the Diary of the Kings health…

A Louis suffered from a deadly disease.
B Scarron diagnosed Louis as having various ailments.
C Louis suffered from a great variety of maladies
D Louis was condemned to die young.

question 118

Louis took a liking to…

A hunting wild birds.
B seafood.
C the meat of wild animals.
D outdoor sports.

question 119

Purging and bleeding…

A became the result of Louis's unhealthy eating.
B was a treatment discovered through astrology and used on Louis.
C became Louis' chief treatment.
D finally proved to be an unsuccessful treatment.

question 120

Moliere…

A denounced his physician by saying he never took his prescribed medicine when needed.
B teased his physician by saying he always remembered not to take his medicine and therefore recovered.
C told his physician that he recovered because he never forgot to take his prescribed medicine.
D told the King that he had made an agreement with his physician never to take his prescribed remedies again.

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