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I. Vocabulary (20%): Choose the word that best completes the sentence. 1. The omicron ______, first identified late last month in southern Africa, has sent infections soaring to levels not seen since …
2. Just ______ everyone knows what Tetris is. It was created in 1984 by a Russian computer programmer, Alexey Pajitnov. (A) about (B) between (C) with (D) on
3. Myanmar has been in chaos since the ______ in February, with more than 1,300 people killed in a crackdown by security forces, according to a local monitoring group. (A) cup (B) coup (C) cap (D) cop
4. Flight ______ triggered by weather and coronavirus-related staffing shortages eased slightly Tuesday. (A) destructions (B) disruptions (C) devotion (D) detention
5. The ample animal bones found in the ruins prove that the people living there were ______ hunters, and there are signs of massive feasts. (A) distinguished (B) lousy (C) hallucinating (D) fascinatin…
6. Those experiments were a ______ stone towards two of the most important and profitable vaccines in history: the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines given to hundreds of millions of people around the world…
7. Producing food generates so much greenhouse-gas pollution that at the current rate, even if nations cut all non-food ______ to zero, they still wouldn't be able to limit temperature rise to 1.5 °C …
8. Archaeologists have long suggested that the placement of human ______ in tombs during the Stone Age of northwestern Europe reflects one of the ways in which kinship was created and negotiated. (A) …
9. Sci-Hub, the popular website that offers access to millions of pirated research papers and books, is no stranger to ______ action. (A) fungal (B) conjugal (C) regal (D) legal
10. During the twentieth century, our knowledge of the past was ______ by the introduction of radiocarbon dating. (A) immunize (B) organize (C) demonize (D) revolutionized
II. Structure (20%) 11. A ______ of covid-19 cases in China prompts a citywide lockdown. (A) cluster (B) few (C) team (D) collective
12. ______ a third year of the pandemic loomed, the seven-day average of U.S. cases topped 267,000 on Tuesday. (A) Through (B) As (C) Since (D) In
13. The Charles Lieber case reveals America's scientific rivalry ______ China. (A) toward (B) in (C) about (D) with
14. Chile rewrites its constitution, ______ climate change head on. (A) confrontation (B) confronts (C) confronting (D) confronted
15. Joan Didion, who died on Thursday, at ______ of 87, from complications related to Parkinson's disease, was a model and trailblazer in many ways. (A) the age (B) an age (C) the year (D) years
16. If it ______ easy to care for elderly people with significant health, memory and behavior problems, more of us would be keeping our frail parents at home with us. (A) was (B) has been (C) were (D)…
17. As allegations piled up against President Donald J. Trump with no apparent consequences, many politicians concluded that ethical behavior ______ mattered and decided to stop cooperating with congr…
18. Putin has amassed ______ 175,000 troops and a formidable arsenal of combat hardware in the area. (A) down to (B) up to (C) into (D) onto
19. Leftist media outlets such as MSNBC spent 2020 treating COVID like it was easily fixable — ______ voters simply put Democrats in charge. (A) whether (B) regarding (C) since (D) if
20. Early ______, human embryos form a structure called the blastocyst. (A) in developing (B) developing (C) in development (D) development
III. Cloze Test (40%) Passage 1: Questions 21-25 The James Webb Space Telescope — humanity's biggest __(21)__ yet in its quest to probe the Universe — soared into space on 25 December, marking the cul…
22. (A) will (B) is (C) has been (D) had been
23. (A) crown (B) hand (C) waist (D) head
24. (A) successor (B) inheritor (C) heiress (D) auditor
25. (A) deploy (B) deployed (C) deploying (D) is deployed
Passage 2: Questions 26-30 In June 2020, a new and powerful artificial intelligence (AI) began __(26)__ technologists in Silicon Valley. Called GPT-3 and created by the research firm OpenAI in San Fra…
27. (A) imbibing (B) deflecting (C) imagining (D) reflecting
28. (A) proceed-up (B) initiate-up (C) begin-up (D) start-up
29. (A) charting (B) programming (C) stunning (D) teasing
30. (A) specifically (B) merely (C) synthetically (D) generally