1、Sample QuestionsRead the passage and select the best answers for the question that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentences structure or word choice. Other questions ask you to consider organization and development. In choosing answ
2、ers, follow the requirements of standard written English.Quesitions 16 are based on the following passage.(1) Recently a group of workers from a clothing factory in my hometown picketed peacefully in front of a department store. (2) They carried signs, and passing shoppers were urged by them to buy
3、products that were made in the United States. (3) A newspaper article suggested that they were wrong. (4) It pointed out that nearly all stores now sell goods that are not made in this country. (5) However, I would argue that the demonstrators are right, consumers should think about the effect they
4、can have on industries here in the United States.(6) Consumers have the right to buy whatever they want. (7)They should consider the effects of their choices. (8)In the last several years, hundreds of thoudsands of workers in United States industries have lost their jobs. (9) They represent billions
5、 of dollars of lost wages and taxes. (10) Consumers should know that consumer goods that are not made in the United States contribute to the loss of jobs in many different American industries and businesses. (11) Buying goods made in the United States means investing in our future. (12) Without gove
6、rnment subsidies, our industries only have the American consumer to help them compete in the world market and therefore guarantee jobs for hundreds of thousands of workers in the United States.1 In context, which is the best version of the underlined portion of sentence 2(reproduced below)?They carr
7、ied signs, and passing shoppers were urged by them to buy products that were made in the United States.(A) (As it is now)(B) They carry signs and urge passing shoppers(C)Carrying signs and urging passing shoppers, the wokers asked them(D) The workers carried signs that urged the passing shoppers(E)
8、These signs urged passing shoppers.2 In context, which is is the best way to revise and combine the underlined portions of sentences 3 and 4 (reproduced below)?A newspaper article suggested that they were wrong. It pointed out that nearly all stores now sell goods that are not made in this country.(
9、A) A newspaper article suggested that the demonstrators were wrong, pointing out.(B) They were wrong, a newspaper article suggested, it pointed out that(C)Suggesting that they are wrong, in a newspaper article it says(D) The newspaper article suggests that the shoppers were wrong.(E) In the newspape
10、r article was the suggestion that they were wrong.3 In context, which is the best versio of the undelined portions of sentences 6 nad 7.Consumers have the right to buy whatever they want. They should consider the effects of their choices.(A) (As it is now)(B)Consumers certainly have the right to buy
11、 whatever they want, but they should consider(C) Consumers certainly have the right to buy whatever they wantm, regardless of(D) Although consumers have the right to buy whatever they want, they also consider(E) Apparently, consumers have the right to buy whatever they want. If only they would consi
12、der.4 Which of the following best replaces the word “they ”in sentence 9?(A) The consumers(B) These lost jobs(C) The industries(D) Those arguments(E) The United States5 Which sentence would be most appropriate to follow sentence 12?(A) I see now that the demonstrators were right(B) Consumers have ri
13、ghts, too.(C) In conclusion, we have no one else to blame(D) The next time you go shopping, think of the workers and their families in your community(E) We, the American comsumers , must find out how to invest in our industries.6 Including a paragraph on which of the following would most strengthen
14、the writers argument.(A) The effect of strikes in industry(B) A comparision of working conditions in the United States and elsewhere in the world(C) Quatations from the newspaper article referred to in sentence 3(D) Buying patterns of different gropus of consumers(E) The impact that the closing of a factory has had on a particular community.
