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lOMoARcPSD|31991423 lOMoARcPSD|31991423 WMSUCET Practice Test 1 Section 1 Language Proficiency 1-70 I. Error Identification: Select the letter of the portion of the sentence that contains an error. If there is no error, select D to indicate that the sentence contains no error. Each item may only have up to one error underlined. Wmsucet- Practice-TEST 1. In the 1990’s, the People’s Republic of China grew economically, territorially, and culturally. No Error. A B C D 2. Latin is practically a dead language, spoken only by students, academics, and the Catholic clergy. No Error. A B C D Basic Legal Ethics (Western Mindanao State University) 3. In November 29, 1890, the Imperial Japanese Diet convened for the first time. No Error A B C D 4. The financial expert which flew in to advice the president, came from London. No Error. A B C D 5. In 2010, Harvard University had an acceptance rate of 6.9%, and will have rejected students with perfect SAT scores. A B C No Error. D 6. Akihiro tried to acquire as many of the valuable and groundbreaking knowledge as he can from the lecture. No Error. A B C D 7. Ateneo’s rank of 307 in the 2010 QS University rankings is far ahead of La Salle, ranked 451. No Error. A B C D 8. The Continental Congress is drafting a constitution for the delegates they will address in June. No Error. A B C D 9. Xabi Alonso’s shot was wide off the mark and the goalkeeper Casillias did not have to make a save. No Error. A B C D 10. The proposal made by the British Labour Party was in opposition of privatization of state holdings. No Error. A B C D Downloaded by Patrick George ([email protected]) Studocu is not sponsored or endorsed by any college or university Downloaded by Patrick George ([email protected])  lOMoARcPSD|31991423 lOMoARcPSD|31991423 WMSUCET Practice Test 1 WMSUCET Practice Test 1 IV. Improving sentences: Select the item that will change the underlined portion and make the sentence grammatically III. Vocabulary correct and more effective. Select choice A if no improvement is necessary. Choose the best answer. A. Synonyms: Select the word/s that best capture the meaning of the italicized word. 41. Having moderated inflation, economic growth and the 42. Right of the bat, the critics told the painter that his work rapid creation of jobs is the objective of the incoming was horrendous. administration. 21. As a result of inbreeding, some members of the 22. The rapid staccato of raindrops on the roof kept a. Right of the bat, the critics Russian Imperial household suffered from everyone from sleeping early. a. Having moderated inflation, economic growth and the b. Right off the bat, the critics hemophilia. rapid creation of jobs is c. Right with the bat, the critics had a. Sharp, rapid sounds b. Having moderated inflation, economic growth and jobs d. Right on the bat, critics have created is already a. Bloodthirstiness b. Heavy banging c. Having moderated inflation, economic growth and rapid b. Infertility c. Incessant tapping creation of jobs are c. Uncontrollable Bleeding d. Flowing d. Having moderated inflation, economic growth and rapid d. Mental Disorders job creation is 23. The candidate committed a serious faux pas when he 24. George Orwell brilliantly portrayed a socialist 43. Dan Brown is the author which had been the major cause 44. Erick was made to choose between staying at home for the described the laborers as “ignorant.” dystopia in his book 1984. of numerous conspiracy theories regarding the Church, the game or his girlfriend’s debut in the theatre. Masons and the Illuminati. a. Sin a. Fable a. Staying at home for the game or his girlfriend’s debut b. Misstep b. Anti-utopia a. Dan Brown is the author which had been the major cause b. Staying at home for the game and attending his girlfriend’s b. Dan Brown has been causing debut c. Offense c. Myth c. Dan Brown is the author who caused c. Staying at home for the game or attending his girlfriend’s d. Insult d. Utopia d. Dan Brown has been the author who had caused debut d. Staying for the game and attending to his girlfriend 25. Fabio never liked the ancient necropolis at the 26. The Pope appointed a new apostolic nuncio to outskirts of town. France. 45. Frederick the Great of Prussia exhibited wisdom and being 46. The unification of the English and Scottish monarchies was idealistic, traits appropriate for the ideal monarch that the the cause of much friction in the new British state. a. A large and old cemetery a. Bishop Enlightenment thinkers portrayed him as. b. A city on a hill b. Cardinal a. Monarchies was the cause c. An elevated villa c. Envoy a. Exhibited wisdom and being idealistic, traits appropriate b. Monarchies were the cause b. Exhibited wisdom and idealism c. Monarchies caused d. A dark city d. Prelate c. Exhibited wisdom and idealistic traits that are especially d. Monarchy were a divisive cause proper 27. In medieval England, papists, or Catholics, could be 28. In the U.K. the name of the Scottish city Edinburgh, d. Exhibited wisdom and idealism, traits appropriate obtruncated if caught. in the vernacular, is actually pronounced “E-din- burrah.” 47. The tensions between Japan and China were so high as to 48. By the age of 21, most children in the world of today would a. Deported both countries have prepared their militaries for a have gone on to live by themselves. b. Beheaded a. Native Language or Dialect potential attack. c. Tortured b. Local Slang a. Most children in the world of today d. Imprisoned c. Peculiar manner a. China were so high as to both countries b. Most children in the modern world d. Surrounding area b. China was so high that both countries c. Most children now c. China were so high that both countries d. Most children, as of the present, d. China were so high that both, beginning today with missile 29. The nomadic Mongols lived in yurts since the days of 30. The Apotheosis of Washington is a unique work of barriers Genghis Khan. art that can be found in the U.S. Capitol. 49. The Philippine economy grew by 7.8%, which is higher 50. The Ateneo is one of the oldest institutions in Asia, dating a. Tents a. Glorification than China, which grew by 7.5%. back to the 1800’s, when the Jesuits returned from its b. Houses b. Deification exile. c. Caravans c. Inauguration a. Which is higher than China, which drew by 7.5% d. Wagons d. Archetype b. Which is higher than 7.5%. a. To the 1800’s, when the Jesuits returned from its exile. c. Which is higher than China’s growth of 7.5%. b. In the 1800’s, when the Jesuits returned it from exile. d. Which is higher than the Chinese rate of growth. c. In the 1800’s, when the Jesuits have returned from their extensive exile. d. To the 1800’s, when the Jesuits returned from their exile. Downloaded by Patrick George ([email protected]) Downloaded by Patrick George ([email protected])  lOMoARcPSD|31991423 lOMoARcPSD|31991423 WMSUCET Practice Test 1 WMSUCET Practice Test 1 71. Which writer wrote Historie de ma vie and became 72. The Ottoman Empire had its beginnings where? famous in history for his womanizing? VI. Paragraph Arrangement: Arrange the sentences in a coherent and logical manner, in the form of a paragraph. a. Anatolia Select the best answer from among the choices. a. Henry XIII b. Syria b. Giacomo Casanova c. Persia c. Maximilien de Robespierre d. Constantinople a. Before him, people thought of themselves as beings that were special, set apart from all creation. d. Amerigo Vespucci b. With this is mind, the notion of being no different from the heathen chimpanzees in the rainforests of Africa caused quite a stir back in his day. 73. Which is the 12th longest river in the world? 74. During the Seven Years’ War, which country c. In time, Darwin has proved that he was correct, and his theory is now generally accepted students, teachers and occupied Manila and most of Luzon? academics everywhere. a. Yangtze d. Charles Darwin was the man who formulated the theory of evolution. b. Amazon a. The Netherlands c. Mississippi b. Spain d. Mekong c. France d. Great Britain 57. What should be the first sentence? 58. What should be the last sentence? 75. Which is not part of the United Kingdom? 76. What is inscribed on the gates of hell in Dante’s a. (a) a. (a) Inferno? b. (b) b. (b) a. Scotland c. (c) c. (c) b. Wales a. “Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you d. (d) d. (d) c. Ireland go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost d. England people” 59. What should be the third sentence? 60. What could be the title of this short essay? b. “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” c. “Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars.” a. (a) a. The Life and Works of Charles Darwin d. “Hope not ever to see heaven again.” b. (b) b. Survival of the Fittest c. (c) c. Evolution’s Eventual Acceptance 77. Who is the current manager of Reading Football 78. Who was the communist revolutionary who led a d. (d) d. The Socio-Political Ramifications of Darwinism Club? revolution in Cuba, died in Bolivia, and then was immortalized in countless T-shirts and merchandise? a. Arsene Wenger b. Bryan McDermott a. Vladimir Lenin c. Sir Alex Ferguson b. Ernesto “Che” Guevara d. Nigel Adkins c. Mao Zedong d. Leon Trotsky 79. Which was the last dynasty to rule over China? 80. Where are white blood cells in the human body made? a. Zhou b. Tang a. Bone Marrow c. Han b. Thymus Gland d. Qing c. Spine d. Spleen STOP! -END OF SECTION- --Do not turn to any other section-- Downloaded by Patrick George ([email protected]) Downloaded by Patrick George ([email protected])  lOMoARcPSD|31991423 lOMoARcPSD|31991423 WMSUCET Practice Test 1 WMSUCET Practice Test 1 99. What is the point of intersection of the following 100. Given figure with cubic and linear functions Section 3 lines? f(x) and t(x), where f(y)=t(y), which could be a value of y? Numerical Ability Line A: y = 4 x + 8 86-145 Line B: y = 7x + 5 60 items; 50 minutes a. (4, 16) Instructions: You will be given questions that test your ability in mathematics. Choose the best and simplest answer from among the choices. Take note that figures are not drawn to scale. b. (5, 10) 86. 27,813 students took the ACET this year. If only x 2 + 25 c. (1, 12) 2,836 students were admitted into the Ateneo among 87. Simplify the expression: 2 d. (1, 24) those students, what is the Ateneo’s acceptance rate? x −10x + 25 a. 7.5% a. (x-5) b. 10.2% b. (x+5) c. 13.4% c. -10x d. 9.0% 2 d. 25x 88. Given the equation (x − y) × (y − x) = −4 , where x x and y are whole numbers, which of the following can 89. Given the functions f (g) = + x 2 , x( y) = y −1 4 be the value of x? and g( x) = x + 6, what is the value of f (g( x( y))) if y =5? a. 3 b. 5 a. -1 a. 100 c. 10 b. 56.7 b. 567 d. -3 c. 102.5 d. 64.5 c. 2 90. The tuition fee of two semesters in the Loyola 91. What is the x-intercept of y = 17x + 51? d. -6 Schools costs 150,000. If the fee increases at the rate of 5% per year, around how much will the a. 5 101. What is the standard deviation of the set of values 102. What is the surface area of a rectangular prism that tuition be in 5 years for one semester? b. 3 {2,4,4,4,5,7,9}? has a length of 7, a width of 5 and a height of 6? c. 14 a. 182,326 d. -3 a. 4 a. 221 b. 81,274 c. 95,721 b. 2 b. 198 d. 191,443 c. 7 c. 214 92. Given inscribed angle θ , what is the angle of 3 5 8 3 93. Given that x x  y , what is y equal to if x  4 ? d. 9 d. 266 central angle δ , which subtends the same arc? a. 64 2 2 256 104. 1+ tan θ = ? a. δ b. 24 103. Simplify the expression if x  4. b. θ δ c. 16 2 2 x −4 a. sin θ c. 90 d. 42 a. 1 θ b. 2 b. 16 2 d. 2 c. cos θ c. 4 2 d. sec θ d. 21 Downloaded by Patrick George ([email protected]) Downloaded by Patrick George ([email protected])  lOMoARcPSD|31991423 lOMoARcPSD|31991423 WMSUCET Practice Test 1 WMSUCET Practice Test 1 111. Given this graph of a function, its equation probably has 112. Given triangle ABC, where angle ABC is a right angle, AB ________. 2 125. What is the area of a circle inscribed in a square with diagonals 126. Given this figure, what is the length of x? (Reminder: =x, BC=y, and AC= (x + 4) , what is y in terms of x? figures are not drawn to scale.) that are 4 2 units long? a. 32π b. 4π c. 16π d. 8π a. (x+4) a. A squared value b. x+4 a. 9 b. An absolute value c. An exponent c. x 3 b. 6 c. 1.5 d. A regression d. 2 x +4 113. When the perimeter of square ABCD is doubled, then its area, 114. If 5x + n = 45 + 2n , what is n in terms of x? d. 3 x, will be ____. n 128. The Trans-Siberian Railway travels 9000 km from Vladivostok a. Quadrupled a. 9  127. log5 z  2. What is the value of z? to Moscow in 4 days. It then travels another 3000 km from Moscow 5 a. 10 to Novosibirsk in 1 day. What is the average speed of the train in b. Doubled kilometers per hour throughout its journey? b. 5x + 45 b. 5/2 c. Squared a. 100 km/hr c. −45 + 5x c. 7 d. Cubed b. 90 km/hr d. x − 9 d. 25 c. 110 km/hr 6 , what is x in terms of y? d. 120 km/hr 115. How many values of x can satisfy the following equation? 116. Given the equation (4 x ) 4 = 4y 4 x 3 129. A rhombus with a perimeter of 20 cm has a diagonal that has a 130. Every year, the price of a Big Mac increases by 15%. If a Big 3 length of 8 cm. What is the length of the other diagonal? Mac currently costs 145 pesos, around how much will it cost in 4  years? y a. 4 2 a. 254 pesos 5 a. 2 y a. One y 3 b. 4 3 b. 270 pesos c. 284 pesos b. Two b. 4  2 c. 3 3 d. 3 d. 195 pesos 6y c. Three c. 4 d. More than three 132. What is the length of the longest segment that can fit 131. The amount of sodas sold, x, is inversely proportional to its price, y 6 y. Which of the following could be the equation that represents the into a cube with sides 4 cm long? d. 4 4 relationship between the sodas sold and its price? a. 8 3 a. xy  40 b. x y  40 b. 4 3 2 2 c. 51 c. x y  40 2 d. 4 2  5 d. x y  40 Downloaded by Patrick George ([email protected]) Downloaded by Patrick George ([email protected])  lOMoARcPSD|31991423 lOMoARcPSD|31991423 WMSUCET Practice Test 1 WMSUCET Practice Test 1 141. If every ⊗ represents 500,000 casualties, how many 142. Given the figure below, what is the value of y? B. Paired Word Analogy: Select the pair of words that are related in a similar manner to those given in the number. casualties are represented by this set of symbols? 156. Rice: Paddy--___:____ 157. Policeman: Crime--___:____ ⊗⊗⊗⊗⊗ a. Oil: Caves a. Broom: Dust a. 250,000 b. Staples: Stapler b. Fireman: Rescue b.2,500,000 c. Car: Factory c. Soap: Skin c. 3,125,000 d. Teacher: Prep-School d. Eraser: Write d. 1,000,000 158. Journalism: News--___:____ 159. Memories: Experiences--___:____ a. 3 a. Engineering: Structures a. Learning: People b. 6 b. Mathematics: Equations b. Money: Power c. 2 3 c. Pencils: Books c. Creativity: Pedigree d.12 d. Poets: Laureates d. Knowledge: Studies 144. What is the area of a triangle with a base of 5 and a 160. Scalpel: Surgery--___:___ 161. Tenable: Defensible--___:___ 143. 5 75 + 3 =? height of 6? a. Visualization: Photography a. Impossible: Viable a. 7 78 a. 4 b. Anesthesia: Numbness b. Arduous: Difficult b. 7 225 b. 30 c. Mnemonic: Memorization c. Credible: Justifiable c. 60 c. 27 3 d. Magnets: Poles d. Sweltering: Sun d. 15 d. 4 3 145. Line is perpendicular to line λ , which has an equation of x = −2(y + 4). What is the slope of line ? 162. Xylophilia: Wood—___:____ 163. Madrid: Spain--___:____ a. 2 a. Petrophilia: Rock art or structures a. New York: U.S.A. 1 b. Anglophilia: Britain b. Phnom Penh: Cambodia b. 2 c. Logophilia: Pictures c. Almaty: Kazakhstan 1 d. Retrophilia: Disco Music d. Sydney: Australia c. − 2 164. Arbitration: To Settle--___:____ 165. Washington: U.S.A.--____:____ d. 4 a. Mastication: To Chew a. L’Ouverture: Haiti b. Application: To Reject b. Napoleon: France c. Destruction: Edification c. Raffles: Hong Kong d. Elimination: Obstruction d. Togo: Japan STOP STOP - - END OF SECTION — - - END OF SECTION — Do not turn to any other sections. Do not turn to any other sections. Downloaded by Patrick George ([email protected]) Downloaded by Patrick George ([email protected])  lOMoARcPSD|31991423 lOMoARcPSD|31991423 PUPCET Practice Test 1 WMSUCET Practice Test 1 PASSAGE 2: Valentine-by Carol Ann Duffy. 1 Not a red rose or a satin heart. 2 I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. 174. For questions 174-175, read the following passage: 175. If Dan and Martin must start together, what is the only It promises light possible starting lineup? like the careful undressing of love. The coach of the college basketball team needs to pick 5 6 Here. players for the starting lineup from James, Franco, Miguel, a. James, Martin, Dan, Chris, Josh It will blind you with tears Ricky, Dan, Martin, Josh and Chris. The starting lineup must like a lover. include only one big man and one guard. b. Martin, Dan, Chris, Ricky, Franco It will make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief. Martin, Franco and Ricky are guards. Dan and Josh are big c. Martin, Franco, Chris, Miguel, James 11 I am trying to be truthful. men. Which of the following are possible starting lineups? d. Martin, Dan, Chris, Miguel, James 12 Not a cute card or a kissogram.** a. James, Franco, Chris, Josh, Miguel. 13 I give you an onion. Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips, b. Martin, Franco, Sam, Chris and Josh. possessive and faithful as we are, c. Dan, James, Ricky, Martin, Josh. for as long as we are. d. Dan, James, Miguel, Chris, Josh. 18 Take it. Its platinum loops shrink to a wedding ring, if you like. 21 Lethal. Its scent will cling to your fingers, cling to your knife. **A person sent to kiss another person on behalf of a lover on special occasions like Valentine’s. 181. Why did the author place the line “Not a red rose or a satin heart,” 182. What do lines 7-8 refer to? before line 1? a. The tears that their relationship will cause. a. To show her dislike for all forms of love b. The tears that onions induce in people b. To contrast with the unusual symbol of love that is the onion c. Tears caused by infidelity c. To convey her preference for a less romantic sort of love d. Jealousy and fighting between the in-laws d. To preclude the references to it in the lines 21-23 183. Lines 13-15 and line 22 show that one reason the author used the onion 184. How does the poem flow from beginning to end? for her metaphor is _________. a. It starts with a broken relationship that eventually descends into murder. a. Because it turns foul quickly, as love eventually does. b. It starts with an insulting symbol and ends with a threatening symbol. b. Because it induces tears, like a quarrel between lovers. c. It begins with the enchanting first encounters with love and descends into c. Because the onion provides shock value. possessiveness, and finally, conflict. d. Because the smell of an onion clings, just as lovers cling to each other and d. It starts and ends with condescending references to naïve love. their memories. 185. What do lines 4-5, shown below, symbolize? 186. Why does the author mention the word knife in line 23? “It promises light, like the careful undressing of love.” a. To show the relationship between the knife and the onion a. It symbolizes the pleasant first adventures and experiences of love. b. To end on a grim tone b. It symbolizes unbridled lust. c. To represent the escalating of conflict between the lovers STOP c. It is meant to be a literal representation of an onion d. To hint that the lovers killed each other and their children - - END OF SECTION — d. It symbolizes the naïve lovers Do not turn to any other sections. Downloaded by Patrick George ([email protected]) Downloaded by Patrick George ([email protected])  lOMoARcPSD|31991423 lOMoARcPSD|31991423 WMSUCET Practice Test 1 WMSUCET Practice Test 1 PASSAGE 5: Taken from Sam Dillon of the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/education/04colleges.html PASSAGE 4A: Taken from Emily Anthes, the New York Times. March 9, 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/opinion/sunday/dont -be- 1 Harvard turned down 1,100 student applicants with perfect 800 scores on the SAT math exam. Yale rejected several applicants with perfect 2400 afraid-of-genetic-modification.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 scores on the three-part SAT, and Princeton turned away thousands of high school applicants with 4.0 grade point averages. Needless to say, high school valedictorians were a dime a dozen. 1 If patience is a virtue, then AquaBounty, a Massachusetts biotech company, might be the most virtuous entity on the planet. 4 It was the most selective spring in modern memory at America’s elite schools, according to college admissions officers. More applications poured into top schools this admissions cycle than in any previous year on record. Schools have been sending decision letters to student applicants in recent days, and 2 In 1993, the company approached the Food and Drug Administration about selling a genetically modified salmon that grew faster than normal fish. rejection letters have overwhelmingly outnumbered the acceptances. In 1995, AquaBounty formally applied for approval. Last month, more than 17 years later, the public comment period, one of the last steps in the 7 Stanford received a record 23,956 undergraduate applications for the fall term, accepting 2,456 students, meaning the school took 10.3 percent approval process, was finally supposed to conclude. But the F.D.A. has extended the deadline — members of the public now have until late April to of applicants. submit their thoughts on the AquAdvantage salmon. It’s just one more delay in a process that’s dragged on far too long. 9 Harvard College received applications from 22,955 students, another record, and accepted 2,058 of them, for an acceptance rate of 9 percent. The university called that “the lowest admit rate in Harvard’s history.” Applications to Columbia numbered 18,081, and the college accepted 1,618 of them, for what was certainly one of the lowest acceptance rates this spring at 6 The AquAdvantage fish is an Atlantic salmon that carries two foreign bits of DNA: a growth hormone gene from the Chinook salmon that is under the an American university: 8.9 percent. control of a genetic “switch” from the ocean pout, an eel-like fish that lives in the chilly deep. Normally, Atlantic salmon produce growth hormone only in 13 “There’s a sense of collective shock among parents at seeing extraordinarily talented kids getting rejected,” said Susan Gzesh, whose son Max Rothstein is the warm summer months, but these genetic adjustments let the fish churn it out year round. As a result, the AquAdvantage salmon typically reach their a senior with an exemplary record at the Laboratory School, a private school associated with the University of Chicago. Max applied to 12 top schools and was adult size in a year and a half, rather than three years. accepted outright only by Wesleyan, New York University and the University of Michigan. 16 “Some of his classmates, with better test scores than his, were rejected at every Ivy League School,” Ms. Gzesh said. 10 If the modified fish is approved, which could still happen later this year, it will be the first transgenic animal to officially enter the human food 17 The brutally low acceptance rates this year were a result of an avalanche of applications to top schools, which college admissions officials attributed to supply. Appropriately, it has been subjected to rigorous reviews, with scientists all over the country weighing in on whether it is fit for human three factors. First, a demographic bulge is working through the nation’s population — the children of the baby boomers are graduating from high school consumption and what might happen if it was to make its way into the wild. Some environmentalists fear that the modified salmon might wriggle free in record numbers. The federal Department of Education projects that 3.2 million students will graduate from high school this spring, compared with 3.1 from fish farms, start reproducing, and ultimately drive wild salmon populations to extinction. million last year and 2.4 million in 1993. (The statistics project that the number of high school graduates will peak in 2008.) Another factor is that more But scientists, including the F.D.A.’s experts, have concluded that the fish is just as safe to eat as conventional salmon and that, raised in isolated high school students are enrolling in college immediately after high school. In the 1970s, less than half of all high school graduates went directly to college, tanks, it poses little risk to wild populations. compared with more than 60 percent today, said David Hawkins, a director at the National Association of College Admission Counseling. 23 The third trend driving the frantic competition is that the average college applicant applies to many more colleges than in past decades. In the 1960s, 16 This decision isn’t meant to be made quickly; due scientific diligence requires time. But some suspect that political conside rations have played a role fewer than 2 percent of college freshmen had applied to six or more colleges, whereas in 2006 more than 2 percent reported having applied to 11 or more, in drawing the approval process out to tortuous lengths. Many of the members of Congress who oppose the modified fish represent states with strong according to The American Freshman: National Norms for Fall 2006, an annual report on a continuing long -term study published by the University of salmon industries. And some nonprofit groups seem to be opposing the modified salmon reflexively, as part of an agenda to opp ose all animal California, Los Angeles. biotechnology, regardless of its safety or potential benefits. 27 “Multiple applications per student,” Mr. Hawkins said, “is a factor that exponentially crowds the college admissions environment.” One reason that students are filing more applications is the increasing use of the Common Application, a form that can be completed and filed 20 We should all be rooting for the agency to do the right thing and approve the AquAdvantage salmon. It’s a healthy and relatively cheap food source via the Internet. that, as global demand for fish increases, can take some pressure off our wild fish stocks. But most important, a rejection will have a chilling effect on 30 The ferocious competition at the most selective schools has not affected the overall acceptance rate at the rest of the natio n’s 2,500 four-year biotechnological innovation in this country. colleges and universities, which accept an average of 70 percent of applicants. 32 “That overall 70 percent acceptance rate hasn’t changed since the 1980s,” Mr. Hawkins said. 23 Some scientists may move abroad, to China, Argentina, India or another nation where the political climate is more favorable. (Indeed, some have 33 But with more and more students filling out ever more applications, schools like the California Institute of Technology recei ved a record number of already done so — researchers at the University of California, Davis, who have developed goats whose modified milk could be used to treat and applications this year — 3,595, or 8 percent more than last year — and admitted 576 students. Among so many talented applicants, a prospective prevent childhood diarrhea, are moving much of their operation to Brazil.) Others may decide not to pursue such research at all. If a company that has student with perfect SAT scores was not unusual, said Jill Perry, a Caltech spokeswoman. done everything right can’t get its product approved, who else will be foolish enough to embark upon this kind of research? Who wi ll finance it? 37 “The successful students have to have shown some passion for science and technology in high school or their personal life,” Ms. Perry said. Of course, all this would be just fine with some anti-biotech groups, which traffic in scare tactics rather than science. But it shouldn’t be fine with the “That means creating a computer system for your high school, or taking a tractor apart and putting it back together.” rest of us. 39 The competition was ferocious not only at the top universities, but at selective small colleges, like Williams, Bowdoin and Amherst, all of which reported record numbers of applications. 29 The F.D.A. must make sure that other promising genetically modified animals don’t come to the same end. Of course every application needs to be 41 Amherst received 6,668 applications and accepted 1,167 students for its class of 2011, compared with the 4,491 applications and 1,030 painstakingly evaluated, and not every modified animal should be approved. But in cases like AquaBounty’s, where all the avai lable evidence indicates acceptance letters it sent for the class of 2002 nine years ago, said Paul Statt, an Amherst spokesman. that the animals are safe, we shouldn’t let political calculations or unfounded fears keep these products off the market. If we do that, we’ll be closing the 43 “Many of us who went to Amherst three decades ago know we couldn’t get in now; I know I couldn’t,” said Mr. Statt, who graduated from Amherst in door on innovations that could help us face the public health and environmental threats of the future, saving countless animals — and perhaps ourselves. 1978. 211. According to the passage, Harvard College has an acceptance rate of 212. What does the phrase “a dime a dozen,” used to describe valedictorian PASSAGE 4B: Taken from Helen Wallace. The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/zurichfuturology/story/0,,1920348,00.html ____%. applicants in line 3, most nearly mean? 1 Should we improve our genetic make-up so we live longer, healthier lives? At first, the answer to this question may seem obvious - we all dream of a. 8 a. Hard to find winning the battle against ageing. But the idea of genetic improvement is deeply flawed. b. 5 b. Common c. 3 c. In high demand 3 The term "eugenics" was first coined by France Galton in 1883 to mean 'truly' or 'purely' born. It was later developed as 'the science of the improvement d. 9 d. Cheap of the human race by better breeding'. Galton's many disciples believed that traits such as intelligence, feeblemindedness, criminality, alco holism and prostitution were all caused by genes passed on by parents to successive generations. Eugenicists developed research programmes into all these 213. Why were parents shocked by the results of the previous admissions 214. Which of the following is not mentioned as a contributing factor to the conditions, as well as medical conditions such as deafness, blindness, depression, cancer and schizophrenia. They also lobbied for compulsory sterilisation cycle? low acceptance rates in the top colleges? and incarceration of the genetically unfit and, eventually, in Nazi Germany, for euthanasia. a. Extraordinarily talented kids were getting rejected by colleges a. Multiple applications per student 8 Modern genetics has improved our understanding of genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease. However, there are also important b. There were too many applicants to the colleges b. The high number of high school graduates debates about the extent to which prenatal screening programmes prejudge the value of disabled people's lives. Genetic research into more complex c. Acceptance rates were brutally low c. More students are enrolling in college right after high school conditions - such as heart disease - can sometimes help to find clues about the biological mechanisms underlying such diseases. In addition, a high risk d. Perfect SAT scores were no longer enough d. Super-students with high test scores, stellar grades and of some rare familial forms of cancer - including about 5% of breast cancer cases - have been traced to mutations in particular genes, passed from one outstanding activities have become more common. generation to the next. But genetic research has not delivered the much-promised 'genetic revolution' in health - the prediction and prevention of common diseases in most people - or an explanation of intelligence, criminality, heart disease or schizophrenia. 14 What more and more research has shown is that the underlying assumptions of eugenics - that some people are born genetically superior to others - are simply wrong. For example, the growing global epidemic of obesity is caused by overeating and lack of exercise, not by an increase in 'genes for obesity'. Of more than 600 obesity genes that have been identified, only a handful have been relevant to just a small number of families with children who are unusually obese. This relative unimportance of genetic factors limits the potential of human genetic engineering to improve our quality of life. Even for those relatively rare conditions known as genetic disorders, the genetic mutation does not determine a person's quality of life or their other attributes and value as a human being. Downloaded by Patrick George ([email protected]) Downloaded by Patrick George ([email protected])  lOMoARcPSD|31991423 lOMoARcPSD|31991423 WMSUCET Practice Test 1 WMSUCET Practice Test 1 PASSAGE 7: An excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. http://www.theloiterer.org/ashton/year00/passion3.html PASSAGE 6: Adapted from Donald Richie. Criterion.com. http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1323-remembering-kurosawa In the story, Elizabeth had just expressed her gratitude to Mr. Darcy, whom she dislikes, for his assistance to her family. She left little doubt that her feelings Remembering Kurosawa about him had completely changed. Darcy replies: 1 Not that he himself wanted to be remembered. Rather, he wanted his work to be remembered. He once wrote: “Take ‘myself,’ subtract ‘movies,’ and the 1 If you will thank me,' he replied, 'let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness toyou might add force to the other inducements which led me on, I result is ‘zero.’” It was as though he thought he did not exist except through his movies. When I was writing my book about him, he sometimes shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe I thought only of you.' complained that there was nothing to write about if I persisted in asking him about himself. He became interested in my project only when he learned it 3 Elizabeth was too much embarrassed to say a word. After a short pause,her companion added, 'you are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still was to be called The Films of Akira Kurosawa. what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.' 5 He was interested in practice—how to make films more convincing, more real, more right. He would have agreed with Picasso’s remark that when 5 Elizabeth, feeling all the more than common awkwardness and anxiety of his situation, now forced herself to speak; and immediately, though not very fluently, gave critics get together they talk about theory, but when artists get together they talk about turpentine. He was interested in focal lengths, in multiple camera him to understand that her sentiments had undergone so material a change since the period to which he aluded, as to make her receive with gratitude and pleasure positions, in color values, just as he was interested in convincing narrative, in consistent characters, and in the moral con cern that was his subject. his present assurances. The happiness which this reply produced was such as he had probably never felt before, and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly I do not think he even considered himself an artist. He talked about his methods as though he were a carpenter or a mason. And he was old- and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do. Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eyes, she might have seen how well the expression of fashioned enough to believe in the traditional Japanese lack of distinction between the arts and the crafts. heartfelt delight diffused over his face became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings which, in proving of what importance 10 Though he sometimes said that he photographed merely in order to have something to edit, he was nonetheless very particular about how and what he she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable. filmed. He had the castle for Throne of Blood dismantled, unphotographed, when he found that the carpenters had used nails, an anachronism the long- 11 They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.. distance lens would have readily revealed; he allegedly had assistants pour twenty years’ worth of tea into the teacups for the hospital scenes of Red Beard, in order to achieve the proper patina. 231. The phrase “If you will thank me” in line 1 indicates that _______. 232. What does the word “inducements” in line 2 most nearly mean? 14 To exercise such complete control, Kurosawa had also to exhibit such socially unattractive qualities as egotism and a dictatorial disposition. “Though I am certainly not a militarist,” he once said, “if you compare a production unit to an army, then the script is the battle fla g and the director is the a. Mr. Darcy was egotistical. a. Motives commander of the front line.” 17 I remember a number of consequently bellicose blowups, lots of storming off the set, and an unfortunate habit of needling individuals in order show the b. Mr. Darcy was looking for a favor from Elizabeth. b. Initiatives others what awaited if they did not behave. It was through the employment of such perhaps necessary strategies that he had earned his sobriquet of Tenno