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Part 1
·Read the following passages. Eight sentences have been removed from the article.
·Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap.
·For each gap (1-8) mark one letter (A-H) on the Answer Sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.
A few minutes ago, walking back from lunch, I started to cross the street when I heard the sound of a coin dropping. It wasn’t much but, as I turned, my eyes caught the heads of several other people turning too. (1)
The tinkling sound of a coin dropping on pavement is an attention-getter. It can be nothing more than a penny. Whatever the coin is, no one ignores the sound of it. (2)
We are besieged by so many sounds that attract our attention. (3)
When I’m in New York, I’m a New Yorker. I don’t turn either. (4) I hardly hear a siren there.
At home in my little town in Connecticut, it’s different. (5)
It’s the quietest sounds that have most effect on us, not the loudest. (6) I’ve been hearing little creaking noises and sounds which my imagination turns into footsteps in the middle of the night for twenty-five years in our house. How come I never hear those sounds in the daytime
I’m quite clear in my mind what the good sounds are and what the bad sounds are.
I’ve turned against whistling, for instance, (7)
The "tap, tap, tap" of my typewriter as the keys hit the paper is a lovely sound to me. (8)

Part 2
Questions 9-18
·Read the following passage and answer questions 9-18.
1. The American baby boom after the war made unconvincing advice to the poor countries that they restrain their birthrates. However, there has hardly been a year since 1957 in which birthrates have not fallen in the United States and other rich countries, and in t976 the fall was especially sharp. Both East Germany and West Germany have fewer births than they have deaths, and the United States is only temporarily able to avoid this condition because the children of the baby boom are now an exceptionally large group of married couples.
2. It is true the American don’t typically plan their birth to set an example tbr developing nations. They are more affected by women’s liberation: once women see interesting and well-paid job and careers available, they are less willing to provide free labor for child raising. From costing nothing, children suddenly come to seem impossibly expensive. And to the high cost of children are added the uncertainties introduced by divorce; couples are increasingly unwilling to subject children to the terrible experience of marital breakdown and themselves to the difficulty of raising a child alone.
3. These circumstances—women working outside the home and the instability of marriage —tend to spread with industrial society and they will affect more and more countries during the remainder of this century. Along with them goes social mobility, ambition to rise in the urban world, a main factor in bringing down the births in Europe in the nineteenth century.
4. Food shortage will happen again when the reserves resulting from the food harvest of 1976 and 1977 have been consumed. Urbanization is likely to continue, with the cities of developing nations struggling under the weight of twice present population by the year 2000.
5. The presently rich countries are approaching a stable population largely because of the changed place of women, and they incidentally are setting an example of restraint to the rest of the world. Industrial society will spread to the poor countries, and aspirations will exceed resources. All this will lead to population in the 21st century smaller than was feared years ago. For those anxious to see the population brought under control, the news is encouraging.
Questions 9-13
·For questions 9-13, choose the best title for each paragraph from below.
·For each numberedparagraph (1-5), mark one letter (A-G) on the Answer Sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.

Part 3
Questions 19-25
·Read the following passage and choose the correct answer from A, B, C or D.
Chris Baildon, tall and lean, was in his early thirties, and the end product of an old decayed island family.
Chris shared the too large house with his father, an arthritic and difficult man, and a wasp-tongued aunt, whose complaints ended when she slept.
The father and his sister, Chris’s Aunt Agatha, engaged in shrill-voiced argument over nothing. The continuous exchange further confused their foolish wits, and yet held off an endurable loneliness. They held a common grievance against Chris, openly holding him to blame for their miserable existence. He should long ago lift them from poverty, for had they not sacrificed everything to send him to England and Oxford University.
Driven by creditors or pressing desires, earlier Baildons had long ago cheaply disposed of valuable properties. Brother and sister never ceased to remind each other of the depressing fact that their ancestors had wasted their inheritance. This, in fact, was their only other point of agreement.
A few years earlier Agatha had announced that she intended doing something about repairing the family fortunes. The many empty rooms could be rented to selected guests. She would establish, not a boarding house, but home for ladies and gentlemen, and make a tidy profit. With this ambition in mind, she throws herself into a venture with noisy fury. Old furniture was polished; rugs and carpets were beaten, floors painted, long stored mattress, pillows and bed linen aired in the sun. The huge ketch was attacked.
Agatha, with a fine air of defiance, took a copy of modest advertisement to the press. Two guests were lured by the promise of beautiful gourmet meals, home atmosphere in a historic mansion, and the company of we-brought-up ladies and gentlemen. The two, one a bank-clerk and the other a maiden employed in the bookshop, arrived simultaneously, whereupon Agatha condescended to show their rooms, and promptly forgot about them. There was no hot water. Dinner time found Baildon and Agatha sharing half cold chicken and a few boiled potatoes in the dining room’s gloomy vastness.
When the guests came timidly to inquire about the dining hours, and to point out that there were no sheets on the beds, no water in the pitchers and no towels in their racks, Agatha reminded them that the Baildon were not inn keepers, and they treated them to an account of the family’s past glories.

Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued (26) card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even (27) , and they make many banking services available as (28) . More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or (29) money in scattered locations, (30) the local branch bank is open. For many of us the "cashless society" is not on (31) — it’s already here.
While computers offer these (32) to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do (33) than simply ring up sales. They can (34) a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep (35) their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or (36) goods to suppliers can then be made.
(37) the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, (38) personnel and staffing assignments to be made (39) . And they also identify (40) customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied (41) by manufacturers for similar reasons. Computer- (42) marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials (43) hand, and even of the production process itself.
(44) other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more (45) services to consumers through the use of computers.

Part 2
Questions 9-18
·Read the following passage and answer questions 9-18.
1. The American baby boom after the war made unconvincing advice to the poor countries that they restrain their birthrates. However, there has hardly been a year since 1957 in which birthrates have not fallen in the United States and other rich countries, and in t976 the fall was especially sharp. Both East Germany and West Germany have fewer births than they have deaths, and the United States is only temporarily able to avoid this condition because the children of the baby boom are now an exceptionally large group of married couples.
2. It is true the American don’t typically plan their birth to set an example tbr developing nations. They are more affected by women’s liberation: once women see interesting and well-paid job and careers available, they are less willing to provide free labor for child raising. From costing nothing, children suddenly come to seem impossibly expensive. And to the high cost of children are added the uncertainties introduced by divorce; couples are increasingly unwilling to subject children to the terrible experience of marital breakdown and themselves to the difficulty of raising a child alone.
3. These circumstances—women working outside the home and the instability of marriage —tend to spread with industrial society and they will affect more and more countries during the remainder of this century. Along with them goes social mobility, ambition to rise in the urban world, a main factor in bringing down the births in Europe in the nineteenth century.
4. Food shortage will happen again when the reserves resulting from the food harvest of 1976 and 1977 have been consumed. Urbanization is likely to continue, with the cities of developing nations struggling under the weight of twice present population by the year 2000.
5. The presently rich countries are approaching a stable population largely because of the changed place of women, and they incidentally are setting an example of restraint to the rest of the world. Industrial society will spread to the poor countries, and aspirations will exceed resources. All this will lead to population in the 21st century smaller than was feared years ago. For those anxious to see the population brought under control, the news is encouraging.
Questions 14-18
·Using the information in the text, complete each sentence 14-18, with a word or phrase from the list below.
·For each sentence (14-18), mark one letter (A-G) on the Answer Sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.

Part 1
·Read the following passages. Eight sentences have been removed from the article.
·Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap.
·For each gap (1-8) mark one letter (A-H) on the Answer Sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.
A few minutes ago, walking back from lunch, I started to cross the street when I heard the sound of a coin dropping. It wasn’t much but, as I turned, my eyes caught the heads of several other people turning too. (1)
The tinkling sound of a coin dropping on pavement is an attention-getter. It can be nothing more than a penny. Whatever the coin is, no one ignores the sound of it. (2)
We are besieged by so many sounds that attract our attention. (3)
When I’m in New York, I’m a New Yorker. I don’t turn either. (4) I hardly hear a siren there.
At home in my little town in Connecticut, it’s different. (5)
It’s the quietest sounds that have most effect on us, not the loudest. (6) I’ve been hearing little creaking noises and sounds which my imagination turns into footsteps in the middle of the night for twenty-five years in our house. How come I never hear those sounds in the daytime
I’m quite clear in my mind what the good sounds are and what the bad sounds are.
I’ve turned against whistling, for instance, (7)
The "tap, tap, tap" of my typewriter as the keys hit the paper is a lovely sound to me. (8)

Part 2
Questions 9-18
·Read the following passage and answer questions 9-18.
1. The American baby boom after the war made unconvincing advice to the poor countries that they restrain their birthrates. However, there has hardly been a year since 1957 in which birthrates have not fallen in the United States and other rich countries, and in t976 the fall was especially sharp. Both East Germany and West Germany have fewer births than they have deaths, and the United States is only temporarily able to avoid this condition because the children of the baby boom are now an exceptionally large group of married couples.
2. It is true the American don’t typically plan their birth to set an example tbr developing nations. They are more affected by women’s liberation: once women see interesting and well-paid job and careers available, they are less willing to provide free labor for child raising. From costing nothing, children suddenly come to seem impossibly expensive. And to the high cost of children are added the uncertainties introduced by divorce; couples are increasingly unwilling to subject children to the terrible experience of marital breakdown and themselves to the difficulty of raising a child alone.
3. These circumstances—women working outside the home and the instability of marriage —tend to spread with industrial society and they will affect more and more countries during the remainder of this century. Along with them goes social mobility, ambition to rise in the urban world, a main factor in bringing down the births in Europe in the nineteenth century.
4. Food shortage will happen again when the reserves resulting from the food harvest of 1976 and 1977 have been consumed. Urbanization is likely to continue, with the cities of developing nations struggling under the weight of twice present population by the year 2000.
5. The presently rich countries are approaching a stable population largely because of the changed place of women, and they incidentally are setting an example of restraint to the rest of the world. Industrial society will spread to the poor countries, and aspirations will exceed resources. All this will lead to population in the 21st century smaller than was feared years ago. For those anxious to see the population brought under control, the news is encouraging.
Questions 9-13
·For questions 9-13, choose the best title for each paragraph from below.
·For each numberedparagraph (1-5), mark one letter (A-G) on the Answer Sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.

Part 3
Questions 19-25
·Read the following passage and choose the correct answer from A, B, C or D.
Chris Baildon, tall and lean, was in his early thirties, and the end product of an old decayed island family.
Chris shared the too large house with his father, an arthritic and difficult man, and a wasp-tongued aunt, whose complaints ended when she slept.
The father and his sister, Chris’s Aunt Agatha, engaged in shrill-voiced argument over nothing. The continuous exchange further confused their foolish wits, and yet held off an endurable loneliness. They held a common grievance against Chris, openly holding him to blame for their miserable existence. He should long ago lift them from poverty, for had they not sacrificed everything to send him to England and Oxford University.
Driven by creditors or pressing desires, earlier Baildons had long ago cheaply disposed of valuable properties. Brother and sister never ceased to remind each other of the depressing fact that their ancestors had wasted their inheritance. This, in fact, was their only other point of agreement.
A few years earlier Agatha had announced that she intended doing something about repairing the family fortunes. The many empty rooms could be rented to selected guests. She would establish, not a boarding house, but home for ladies and gentlemen, and make a tidy profit. With this ambition in mind, she throws herself into a venture with noisy fury. Old furniture was polished; rugs and carpets were beaten, floors painted, long stored mattress, pillows and bed linen aired in the sun. The huge ketch was attacked.
Agatha, with a fine air of defiance, took a copy of modest advertisement to the press. Two guests were lured by the promise of beautiful gourmet meals, home atmosphere in a historic mansion, and the company of we-brought-up ladies and gentlemen. The two, one a bank-clerk and the other a maiden employed in the bookshop, arrived simultaneously, whereupon Agatha condescended to show their rooms, and promptly forgot about them. There was no hot water. Dinner time found Baildon and Agatha sharing half cold chicken and a few boiled potatoes in the dining room’s gloomy vastness.
When the guests came timidly to inquire about the dining hours, and to point out that there were no sheets on the beds, no water in the pitchers and no towels in their racks, Agatha reminded them that the Baildon were not inn keepers, and they treated them to an account of the family’s past glories.

Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued (26) card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even (27) , and they make many banking services available as (28) . More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or (29) money in scattered locations, (30) the local branch bank is open. For many of us the "cashless society" is not on (31) — it’s already here.
While computers offer these (32) to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do (33) than simply ring up sales. They can (34) a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep (35) their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or (36) goods to suppliers can then be made.
(37) the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, (38) personnel and staffing assignments to be made (39) . And they also identify (40) customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied (41) by manufacturers for similar reasons. Computer- (42) marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials (43) hand, and even of the production process itself.
(44) other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more (45) services to consumers through the use of computers.

Part 2
Questions 9-18
·Read the following passage and answer questions 9-18.
1. The American baby boom after the war made unconvincing advice to the poor countries that they restrain their birthrates. However, there has hardly been a year since 1957 in which birthrates have not fallen in the United States and other rich countries, and in t976 the fall was especially sharp. Both East Germany and West Germany have fewer births than they have deaths, and the United States is only temporarily able to avoid this condition because the children of the baby boom are now an exceptionally large group of married couples.
2. It is true the American don’t typically plan their birth to set an example tbr developing nations. They are more affected by women’s liberation: once women see interesting and well-paid job and careers available, they are less willing to provide free labor for child raising. From costing nothing, children suddenly come to seem impossibly expensive. And to the high cost of children are added the uncertainties introduced by divorce; couples are increasingly unwilling to subject children to the terrible experience of marital breakdown and themselves to the difficulty of raising a child alone.
3. These circumstances—women working outside the home and the instability of marriage —tend to spread with industrial society and they will affect more and more countries during the remainder of this century. Along with them goes social mobility, ambition to rise in the urban world, a main factor in bringing down the births in Europe in the nineteenth century.
4. Food shortage will happen again when the reserves resulting from the food harvest of 1976 and 1977 have been consumed. Urbanization is likely to continue, with the cities of developing nations struggling under the weight of twice present population by the year 2000.
5. The presently rich countries are approaching a stable population largely because of the changed place of women, and they incidentally are setting an example of restraint to the rest of the world. Industrial society will spread to the poor countries, and aspirations will exceed resources. All this will lead to population in the 21st century smaller than was feared years ago. For those anxious to see the population brought under control, the news is encouraging.
Questions 14-18
·Using the information in the text, complete each sentence 14-18, with a word or phrase from the list below.
·For each sentence (14-18), mark one letter (A-G) on the Answer Sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.

Part 1
·Read the following passages. Eight sentences have been removed from the article.
·Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap.
·For each gap (1-8) mark one letter (A-H) on the Answer Sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.
A few minutes ago, walking back from lunch, I started to cross the street when I heard the sound of a coin dropping. It wasn’t much but, as I turned, my eyes caught the heads of several other people turning too. (1)
The tinkling sound of a coin dropping on pavement is an attention-getter. It can be nothing more than a penny. Whatever the coin is, no one ignores the sound of it. (2)
We are besieged by so many sounds that attract our attention. (3)
When I’m in New York, I’m a New Yorker. I don’t turn either. (4) I hardly hear a siren there.
At home in my little town in Connecticut, it’s different. (5)
It’s the quietest sounds that have most effect on us, not the loudest. (6) I’ve been hearing little creaking noises and sounds which my imagination turns into footsteps in the middle of the night for twenty-five years in our house. How come I never hear those sounds in the daytime
I’m quite clear in my mind what the good sounds are and what the bad sounds are.
I’ve turned against whistling, for instance, (7)
The "tap, tap, tap" of my typewriter as the keys hit the paper is a lovely sound to me. (8)

Part 2
Questions 9-18
·Read the following passage and answer questions 9-18.
1. The American baby boom after the war made unconvincing advice to the poor countries that they restrain their birthrates. However, there has hardly been a year since 1957 in which birthrates have not fallen in the United States and other rich countries, and in t976 the fall was especially sharp. Both East Germany and West Germany have fewer births than they have deaths, and the United States is only temporarily able to avoid this condition because the children of the baby boom are now an exceptionally large group of married couples.
2. It is true the American don’t typically plan their birth to set an example tbr developing nations. They are more affected by women’s liberation: once women see interesting and well-paid job and careers available, they are less willing to provide free labor for child raising. From costing nothing, children suddenly come to seem impossibly expensive. And to the high cost of children are added the uncertainties introduced by divorce; couples are increasingly unwilling to subject children to the terrible experience of marital breakdown and themselves to the difficulty of raising a child alone.
3. These circumstances—women working outside the home and the instability of marriage —tend to spread with industrial society and they will affect more and more countries during the remainder of this century. Along with them goes social mobility, ambition to rise in the urban world, a main factor in bringing down the births in Europe in the nineteenth century.
4. Food shortage will happen again when the reserves resulting from the food harvest of 1976 and 1977 have been consumed. Urbanization is likely to continue, with the cities of developing nations struggling under the weight of twice present population by the year 2000.
5. The presently rich countries are approaching a stable population largely because of the changed place of women, and they incidentally are setting an example of restraint to the rest of the world. Industrial society will spread to the poor countries, and aspirations will exceed resources. All this will lead to population in the 21st century smaller than was feared years ago. For those anxious to see the population brought under control, the news is encouraging.
Questions 9-13
·For questions 9-13, choose the best title for each paragraph from below.
·For each numberedparagraph (1-5), mark one letter (A-G) on the Answer Sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.

Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued (26) card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even (27) , and they make many banking services available as (28) . More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or (29) money in scattered locations, (30) the local branch bank is open. For many of us the "cashless society" is not on (31) — it’s already here.
While computers offer these (32) to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do (33) than simply ring up sales. They can (34) a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep (35) their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or (36) goods to suppliers can then be made.
(37) the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, (38) personnel and staffing assignments to be made (39) . And they also identify (40) customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied (41) by manufacturers for similar reasons. Computer- (42) marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials (43) hand, and even of the production process itself.
(44) other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more (45) services to consumers through the use of computers.

Part 3
Questions 19-25
·Read the following passage and choose the correct answer from A, B, C or D.
Chris Baildon, tall and lean, was in his early thirties, and the end product of an old decayed island family.
Chris shared the too large house with his father, an arthritic and difficult man, and a wasp-tongued aunt, whose complaints ended when she slept.
The father and his sister, Chris’s Aunt Agatha, engaged in shrill-voiced argument over nothing. The continuous exchange further confused their foolish wits, and yet held off an endurable loneliness. They held a common grievance against Chris, openly holding him to blame for their miserable existence. He should long ago lift them from poverty, for had they not sacrificed everything to send him to England and Oxford University.
Driven by creditors or pressing desires, earlier Baildons had long ago cheaply disposed of valuable properties. Brother and sister never ceased to remind each other of the depressing fact that their ancestors had wasted their inheritance. This, in fact, was their only other point of agreement.
A few years earlier Agatha had announced that she intended doing something about repairing the family fortunes. The many empty rooms could be rented to selected guests. She would establish, not a boarding house, but home for ladies and gentlemen, and make a tidy profit. With this ambition in mind, she throws herself into a venture with noisy fury. Old furniture was polished; rugs and carpets were beaten, floors painted, long stored mattress, pillows and bed linen aired in the sun. The huge ketch was attacked.
Agatha, with a fine air of defiance, took a copy of modest advertisement to the press. Two guests were lured by the promise of beautiful gourmet meals, home atmosphere in a historic mansion, and the company of we-brought-up ladies and gentlemen. The two, one a bank-clerk and the other a maiden employed in the bookshop, arrived simultaneously, whereupon Agatha condescended to show their rooms, and promptly forgot about them. There was no hot water. Dinner time found Baildon and Agatha sharing half cold chicken and a few boiled potatoes in the dining room’s gloomy vastness.
When the guests came timidly to inquire about the dining hours, and to point out that there were no sheets on the beds, no water in the pitchers and no towels in their racks, Agatha reminded them that the Baildon were not inn keepers, and they treated them to an account of the family’s past glories.

Part 2
Questions 9-18
·Read the following passage and answer questions 9-18.
1. The American baby boom after the war made unconvincing advice to the poor countries that they restrain their birthrates. However, there has hardly been a year since 1957 in which birthrates have not fallen in the United States and other rich countries, and in t976 the fall was especially sharp. Both East Germany and West Germany have fewer births than they have deaths, and the United States is only temporarily able to avoid this condition because the children of the baby boom are now an exceptionally large group of married couples.
2. It is true the American don’t typically plan their birth to set an example tbr developing nations. They are more affected by women’s liberation: once women see interesting and well-paid job and careers available, they are less willing to provide free labor for child raising. From costing nothing, children suddenly come to seem impossibly expensive. And to the high cost of children are added the uncertainties introduced by divorce; couples are increasingly unwilling to subject children to the terrible experience of marital breakdown and themselves to the difficulty of raising a child alone.
3. These circumstances—women working outside the home and the instability of marriage —tend to spread with industrial society and they will affect more and more countries during the remainder of this century. Along with them goes social mobility, ambition to rise in the urban world, a main factor in bringing down the births in Europe in the nineteenth century.
4. Food shortage will happen again when the reserves resulting from the food harvest of 1976 and 1977 have been consumed. Urbanization is likely to continue, with the cities of developing nations struggling under the weight of twice present population by the year 2000.
5. The presently rich countries are approaching a stable population largely because of the changed place of women, and they incidentally are setting an example of restraint to the rest of the world. Industrial society will spread to the poor countries, and aspirations will exceed resources. All this will lead to population in the 21st century smaller than was feared years ago. For those anxious to see the population brought under control, the news is encouraging.
Questions 14-18
·Using the information in the text, complete each sentence 14-18, with a word or phrase from the list below.
·For each sentence (14-18), mark one letter (A-G) on the Answer Sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.

Part 2
Questions 9-18
·Read the following passage and answer questions 9-18.
1. The American baby boom after the war made unconvincing advice to the poor countries that they restrain their birthrates. However, there has hardly been a year since 1957 in which birthrates have not fallen in the United States and other rich countries, and in t976 the fall was especially sharp. Both East Germany and West Germany have fewer births than they have deaths, and the United States is only temporarily able to avoid this condition because the children of the baby boom are now an exceptionally large group of married couples.
2. It is true the American don’t typically plan their birth to set an example tbr developing nations. They are more affected by women’s liberation: once women see interesting and well-paid job and careers available, they are less willing to provide free labor for child raising. From costing nothing, children suddenly come to seem impossibly expensive. And to the high cost of children are added the uncertainties introduced by divorce; couples are increasingly unwilling to subject children to the terrible experience of marital breakdown and themselves to the difficulty of raising a child alone.
3. These circumstances—women working outside the home and the instability of marriage —tend to spread with industrial society and they will affect more and more countries during the remainder of this century. Along with them goes social mobility, ambition to rise in the urban world, a main factor in bringing down the births in Europe in the nineteenth century.
4. Food shortage will happen again when the reserves resulting from the food harvest of 1976 and 1977 have been consumed. Urbanization is likely to continue, with the cities of developing nations struggling under the weight of twice present population by the year 2000.
5. The presently rich countries are approaching a stable population largely because of the changed place of women, and they incidentally are setting an example of restraint to the rest of the world. Industrial society will spread to the poor countries, and aspirations will exceed resources. All this will lead to population in the 21st century smaller than was feared years ago. For those anxious to see the population brought under control, the news is encouraging.
Questions 9-13
·For questions 9-13, choose the best title for each paragraph from below.
·For each numberedparagraph (1-5), mark one letter (A-G) on the Answer Sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.

Part 1
·Read the following passages. Eight sentences have been removed from the article.
·Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap.
·For each gap (1-8) mark one letter (A-H) on the Answer Sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.
A few minutes ago, walking back from lunch, I started to cross the street when I heard the sound of a coin dropping. It wasn’t much but, as I turned, my eyes caught the heads of several other people turning too. (1)
The tinkling sound of a coin dropping on pavement is an attention-getter. It can be nothing more than a penny. Whatever the coin is, no one ignores the sound of it. (2)
We are besieged by so many sounds that attract our attention. (3)
When I’m in New York, I’m a New Yorker. I don’t turn either. (4) I hardly hear a siren there.
At home in my little town in Connecticut, it’s different. (5)
It’s the quietest sounds that have most effect on us, not the loudest. (6) I’ve been hearing little creaking noises and sounds which my imagination turns into footsteps in the middle of the night for twenty-five years in our house. How come I never hear those sounds in the daytime
I’m quite clear in my mind what the good sounds are and what the bad sounds are.
I’ve turned against whistling, for instance, (7)
The "tap, tap, tap" of my typewriter as the keys hit the paper is a lovely sound to me. (8)

Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued (26) card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even (27) , and they make many banking services available as (28) . More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or (29) money in scattered locations, (30) the local branch bank is open. For many of us the "cashless society" is not on (31) — it’s already here.
While computers offer these (32) to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do (33) than simply ring up sales. They can (34) a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep (35) their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or (36) goods to suppliers can then be made.
(37) the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, (38) personnel and staffing assignments to be made (39) . And they also identify (40) customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied (41) by manufacturers for similar reasons. Computer- (42) marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials (43) hand, and even of the production process itself.
(44) other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more (45) services to consumers through the use of computers.

Part 2
Questions 9-18
·Read the following passage and answer questions 9-18.
1. The American baby boom after the war made unconvincing advice to the poor countries that they restrain their birthrates. However, there has hardly been a year since 1957 in which birthrates have not fallen in the United States and other rich countries, and in t976 the fall was especially sharp. Both East Germany and West Germany have fewer births than they have deaths, and the United States is only temporarily able to avoid this condition because the children of the baby boom are now an exceptionally large group of married couples.
2. It is true the American don’t typically plan their birth to set an example tbr developing nations. They are more affected by women’s liberation: once women see interesting and well-paid job and careers available, they are less willing to provide free labor for child raising. From costing nothing, children suddenly come to seem impossibly expensive. And to the high cost of children are added the uncertainties introduced by divorce; couples are increasingly unwilling to subject children to the terrible experience of marital breakdown and themselves to the difficulty of raising a child alone.
3. These circumstances—women working outside the home and the instability of marriage —tend to spread with industrial society and they will affect more and more countries during the remainder of this century. Along with them goes social mobility, ambition to rise in the urban world, a main factor in bringing down the births in Europe in the nineteenth century.
4. Food shortage will happen again when the reserves resulting from the food harvest of 1976 and 1977 have been consumed. Urbanization is likely to continue, with the cities of developing nations struggling under the weight of twice present population by the year 2000.
5. The presently rich countries are approaching a stable population largely because of the changed place of women, and they incidentally are setting an example of restraint to the rest of the world. Industrial society will spread to the poor countries, and aspirations will exceed resources. All this will lead to population in the 21st century smaller than was feared years ago. For those anxious to see the population brought under control, the news is encouraging.
Questions 14-18
·Using the information in the text, complete each sentence 14-18, with a word or phrase from the list below.
·For each sentence (14-18), mark one letter (A-G) on the Answer Sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.

Part 3
Questions 19-25
·Read the following passage and choose the correct answer from A, B, C or D.
Chris Baildon, tall and lean, was in his early thirties, and the end product of an old decayed island family.
Chris shared the too large house with his father, an arthritic and difficult man, and a wasp-tongued aunt, whose complaints ended when she slept.
The father and his sister, Chris’s Aunt Agatha, engaged in shrill-voiced argument over nothing. The continuous exchange further confused their foolish wits, and yet held off an endurable loneliness. They held a common grievance against Chris, openly holding him to blame for their miserable existence. He should long ago lift them from poverty, for had they not sacrificed everything to send him to England and Oxford University.
Driven by creditors or pressing desires, earlier Baildons had long ago cheaply disposed of valuable properties. Brother and sister never ceased to remind each other of the depressing fact that their ancestors had wasted their inheritance. This, in fact, was their only other point of agreement.
A few years earlier Agatha had announced that she intended doing something about repairing the family fortunes. The many empty rooms could be rented to selected guests. She would establish, not a boarding house, but home for ladies and gentlemen, and make a tidy profit. With this ambition in mind, she throws herself into a venture with noisy fury. Old furniture was polished; rugs and carpets were beaten, floors painted, long stored mattress, pillows and bed linen aired in the sun. The huge ketch was attacked.
Agatha, with a fine air of defiance, took a copy of modest advertisement to the press. Two guests were lured by the promise of beautiful gourmet meals, home atmosphere in a historic mansion, and the company of we-brought-up ladies and gentlemen. The two, one a bank-clerk and the other a maiden employed in the bookshop, arrived simultaneously, whereupon Agatha condescended to show their rooms, and promptly forgot about them. There was no hot water. Dinner time found Baildon and Agatha sharing half cold chicken and a few boiled potatoes in the dining room’s gloomy vastness.
When the guests came timidly to inquire about the dining hours, and to point out that there were no sheets on the beds, no water in the pitchers and no towels in their racks, Agatha reminded them that the Baildon were not inn keepers, and they treated them to an account of the family’s past glories.

Part 1
·Read the following passages. Eight sentences have been removed from the article.
·Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap.
·For each gap (1-8) mark one letter (A-H) on the Answer Sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.
A few minutes ago, walking back from lunch, I started to cross the street when I heard the sound of a coin dropping. It wasn’t much but, as I turned, my eyes caught the heads of several other people turning too. (1)
The tinkling sound of a coin dropping on pavement is an attention-getter. It can be nothing more than a penny. Whatever the coin is, no one ignores the sound of it. (2)
We are besieged by so many sounds that attract our attention. (3)
When I’m in New York, I’m a New Yorker. I don’t turn either. (4) I hardly hear a siren there.
At home in my little town in Connecticut, it’s different. (5)
It’s the quietest sounds that have most effect on us, not the loudest. (6) I’ve been hearing little creaking noises and sounds which my imagination turns into footsteps in the middle of the night for twenty-five years in our house. How come I never hear those sounds in the daytime
I’m quite clear in my mind what the good sounds are and what the bad sounds are.
I’ve turned against whistling, for instance, (7)
The "tap, tap, tap" of my typewriter as the keys hit the paper is a lovely sound to me. (8)

Part 2
Questions 9-18
·Read the following passage and answer questions 9-18.
1. The American baby boom after the war made unconvincing advice to the poor countries that they restrain their birthrates. However, there has hardly been a year since 1957 in which birthrates have not fallen in the United States and other rich countries, and in t976 the fall was especially sharp. Both East Germany and West Germany have fewer births than they have deaths, and the United States is only temporarily able to avoid this condition because the children of the baby boom are now an exceptionally large group of married couples.
2. It is true the American don’t typically plan their birth to set an example tbr developing nations. They are more affected by women’s liberation: once women see interesting and well-paid job and careers available, they are less willing to provide free labor for child raising. From costing nothing, children suddenly come to seem impossibly expensive. And to the high cost of children are added the uncertainties introduced by divorce; couples are increasingly unwilling to subject children to the terrible experience of marital breakdown and themselves to the difficulty of raising a child alone.
3. These circumstances—women working outside the home and the instability of marriage —tend to spread with industrial society and they will affect more and more countries during the remainder of this century. Along with them goes social mobility, ambition to rise in the urban world, a main factor in bringing down the births in Europe in the nineteenth century.
4. Food shortage will happen again when the reserves resulting from the food harvest of 1976 and 1977 have been consumed. Urbanization is likely to continue, with the cities of developing nations struggling under the weight of twice present population by the year 2000.
5. The presently rich countries are approaching a stable population largely because of the changed place of women, and they incidentally are setting an example of restraint to the rest of the world. Industrial society will spread to the poor countries, and aspirations will exceed resources. All this will lead to population in the 21st century smaller than was feared years ago. For those anxious to see the population brought under control, the news is encouraging.
Questions 9-13
·For questions 9-13, choose the best title for each paragraph from below.
·For each numberedparagraph (1-5), mark one letter (A-G) on the Answer Sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.

Part 2
Questions 9-18
·Read the following passage and answer questions 9-18.
1. The American baby boom after the war made unconvincing advice to the poor countries that they restrain their birthrates. However, there has hardly been a year since 1957 in which birthrates have not fallen in the United States and other rich countries, and in t976 the fall was especially sharp. Both East Germany and West Germany have fewer births than they have deaths, and the United States is only temporarily able to avoid this condition because the children of the baby boom are now an exceptionally large group of married couples.
2. It is true the American don’t typically plan their birth to set an example tbr developing nations. They are more affected by women’s liberation: once women see interesting and well-paid job and careers available, they are less willing to provide free labor for child raising. From costing nothing, children suddenly come to seem impossibly expensive. And to the high cost of children are added the uncertainties introduced by divorce; couples are increasingly unwilling to subject children to the terrible experience of marital breakdown and themselves to the difficulty of raising a child alone.
3. These circumstances—women working outside the home and the instability of marriage —tend to spread with industrial society and they will affect more and more countries during the remainder of this century. Along with them goes social mobility, ambition to rise in the urban world, a main factor in bringing down the births in Europe in the nineteenth century.
4. Food shortage will happen again when the reserves resulting from the food harvest of 1976 and 1977 have been consumed. Urbanization is likely to continue, with the cities of developing nations struggling under the weight of twice present population by the year 2000.
5. The presently rich countries are approaching a stable population largely because of the changed place of women, and they incidentally are setting an example of restraint to the rest of the world. Industrial society will spread to the poor countries, and aspirations will exceed resources. All this will lead to population in the 21st century smaller than was feared years ago. For those anxious to see the population brought under control, the news is encouraging.
Questions 14-18
·Using the information in the text, complete each sentence 14-18, with a word or phrase from the list below.
·For each sentence (14-18), mark one letter (A-G) on the Answer Sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.

Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued (26) card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even (27) , and they make many banking services available as (28) . More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or (29) money in scattered locations, (30) the local branch bank is open. For many of us the "cashless society" is not on (31) — it’s already here.
While computers offer these (32) to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do (33) than simply ring up sales. They can (34) a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep (35) their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or (36) goods to suppliers can then be made.
(37) the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, (38) personnel and staffing assignments to be made (39) . And they also identify (40) customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied (41) by manufacturers for similar reasons. Computer- (42) marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials (43) hand, and even of the production process itself.
(44) other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more (45) services to consumers through the use of computers.

Part 3
Questions 19-25
·Read the following passage and choose the correct answer from A, B, C or D.
Chris Baildon, tall and lean, was in his early thirties, and the end product of an old decayed island family.
Chris shared the too large house with his father, an arthritic and difficult man, and a wasp-tongued aunt, whose complaints ended when she slept.
The father and his sister, Chris’s Aunt Agatha, engaged in shrill-voiced argument over nothing. The continuous exchange further confused their foolish wits, and yet held off an endurable loneliness. They held a common grievance against Chris, openly holding him to blame for their miserable existence. He should long ago lift them from poverty, for had they not sacrificed everything to send him to England and Oxford University.
Driven by creditors or pressing desires, earlier Baildons had long ago cheaply disposed of valuable properties. Brother and sister never ceased to remind each other of the depressing fact that their ancestors had wasted their inheritance. This, in fact, was their only other point of agreement.
A few years earlier Agatha had announced that she intended doing something about repairing the family fortunes. The many empty rooms could be rented to selected guests. She would establish, not a boarding house, but home for ladies and gentlemen, and make a tidy profit. With this ambition in mind, she throws herself into a venture with noisy fury. Old furniture was polished; rugs and carpets were beaten, floors painted, long stored mattress, pillows and bed linen aired in the sun. The huge ketch was attacked.
Agatha, with a fine air of defiance, took a copy of modest advertisement to the press. Two guests were lured by the promise of beautiful gourmet meals, home atmosphere in a historic mansion, and the company of we-brought-up ladies and gentlemen. The two, one a bank-clerk and the other a maiden employed in the bookshop, arrived simultaneously, whereupon Agatha condescended to show their rooms, and promptly forgot about them. There was no hot water. Dinner time found Baildon and Agatha sharing half cold chicken and a few boiled potatoes in the dining room’s gloomy vastness.
When the guests came timidly to inquire about the dining hours, and to point out that there were no sheets on the beds, no water in the pitchers and no towels in their racks, Agatha reminded them that the Baildon were not inn keepers, and they treated them to an account of the family’s past glories.

Part 1
·Read the following passages. Eight sentences have been removed from the article.
·Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap.
·For each gap (1-8) mark one letter (A-H) on the Answer Sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.
A few minutes ago, walking back from lunch, I started to cross the street when I heard the sound of a coin dropping. It wasn’t much but, as I turned, my eyes caught the heads of several other people turning too. (1)
The tinkling sound of a coin dropping on pavement is an attention-getter. It can be nothing more than a penny. Whatever the coin is, no one ignores the sound of it. (2)
We are besieged by so many sounds that attract our attention. (3)
When I’m in New York, I’m a New Yorker. I don’t turn either. (4) I hardly hear a siren there.
At home in my little town in Connecticut, it’s different. (5)
It’s the quietest sounds that have most effect on us, not the loudest. (6) I’ve been hearing little creaking noises and sounds which my imagination turns into footsteps in the middle of the night for twenty-five years in our house. How come I never hear those sounds in the daytime
I’m quite clear in my mind what the good sounds are and what the bad sounds are.
I’ve turned against whistling, for instance, (7)
The "tap, tap, tap" of my typewriter as the keys hit the paper is a lovely sound to me. (8)

Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued (26) card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even (27) , and they make many banking services available as (28) . More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or (29) money in scattered locations, (30) the local branch bank is open. For many of us the "cashless society" is not on (31) — it’s already here.
While computers offer these (32) to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do (33) than simply ring up sales. They can (34) a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep (35) their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or (36) goods to suppliers can then be made.
(37) the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, (38) personnel and staffing assignments to be made (39) . And they also identify (40) customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied (41) by manufacturers for similar reasons. Computer- (42) marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials (43) hand, and even of the production process itself.
(44) other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more (45) services to consumers through the use of computers.

Part 3
Questions 19-25
·Read the following passage and choose the correct answer from A, B, C or D.
Chris Baildon, tall and lean, was in his early thirties, and the end product of an old decayed island family.
Chris shared the too large house with his father, an arthritic and difficult man, and a wasp-tongued aunt, whose complaints ended when she slept.
The father and his sister, Chris’s Aunt Agatha, engaged in shrill-voiced argument over nothing. The continuous exchange further confused their foolish wits, and yet held off an endurable loneliness. They held a common grievance against Chris, openly holding him to blame for their miserable existence. He should long ago lift them from poverty, for had they not sacrificed everything to send him to England and Oxford University.
Driven by creditors or pressing desires, earlier Baildons had long ago cheaply disposed of valuable properties. Brother and sister never ceased to remind each other of the depressing fact that their ancestors had wasted their inheritance. This, in fact, was their only other point of agreement.
A few years earlier Agatha had announced that she intended doing something about repairing the family fortunes. The many empty rooms could be rented to selected guests. She would establish, not a boarding house, but home for ladies and gentlemen, and make a tidy profit. With this ambition in mind, she throws herself into a venture with noisy fury. Old furniture was polished; rugs and carpets were beaten, floors painted, long stored mattress, pillows and bed linen aired in the sun. The huge ketch was attacked.
Agatha, with a fine air of defiance, took a copy of modest advertisement to the press. Two guests were lured by the promise of beautiful gourmet meals, home atmosphere in a historic mansion, and the company of we-brought-up ladies and gentlemen. The two, one a bank-clerk and the other a maiden employed in the bookshop, arrived simultaneously, whereupon Agatha condescended to show their rooms, and promptly forgot about them. There was no hot water. Dinner time found Baildon and Agatha sharing half cold chicken and a few boiled potatoes in the dining room’s gloomy vastness.
When the guests came timidly to inquire about the dining hours, and to point out that there were no sheets on the beds, no water in the pitchers and no towels in their racks, Agatha reminded them that the Baildon were not inn keepers, and they treated them to an account of the family’s past glories.

Part 1
·Read the following passages. Eight sentences have been removed from the article.
·Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap.
·For each gap (1-8) mark one letter (A-H) on the Answer Sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.
A few minutes ago, walking back from lunch, I started to cross the street when I heard the sound of a coin dropping. It wasn’t much but, as I turned, my eyes caught the heads of several other people turning too. (1)
The tinkling sound of a coin dropping on pavement is an attention-getter. It can be nothing more than a penny. Whatever the coin is, no one ignores the sound of it. (2)
We are besieged by so many sounds that attract our attention. (3)
When I’m in New York, I’m a New Yorker. I don’t turn either. (4) I hardly hear a siren there.
At home in my little town in Connecticut, it’s different. (5)
It’s the quietest sounds that have most effect on us, not the loudest. (6) I’ve been hearing little creaking noises and sounds which my imagination turns into footsteps in the middle of the night for twenty-five years in our house. How come I never hear those sounds in the daytime
I’m quite clear in my mind what the good sounds are and what the bad sounds are.
I’ve turned against whistling, for instance, (7)
The "tap, tap, tap" of my typewriter as the keys hit the paper is a lovely sound to me. (8)

Part 3
Questions 19-25
·Read the following passage and choose the correct answer from A, B, C or D.
Chris Baildon, tall and lean, was in his early thirties, and the end product of an old decayed island family.
Chris shared the too large house with his father, an arthritic and difficult man, and a wasp-tongued aunt, whose complaints ended when she slept.
The father and his sister, Chris’s Aunt Agatha, engaged in shrill-voiced argument over nothing. The continuous exchange further confused their foolish wits, and yet held off an endurable loneliness. They held a common grievance against Chris, openly holding him to blame for their miserable existence. He should long ago lift them from poverty, for had they not sacrificed everything to send him to England and Oxford University.
Driven by creditors or pressing desires, earlier Baildons had long ago cheaply disposed of valuable properties. Brother and sister never ceased to remind each other of the depressing fact that their ancestors had wasted their inheritance. This, in fact, was their only other point of agreement.
A few years earlier Agatha had announced that she intended doing something about repairing the family fortunes. The many empty rooms could be rented to selected guests. She would establish, not a boarding house, but home for ladies and gentlemen, and make a tidy profit. With this ambition in mind, she throws herself into a venture with noisy fury. Old furniture was polished; rugs and carpets were beaten, floors painted, long stored mattress, pillows and bed linen aired in the sun. The huge ketch was attacked.
Agatha, with a fine air of defiance, took a copy of modest advertisement to the press. Two guests were lured by the promise of beautiful gourmet meals, home atmosphere in a historic mansion, and the company of we-brought-up ladies and gentlemen. The two, one a bank-clerk and the other a maiden employed in the bookshop, arrived simultaneously, whereupon Agatha condescended to show their rooms, and promptly forgot about them. There was no hot water. Dinner time found Baildon and Agatha sharing half cold chicken and a few boiled potatoes in the dining room’s gloomy vastness.
When the guests came timidly to inquire about the dining hours, and to point out that there were no sheets on the beds, no water in the pitchers and no towels in their racks, Agatha reminded them that the Baildon were not inn keepers, and they treated them to an account of the family’s past glories.

Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued (26) card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even (27) , and they make many banking services available as (28) . More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or (29) money in scattered locations, (30) the local branch bank is open. For many of us the "cashless society" is not on (31) — it’s already here.
While computers offer these (32) to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do (33) than simply ring up sales. They can (34) a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep (35) their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or (36) goods to suppliers can then be made.
(37) the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, (38) personnel and staffing assignments to be made (39) . And they also identify (40) customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied (41) by manufacturers for similar reasons. Computer- (42) marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials (43) hand, and even of the production process itself.
(44) other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more (45) services to consumers through the use of computers.

Part 1
·Read the following passages. Eight sentences have been removed from the article.
·Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap.
·For each gap (1-8) mark one letter (A-H) on the Answer Sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.
A few minutes ago, walking back from lunch, I started to cross the street when I heard the sound of a coin dropping. It wasn’t much but, as I turned, my eyes caught the heads of several other people turning too. (1)
The tinkling sound of a coin dropping on pavement is an attention-getter. It can be nothing more than a penny. Whatever the coin is, no one ignores the sound of it. (2)
We are besieged by so many sounds that attract our attention. (3)
When I’m in New York, I’m a New Yorker. I don’t turn either. (4) I hardly hear a siren there.
At home in my little town in Connecticut, it’s different. (5)
It’s the quietest sounds that have most effect on us, not the loudest. (6) I’ve been hearing little creaking noises and sounds which my imagination turns into footsteps in the middle of the night for twenty-five years in our house. How come I never hear those sounds in the daytime
I’m quite clear in my mind what the good sounds are and what the bad sounds are.
I’ve turned against whistling, for instance, (7)
The "tap, tap, tap" of my typewriter as the keys hit the paper is a lovely sound to me. (8)

Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued (26) card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even (27) , and they make many banking services available as (28) . More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or (29) money in scattered locations, (30) the local branch bank is open. For many of us the "cashless society" is not on (31) — it’s already here.
While computers offer these (32) to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do (33) than simply ring up sales. They can (34) a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep (35) their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or (36) goods to suppliers can then be made.
(37) the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, (38) personnel and staffing assignments to be made (39) . And they also identify (40) customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied (41) by manufacturers for similar reasons. Computer- (42) marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials (43) hand, and even of the production process itself.
(44) other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more (45) services to consumers through the use of computers.

Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued (26) card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even (27) , and they make many banking services available as (28) . More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or (29) money in scattered locations, (30) the local branch bank is open. For many of us the "cashless society" is not on (31) — it’s already here.
While computers offer these (32) to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do (33) than simply ring up sales. They can (34) a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep (35) their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or (36) goods to suppliers can then be made.
(37) the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, (38) personnel and staffing assignments to be made (39) . And they also identify (40) customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied (41) by manufacturers for similar reasons. Computer- (42) marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials (43) hand, and even of the production process itself.
(44) other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more (45) services to consumers through the use of computers.

Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued (26) card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even (27) , and they make many banking services available as (28) . More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or (29) money in scattered locations, (30) the local branch bank is open. For many of us the "cashless society" is not on (31) — it’s already here.
While computers offer these (32) to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do (33) than simply ring up sales. They can (34) a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep (35) their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or (36) goods to suppliers can then be made.
(37) the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, (38) personnel and staffing assignments to be made (39) . And they also identify (40) customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied (41) by manufacturers for similar reasons. Computer- (42) marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials (43) hand, and even of the production process itself.
(44) other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more (45) services to consumers through the use of computers.

Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued (26) card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even (27) , and they make many banking services available as (28) . More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or (29) money in scattered locations, (30) the local branch bank is open. For many of us the "cashless society" is not on (31) — it’s already here.
While computers offer these (32) to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do (33) than simply ring up sales. They can (34) a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep (35) their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or (36) goods to suppliers can then be made.
(37) the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, (38) personnel and staffing assignments to be made (39) . And they also identify (40) customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied (41) by manufacturers for similar reasons. Computer- (42) marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials (43) hand, and even of the production process itself.
(44) other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more (45) services to consumers through the use of computers.

Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued (26) card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even (27) , and they make many banking services available as (28) . More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or (29) money in scattered locations, (30) the local branch bank is open. For many of us the "cashless society" is not on (31) — it’s already here.
While computers offer these (32) to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do (33) than simply ring up sales. They can (34) a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep (35) their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or (36) goods to suppliers can then be made.
(37) the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, (38) personnel and staffing assignments to be made (39) . And they also identify (40) customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied (41) by manufacturers for similar reasons. Computer- (42) marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials (43) hand, and even of the production process itself.
(44) other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more (45) services to consumers through the use of computers.

Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued (26) card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even (27) , and they make many banking services available as (28) . More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or (29) money in scattered locations, (30) the local branch bank is open. For many of us the "cashless society" is not on (31) — it’s already here.
While computers offer these (32) to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do (33) than simply ring up sales. They can (34) a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep (35) their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or (36) goods to suppliers can then be made.
(37) the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, (38) personnel and staffing assignments to be made (39) . And they also identify (40) customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied (41) by manufacturers for similar reasons. Computer- (42) marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials (43) hand, and even of the production process itself.
(44) other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more (45) services to consumers through the use of computers.

Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued (26) card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even (27) , and they make many banking services available as (28) . More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or (29) money in scattered locations, (30) the local branch bank is open. For many of us the "cashless society" is not on (31) — it’s already here.
While computers offer these (32) to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do (33) than simply ring up sales. They can (34) a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep (35) their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or (36) goods to suppliers can then be made.
(37) the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, (38) personnel and staffing assignments to be made (39) . And they also identify (40) customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied (41) by manufacturers for similar reasons. Computer- (42) marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials (43) hand, and even of the production process itself.
(44) other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more (45) services to consumers through the use of computers.

Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued (26) card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even (27) , and they make many banking services available as (28) . More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or (29) money in scattered locations, (30) the local branch bank is open. For many of us the "cashless society" is not on (31) — it’s already here.
While computers offer these (32) to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do (33) than simply ring up sales. They can (34) a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep (35) their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or (36) goods to suppliers can then be made.
(37) the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, (38) personnel and staffing assignments to be made (39) . And they also identify (40) customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied (41) by manufacturers for similar reasons. Computer- (42) marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials (43) hand, and even of the production process itself.
(44) other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more (45) services to consumers through the use of computers.

Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued (26) card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even (27) , and they make many banking services available as (28) . More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or (29) money in scattered locations, (30) the local branch bank is open. For many of us the "cashless society" is not on (31) — it’s already here.
While computers offer these (32) to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do (33) than simply ring up sales. They can (34) a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep (35) their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or (36) goods to suppliers can then be made.
(37) the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, (38) personnel and staffing assignments to be made (39) . And they also identify (40) customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied (41) by manufacturers for similar reasons. Computer- (42) marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials (43) hand, and even of the production process itself.
(44) other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more (45) services to consumers through the use of computers.

Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued (26) card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even (27) , and they make many banking services available as (28) . More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or (29) money in scattered locations, (30) the local branch bank is open. For many of us the "cashless society" is not on (31) — it’s already here.
While computers offer these (32) to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do (33) than simply ring up sales. They can (34) a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep (35) their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or (36) goods to suppliers can then be made.
(37) the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, (38) personnel and staffing assignments to be made (39) . And they also identify (40) customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied (41) by manufacturers for similar reasons. Computer- (42) marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials (43) hand, and even of the production process itself.
(44) other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more (45) services to consumers through the use of computers.

Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued (26) card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even (27) , and they make many banking services available as (28) . More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or (29) money in scattered locations, (30) the local branch bank is open. For many of us the "cashless society" is not on (31) — it’s already here.
While computers offer these (32) to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do (33) than simply ring up sales. They can (34) a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep (35) their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or (36) goods to suppliers can then be made.
(37) the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, (38) personnel and staffing assignments to be made (39) . And they also identify (40) customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied (41) by manufacturers for similar reasons. Computer- (42) marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials (43) hand, and even of the production process itself.
(44) other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more (45) services to consumers through the use of computers.

Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued (26) card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even (27) , and they make many banking services available as (28) . More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or (29) money in scattered locations, (30) the local branch bank is open. For many of us the "cashless society" is not on (31) — it’s already here.
While computers offer these (32) to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do (33) than simply ring up sales. They can (34) a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep (35) their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or (36) goods to suppliers can then be made.
(37) the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, (38) personnel and staffing assignments to be made (39) . And they also identify (40) customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied (41) by manufacturers for similar reasons. Computer- (42) marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials (43) hand, and even of the production process itself.
(44) other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more (45) services to consumers through the use of computers.

Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued (26) card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even (27) , and they make many banking services available as (28) . More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or (29) money in scattered locations, (30) the local branch bank is open. For many of us the "cashless society" is not on (31) — it’s already here.
While computers offer these (32) to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do (33) than simply ring up sales. They can (34) a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep (35) their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or (36) goods to suppliers can then be made.
(37) the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, (38) personnel and staffing assignments to be made (39) . And they also identify (40) customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied (41) by manufacturers for similar reasons. Computer- (42) marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials (43) hand, and even of the production process itself.
(44) other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more (45) services to consumers through the use of computers.