Reading Smart HI: Test 17

Part I. Grammar & Vocabulary (36％)

(   ) 1. The smell of the dead rat was sickening --- I nearly _____.

(A) absorbed             (B) vomited               (C) thrived          (D) collided

(   ) 2. Doctors are _____ that the cause of the patient's stomach pains is poor diet.

(A) calculating           (B) isolating              (C) translating    (D) speculating

(   ) 3. The pilot _____ a message to the air traffic control tower, saying his plane was in danger.

(A) exaggerated         (B) declined              (C) transmitted (D) conceived

(   ) 4. According to scientists, doing puzzles _____ the mind and keeps memory loss at bay.

(A) stimulates            (B) endangers           (C) distresses      (D) overturns

(   ) 5. It's pretty difficult to get pandas to breed, so they may one day go _____.

(A) extreme               (B) exotic                  (C) explosive      (D) extinct

(   ) 6. The last episode in the _____ is coming out tonight. I'm so excited!

(A) series                   (B) gourmet              (C) syndrome     (D) cyber

(   ) 7. This apple pie recipe has been passed _____ for generations in my family.

(A) in                        (B) out                      (C) up                 (D) down

(   ) 8. It was very hard for Stephanie to _____ the pain of breaking up with her boyfriend.

(A) pick up                (B) hand in                (C) cope with     (D) take over

(   ) 9. Alexander continued to run the marathon, _____ the pain in both his knees.

(A) according to        (B) regardless of       (C) by means of (D) in addition to

 

Part II. Fill-in-the-Blank (32%)

(A) traced           (B) pause            (C) supernatural (D) phylogenetic        (E) popularized

(F) long-term      (G) uncover        (H) valiant          (I) depicted                (J) succumbed

(   ) 10. The old man _____ to heart disease when he was 88 years old.

(   ) 11. I had no choice but to put my current project on a _____ when my boss asked me to do something urgent for her.

(   ) 12. Several classic fairy tales were first _____ by the Brothers Grimm.

(   ) 13. The main character in the film was _____ as a confused, angry man.

(   ) 14. The police looked at the crime scene and hoped to _____ some clues.

(   ) 15. The patient's _____ memory won't be affected by the procedure, but he'll have trouble with events that just happened.

(   ) 16. When people give me _____ explanations for things, I rarely believe them.

(   ) 17. Gloria _____ her family history all the way back to Ming Dynasty in China.

 

Part III. Cloze Test (32%)

Nobody likes experiencing stress. Nervousness makes your heart beat faster and makes you feel like you want to throw up, _(18)_ you are a man or a woman. However, handling stress may be influenced by your _(19)_. The ability to _(20)_ pressure and avoid mood disorders like depression is more common in men than in women. Researchers are just starting to explain _(21)_ there are these irregularities between male and female reactions to depression.

In experiments, male rodents were better able than females to recover from _(22)_ behaviors. While both groups changed their grooming habits, male rodents showed this behavior later and recovered faster. By looking at the rodents' brains, researchers found differences in how males and females handled the (a) stress hormone CRF.

CRF _(23)_ in males go back into their cells after a stressful event is over. In female rodents, the brain stays _(24)_ to stress hormones. This means female rodents have _(25)_ levels of CRF for a longer time, which can alter DNA to make them more likely to get a mood disorder. In the future, we may tailor mood disorder medication by sex to make it more effective.

(   ) 18. (A) while                 (B) despite                (C) though                 (D) whether

(   ) 19. (A) salary                (B) career                  (C) gender                 (D) religion

(   ) 20. (A) ventilate            (B) withstand            (C) extend                 (D) illuminate

(   ) 21. (A) why                  (B) how                    (C) when                   (D) where

(   ) 22. (A) impressive        (B) depressive           (C) expressive           (D) compressive

(   ) 23. (A) blacksmiths       (B) folklorists            (C) receptors             (D) cuisines

(   ) 24. (A) coastal               (B) responsive           (C) ultimate               (D) scrumptious

(   ) 25. (A) elevated            (B) isolated               (C) defeated               (D) unlimited