34 After months of staying home doing nothing at all, Mark was ready to get out of his _______ life because he finally realized that it was not the end of the world to break up with his girlfriend.
(A) cumulative
(B) admirable
(C) pathetic
(D) dynamic

35 Being the first female CEO of the company, Ellen believes that the secret to success is a long-term commitment to working _______ because there’s no such thing as overnight success. (A) arduously (B) furtively (C) inherently (D) marginally

36 (A) because (B) where (C) although (D) which

37 (A) consequently (B) obviously (C) besides (D) however

38 (A) where and when (B) wherever and however (C) whenever and why (D) however and why

39 (A) For example (B) Upon contact (C) Above all (D) In return

40 (A) play down (B) deal with (C) serve as (D) tie up

41 (A) He was the first to formulate the law of motion. (B) The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. (C) He was obssessed with alchemy. (D) He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory.

42 (A) But he was reticent about publishing his work, fearing controversy and criticism. (B) He invented calculus, independently of Gottfried Leibniz, feuding with him over who was first. (C) It was common at the time for Cambridge faculty members (all of the men) to take holy orders in the Church of England; Newton, true to himself, refused. (D) He was a family man.

43 (A) The solitary and eccentric Newton apparently saved everything he wrote; among his papers are recipes for ink that he scribbled as a scholar at Cambridge. (B) Conduitt had a vested interest in guarding Newton’s reputation as a paragon of science. (C) At the age of 26, he was made Lucasian professor of mathematics. (D) Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s manuscripts: “he was the last of the magicians.”

44 (A) He was interred in Westminster Abbey. (B) A lifelong bachelor, Newton died without leaving a will. (C) At his death, more than half of his writings were unpublished, including all his thoughts on religion and alchemy. (D) Sarah Dry’s engaging book The Newton Papers traces what happened to Newton’s unpublished manuscript after his death.

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