Notes

1. A strong ---- exists between a country’s wealth
and the freedom afforded its citizens.
A) coincidence B) correlation
C) consideration D) determination
E) interpretation
2. Satellite television transmission now makes it ----
for us to watch events as they unfold in other
countries.
A) worldwide B) substantial
C) aware D) commonplace
E) liable
3. Latin American countries on average export only
about 10 per cent of their products to other Latin
American countries but ---- 20 per cent of them to
the US.
A) almost B) fairly
C) respectively D) initially
E) extensively
4. Until the sixteenth century, when the first
international postal agreement was ----, there was
no postal system as we know it today.
A) assigned B) maintained C) enacted
D) seized E) conducted
5. There has been increasing pressure in the US to
---- the amount of funding allocated to foreign aid,
and instead, use the funds to improve the
domestic economy.
A) make up for B) point out to C) keep up with
D) cut down on E) take up with
6. Many parts of rural America ---- to reflect the
values and traditions of the European immigrants
who ---- in the country during the nineteenth
century.
A) continued / have arrived
B) have continued / would have arrived
C) continue / arrived
D) would have continued / were arriving
E) will continue / would arrive
7. With few exceptions, most totalitarian
governments ---- more liberal since 1989 when
the Berlin Wall ----.
A) became / falls
B) are becoming / would fall
C) were becoming / has fallen
D) had become / was falling
E) have become / fell
8. Of all the arts it ---- to classical music that
Germany ---- the greatest contribution.
A) had been / made
B) is / has made
C) has been / had made
D) was / will have made
E) might be / would have made