e captain apologized ________ to tell us more about the accident.

[A] for to be unable

[B] that he was unable

[C] to be unable

[D] for being unable

15.   ________ is no reason for discharging her.

[A] Because she was a few minutes late

[B] Owing to a few minutes being late

[C] The fact that she was a few minutes late

[D] Being a few minutes late

Section II: Close Test

For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices labeled [A], [B], [C] and [D]. Choose the best one and put your choice in the brackets below the passage. Read the whole passage before making your choices. (10 points)

On Wednesday afternoons Annie took the bus into town to shop in the market. For an hour or __16__ she would walk up and down between the stalls looking at everything, buying here and there, and __17__ a sharp lookout for the bargains that were sometimes to be had. And then, with all the things she needed __18__ she would leave the market for the streets of the town to spend another hour __19__ she liked best: looking in furniture shop windows.

One Wednesday she found a new shop full of the most delightful things, with a notice inviting anyone to walk in and look __20__ without feeling they had to buy something. Annie hesitated for a moment before stepping through the doorway where, almost at once, she stopped __21__ before a green armchair. There was a card on the chair which said: “This fine chair is yours __22__ less than a pound a week,” and very small at the bottom, “Cash price eighty-nine pounds fifty.” A pound a week... __23__, she could almost pay that out of her housekeeping money and never miss it! A voice at her shoulder made her __24__. “Can I help you, Madam?” She looked round at the assistant who had come softly to her __25__.

“Oh, well, no,” she said. “I was just looking.” “We’ve chairs of all kinds in the showroom. If you’ll just come up, you will find something to suit you.”

Annie, worried at the thought of being persuaded to buy something she didn’t need, left the shop hurriedly.

16.   [A] so

[B] more

[C] else

[D] another

17.   [A] taking

[B] making

[C] fixing

[D] keeping

18.   [A] buy

[B] bought

[C] buying

[D] to have bought

19.   [A] in a way

[B] by the way

[C] in the way

[D] on the way

20.   [A] behind

[B] round

[C] back

[D] on

21.   [A] doubted

[B] wondered

[C] puzzled

[D] delighted

22.   [A] at

[B] for

[C] with

[D] in

23.   [A] Why

[B] When

[C] How

[D] What

24.   [A] jump

[B] leap

[C] laugh

[D] wonder

25.   [A] place

[B] back

[C] side

[D] front

Section III: Reading Comprehension

Each of the two passages below is followed by five questions. For each question there are four answers. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each of the questions. Put your choice in the brackets on the left. (10 points)

Text 1

There are a great many careers in which the increasing emphasis is on specialization. You find these careers in engineering, in production, in statistical work, and in teaching. But there is an increasing demand for people who are able to take in great area at a glance, people who perhaps do not know too much about any one field. There is, in other words, a demand for people who are capable of seeing the forest rather than the trees, of making general judgments. We can call these people “generalists.” And these “generalists” are particularly needed for positions in administration, where it is their job to see that other people do the work, where they have to plan for other people, to organize other people’s work, to begin it and judge it.

The specialist understands one field; his conc

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