Section A Directions: In this section, there is a passage with
ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of
choices given in a word blank following the passage. Read the passage through
carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the blank identified by a
letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2
with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in
the blank more than once.
The law is great mass of rules, showing When and how far a man
is (47) to be punished, or to be made to hand over money or
property to his neighbors, and so (48) These rules are
contained in books. A lawyer learns them in the main (49)
reading books. He begins by doing little else than read, and
after he has prepared himself by, say, three years’ study to practise,
(50) , all his life long and almost every day, he will be
looking into books to read a little more than he already knows about some new
question which he has to answer. The (51)
to use books, then, is a talent which the would-be lawyer ought to possess. He
ought to have enough flexibility and fineness of mental fibre to make it easy
for him to collect ideas from (52) words. He ought to have
some (53) in finding what a book contains, and something of
an instinct for where to look for what he wants. But
(54) this is the power of which he will first feel the need,
it is not the most important. A lawyer does not study law to (55)
it; he studies it to use it and act upon the rules which he has
learned in real life. His business is to try cases in court and to advise men
what to do in order to keep out or get out of (56) . He
studies his books in order to advise and to try his cases in the right way.
A) power
I)
although B) still
J) trouble C) printed
K) forth D) possible
L)
readiness E) liable
M)
nevertheless F) through
N) force G) recite
O) published H) plight