Phonetics
a. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from
the rest. Mark your answers in the answer sheet.
1. A. plaid B. plain C. maintain
D. explain
2. A. cushion B. push C. rude
D. full
3. A. youth B. cloth C. bathe
D. month
4. A. honey B. donkey C. money
D. survey
5. A. washed B. handed C. laughed
D. helped
b. Choose the word whose main stressed syllable is different from the rest.
Mark your answers in the answer sheet.
6. A. discovery B. calculator C. aeroplane
D. difficulty
7. A. chemistry B. organize C. flavour
D. delicious
8. A. purpose B. institute C. champagne
D. viable
9. A. extensive B. priority C. distinguish
D. temperature
10. A. economics B. mathematics C. photography
D. nationality
II. Vocabulary and grammar
Choose the best option A, B, C or D to complete the sentence. Mark your
answers in the answer sheet.
11. Daisy's boss doesn't want her to make a habit of using the office phone
__________ personal calls.
A. with B. to C. for
D. in
12. __________ amount of money can buy love and liberty.
A. Not only B. Never C. None
D. No
13. “Do you think it’s going to rain heavily?” - “___________”
A. I hope not B. I don’t hope C. I don’t hope so
D. I won’t hope so
14. I looked for George and Mike but I saw __________ of them.
A. all B. none C. neither
D. both
15. He took very careful __________ at the lecture.
A. notes B. texts C.
lessons D. copies
16. The children cheered wildly when the teacher let them _________ a
game.
A. play B. playing C. to play
D. played
17. We have got problems of one kind or _________.
A. another B. other C. some others
D. the other
18. There was nothing they could do _________ leave the car at the
roadside where it had broken down.
A. than B. unless C. instead of
D. but
19. None of club members came to the meeting, __________?
A. did they B. didn't they C. did he
D. didn't he
20. The stolen jewels were _________ a lot of money.
A. valued B. cost C. worth
D. priced
21. ‘The leaves ______ brown as the weather got colder.’
A. became B. turned C. changed
D. grew
22. Mr Brian spoke __________ to his wife before leaving for work because
he was late.
A. slowly B. suddenly C. simply D.
briefly
23. Mother asked Mary _________ in her tests.
A. if she will do well B. whether she did not do well
C. why didn’t she do well D. why she did not do well
24. You should keep a box of matches ___________ in case the lights go
out again.
A. handy B. by hand C. in touch
D. in the way
25. Never _________ till tomorrow what we can do today.
A. put over B. put off C. put back
D. put away
26. The number of candidates ________ very large in the examination last
month.
A. was B. were C. is
D. are
27. He has read ________ of the book.
A. three-five B. three fives C. three-fifth
D. three-fifths
28. ________ of men and women in four continents speak English as their
first language.
A. Million B. Millions C. A million D.
Millionaire
29. We can take all the examinations in English. It does not matter
_________ we learn it.
A. what B. where C. whom D. which
30. She can look back on her career with great _________.
A. satisfied B. satisfaction C. satisfactory
D. satisfactorily
31. Mohan asked his mother if _________ the Internet.
A. could he surf B. he can surf C. he could surf
D. he surfs
32. We reminded Anna not to be late for our appointment ___________.
A. the next day B. next day C. in the next day
D. the day next
33. Although a doctor may be able to diagnose a problem __________, he
still may not be able to find a drug to which the patient will respond.
A. perfect B. perfectible C. perfectly
D. perfection
34. If the snow ___________ to fall, none of the planes will be able to take
off.
A. continues B. is continuing C. continued
D. will continue
35. Turn right at the next traffic junction and you will see the shopping
centre ___________ your left.
A. at B. on C. in
D. next
36. A list of compatible software ____________with your new computer.
A. includes B. is included C. is including
D. included
37. ‘Let me congratulate you on the New Year’. - ‘_____________.’
A. You are welcome B. That is very kind of you
C. Never mind D. It is my time
38. After nine months without any rain, the country was facing one of the
worst _________ in the last fifty years.
A. droughts B. draughts C. eruptions
D. floods
39. I am afraid you have just got the wrong end of the ___________.
A. leg B. rope C.
arm D. stick
40. Since you’ve been working all day long, I __________ you’re too tired
to go out tonight, aren’t you?
A. evaluate B. consider C. assume
D. assess
III. Reading
a. Read the passage and choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete
it. Mark your answers in the answer sheet.
If you are looking at a modern laptop computer, it's hard to believe that
computers were once huge devices (41) ____________ only to
government or big businesses. Today's computers are often not much
bigger than typewriters and are taken for (42) ____________ in homes,
schools, and offices. Technological (43) ____________ made the small
personal computer possible, but two electronic whiz kids working in a
garage actually brought it about. Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak first
met at Hewlett-Packard, an electronics firm in California. Jobs was a high-
school student when William Hewlett, the president, took him (44)
____________ as a summer employee. Wozniak, a college dropout, was
also working there, and the two got along right away. Jobs and Wozniak
went separate ways in 1972. When they got together again in 1974,
Wozniak was spending a lot of time with a local computer club, and he (45)
____________ Jobs to join the group. Jobs immediately saw the (46)
____________ for a small computer. He (47) ____________ up with
Wozniak, a brilliant engineer, to build one. The two designed the Apple I
computer in Jobs’s bedroom, and they put the prototype (48)
____________ in his garage. With $1,300 in capital (49) ____________ by
selling Jobs’s car and Wozniak's scientific calculator, they set up their first
production line. Apple I, which they brought out in 1976, had sales of $600,
a(n) (50) ____________ beginning. By 1980, Apple Computers, which had
started four years earlier as a project in a garage, had a market value of
$1.2 billion.
41. A. ready B. accessible C. possible
D. available
42. A. granted B. free C. common
D. admissible
43. A. attacks B. thrusts C. advances
D. exploits
44. A. up B. on C. in
D. off
45. A. convinced B. impressed C. imposed
D. confirmed
46. A. ability B. potential C. possible
D. capacity
47. A. teamed B. collected C. gathered
D. met
48. A. up B. on C. together
D. along
49. A. pawned B. attracted C. raised
D. realized
50. A. aspiring B. advancing C. promising
D. speeding
c. Read the passage and choose the best option A, B, C or D to answer the
questions. Mark your answers in the answer sheet.
In the world today, particularly in the two most industrialized areas, North
America and Europe, recycling is big news. People are talking about it,
practicing it, and discovering new ways to be sensitive to the environment.
Recycling means finding was to use products a second time. The motto of
the recycling movement is "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle".
The first step is to reduce garbage. In stores, a shopper has to buy
products in blister packs, boxes and expensive plastic wrappings. A
hamburger from a fast food restaurant comes in lots of packaging: usually
paper, a box, and a bag. All that packaging is wasted resources. People
should try to buy things that are wrapped simply, and to reuse cups and
utensils. Another way to reduce waste is to buy high-quality products. When
low quality appliances break, many customers throw them away and buy
new ones - a loss of more resources and more energy. For example, if a
customer buys a high-quality appliance that can be easily repaired, the
manufacturer receives an important message. In the same way, if a
customer chooses a product with less packaging, that customer sends an
important message to the manufacturers. To reduce garbage, the
throwaway must stop.
The second step is to reuse. It is better to buy juices and soft drinks in
returnable bottles. After customers empty the bottles, they return them to
the store. The manufacturers of the drinks collect the bottles, wash them,
and then fill them again. The energy that is necessary to make new bottles
is saved. In some parts of the world, returning bottles for money is a
common practice. In those places, the garbage dumps have relatively little
glass and plastic from throwaway bottles.
The third step is being environmentally sensitive is to recycle. Spent motor
oil can be cleaned and used again. Aluminum cans are expensive to make.
It takes the same amount of energy to make one aluminum can as it does