PRACTICE TEST 1
I/ Phonetics:
A. Pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the other
words.
1. A. traffic B. left-hand C. horseback D. husband
2. A. road B. custom C. whole D. sole
3. A. wound B. ground C. found D. mount
4. A. drive B. revive C. live D. hive
5. A. practice B. rice C. cite D. nice
B. Pick out the word that has the stress pattern different from that of the other words.
6. A. legal B. reverse C. custom D. travel
7. A. perversity B. authority C. responsible D. revolution
8. A. decree B. conquer C. general D. carriage
9. A. logical B. passage C. conflict D. theory
10. A. habit B. inhabit C. correct D. exciting
II/ Vocabulary and Structure
A. Error recognition : Choose the underlined part ( A,B,C or D ) that is incorrect.
11. Many people, when they got older, want to return to the town which they were born.
A B C D
12. They didn’t seem to take any notice about what the teacher said.
A B C D
13. He refused to tell us the reason for why he didn’t come to the meeting last week.
A B C D
14. If we are hurried, we’ll get to the library before it closes.
A B C D
15. It was such a small town that I had difficulty to find a job.
A B C D
16. The drum player is used to play with a dance band when he was young.
A B C D
17. If tomorrow the weather will not be fine, the match will be postponed.
A B C D
18. When they arrived at the airport, the plane has taken off.
A B C D
19. He has been studying in the library for 8 o’clock.
A B C D
20. As it was late, we decided taking a taxi home.
A B C D
B. Choose the one (A,B,C or D) that best completes each sentences
21. Their situations are now ____________ as employee has become employer.
A. reversed B. reserved C. restores D. reverted
22. It is very important for a firm or a company to ____________ changes in the market.
A. keep pace with B. keep pace of C. keep in touch with D. keep track with
23. I don’t like people who ____________ other people’s kindness.
A. advantages B. take advantages of C. take advantage in D. take advantage of
24. They are accustomed ____________ up late at weekends.
A. with getting B. to get C. by getting D. to getting
25. Please move along to make ____________ the new comer.
A. seat for B. room for C. a room for D. place for
26. I wish I ____________ a doctor, thinks the little boy.
A. am B. were C. weren’t D. aren’t
27. Their children enjoy ____________ with the cats.
A. playing B. play C. to play D. the playing
28. I hate ____________ when the weather is bad.
A. walks B. to walk C. walking D. walk
29. “You look exhausted”.- “I am. I ____________ all day.”
A. am studying B. have been studying C. had studied D. studied
30. I hope you don’t mind ____________ to come tonight.
A. to be asked B. you were asked C. being asked D. we ask you
31. Ann hasn’t been able to sleep ____________.
A. since a few days B. for last week C. lately D. recent
32. She apologized ____________ waiting a medical training course.
A. to me for B. for keeping me C. for me keeping D. for me
33. Stop ____________, will you? I can’t concentrate.
A. to talk B. talking C. talk D. talked
34. You’ve ____________ quite a lot of mistakes in this essay.
A. make B. made C. do D. done
II / Readings
A. Circle the best options to complete the following passage.
While I (35) ____________ home three months ago, I found a wallet. I saw it as I (36)
____________ through the park. It was on a bench. I suppose it (37) ____________ out of
somebody’s pocket (38) ____________ they were sitting on the beach. I (39) ____________ in the
wallet. It contained a lot of money but 40) ____________ no name on it, so I (41) ____________ it
to the police station. (42) ____________ reported a lost wallet, so the police station kept it. I (43)
____________ the police station three times since then, but nobody has claimed the wallet yet. If
(44) ____________ claims it soon, it will be mine.
35. A. came B. am coming C. come D. was coming
36. A. was walking B. walked C. was coming D. has walked
37. A. has fallen B. had fallen C. fell D. was falling
38. A. where B. while C. because D. since
39. has looked B. was looking C. look D. looked
40. A. it was B. there was C. it has D. there had
41. A. took B. was taking C. take D. had taken
42. A. Somebody B. Anybody C. Nobody D. Everyone
43. A. had phoned B. phoned C. have phoned D. was phoning
44. A. nobody B. somebody C. anybody D. everyone
B. Read the passage and then answer the questions below.
NO MORE HOUSE WORK!
It is five o’clock in the evening when Rene Wagner comes home from work. She walks into the
living room and looks at her three children. They are 14, 13, and 9 years old. They are watching
TV.
The living room is a mess. There are dirty socks on the floor, and cookies on the sofa. Games and
toys are everywhere. Rene is angry. “This place is a mess” she tells her children . I can’t work all
day and then do housework all evening. I’m not going to do housework!”.
Rene doesn’t do housework. She doesn’t clean or wash dishes. She doesn’t wash clothes , either.
Every evening she sits on the sofa and watches TV.
After two weeks, every plate, fork, and glass in the house is dirty. All the children’s clothes are
dirty. Every garbage can is full . The hose is a mess.
The, one day Rene come from work and gets a big surprise. The kitchen is clean. The children
clean the kitchen!
The next day, the living room in clean, and the children are washing their clothes. Rene tells her
children , “OK, I’ll do housework again. But you have to help me”.
Now Rene and her three children do the housework together. Then they all sit on the sofa and
watch TV.
45. When Rene came home from work, she found the house ____________.
A. clean and tidy B. dirty and untidy C. dirty but tidy D. clean but untidy.
46. She was filled with ____________ at the mess her children had made in the living room.
A. happiness B. delight C. worry D. anger
47. Rene told her children ____________.
A. to do housework B. she wouldn’t do housework
C. not to do housework D. she couldn’t do housework
48. Then she watched TV ____________ housework.
A. and didn’t do B. and let her children do C. after doing D. and then did
49. Two weeks later, the house was ____________ .
A. very clean B. a mess C. tidy D. rather dirty
50. Now Rene does the housework again because ____________.
A. her children help her. B. they can watch TV together
C. her children wash their clothes D. her children don’t do it.