Find the word that has its underlined part pronounced differently from the other three in each question.
Question 1:
- a. fat
- b. cat
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c. table
- d. sat
Question 2:
- a. hit
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b. tide
- c. sit
- d. did
Question 3:
- a. fed
- b. left
- c. bed
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d. these
Question 4:
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a. colour
- b. hole
- c. go
- d. toe
Question 5:
- a. these
- b. free
- c. scene
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d. bed
Choose the best answer a, b, c or d for each sentence:
Question 6: In the rural areas, _____ is widespread.
- a. literate
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b. literacy
- c. illiteracy
- d. illiterate
Question 7: Sun, sand and romance - her holiday was ______.
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a. complete
- b. completely
- c. completeness
- d. completion
Question 8: Reducing the size of classes may improve ____ standards.
- a. education
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b. educational
- c. educate
- d. educated
Question 9: Do you recognize the ____ on the envelope?
- a. write
- b. written
- c. writer
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d. writing
Question 10: The radiation leak has had a disastrous ______ on the environment.
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a. effect
- b. effective
- c. effectively
- d. effectiveness
Question 11: They decided not to _____an existing order for aircraft.
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a. honor
- b. honors
- c. honorable
- d. honorably
Question 12: The hotel was ____ and comfortable.
- a. home
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b. homely
- c. homeless
- d. homeland
Question 13: I think free-range chickens taste much better than factory - _____ ones.
- a. farm
- b. farmer
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c. farmed
- d. farming
Question 14: I've had _____ problems with this car ever since I bought it.
- a. continue
- b. continuing
- c. continuous
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d. continual
Question 15: They searched for survivors but it was _____.
- a. hope
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b. hopeless
- d. hopeful
- d. hopefully
Question 16: The cab drivers’ strike ________ last week, and it still _____on these days.
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a. began / is going
- b. had begun / goes
- c. began / goes
- d. had begun / is going
Question 17: They ____ the assignment that they assigned to.
- a. didn't finish / had been
- b. don’t / are
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c. haven't finished / were
- d. can’t finish / could be
Question 18: Our uncle _____ while he _____a motorcycle.
- a. didn’t smoke / is driving
- b. hasn’t smoked / was driving
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c. doesn’t smoke / is driving
- d. hadn’t smoked / was driving
Question 19: By the end of this month, Mid-Autumn Festival ____ and _____.
- a. comes / goes
- b. would come / go
- c. will come / go
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d. will have come / gone
Question 20: When my mother ____ old, she often ____ of all the things she ____ when she ____ young.
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a. grew / thought / did / was
- b. grows / thinks / does / is
- c. has grown / thinks / had done / was
- d. grows / thought / had done / is
Question 21: We _____ his sister since last Saturday, but we _____ she _____ an essay on Romeo and Juliet at present.
- a. didn’t see / believed / wrote
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b. haven’t seen / believe / is writing
- c. don’t see / believe / writes
- d. haven’t seen / have believed / has written
Question 22: My friends _____ your brother tomorrow morning after he _____ his work.
- a. will meet / will finish
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b. will meet / has finished
- c. will have met / has finished
- d. will have met / will finish
Question 23: In a while, when the clock ___ ten, we _____ here an hour.
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a. strikes / will have been waiting
- b. has struck / will wait
- c. strikes / will have waited
- d. has struck / will be waiting
Question 24: You know two straight lines which ____ at a point _____an angel, don’t you?
- a. met / formed
- b. have met / have formed
- c. meet / have formed
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d. meet / form
Question 25: What they ___ half an hour ago while my aunt ___ the dishes?
- a. did...do / washed
- b. did...do / was washing
- c. were...doing / washed
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d. were...doing / was washing
Question 26: The number of people receiving reading and writing lessons reached 4,623.
- a. telling
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b. refusing
- c. escaping
- d. transmitting
Question 27: This was an effective way to help people in remote and mountainous areas to read and write.
- a. inadequate
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b. ineffectual
- c. impotent
- d. unexpected
Question 28: Those students who took part in the fight against illiteracy considered it an honorable job to help people in their home villages.
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a. contemptible
- b. perfidious
- c. wrong
- d. tricky
Question 29: Some even prepared relevant materials for their classes.
- a. irregular
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b. inappropriate
- c. careless
- d. false
Question 30: This time the Vietnam Society of Learning Promotion decided to expand its activities to the central mountainous provinces.
- a.. contract
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b. diminish
- c. deflate
- d. wane
Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct.
Question 31: Different species of octopuses may measure anywhere from two inches to over thirty feet in long.
- a. species
- b. anywhere
- c. to over
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d. in long
32: When rainbows appear, they are always in the part of the sky opposite directly the Sun.
- a. appear
- b. part
- c. the sky
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d. opposite directly
33: A citadel, a fortress designed for the defense of a city, usually standed on top of a hill.
- a. designed
- b. defense
- c. city
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d. standed
34: Many people who live in New York City thinks that life in a large city offers special advantages.
- a. people who
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b.thinks
- c. life
- d. offers
35: The scientific revolution of the early 1900's affected education by change tne nature of technology.
- a. scientific
- b. affected
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c. change
- d. technology
Read the passage and check whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
Low levels of literacy skills’ among workers are hindering the competitiveness of North American businesses in today’s globalized and information-focused world. Employers are wondering whether these problems are actually relevant to their own firms. As a result of a research project on the relationship between literacy supply and demand in Canadian employment, we have created a strategy for employers to use to assess their level of risk before undertaking expensive and difficult in-depth studies of their firms. Literacy supply refers to the literacy skills of workers or potential workers while literacy demand refers to the requirement for literacy skills in specific jobs. Our project addresses ways in which actual problems can be identified through matching literacy supply with literacy demand. While this paper quotes mainly Canadian sources on this issue, the problem, we consider, is common to the United States and, indeed, to most industrializedcountries. We know a lot about the literacy skills of the Canadian population and workforces, and the news has not been good. A series of national and international surveys have actually tested samples of Canadians on their literacy and numeracy abilities. These studies strongly suggest that a substantial proportion of the Canadian workforce has, at best, basic literacy skills and, at worst, inadequate abilities to handle everyday literacy and numeracy tasks. From the literacy supply side we have been led to believe that we have a serious problem. It is widely argued that low levels of literacy skills are harming the productivity of Canadian business now and represent a barrier to the restructuring firms need to remain competitive in the future.
Question 36: Workers with low levels of literacy skills can delay the advantage or development of the competitiveness of North American businesses.
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a. True
- b. False
Question 37: As a result of a research project on the relationship between literacy supply and demand in Canadian employment, a strategy hasn’t been created for employers to use to assess their levels of risk before undertaking expensive and difficult in-depth studies of their firms.
- a. True
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b. False
Question 38: Literacy demand refers to the literacy skills of workers or potential workers while literacy supply refers to the requirement for literacy skills in specific jobs.
- a. True
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b. False
Question 39: Low levels of literacy skills are common to the United States and, indeed, to most industrialized countries.
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a. True
- b. False
Question 40: A series of national and international surveys strongly suggests that substantial proportion of the Canadian workforce has, at best, basic literacy skills and, at worst, inadequate abilities to handle everyday literacy and numeracy tasks.
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a. True
- b. False
Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.
A study in (Question 41)_____ 1995 showed that (Question 42)____ least. 30% of 2,659 patients had inadequate functional health illiteracy, (Question 43)____ meant that they could not (Question 44) the written instructions on the prescription bottles. A doctor (Question 45) that “adults with limited literacy (Question 46)_____ formidable problems using the health (Question 47) ___ system. They are less likely to use screening procedures, follow medical regimens, keep appointments or (Question 48) ____ help early in the course of a disease”. The study conducted in 1993 by Education Department Literacy found that 47% (Question 49) ____American adults, about 90 million, have (Question 50) ____ rudimentary literacy skills.
Question 41.
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a. late
- b. later
- c. last
- d. latest
Question 42:
- a. in
- b. on
- c. for
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d. at
Question 43:
- a. whom
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b. which
- c. that
- d. why
Question 44:
- a. regard
- b. consider
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c. comprehend
- d. know
Question 45:
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a. noted
- b. felt
- c. reminded
- d. told
Question 46:
- a. cope
- b. go ahead
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c. face
- d. take
Question 47:
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a. care
- b. careful
- c. careless
- d. carefully
Question 48:
- a. shout
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b. seek
- c. ask
- d. tell
Question 49:
- a. in
- b. with
- c. at
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d. of
Question 50:
- a. most
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b. only
- c. certainly
- d. mostly