Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.
Question 1:
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a. sugar
- b. comments
- c. festival
- d. spring
Question 2:
- a. month
- b. throughout
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c. with
- d. south
Question 3:
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a. special
- b. calendar
- c. decorate
- d. colored
Question 4:
- a. members
- b. apples
- c. plums
- d. envelope
Question 5:
- a. much
- b. children
- c. exchange
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d. machine
Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence; substitutes the underlined part; or has a close meaning to the original one.
Question 6: Peter is not ____ work today. He is ____ holiday.
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a. at / on
- b. in / for
- c. from / away
- d. for / over
Question 7: When I was in class, I often sat ____ Tommy and Mike.
- a. among
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b. between
- c. in
- d. within
Question 8: In spring, all flowers are ____ blossom colorfully.
- a. at
- b. about
- c. over
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d. in
Question 9: Those foreign tourists are looking forward to enjoy Vietnamese Tet holiday with _____.
- a. excite
- b. excited
- c. exciting
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d. excitement
Question 10: To most Vietnamese people, Tet holiday is often well _____.
- a. prepare
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b. prepared
- c. preparation
- d. preparative
Question 11: The ___ of football spreads not only throughout England but also all over the world.
- a. popular
- b. popularize
- c. popularly
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d. popularity
Question 12: Ripe fruit is very good for our health.
- a. Sugared and colored
- b. Cooked carefully
- c. Picked by hand
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d. Fully grown and ready to eat
Question 13: Some days before New Year, they ____ greeting cards one another.
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a. exchange
- b. show
- c. receive
- d. express
Question 14: ____ is a day or time of the year when people have a holiday from work and celebrate some special event, often a religious event.
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a. Festival
- b. Decoration
- c. Occasion
- d. Celebration
Question 15: Films are the most popular ____ of entertainment.
- a. style
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b. form
- c. area
- d. case
Question 16: She is a Buddhist. She often goes to the _____ twice a month.
- a. house
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c. church
- c. pagoda
- d. banner
Question 17: He sat down and _____ and stirred his coffee.
- a. cooked
- b. exchanged
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c. sugared
- d. decorated
Question 18: One of Tet’s most special foods is banh chung.
- a. a
- b. an
- c. the
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d. Ø
Question 19: They have found that New Year celebration in Vietnam is ____ that in any other countries.
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a. more interesting than
- b. as interesting than
- c. interesting more than
- d. more interesting as
Question 20. When some certain fruits ____, they will be a delicious food called Mut in Vietnamese.
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a. are sugared and cooked
- b. sugars and cooks
- c. are sugaring and cooking
- d. have sugared and cooked
Question 21: Why don’t you come and see see me as you _____?
- a. was
- b. had
- c. do
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d. used to
Question 22: When we was younger, we used ______ allowed to drink coffee.
- a. do not to be
- b. were not
- c. to not be
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d. not to be
Question 23: Having a good diet gives me a sense that I am doing _____ positive and that I am in control.
- a. one
- b. someone
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c. something
- d. anything
Question 24: There is ____ outside the house.
- a. one
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b. someone
- c. anyone
- d. anybody
Question 25: I have not spoken to ____ all day because I have a sore throat.
- a. someone
- b. nobody
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c. anybody
- d. ones
Question 26: I need ___ reliable to look after the baby while I am at work.
- a. anyone
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b. someone
- c. everybody
- d. none
Question 27: She was ____ to leave without saying goodbye.
- a. only one
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b. the only one
- c. ones
- d. the ones
Question 28: ____ can attend so you don’t have to be invited.
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a. Anyone
- b. Someone
- c. Somebody
- d. Only one
Question 29: _____ told me she was ill so I did not pay her a visit.
- a. Everyone
- b. Someone
- c. Anyone
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d. No one
Question 30: Listen! I hear ____ knocking at the window.
- a. anyone
- b. no one
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c. someone
- d. anybody
Choose the underlined word or phrase (a, b, c or d) that wouldn’t be correct. Then write the correct sentences.
Question 31: I asked the salesman if I could change the faulty camera with another one
- a. asked
- b. if
- c. change
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d. with
Question 32: Let’s go to the airport now just in case her plane will arrive early
- a. Let's
- b. the airport
- c. in case
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d. will arrive
Question 33: The library is divided in two sections.
- a. the library
- b. is
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c. in
- d. sections
Question 34: She apologized and said that she won’t do it again.
- a. apologized
- b. that
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c. won't
- d. again
Question 35: She said the doctor that she was unable to sleep.
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a. said
- b. that
- c. was
- d. sleep
Read the passage and choose the best answer to each question.
In China everyone celebrates their birthday on New Year even if it is not the official date of their birthday. They turn another year older on this day. They believe that the baby is born one year old. A Chinese child’s second birthday is an important event. It might tell the baby fortune, that is the baby tells his fortune. The baby is placed in the centre of a group of objects such as coins, a doll or a book and they wait to see which object it picks up. If he picks up a coin, he might become rich. If he reached for a book, he might become a teacher. If he reaches foe the doll, he might have many children. The sixth birthday is also a big party time. The animal which rules the year the baby was born in is said to influence his life.
The birthday child pays respect to his parents and receives a gift of money. Friends and relatives are invited to lunch and noodles are served to wish birthday child a long life. It is considered unlucky to give someone a clock for a birthday present.
In China, people believe that tigers protect children. Family members bring newborns special food and present them with gifts of clothing or toys decorated with tigers.
Question 36: Why does every Chinese celebrate their birthday on New Year even if it is not the official date of their birthday?
- a. Because they believe that the baby is born one year old.
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b. Because they turn another year older on this day.
- c. Because a Chinese child’s second birthday is an important event.
- d. Because friends and relatives are invited to lunch and noodles are served to wish the birthday person a long time.
Question 37: Why is a Chinese child’s second birthday an important event?
- a. Because the baby is there year old.
- b. Because it is also a big party time.
- c. Because the animal which rules the year the baby was born in is said to influence his life.
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d. Because it might tell the baby fortune
Question 38: How is the baby’s fortune if he picks up a coin on his second birthday?
- a. He might become a teacher.
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b. He might become rich.
- c. He might have many children.
- d. He might receive a gift of money.
Question 39: Which of the following shouldn’t be given to someone on her or his birthday?
- a. Flowers.
- b. A gift of toys.
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c. A clock.
- d. A gift of money
Question 40: Why family members present newborns with gifts of clothing or toys decorated with tigers?
- a. Because they will be invited to lunch.
- b. Because they will pay respect to them.
- c. Because they will receive a gift of money.
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d. Because it is believed that tigers protect children.
Read the text below and decide which answer (a,b,c or d) best fits each space.
A SUCCESS STORY
At 19, Ben Way is already a millionaire, and one of a growing number of teenagers who have (Question 41) _____ their fortune through the Internet. (Question 42) ____ makes Ben’s story all the more remarkable is that he is dyslexic, and was (Question 43)_____ by teachers at his junior school that he would never be able to read or write (Question 44) _____. “I wanted to prove them (Question 45) ____,” says Ben, creator and director of Waysearch, a net search engine which can be used to find goods in online shopping malls.
When he was eight, his local authorities (Question 46) ____ him with a PC to help with schoolwork. Although he was (Question 47) ____ to read the manuals, he had a natural ability with the computer, and (Question 48) ____ by his father, he soon began (Question 49) ___ people £10 an hour for his knowledge and kills. At the age of 15 he (Question 50) ____ up his own computer consultancy, Quad Computer, which he ran from his bedroom. Two years later he lef school to devote all his time to business.
Question 41:
- a. taken
- b. made
- c. put
- d. done
Question 42:
- a. This
- b. That
- c. Something
- d. What
Question 43:
- a. said
- b. told
- c. suggested
- d. reported
Question 44:
- a. absolutely
- b. totally
- c. properly
- d. thoroughly
Question 45:
- a. wrong
- b. false
- c. untrue
- d. unfair
Question 46:
- a. offered
- b. gave
- c. provided
- d. got
Question 47:
- a. impossible
- b. incapable
- c. disabled
- d. unable
Question 48:
- a. promised
- b. invited
- c. encouraged
- d. animated
Question 49:
- a. owing
- b. charging
- c. lending
- d. borrowing
Question 50:
- a. put
- b. ran
- c. made
- d. set