Find the word with the stress pattern different from that of the other three words in each question.
Question 1:
- a. actually
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b. contaminate
- c. organize
- d. educate
Question 2:
- a. disease
- b. bacteria
- c. professor
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d. chemistry
Question 3:
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a. endurance
- b. comment
- c. decorate
- d. incidence
Question 4:
- a. continent
- b. permanent
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c. coherent
- d. sentiment
Question 5:
- a. facility
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b. variety
- c. participant
- d. culturally
Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence; substitutes the bolded part: or has a close meaning to the original one.
Question 6: I think it was not the athlete’s fault. He did not do it ____ purpose.
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a. on
- b. for
- c. with
- d. in
Question 7: Most of people all over the world enjoy a football match _____ excitement.
- a. on
- b. in
- c. at
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d. with
Question 8: The athletes have to compete ____ one another to get the highest grade for their country.
- a. at
- b. from
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c. with
- d. out
Question 9: On some special occasions, people often march and demonstrate to show thelr _____.
- a. nation
- b. event
- c. culture
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d. solidarity
Question 10: All the international games have been developed in all ____ from the quality of the athletes to the sports equipment.
- a. kinds
- b. sorts
- c. types
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d. aspects
Question 11: The winners of each event were presented with gold, silver, and bronze ____.
- a. flags
- b. banners
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c. medals
- d. sheet
Question 12: _____ is the sport of fighting with long thin swords.
- a. Basketball
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b. Fencing
- c. Hockey
- d. Wrestling
Question 13: _____ at a sports event is a referee, umpire, or other person who checks that the players follow the rules.
- a. An athlete
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b. An official
- c. A competitor
- d. A participant
Question 14: ______is a sport in which two competitors fight by hitting each other with their hands.
- a. Football
- b. Fencing
- d. Wrestling
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d. Boxing
Question 15: The games is an international sporting event with about three thousand participants.
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a. competitors
- b. referees
- c. holders
- d. organizers
Question 16: I do weight training every day to improve the ____ of muscles.
- a. strong
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b. strength
- c. strongly
- d. strengthen
Question 17: We presented the athletes some flowers as a token of our ____ for all their efforts to achieve.
- a. appreciate
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b. appreciation
- c. appreciated
- d. appreciative
Question 18: After the opening ceremony, the athletes got ready to start the _____.
- a. compete
- b. competitor
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c. competition
- d. competitive
Question 19: Our country was presented three medals in ____ shooting.
- a. a
- b. an
- c. the
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d. Ø
Question 20: The athlete _____ could not compete because of his injury.
- a. about I told you
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b. about whom I told you
- c. whom I told you
- d. I told you
Question 21: After the Games there were about 120 new records ___ by almost every country.
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a. set
- b. setting
- c. to set
- d. that set
Question 22: That beach is the place _____ the Asian Beach Games will be held.
- a. that
- b. which
- c. when
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d. where
Question 23: They are talking about ____ they are looking at.
- a. David Beckham is picture
- b. David Beckham’s picture
- c. David Beckham, which picture
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d. David Beckham, whose picture
Question 24: The official, _____ the drug was found, has been arrested.
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a. in whose car
- b. in which car
- c. car in which
- d. in that car
Question 25: We get the news of the Games ____ by communications satellite.
- a. which send
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b. sending
- c. sent
- d. to send
Question 26: Olga, _____, won the gold medal.
- a. that is a Russian gymnast
- b. is a Russian gymnast
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c. a Russian gymnast
- d. whose is a Russian gymnast
Question 27: Thousands of people _____ along the roads watched the bicycle racing.
- a. to stand
- b. that stand
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c. standing
- d. stood
Question 28: Did you see the opening ceremony ____ on TV last night?
- a. which showed
- b. showed
- c. showing
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d. shown
Question 29: The boys are talking about the exciting match _____ on TV.
- a. seeing
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b. they saw
- c. whom they saw
- d. to see
Question 30: I am sorry but that book does not have the information _____.
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a. I need
- b. whom I need
- c. needing
- d. to need
Choose the sentence (a, b, c or d) which is closest in meaning to the one in bold.
Question 31: Sorry, I took you for somebody else.
- a. Sorry, | made a mistake in taking you to somebody else.
- b. Sorry, I took you instead of somebody else.
- c. Sorry, I thought you were somebody else.
- d. Sorry, I asked somebody else to take you.
Question 32: Hardly anybody applied for the job.
- a. Nobody applied for the job because it was hard.
- b. There were very few applicants for the job.
- c. Anybody found it hard to apply for the job.
- d. Anybody applied hardly for the job.
Question 33: Joe still likes Madonna.
- a. Joe has been a fan of Madonna’s for years.
- b. Joe was a fan of Madonna’s for years.
- c. Joe used to like Madonna years ago.
- d. Joe is being a fan of Madonna’s.
Question 34: Few people realized the importance of his role in the company.
- a. Quite a few people realized the importance of his role in the company.
- b. Not many people realized that he played an important part in the company.
- c. Many people realized his important role in the company.
- d. He was realized as an important role in the company by a few people.
Question 35: You can try as hard as you like but you won’t succeed.
- a. Although you won't succeed, you can try as hard as you like
- b. You can hardly try as you like, but you won’t succeed.
- c. You won’t succeed because you can’t try as hard.
- d. However hard you try, you won't succeed
Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.
The Asian Games, also called the Asiad, is a multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. The games are regulated by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) under the Supervision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Medals are awarded in each event, with gold for first place, silver for second and bronze for third, a tradition which started in 1951.
Competitors are entered by a National Olympic Committee (NOC) to represent their country of citizenship. National anthems and flags accompany the medal ceremonies, and tables showing the number of medals won by each country are widely used. In general only recognised nations are represented, but a few non-sovereign countries are allowed to take part.
The 15th Asian Games were held in Doha, Qatar from December 1 to December 15, 2006. The 16th Asian Games will be held in Guangzhou, China from November 12, 2010 to November 27, 2010.
Question 36: Athletes all over the world can take part in the Asian Games.
- a. True
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b. False
- c. No information
Question 37: The Asian Games started in 1951.
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a. True
- b. False
- c. No information
Question 38: There are only three kinds of medals.
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a. True
- b. False
- c. No information
Question 39: Competitors are not required to represent their country of citizenship.
- a. True
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b. False
- c. No information.
Question 40: The 17th Asian Games will be held in Vietnam.
- a. True
- b. False
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c. No information
Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase
The Asian Winter Games is a multisport (Question 41)____ like the Winter Olympic Games (Question 42)_____ features the winter events. The Japanese national Olympic committee first (Question 43)___ the idea of holding a winter version of the Asian Games in 1982. Their (Question 44) ____ were rewarded when they were finally given (Question 45)____ rights for the first edition (Question 46) ___ was held in Sapporo in 1986, as the city had the infrastructure and expertise gained from hosting of the 19% 2 Winter Olympics.
From having (Question 47)____ seven member nations of the Olympic Council of Asia taking (Question 48) ___ in the first edition, the number of nations competing Winter Asiad has consistently (Question 49) ____. In the most recent Asian Winter Games in Changchun, 27 out of the 45 members fielded a record number of competitors, while all 45 nations sent delegations for the first time (Question 50)____ in Winter Asian history.
Question 41:
- a. fact
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b. event
- c. factor
- d. problem
Question 42:
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a. which
- b. when
- c. where
- d. why
Question 43:
- a. required
- b. demanded
- c. requested
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d. suggested
Question 44:
- a. influences
- b. effects
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c. efforts
- d. affects
Question 45:
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a. hosting
- b. civil
- c. citizen
- d. guesting
Question 46:
- a. when
- b. whom
- c. whose
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d. that
Question 47:
- a. both
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b. only
- c. just
- d. with
Question 48:
- a. place
- b.role
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c. parte
- d. over
Question 49:
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a. developed
- b. improved
- c. changed
- d. facilitated
Question 50:
- a. never
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b. ever
- c. recent
- d. before