Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.
Question 1:
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a. geyser
- b. hey
- c. grey
- d. prey
Question 2:
- a. energy
- b. quality
- c. healthy
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d. apply
Question 3:
- a. protected
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b. destroyed
- c. included
- d. needed
Question 4:
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a. live
- b. highway
- c. ideal
- d. environment
Question 5:
- a. minerals
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b. plants
- c. things
- d. regions
Choose the correct form of verbs to complete the sentences:
Question 6: His parents ____ him awarded the winner's medal.
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a. saw
- b. see
- c. to see
- d. seeing
Question 7: Cigarette ____ kills thousands of people every year.
- a. smokes
- b. smoke
- c. to smoke
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d. smoking
Question 8: She was a much ____ baby.
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a. wanted
- b. want
- c. to want
- d. wanting
Question 9: Everybody there looked under twenty and I really ____ my| age.
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a. felt
- b. feel
- c. to feel
- d. feeling
Question 10: lf you're ever in Oxford, ____ and visit us.
- a. will come
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b. come
- c. to come
- d. coming
Question 11: He's gone down to the corner shop ____ some milk.
- a. will get
- b. get
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c. to get
- d. getting
Question 12: The children spent the afternoon ____ in the garden.
- a. played
- b. play
- c. to play
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d. playing
Question 13: He ____ the girl on the arm to get her attention.
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a. touched
- b. touches
- c. to touch.
- d. touching
Question 14: There are more people ___at this time of the year so prices are high.
- a. bought
- b. buy
- c. to buy
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d. buying
Question 15: Not only ____ I speak to her, I even got her autograph!
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a. did
- b. do
- c. to do
- d. doing
Question 16: You need to be a little more ____ if you want to become a successful novelist.
- a. imagine
- b. imagination
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c. imaginative
- d. imaginatively
Question 17: We need ____ another job. Our present company 18 going to be close next month due to some financial problems.
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a. to find
- b. as finding
- c. finding
- d. find
Question 18: The doctor advised ____ loud music because the noise is bad for my hearing.
- a. me do not listen to
- b. me to not listen to
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c. me not to listen to
- d. not listening to
Question 19: The worker stopped ___ a break after they had been working hard for more than five hours.
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a. to take
- b. take
- c. taking
- d. taken
Question 20: An animal has to eat great quantities of plants ____ enough calories to sustain itself.
- a. as extract
- b. to extracting
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c. in order to extract
- d. in order that extract
Question 21: It is interesting to be able to play a musical instrument.
- a. To be able to play a musical instrument it is interesting.
- b. Be able to play a musical instrument is interesting.
- c. Being able to play a musical instrument it is interesting.
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d. To be able to play a musical instrument is interesting.
Question 22: This kind of music ____ in a funeral. You should ask the band to change.
- a. can play
- b. cannot be playing
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c. cannot be played
- d. do not play
Question 23: Most young people prefer jazz, rock, and ____.
- a. like
- b. as alike
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c. the like
- d. likely
Question 24: _____? - I left on December 5th.
- a. When do you leave
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b. When did you leave
- c. Why did you leave
- d. How did you leave
Question 25: ____ from here to Australia? — I do not know exactly but it takes eight and a half hours by plane.
- a. How long is it
- b. How often is it
- c. Which distance
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d. How far is it
Question 26: ____ to see a doctor? — Because | lost my medical care credit.
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a. Why don’t you go
- b. Why do you go
- c. What for do you go
- d. Which makes you go
Question 27: ____? — Everybody was there except for my sister because she was on business.
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a. Who attended your birthday party
- b. How was the party
- c. Why did your sister attend the party
- d. How about the party
Question 28. She was the last applicant ____ by the personnel manager and also the only one that was offered the job.
- a. to interview
- b. to be interviewing
- c. interviewing
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d. to be interviewed
Question 29: I think he is an enthusiast collaborator ____.
- a. for us working with
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b. for us to work with
- c. to us for working with
- d. in order we can work with
Question 30: These workers were made ____ so hard that they finally went on a strike.
- a. work
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b. to work
- c. working
- d. worked
Find the one mistake (a, b, c or d) in these sentences:
Question 31: Would you like to have lunch now and later?
- a. Would
- b. to have
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c. and
- d. later
Question 32: I’d like to have taken a holiday, but I didn’t have too much money.
- a. to have taken
- b. but
- c. didn't have
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d. too much
Question 33: “I can't come in Saturday.” “That's too bad - we've already bought the tickets so you'll still have to pay.”
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a. in
- b. too
- c. already
- d. so
Question 34: We’d love to have gone to the barbecue, but it was possible.
- a. to have gone
- b. to the barbecue
- c. but
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d. possible
Question 35: They went to a restaurant and they didn’t enjoy it. They’d prefer to have eaten at home.
- a. went to
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b. and
- c. to have eaten
- d. at home
Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.
Music can move the soul. It can be a very strong influence. Some music can calm us down but other music can make us wild! How does music affect us? Music is used in a variety of ways. It is used in the medical field as a source of research and as a sort of treatments as well. Music has been used as treatment to lower blood pressure, help ill children recover quickly, treat mental illness, treat depression, aid in healing, and reduce stress and insomnia and premature infants. Julius Portnoy, a musicologist, found that it can change heart rates, increase or decrease blood pressure, effect energy levels, and digestion, positively or negatively, depending on the type of music. Calming music, such as classical music, was found to have a very calming effect on the body, and cause the increase of endorphins, thirty minutes of such music was equal to the effect of a dose of valium. Both hemispheres of the brain are involved in processing music. The music in these studies is not the lyrics, but the music itself, the melody, the tones, the tunes, the rhythm, and the chords. Conversely music has also been documented to cause sickness. The right, or wrong music, can be like a poison to the body. Studies had been done on plants and the results were that loud hard rock music killed plants and soft classical music made the plants grow faster. Music is very powerful, like a drug and can even be an addiction. According to Patty Hearst, a researcher on music, it was documented that music was used in the aid of brainwashing some people. In the book, “Elevator Music” by Joseph Lanza, it is stated that certain types of strong music over prolonged periods in certain conditions were shown to cause seizures.
Question 36: Which is the main idea of the text?
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a. The effects of music
- b. Powerful music
- c. Music treatment
- d. Music used as drugs
Question 37: According to the text, ____.
- a. All pieces of music have the same influence
- b. Music can be used in the same ways
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c. Different music has different effects
- d. Children cannot listen to music
Question 38: The word it refers to ____.
- a. the heart
- b. the musicologist
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c. music
- d. treatment
Question 39: The writer talked about the effects of music on ___.
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a. human beings and plants
- b. fish and birds
- c. mammals and turtles
- d. men and fish
Question 40: According to the writer, ___.
- a. Music does not influence our blood pressure
- b. All kinds of music are bad for our health
- c. Music always has positive effects on human beings
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d. music can cause addiction
Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.
It can be said that folk music is a (Question 41) ___ of all people starting from the dawn of human beings. Folk music is still very popular (Question 42) ___ some audiences today, with folk music clubs meeting to share traditional-style songs, and there are major folk music fastivals in many countries. The Port Fairy Folk Festival is a major annual event in Australia attracting top international folk performers (Question 43) ___. many local artists. The Cambridge Folk Festival in Cambridge, England is noted for having a lot of folk (Question 44) ___. The loss of folk music is occurring at different parts of the world. In the 19th century those musician and scholars who were (Question 45) ___ in folk music started to take note of (Question 46) ____, and their various efforts aimed at preserving the music of the people. One (Question 47) ____ effort was the collection by Francis James Child in the late 19th century. Around that time, composers of classical music developed a strong interest in folk song (Question 48) ____, and a number of famous composers carried out their (Question 49) ___ works on folk songs. These (Question 50) ____ Percy Grainger and Ralph Vaughan Williams in England and Béla Bartok in Hungary. These composers, like many of their predecessors, incorporated folk material into their classical compositions.
Question 41:
- a. poverty
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b. property
- c. burden
- d. instrument
Question 42:
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a. among
- b. between
- c. in
- d. into
Question 43:
- a. as much as
- b. as many as
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c. as well as
- d. as long as
Question 44:
- a. music
- b. musical
- c. musically
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d. musician
Question 45:
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a. interested
- b. excited
- c. thrilled
- d. famous
Question 46:
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a. what was being lost
- b. what being lost
- c. what to lose
- d. what losing
Question 47:
- a. so
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b. such
- c. so many
- d. such as
Question 48:
- a. feeling
- b. lulling
- c. destroying
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d. collecting
Question 49:
- a. of
- b. belong
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c. own
- d. privacy
Question 50:
- a. consisted
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b. included
- c. concluded
- d. composed