Choose the word which is stressed differently from the rest.
Question 1:
- a. conversation
- b. entertainment
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c. appropriate
- d. information
Question 2:
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a. holiday
- b. importance
- c. profession
- d. tomorrow
Question 3:
- a. answer
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b. complain
- c. listen
- d. travel
Question 4:
- a. apology
- b. geography
- c. experience
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d. preparation
Question 5:
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a. enjoy
- b. suffer
- c. study
- d. differ
Choose the correct words to complete the sentences:
Question 6: They were just ______ us about Anna's new boyfriend.
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a. talking
- b. saying
- c. speaking
- d. telling
Question 7: Would you mind _____ more clearly, please?
- a. speak
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b. speaking
- c. to speak
- d. spoke
Question 8: _____ me about your summer vacation then.
- a. Say
- b. Talk
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c. Tell
- d. Speak
Question 9: Rooney _____ goodbye to all his friends and left.
- a. told
- b. spoke
- c. talked
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d. said
Question 10: Needless ____, my boss will be off work for a minute.
- a. to tell
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b. to say
- c. saying
- d. telling
Question 11: Is it just you or was he ______ nonsense in the get-together?
- a. saying
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b. talking
- c. telling
- d. speaking
Question 12: “Would you like another cup of coffee?” "I wouldn't ____ no."
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a. say
- b. tell
- c. speak
- d. talk
Question 13: Generally ____. she’s quite a good student.
- a. talking
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b. speaking
- c. saying
- d. telling
Question 14: That boy is always ____ lies.
- a. saying
- b. talking
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c. telling
- d. speaking
Question 15: - It is _____ that English is by many people in the world?
- Yes, it is.
- a. told-talked
- b. talked-said
- c.spoken-told
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d. said-spoken
Question 11: I had applied for the position, and the ___ promised to offer it to me.
- a. employ
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b. employer
- c. employee
- d. employment
Question 12: We would like to ___ for the late departure of the flight.
- a. compliment
- b. improve
- c. entertain
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d. apologize
Question 13: English is regarded as ___ means of international communication.
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a. a
- b. an
- c. the
- d. no article
Question 14: He missed the last semester because of his serious illness. Now he has to work harder to _____ his classmate.
- a. put up with
- b. be bored up with
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c. catch up with
- d. lose sight of
Question 15: She is interested _____ working as a tour guide because she enjoys working ____ people.
- a. at / for
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b. in / with
- c. at / on
- d. of / at
Question 16: ___ is the scientific study of the structure of substances.
- a. Mathematics
- b. Foreign language
- c. Literature
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d. Chemistry
Question 17: ____ is the scientific study of the life and structure of plants and animals.
- a. Physics
- b. History
- c. Geography
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d. Biology
Question 18: ____ did you organize the party?
- a. For who
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b. For whom
- c. What for
- d. Which for
Question 19: The examiners do not permit ___ during the exam so the students have to ___ until the allotted time is over.
- a. go / waiting
- b. to go/ waited
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c. going / wait
- d. gone / be waiting
Question 20: Little could they guess what was about ____.
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a. to happen
- b. happen
- c. happening
- d. happened
Question 21: I hate ____ kept ____.
- a. to be / wait
- b. be / to wait
- c. being / waited
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d. being / waiting
Question 22: We _____ any problem up to now.
- a. do not have
- b. hadn’t
- c. will not have
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d. have not had
Question 23: The crowd was ____ large and enthusiastic.
- a. either
- b. neither
- c. not as well
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d. both
Question 24: My English friend finds __.
- a. using chopsticks is difficult
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b. using chopsticks difficult
- c. to use chopsticks difficultly
- d. it using chopsticks is difficult
Question 25: When I arrive home from work I often ____ myself with an exciting film.
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a. relax
- b. amuse
- c. correct
- d. prepare
Question 26: Doctors often advise having a medical check twice a year to find out our____ problem as soon as possible.
- a. project
- b. profession
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c. health
- d. understanding
Question 27: It is important ____ student to attend all the lectures before the exam.
- a. of
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b. for
- c. with
- d. into
Question 28: He sometimes fails to ____ his attention to what other people are saying.
- a. get
- b. take
- c. come
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d. pay
Question 29: Could you please stop ____ so much noise?
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a. making
- b. doing
- c. talking
- d. spending
Question 30: ___ can you jog? - About 5 kilomiters.
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a. How far
- b. How long
- c. How often
- d. For how many
Find the one mistake in these sentences
Question 31: Her brother is interested in to join the English Club.
- a. Her
- b. interested
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c. to join
- d. English Club
Question 32: We know that there is no point in help the pupils at the present.
- a. there is
- b. no
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c. help
- d. at the present
Question 33: A preferred profession among children is the building sandcastles.
- a. preferred
- b. profession
- c. among
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d. the building
Question 34: You couldn’t prevent that lovely dog from following you wherever you to go.
- a. prevent
- b. following
- c. wherever
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d. to go
Question 35: What would be the most effect way of marketing our goods?
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a. the most effect
- b. way
- c. marketing
- d. goods
Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.
There are about 227 million Americans, and nearly sixty million of them go to school. Americans have always believed in education, but in an American way. The school’s first job is to turn millions of foreign children into Americans. Since they came from many different countries, this is not easy. Schools have to teach the foreign children to speak English, to love their new country, and to learn how to live in it. More and more parents from other countries have sent their children to the USA to get schooling because they think it may the ladder up which their children may climb to a better life. Most American parents still pay less attention to book-learning than to a practical education that will help their children to find a good job. Therefore getting started on a successful career is the main aim of the American education. The USA tries to make children equal. However, there is also some difference between public schools in rich areas and poor areas. For example, Mississippi spends 1,300 USD a year on each student and Massachusetts — a much richer state — spends 2,400 USD.
Many Americans are worried about the serious problem of violence and failure in some schools. However, we cannot deny the great success of American education. Its best universities are among the best anywhere. American philosophers and economists are world-famous and more and more American scientists win Nobel prizes. But perhaps the most important is that American education never stops.
Question 36: According to the writer, ____.
- a. American education is not good compared with other countries
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b. there are many foreign students in the USA
- c. parents do not want to send their children to school
- d. schools in the USA do not accept foreign students
Question 37: To turn millions of foreign children into Americans ____.
- a. is the least important
- b. is ignored
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c. is uneasy
- d. is impossible
Question 38: Most American parents prefer ____.
- a. book-learning
- b. both book-learning and practical education
- c. neither book-learning nor practical education
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d. practical education
Question 39: The money invested in education is ____ in every area of the USA.
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a. different
- b. the same
- c. not much
- d. only a little
Question 40: To sum up, ____.
- a. parents should not sent their children to the USA for schooling
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b. American education is good
- c. American education is full of violence and failure
- d. American schools will not accept foreign students
Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.
In (Question 41) _____ USA, the education of adults goes on in many different places for many different reasons. At (Question 42) _____ twenty-five million adults — about 13 percent (Question 43) ____ the adult population — are enrolled in classes, nearly all as part-time students. (Question 44) ____ these classes are not for college credit (Question 49) ___ for knowledge that they can use on the job, for job (Question 46) ____, to pursue a hobby, or for personal growth. Programs commonly (Question 47) ____ Adult Education or Continuing Education are operated by many colleges. In recent year, private learning centers (Question 48) ____, offering inexpensive classes for adults in a wide variety of skills and activities. A typical catalog might offer classes in (Question 49) ____ to cook a dinner, arrange flowers, do needlework, make friends, or write letters. Many adults enjoy (Question 50) ____ classes where they can learn something new and also meet people who share the same interest.
Question 41:
- a. a
- b. an
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c. the
- d. no article
Question 42:
- a. last
- b. the last
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c. least
- d. the least
Question 43:
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a. of
- b. on
- c. for
- d. about
Question 44:
- a. Most
- b. Mostly
- c. Almost
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d. Most of
Question 45:
- a. and
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b. but
- c. so
- d. with
Question 46:
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a. promotion
- b. playing truant
- c. dismissal
- d. unemployment
Question 47:
- a. call
- b. to call
- c. calling
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d. called
Question 48:
- a. built
- b. were built
- c. have built
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d. have been built
Question 49:
- a. why
- b. what
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c. how
- d. which
Question 50:
- a. take
- b. to take
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c. taking
- d. taken