Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group.
Question 1:
- a. people
- b. classmate
- c. lesson
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d. devote
Question 2:
- a. background
- b. tutor
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c. degree
- d. master
Question 3:
- a. student
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b. career
- c. tiny
- d. research
Question 4:
- a. passage
- b. unit
- c. little
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d. become
Question 5:
- a. mother
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b. mature
- c. sister
- d. tragic
Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.
Question 6: Sam didn't get much formal ____.
- a. school
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b. schooling
- c. shooldays
- d. schoolgirl
Question 7: Wow! What a______ your sister is! I couldn't get off the phone!
- A. talk
- B. talking
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C. talker
- D. talkative
Question 8: He'll be remembered both as a brilliant footballer and as a true ____.
- A. sport
- B. sporting
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C. sportsman
- D. sports car
Question 9: This season's ______ include five new plays and several concerts of Chinese and Indian music.
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A. entertainments
- B. entertainer
- C. to entertain
- D. entertaining
Question 10: She was a ____ child, happiest when reading.
- A. study
- B. studied
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C. studious
- D. studiously
Question 11: She seems to have spent all her life studying in _____ establishments.
- A. education
- B. educate
- C. educated
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D. educational
Question 12: Space travel is one of the marvels/wonders of modern ____.
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A. science
- B. scientific
- C. scientifically
- D. scientist
Question 13: My computer makes a ____ low buzzing noise.
- A. continue
- B. continued
- C. continuing
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D. continuous
Question 14: All her life she had a ____ trust in other people.
- a. child
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b. childlike
- c. chidish
- d. childless
Question 15: After he had spoken, a ____ silence fell on the room.
- a. die
- b. death
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c. deathly
- d. deathless
Question 16: He took charge of the firm after his father had resigned, but he could not do the business well because of his lack of _____.
- a. experiment
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b. experience
- c. service
- d. hobby
Question 17: In spite of her difficult living conditions, she worked extremely hard.
- a. Her living conditions made her difficult
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b. Although she lived in difficult living conditions
- c. Because of her difficult living conditions
- d. It was thanks to her difficult living conditions
Question 18: Jack London, _____, led an adventurous and poor life. He had ever taken part in the gold rush in Alaska and was often in favor of the working class's movement.
- a. that was an American novelist
- b. to be an American novelist
- c. being an American novelist
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d. an American novelist
Question 19: Mathematics arises wherever there are difficult problems ____ involve quantity, structure, space, or change.
- a. whom
- b. whose
- c. of that
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d. that
Question 20: Daisy ____ Peter if he ____ to London the previous month.
- a. asks / was
- b. asked / has been
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c. asked / had been
- d. had asked / was
Question 21: Although he coughed badly, he made no effort to stop smoking.
- a. As his bad cough
- b. Even he coughed badly
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c. In spite of his bad cough
- d. Because he coughed badly
Question 22: Sam not only works with enthusiasm _____ gets on with his colleagues.
- a. but as well
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b. but also
- c. nor
- d. either
Question 23: Since men ____ fire, human civilization _____ with high speed.
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a. discovered / has developed
- b. discovered / had developed
- c. had discovered / developed
- d. discovered / would have developed
Question 24: John was the last ____ the office but he forgot to turn off the lights and locked the doors.
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a. to leave
- b. leave
- c. leaving
- d. left
Question 25: Many Vietnamese have devoted all their lifetime ___ for the nation’s freedom and independence.
- a. to struggle
- b. struggling
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c. to struggling
- d. of struggling
Question 26: _____ the weather forecast, we would have delayed the picnic.
- a. If we listened to
- b. In case we listened
- c. If had we listened to
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d. Had we listened to
Question 27: By the time we ____ at the hall, the lecturer ___ half of his speech.
- a. will arrive / made
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b. arrived / had made
- c. had arrived /made
- d. arrive / is making
Question 28: Take some aspirins. They can ease your headache.
- a. make more serious
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b. make less severe
- c. get rid off
- d. hurt
Question 29: When we were on the phone, the crossed line was ____ because of a wrong connection.
- a. obtained
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b. interrupted
- c. specialized
- d. determined
Question 30: Family ____ is very important for a child to form his personality.
- a. name
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b. background
- c. specialization
- d. degree
Error Identification.
Question 31: It is said that scientists at universities are often more involved in theoretical research as in practical research.
- a. It is said that
- b. involved in
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c. as in
- d. practical research
Question 32: Nutrition plays a key role in maintaining good health and prevent many diseases.
- a. plays a key role
- b. in maintaining
- c. good health
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d. prevent
Question 33: It was a mystery to us how the thieves entered the house and our two dogs do not realized them.
- a. a mystery to us
- b. how the thieves
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c. do not realized
- d. them
Question 34: Marie Curie was the first woman received a Doctor of Science degree from Sorbonne University.
- a. the first woman
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b. received
- c. Doctor of Science degree
- d. Sorbonne University
Question 35: We are destroying the earth’s natural resources and had been transformed huge areas into waste land.
- a. the earth's
- b. natural resources
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c. had been transformed
- d. into waste land
Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.
Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. Edison had a late start in his schooling due to childhood illness. His mind often wandered and his teacher called him “addled”. This ended Edison’s three months of formal schooling. His mother had been a school teacher in Canada and happily took over the job of schooling her son. She encouraged and taught him to read and experiment. He recalled later, “My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me; and I felt I had something to live for, someone I must not disappoint.” Many of his lessons came from reading R.G. Parker’s School of natural philosophy.
Edison’s life in Port Huron was bittersweet. Partially deaf since adolescence, he became a telegraph operator after he saved Jimmie Mackenzie from being struck by a train. Jimmie’s father, a station agent, was so grateful that he chose Edison his assistant and trained him as a telegraph operator. Edison’s deafness aided him as it blocked out noises and prevented Edison from hearing the telegrapher sitting next to him. Some of his earliest inventions related to electrical telegraphy, including a stock ticker. Edison applied for his first patent, the electric vote recorder, on October 28, 1868. Thomas Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey, with the automatic repeater and other improved telegraphic devices, but the invention which first gained Edison fame was the phonograph in 1877.
On December 25, 1871, he married Mary Stilwell, and they had three children. His wife Mary died in 1884. On February 24, 1886, he married 19-year-old Miina Miler. They had three more children. Charles Edison took over the the company upon his father’s death, and who later was elected Governor of New Jersey. Thomas Edison died on Oct. 18th, 1931 in New Jersey at 84 years of age. His final words to his beloved Mina were, “It is very beautiful over there."
Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S. patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.
Question 36: Thomas Edison ____.
- a. had good schooling
- b. was a prominent student at school
- c. got high appreciation from his teacher
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d. did not have good health in his childhood
Question 37: According to Edison, his greatest teacher was ____.
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a. his mother
- b. Jimmie Mackenzie
- c. Jimmie Mackenzie’s father
- d. Mary Stiwell
Question 38: The first patent which Edison applied for was ____
- a. the stock ticker
- b. the automatic repeater
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c. the electric vote recorder
- d. the phonograph
Question 39: How many children did Edison have?
- a. Three
- b. Four
- c. Five
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d. Six
Question 40: The word prolific has the close meaning to_____.
- a. creative
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b. productive
- c. possible
- d. capable
Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.
No one has ever delighted more children and adults (Question 41) ____ Walt Disney, the winner of 31 Academy Awards. Almost everyone has heard (Question 42) ____ Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, and his other popular characters (Question 43) ____ Minnie Mouse, Pluto, and Goofy.
Walt Disney started creating animations in 1920, but it was in 1928 when his best-known character, Mickey Mouse (Question 44) ____ life. Disney also created the first sound cartoon, (Question 45) ____ he called Steamboat Willie. It was in this cartoon that he introduced Mickey to the public. In 1937, Walt Disney made movie history again with (Question 46) ____ first full-length cartoon film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In the 1950s Walt Disney created a series of nature films. He was always planning (Question 47) ____. In 1955, he opened Disneyland, the “magic kingdom”, in Anaheim, California. Even at his (Question 48) _______ in 1966, he was planning another massive project: Florida’s Walt Disney World. (Question 49) ____ Walt Disney’s death, his first company has continued growing and attracting the public, even (Question 50) ______ new cartoons by computer animation.
Question 41:
- a. as
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b. than
- c. more than
- d. as well as
Question 42:
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a. of
- b. from
- c. over
- d. through
Question 43:
- a. alike
- b. likely
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c. like
- d. as
Question 44:
- a. went to
- b. brough to
- c. gained to
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d. came to
Question 45:
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a. which
- b. that
- c. of that
- d. it
Question 46:
- a. a
- b. an
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c. the
- d. no article
Question 47:
- a. a new something
- b. a something new
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c. something new
- d. the something new
Question 48:
- a. die
- b. dead
- c. deadly
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d. death
Question 49:
- a. As
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b. Since
- c. Because
- d. While
Question 50:
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a. producing
- b. appearing
- c. bringing
- d. building