Circle the word whose stress is on the first syllable.
Question 1:
- a. relax
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b. famous
- c. remain
- d. pretend
Question 2:
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a. copyright
- b. correct
- c. corruption
- d. cosmetic
Question 3:
- a. impact
- b. intend
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c. costly
- d. permit
Question 4:
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a. personally
- b. personify
- c. respectable
- d. responsible
Question 5:
- a. respond
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b. model
- c. mistake
- d. object
Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence; subtitites the bolded part, or has a close meaning to the original one.
Question 6: What do you prefer doing ____ your free time?
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a. in
- b. at
- c. for
- d. on
Question 7: He seems to be successful ___ his business.
- a. on
- b. from
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c. in
- d. for
Question 8: Mary can play the piano well and is very good singing.
- a. for
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b. at
- c. on
- d. in
Question 9. _____ hobby I like best is collecting picture books.
- a. A
- b. An
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c. The
- d. Ø
Question 10. ___ is an activity which someone does for pleasure when they are not working.
- a. Collection
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b. Hobby
- c. Keeping
- d. Entertainment
Question 11: She is a very accomplished pianist.
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a. skilled
- b. beautiful
- c. interesting
- d. admired
Question 12: A ____ is a series of musical notes that is pleasant and easy to remember.
- a. musical instrument
- b. guitar
- c. practice
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d. tune
Question 13: To become a good guitarist, you have to practice regularly.
- a. never
- b. rarely
- c. seldom
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d. often
Question 14: If you ____ a singer or a musician, you play one part of a piece of music while they sing or play the main tune.
- a. accomplish
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b. accompany
- c. collect
- d. admire
Question 15: They live in a fairly modest house, considering their wealth.
- a. expensive
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b. fairly small
- c. very cheap
- d. very big
Question 16: All the pleasures and _____ of the weekend are over, and I must get down to some serious hard work.
- a. indulge
- b. indulgent
- c. indulgently
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d. indulgences
Question 17: My ____ for my mother is infinite.
- a. admire
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b. admirer
- c. admiration
- d. admirable
Question 18: I am quite keen on my father’s valuable stamp ____.
- a. collect
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b. collecting
- c. collection
- d. collector
Question 19: All you need to be good at English ____ everyday.
- a. are practising
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b. is to practise
- c. practise
- d. it is to practise
Question 20: ____ we all look for.
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a. It is happiness that
- b. That happiness
- c. Happiness it is that
- d. Happiness it is
Question 21: ____ my neighbors who rescued me from the fire.
- a. It is
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b. It was
- c. That is
- d. This is
Question 22: She sometimes keeps me ____.
- a. wait
- b. waited
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c. waiting
- d. to wait
Question 23: _____ me how to play the drum.
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a. It was my uncle who taught
- b. My uncle who taught
- c. It was my uncle taught
- d. It is my uncle teaching
Question 24: ____ I bought the golden fish.
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a. It was from this shop that
- b. It was from this shop where
- c. It was this shop which
- d. It was this shop that
Question 25: ______ gave me that picture book.
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a. Mary
- b. It was Mary
- c. It was Mary whom
- d. It was Mary whose
Question 26: My new book, _____, is very interesting.
- a. it is on wild animals
- b. is on wild animals
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c. which is on wild animals
- d. to be on wild animals
Question 27: Two players of our delegation,_____, are in competition for the gold medal.
- a. it was Tim and John
- b. they were Tim and John
- c. it is Tim and John
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d. Tim and John
Question 28. It was Tom ___ to help us.
- a. comes
- b. that comes
- c. to come
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d. who came
Question 29: ____ the police had rescued from the fire.
- a. The baby
- b. The baby that
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c. It was the baby whom
- d. The baby whom
Question 30: ____ my parents gave me the fish tank.
- a. It was on my birthday when
- b. It was my birthday on that
- c. It was my birthday that
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d. It was on my birthday that
Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct.
Question 31: The girl fell into the water cold, but was rescued immediately.
- a. into
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b. water cold
- c. rescued
- d. immediately
Question 32: As the result of regularly inspections, the restaurants in this county have improved their sanitation practices.
- a. As
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b. regularly
- c. have
- d. practices
Question 33: Erosion is a seriousness problem along the beaches whenever strongstorms enter from the sea.
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a. seriousness
- b. along
- c. whenever
- d. strong
Question 34: The owner of the sailboat did not accurately calculate the high of the bridge.
- a. did
- b. accurately
- c. calculate
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d. high
Question 35: Although this car appears to be manufactured by a different company, it has the same body style, size, and perform as that one.
- a. appears
- b. to be
- c. different
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d. perform
Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.
The hobby of collecting consists of acquiring specific items based on a particular interest of the collector. These collections of things are often highly organized, carefully cataloged, and attractively displayed. Since collecting depends on the interests of the individual collector, it may deal with almost any subject. The depth and breadth of the collection may also vary.
Some hobbies result in an end product of sorts. Examples of this would be woodworking, software projects, artistic projects, creating models out of card or paper called papercraft up to higher end projects like building or restoring a car, or building a computer from scratch. While some of these may just be for the enjoyment of the hobbyist, there have been instances where it has come into demand at the request of friends or passerbys observing said project. At this point it has the potential to become a small business.
Question 36: Collecting something as a hobby depends on a collector’s interest.
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a. True
- b. False
- c. No information
Question 37: Things collected are never stored secretly, never displayed.
- a. True
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b. False
- c. No information
Question 38: The depth and breadth of the collection are stable.
- a. True
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b. False
- c. No information
Question 39: Some hobbies may create products.
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a. True
- b. False
- c. No information
Question 40: Some hobbies may be a small business.
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a. True
- b. False
- c. No information
Fill in each numbered black with one siutable word or phrase.
Collecting 'things' (Question 41) ____ to be a basic human instinct. (Question 42) ____ I go overseas I like to bring back (Question 43) ____ object to display in my house, usually a ceramic vase or a wood carving. I once saw a five-year-old girl who collected bits and bobs from the street (Question 44) ____ she walked along, even though her mother (Question 45)______ her from doing so. I have to admit that in my late thirties, I began to (Question 46)______ myself in collecting stamps and have spent (Question 47)_____ of my salary on my collection. I did it as a collector rather than as an investor, (Question 48) _____ sometimes I can get profit from selling the stamps that I have in pairs or triples. And financially I have not lost out as stamp values (Question 49) ____ over the last ten years. But I do sometimes wonder whether my father who (Question 50)_____ gave me my first stamp album and stamps for Christmas when I was a young boy was doing me a favor or not.
Question 41:
- a. falls
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b. seems
- c. comes
- d. thinks
Question 42:
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a. When
- b. For
- c. Since
- d. While
Question 43:
- a. a
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b. an
- c. the
- d. Ø
Question 44:
- a. if
- b. although
- c. because
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d. as
Question 45:
- a. suggested
- b. advised
- c. encouraged
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d. prevented
Question 46:
- a. allow
- b. permit
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c. indulge
- d. devote
Question 47:
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a. much
- b. many
- c. more
- d. mostly
Question 48:
- a. due to
- b. because
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c. although
- d. if only
Question 49:
- a. appreciate
- b. appreciated
- c. will appreciate
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d. have appreciated
Question 50:
- a. beautifully
- b. promptly
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c. thoughtfully
- d. carelessly