Find the word that has its bolded part pronounced differently from the other three in each question
Question 1:
- a. latter
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b. label
- c. ladder
- d. latitude
Question 2:
- a. lifted
- b. lasted
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c. happened
- d. decided
Question 3:
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A. themselves
- B. threaten
- C. through
- D. thunder
Question 4:
- A. thread
- B. dread
- C. bread
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D. bead
Question 5:
- a. advise
- b. raise
- c. lose
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d. precise
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: Many spacemen could never get back to the Earth because of ___ accidents.
- a. tragedy
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b. tragic
- c. tragically
- d. tragedies
Question 7: Since the former days, stars have ____ cosmologists all over the world.
- a. attract
- b. attraction
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c. attracted
- d. attractive
Question 8. He finds it difficult for him to recover from his son’s _____.
- a. die
- b. dead
- c. deadly
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d. death
Question 9: He failed again, which was a(n) ____ disappointment.
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a. enormous
- b. strong
- c. wide
- d. large
Question 10: In 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first satellite to orbit the Earth.
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a. circle
- b. fly
- c. get back to
- d. attract
Question 11: The flight will take approximately three weeks.
- a. closely
- b. exactly
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c. about
- d. precisely
Question 12: ____ is the empty area outside the Earth’s atmosphere, where the planets and the stars are.
- a. The sun
- b. The earth
- c. The moon
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d. Space
Question 13: How long did Yuri Gagarin's trip into space ___? - Only 108 minutes.
- a. lengthen
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b. last
- c. late
- d. strengthen
Question 14: There’s a special at the airport where you can view aircraft taking off and landing.
- a. look
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b. watch
- c. notice
- d. stare
Question 15: When ___ astronaut travels into space, if a technical failure happens, he can never get back to _____ Earth.
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a. an / the
- b. Ø / an
- c. an / Ø
- d. the / Ø
Question 16: Do human beings have any problem to survive ____ weightlessness?
- a. for
- b. at
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c. in
- d. on
Question 17: The spaceship was launched into space _____ the speed of 25,000 miles per hour.
- a. in
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b. at
- c. on
- d. with
Question 18: Do it ____ the way that I have ever told you.
- a. by
- b. on
- c. at
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d. in
Question 19: You____ right, I suppose.
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a. could be
- b. was able to be
- c. can be
- d. was not able to be
Question 20: Don’t worry, they ____ to phone.
- a. could forget
- b. were able to forget
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c. could have just forgotten
- d. were not able to forget
Question 21: Help me with housework, ___?
- a. don’t you
- b. do you
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c. will you
- d. won't vou
Question 22: You have ever heard about Yuri Gagarin, ____?
- a. do you
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b. haven’t you
- c. don’t you
- d. didn’t vou
Question 23: Jenny ____ leave the hospital only four days after the operation.
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a. was able to
- b. could
- c. can
- d. will be able to
Question 24: At last, they ______ get through the mountain in such a heavy rain.
- a. can
- b. could
- c. are able to
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d. were able to
Question 25: ___ your cell phone?
- a. I can borrow
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b. Could I borrow
- c. Am I able to
- d. Was I able to
Question 26: Despite yesterday's snowfalls, we ____ arrive at school on time.
- a. could
- b. couldn't
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c. were able to
- d. weren't able to
Question 27: The girl _____ tell what had happened to her after she had been unconscious for three days.
- a. could
- b. will be able to
- c. can
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d. was able to
Question 28: They used to work as astronauts, ____?
- a. don’t they
- b. weren't they
- c. did they
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d. didn’t they
Question 29: John does not look well today, ____?
- a. isn’t he
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b. does he
- c. does him
- d. will he
Question 30: Let’s have a drink, __?
- a. will you
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b. shall we
- c. do you
- d. don’t you
Choose the sentence a, b, c or d which is closest in meaning to the one.
Question 31: The court found the man innocent of murdering his wife.
- a. The court found a murdered man and his wife
- b. The court decided that the man had kills his wife.
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c. The man was judged not guilty of killing his wife.
- d. The man was found murdered by his wife.
Question 32: It’s a shame John eats sweets whenever he gets the chance.
- a. John likes to take chances.
- b. John dislikes eating sweets.
- c. John will not take a chance on eating sweets.
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d. John never turns down sweets when they are offered to him.
Question 33: The baby has been giving his parents a lot of sleepless nights lately.
- a. The baby has been sleeping well lately.
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b. The baby has been waking up his parents often lately.
- c. The baby’s parents have had to wake him often recently.
- d. The baby’s parents have had to sleep at different times recently.
Question 34: I used to live in Happy Valley.
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a. Lonce lived in Happy Valley but no longer live there.
- b. I’m used to living in Happy Valley.
- c. I’m living in Happy Valley.
- d. I've always lived in Happy Valley.
Question 35: Alice’s face turned bright red when the teacher asked her a question.
- a. Alice turned around to answer the teacher’s question.
- b. Alice is an intelligent student.
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c. Alice must have been embarrassed.
- d. Alice faced the red book for the answer to the question.
Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.
Over half of all astronauts suffer Space Motion Sickness — a severe form of car sickness. This is because the fluids in the inner ear no longer have the pull of gravity on them to keep them level, and they float about. This sends a signal to the brain that the body is moving. However, the brain is already getting a signal from the eyes saying that the body is not moving like that, and the conflicting signals cause confusion and nausea. Similarly, other fluids in the body are no longer pulled down as they were on Earth - instead they move towards the astronaut’s head, making their face appear red and puffy. The astronauts call this “tomato head.” Consequently, the volume of fluid in the legs is reduced, so they get very skinny. The astronauts call this “chicken legs.” Tomato headed astronauts feel like they had a head cold, all stuffed up,and their food tastes bland to them. Many items they chose for their menu now taste like paste. Although Tomato Head seems just a funny side effect of being in orbit, it is actually a serious condition. After about three days, the astronauts' fluids have reduced by a third - truly dehydrating them. This can cause light-headedness and fainting on return to Earth.
Question 36: The text is about the effects of weightlessness on astronauts' health.
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a. True
- b. False
- c. No information
Question 37: Weightlessness has bad effects on astronauts’ eyes.
- a. True
- b. False
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c. No information
Question 38: Weightlessness makes astronauts’ legs thinner.
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a. True
- b. False
- c. No information
Question 39: All astronauts are healthy when they return to Earth from space.
- a. True
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b. False
- c. No information
Question 40: Astronauts may feel lightheaded and faint on return to Earth.
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a. True
- b. False
- c. No information
Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.
Until recently, you may only read in (Question 41)_____ fiction that an ordinary person could (Question 42) _____ a trip into space. We have heard ideas about holidays to the Moon, but these were just a story, and everyday flights into space seemed just a distant (Question 43)_____. Aspirations of space tourism are remembered in science fiction works such as Arthur C. Clarke’s A Fall of Moondust and Islands of the Sky. But now, this fiction could become achievable as major steps are being taken to make the dream (Question 44)___ traveling into space (Question 45)_____ a practical reality. On 28 April 2001, Dennis Tito, (Question 46) ____ millionaire, became the world’s first space (Question 47) ____. Tito was (Question 48) ___ into space onboard a Russian Soyuz capsule. He showed that anyone could make a space journey. Five years on, scientists are attempting to shape the future in order to give everyone a (Question 49) ____ to fulfill their dreams of traveling into space, whether (Question 50) ____ not they are millionaires.
Question 41:
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a. science
- b. scientist
- c. scientific
- d. scientifically
Question 42:
- a. do
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b. take
- c. invent
- d. establish
Question 43:
- a. views
- b. weightlessness
- c. actions
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d. possibility
Question 44:
- a. in
- b. for
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c. of
- d. on
Question 45:
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a. become
- b. to become
- c. became
- d. becoming
Question 46:
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a. a
- b. an
- c. the
- d. Ø
Question 47:
- a. cosmonaut
- b. astronaut
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c. tourist
- d. engineer
Question 48:
- a. flown
- b. thrown
- c. whirled
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d. launched
Question 49:
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a. chance
- b. opportunity
- c. must
- d. change
Question 50:
- a. nor
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b. or
- c. neither
- d. and