Circle the word whose bold part is pronounced differently from those of the other three.
Question 1:
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a. watch
- b. stomach
- c. Christmas
- d. chemical
Question 2:
- a. hour
- b. honorable
- c. vehicles
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d. homeless
Question 3:
- a. thankful
- b. thinking
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c. clothing
- d. monthly
Question 4:
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a. official
- b. office
- c. orange
- d. longer
Question 5:
- a. ghost
- b. most
- c. post
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d. lost
Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence; substitutes the underlined part; or has a close meaning to the original one.
Question 6: On my birthday, before I blew _____ the candles, I had prayed for my future and my family.
- a. on
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b. out
- c. in
- d. at
Question 7: He often plays a joke ____ his friends so some of them do not like him.
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a. on
- b. for
- c. over
- d. at
Question 8: What are you giving ____ her son on his birthday?
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a. to
- b. for
- c. from
- d. on
Question 9: We always celebrate our wedding ______ with dinner in an expensive restaurant every year.
- a. party
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b. anniversary
- c. cake
- d. ring
Question 10: A/An ____ is a special enjoyable event that people organize because something pleasant has happened or because it is someone’s birthday or anniversary.
- a. chance
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b. celebration
- c. occasion
- d. gift
Question 11: Could you keep ____ while I’m on the phone, please? Don’t make so much noise.
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a. quiet
- b. enjoyable
- c. happy
- d. comfortable
Question 12: The newlywed ____ spent their honeymoon in Hawaii.
- a. pair
- b. two
- c. double
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d. couple
Question 13: Do you remember how we used to go to the cinema ____?
- a. each other
- b. one another
- c. others
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d. together
Question 14: The climax of the New Year ____ was a firework display.
- a. celebrate
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b. celebration
- c. celebrator
- d. celebratory
Question 15: _____ is all that most human beings are looking for.
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a. Happiness
- b. Happy
- c. Happily
- d. Unhappy
Question 16: Losing one’s hair and teeth are the result of ____.
- a. age
- b. aged
- c. ageless
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d. ageing
Question 17: People often bring ____ flowers and _____ gifts to ____ birthday party.
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a. Ø / Ø / a
- b. the / the / the
- c. the / Ø / Ø
- d. Ø / the /a
Question 18: Birthday parties are held not only for children _____ for adults.
- a. and
- b. as well
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c. but also
- d. nor
Question 19: Women deserve _____ equally to men.
- a. paying
- b. to pay
- c. paid
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d. to be paid
Question 20: I remember _____ my book on the table, but now it is nowhere ______.
- a. to put / to see
- b. to put / seen
- c. putting / seeing
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d. putting / to be seen
Question 21: They are whispering to avoid _____ by their friends.
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a. being heard
- b. hearing
- c. to be heard
- d. being hearing
Question 22: I remember _____ my mother said the carpets needed _____.
- a. to hear / to dry clean
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b. hearing / dry cleaning
- c. heard / dry cleaned
- d. hear / dry cleaning
Question 23: Would you like ____ me some tea?
- a. make
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b. to make
- c. making
- d. make
Question 24: She dreamed of ____ her 18th birthday party ____ on a luxury boat.
- a. have / hold
- b. having / to hold
- c. had / holding
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d. having / held
Question 25: These workers stopped _____ some coffee because they felt sleepy.
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a. to have
- b. have
- c. having
- d. had
Question 26: Due to having a lot of things ____ last night, we missed _____ the film
- a. for doing / to see
- b. done / saw
- c. doing / see
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d. to do / seeing
Question 27: There is no point _____ for this position because the salary is not high.
- a. to apply
- b. apply
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c. applying
- d. applied
Question 28: I want to travel because I enjoy ______ people and ____ new places.
- a. meet / see
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b. meeting / seeing
- c. meeting / to see
- d. to meet / sce
Question 29: He risked _____ his house when his company went bankrupt.
- a. lose
- b. to lose
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c. losing
- d. lost
Question 30: The council cpmsiders ____ vehicles from the city centre to relieve traffic jams and air pollution.
- a. ban
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b. banning
- c. banned
- d. to banning
Error Identification.
Question 31: A New Year’s Party is usually hosted in a person’s house on New Years Eve celebrating the changing of the calendar.
- a. A New Year's Party
- b. hosted
- c. New Years Eve
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d. celebrating
Question 32: Champagne is a traditional beverage to serve on New Year’s Eve and New Year's Day.
- a. is
- b. traditional beverage
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c. to serve
- d. and New Year's Day
Question 33: Many hotel, bars, and restaurants also sponsor New Year’s Parties, and hand out gift bags that include funny hats, streamers, candy but balloons.
- a. sponsor
- b. hand out
- c. that include
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d. but balloons
Question 34: There are several interesting New Year’s party television shows in where many famous people attend
- a. There are
- b. interesting
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c. in where
- d. attend
Question 35: It is an opportunity for all family members to gather, exchange wishes, and having dinner together.
- a. It is
- b. all family members
- c. to gather
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d. having
Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.
A birthday party is a celebration that occurs to celebrate the birth of the person being honored. Birthday parties are celebrated in many cultures. While a child’s party is usually at home and consists of soft drinks and sweet food as well as some main courses, adults’ birthday parties in Western countries often take place in bars or nightclubs where a range of alcoholic beverages are consumed.
In Western cultures, particularly in the United States, birthday parties are often accompanied by colorful decorations such as streamers and balloons. A birthday cake is often served with candles that are to be blown out after a “birthday wish” has been made. While the birthday cake is brought to the table, the song Happy Birthday to You is sung. Wealthy people or celebrities may hire an event management agency or a party service to organize a birthday party.
The birthday cake has been an integral part of the birthday tradition in Western cultures since the middle of the 19th century.
The cake, or sometimes a pastry or dessert, is served to a person on his or her birthday, and is often decorated with small novelty candles, with the person’s name and a message of congratulations inscribed with icing. The phrase “Happy Birthday” did not appear on birthday cakes until the song Happy Birthday to You was popularized in the early 1900s.
Tradition holds that the person with the birthday may make a wish, which will come true if all the candles can be blown out in one breath.
Question 36: Birthday parties are celebrated ___.
- a. only in the USA
- b. in Western countries
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c. in many countries
- d. all over the world
Question 37. Children’s birthday parties are celebrated ____.
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a. at home
- b. in nightclubs
- c. in discotheques
- d. in bars
Question 38: In a child’s birthday party, there is not____.
- a. sweet food
- b. soft drink
- c. a main course
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d. alcoholic beverage
Question 39: A birthday cake is____.
- a. not important
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b. necessary
- c. not necessary
- d. forbidden
Question 40: On a birthday cake, there is not____.
- a. a wish “Happy Birthday”
- b. decoration
- c. the person’s name
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d. a gift
Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.
In a wedding, the wedding party refers to the group of people (Question 41)_____ in the ceremony with the bride and groom. At the start of a typical Italian wedding (Question 42) ____ the guests are served cocktails. The food during cocktail hour is served in a buffet setup. During the cocktail time, the bride and the groom usually (Question 43) ___their time to take photographs in a proper setting.
At the conclusion of cocktail hour, the guests will gather in the main dining room. The newlywed (Question 44)___ is introduced with much fanfare and they take their first dance, then the rest of the guests will (Question 45) _____ the dance. Afterwards, everyone is seated, speeches are (Question 46) ___ by friends and family. Food is (Question 47)___ during most weddings, and Italian custom is no exception. After the main courses have passed, it is (Question 48)____ time for the cake cutting. After dessert, more dancing commences, gifts are given, and the guests (Question 49) ____ begin to leave. In Souther Italy, as the guests leave, they hand envelopes of money to the bride and groom, who return the gift with a wedding favor, a small (Question 50) ____ of appreciation.
Question 41:
- a. serving
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b. participating
- c. entering
- d. collecting
Question 42:
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a. reception
- b. ring
- c. flowers
- d. match
Question 43:
- a. spend
- b. make
- c. have
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d. take
Question 44:
- a. pair
- b. double
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c. couple
- d. twin
Question 45:
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a. join
- b. play
- c. come
- d. hold
Question 46:
- a. done
- b. passed
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c. made
- d. taken
Question 47:
- a. many
- b. great
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c. plentiful
- d. so many
Question 48:
- a. a
- b. an
- c. the
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d. Ø
Question 49:
- a. wholely
- b. entirely
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c. eventually
- d. lastly
Question 50:
- a. show
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b. token
- c. point
- d. mean