Circle the word whose bold part is pronounced differently from those of the other three.
Question 1:
- a. house
- b. happen
- c. hair
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d. honor
Question 2:
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a. design
- b. sign
- c. singular
- d. mausoleum
Question 3:
- a. earth
- b. growth
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c. although
- d. third
Question 4:
- a. meter
- b. basket
- c. enough
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d. met
Question 5:
- a. fashion
- b. hamburger
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c. admire
- d. add
Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence; substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning too the original one.
Question 6: We must ensure ____ of fuel supplies to keep the factories work.
- a. continue
- b. continuous
- c. continual
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d. continuity
Question 7: Most of Vietnamese people live on ____.
- a. farm
- b. farmer
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c. farming
- d. farmland
Question 8: Are you interested in doing ____ research?
- a. science
- b. scientist
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c. scientific
- d. scientifically
Question 9: We have enough tickets available ____ everybody.
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a. to
- b. for
- c. on
- d. from
Question 10: ____ the women who have many children, the majority is poor and illiterate.
- a. Between
- b. In
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c. Among
- d. From
Question 11: We should do something to help them ____ birth-control methods.
- a. on
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b. with
- c. for
- d. in
Question 12: _____ earth is overpopulated.
- a. A
- b An
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c. The
- d. Ø
Question 13: Do you know how many people there are on ____ earth?
- a. a
- b. an
- c. the
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d. Ø
Question 14: Iron, silver, and gold are ___.
- a. oils
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b. metals
- c. methods
- d. plants
Question 15: After a pause, the lecture continued speaking.
- a. put out
- b. made up
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c. went on
- d. took over
Question 16: is limitation of the number oŸ children born.
- a. Population
- b. Resource
- c. Birth rate
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d. Birth control
Question 17: Although I asked him twice, he had no answer.
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a. reply
- b. talk
- c. demand
- d. method
Question 18: The boss was in disagreement with their ____ of working.
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a. way.
- b. road
- c. street
- d. path
Question 19: ____is the activity of growing crops or raising animals.
- a. Method
- b. Control
- c. Industry
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d. Farming
Question 20: If she asks for money, l ____ her.
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a. will give
- b. gave
- c. would give
- d. would have given
Question 21: lf they had recognized her, they ____ to her.
- a. will speak
- b. will have spoken
- c. would speak
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d. would have spoken
Question 22: She told me that she would not have enjoyed the party if I ____ there.
- a. am not
- b. was not
- c. were not
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d. had not been
Question 23: ____ here, we would not have missed the fireworks.
- a. lf we were
- b. Unless we were
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c. Had we been
- d. If had we been
Question 24: He cannot find a good job because he doesn't know how to use a computer.
- a. If he knows how to use a computer, he can find a good job.
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b. If he knew how to use a computer, he could find a good job.
- c. lf he had known how to use a computer, he could have found a good job.
- d. If he had known how to use a computer, he could find a good job.
Question 25: The coffee was too hot for us to drink.
- a. Although the coffee was so hot we could drink ït.
- b. If the coffee were not too hot, we could drink it.
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c. If the coffee had not been too hot, we could have drunk it.
- d. Because the coffee was too hot, we drank it.
Question 26: Thank you very much for your help. Without your help, we ___ our project.
- a. cannot complete
- b. could no complete
- c. will not complete
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d. would not have completed
Question 27: Daisy told me ____ she would leave for London to find a job.
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a. that if she were me
- b. if that she were me
- c. that if she had been me
- d. that had she been me
Question 28: ____ the local authorities have held some educational programs on population, the birth rates in those areas do not declined.
- a. But
- b. If
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c. Although
- d. If only
Question 29: Go away soon ____ l will punish you.
- a. if
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b. or
- c. but
- d. although
Question 30: I could not afford to buy that interesting book. ____ I had brought enough money.
- a. If
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b. If only
- c. lnstead
- d. Otherwise
Choose the sentence (a, b, c or d) which is closest in meaning to the one in bold
Question 31: Slightly more than twenty five percent of the students in the class come from Spanish-speaking countries.
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a. The majority of the students in the class do not speak Spanish.
- b. Seventy-five percent of the students in the class speak Spanish.
- c. The percentage of the students who speak Spanish is less than twenty-five percent.
- d. About twenty-five percent of the students in the class speak languages other than Spanish.
Question 32: Tom had eaten the whole cake, so he felt sick.
- a. If Tom had eaten the whole cake, he would have felt sick.
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b. If Tom hadn't eaten the whole cake, he wouldn't have felt sick.
- c. Tom feel sick because he has eaten the whole cake.
- d. If Tom hadn't eaten the whole cake, he wouldn't feel sick.
Question 33: The man had his dirty car washed at last.
- a. The car got dirty last week.
- b. The man's dirty car did not last.
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c. Someone finally washed the man's car.
- d. The man got dirty when he washed the car.
Question 34: Mary thought that the dress would fit but she had to exchange it later.
- a. Mary exchanged the dress because she didn't like it.
- b. Mary was too late to exchange the dress.
- c. Mary considered exchanging the dress, but she changed her mind.
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d. Mary exchangcd the dress for another one of a diferent size.
Question 35: The whole neighbourhood likes Mrs Capps in spite of her odd habits.
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a. Mrs. Capps is a popular person n th nelghbourhood.
- b. Mrs. Capps live in a strange neighbourhood.
- c. Everyone in the neighbourhood wears caps.
- d. The neighbours act oddly towards Mrs. Capps.
Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.
The first cause of global greenhouse gas emissions is over-population. In 1950, the world population was 3 billion, now 6.5 billion people who produce an enormous output of waste and utilize an unbelievable amount of resources and energy.
Most people having children have no idea why they are even having children. Most do not really love their children because if they did they would be very much involved in trying to ensure that their children have a world to survive in.
Unless overpopulation is addressed, there is no way of slowing down greenhouse gas emissions. But corporations need workers, governments need taxpayers, bureaucrats and soldiers. More people means more money. The solution to all of our problems is simple. We just need to live in accordance with the basic laws of ecology. Weaken diversity and the entire system will be weakened and will ultimately collapse. All of the species within an ecosystem are interdependent. There is a limit to growth because there is a limit to carrying capacity. Human populatlons are exceeding carrying capacity and diminishing resources and diversity of species. Albert Einstein wrote that “if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.” And the honey bee is disappearing. Why? We do not know why. All around the world bees are disappearing and bees pollinate our plants. We are cutting down forests and plundering the oceans. We are polluting the soil, the air and the water and rapidly runnIng out of fresh water to drink. Water is now being sold for more than the equivalent amount of gasoline.
Question 36: The passage is about ___.
- a. the decreasing of the world's populatlon
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b. overpopulation and its effect
- c. an important part of bees in overpopulation
- d. bees and human beings
Question 37: Overpopulation _____.
- a. has no effects on human beings
- b. is a good results
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c. leads to greenhouse gas emissions
- d. has good effects to resources
Question 38: According to the wrliter _____.
- a. human beings can live independently from other species
- b. children can grow up without their parents' care
- c. growth is limited
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d. the more people survive on earth, the more resources are used
Question 39: According to Albert Einstein, without bees ____.
- a. all human beings would die immediately
- b. human life on earth would be better
- c. men would disappear soon
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d. human beings could survive in only 4 years
Question 40: Which action is NOT referred in the text?
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a. We are raising more and more bees.
- b. We are cutting down Íforests.
- c. We are polluting the air and water.
- d. We are plundering the oceans
Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.
The worlds population is the total (Question 41) ____ of human beings (Question 42) ____ on Earth at a given time. In 2007, the world's population had (Question 43) ____ 6.6 billion. In line with population projections, this (Question 44) ____ continues fo grow at rates that were unprecedented before the 20th century, (Question 45) ____ the rate of increase has almost halved since its peak, which was reached in 1963. Different (Question 46) ____ have different rates of population growth, but in the 20th century, the world saw (Question 47) ____ biggest Increase In its population in human history. In 2000, the United Nations (Question 48) ____ that the world's population was then growing at the rate of 1.14% (Question 49) _____ about 75 million people per year. According to data from the CIA's 2005-2006 World Factbooks, the world human population currently increases by 203,800 every day. The 2007 CIA factbook increased this (Question 50) ____ 211,090 people every day.
Question 41:
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a. number
- b. amount
- c. quantity
- d. sum
Question 42:
- a. left
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b. alive
- c. rescued
- d. survived
Question 43:
- a. approached
- b. come
- c. gone
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d. reached
Question 44:
- a. picture
- b. photograph
- c. graph
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d. figure
Question 45:
- a. if
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b. although
- c. as if
- d. due to
Question 46:
- a. parks
- b. ways
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c. regions
- d. paths
Question 47:
- a. a
- b. an
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c. the
- d. Ø
Question 48:
- a. counted
- b. computed
- c. introduced
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d. estimated
Question 49:
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a. or
- b. neither
- c. but
- d. nor
Question 50:
- a. for
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b. to
- c. on
- d. with