Find the word with the stress pattern different from that of the other three words in each question.
Questions 1:
- a. disaster
- b. encounter
- c. determine
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d. concept
Questions 2:
- a. honorable
- b. intimacy
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c. participate
- d. interviewer
Questions 3:
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a. relevant
- b. descendant
- c. redundant
- d. consultant
Questions 4:
- a. distance
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b. apparent
- c. innocent
- d. dominant
Questions 5:
- a. lucky
- b. banner
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c. begin
- d. lunar
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
Questions 6: That resort is popular ____ young people, especially on Tet holiday.
- a. for
- b. to
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c. with
- d. in
Questions 7: Those ladies often go to pagoda to pray ___ happiness and luck.
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a. for
- b. to
- c. on
- d. into
Questions 8: What do you often do ___ the first day of the year?
- a. at
- b. for
- c. in
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d. on
Questions 9: Tet is a ___ occasion for all members of families to gather.
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a. special
- b. specially
- c. specialize
- d. specializing
Questions 10: During Tet holiday, all areas of amusement and ___ are always crowded.
- a. entertain
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b. entertainment
- c. entertainer
- d. entertaining
Questions 11: By ___, people often try to do good things on the first day of the year.
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a. tradition
- b. traditional
- c. traditionally
- d. traditionalist
Questions 12: Banh Chung and Mut are ___ food on Tet holiday. The majority of families have them during Tet.
- a. exciting
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b. popular
- c. ripe
- d. colored
Questions 13: ___ are small, soft, red fruit that you can eat raw in salads or cooked as a vegetable.
- a. Apples
- b. Plums
- c. Kumquat
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d. Tomatoes
Questions 14: When people ____, they speak to God in order to give thanks or to ask for his help.
- a. believe
- b. try
- c. entertain
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d. pray
Questions 15: Thank you very muck for your gift on my birthday.
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a. present
- b. flower
- c. candy
- d. plant
Questions 16: There was a very ____ response to our new design - people seemed very pleased with it.
- a. disappointed
- b. excited
- c. negative
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d. positive
Questions 17: He seemed to find fault on my doings. He often gave negative ___.
- a. celebrations
- b. entertainments
- c. decorations
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d. comments
Questions 18: Tet is ____ grandest and most important occasion in ___ year.
- a. a / a
- b. an / Ø
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c. the / the
- d. Ø / a
Questions 19: I am used ___ my sleep interrupted by the noise because I have lived in this region for more than 20 years
- a. to have
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b. to having
- c. having
- d. had
Questions 20: At Tet, areas of amusement and entertainment are ______ of any times throughout the year.
- a. crowded most
- b. the more crowded
- c. as more crowded
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d. the most crowded
Questions 21: Banh chung ____ on the altar to worship during Tet.
- a. put
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b. is put
- c. has put
- d. will put
Questions 22: We didn’t use _____ out much in the winter months.
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a. to go
- b. go
- c. going
- d. gone
Questions 23: I phoned last night but ____ answered.
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a. no one
- b. someone
- c. everyone
- d. ones
Questions 24: _____ in the street was shocked when they heard the news.
- a. Ones
- b. Someone
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c. Everyone
- d. Anyone
Questions 25: She used to love cats but since _____ attacked her and she has not liked them anymore.
- a. the ones
- b. ones
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c. one
- d. the one
Questions 26: Good morning, _____.
- a. someone
- b. anyone
- c. no one
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d. everybody
Questions 27: Laziness and crime are inseparable. You cannot have ____ without the other.
- a. everyone
- b. someone
- c. ones
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d. one
Questions 28: Of the three sisters, Mary is the most beautiful _____.
- a. someone
- b. anyone
- c. everyone
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d. one
Questions 29: You may have _____ or the other, but not both.
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a. one
- b. ones
- c. the one
- d. the ones
Questions 30: I need _____ to help me because it is a hard work.
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a. someone
- b. anyone
- c. anybody
- d. no one
Indentify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct.
Questions 31: There were once only eight major lakes or reservoirs in Texas, but today there are over 180, many built to storing water against periodic droughts.
- a. were one
- b. today
- c. many
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d. to storing
Questions 32: Liquid will flow and take the shape of their container.
- a. take
- b. shape
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c. their
- d. container
Questions 33: When swollen by melting snow or heavy rain, some rivers routinely overflow its banks.
- a. When swollen
- b. melting
- c. routinely
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d. its
Questions 34: Physicists have known since the early nineteenth century that all matter is made up of tiny extremely particles called atoms..
- a. since
- b. that
- c. made up
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d. tiny extremely
Questions 35: The great digital advances of the electronic age, such as integrated circuitry and a microcomputer, has been planted in tiny chips.
- a. great digital
- b. electronic age
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c. has
- d. planted
Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.
The New Year is an event that happens when a culture celebrates the end of one year and the beginning of the next year. Cultures that measure yearly calendars all have New Year celebrations.
Tet Nguyen Dan pronunciation, more commonly known by its shortened name Tet, is the most important and popular holiday and festival in Vietnam. It is the Vietnamese New Year which is based on the Chinese calendar, a lunisolar calendar. The name Tet Nguyen Dan is Vietnamese for Feast of the First Morning.
Tet is celebrated on the same day as Chinese New Year though exceptions arise due to the one-hour time difference between Hanoi and Beijing. Tet shares many of the same customs of its Chinese counterpart. It is celebrated from the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar, around late January or early February, until at least the third day. Many Vietnamese prepare for Tet by cooking special holiday foods, decorating and cleaning the house. During Tet holiday, Vietnamese visit their families, pagodas and temples, forgetting about the troubles of the past year and hoping for a better upcoming year. Tet traditionally marks the coming of Spring, so Spring is sometimes used interchangeably with Tet in Vietnamese. Vietnamese people usually return to their families during Tet. Some return to worship at the family altar or visit the graves of their ancestors. Others return to where they grew up. Although Tet is a main holiday among all Vietnamese, each region and religion has its own customs.
Questions 36: Tet is a ____ holiday in Vietnam.
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a. crucial
- b. lunisolar
- c. unpopular
- d. uncommon
Questions 37: Vietnamese New Year is based on _____.
- a. the Vietnamese calendar
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b. the Chinese calendar
- c. Chinese culture
- d. New Year celebrations
Questions 38: Tet is celebrated at least ____.
- a. one day
- b. two days
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c. three days
- d. a fortnight
Questions 39: Which is NOT done to prepare for Tet?
- a. cooking special foods
- b. cleaning houses
- c. decorating houses
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d. visiting relatives and friends
Questions 40. Tet _____.
- a. has the same customs throughout the country
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b. has different customs, which are up to region and religion
- c. is not celebrated throughout the country
- d. is at end of spring
Read the text below and decide which answer (a, b, c or d) best fits each space.
COPS AND BOBBIES
Nearly every boy and girl at some time has heard a policeman (Questions 41) ____ a “cop.” Do you know (Questions 42) ____ he is given that name? One (Questions 43) ____ is that from 1890 to 1895 all the policemen in New York City were given copper badges and required to (Questions 44) _____ them. The policemen there soon began to be called “coppers,” and in a short time this was (Questions 45) ____to “cop.” Now these words are used by people in many cities (Questions 46) ____ the whole country.
In London, the policeman is frequently called a “bobby.” This name is derived (Questions 47) ____ the first name of Sir Robert Peel, who (Questions 48) ___ London's police force (Questions 49) ____a hundred years ago.
There are more than 37,000 policemen in New York City (Questions 50) ____ and many thousands more in the various parts of the United States. These men are paid by the cities in which they work. They are expected to keep order, to see that the laws are obeyed , and to protect the citizens. The life of a policeman is not an easy one, and it is certainly not a safe one by any means .In some cities, men wishing to be policemen must take special college training for this occupation.
Questions 41:
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a. called
- b. named
- c. known
- d. calling
Questions 42:
- a. how
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b. why
- c. whether
- d. when
Questions 43:
- a. account
- b. tale
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c. explanation
- d. theory
Questions 44:
- a. pin
- b. put
- c. hang
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d. wear
Questions 45:
- a. turned
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b. changed
- c. transferred
- d. transformed
Questions 46:
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a. throughout
- b. over
- c. of
- d. including
Questions 47:
- a. by
- b. about
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c. from
- d. for
Questions 48:
- a. arranged
- b. held
- c. formed
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d. organized
Questions 49:
- a. above
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b. over
- c. up to
- d. exceeding
Questions 50:
- a. separately
- b. individually
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c. alone
- d. merely