Choose the word which is stressed differently from the rest.
Question 1:
- a. entertainment
- b. information
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c. difficulty
- d. understanding
Question 2:
- a. swallow
- b. subject
- c. digest
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d. enough
Question 3:
- a. imagine
- b. important
- c. example
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d. wonderful
Question 4:
- a. different
- b. carefully
- c. holiday
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d. reviewer
Question 5:
- a. knowledge
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b. forever
- c. journey
- d. action
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: It is important ______ students to read as many books as possible.
- a. up
- b. about
- c. with
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d. for
Question 7: Who does the book belong _____?
- a. for
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b. to
- c. on
- d. through
Question 8: He picked _____ the book and turned page after page.
- a. up
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b. on
- c. away
- d. in
Question 9: Read the book _____ and you can find the information you need.
- a. care
- b. careful
- c. carefulness
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d. carefully
Question 10: Not many people find reading more ______ than watching TV.
- a. interest
- b. interested
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c. interesting
- d. interestingly
Question 11: To become a novelist, you need to be _____.
- a. imagine
- b. imagination
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c. imaginative
- d. imaginarily
Question 12: A ______ is a story long enough to fill a complete book, in which the characters and events are usually imaginary.
- a. pleasure
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b. novel
- c. page
- d. review
Question 13: A ______ is the story of a person’s life written by somebody else.
- a. romance
- b. fiction
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c. biography
- d. science
Question 14: When a reader reads an interesting book slowly and carefully, he _____ it.
- a. reviews
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b. chews and digests
- c. swallows
- d. dips into
Question 15: Since their appearance, books are a previous _____ of knowledge and pleasure.
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a. source
- b. pile
- c. amount
- d. sum
Question 16: Many teenagers are not much _____ in reading books, except for what they are made to read at school.
- a. excited
- b. important
- c. slow
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d. interested
Question 17: This book _____ to Peter. It is not mine.
- a. possesses
- b. owns
- c. has
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d. belongs
Question 18: Have you ever read _____ “Oliver Twist”, ______ interesting novel written by Charles Dickens.?
- a. the / the
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b. Ø /an
- c. Ø / Ø
- d. an / the
Question 19: I like ______ books better than films
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a. Ø / Ø
- b. the / the
- c. Ø / the
- d. the / Ø
Question 20: The room is too dirty. It _____ now.
- a. should clean
- b. should have cleaned
- c. should be cleaning
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d. should be cleaned
Question 21: The situation _______ to continue.
- a. cannot allow
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b. cannot be allowed
- c. cannot have allowed
- d. cannot be allowing
Question 22: The machine _____ on by pressing this switch.
- a. can turn
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b. can be turned
- c. must turn
- d. should be turning
Question 23: Everybody agrees that no more staff ______.
- a. should empley
- b. should not be employed
- c. will not be employed
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d. will be employed
Question 24: Things _____ clear to them so that they can do the work in the way that you have told them.
- a. are making
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b. ought to be made
- c. have made
- d. needn't be made
Question 25: Cigarettes _____ at a bakery.
- a. must buy
- b. cannot buy
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c. cannot be bought
- d. should not buy
Question 26: The next meeting _____ in May.
- a. will hold
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b. will be held
- c. will be holding
- d. will have held
Question 27: _____ in simpler words?
- a. Has this issue expressed
- b. Can’t this issue express
- c. Can this issue express
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d. Couldn’t this issue be expresse
Question 28: All traffic laws _____.
- a. is observed
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b. must be observed
- c. must have observed
- d. had better observe
Question 29: Tomatoes ______ before they are completely ripe.
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a. can be picked
- b. can pick
- c. needn’t pick
- d. should be picking
Question 30: This letter _____, not handwritten.
- a. should be typing
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b. should be typed
- c. needn't type
- d. needn't be typed
Choose the best clause or phrase to complete the following sentence.
Question 31: The Old Man and the Sea is a novel of just over 100 pages in length by Ernest Hemingway, _____.
- a. who should have written it and published it in 1952
- b. it was written in Cuba in 1951 and it was published in 1952
- c. which must have written and published in 1952
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d. written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952
Question 32. The story centers upon Santiago, ______.
- a. he is the main character, an aging Cuban fisherman, he struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.
- b. the main character, an old Cuban fisherman, to struggle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.
- c. who was a Cuban old fisherman struggles with a giant marlin off the Gulf Stream.
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d. an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.
Question 33. _____. Two days and nights pass in this manner, during which the old man bears the tension of the line with his body.
- a. The fish is too huge to pull his boat
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b. The fish is so huge that it pulls his boat
- c. The fish is very huge pulling his boat
- d. The huge fish it pulls his boat
Question 34: When he reaches the coast, there is only the skeleton of the fish left because a pack of sharks follow the trail to Santiago's boat ______.
- a. so that the marlin is bitten largely by each of them
- b. it is taken an enormous bite by each shark
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c. and each shark takes an enormous bite out of the marlin
- d. but each shark takes the marline an enormous bite
Question 35: The Old Man and the Sea is noteworthy in twentieth century fiction, reaffirming Hemingway’s worldwide literary prominence .
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a. as well as being a significant factor in his selection for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954
- b. he was a significant factor in his selection for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954
- c. a significant factor because of he was selected for the Nobel Prize in Literature in1954
- d. but to be a significant factor in his selection for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954
Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.
Have you ever written a book report? First of all, you have to read the book. Your next step will be to organize what you are going to say about it in your report. Writing the basic elements down in an outline format will help you to organize your thoughts. What will you include in the outline? Follow whatever instructions your teacher has given you. If you are on your own, however, the following guidelines should help.
Let’s assume for the moment that you have chosen a work of fiction. We will start with a description of the book. The description should include such elements as:
- The setting: Where does the story take place? Is it a real place or an imaginary one? If the author does not tell you exactly where the story is set, what can you tell about it from the way it 1s described?
- The time period: Is the story set in the present day or in an earlier time period? Perhaps it is even set in the future! Let your reader know.
- The main characters: Who is the story mostly about? Give a brief description. Often, one character can be singled out as the main character, but some books will have more than one.
- The plot: What happens to the main character? Warning! Be careful here. Do not fall into the boring trap of reporting every single thing that happens in the story. Pick only the most important events. Here are some hints on how to do that. First, explain the situation of the main character as the story opens. Next, identify the basic plot element of the story — Is the main character trying to achieve something or overcome a particular problem? Thirdly, describe a few of the more important things that happen to the main character as he/she works toward that goal or solution. Finally, you might hint at the story’s conclusion without completely giving away the ending.
The four points above deal with the report aspect of your work. For the final section of your outline, give your reader a sense of the impression the book made upon you. Ask yourself what the author was trying to achieve and whether or not he achieved it with you. What larger idea does the story illustrate? How does it do that? How did you feel about the author’s style of writing, the setting, or the mood of the novel? You do not have to limit yourself to these areas. Pick something which caught your attention, and let your reader know your personal response to whatever it was.
Question 36: When you write a book report, you can organize your thoughts by writing the basic elements down in an outline format.
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a. True
- b. False
- c. No information
Question 37: The background of the story, place and time, is not necessary in a book report.
- a. True
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b. False
- c. No information
Question 38: Each book has only one main character.
- a. True
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b. False
- c. No information
Question 39: In your book report, only important events are told.
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a. True
- b. False
- c. No information
Question 40: When you report a non-fiction work, you needn’t express your impression on the book.
- a. True
- b. False
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c. No information
Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.
If you want to prepare yourself for great achievement and have more to (Question 41) _____ to your education or your work, try reading more books. (Question 42) ___ up some of the interestingly informative books and search for well-researched material that can help you grow.
We should (Question 43) ______ our children to read more books and (Question 44) ______ less time watching TV. Some people have commented that this is inconsistent. “Why is the written word a superior way to get information than television?" That is (Question 45) ______ interesting point of view worth further (Question 46) _____. Reading is a skill that is in much greater demand than the demand for watching TV. There are no jobs that (Question 47) ______ a person to be able to watch TV but reading is an integral part of many jobs. The written word is an incredibly flexible and efficient way of communication. You can write something down and, in no time, it can be (Question 48) ______ to many different people. Not only that, we can (Question 49) _____ vast amounts of information through reading in a very short time. A good reader can acquire more information in reading for two hours than someone watching TV can acquire in a full day. You are able to gain a lot of information quickly because you are a fast reader with good (Question 50) ______ skills. It will save you massive amounts of time and you will be able to assimilate vast quantities of information.
Question 41:
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a. contribute
- b. gather
- c. collect
- d. gain
Question 42:
- a. Make
- b. Set
- c. Take
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d. Pick
Question 43:
- a. discuss
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b. encourage
- c. suggest
- d. define
Question 44:
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a. spend
- b. apply
- c. train
- d. waste
Question 45:
- a. a
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b. an
- c. the
- d. no article
Question 46:
- a. explore
- b. explorer
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c. exploration
- d. explorative
Question 47:
- a. inquire
- b. tell
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c. require
- d. ask
Question 48:
- a. submitted
- b. handed
- c. sent
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d. communicated
Question 49:
- a. inhale
- b. breathe
- c. eat
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d. digest
Question 50:
- a. apprehension
- b. enjoyment
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c. comprehension
- d. entertainment