Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
Question 1:
- a. orphanage
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b. fax
- c. assistant
- d. machine
Question 2:
- a. planet
- b. electrical
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c. grocery
- d. socket
Question 3:
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a. volunteer
- b. customer
- c. rug
- d. introduction
Question 4:
- a. couch
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b. ought
- c. outgoing
- d. mountain
Question 5:
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a. exhibition
- b. humor
- c. helpful
- d. household
Choose the word or phrase that best completes each unfinished sentence below or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.
Question 6: The sun ___ in the East.
- a. rise
- b. rose
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c. rises
- d. rising
Question 7: ‘Which girl is Celia?' ‘She’s the one with ___.'
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a. long curly black hair
- b. curly long black hair
- c. long black curly hair
- d. curly black long hair
Question 8: Tom is very shy but his sister is outgoing.
- a. humorous
- b. reserved
- c. hard-working
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d. sociable
Question 9: She shouldn’t get married yet; she ____.
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a. is not old enough
- b. was not old enough
- c. is not enough old
- d. was not enough old
Question 10: No, you can’t go on holiday by yourself! You aren’t ___!
- a. very old
- b. too old
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c. old enough
- d. enough old
Question 11: She was a very ____ child.
- a. health
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b. healthy
- c. healthily
- d. healthiness
Question 12: Would you like ____ a cartoon with us tonight?
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a. to watch
- b. watch
- c. watching
- d. watches
Question 13: What is your favorite ___________ activity?
- a. cultural
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b. leisure
- c. hooked
- d. addicted
Question 14: The show is _____ for us to see.
- a. enough interesting
- b. very interesting
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c. interesting enough
- d. interesting
Question 15: I detest ___________ with weird people.
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a. communicating
- b. relaxing
- c. joining
- d. minding
Choose the words or phrases that are not correct in Standard English.
Question 16: Once when I was ten, I used to get sick and went to the hospital.
- a. was
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b. used to get
- c. went
- d. the
Question 17: Mike doesn’t go to the cinema with us last Saturday.
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a. doesn't go
- b. the
- c. with
- d. us
Question 18: I would like to go away on holiday but I don’t have money enough.
- a. would like
- b. on
- c. but
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d. money enough
Question 19: He lives on 26 Tran Phu Street in Ha Noi with his family.
- a. lives
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b. on
- c. in
- d. with
Question 20: Every morning I spend about an hour to read the newspaper.
- a. Every
- b. spend
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c. to read
- d. the
Choose the word (a, b, c, or d) that best fits each of the blank spaces.
Dear Juan,
Hello! I’m your new pen friend. My name is Helen. That’s my first name. My (Question 21)___ is Jones.
I’m from Cardiff, in Wales. I’m fifteen years (Question 22) __.
The name of my school is the Central Cardiff Comprehensive. I am in Year 8. There (Question 23) ___ twenty-seven students (Question 24) ___ my class.
My (Question 25) ___ singer is Justin Timberlake. Who is your favorite?
Best wishes,
Helen
This is a (Question 26) __ of me!
Question 21:
- a. second name
- b. nickname
- c. middle named
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d. family name
Question 22:
- a. age
- b. ages
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c. old
- d. ago
Question 23:
- a. is
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b. are
- c. was
- d. were
Question 24:
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a. in
- b. at
- c. on
- d. of
Question 25:
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a. favorite
- b. interesting
- c. pleased
- d. bes
Question 26:
- a. photo
- b. photograph
- c. book
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d. a & b are correct
Read the following passage and choose the item (a, b, c, or d) that best answers each of the questions about it.
My name’s Ellen and my husband’s name is Peter. We've got three children - two sons and a daughter. Our sons’ names are Ian and Ben. They're twins, but they aren’t identical. Ian’s got dark hair, but Ben’s hair is fair. Our daughter’s name is Tracy. She’s eight years old. The boys are four.
Question 27: How many people are there in Ellen’s family?
- a. 3
- b. 4
- c. 5
- d. 6
Question 28: What does the word ‘twins’ in line 1 mean?
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a. one of two children who were born at the same time to the same mother
- b. the child of somebody’s aunt or uncle
- c. a girl or woman who is somebody’s child
- d. a boy or man who is somebody’s child
Question 29: How old is Ben?
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a. He’s four years old.
- b. He’s eight years old.
- c. He’s two years old.
- d. no information
Question 30: What’s Ellen’s daughter’s name?
- a. Ian
- b. Ben
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c. Tracy
- d. Peter
Question 31: Which of the following is NOT true?
- a. Ellen’s husband’s name is Peter.
- b. Tracy is eight years old.
- c. Ian and Ben are twins.
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d. Ian’s got black hair and Ben’s hair is blond.