Choose the word which is pronounced differently from the other.
Question 1:
- a. national
- b. casual
- c. gather
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d. imaginary
Question 2:
- a. ghost
- b. hour
- c. honor
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d. hang
Question 3:
- a. detail
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b. aircraft
- c. claim
- d. acquaintance
Question 4:
- a. float
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b. aboard
- c. toad
- d. coast
Question 5:
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a. efficiency
- b. faucet
- c. advance
- d. experience
Choose the word whose main stress is palced differently from the others:
Question 6:
- a. condition
- b. endanger
- c. destruction
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d. interest
Question 7:
- a. enemy
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b. engineer
- c. energy
- d. envelop
Question 8:
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a. summit
- b. submit
- c. suppose
- d. support
Question 9:
- a. superior
- b. material
- c. experience
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d. superficial
Question 10:
- a. authority
- b. development
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c. competition
- d. capacity
Choose the words or phrases that are not correct in Standard English.
Question 11: If he doesn't hurry, the plane will be leaving by the time he gets to the airport.
- a. doesn't hurry
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b. will be leaving
- c. the time
- d. gets to the airport
Question 12: If I have time tonight, I will finish the novel I was reading.
- a. If
- b. have time
- c. will finish
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d. I was reading
Question 13: If it rains next weekend, we would be able to plant the vegetables.
- a. If
- b. rains
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c. would be able to plant
- d. the vegetables
Question 14: If he is leaving at 6 o’clock, I will ask him give me a lift.
- a. is leaving
- b. at 6 o'clock
- c. will ask
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d. give me
Question 15: Francesca said that she will see him the following year.
- a. said
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b. will see
- c. him
- d. the following year
Question 16: Tony promised that he would do his homework latest.
- a. promised
- b. would do
- c. his homework
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d. latest
Question 17: Basil asked me if I was going to visit my aunt the day before.
- a. asked
- b. if
- c. was going to
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d. the day before
Question 18: In spite of all its in advances, medical science still knows little about the brain.
- a. In spite of
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b. in advances
- c. medical science
- d. knows little
Question 19: A certain amount stress can be a good thing.
- a. certain
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b. amount
- c. can be
- d. a good thing
Question 20. He selected as the local Labour candidate in the last eneral election.
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a. selected
- b. as
- c. in
- d. the last general election
Find the one choice that best completes the sentence.
Question 21: If it ___ fine tomorrow, we will go for a picnic.
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a. is
- b. will
- c. will be
- d. was
Question 22: If you are still ill tomorrow, you ____ to stay at home.
- a. should
- b. need
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c. ought
- d. has
Question 23: Greg ____ me if I liked rock music.
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a. asked
- b. told
- c. said to
- d. ordered
Question 24: Sally told him ___ home early.
- a. come
- b. coming
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c. to come
- d. comes
Question 25: Peter offered ____ the dishes for her.
- a. washing
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b. to wash
- c. washed
- d. about washing
Question 26: Oh, it’s history - my favorite ____.
- a. knowledge
- b. study
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c. subject
- d. matter
Question 27: I usually like history, but I didn’t care for the _____ last year. We did nineteenth century European history. It was boring!
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a. syllabus
- b. study
- c. plan
- d. timetable
Question 28: We've put down a deposit ____a new house.
- a. at
- b. in
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c. on
- d. to
Question 29: Please write to us for further _____ of this offer.
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a. details
- b. detail
- c. detailed
- d. detailing
Question 30: It is reported that he will have to pay legal fees ____ $2,000.
- a. for
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b. of
- c. with
- d. by
Question 31: Working in a ____ country takes some getting used to.
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a. foreign
- b. foreigner
- c. forested
- d. forester
Question 32: The cells have a series of _____ stages before they develop fully.
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a. intermediate
- b. intermediately
- c. intermediary
- d. interminable
Question 33: The medicine is taken ____.
- a. oral
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b. orally
- c. mouthful
- d. watering
Question 34: There was no way she could persuade him ____ her innocence.
- a. for
- b. about
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c. of
- d. onto
Question 35: That child is far _____ advance of the rest of the class.
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a. in
- b. at
- c. on
- d. with
Choose the word (a, b, c or d) that best fits each of the blank spaces.
A gesture is an action that (Question 36) ____ a message from one person to another (Question 37) ____ using words. We use (Question 38) ___ to communicate (Question 39)___ others. There are some gestures that have completely different meaning depending on when and (Question 40) ____ they are used.
When an American wants (Question 41) ____ that something is OK or good, he raises his hand and makes a circle with his thumb and forefinger. The circle sign has only one meaning for him. He might be (Question 42) ___ to learn that in other countries it can mean something very different.
(Question 43) ___ Japan, for instance, it is the gesture (Question 44) ___ money. In France it means “zero” or “worthless”. Such differences can lead to all kinds of misun-derstanding when foreigners meet. But why is it that the same gesture has (Question 45) ____many different meanings?
Question 36:
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a. sends
- b. introduces
- c. gives
- d. has
Question 37:
- a. with
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b. without
- c. by
- d. in
Question 38:
- a. letters
- b. spelling
- c. symbols
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d. gestures
Question 39:
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a. with
- b. on
- c. for
- d. towards
Question 40:
- a. time
- b. place
- c. ways
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d. where
Question 41:
- a. show
- b. showing
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c. to show
- d. shows
Question 42:
- a. surprise
- b. surprising
- c. surprisingly
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d. surprised
Question 43:
- a. At
- b. On
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c. In
- d. From
Question 44:
- a. of
- b. towards
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c. for
- d. against
Question 45:
- a. such
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b. so
- c. very
- d. so that
Read the following passage and choose the item (a, b, c, or d) that best answers each of the questions about it.
Over the past 600 years, English has grown from a language of few speaker to become the dominant language of international communication. English as we know it today emerged around 1350, after having incorporated many elements of French that were introduced following the Norman invasion of 1066.
Until the 1600s, English was, for the most part, spoken only in England and hadn’t extended even, as far as Wales, Scotland or Ireland. However during the course of the next two centuries, English began to spread around the globe as a result of exploration, trade (including slave trade), colonization, and missionary work. Thus, small enclaves of English speakers became established and grew in various parts of the world. As these communities proliferated, English gradually became the primary language of international business, banking and diplomacy.
Today there are more than 700 million English users in the world, and over half of these are non-native speakers, constituting the largest number of non-native users than any other language in the world.
Question 46. What is the main topic of the passage?
- a. The number of non-native users of English.
- b. The French influence on the English language.
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c. The expansion of English as an international language.
- d. The use of English for science and technology.
Question 47: Approximately when did English begin to be used beyond England?
- a. In 1066
- b. Around 1350
- c. Before 1600
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d. After 1600
Question 48: According to the passage, all of the following contributed to the spread of English around the world except ____.
- a. the slave trade
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b. the Norman invasion
- c. missionaries
- d. colonization
Question 49: The word “enclaves” in paragraph 2 could be best replaced by which of the following?
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a. communities
- b. organizations
- c. regions
- d. countries
Question 50: How many non-native speakers are there in the world?
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a. More than 350 million
- b. Less than 350 million
- c. More than 700 million
- d. Less than 700 million