Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
Question 1:
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a. many
- b. make
- c. fate
- d. pain
Question 2:
- a. heat
- b. sweat
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c. threat
- d. thread
Question 3:
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a. climb
- b. dictionary
- c. economic
- d. six
Question 4:
- a. beg
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b. age
- c. gather
- d. guess
Question 5:
- a. children
- b. choose
- c. child
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d. mechanic
Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others.
Question 6:
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a. severe
- b. harbor
- c. tutor
- d. surface
Question 7:
- a. father
- b. woman
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c. degree
- d. weather
Question 8:
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a. example
- b. paragraph
- c. telephone
- d. favorite
Question 9:
- a. discover
- b. appointment
- c. important
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d. telescope
Question 10:
- a. partner
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b. excuse
- c. apple
- d. parents
Choose the words or phrases that are not correct in Standard English.
Question 11: A constructed badly car can cause injury or even death to its pasengers.
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a. constructed badly car
- b. cause injury
- c. to
- d. its
Question 12: She held fast to the chair and refuses to move.
- a. fast
- b. the chair
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c. refuses
- d. to move
Question 13: Since you paid for the theater tickets, please let me paid for our dinner.
- a. Since
- b. paid for
- c. please
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d. paid for
Question 14: As Anna has a job, she is able to pay her rent and provided food for her family.
- a. As
- b. has
- c. is able to pay
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d. provided food
Question 15: It is important that students attending all the lectures.
- a. is important
- b. that
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c. attending
- d. all the lectures
Question 16: I was sure that I has been leaving my keys on the counter.
- a. was sure
- b. that
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c. has been leaving
- d. on the counter
Question 17: Pll give you £100 if it'll help you going on holiday.
- a. I'll give
- b. if
- c. it'll help
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d. going on holiday
Question 18: They will start a wildlife conservative project in the near future.
- a. will
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b. conservative
- c. in
- d. near
Question 19: They are having a party to celebrate the achievements in their first year’s goals.
- a. are having
- b. to celebrate
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c. in
- d. their first
Question 20: Many British wild animals are now under the protect of the Wildlife and Countryside Act.
- a. are now under
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b. protect
- c. of
- d. Act
Find the one choice that best completes the sentence.
Question 21. He ____to find a job, but he had no luck.
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a. tried hard
- b. hardly tried
- c. tried hardly
- d. try hardly
Question 22: Solar energy doesn’t cause _____.
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a. pollution
- b. polluted
- c. pollute
- d. pollutant
Question 23: Are you lookingh forward ______ my letter?
- a. to see
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b. to seeing
- c. saw
- d. seeing
Question 24: "_____” means a piece of land full of rubbish.
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a. junkyard
- b. treasure
- c. hedge
- d. stream
Question 25. Dynamite _____ many years ago.
- a. has invented
- b. invented
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c. was invented
- d. were invented
Question 26: They run a police check ____ all applicants for a gun license.
- a. of
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b. on
- c. for
- d. about
Question 27: The garbageman will take the bags to the garbage _____.
- a. yard
- b. area
- c. place
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d. dump
Question 28: He seems to be well-qualified ___ the job.
- a. by
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b. for
- c. in
- d. of
Question 29: ___ will be provided in the cafeteria.
- a. Refreshment
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b. Refreshments
- c. Refresh
- d. Refreshing
Question 30: I caught the kids next door spraying my dog ____ cold water.
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a. with
- b. on
- c. over
- d. of
Question 31: She is fiercely ____ of her privacy.
- a. protected
- b. protect
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c. protective
- d. protecting
Question 32: The book signing provided him _____ an opportunity to meet one of his heroes.
- a. for
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b. with
- c. to
- d. of
Question 33: We are mixing ___ and cement to make concrete.
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a. sand
- b. sands
- c. sanding
- d. sandy
Question 34: The floor was covered ___ a sheet of plastic.
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a. with
- b. for
- c. of
- d. to
Question 35: Jackson canceled the concert, to the great ____ of his fans.
- a. disappoint
- b. disappointed
- c. disappoimting
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d. disappointment
Choose the word (a, b, c or d) that best fits each of the blank spaces
Environmental pollution is a term that (Question 36)____ to all the ways by which man pollutes his surroundings. Man dirties the air with gases and smoke, (Question 37)____ the water with chemicals and other substances, and damages the soil with too many fertilizers and (Question 38)___. Man also pollutes his surroundings (Question 39)____ various other ways. (Question 40)__, people ruin natural beauty by (Question 41)___ junk and litter on the land and in the water. They operate machines and motor vehicles that fill the air with (Question 42) ___ noise.
Environmental pollution is one of the most serious problems facing humankind today. Air, water, and soil are necessary to the survival of all living things. Badly polluted air can cause illness, and (Question 43) __ death. Polluted water kills fish and other marine life. Pollution of soil reduces the (Question 44) ____ of land that is available for growing food. (Question 45)___ pollution also brings ugliness to man’s natural beautiful world.
Question 36:
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a. refers
- b. shows
- c. tells
- d. speaks
Question 37:
- a. dyes
- b. fills
- c. mixes
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d. poisons
Question 38:
- a. dynamite
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b. pesticides
- c. radiation
- d. minerals
Question 39:
- a. on
- b. at
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c. in
- d. with
Question 40:
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a. For example
- b. In addition
- c. However
- d. Moreover
Question 41:
- a. scatter
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b. scattering
- c. lay
- d. laying
Question 42:
- a. big
- b. exciting
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c. disturbing
- d. polluted
Question 43:
- a. also
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b. even
- c. not even
- d. event
Question 44:
- a. number
- b. width
- c. vast
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d. amount
Question 45:
- a. Environment
- b. Environ
- c. Environs
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d. Environmental
Read the following passage and choose the item (a, b, c, or d) that best answers each of the questions about it.
Hundreds of species of marine life manage to survive even in the darkest depths of the ocean. These tenants of the deep have evolved some extremely ingenious devices for locating their food and enemies.
Where the light is very dim, some of these deepwater species have developed enormous eyes with almost telescopic lenses, very much like those of owls. Others, especially the fish that survive where there is no light at all, are quite blind but have developed long feelers that enable them to identify and collect stray bits of food that come within a considerable radius of them.
Some inhabitants of the deep supply their own light. They have built-in torches that they can switch on and off depending on whether they are pursuing or being pursued.
Some have regular lamps, spots of steady light, which spread a faint glow through the water around them. One deepwater squid can quirt a luminous that cousins nearer the surface to becloud and darken the water. It’s supposed that about half of the varieties of fish living in the dark depths of the ocean have some power of illumination.
Question 46: In order to survive, all species of the deep must be able to____.
- a. supply their own light
- b. compensate for the lack of light
- c. locate food and enemies
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d. both b and c
Question 47: Most of the marine species living in the darkest depths have ___.
- a. learned to live without light
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b. evolved ingenious devices to help them
- c. found ways to supply their own light
- d. developed extremely sensitive eyes
Question 48: According to the selection, some species that live where is no light have ___.
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a. long, sensitive feelers
- b. luminous fins
- c. enormous owl-like eyes
- d. no actual eyes
Question 49: It is supposed that about half of the varieties of fish living in the dark depths have ____.
- a. evolved more than one means of creating light
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b. some power of illumination
- c. developed extremely sensitive feelers
- d. almost telescopic eyes
Question 50. Which is implied but not stated?
- a. Where there is no light, the power of illumination is necessary for survival.
- b. Food getting is a difficult problem in the ocean depths.
- c. When a fish is being pursued, it often turns off its light.
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d. All fish in the darkest depths of the ocean have some device to compensate for lack of light.