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TEST 30 I. PHONETICS (1-5). Choose the word whose underlined part pronounced differently from that of the others. 1. a. champagne b. sugar c. fashion d. such 2. a. some b. police c. month d. wonderful 3. a. chapter b. yacht c. manage d. planet 4. a. expensive b. excellent c. exchange d. excited 5. a. removes b. admires c. changes d. divides (6-10). Choose the word whose main stress pattern is not the same as that of the others. 6. a. dormitory b. mausoleum c. satisfactory d. celebration 7. a. collapse b. collect c. comment d. compose 8. a. inspire b. correspond c. encourage d. admire 9. a. territory b. tropical c. poetry d. extensive 10. a. planet b. ancient c. generous d. opinion II. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (11-35). Choose the word or phrase (a, b, c or d) that best fits the blank space in each sentence. 11. All of us are fond ___________ listening to music. a. in b. about c. of d. with 12. My brother is quick ___________ playing computer games. a. with b. about c. in d. at 13. Don’t blame other people ___________ your own failures in life. a. for b. on c. of d. about 14. Janet is a beautiful but arrogant girl. She always looks ___________ other people. a. up to b. out for c. down on d. forward to 15. Time goes ___________ very slowly when we are waiting. a. out b. over c. away d. by 16. The teacher devoted himself ___________ his students. a. for b. to c. on d. at 17. Be positive! You must never ___________! a. keep on b. give up c. fall out d. turn away 18. We need to make a decision today at the latest. We can’t ___________ any longer. a. carry it out b. break it up c. put it off d. turn it out 19. It was only a small fire and I managed to put it ___________ with a bucket of water. a. on b. up c. down d. out
20. The station platform was crowded ___________ people waiting for the train. a. of b. with c. about d. at 21. Timmy doesn’t do well in school ___________ his inability to concentrate on any one thing for longer than a minute or two. a. as though b. because of c. in place of d. despite 22. I talked to Anna throughout the evening, ___________ nothing I said changed her opinion. a. yet b. and c. otherwise d. so that 23. I ___________ my camera recently. June was the last time I ___________ a photo. a. didn’t use - took b. haven’t used - have taken c. haven’t used - took d. didn’t use - have taken 24. This train ticket is ___________ for three months a. valid b. valuable c. serviceable d. employable 25. If I had gone to the party last night, I ___________ tired now. a. will be b. would be c. would have been d. am 26. ___________ parrots are native to tropical regions is untrue. a. All b. Since all c. That all d. Why all 27. It’s very important to ___________ energy. a. convert b. supply c. conserve d. waste 28. There’s so much more I could do if only I ___________ the time. a. have b. had c. have had d. had had 29. Mathew Webb was the first person ___________ across the English Channel. a. swim b. swimming c. to swim d. who swims 30. The number of homeless people ___________ dramatically during the last ten years. a. increased b. was increasing c. has increased d. have increased 31. The children should ___________ ‘thank you’ when you gave them their gifts. a. has said b. to have said c. have said d. be said 32. He made the soup by mixing ___________ meat with some rice. a. little b. few c. a little d. a few 33. The village will have no electric power until a new generator ___________. a. installs b. is installed c. installed d. was installed 34. That’s the postman, ___________? a. is that b. isn’t that c. is it d. isn’t it 35. ‘I’m taking my end-of-term exam next week.’ ‘___________!’ a. Cheers b. Good luck c. Congratulations d. Best wishes
(36-40). Choose the underlined word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that needs correcting. 36. It is likely that everyone in Vietnam has his own house and car by 2050. A. likely B. has C. own D. by 37. Visitors were not permitted entering the park after dark because of lack of security. A. were not B. entering C. because of D. of security 38. Pete told us that he has never been to France before. A. us that B. has C. been D. before 39. Most equipment in his office was badly in need of to be repaired. A. equipment B. was C. badly D. to be repaired 40. Measles have killed a large number of children in the Nagola region. A. Measles B. have C. a large D. in the (41-50). Use the correct form of the word given in each sentence. 41. The rapid ___________ of population led to an acute ___________ of housing. (grow - short) 42. We acquire much of our world ___________ through education. (know) 43. These pesticides are environmentally ___________, so they’re hardly ever used. (harm) 44. The smoke that comes from a lit cigarette contains many different poisonous ___________. (chemistry) 45. It is usually forbidden to destroy ___________ buildings. (history) 46. You have made your parents very ___________. (pride) 47. We’re in a ___________ area, so you can’t smoke. (smoke) 48. Technology has turned the world into a ___________ village. (globe) 49. It’s a ___________ that petrol will go up in price. (certain) 50. It’s difficult to look ___________ when you are nervous. (nature) III. READING (51-60). Choose the word or phrase (a, b, c or d) that best fits the blank space in the following passage. Industrialization has provided us with material (51) ___________ and modern (52) ___________. Electrical appliances and efficient gadgets ease our daily (53) ___________. Yet, there is a heavy price tag (54) ___________ to this convenience. Large-scale industrialization is killing the world. Today there is a strong emphasis (55) ___________ the halt of CFC usage. CFCs, otherwise known as chloro-fluoro-carbons, are ozone depleting chemicals. They (56) ___________ burn a hole in the earth’s atmosphere and we, on earth, suffer from the strong radiation (57) ___________ by the sun’s rays. Household (58) ___________ like refrigerators, aerosol cans, air-conditioners and styrofoam containers (59) ___________ ozone depleting chemicals.
The hole in the sky allows harmful radiation to reach the earth. As a result, the temperature on the earth will (60) ___________. This is alarming because polar ice-caps will melt in the heat. Ocean levels will rise and islands will gradually be flooded. 51. a. comfort b. comfortable c. comfortably d. uncomfortable 52. a. convenient b. convenience c. conveniences d. inconvenience 53. a. routines b. chores c. data d. lives 54. a. attacked b. included c. informed d. attached 55. a. to b. on c. with d. at 56. a. practically b. exactly c. really d. already 57. a. exposed b. caught c. emitted d. filtered 58. a. furniture b. contents c. chores d. items 59. a. contain b. bring c. consist d. include 60. a. raise b. rise c. arise d. move (61-65). Read the passage below carefully and choose the correct answer a, b, c or d. Electron to Electric The first discovery of electricity is over 2,600 years old. Does that surprise you? Of course, there were no lights, telephones, refrigerators, radios, motion pictures, or television sets that long ago. In fact, all of these modem conveniences are of such recent development that you might well wonder how electricity could be any older than Thomas Edison’s development of the first practical electric light bulb in 1879. The word electricity comes from the Greek word meaning amber, which is electron. The fossilized sap of a pine tree, amber looks much like a hard lump of honey. In 600 B.C., a Greek philosopher named Thales rubbed a piece of amber against his sleeve to shine it. Much to his interest, he found that the rubbed amber attracted small bits of lint, feathers, and dried leaves. This property of attraction was a strange characteristic which he thought only amber had. Today, our word electricity still goes back to Thales’ early discovery about amber. More than two thousand years after Thales, an English physician discovered that other substances also had this characteristic of electricity. From then on, more and more men added to the knowledge of electricity. They set off the many developments and discoveries which have brought about our electrical era of today. 61. While not directly stated, it may be inferred from the article that ___________. a. amber is the only substance that can be magnetized b. electricity is a recent discovery c. Thomas Edison really invented electricity d. facts may be observed long before they are put to practical use 62. This article as a whole tells us ___________.