PRACTICE TEST 59

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

1. A. examine                B. famine                C. mine                D. determine

2. A. athlete                B. network                C. bet                        D. stressful

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.

3. A. industry                B. operation                C. interview                D. television

4. A. deny                B. repair                C. avoid                D. social

Mark the letter A, B, c, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.

5. When she was in your age she had to do a lot of things.

A. When                B. in                        C. had to                D. of

6. With his father’s guidance, Charles began playing the violin at ten and performed at the old of 13.

A. guidance                B. playing                C. at ten                D. old

7. We need any information before we can make a final decision.

A. any                        B. information                C. can                        D. a

8. I asked Mark where would he spend his holiday the next year.

A. asked                B. would he                C. his                        D. the next

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

9. The former teacher ____________ all the students to take an interest in arts.

A. noticed                B. encouraged                C. warned                D. managed

10. That painting, ____________ is painted by Leonardo da Vinci, has caused a lot of arguments.

A. which                B. who                        C. that                        D. what

11. There are far ____________ teachers in this school than in that school.

A. fewer                B. less                        C. fewest                D. least

12. It ____________ that many volunteers had collected rubbish on Nha Trang Beach.

A. reported                B. was reported        C. could report        D. had been reported

13. Many people prefer flying ____________ going by coach because it’s much faster.

A. from                B. than                        C. to                        D. over

14. I wish I ____________ as well as my mother but in fact I can’t.

A. cook                        B. can cook                C. am cooking                 D. could cook

15. ____________ if he had much money.

A. He is helping me        B. He would help me        C. He will help me         D. He has helped me

16. The light went out while I ____________ my homework.

A. am doing                B. was doing                C. did                         D. have done

17. Nowadays it is hard ____________ a well-paid job without good qualifications.

A. find                        B. finding                C. found                D. to find

18. ____________ Peter hadn’t spoken English for a long time, he picked it up again after several weeks.

A. Since                B. In spite                C. Even though         D. Because

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.

19. - “Do they like our teacher?”- “____________”

A. Yes, they like to see her.                        B. Sure, she’s such an active teacher.

C. Certainly. They're like her.                        D. No. They’re not alike.

20. - “Wow! What an amazing study record you have!” - “____________”

A. I don't study here.                                B. What a comment!

C. No. It’s not always clean.                        D. Yes. It’s very convenient.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions

21. He didn't think her remarks were very appropriate at that time.

A. right                        B. correct                C. exact                D. suitable

22. Racial discrimination is strictly forbidden around the world.

A. permitted                B. limited                C. restricted                D. prohibited

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

23. Daisy found herself in conflict with her boyfriend over their future.

A. disagreement        B. harmony                C. controversy                D. fighting

24. I would never admit that I made a serious mistake during the exam.

A. refuse                B. argue                C. deny                D. calculate

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best tits each of the numbered blanks.

Alexander Fleming was born in 1881 (25) ____________ Scotland. He went to a small school in a village, and when he left school, he didn’t go to university. He (26) ____________ for five years in an office. (27) ____________ his brother, Tom, was a doctor and helped Fleming to go to university and study medicine. So he went to London University and in 1906, he became a doctor. In 1915, Fleming married Sarah McElroy, (28) ____________ Irish woman. They had one son. During the First World War, many soldiers died in hospitals because they didn’t have the right medicines. So after the war, Fleming tried to find a drug (29) ____________ could help them. He worked for many years and in 1928, he discovered a new drug and he called it “penicillin”. He later worked with an Australian and a German scientist to develop a drug that doctors could use. In 1945, he (30) ____________ the Nobel Prize in medicine for their work on penicillin.

25. A. in                B. at                        C. on                        D. with

26. A. working                B. worked                C. works                D. work

27. A. Although        B. However                C. Nor                        D. But

28. A. a                B. an                        C. the                        D. x

29. A. who                B. which                C. whose                D. what

30. A. did                B. made                C. won                        D. had

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

We can develop alternative sources of energy, and unless we try, we’ll never succeed. Instead of burning fossil fuels, we should be concentrating on more economic uses of electricity, because electricity can be produced from any source of energy.

If we didn’t waste so much energy, our resources would last longer. We can save more energy by conservation than we can produce for the same money. Unless we do research on solar energy, wind power, tidal power, hydroelectric plants... our fossil fuels will run out and we’ll all freeze or starve to death.

Many countries are spending much more time and money on research because the energy from the sun, the waves and the winds last forever. We really won’t survive unless we start working on cleaner and safer sources of energy.

31. Alternative sources of energy can be developed ____________.

A. if we don’t try                                B. unless we don’t try

C. if we try                                        D. no matter how hard we try

32. Electricity can be generated from ____________.

A. wind power                B. solar power                C. water power        D. all are correct

33. One way to prevent fossil fuels from running out is ____________.

A. keeping the environment clean                B. building reserves

C. doing research on sources of energy        D. planting more trees

34. The energy from the Sun, the waves and the winds is ____________.

A. abundant                B. limited                C. polluted                D. non-rewable

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to the original sentence ill each of the following questions.

35. Janet dislikes badminton, but her husband plays it every afternoon.

A. Janet enjoys playing badminton, but her husband does not.

B. Janet gets irritated whenever her husband plays badminton every afternoon.

C. Janet plays badminton with her husband every afternoon.

D. Janet’s husband plays badminton every afternoon, but she dislikes it.

36. They bought a car toy that was very expensive for their nephew.

A. Their nephew bought an expensive gift for his birthday.

B. Although the car toy was inexpensive, they did not buy it.

C. The car toy was so expensive that they did not buy it.

D. They gave their nephew a car toy that was very expensive.

37. Why don’t we go to the disco tonight?

A. Let’s go to the disco tonight.                        B. We are not going to go to the disco tonight.

C. We do not usually go to the disco at night.        D. Why is the disco tonight?

38. There’s no point in persuading my father to attend the competition.

A. My father is able to do this although he does not want to.

B. It would be useful to persuade him.

C. It is useless to persuade my father to attend the competition.

D. I enjoy persuading my father to attend the competition.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the sentence that is best written from the words/ phrases given.

39. All / us / excited / about / the / performance.