MD-AV-12-3Y 002 I. Choose the word ( A, B, C, D) whose part in bold is pronounced differently from that of the others in each group. Mark your choice on the answer sheet. 1. A. prized B. finished C. stopped D. worked 2. A. loves B. walks C. laps D. adapts 3. A. easy B. great C. treaty D. tea 4. A. eruption B. engine C. entertain D. tendency 5. A. authority B. theory C. threater D. although II. Choose the word ( A, B, C, D) that is stressed differently from the others. Mark your choice on the answer sheet. 6. A. stimulate B. identify C. protect D. museum 7. A. complete B. calculus C. comment D. company 8. A. conventional B. expensive C. production D. comic 9. A. intelligent B. marvelous C. decide D. effective 10. A. replacement B. erosion C. fuel D. position III. In each of the following sentences, four words or phrases have been underlined. Choose the word or phrase ( A, B, C ,D ) that would not be appropriate. Mark your choice on the answer sheet. 11. He is fed up to going school every day. A B C D 12. They work more harder than the people in the South. A B C D 13.The peace who Oxford once knew has been swept away. A B C D 14. Children will needs better education. A B CD 15. James Watt, his invention of steam engine is famous through out the world, was a A B C D Scottish scientist. 16. If you let an object off your hand, it is certainly going to fall. A B C D 17. Unless we can find new sources of energy, our life would be certainly destroyed. A B C D 18. It would have been a good crop here if a storm didn’t sweep through. A B C D 19. I hate to listen to classical music at the morning. A B C D 20. The South is more hot than the North in England. A B C D IV. Choose one answer ( A, B, C ,D ) that indicates the correct tense. Mark your choice on the answer sheet. 21. While I was surfing the net yesterday, I _____ a really interesting website. A. found B. was finding C. have found D. had found 22. ever since I ______ a children, I have been afraid of dogs. A. am B. was C. had been D. was being 23. We washed the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen after our dinner guests_______. A. leave B. were leaving C. have left D. had left 24. Jane’s contact lens popped out while she________. A. is playing B. was playing C. has been playing D. had been playing 25. Be sure to reread your composition for errors before you______ it in to the teacher tomorrow. A. will hand B. hand C. handed D. had found V. Choose the best answer from the four choices ( A,B, C,D ) given to complete each sentence. Mark your choice on the answer sheet. 26. Why don’t you try______ the key anti-clockwise? A. to turn B. on turning C. turning D. turn 27. Harry potter is ________than Conan. A. more good B. more well C. better D. gooder 28. They speak a Germanic language _______ forms the basis of English. A. who B. whom C. which D. whose 29. This is his old friends______often encouraged him in his work. A. who A. whom C. which D. that 30. The sky is very cloudy. I think it ______. A. will rain B. is going to rain C. would rain D. was going to rain 31. If you heat the water at 100C degree, it______. A. would boil B. boils C. boil D. will boil 32. If the weather had not been so bad, we_______50,000 tons more. A. would have had B. will have had C. would have D. have 33. If they_______working, all kind of life on this planet would seem to come to an end. A. stops B. stopped C. had stopped D. will stop 34. I am very _____ in philosophy. A. interest B. interesting C. interested D. to interest 35. I don’t mind ______ homework. A. doing B. to do C. did D. do VI. Read the passage and then decide which word ( A, B, C,D) best fits in each space. Wild animals and wild plants and the ____(36) places where they ____(37) are seriously threatened almost everywhere. One ______(38) has become extinct each year of this century, but many handreds are now in _____(39). Lack of attetion would lead to the rapid advance of the process of _______(40). Already many ____(41) of wild animals have been so reduced in number that their ____(42) in the ecosystem is forgotten. Animals like the great apes, the whales, seals, ect. are thought to be in danger of extinction. But even more important, perhaps, than individial kinds of animals and plants, whole habitats ____(43) in danger of vanishing; marshes are being drained; and the world forests, especially the tropical forests, are being ____(44) down to satify man’s need of timber and paper. What would be like if all the wild animals and wild plants vanished? Would our ____(45) still exist then? 36. A. green B. wild C. playing D. special 37. A. live B. come C. stay D. make shit 38. A. animal B. people C. species D. life 39. A. safety B. chat rooms C. danger D. forests 40. A. living B. existence C. survival D. extinction 41. A. pieces B. kinds C. loaves D. modules 42. A. presence B. absence C. role D. names 43. A. is B. am C. are D. was 44. A. cut B. gotten C. fallen D. gone 45. A. home B. kitchen C. life D. bathroom VII. Read the passage and choose the best answer to each question from the four choices ( A, B,C or D) given. Mark your choice on the answer sheet. Marconi, who invented radio, was born in Bologna in Northern Italy, in 1874. His father was rich Italian bussinessman, and his mother was a Scot who had lived in Ireland and had gone to Italy to study music. The family lived in a country house, the Villa Grifone, just outside Bologna. When he was a boy, people did not think that Marconi was particularly clever. He was a quiet boy who spoke little but thought a lot. He liked nothing better than to sit and read science books on his father’s big library. He also loved to do experiments electricity. For most of his early life, he was taught at home. He did not go to school. 46. Which of the following is not true? A. When he was a boy, people thought that Marconi was intelligent. B. He did not get education at school for most of his early life. C. He was thought a lot instead of speaking much. D. His parents came from different parts in the world. 47. what did Marconi invent? A. cassette player B. electricity C. radio D. telephone 48. Which of the following is the topic of the passage? A. Marconi’s early life B. radio C. Marconi’s background D. electricity 49. Where was Marconi born? A. The North of Italy B. The South of Italy C. Scotland D. England 50. In the passage, the word EXPERIMENT most nearly means: A. A trip to Italy B. A nonsense job that lead to a funny joke. C. A science test to find out a phenomenon that we have not known. D. A job of composing a sonate. . have had C. would have D. have 33 . If they_______working, all kind of life on this planet would seem to come to an end. A. stops B. stopped C. had stopped D. will stop 34 . I am very _____ in philosophy. A 41. A. pieces B. kinds C. loaves D. modules 42. A. presence B. absence C. role D. names 43. A. is B. am C. are D. was 44. A. cut B. gotten C. fallen D. gone 45. A. home B. kitchen C. life D sheet. 26 . Why don’t you try______ the key anti-clockwise? A. to turn B. on turning C. turning D. turn 27 . Harry potter is ________than Conan. A. more good B. more well C. better D. gooder 28 . They