I. PRONUNCIATION AND STRESS A. Which word is stressed differently from the others? 1. A. interesting B. exciting C. frightening D. boring 2. A. relaxed B. confused C. tired D. surprised 3. A. obligation B. necessity C. achievement D. stupidity 4. A. finish B. reduce C. oven D. paper 5. A. description B. umbrella C. jewelry D. creation B. Which underlined part is pronounced differently? 6. A. introduce B. promise C. bother D. popular 7. A. arrange B. paper C. say D. stand 8. A. looked B. smiled C. stayed D. listened 9. A. pens B. books C. tables D. walls 10. A. include B. conclude C. surface D. stupid II. GRAMMAR AND STRUCTURE A. Choose the word (A, B, C, or D) that best completes each sentence. 11. “How was the magic show?” “It was …… .” A. surprising entertaining B. surprisingly entertained C. surprisingly entertaining D. surprisingly entertainment 12. What time do you get through work every day? A. finish B. begin C. go to D. come back from 13. I can’t ride my bicycle …… there isn’t any air in one of the tires. A. despite B. because C. although D. but 14. It will last for at least a week. So it might be …… than a week. A. more B. less C. much less D. a good deal less 15. We have caught …… today. A. as many as fish B. as many as ten fish C. as many as ten fishes D. many as ten fish 16. I’m not a tailor and this skirt is too long. If I were you, I should …… . A. shorten it B. have it shortened C. have shortened it D. have it shorten 17. I’m worried …… my final exam in statistics. A. about failing B. to fail C. with failing D. to failure 18. I regretted …… like that. I was sorry to have done so. A. to answer B. answering C. answer D. to answering 19. “Do you like being married?” “Yes, but I’m not used …… every night.” A. to cook B. to cooking C. cooking D. to have cooked 20.These vegetables don’t taste …… to me. A. well B. deliciously C. freshly D. fresh 21. Please turn off the light. We don’t need it now. A. switch off B. extinguish C. put out D. put off 22. We …… for this seminar since last year. A. wait B. waited C. has waited D. have waited 23. …… this seminar before? A. Do you take B. Did you take C. Have you taken D. Has you taken 24. It was very good, but I …… many things since then. A. forget B. forgot C. have forgotten D. has forgotten 25. I think she …… right now. A. studying B. studied C. is studying D. studies 26. When you …… your work, you may leave the room. A. finishing B. have been finishing C. have finished D. finish 27. Help me …… this letter. A. translate B. translating C. translated D. with translation 28. Jack made me …… him next week. A. to promise to call B. to promise calling C. promise to call D. promise calling 29. They forced us …… their invitation. A. accept B. accepting C. accepted D. to accept 30. A new car cost more than a …… car. A. using B. use C. used D. useful B. Identify one underlined word or phrase that is incorrect. 31. Get a builder put in a lift and then you won’t have to climb up all these stairs. A B C D 32. A secretary told me important file had been left in the lunch room just the other day. A B C D 33. We have interviewed many people who is interested in the job we have been advertising in the trade newsletter that is A B C D distributed so widely. 34. An increasing number of companies has changed dress codes, allowing employees to wear casual clothing in the work place. A B C D 35. The applicants who meet the requirements for the position they will be contacted in order to schedule an on-site interview. A B C D 36. An important factor should be considered is Mrs. Lopez’s ability to keep the new restaurant going for several months A B C with limited revenue. D 37. Even we had been behind schedule at one point, the proposal was submitted on time. A B C D 38. Both cattle or railroads helped build the city of Chicago. A B C D 39. We were made learning fifty new words every week. A B C D 40. All the information you will need can find in the employees’ manual. A B C D III. CLOZE PASSAGE Read the following passage and then choose the word (A, B, C or D) that best completes each blank. “My home is in the air – I do an enormous amount of traveling. It is a fast life and (41) ______ of work, but I like it and that is the only way 42) ______ (me. Everything is tiring – music, traveling – but what can I do? I am not (43) ______ to complaining. It is hard to imagine now (44) ______ I will ever be very long in one place. My home town is on the Caspian Sea. There is sea, wind, sun and 45) ______ (many tourists and hotels. I have my own flat with four or five rooms, but I am seldom there. If I am there for a day or two I prefer to (46) ______ with my mother and grandmother. They live in a small house, (47) ______ it is very comfortable and my mother cooks for me. I like good, simple food. I have no wife, no brothers or sisters and my father (48)______ when I was seven. He was an engineer and I don’t (49)______ him very well. He liked music very much and wanted me to (50) ______ a musician.” 41. A. most B. full C. complete D. more 42. A. for B. to C. in D. by 43. A. wanted B. taken C. used D. known 44. A. and B. so C. while D. that 45. A. far B. too C. much D. more 46. A. stay B. go C. do D. spend 47. A. but B. since C. even D. which 48. A. killed B. gone C. passed D. died 49. A. know B. remember C. remind D. see 50. A. become B. turn C. develop D. grow IV. COMPREHENSION READING Read the following passage. For questions 51 – 55, you are to choose one best answer (A, B, C or D) to each question. Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time: if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people’s. In the same way, children learning to do all the other things they learn to do without being taught – to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle – compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes for himself, let alone correct them. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Soon he becomes dependent on the teacher. Let him do it himself. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not. If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can’t find the way to get the right answer. Let’s end all this nonsense of grades, exams, marks. Let us throw them all out, and let the children learn what all educated persons must some day learn, how to measure their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know. Let them get on with this job in the way that seems most sensible to them, with our help as school teachers if they ask for it. The idea that there is a body of knowledge to be learnt at school and used for the rest of one’s life is nonsense in a world as complicated and rapidly changing as ours. Anxious parents and teachers say, ‘But suppose they fail to learn something essential, something they will need to get on in the world?’ Don’t worry! If it is essential, they will go out into the world and learn it. 51. What does the other think is the best way for children to learn things? A. by copying what other people do B. by making mistakes and having them corrected C. by listening to explanations from skilled people D. by asking a great many questions 52. What does the other think teachers do which they should not do? A. They give children correct answers. B. They point out children’s mistakes to them. C. They allow children to mark their own work. D. They encourage children to copy from one another. 53. The passage suggests that learning to speak and learning to ride a bicycle are A. not really important skills. B. more important than other skills. C. basically different from learning adult skills. D. basically the same as learning other skills. 54. Exams, grades and marks should be abolished because children’s progress should only be estimated by A. educated persons. B. the children themselves. C. teachers. D. parents. 55. The author fears that children will grow up into adults who are A. too independent of others. B. too critical of themselves. C. unable to think for themselves. D. unable to use basic skills. Keys to (1 – 6) 1. B 16. B 31. B 46. A 2. C 17. A 32. B 47. A 3. A 18. B 33. B 48. D 4. B 19. B 34. B 49. B 5. C 20. D 35. C 50. A 6. A 21. A 36. A 51. A 7. D 22. D 37. A 52. B 8. A 23. B 38. B 53. D 9. B 24. C 39. C 54. B 10. C 25. C 40. C 55. C 11. C 26. D 41. B 56. 12. A 27. A 42. A 57. 13. B 28. C 43. C 58. 14. A 29. D 44. D 59. 15. B 30. C 45. B 60. . was made to. Soon he becomes dependent on the teacher. Let him do it himself. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this. advertising in the trade newsletter that is A B C D distributed so widely. 34. An increasing number of companies has changed dress codes, allowing employees