TEST 41

I. Choose the word with different stress pattern.

1. A. damage B. faster C. regret D. study
2. A. obey B. happen C. delay D. begin
3. A impress B. favor C. occur D. police
4. A. banana B. develop C. percentage D. recently
5. A. mechanic B. service C. national D. realize
6. A. confident B. position C. interview D. advertise
7. A. notice B. effort C. polite D. comment
8. A. secondary B. particularly C. hospitable D. museum
9. A. museum B. advance C. advice D. battle
10. A. borrow B. canal C. camera D. button
II. Choose the best answer.
1. Too many exams and tests have put students.................pressure.
A. in B. on C. under D. into
2. I was just...................to go out when you telephoned.
A. around B. about C. thinking D. planned
3. Susan couldn’t help.....................when I told her the joke.
A. laughing B. laugh C. to laugh D. laughed
4. I remember.......................him. It was a fine five-dollar note.
A. paid B. to pay C. paying D. to be paid
5. They...................the bridge by the time you come back.
A. will finish B. will have finished C. will be finished D. have finished
6. Most teachers make.....................for young students’ mistakes.
A. up B. room C. allowance D. way
7. One of the major causes.....................heart disease is lack of exercise.
A. for B. to C. of D. by
8. I...................the impression that they would not charge me.
A. had B. made C. gave D. took
9. Our parents often have a strong.................on our lives.
A. impact B. effect C. result D. influence
10. I've been looking for this book for months and,,......................I found it.
A. at last B. in time C. at the end D. at present
III. Choose the correct answer. (Phrasal verbs)
1. I trusted him but he........................me down badly.
A. talked B. put C. looked D. let
2. The other runners were too far ahead for us to..................up with.
A. catch B. go C. get D. turn
3. In Asia, children are taught to..........................their teachers.
A. give up B. look up to C. take in D. get along
4. I am looking for a friendly person to..........................my elderly mother while I am out.
A. take after B. look after C. give care of D. put up with
5. I........................Katie, an old friend on the way home from work yesterday.
A. came into B. broke into C. ran into D. went into
6. We have......................out of milk. You’ll have to drink your tea without.
A. come B. taken C. gone D. run
7. Do you......................going out tonight?
A. feel as B. feel like C. look like D. smell like
8. Do you......................your father? I think I look more like my mother.
A. see after B. look after C. like after D. take after
9. The bomb........................when he rang the bell.
A. went over B. went on C. went out D. went off
IV. Find ONE mistake in each sentence and correct it.
1. The apartment which they wanted to rent it has two bedroom, a living room and 2 bathrooms.
2. I cannot speak English perfectly, but if I can I’d apply for that job.
3. I get quite depressed when I think about the damage we are making to the environment.
4. There is a new Oriental restaurant in town, isn’t it?
5. This table is not sturdy enough to support a television, and that one probably isn’t neither
6. Coastal and inland waters are inhabited not only by fish but also by such sea creature as shrimps.
7. Even on the most careful prepared trip, problems will sometimes develop.
8. Under the present circumstances, we can’t hope the situation to improve. There are too many factors which would
make improvement impossible
IV. Rewrite the sentences.
1. Despite working hard, he can’t support his large family.
Although ...........................................................................................................
2. In spite of the bad weather, they had a wonderful holiday.
Although ...........................................................................................................
3. We’ll settle down. Then his performance will improve.
Once ...................................................................................................
4. People say that the Chinese invented printing.
It........................................................................................................................
The Chinese ......................................................................................................
5. They expect that I will win the race tomorrow.
I am ...................................................................................................................
6. It is said that he escaped to a neutral country.
He ......................................................................................................
7. The number of students attending that school has declined.
There has ..........................................................................................................
8. The number of people going to the cinema rose last week.
There was..........................................................................................................
9. We got lost because we didn’t have a map.
If we..................................................................................................................
10. John didn’t pass the driving test because he was so nervous at the time of the test. If
John ..............................................................................................................
11. He was sorry he hadn’t said good-bye to her at the airport.
He regretted ......................................................................................................
V. Read the text and choose the best answer to fill in each gap
Most Americans eat three meals (1) the day: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Breakfast begins between 7:00 and 8:
00am, lunch between 11:00 am and noon, and dinner between 6:00 and 8:00 pm. On Sundays "brunch" is a (2)
of breakfast and lunch, typically beginning at 11:00 am. Students often enjoy a "study break" or evening snack around
10:00 or 11:00 pm. Breakfast and lunch tend to be light meals, with only one (3)...........................................Dinner is the main
meal.
(4) breakfast Americans will eat cereal with milk which are often mixed (5) in a bowl, a glass of
orange juice, and toasted bread or muffin with jam, butter, or margarine. Another common breakfast meal is scrambled eggs or (6)
omelet with potatoes and breakfast meat (bacon or sausage). People who are on a (7) eat
just a cup of yogurt. Lunch and dinner are more (8)........................When eating at a formal dinner, you may be overwhelmed
by the number of utensils. How do you (9) the difference between a salad fork, a butter fork, and a dessert fork?
Most Americans do not know the answer (10) But knowing which fork or spoon to use first is simple: use the
outermost utensils first and the utensils closest to the plate last.

1. A. in B. for C. on D. during
2. A. addition B. connection C. combination D. attachment
3. A. course B. food C. menu D. goods
4. A. For B. In C. At D. With
5. A. each other B. together C. one another D. others
6. A. a B. an C. the D. no article
7. A. holiday B. engagement C. diet D. duty
8. A. vary B. variety C. varied D. variously
9. A. say B. talk C. speak D. tell
10. A. too B. either C. so D. neither
VII. Give the correct form of the words.
1. The conditions in the men’s prison were .................................. (human)
2. We hate him because of his ....................................to the children. (kind)
3. The boy ate two of the cakes .................................... (hungry)
4. You'll get good crops after keeping grass for a few years to make the soil...................................(fertility)
5. She fell off the horse but................ she wasn't injured. (fortune)
6. There's no easy........................to this problem. (solve)
7. Don’t be so.........................; we've only been waiting for a few minutes. (patient)
8. In ancient Greece, the owl was a symbol of ......................... (wise)
9. Where is the ........................to his shopping centre? (enter)
10. We’ll........................our room with some roses. (beauty)
VIII. Fill in each space in the following passage with one suitable word.
Miss Darby was one of those people who never threw anything away. “You never know when you might need it” was (1) of her
favourite sayings. She lived (2) herself in a large Victorian house across the road from us. (3) I never
went to her house, I knew it was full of antique furniture, Persian carpets and so on. In every room, there were dozens of paintings so that her house
was (4) an art gallery. I remember my father (5) that she was a “Straffordshire Darby” but I (6) no idea of what
he meant. I (7) out years later that the Darby family had made their money from coal-mining in Straffordshire. We used to make (8)
stories about her. My sister, Alice, (9) was a romantic girl, told us that Miss Darby once had a
lover, but he walked out one day and she (10) saw him again!