Practice test 27

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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.

Question 1: A. manufacture B. mature C. pasture D. agriculture

Question 2: A. explosion B. exploration C. expertise D. expedition

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 the primary stress in each of the following questions.

Question 3: A. contaminate B. supervisor C. investigate D. convenient

Question 4: A. atmosphere B. oxygen C. release D. fertilize

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

Question 5: The Pueblo Indians have traditional lived in stone or adobe structures that resemble apartment

A B C D

buildings.

Question 6: The spinal cord is the main pathway for messages travelling between the brain to the rest of the

A B C D

body.

Question 7: Children’s games, which are amusements involve more than one individual, appear to be
culturally

A B C

universal.

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

Question 8: Hurry up or the train _________ before you can catch it.

A. will leave B. leaves C. will have left D. has left

Question 9:
- Mark: “_________”

- Helen: “Oh, thank you. I just got it yesterday.”

A. What a beautiful dress you have on! B. How a beautiful dress you’re wearing!

C. What beautiful dress you’re wearing! D. How beautifully the dress you’re wearing!

Question 10: The children sing loudly _________.

A. as though they are the winners B. though they are the winners

C. as if they were the winners D. were they the winners

Question 11: We are considering having ______ for the coming New Year.

A. redecorated our flat B. to redecorate our flat

C. Our flat to be redecorated D. our flat redecorated

Question 12: Not once in my life ______!

A. I have stayed in such a good hotel B. did I ever stay in such a good hotel

C. have I stayed in so good a hotel D. stayed I in so good a hotel

Question 13: It’s time the authorities ________ people ________ safety helmets whenever they ride their
motorbikes.

A. have / wear B. had / wear C. had / to wear D. have / worn

Question 14: In the early years of the 20th century, several rebellions ______ in the northern parts of the
country.

A. rose up B. turned out

C. came up D. broke out

Question 15:

- Ben: “_________”

- Jane: “No problem.”

A. Congratulations! How wonderful!

B. Thank you for being honest with me

C. Sorry for staning your carpet. Let me have it cleaned

 D. Would you mind going to dinner next Sunday?

Question 16: Tony didn’t study hard for the test. His answers ______ from someone else.

A. should have copied B. must have been copied

C. can have copied D. would have copied

Question 17: The accident ________ was the mistake of the driver.

A. causing many people to die B. caused great human loss

C. to cause many people die D. which causes many people to die

Question 18: It’s no ________ waiting for a bus: the bus drivers don’t work on public holidays.

A. point B. worth

C. reason D. good

Question 19: She suggested ________ a suit and tie when he went for the interview.

A. him to wear B. he must wear C. he wear D. that he wears

Question 20: People have used coal and oil to ________ electricity for a long time.

A. cultivate B. breed

C. raise D. generate

Question 21: We regret to tell you that the materials you ordered are ______.
A. out of reach B. out of practice

C. out of stock D. out of work

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.

Question 22: The little boy certainly has distinguished godparents.

A. mother and father B. religious supporters C. sponsors at the baptism D. loving relatives

Question 23: I like chocolate as well as licorice.

A. but the opposite B. in spite of

C. and D. rather than

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.
Question 24: The clubs meet on the last Thursday of every month in a dilapidated palace.

A. neglected B. regenerated C. furnished D. renovated

Question 25: He mentioned in particular electronics, his major at university.

A. on whole B. as all C. in all D. in general

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

Question 26: "Leave my house now or I'll call the police!" shouted the lady to the man.

A. The lady threatened to call the police if the man didn't leave her house.

B. The lady said that she would call the police if the man didn't leave her house.

C. The lady told the man that she would call the police if he didn't leave her house.

D. The lady informed the man that she would call the police if he didn't leave her house.

Question 27: He talked about nothing except the weather.

A. He talked about everything including the weather.

B. His sole topic of conversation was the weather.

C. He said that he had no interest in the weather.

D. He had nothing to say about the weather.

Question 28: Tom went on and on apologizing for it, which was quite unnecessary.

A. Tom can’t have apologized. I quite understand.

B. Tom shouldn’t have apologized. I quite understand.

C. Tom wouldn’t have apologized. I quite understand.

D. Tom needn’t have apologized. I quite understand.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines
each pair of sentences in the following questions.

Question 29: The student next to me kept chewing gum. That bothered me a lot.

A.  The student next to me kept chewing gum, that bothered me a lot.

B. The student next to me kept chewing gum, which bothered me a lot.

C. The student next to me kept chewing gum bothering me a lot.

D. The student next to me kept chewing gum bothered me a lot.

Question 30: The exam results excited her. She rushed home to tell her family the good news.

A. Excited over the exam results, she rushed to home telling her family the good news.

B. To excite over the exam results, she rushed quickly home to tell her family the good news.

C. Exciting over the exam results, she rushed home to tell her family the good news.

D. Excited over the exam results, she rushed home to tell her family the good news.

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 fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

A major chapter in the history of rock began on 1 August 1981, when Music Television, better known as
MTV, first started broadcasting. Aimed at (31) _______aged between twelve and thirty-five, its appearance
coincided with the rise of what was then a relatively new art forrm: the rock video.

Filmed sequence of rock music were, of course, (32) _______ new. Since the 1960s, major bands such
as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had made short movies to promote their (33)________singles. What
really helped MTV take (34) _________, though, was its clever of asking the record companies to let it use
videos free of charge, arguing that videos were promotional materials and that by showing them the new (35)
__________ would be giving both companies and musicians free advertising. In the end all the main record
labels agreed.

Question 31: A. observers B. spectators C. viewers D. listeners

Question 32: A. nothing B. anything C. none D. no

Question 33: A. freshest B. youngest C. latest D. soonest

Question 34: A. away B. up C. on D. off

Question 35: A. channel B. producer C. speaker D. publications

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 from 36 to 42.

The modern comic strip started out as ammunition in a newspaper war between giants of the American
press in the late nineteenth century. The first full-color comic strip appeared in January 1894 in the New York
World, owned by Joseph Pulitzer. The first regular weekly full-color comic supplement, similar to today’s
Sunday funnies, appeared two years later, in William Randolph Hearst’s rival New York paper, the Morning
Journal.
 Both were immensely popular and publishers realized that supplementing the news with comic relief
boosted the sale of papers. The Morning Journal started another feature in 1896, the “Yellow Kid”, the first
continuous comic character in the United States, whose creator, Richard Outcault, had been lured away
from the World by the ambitious Hearst. The “Yellow Kid” was in many ways a pioneer. Its comic dialogue
was the strictly urban farce that came to characterize later strips, and it introduced the speech balloon inside
the strip, usually placed above the characters’ heads.

The first strip to incorporate all the elements of later comics was Rudolph Dirks’s “Katzenjammer Kids”,
based on Wilhelm Busch’s Max and Moritz, a European satire of the nineteenth century. The “Kids” strip, first
published in 1897, served as the prototype for future American strips. It contained not only speech balloons,
but a continuous cast of characters, and was divided into small regular panels that did away with the larger
panoramic scenes of earlier comics.

Newspaper syndication played a major role in spreading the popularity of comic strips throughout the
country. Though weekly colored comics came first, daily black-and-white strips were not far behind. The first
appeared in the Chicago American in 1904. It was followed by many imitators, and by 1915 black -and-white
comic strips had become a staple of daily newspapers around the country.

Question 36: In what order does the author discuss various comic strips in the passage?

A. In the order in which they were created

B. From most popular to least popular

C. According to the newspaper in which they appeared

D. In alphabetical order by title.

Question 37: According to the passage, the “Yellow Kid” was the first comic strip to do all of the following
EXCEPT________.

A. feature the same character in each episode

B. include dialogue inside a balloon

C. appear in a Chicago newspaper

D. characterize city life in a humorous way

Question 38: The word “incorporate” in the third paragraph is closet in meaning to ________.

A. combine

B. mention
C. create

D. affect

Question 39: The word “it” in the second paragraph refers to ________.

A. balloon B. farce C. dialogue D. the “Yellow Kid”

Question 40: The passage suggests that comic strips were popular for which of the following reasons?

A. Readers enjoyed the unusual drawings.

B. They were about real-life situations.

C. Readers could identify with the characters.

D. They provided a break from serious news stories.

Question 41: To say that Richard Outcault had been “lured away from” the World by Hearst means of the
following?

A. Hearst warned Outcault not to leave the World B. Hearst convinced Outcault to leave the World.

B. Hearst fired Outcault from the World. D. Hearst wanted Outcault to work for the World.

Question 42: What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. The differences between early and modern comic strips

B. Features of early comic strips in the United States

C. The effects of newspapers on comic strip stories

D. A comparison of two popular comic strips

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 from 43 to 50.

COLORS AND EMOTIONS

Colors are one of the most exciting experiences in life. I love them, and they  are just as important to me
as emotions are. Have you ever wondered how the two are so intimately related?

Color directly affects your emotions. Color both reflects the current state of your emotions, and is
something that you can use to improve or change your emotions. The color that you choose to wear either
reflects your current state of being, or reflects the color or emotion that you need.

The colors that you wear affect you much more than they affect the people around you. Of course they
also affect anyone who looks at or sees you, but you are the one saturated with the color all day! I even
choose items around me based on their color. In the morning, I choose my clothes based on the color or
emotion that I need for the day. So you can consciously use color to control the emotions that you are
exposed to, which can help you to feel better.

Color, sound, and emotions are all vibrations. Emotions are literally energy in motion; they are meant to
move and flow. This is the reason that real feelings are the fastest way to get your energy  in motion. Also,
flowing energy is exactly what creates healthy cells in your body. So, the fastest way to be healthy is to be
open to your real feelings. Alternately, the fastest way to create disease is to inhibit your emotions.

Question 43: What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Colorful clothes can change your mood.           

B. Emotions and colors are closely related to each  other.

C. Colors can help you become healthy.

D. Colors are one of the most exciting.

Question 44: Which of the following can be affected by color?

A. Your need for thrills B. Your friend’s feeling C. Your appetite D. Your mood

Question 45: According to the passage, what do color, sound and emotion all have in common?

A. They all affect the cells of the body. B. They are all forms of motion

C. They are all related to health D. None of the above.

Question 46: According to this passage, what creates disease?

A. wearing the color black

B. exposing yourself to bright colors
C. being open to your emotions            
D. ignoring your emotions

Question 47: The word “intimately” in paragraph one is closest in meaning to ________.

A. clearly
B. closely
C. obviously
D. simply
Question 48: The word “they” in the third paragraph refers to               .

A. emotions
B. people
C. colors
D. none of the above

Question 49: Why does the author mention that color and emotions are both vibrations?

A. To show how color can affect energy levels in the  body.
B. Because they both affect how we feel.
C. To prove the relationship between emotions and  color.
D. Because vibrations make you healthy.

Question 50: What is the purpose of the passage?

A. To persuade the reader that colors can influence emotions and give a person more energy.

B. To show that colors are important for a healthy life.

C. To give an objective account of how colors affect emotions.

D. To prove the relationship between color and emotion.