ON-GOING TEST 1

A - PRONUNCIATION: I/ Pick out the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest: 1) A. want 2) A. merchant 3) A. cabbage 4) A. donkey 5) A. decision 6) A. rear 7) A. double 8) A. day B. what B. sergeant B. baggage B. Tom B. occasion B. bear B. enough B. quay C.water C. handles C. women C. expansion C. linear C. thorough C. pay D. ear D. dull D. may D.quality D. labour D. bomb D. erosion C. commercial D. term

II/ Choose one word whose stress is marked differently from the rest. 1) A. colonel 2) A. cathedral 3) A. receive 5) A. official 6) A. majority 7)A. bacteria B. suitcase B. satellite B. abound B. recommend B. biology B. domestic C. machine C. gallery C. sustain C. polyphony C. informal C. enemy D. purpose D. different D. foreign D. politician D. disturbance D. material

4) A. absurdityB. particular

C. administer D. metabolic

B VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR: 1) Quite a few students were absent today. A. very few A. supported A. stood A. gulp A. emulated A. free A. brought up B. not few B. played tricks on B. appeared B. flip B. counted on B. home-made B. fed up with C. not many C. laughed at C. sat down C. yelp C. looked up to C. not good C. born D. fed D. many D. hit D. knocked D. purr D. obeyed D. good 2) All through the faculty meeting Frank stood up for his friend who was being criticized so severely. 3) I hadnt seen him for ages and then he suddenly turned up on my door-step. 4) Veterinarians usually give dogs an aesthetic so that they dont cry out in pain. 5) The Congress respected Jefferson because although he was stern, he was fair. 6) The bartender said, The drinks are on the house. 7) My wife has just given birth to twins.

8) If you dont know anything about mechanics, do not take your car apart. A. repair your car C. drive your car 9) Sophia didnt hesitate, and married him in 1821. A. plan A. alter A. slow A. prolong A. attract B. take a long time to decide C. want to B. obstruct B. difficult B. traverse B. delight C. improve C. simple C. repel C. console D. confide D. spoil D. happy D. precede D. inspire 10) Trees that block the view of oncoming traffic should be cut down. 11) People who live in the country enjoy a rustic life style. 12) Because light travels faster than sound, lightning appears to go before thunder. 13) Springtime displays of fruit blossoms in the Shenandoah Valley draw thousands of tourists each year. 14) After many years of unsuccessful endeavouring to form his own orchestra. Glenn Miller finally achieved world fame in1939 as a big band leader. A. requesting A. requests B. trying B. attempts C. offering C. offers C. drop in on their teacher D. send for their teacher C. which are about C. they want it C. heat flows D. about which D. that they want D. hot flow D. deciding D. trips 15) Ralph Bunch won a Nobel Prize in 1950 for his peacemaking efforts as a United Nations diplomat. 16) They tried to play tricks on their teacher but he was too clever for them. A. make their teacher the victim of a trick B. be at strife with their teacher A. which is about A. they want what A. heat flow A. always have polluting C. have always polluted A. whose paintings A. he studied A. the circulation is B. who has painted B. to study B. is the circulation B. of which about B. what they want B. flows hot B. take your car to a garage D. separate the different parts of your car.

17) Tennessee has about 140 newspapers, _________ 25 are issued daily. 18) When consumers cannot have everything they want, they have to choose _________ most. 19) The temperature of an object rises when _________ into it. 20) From ancient times, people _________ their land, air and water. B. always have pollution D. pollution always has C. whose painted C. on studying D. who painted D. studying

21) Jean Fragonard was a French artist __________ portraits of children. 22) While working as a clerk, Edison spent much of his time _________ the stock ticker. 23) The nitrogen cycle _________ of nitrogen through the atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere. C. it is the circulation D. is it the circulation

24) Would you like to _________ the costume to see if it fits you?

A. try on A. to overseas A. caring A. to shape A. other A. tryst

B. experiment B. for overseas B. careful B. shaping B. the other B. trysts

C. try out C. in overseas C. care C. shaped C. others C. the tryst B. be a more luckier D. be luckier than I

D. get over D. overseas D. carefully D. shape D. the others D. to tryst

25) He has gone _________ to continue his education. 26) Because the vase is fragile, it must be handled with _________. 27) Technology plays a key role in _________ future. 28) Some snakes lay eggs, but _________ give birth to live offspring. 29) A _________ is a secret meeting between courting lovers, often during the afternoon. 30) If Sharon lived in that house, she would _________. A. have been more the lucky than I am C. have more the luck than I do A. did Thomas Edison C. was Thomas Edison A. over the few years C. over the past few year B. do Thomas Edison D. does he B. over the past few years D. few years B. while still in their nest, are submitted D. while still in their nest, submits

31) Never in his life _________ feel unsafe of himself and his purpose.

32) Real estate prices in New York, like those of many other major cities, have declined _________.

33) It is natural that baby eagles, _________ to their mother. A. while still in their nest, do submits C. while still in their nest, submit remember more than 15 at any given time. A. there have been A. more than protein as C. more protein as A. it will be heated A. kinds of magnets A. accurately and objectively C. accurate and objective A. they established B. established themselves B. there has been B. more protein than D. as more protein B. it is heated B. kind of magnets C. it be heated C. kinds magnets B. accuracy and objectivity D. accurate objectivity D. it heated D. kind magnet C. has been D. have been 35) Eight ounces of skim milk contain _________ the same volume of regular milk.

34) Although __________ more than 40 presidents in the US over the last 200 years, Americans can seldom

36) The bacteria in milk is destroyed when_________ to at least 620C. 37) The two main _________ are permanent magnets and electromagnets. 38) The writers of the realist movement embraced the notion that art should depict life _________.

39) English and Scottish settlers _________ Belfast as a trading post in 1613.

C. established lawyer. A. had achieved a successful C. has achieved success

D. establishing

40) Before Richard Bennett accepted the appointment as the prime minister of Canada in 1930, he _______ as a B. had been achieved successfully D. had achieved success B. become increasingly widely spread D. has increased and becomes spread widely C. been used to C. to be tracking C. it is known C. where D. using it to D. to track D. is known as D. who

41) Since the 1970s, riding bicycles _________ in the United States. A. becomes increasingly widespread C. has become increasingly widespread A. use to A. to tracking A. as we have known A. how A. and growth of trees C. the growth of trees A. abundant A. of A. That the belief A. That B. be used to B. track them to B. as we know it B. in that B. trees are growing D. grow trees B. the abundance B. about whom B. The belief that B. Sometimes C. an abundant C. about C. It is believed that C. Whenever D. it abundant D. of which D. To believe that D. From

42) By the 1300s, the Spanish had learned that gunpowder could ____ propel an object with incredible force. 43) A sharp sense of smell enables hunting dogs _________ wild animals. 44) Before the 1700s, when children worked together with adults, childhood _________ did not exist. 45) A language laboratory has audio equipment placed in booths _______ students listen to language tapes. 46) Cold temperatures, short growing seasons, and heavy snows prevent _________ at high elevations.

47) Wherever there is plenty of rain during the growing seasons, life is _________ in various forms. 48) The life of Benjamin Franklin, a practical man ____ many stories have been told, was usually productive. 49) _________ all citrus fruit originated with the Chinese orange. 50) _________ a liquid changes to a solid, heat is given off. C- READING COMPREHENSION: PARAGRAPH 1: Read the following paragraph and choose the best answer for each question. According to some scientists, migratory birds should be able to withstand the winter. A birds feathery coat is good insulation against the cold. Because a bird is warm-blooded, its body temperature always remains constant, even if the temperature of its surroundings changes. The factors that trigger migratory behaviour in birds are difficult to explain. This behaviour seems to be instinctive, not learned. For example, many northern species leave their summer homes while the weather is still warm and the food supply plentiful. Young arctic terns born at the arctic breeding grounds will take off with the flock for distant lands they have never seen. Bird migrations are probably regulated by the glandular system. Scientists suspect that the changing length of the day is the factor that triggers migratory behaviour. In an experiment, migratory birds were kept in

artificially lighted rooms. It was found that if periods of darkness were lengthened proportionately, the glands of the birds became active. These glands secrete hormones, which are chemicals that control numerous body functions. Shorter periods of daylight seem to change the hormone balance of birds, so that they retain more fat. This stored fat is the fuel that provides the energy for a long flight. The same experiment revealed that the birds became more excited as the artificial night was lengthened. It is probably no coincidence that most flocks begin their migratory flights during the night. 1) What does the passage mainly discuss? A. Common migratory paths for birds. C. Species of birds that do not migrate A. Glands changes EXCEPT A. activated glands C. retention of more fat 4) The word constant in line 3 is closest in meaning to A. invariable A. brain chemistry B. predictable B. body temperature C. persistent C. exposure to light D. responsive D. food supply 5) In the experiment mentioned in the passage, the scientists adjusted the birds B. excited behaviour D. increased appetite B. Feathers B. Why birds migrate D. Migration in cold climate C. Hormones D. Artificial light

2) According to the passage, which of the following protects birds against cold weather? 3) According to the passage, birds exposed to longer periods of darkness experience all of the following

PARAGRAPH 2: Read the following paragraph and choose the best answer for each question. Barbara Tuchman was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who knew how to stand out from the crowd. Author of books such as The First Salute, her best-selling account of the American Revolution, Tuchman had a special talent for making history appealing to common people. Unlike other published historians, Tuchman did not limit herself to a dry retelling of fact. Her prose skillfully combined scholarly treatment with high drama. Tuchman also distinguished herself by declining to pursue a doctorate degree, which won her the disrespect of many of her mainstream colleagues. To them, the lack of advanced training made her books suspect as literary works and teaching tools. A few others, however, maintained that her art of historical investigation might actually have suffered if she had acquired a Ph.D. degree. They point to the boring efforts of historians whose works, for the most part, lie buried on library shelves. Tuchman, on the other hand, succeeded in bringing history to the attention of the masses. 1) Which of the following is the best title for the passage? A. Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historians C. An Account of the American Revolution A. make historical facts interesting C. overcome the effects of advanced training B. The Works of Barbara Tuchman D. Barbara Tuchman: A Unique Historian B. write many best-selling books D. limit her accounts to historical facts

2) According to the passage, Barbara Tuchman had the special ability to

3) In line 8, the word others could best be replaced by which of the following? A. literary works B. colleagues C. teaching tools D. common people 4) It can be inferred from the passage that many mainstream historians A. viewed Tuchman with great respect B. suffered as a result of Tuchmans literary success C. dismissed Tuchmans works as popular prose D. never attained advanced degrees PARAGRAPH 3: Read the following paragraph and fill in each blank with one suitable answer. Jacques-Yves Cousteau, famous undersea explorer, is very 1)________ over the pollution of the seas and oceans. He 2)__________ man against the dumping of toxic chemicals into the ground. Chemical 3)_________ is more harmful than oil pollution. He 4)________ how it happens: If you dump something in land, it doesnt stay there unless you bury it under special 5)________. Instead, it is 6)_________ by rains to the rivers and thus to the sea. When toxic chemicals flow into the sea they become 7)_________ in plankton. Fish eat the plankton and in
8)

_________ are eaten by bigger fish. So on it goes until it all ends up in man. Finally, instead of one part per million, you have a hundred or two hundred parts per million in the liver

of an animal, Cousteau said. He suggested that 9)___________ chemicals should be 10)_________ from industrial waste material and then 11)__________ in a safe place. Perhaps in salt mines which do not allow water to
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__________. B. careful B. warns B. defilement B. explains B. situations B. carted B. embedded B. position B. odorous B. withdrawn B. exhumed B. porous C. fearful C. rebukes C. pollution C. instructs C. positions C. lugged C. encased C. addition C. malevolent C. exterminated C. buried C. perforate D. wary D. chastises D. wastage D. teaches D. cases D. carried D. encroached D. result D. odious D. extracted D. secreted D. percolate

1) A. worried 2) A. reprimands 3) A. contamination 4) A. informs 5) A. conditions 6) A. moved 7) A. encrusted 8) A. turn 9) A. toxic 10) A. extinguished 11) A. inhumed 12) A. permeate D- ERROR IDENTIFICATION:

1) (A) Science (B) requires the (C) careful collect and (D) organisation of data. 2) (A) Liquids (B) take the shape of (C) any container (D) which in they are replaced. 3) (A) The Sun (B) supplies the light and the warmth (C) that permit life on Earth (D) existing. 4) (A) Boolean algebra is most often (B) used to solve problems (C) in logic, probability, (D) and engineer. 5) (A) A wooden barrel (B) is made from strips of wood called staves (C) holding (D) together with metal hoops.

6) Unlike folk (A) dancers, which are the (B) product of a single (C) culture, ballet is an (D) international art form. 7) (A) Peach trees grow (B) good in (C) a variety of soil types, but (D) do best in sandy loam. 8) (A) The unit of measuring called the foot (B) was originally based on (C) the length of (D) the human foot. 9) Tiny pygmy shrews (A) breathe ten (B) times (C) as fast as (D) humans beings . 10) (A) The first living structures (B) to appear on Earth thousands of years (C) ago were (D) alike viruses. 11) The Soay sheep, the (A) old breed of sheep in (B) existence, (C) has changed little (D) since 3500 B.C.

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