Test 8

I. PRONUNCIATION AND STRESS
A. Which word is stressed differently from the others?
1. A. antibiotic B. idiomatic C. verbalization D. incongruity
2. A. vaccine B. taboo C. laughter D. visual
3. A. management B. penicillin C. operation D. medication
4. A. benefit B. complement C. examine D. comical
5. A. donation B. prescription C. determine D. designate
B. Which underlined part is pronounced differently?
6. A. caricature B. display C. inspiration D. degrade
7. A. occurred B. prescribed C. inspired D. liked
8. A. benefit B. complement C. brighten D. model
9. A. heal B. treat C. measles D. search
10. A. superior B. occur C. turn D. surgeon
II. GRAMMAR AND STRUCTURE
A. Choose the word (A, B, C, or D) that best completes each sentence.
11. Tom said, “Please tell me about it. ________ if I’ve heard the story before.”
A. I stopped you B. I’ll stop you C. I’ve stopped you D. I’m
stopping you
12. Mr.Kim lives on a boat; _________, he does not know how to swim.
A. however B. moreover C. consequently D. therefore
13. Mothers usually warn their children ________with strangers.
A. not talking B. not to talk C. that talking D. to be talked
14. When I went back to the shop, they ________ the book I wanted.
A. sell B. sold C. have sold D. had sold
15. I ________ ‘detective stories’ but I don’t any more.
A. am used to enjoy B. used to enjoy C. am used to enjoying D. am
getting used to enjoying

A. Having to live B. Having living C. Have to live D. To
have live
28. _________ you are I don’t want to see you now.
A. Who B. Whoever C. Whomever D. Whom
29. The smaller the room is the _________ furniture it needs.
A. fewer B. less C. more D. smaller
30. No one claimed the abandoned car; _________, it was towed away by the police.
A. nevertheless B. however C. in contrast D. consequently
31. The XYZ Company won a four-year contract to serve the new computer system. _________,
the XYZ Company will receive a one million dollar bonus for designing the system.
A. Therefore B. Consequently C. In fact D. In addition
B. Identify one underlined word or phrase that is incorrect.
32. There have been little snow in Arctic areas for a long time because the
A B
atmosphere cannot get much moisture from a frozen ocean.
C D
33. I am sure that your system seems as strange to us as ours do to you!
A B C D
34. She wishes that we didn’t send her the candy yesterday because she is on a diet.
A B C D
35. In the twenties, the Golden Age of Sports, Babe Ruth became a national baseball hero
because his sixty home
A B
C D
runs in 1927.
36.The next important question we have to decide is when do we have to submit the proposal.
A B C D
37.Before playing tennis, Simon had to get his hair cutting.
A B C D
38. Each banking transaction handled quickly and efficiently by well-trained tellers.

44. A. barrier B. obstacles C. divisions D. separation
45. A. point B. signify C. imply D. stand
46. A. refer B. rotate C. resort D. revolve
47. A. progresses B. transmits C. remits D. emits
48. A. signifies B. signs C. registers D. presents
49. A. predicates B. indicates C. abdicates D. implicates
50. A. traced B. trailed C. found D. explored
51. A. While B. As C. Because D. Until
IV. COMPREHENSION READING
Read the following passage. For questions 52 – 55, you are to choose one best answer (A, B,
C or D) to each question.
Probably the most famous film commenting on 20
th
century technology is Modern Times,
made in 1936. Charlie Chaplin was motivated to make the film by a reporter who, while
interviewing him, happened to describe working conditions in industrial Detroit. Chaplin,
together with healthy young farm boys, was lured to the city to work as automotive assembly
lines. Within four or five years, these young men’s health was destroyed by the stress of work in
the factories.
Scenes of factory interiors account for less than one-third of the footage of Modern
Times, but they contain some of the film’s most pointed social commentary as well as its funniest
comic situations. No one who has seen the film can ever forget Chaplin vainly trying to keep
pace with the fast-moving conveyor belt, almost losing his mind in the process. Cleary, Modern Times has its faults, but it remains the best film treating technology
within a social context. It does not offer a radical social message, but it accurately reflects the
sentiments of many who felt they were helpless victims of an over-mechanized world.
52. The author’s main purpose in writing the passage is to ________.
A. criticize the factory system of the 1930s C. explain Chaplin’s style of acting