TEST 4
Part 1: Phonetics:
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest in each group
1. A. pretty B. get C. send D. well
2. A. Valentine B. imagine C. discipline D. magazine
3. A. chorus B. cherish C. chaos D. scholar
4. A. house B. hour C. heat D. hand
5. A. feat B. great C. seat D. beat
Choose the word whose syllable is stressed differently from the rest in each group
6. A. recycled B. polluted C. fertilized D. preserved
7. A. element B. erosion C. elephant D. quantity
8. A. focus B. attain C. emit D. discard
9. A. capture B. apparent C. horrible D. tolerant
10. A. especially B. comfortably C. carefully D. possibly
Part 2: Vocabulary - grammar and structures
Choose the best answer among A, B, C or D
11. If you want to learn something, you had better pay_______ in class.
A. care B. respect C. attention D. notice
12. Your voice reminds me of somebody, but I can't remember_______.
A. it is B. who is C. who he is D. who
13. Although he loved his country_______ most of his life abroad.
A. but spent B. but he spent C. he spent D. so he spent
14. _______ the weather forecast, it will rain heavily later this morning
A. On account of B. According to C. Because of D. Due to
15. I don't _______ locking the door.
A. remember B. forget C. remind D. A & B are correct
16. I love this painting of an old man. He has such a beautiful, _______ smile
A. childhood B. childish C. childless D. childlike
17. I think you'd rather_______ to the mountains for your holiday.
A. to go B. going C. go D. have gone
18. I shall do the job to the best of my_______.

B. She never went to Paris without buying a new dress.
C. She never bought a new dress without going to Paris.
D. She never bought a new dress when she went to Paris.
29. Despite feeling cold, we kept walking
A. In spite of we felt cold, we kept walking
B. Although we felt cold, we kept walking
C. However cold we felt, but we kept walking
D. However we felt cold, we kept walking
30. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't open the door.
A. Try as hard as I might I couldn't open the door.
B. Although I try, I couldn't open the door.
C. It is difficult for me to open the door.
D. I could open the door with difficulty.
Choose a word or phrase in each sentence that needs correcting
31. She found it (A) hard to (B) concentrating on her book (C) because of the (D) the noise.
32. Have you met (A) Bill's sisters? - I've met (B) one. I didn't know he (C) had (D) other sister.
33. Customs are (A) different from (B) one region (C) of the country (D) to another.
34. The (A) job as a (B) booksell helps her (C) to support (D) her family.
35. It (A) is possible (B) determining that French explorers reached the juncture (C) of the Kansas and
Missouri rivers (D) in the seventeenth century.
Part 3: Reading
Read the passages below and choose the correct answer among A, B, C or D.
Laurel or Hardy?
He was a music-hall comedian in England before he went to America in 1910. In those days he
often (36)_______ Chaplin. He made his first short film in 1918 but did not (37)_______ to establish
himself in the competitive (38)_______ of the screen comedy. The first film he made with his famous fat
(39)_______ was called Putting pants on Philip in 1927. Many critics (40)_______ that he was the more
creative (41)_______ of the partnership. The humorist Leo McCarey (42)_______ him a rare comic who
was intelligent (43)_______ to make up his own gaps. (44)_______, he was remarkably talented, while
his partner was (45)_______ and this was the key to understanding their relationship. As a (46)_______,