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Pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others:
1a. described b. remained c. stretched d. swallowed
2a. grows b. deserts c. lakes d. soups
Pick out the word that has the stress pattern different from that of the others:
3a. protect b. preserve c. product d. destroy
Choose the most suitable word or phrase (a, b , c, or d ) to complete each sentence:
4. The Simpson Desert ______a mystery until Madigan made an aerial survey in 1929.
a. referred b. remained c. led d. inferred
5. I don’t think you are ____of how much this means to me.
a. known b. realized c. aware d. understood
6. If an area is _____, all the trees there are cut down or destroyed.
a. endangered b. deforested c. contaminated d. polluted
7. Please give me some advice to buy suitable books for my ten-year-old girl.
a. recommendation b. information c. fiction d. interest
8. Different people never read a book in _____same way.
a. a b. an c. the d. no article
9. After leaving school, many of us only read for _____
a. please b. pleasant c. pleasure d. pleasing
10. Current extinction rates are at least 100 to 1,000 times higher than ___rates found in the fossil record.
a. nature b. natural c. naturally d. naturalness
11. “How do you do? I’m Peter”. _ “ __________”
a. I’m fine. Thank you b. How do you do? I’m John
c. How are you? I’m John d. How is thing?
12. “ This phone doesn’t work”. – “__________”
a. This one does, too b. So does this one c. Neither does this one d. This one does, either.
13. “Thanks a lot”. – “_________”
a. Of course b. Oh, that’s too bad
c. Oh, I’m sorry to hear that d. Don’t mention it
14. ____the extremely bad weather in the mountains, my friends decided not to cancel their trip across the
mountains pass.

a. The room should have cleaned once a day
b. The room should be cleaned once a day
c. The room should have been cleaned once a day
d. The room should have to be cleaned once a day
Choose the underlined part among a, b ,c ,or d that needs correcting:
28. For more than 450 years, Mexico City has been the economic , culture, and political centre of the
Mexican people.
29. The jacket was nice, however it was too small for me.
30. As we had plenty of food, we mustn’t go to the supermarket.
Read the passage below and decide which answer ( a, b, c or d ) best fits each space.
A desert is a place with very ____31___living things in it. This may be due to either extreme heat or extreme
cold.
There are hot deserts___32___the Sahara or cold deserts such as the Antarctic. Most plants and animals
cannot live in deserts because there is not ___33___water. Without water, living things cannot ___34___.
The ___35__rainfall in most deserts is less than 25 centimeters.
31.a. little b. few c. a little d. a few
32.a. as b. similar c. like d. just as
33.a. such b. so c. too d. enough
34.a. survive b. maintain c. remain d. conserve
35.a. natural b. annual c. simple d. normal

Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question :
Books which give instructions on how to do things are very popular in the United States today. Thousands of
these How-to books are useful. In fact, there are about four thousand books with titles that begins with the
words “ How- to “. One book may tell you how to earn more money, another may tell you how to save or
spend it, and another may explain how to give your money away.
Many How-to books give advice on careers. They tell you how to choose a career and how to succeed in it. If
you fail, however, you can buy the book how to Turn Failure into Success. If you would like to become very
rich, you can buy the book How to Make a Millionaire. If you never make any money at all, you may need a
book called How to Live on Nothing.