THE FIRST SEMESTER Revision
Unit 1,2,3
Part I: PHONETICS
Exercise 1: Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced
differently from the others in each group.
1. a. lunch b. kitchen c. technology d. purchase
2. a. fasten b. sense c. smell d. rest
3. a. island b. prescription c. answer d. basic
4. a. little b. eaten c. click d. fit
5. a. head b. ready c. peasant d. realise
6. a. live b. dinner c. routine d. quick
7. a. minute b. lunch c. pump d. buffalo
8. a . home b. have c. high d. hour
9. a. born b. work c. short d. morning
10. a. continue b. repeat c. physics d. like
11. a. meeting b. engineer c. free d. weekly
12. a. teacher b. breakfast c. eating d. beat
13. a. study b. put c. cousin d. love
14. a. worry b. target c. marvelous d. far
15. a. bike b. idea c. opinion d. library
16. a. marvel b. package c. farther d. lastly
17. a. education b. general c. extremely d. met
18. a. said b. send c. sand d. pen
19. a. happen b. many c. example d. family
20. a. determine b. together c. repeat d. report
Exercise 2: Choose one word whose main stress is placed differently
from the others in each group.
1. a. repair b. thirty c. fellow d. interesting
2. a. family b. disaster c. buffalo d. several
3. a. repeat b. afternoon c. conclusion d. continue
4. a. brigade b. harrow c. normal d. peasant

10. It’s very kind of you helping me with my homework.
Exercise 2: Choose the best answers.
1.We use a …… to break up the earth and plant the seeds.
a. plough b. car c. dog d. land
2. Mai always has a very busy timetable for the whole week.
a. life b. routine c. holiday d. schedule
3. The alarm rings at 5.20.
a. goes off b. goes wrong c. goes away d. goes away
4. Take off ….. to move off the ground.
a. meant b. is meaning c. means d. has meaning
5. The alarm clock …… off, which woke everyone up.
a. rang b. went c. gave d. put
6. Yesterday I …. at the bus-stop just in time to catch the first bus.
a. came b. went c. arrived d. reached
7. Which sentence is correct?
a. Daisy is seldom late for school. b. Daisy seldom is late for school.
c. Daisy is late seldom for school. D. Seldom Daisy is late for school.
8. How …… to work as a rule?
a. are you getting b. did you get c. do you get d. will you get
9. What … he …. in the evening? He usually … cards or …. television.
a. does…do/plays/watchs b. do…do/plays/watches
c. does…does/play/watches d. does…do/plays/watches
10. When I …. Young, I always …. to be a pilot.
a. was / want b. were/ wanted c. was/ wanted d. were/want
11. ….you … the thunder last night? No. I … anything at all. I ….
asleep.
a. do you hear/didn’t heard/was b. did you hear/didn’t hear/was
c. did you hear/didn’t heard/was d. did you hear/didn’t hear/were12.
12. Another word for fasten is …..
a. tighten b. loosen c. frighten d. lengthen

23.I … as a hotel telephonist from May 2001 to March 2002.
a. had worked b. worked c. has worked d. would work
24. By the time they came, we …. Our dinner.
a. finished b. has finished c. were finishing d.had
finished
25.” Habour “ means “……..”.
a. keep in the mind b. promise c. keep secret d. talkative
Exercise 3: Finish the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning
to the first one, beginning with the given words or phrases.
1.Mr. Vy often spends fifteen minutes leading the buffalo to the field.
=>It often takes
……………………………………………………………
2. Mai always walks to school.
=>Mai always goes
………………………………………………………..
3. After John had done his homework, he went to bed.
=>Before
…………………………………………………………………..
4. What is your day of birth?
=>When
…………………………………………………………………..
5. He left school and then joined the army.
=>After he
…………………………………………………………………
Exercise 4: Fill in each numbered blank of the following passage with a
suitable word.
Maria Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, Poland, on 7
th
November, 1867.Her (1) …… was not happy. Her older sister died when
she was nine and her mother died when she was eleven. Four years later

2. a. fasten b. sense c. smell d. rest
3. a. island b. prescription c. answer d. basic
4. a. little b. eaten c. click d. fit
5. a. head b. ready c. peasant d. realise
6. a. live b. dinner c. routine d. quick
7. a. minute b. lunch c. pump d. buffalo
8. a . home b. have c. high d. hour
9. a. born b. work c. short d. morning
10. a. continue b. repeat c. physics d. like
11. a. meeting b. engineer c. free d. weekly
12. a. teacher b. breakfast c. eating d. beat
13. a. study b. put c. cousin d. love
14. a. worry b. target c. marvelous d. far
15. a. bike b. idea c. opinion d. library
16. a. marvel b. package c. farther d. lastly
17. a. education b. general c. extremely d. met
18. a. said b. send c. sand d. pen
19. a. happen b. many c. example d. family
20. a. determine b. together c. repeat d. report
Exercise 2: Choose one word whose main stress is placed differently
from the others in each group.
1. a. repair b. thirty c. fellow d. interesting
2. a. family b. disaster c. buffalo d. several
3. a. repeat b. afternoon c. conclusion d. continue
4. a. brigade b. harrow c. normal d. peasant
5. a. routine b. arrive c. prefer d. breakfast
6. a. alarm b. discuss c. friendly d. begin
7. a. peasant b. finish c. plough d. continue
8. a. holiday b. language c. crowded d. enjoy
9.a. opinion b. borrow c. occasion d. important

2. Mai always has a very busy timetable for the whole week.
a. life b. routine c. holiday d. schedule
3. The alarm rings at 5.20.
a. goes off b. goes wrong c. goes away d. goes away
4. “Take off “…..” to move off the ground”.
a. meant b. is meaning c. means d. has meaning
5. The alarm clock …… off, which woke everyone up.
a. rang b. went c. gave d. put
6. Yesterday I …. at the bus-stop just in time to catch the first bus.
a. came b. went c. arrived d. reached
7. Which sentence is correct?
a. Daisy is seldom late for school. b. Daisy seldom is late for school.
c. Daisy is late seldom for school. D. Seldom Daisy is late for school.
8. How …… to work as a rule?
a. are you getting b. did you get c. do you get d. will you get
9. What … he …. in the evening? He usually … cards or …. television.
a. does…do/plays/watchs b. do…do/plays/watches
c. does…does/play/watches d. does…do/plays/watches
10. When I …. Young, I always …. to be a pilot.
a. was / want b. were/ wanted c. was/ wanted d.
were/want
11. ….you … the thunder last night? No. I … anything at all. I ….
asleep.
a. do you hear/didn’t heard/was b. did you hear/didn’t hear/was
c. did you hear/didn’t heard/was d. did you hear/didn’t hear/were12.
12. Another word for fasten is …..
a. tighten b. loosen c. frighten d. lengthen
13. When I was a child, I usually ….. fishing with my brother.
a. go b. gone c. went d. use to go
14. Which sentence is correct?

a. finished b. has finished c. were finishing d.had
finished
25.” Habour “ means “……..”.
a. keep in the mind b. promise c. keep secret d. talkative
Exercise 3: Finish the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning
to the first one, beginning with the given words or phrases.
1.Mr. Vy often spends fifteen minutes leading the buffalo to the field.
=>It often take Mr Vy 15 minutes to lead the buffallo to the field.
2. Mai always walks to school.
=>Mai always goes to school on foot.
3. After John had done his homework, he went to bed.
=>Before John went to bed, he had done his homework.
4. What is your day of birth?
=>When was you born?
5. He left school and then joined the army.
=>After he had left school, he joined the army.
Exercise 4: Fill in each numbered blank of the following passage with a
suitable word.
Maria Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, Poland, on 7
th
November, 1867.Her (1) …… was not happy. Her older sister died when
she was nine and her mother died when she was eleven. Four years later
after the (2)…… of her mother , she left school. That was a difficult
time, too. She couldn’t go to university(3) ….. universities in Poland
were not open to women, so she taught herself. In 1891 Maria went to
Paris to syudy physics. She(4) ….. very well and got her degree in 1893.
A year after she got a degree in physics, she got a degree in maths, too.
This was only a(5) ……. weeks before she met a clever young man
called Pierre Curie. They got (6)….. in 1895 and Maria became Marie
Curie. The Curies had two daughters: Irene, born in 1897, and Eve, born