PRACTICE TEST 1 Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hoa
PRACTICE TEST 1
Question 1 – 4: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently. Mark your choice on
the answer sheet.
1. A. research B. resent C. resemble D. resist
2. A. breather B. feather C. heather D. leather
3. A. pursuit B. suitable C. recruit D. guilty
4. A. ache B. orchestra C. charity D. chorus
Question 5 –8: Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others by circling the
corresponding letter A, B, C, or D. Mark your choice on the answer sheet.
5. A. exception B. linguistics C. paragraph D. specific
6. A. around B. legend C. question D. special
7. A. delicate B. promotion C. volcanic D. resources
8. A. satellite B. astronaut C. deliver D. applicant
Question 9 –24: These are incomplete sentences. Choose one best option to complete each sentence by
circling the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D. Mark your choice on the answer sheet.
9. The number of people receiving reading and writing lesson …………….. over 4,500 by 2001.
A. came B. went C. arrived D. reached
10. John reminded me …………….. his motorbike by 8 o’clock.
A. please return B. not forget to return C. remember to return D. to return
11. You won’t pass the examination ……………….. you study more.
A. unless B. as long as C. if D. whether
12. …………… the door, he was very surprised at what he saw.
A. Have opened B. When opened C. Opening D. To opening
13. …………… for a job for a long time before you got it?
A. Were you looking B. Have you looked C. Had you looked D. Have you been looking
14. Not a word ……………… since the exam started.
A. she wrote B. she had written C. had she witten D. she has written
15. It was ……………. that everyone answered it correctly.
A. so simple question B.such a simple question
C. too simple question D. a more simple question

short test in English as soon as you arrive. In this way, we can put you in a class at the most
suitable(30)______.
There are two classes at the elementary level, one is for (31)______ beginners and the other is for students
who know only (32)______ English . In these classes you will have to practice simple conversations. In class
at the intermediate level you will have a lot of practice in (33)______ in real-life situations because we help
you use the English you have(34)______ learned in your own country. You will also have the chance to
improve your knowledge of English grammar and to (35)______ your vocabulary.
26. A. happen B. take place C. learn D. have
27. A. tallest B. top C. maximum D. most
28. A. in B. about C. at D. for
29. A. find B. make C. take D. get
30. A. rate B. degree C. level D. stage
31. A. quite B. absolute C. complete D. too
32. A. little B. a little C. a few D. few
33. A. telling B. talking C. saying D. communicating
34. A. beforehand B. first C. early D. previously
35. A. go for B. make up C. build up D. take in
Question 36 – 40: Read the following passage and then choose the best answer to the question by circling
the corresponding letter A, B, c, or D. Mark your choice on the answer sheet.
Ted Robinson has been worried all the week. Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police. In
the letter he was asked to call at the station. Ted wondered why he was wanted by the police, but he went to
the station yesterday and now he’s not worried any more. At the station he was told by a smiling policeman
that his bicycle had been found . Five days ago , the policeman told Ted that his bicycle was picked up in a
small village four hundred miles away . It is now being sent to his home by train . Ted was very surprised
when he heard the news . He was glad too because he never expected the bicycle to be found. It was stolen
twenty years ago when Ted was a boy of fifteen.
36. Ted was worried because ________________.
A. he received a letter B. he went to police station yesterday
C. the police would catch him D. he didn’t know why the police wanted him
37. The policeman who talked to Ted was _____________.