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PART ONE. PHONOLOGY
a. Pick out the word whose bold part is pronounced differently from those of the others (5 points)
1. A. food B. look C. took D. good
2. A. hair B. stairs C. heir D. aisle
3. A. naked B. coughed C. hatred D. sacred
4. A. chain B. entertain C. bargain D. complain
5. A. slaughter B. naughty C. draught D. plaudits
6. A. donkey B. monkey C. tough D. hiccough
7. A. danger B. ancient C. ransom D. changeable
8. A. duvet B. bugle C. use D. durable
9. A. of B. cafe C. knife D. leaf
10. A. thumb B. thrust c. thermal D. there-under
B. Group the following words into columns according to their stress pattern:
1. finite 3. altogether 5. industry 7. misunderstand 9. preferential
2. index 4. although 6. elasticity 8. lemonade 10. create
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Part two: LExico- Grammar
1. You haven’t heard all the fact, so don’t____ to conclusion.

16.I think you’d better ____ before they return.
A. be gone B. being gone C. to be gone D. be going
17.Our taxi was caught in a traffic_____, so we were late for the show.
A. knot B. jam C. pile D. lock
18.I think our team depends too heavily _____a few very good players.
A. for B. in C. on D. with
19.The study of _____can be very interesting.
A. histories B. history C. a history D. the history
20.The panda has been on the ____of extinction for many years.
A. verge B. edge C. border D. point
B. Supply the correct form or tense of the verbs in brackets (10 points)
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You risk (1. lose) your money when you put it into that business.
Yesterday I (2. walk) along the street when I realized that a man with black
beard, whom I (3. see) four times already, (4. follow) me.
It’s essential that she (5. arrive) before 6pm.
This time tomorrow, I (6. lie) on the beach.
I am likely to pass the exam, (7. be) I?
I think your garden needs (8. weed), and you’d better have it (9. do) tomorrow
Sally bought a new house last year, but she (10. not sell) the old one yet.
When you (11. see) her again, you (12. strike) by the way her health (13.

Every Christmas, they donate some food and clothes for the ____.
Intensive cultivation has ____ the soil.
He has great power of ____.
The thing I hate about John is his ____.
The moon and the sun are often ____ in poetry.
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Breathe
Quarrel
Require
Vaccine
Need
Poverty
Persuade
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person
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I agree _____ his proposal on the condition that he dropped all charges.
Are we sufficiently insured _____fire?

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B. Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each question (10 points)
In the 20
th
century, magazines have been a major growth area of popular publishing. Specialist magazines cater to
every imaginable field and activity. In The United Kingdom, over 12, 000 periodicals, magazines, bulletins, annuals, trade
journals, and academic journals are published on a regular basis. There are some 40 women’s magazines and over 60
dealing with particular sport games, hobbies, and pastimes. Although some US magazines, such as The Saturday Evening
Post, has succumbed to the competition of television, many continue to have enormous international circulations, The
Reader’s Digest over 16 million, The National Geographic over 10 million. For many people, magazines have been the
most valuable and widely used form of continuing education, providing information about history, geography, literature,
science, and the arts, as well as guidance on gardening, cooking, home decorating, financial management, psychology,
even marriage and family life.
Until the rise of television, magazines were the most available form of cheap and convenient entertainment in the
English-speaking world. Radio served a similar function, but it was more limited in what it could do. Magazines and
television, however, both address the more powerful visual sense. During the third quarter of the 20
th
century, coincident
with a dramatic rise in the popularity of television, many general-interests, especially illustrated magazines went out of
business. The shift in attention of a mass audience from reading such magazines to watching television has been a major
factor in this decline, but it is an implicit tribute from television to the older genre that its programs are generally
organized in a single format and content.
1. The word” it” in paragraph 2 refers to
A. television B. publishing C. entertainment D. radio
2. From the passage, it can be inferred that

D. They have shifted their attention from magazines to television
C. Read the following passage and choose the best phrase or sentence, given below, to fill each of the gaps. Write a
letter (A-P) in each of the numbered gaps. Some of the suggested answers do not fit at all (10 points)
Archeologists in Iraq have discovered the world’s oldest “statue”- a stone, standing four feet high, covered with
plaster (1) of a human being. This “stone man” dating from 11,000 years ago, (2) who were emerging from the pre-
agricultural Stone Age into the Neolithic world of early farming. The statue, probably of religious significance, was
located inside a prehistoric house- one of the earliest sophisticated buildings (3). Investigations have shown that the house
had (4) clay-coated, lime plastered walls and floor. So far excavation have unearthed that three buildings containing seven
standing stones, (5) retain traces of lime plaster which once covered them. However, (6) shows evidence of having been
shaped into the likeness of a human being. It is 30 centuries older (7) previous known oldest statue. (8) that each building
appears to have had at least one standing stone inside it, and that one house actually had three. The plaster-covered human
shaped obelisk (9) shoulders and the stumps of arms and part of a neck. The “head”, however, (10).
A. ever discovered by archeologists I. beautifully finished
B. molded into shape J. than the remaining 1 6
C. to have been built K. has what appear to be 2 7
D. strangely carved L. seems to have broken off 3 8
E. was fashioned by a people M. four of which 4 9
F. excavations have revealed N. has been missing 5 10
G. only one of these O. it has been decided
H. neither of them P. than the world’s
Part four: writing
A. Rewrite the sentences in such a way that the second sentence has the same meaning as the first one (10 points)
1. We are all shocked by his reaction.  His reaction came ___________________________________
2. Happiness is elusive to rich or poor alike.  Whether___________________________________________
3. It was his lack of confidence that surprised me.  What ____________________________________________
4. There are a lot of people dependent on him.  He _______________________________________________
5. This problem doesn’t concern you.  This problem is no __________________________________
6. Jack loses his temper easily.  It doesn’t _________________________________________
7. Such a ridiculous proposal isn’t worth serious consideration
 There is ________________________________________________________