Multiple choice 8/ U12/ T2
I. Pronunciation: Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
1. A. rose B. chose C. close D. deposit
2. A. aspect B. asleep C. ashamed D. ago
3. A. south B. around C. tourist D. about
4. A. pretend B. repeat C. invent D. attend
5. A. mass B. trash C. gather D. wash
II. Find the one choice that best completes the sentence:
A> Vocabulary.
6. What’s the .................. going to be like tomorrow? Will it be nice?
A. weather B. climate C. condition D. temperature
7. The .................. for tomorrow isn’t very good.
A. news B. prophesy C. saying D. forecast
8. It’s going to be quite cool with .................. as low as 18
0
C.
A. degrees B. measurements C. temperatures D. conditions
9. But are we going to have any ..................?
A. raining B. rains C. rain D. rainy
10. Not a lot. It’s going to be .................. over most of the country.
A. well B. fine C. badly D. good
11. But there maybe a few .................. in the morning.
A. water B. rainfall C. raining D. shower
12. In the North, it’s going to be .................. all day with only one or two sunny periods.
A. cloudy B. cloud C. clouds D. cloudily
13. It’s also going to rain .................. there in the evening.
A. strongly B. heavily C. thickly D. fastly
14. In fact, the rain is going to .................. across the country overnight.
A. gather B. give out C. get together D. spread
15. Well, I suppose it could be worse. I don’t know, it’s going to be very .................., too.
A. blowing B. storming C. windy D. raining

29. John .................. about his present job, so I ask him to quit it.
A. complains B. is always complaining C. complained D. complaining
30. When I was looking for my passport I .................. this old photograph.
A. find B. was finding C. am finding D. found
III. Identifying mistakes: Choose the underlined part that is not correct in each sentence.
31. The children were very interesting in what the teacher was saying.
A B C D
32. Mary is waiting for her husband in the departure lounge for a long time.
A B C D
33. Billy has called his lawyer last night to tell him about his problems.
A B C D
34. She was sitting at her desk, read a book.
A B C D
35. The students who don’t have library cards they can’t borrow books from the library.
A B C D
36. You looked very busy when I see you last night. What were you doing?
A B C D
37. He did not allow us to go out in the boat yesterday as strong wind blows.
A B C D
38. She was standing at the bus stop. I asked her what bus was she waiting for.
A B C D
39. I share a flat with him when we were students at university.
A B C D
40. When I came in they were sitting around the fire, do a crossword puzzle.
A B C D
IV. Reading comprehension: Choose the words or phrases that best fit the blank spaces.
The weather
The weather last winter .....(41)..... a lot of problems for everyone. First there was a long .....(42)..... of fine but
cold weather, which meant that the roads were often .....(43)..... . Then it got .....(44)....., but we had a lot of rain. Two
weeks later, the weather .....(45)..... cold again: an east wind started .....(46)....., and we had a lot of snow. Roads