Test 2
Part I: PHONETICS:
Exercise 1: Choose one word whose bold part is pronounced differently.
Identify your answer by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C or D
1. (A) honesty (B) harmful (C) healthy (D)
hydrogen
2. (A) appreciate (B) conversation (C) explanation (D)
grateful
3. (A) particular (B) scholarship (C) earflap (D) warm
4. (A) erosion (B) personal (C) reasonable (D) Asia
5. (A) deafness (B) release (C) treatment (D) seal
Part II: GRAMMAR
Exercise 2: Question 6-45 incomplete sentences. Choose from the four options give
( marked A, B, C and D) one best answer to complete each sentences by circling the
correspond ding letter A, B, C or D:
6. In order master a language, learners need to spend a great deal of time on _________ it
(A) practice (B) practicing (C) to practice (D) practiced
7. The experts of WHO are carrying out many experiments _________ they can find a
treatment for cancer
(A) in order that (B) in order to (C) in order for (D) in order as
8. It is advisable that we should avoid __________ leaded petrol to save the environment
(A) use (B) to use (C) using (D) be used
9. Hemingway used the experience and knowledge _____________ during World War I as
the material for his well- known novel For Whom The Bell Tolls
(A) gain (B) to gain (C) gaining (D) gained
10. Valentine ‘s Day, __________ from Roman, is now celebrated all over the world
(A) originate (B) originating (C) to originate (D) originated
11. It is thought that English _________ used as an international language in 50 years or
more
(A) will still be (B) has been still (C) was still (D) is still
12.One of my friends advised me _______ to an American dinner without bringing anything

25. The reason __________ thousands of people join English courses is that English has
become the most popular language
(A) what (B) which (C) why (D) where
26.”Hurry up! We’re waiting for you. What’s taking you so long?”
“I ___________ for an important phone call. Go ahead and leave without
me”
(A)wait
(B)will wait
(C)am waiting
(D)am wait
27. “Where’s Polly?”
“She _________ .”
(A)is in her room studying
(B)in her room is studying
(C)studies in her room
(D)is in her room studies
28. Can you ____________ me the time?
(A) Tell
(B) To tell
(C) Telling
(D) Tells
29. If you are tired, go and_________ for a while.
(A) to rest
(B) rest
(C) resting
(D) a rest
30. “Why is Peter absent today?”
“He _________.a bad cold”
(A)is
(B)have

(C)To
(D)For
37. “What would you like to drink?” “____________”
(A)thank you
(B)tea, please
(C)yes, please
(D)no, I don’t
38. “Do you have a camera?”
“___________”
(A)yes, I have it
(B)yes, I do
(C)yes, I own one
(D)yes, I certainly have
39. This table’s not very long ________?
(A)isn’t it
(B)is it
(C)has it
(D)hasn’t it
40. She wondered __________ her father looked like now, after so many
years away.
(A)How
(B)Whose
(C)That
(D)What
41. He says he’s been to ___________ restaurant in town.
(A)Many
(B)Every
(C)All
(D)Most
42. He filled in the necessary forms and ___________ for the job.

other and smiled. Then he said something and I understood it. “You’ll soon
learn English” he said. I wonder in England, each man speaks a different
language. The English understand each other, but I don’t understand them!
Do they speak English?
46. The writer asked the porter
(A)how to speak English
(B)where the railway station was
(C)the direction to the hotel
(D)if he could speak English
47. The porter couldn’t understand the writer because
(A)the writer didn’t speak English very carefully
(B)the writer repeated the questions several times
(C)the porter didn’t know English
(D)the writer’s English was unusual
48. The writer’s teacher of English
(A)spoke English differently from English people
(B)never spoke English in class
(C)didn’t speak English slowly
(D)didn’t work as a porter
49. In England
(A)people understand one another without speaking English
(B)people speak English, which is not like the one the writer studied at
school
(C)people don’t speak English at all
(D)each person speaks a different language
50. Which of the following statements is not true?
(A)the writer expected every one in England to speak like his teacher
(B)at last the writer understood what the porter said
(C)the porter didn’t feel angry with the writer