Choose the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation.
Choose the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress.
Choose the word which differs from the other three in the position of primary stress.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
A body has discovered by the police near the isolated house.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
Now that we have a baby, we get seldom the chance to go to the cinema.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
I know that if I start watching a soap opera, I immediately become hopelessly addictive.
If he didn't come to the party, he ______ Sarah.
She started working as _____ childminder when she was at university.
His _____ was destroyed when he was caught stealing some money.
The most severely affected area was the 19th-century residential and industrial _____ of inner London - particularly the East End.
I suggested _____ the matter to the committee.
The teacher was explaining the lesson slowly and clearly _____.
She walks so fast that I can hardly _____ her.
Choose the correct answer.
It was such a/ an ____ book about environmental problems.
I still enjoyed the week _____ the weather.
Nowadays, it becomes _____ common to offer guests the Wi-Fi password along with a cup of tea.
Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.
In the past, technology and progress were very slow. People "invented" farming 12,000 years ago but it took 8,000 years for the idea to go around the world. Then, about 3,500 years ago, people called “potters” used round wheels to turn and make plates. But it took hundreds of years before some clever person thought, if we join two wheels together and make them bigger, we can use them to move things. In the last few centuries, things have begun to move faster. Take the 20th-century invention like the aeroplane, for example. The first aeroplane flight on 17 December 1903 only lasted 12 seconds, and the plane only went 37 meters. It can have been very exciting to watch, but that flight changed the world. Sixteen years later, the first plane flew across the Atlantic, and only fifty years after that, men walked on the moon. Technology is now changing our world faster and faster. So what will the future bring?
One of the first changes will be the materials we use. Scientists have just invented an amazing new material called graphene, and soon we will use it to do lots of things with graphene batteries in your mobile, it will take a few seconds to charge your phone or download a thousand gigabytes of information! Today, we make most products in factories, but in the future, scientists will invent living materials. Then we won't make things like cars and furniture in factories - we will grow them!
Thirty years ago, people couldn't have imagined social media like Twitter and Facebook. Now we can't live without them. But this is only the start. Right now, scientists are putting microchips in some disabled people's brains, to help them see, hear and communicate better. In the future, we may all use these technologies. We won't need smartphones to use social media or search the internet because the internet will be in our heads!
More people will go into space in the future, too. Space tourism has already begun, and a hundred years from now, there may be many hotels in space. One day, we may get most of our energy from space too. In 1941, the writer Isaac Asimov wrote about a solar power station in space. People laughed at his idea then, but we should have listened to him. Today, many people are trying to develop a space solar power station. After all, the sun always shines above the clouds!
Why does the writer use the example of the aeroplane?
- "l have an idea. Let's go for a swim on Sunday afternoon."
- "______"
Jack and Lala are talking about hiking in the mountain.
- Jack: "I think we should set off early."
- Lala: "____. Then, we can have more time in the mountain."
Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
The icebox became a fixture in most homes and remained so until the mechanized refrigerator replaced it in the 1920s and 1930s.
Choose the word that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in the following question.
The arrival of a great wave of southern and eastern European immigrants at the turn of the century coincided with and contributed to an enormous expansion of formal schooling.
Choose the word that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part.
She's a bit down in the dumps because she's got to take her exams again.
Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).
With the dawn of space exploration, the notion that atmospheric conditions on Earth may be unique in the solar system was strengthened.
Choose the sentence that is closest in meaning to this sentence.
My interview lasted longer than yours.
Choose the sentence that is closest in meaning to the following question.
“Me? No, I didn't tell lies to Susanna.", Bob said.
Choose the sentence that is closest in meaning to the following question.
I'm certain Luis was on top of the world when his wife gave birth to their first child.
Choose the sentence that is closest in meaning to the following question.
The workers only stopped the walkout after a new pay offer.
Choose the sentence that best combines this pair of sentences.
I did not see Peterson off at the railway station. I feel bad about it now.
Read the following passage and choose the best option for each of the blanks.
MENTORING
Many adults in America and increasing numbers elsewhere take part in mentoring schemes. A mentor is an adult provides support and friendship to a young person. There are numerous different ways of mentoring: passing on skills, sharing experiences, offering guidance. Sometimes the most helpful thing to do is just listen. Mentoring is open to anybody - no particular experience is required, just a desire to make a difference to the life of a young person who needs help. This may seem a difficult thing at first, but many people find they have a real talent for it.
The support of a mentor can an important part in a child's development and can often make up to a lack of guidance in a young person's life. It can also improve young people's attitudes towards society and build up their confidence in dealing with life's challenges. For the mentor, it can be incredibly rewarding to know that they have had a influence on a child and helped to give them the best possible chance in life. , it is not only adults who are capable of taking this role. There is now an increasing demand for teenagers to mentor young children, for example by helping them with reading or other school work.
Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The time when humans crossed the Arctic land bridge from Siberia to Alaska seems remote to us today, but actually represents a late stage in the prehistory of humans, an era when polished stone implements and bows and arrows were already being used and dogs had already been domesticated.
When these early migrants arrived in North America, they found woods and plains dominated by three types of American mammoths. Those elephants were distinguished from today's elephants mainly by their thick, shaggy coats and their huge, upward-curving tusks. They had arrived on the continent hundreds of thousands of years before their human followers. The woolly mammoth in the North, the Columbian mammoth in middle North America, and the imperial mammoth of the South together with their distant cousins the mastodons dominated the land. Here, as in the Old World, there is evidence that humans hunted these elephants, as shown by numerous spear points found with mammoth remains.
Then, at the end of the lce Age, when the last glaciers had retreated, there was a relatively sudden and widespread extinction of elephants. In the New World, both mammoths and mastodons disappeared. In the Old World, only Indian and African elephants survived.
Why did the huge, seemingly successful mammoths disappear? Were humans connected with their extinction? Perhaps, but at the time, although they were hunters, humans were still widely scattered and not very numerous. It is difficult to see how they could have prevailed over the mammoth to such an extent.