ENGLISH PRACTICE 23
section I: Phonetics
Question 1. Pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently
1.A. manufacture | B. mature | C. pasture | D. agriculture |
2.A. breathe | B. mathematics | C. southern | D. trustworthy |
3.A. special | B. social | C. official | D. society |
4.A. answered | B. crowded | C. enjoyed | D. failed |
5.A. horrifying | B. honey | C. vehicle | D. hit |
Question 2. Pick out the word whose stress is placed differently
6.A. examine | B. introduce | C. determine | D. peninsula |
7.A. inventory | B. circumstance | C. monastery (tu viện) | D. personnel |
8.A. safeguarding | B. returnee | C. horizontal | D. mausoleum |
9.A. existential | B. appellation | C. colonialist | D. Argentina |
10.A. defective | B. deficit | C. reference | D. deference |
Your answers
1 ........ | 2 .......... | 3.......... | 4 .......... | 5........... | 6 ......... | 7 ........... | 8 ........... | 9 ........... | 10 ........ |
section II: Vocabulary and grammar
Question 1. Choose the word that best completes each sentence
1. These figures give you some ideas of the cost of .............. your car for one year.
A. controlling | B. handling | C. managing | D. maintaining |
2. It takes a great deal of ................. for the class to make a trip abroad.
A. arrangement | B. organization | C. expense | D. business |
3. Paper making began in China and from there it ............. to North Africa.
A. spread | B. sprang | C. spilled | D. flowed |
4. When will it ........... on you that I am right and you are wrong?
A. descend | B. come | C. dawn | D. arise |
5. They are fighting to eradicate the ............. of starvation caused by the civil war.
A. leaving | B. legacy | C. tradition | D. remains |
6. He had to .............. a new syllabus as the old one was out-dated.
A. make up | B. do up | C. take up | D. get up |
7. They say he inherited his money from a ............ relative he had never met.
A. far away | B. remote | C. distant | D. far |
8. I was thinking of going out, but on .............. thoughts, it might be better to stay in.
A. strong | B. second | C. good | D. deep |
9. I have been working very hard, I hope I will ........... my math exam.
A. get through | B. get round | C. get through to | D. get up |
10. Marrying into such a rich family had always been ............. his wildest dreams.
A. under | B. above | C. over | D. beyond |
11. Here is an example of an ancient ............. Chinese vase.
A. beautiful | B. tiny | C. patterned | D. exotic |
12. Because of its warm typical climate, Hawaii ............ subzero temperature.
A. almost experiences never | B. almost never experiences |
C. experiences never almost | D. experiences almost never |
13. After the accident, there was considerable doubt ............. exactly what had happened.
A. in the question of | B. as to | C. in the shape of | D. for |
14. Turn to page 35 to find out at a ............. which courses are available to you.
A. glance | B. stare | C. glimpse | D. look |
15. The actor was so nervous that he could only remember small ............. of dialogue.
A. shreds | B. pieces | C. patches | D. snatches |
16. The truant was ............. from school for unbecoming behavior.
A. dispelled | B. repelled | C. compelled | D. expelled |
17. The light from the car .............. as it receded into the distance.
A. seeped out | B. faded away | C. shone out | D. rolled away |
18. Nobody would call me an alcoholic, but I like to have a drink of beer ............. and then.
A. now | B. when | C. often | D. there |
19. I really don’t like the shoes, and ............. they aren’t my size, so I don’t want to buy them.
A. further | B. however | C. anyway | D. even if |
20. The musical comedy Oklahoma did much to expand the potential of the musical stage, and it encouraged others to attempt .............. .
A. original themes | B. to original themes |
C. that were original themes | D. how original themes |
Your answers
1 ........ | 2 .......... | 3.......... | 4 .......... | 5........... | 6 ......... | 7 ........... | 8 ........... | 9 ........... | 10 ........ |
11......... | 12 ........ | 13........ | 14 ........ | 15 ........ | 16 ....... | 17 ........ | 18......... | 19 ......... | 20......... |
Question 2. Mistake correction
There are 10 mistakes in the following passage. Find them and correct them
Many different kinds of insurance are available to deaf people today but weren’t in past. It was the year 1898 that an insurance