PRACTICE TEST 1

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is different from the rest in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
1. A. passenger B. several C. begin D. repair
2. A. cheap B. ready C. dream D. tea
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose STRESSED syllable is different from the rest in each of the following questions.
3. A. kitchen B. dinner C. lesson D. alarm
4. A. activity B. occupation C. information D. engineering
Mark the letter on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction.
5.  John is not at all contented for his job. He wants to do something more creative.
A B C D
6. Farmers in the village meet occassionally for an exchange of experience in farming.
A B C D
7. She has breakfast at 8.30, then she go to work immediately.
A B C D
Vocabulary, grammar and structure
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions
8. The teacher has the students talk about their daily _______. They are saying what they usually do every day.
A. routines B. rests C. jobs D. occupations
9.I was born and grew up on the _____of the Red River.
A. shops B. restaurants C. offices D. banks
10. It’s ______________to think the experience could happen again to me.
A. frighten B. fright C. frightening D. frightened
11. In the afternoon, Mr Lam pumps water into his plot of land while his wife does the _______________.
A. transplant B. transplantation C. transplantable D. transplanting
12. We were reading books when the lights _______________.
A. went out B. went off C. went on D. went by
13. Mai’s house is near her school and it _________her only 15 minutes to go there on foot.
A. takes B. took C. has taken D. is taking
14. John often goes to bed early and _______________up late.
A. gets B. get C. got D. getting
15. You ‘ll probably see Peter on the 6.30 bus; he _____________catches it to school.
A. never B. rarely C. sometimes D. usually
16. Two months ago my brother he _____________elected headmaster of his school and he he ____________a vacation since then.
A. was-hadn’t had B. was-hasn’t had
C. had been-didn’t have D. had been-wouldn’t have
17. Yesterday morning my mother he _____________ me a new bicycle as my old one he _____________ stolen.
A. bought-was B. bought-had been
C. had bought-was D. had bought-had been
18.People reported that before help he _____________ them, a small child he _____________ of infantile paralysis.
A. had reached-died B. reached-had died
C. reaches-has died D. has reached-dies
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) or phrase(s) SIMILAR in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
19. We finish our work at 6 pm, sometimes much later.
A. now and then B. lately C. recently D. and so on
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
20. Although it’s a long day for us, we feel we are contented with what we do.
A. dissatisfied B. excited C. shocked D. interested
READING
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 21 to 25.
Andrew is an Indian farmer. He gets ___________ (21) early in the morning. It is quite true to say that an Indian farmer sleeps with the lamb and rises with the lark. Then he goes with ___________ (22) buffalo to the field. The day’s work