I. Circle the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others in each line.
1. A. missed B. pleased C. stopped D. washed
2. A. adventure B. mature C. nature D. pleasure
3. A. great B. meat C. seat D. repeat
4. A. club B. habit C. plumber D. pub
5. A. control B. respond C. novel D. deposit
6. A. cement B. crazy C. climate D. costly
7. A. hug B. pollute C. funnel D. dump
8. A. regularly B. minority C. style D. scenery
9. A. climate B. comprise C. notice D. divide
10. rather B. ethnic C. although D. without
II. Circle the best answer.
1. Liz is interested ___ the beauty contest. (on, with, at, in)
2. They ___ in Nam Dinh for 15 years. (live, are living, lived, have lived)
3. The children ___ when the mailman came. (sleep, slept, were sleeping, have slept)
4. Would you mind ___ the window? (to open / open / opening / opened)
5. I’d love to go to a football match with you, ___ I’m too busy.(because, but, and, so)
6. The air in big cities is very dirty. It is ___ . (dusty, fresh, healthy, polluted)
7. My mother showed me how ___ clothes. (to make, making, make, made)
8. This book is ___ for you to read. (enough interesting, interesting enough, so interesting, too interesting)
9. Football ___ all over the world. (to play, plays, is playing, is played )
10. There are more and more people concerning about ___ pollution. (environment, environmental, environmentally, environmentalist)
11. She arrived early ___ order to get a good seat. (on/in/out/at)
12. What time ___ Sally be here? (shall/could/will/may)
13. I am ___ that you broke the record. (delighting/delight/delightful/delighted)
14. The radio was ___ by Tim yesterday. (repaired/repairing/repair/repairs)
15. It’s ___ to believe that he passed the exam. (hardly/hard/difficultly/difficulty)
16. People in the countryside are ___. (friend/friendship/friendly/friendliest)
17. City dwellers are afraid ___ traffic jams. (of/off/at/in)
18. Would you ___ cleaning the floor for me? (like/please/mind/rather)
19. Most sports and games ___ in England are also popular in Australia. (play/playing/played/plays)
20. We had to call an ambulance because of an ___ person. (injured/injure/injuring/injury)
III. Fill in each blank with a suitable word to complete the following passage.
Environmental pollution is a term that refers to all ways by which man pollutes his surroundings. Man dirties the air (1)_____________ gases and smoke, poisons the water with chemicals and other substances, and damages the soil with (2) _____________ many fertilizers and pesticides. Man also pollutes his surroundings in various (3) _____________ ways. For example, people ruin natural beauty by scattering junk and litter (4) _____________ the land and in the water. They operate machines and motor vehicles (5) _____________ fill the air with disturbing noise.
Environmental pollution is (6) _____________ of the most serious problems facing mankind today. Air, water and soil are (7) _____________ to the survival of all living things. Badly polluted air can (8) _____________ illness, and even death. Polluted water kills fish and other marine life. Pollution of soil (9) _____________ the amount of land that is available for growing food. Environmental pollution (10) _____________ brings the ugliness to man’s naturally beautiful world.
IV. Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the original sentence.
1. When he lived in Hanoi, he often went to Thu Le Park. (He used ____________________________________________
2. Witcom L. Ludson invented the zipper in 1893. (The zipper _________________________________________________
3. She last ate this kind of food in January. (She hasn’t ______________________________________________________
4. He hasn’t chatted with his friends through internet for ages. (It’s ages ________________________________________
5. We