Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
helps
laughs
cooks
finds
Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
Choose the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress.
Choose the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress.
I don't think the problem will be solved soon, _____?
Did you see the film on ______ television or at the cinema?
He ran so quickly that when he got _____ the finish line he was out of breath.
This robber admitted _____ the red mobile phone last week.
If it weren't for my mobile phone, I _____ never know where my friends were.
_____ Alan for hours but he just doesn't answer his mobile. I hope nothing's wrong.
_____ I finish my homework first, my parents don't mind if I surf the Internet a little.
Was Neil Armstrong the first person _____ foot on the moon?
People don't always behave ______ when they are on holiday.
Harry missed his dance class because he _____ with the flu.
The move to a different environment had brought about a significant _____ in Mary's state of mind.
I may look half asleep, but I can assure you I am _____ awake.
The proposal will go ahead despite strong _____ from the public.
Of all the employment agencies that Harry visited, the last one was _____.
British and Australian people share the same language, but in other aspects, they are as different as ____.
Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).
In remote communities, it’s important to replenish stocks before the winter sets in.
Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).
Fruits are customarily treated with sulfur prior to drying to reduce any color change.
Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
The term yard was used extensively by English as the measurement from the tip of a man’s nose to the tip of his outstretched thumb.
Choose the word CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word of the following question.
He talks continuously with his friends about his achievements. He's kind of person who is always blowing his own horn.
Read the following passage, then choose the correct answer to questions.
Today, supermarkets are found in almost every large city in the world. But the first supermarket opened only fifty years ago. It was opened in New York by a man named Michael Cullen.
A supermarket is different other types of stores in several ways. In supermarkets, goods are placed on open shelves. The choose what they want and take them to the checkout counter. This means that fewer shop assistants are needed than in other stores. The way products are displayed is another difference between supermarkets and many other types of stores; example, in supermarkets, there is usually a display of small inexpensive items just in front of the checkout counter: candies, chocolates, magazines, cheap foods and so on.
Most customers go to a supermarket buy goods from a shopping list. They know exactly what they need to buy. They do the shopping according to a plan.
- Waitress: “Excuse me, may I take your order, madam?”
- Mrs. Brown: “_____”
- A: “I hope that in the near future, teenagers will participate in important decisions concerning their lives.”
- B: "_______ At least they will decide who they want to be."
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
A survey showed people were confusing about what they should eat to stay healthy.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
The abilities to work hard, follow directions, and thinking independently are some of the criteria for success in the workplace.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
Each student have to write a paragraph about the benefits of learning English.
Read the passage and choose the correct answer to each of the questions.
Washington was the first city in history to be created solely for the purpose of governance. Following the Revolution, members of Congress had hotly debated the question of a permanent home for themselves and for those departments - the Treasury, the Patent Office and so on - which even the sketchiest of central governments would feel obliged to establish. In 1790, largely in order to put an end to congressional bickering, George Washington was charged with selecting a site for the newly designated federal district. Not much to anyone’s surprise but to the disappointment of many he chose a tract of land on the banks of the Potomac River, a few miles upstream from his beloved plantation Mount Vernon.
The District of Columbia was taken a part from Virginia and a part from Maryland. At the time it was laid out, its hundred square miles consisted of gently rolling hills, some under cultivation and the rest heavily wooded, with a number of creeks and much swampy land along the Potomac. There is now a section of Washington that is commonly referred to as Foggy Bottom; that section bore the same nickname a hundred and eighty years ago.
Two ports cities, Alexandria and Georgetown, flourished within sight of the new capital and gave it access by ship to the most important cities of the infant nation - Charleston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Newport, Salem and Portsmouth - and also to the far-off ports of England and the Continent.
The word "hotly" in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _____.
Which of the following does the word "it" in paragraph 2 refer to?
In 1790, a large part of the federal district was _____.
Choose the sentence that is closest in meaning to the following sentence.
“Where were you last night, Mr. Jenkins?” he said.
Choose the sentence CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given.
He started computer programming as soon as he left school.
Choose the sentence that is closest in meaning to the sentence given.
You usually drive fast so you use more petrol than usual.
Choose the sentence that best combines this pair of sentences.
Societies doubted about women's intellectual ability. Therefore, they could not get access to education.
Choose the correct sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following question.
Transportation has been made much easier thanks to the invention of car. However, cars are the greatest contributor of air pollution.
Read the following passage then choose the best answer to each question below.
Basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after the Second World War is the country’s impressive population growth. For every three Canadians in 1945, there were over five in 1966. In September 1966 Canada’s population passed the 20 million mark. Most of this surging growth came from natural increase. The depression of the 1930s and the war had held back marriages, and the catching-up process began after 1945. The baby boom continued through the decade of the 1950s, producing a population increase of nearly fifteen percent in the five years from 1951 to 1956. This rate of increase had been exceeded only once before in Canada’s history, in the decade before 1911, when the prairies were being settled. Undoubtedly, the good economic conditions of the 1950s supported a growth in the population, but the expansion also derived from a trend toward earlier marriages and an increase in the average size of families. In 1957 the Canadian birth rate stood at 28 per thousand, one of the highest in the world.
After the peak year of 1957, the birth rate in Canada began to decline. It continued falling until in 1966 it stood at the lowest level in 25 years. Partly this decline reflected the low level of births during the depression and the war, but it was also caused by changes in Canadian society. Young people were staying at school longer, more women were working; young married couples were buying automobiles or houses before starting families; rising living standards were cutting down the size of families. It appeared that Canada was once more falling in step with the trend toward smaller families that had occurred all through the Western world since the time of the Industrial Revolution.
Although the growth in Canada’s population had slowed down by 1966 (the increase in the first half of the 1960s was only nine percent), another large population wave was coming over the horizon. It would be composed of the children who were born during the period of the high birth rate prior to 1957.
The word “surging” is closest in meaning to ______.
The word "it" in the third paragraph refers to ______.
The word "derived" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _____.