Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
albums
tanks
shops
plants
Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
pretty
depend
pencil
temple
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.
That man hasn't been a journalist for very many years, ______?
The garden is wonderful _____ the spring when all the flowers come out.
I enjoy _____ to foreign countries to learn more about different cultures and peoples.
If I _____ a chairman, I would offer new and different ideas.
They haven't received any junk mail since they _____ house.
_____ he worked hard for many years, he couldn't make both ends meet.
He will leave _____ with his immediate commitments.
The song ______ by our listeners as their favorite of the week is "Goodbye Baby" by Tunesmiths.
Despite many recent _____ advances, there are parts where schools are not equipped with computers.
Although they had only been invited for lunch, they ______ until supper time.
Today women are more _____ their weight, diets, and obesity than in the past; that’s why most of them join a gym.
By learning English, you can easily get _____ to the world's development.
Peter: Do you mind if I take a seat?
Mary: _____ .
Nancy and James are talking about their school days.
Nancy: "I think school days are the best time of our lives."
James: "______. We had sweet memories together then."
Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
The nurse told her that she would have to wait for a few days for the outcome of the medical check-up.
Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
What I really have in mind is a garden where there is very little to look after throughout the year.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
Some methods to prevent soil erosion are plowing parallel with the slopes of hills, to plant trees on unproductive land, and rotating crops.
Choose the word that needs to correct.
Maths were one of his favourite subjects when he was at primary school.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
The film was so bored that all the audience had gone home before it ended.
Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).
I like to visit the ethnic minorities to explore and understand their unique cultures.
Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).
The book classifies cheeses by similarities in flavour, rather than by ingredients.
Read the text and choose the best answer to fill in the blanks.
Why is culture important and how does it answer the question "What is cultural identity?”? Culture is the underlying foundation of traditions and beliefs that help a person relate to the world around them. It is the basis for any superstitions they may have. It is the aversion to types of meat, or which days you can work on. Culture gives us a starting point when beginning to search for our roots. Knowing a person comes from will help to define how they look at their family obligations as well as how they celebrate important milestones in life. As a person has given up their cultural identity, they no longer can identify themselves with the things that were the most important things in their lives. They lose direction. As time by and they continue to forget about their past and their natural traditions, their identity becomes less and less pronounced.
Read the following passage then choose the best answer to each question below.
For more than six millions American children, coming home after school means coming back to an empty house. Some deal with the situation by watching TV. Some may hide. But all of them have something in common. They spend part of each day alone. They are called "latchkey children". They are children who look after themselves while their parents work. And their bad condition has become a subject of concern.
Lynette Long was once the principal of an elementary school. She said, “We had a school rule against wearing jewelry. A lot of kids had chains around their necks with keys attached. I was constantly telling them to put the keys inside shirts. There were so many keys; it never came to my mind what they meant.” Slowly, she learned that they were house keys.
She and her husband began talking to the children who had keys. They learned of the effect of working couples and single parents were having on their children. Fear was the biggest problem faced by children at home alone. One in three latchkey children the Longs talked to reported being frightened. Many had nightmares and were worried about their own safety.
The most common way latchkey children deal with their fears is by hiding. They may hide in a shower stall, under a bed or in a closet. The second is the TV. They often turn the volume up. It’s hard to get statistics on latchkey children, the Longs have learned. Most parents are slow to admit that they leave their children alone.
What is the topic of the passage?
The phrase "an empty house" in the passage mostly means ______.
One thing that the children in the passage share is that ______.
Lynette Long learned of latchkey children’s problems by ______.
It’s difficult to find out the number of latchkey children because _____.
Read the following passage then choose the best answer to each question below.
Women in the written history of America
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, almost nothing was written about the contributions of women during the colonial period and the early history of the newly formed United States. Lacking the right to vote and absent from the seats of power, women were not considered an important force in history. Anne Bradstreet wrote some significant poetry in the seventeenth century, Mercy Otis Warren produced the best contemporary history of the American Revolution, and Abigail Adams penned important letters showing she exercised great political influence over her husband, John, the second President of the United States. But little or no notice was taken of these contributions. During these centuries, women remained invisible in history books.
Throughout the nineteenth century, this lack of visibility continued, despite the efforts of female authors writing about women. These writers, like most of their male counterparts, were amateur historians. Their writings were celebratory in nature, and they were uncritical in their selection and use of sources.
During the nineteenth century, however, certain feminists showed a keen sense of history by keeping records of activities in which women were engaged. National, regional, and local women’s organizations compiled accounts of their doings. Personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, and souvenirs were saved and stored. These sources from the core of the two greatest collections of women’s history in the United States one at the Elizabeth and Arthur Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College, and the other the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. Such sources have provided valuable materials for later Generations of historians.
Despite the gathering of more information about ordinary women during the nineteenth century, most of the writing about women conformed to the “great women” theory of History, just as much of mainstream American history concentrated on “great men.” To demonstrate that women were making significant contributions to American life, female authors singled out women leaders and wrote biographies, or else important women produced their autobiographies. Most of these leaders were involved in public life as reformers, activists working for women’s right to vote, or authors, and were not representative at all of the great of ordinary women. The lives of ordinary people continued, generally, to be untold in the American histories being published.
What does the passage mainly discuss?
The word "contemporary" in the first paragraph means that history was ______.
The word "they" in the second paragraph refers to ______.
In the 2nd paragraph, what weakness in nineteenth-century histories does the author point out?
What use was made of the nineteenth-century women's history materials in the Schlesinger Library and the Sophia Smith Collection?
In the last paragraph, the author mentions all of the following as possible roles of nineteenth-century "great women" EXCEPT _____.
The word "representative" in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to ______.
Choose the correct sentence that best combines this pair of sentences.
There are few passengers. The coach to Dover will still leave on schedule.
Choose the correct sentence that best combines this pair of sentences.
We arrived at the conference. Then we realized that our reports were still at home.
Choose the sentence CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given.
Mary said: "I'll tell James I saw you".
Choose the sentence CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given.
In Venezuela, beauty contests are more popular than football.
Choose the sentence CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given.
You can come with me if you like but it’s not necessary.