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ENGLISH TEST B3
Mark the letter A, B, C, D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose
underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest of the following
questions.
1
A experienced
B worked
C watched
D arrived
2
A bought
B caught
C ought
D laugh
Mark th letter from A, B, C, D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or
phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the
following questions.
3. the news should be put in the most noticeable place so that all the students
can be well-informed.
A. suspicious
B. popular
C. easily seen
D. beautiful
4. parents regard facial and vocal expressions as indicators of how a baby is
feeling.
A. read
B. translate

C. display
D. consider
5. I told her I understand what she was feeling as we were both after all in the
same boat.
A. in a similar take B. in a similar find C. in a similar situation D. in a similar case

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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, D on your answer
sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk
does not learn by being corrected all the time. If corrected too much, he will
stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the
language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he
makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people’s. In
the same way, children learn all the other things they learn to di without
being tought- to talik, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle-compare their own
performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the
needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out
his mistakes for himself, let alone correct them. We do it all for him. We act
as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was point
out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Soon he becomes dependent
on the teacher. Let him do it himself. Let him work out, with the help of
other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that
problem, whether this is good way of saying or doing this or not.


If it is a matter of right answer, as it may be in mathematics or
science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why
should our teachers waste time on such routine work? Our job should be to

help the child when he tell us that he can’t find the way to get the right
answer. Let’s end all this nonsense of grades, exams and marks. Let us
throw them all out, and let the children learn what all educated persons
must someday learn, how to messure their own understanding, how to
know what they know or do not know.
Let them get on well this job in the ay that seems most sensible to
them, with our help as school teachers if they asked for it. The idea that
there is a body of knowledge to be learnt at school and used for the rest of
one’s life in nonsense in a world as complicated and rapidly changing as
ours. Anxious parents and teachers say, “ but suppose they fail to learn
something essential, something they will need to het on in the world?”.
Don’t worry! If it is essential, they will go out into the world and learn it.
6. what does the author think is the best way for children to learn things?
A. by listening to explanations from skilled people
B. by making mistakes and having them corrected.
C. By making a great many questions.
D. By coppy what other people do.
7. the passage suggest that learning to speak and learning a bicycle are.....
A. Basically the same as learning other skills.
B. More important than other skills.
C. Basically different from learning adults skills.
D. Not really important skills.
8. the word “ he” in the first paragraph refer to.............
A. other people
B. their own work C. children
D. a child
9. what does the author think teacher do which they should not do?
A. They encourage children to copy from one another.
B. They point out children’s mistakes to them.
C. They allow children to marke their own work.

D. They give the children correct answer.
10. the word “those” refer to.......
A. skills
B. things
C. performances
D. changes
11. according to the first paragraph, what basic skills do the children learn to do without
being taught?
A. Talking, climbing and whistling
B. Reading, talking and hearing.


C. Running, walking and playing.
D. Talking, running, and skiing.

12. exams, grades and marks should be abolished because children’s progress should only
be estimated by..............
A. parents
B. the children themselves
C. teachers D. educated people.
13. the word “complicated” in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to..........
A. comfortable
B. competitive
C. complex
D. compliment
14. the word “essential” in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to...............
A. dramatic
B. imperative
C. important
D. necessarily

15. the author fears that children will grow up into adults who are..........
A. Unable to think for themselve.
B. Too independent of others.
C. Unable to use basil skills.
D. Too critical of themselves.
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Mark the letter A,B, C, D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs
from others of the main stress in each of the following questions.
16
A. recommend
B. fortunately
C. entertain
D. disappear
17
A. survive
B. fashionable C. palace
D. memory
18
A. telephone
B. question
C. impossible
D. beautiful
Find the mistake in the following sentence.
19. what I told her a few days ago were not the solution to most of her problems.
A
B
C
D
20.the doctor suggest that he lay in bed for several days as a precaution against
A B

C
further damage to the tendons.
D
21. the explorers were too tired that they found a site to camp overnight.
A
B
C
D
22. what are common known as “lead” pencils are not lead, but rather a mixture of
A
B
C
graphite, clay and wax.
D
23. we should have been informed Janis about the change in plans regarding our
A
B
C
weekend trip to the mountains.
D
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V. Choose the best answer.
24. my relative, ...................... you met yesterday, is an engineer.
a. whose
b. whom
c. that

d. C and B are correct

25. I....................the bell three times when he answered the door.
a. would ring
b. rang
c. had rung

d. was ringing

26. if Joe had practicd tennis more when he was younger, he............able to play it then.
a. would be
b. would have been c. will be
d. wouldn’t be
27. all right. Johnny, it’s time you................to bed.
a. are going to go
b. will be going
c. would be

d. went

28. I bitterly regret ..................him the story yesterday.
a. to be telling
b. telling
c. to tell

d. to have told

29. the water company will have to.................off water supplies whiles repairs to the
pipes are carried out.
a. cut
b. set

c. take
d. break
30. there was............to prevent the accident. It happened while eeveryone was sleeping.
a. nothing we couldn’t do b. anything we could do c. nothing we could do d. something could do
31. only when you grow up.........................how to organize things more neatly.
a. do you know
b. you will know
c. you know
d. will you know
32. you can go where you like................you get back before dark.
a. although
b. as long as
c. or else

d. despite

33. your fare, accommodation and meals are all ............in the price of this holiday.
a. included
b. collected
c. enclosed
d. composed
34. we are looking ........ ...to receiving a prompt reply to our letter.
a. round
b. through
c. forward
d. after
35. marta and Patrice is couple. They are going to friend’s party.
Mata: do I still have to change my clothes?
Patrice:.........................
A. sure, take your time

C. let’s discuss that some time
B. don’t change your mind, please
D. the party begins at 2pm
36. with a ............of satisfaction on his face, Keith received his degree from the principal.
a. glow
b. bearn
c. ray
d. shine
37. would it be possible to make an early...................to have my car serviced tomorrow?


a. appoint

b. appointing

c. appointed

d. appointment

38. a great.................of people go to different places to enjoy their holidays.
a. part
b. majority
c. mass
d. number
39. there was...............fuel in the car. Therefore, we had to stop midway to fill some.
a. a few
b. litter
c. few
D. a litter
40. let’s play together if we have more chance,.............?

a. will we
b. shall we
c. shouldn’t we

d. should we

41. My uncle wishes his son............much time when he grows up.
a. hasn’t wasted
b. hadn’t wasted
c. wouldn’t wasted

d. didn’t waste

42. Hung and Derek are classmates. They are talking about their sport hobby.
Hung: Don’t you like watching football?
Derek: ........................
a. yes, I don’t
b. No. I do. I like it a lot
c. it’s nice
d. yes, i love it
Read the following passage and choose the best answer.
The concept of obtaining fresh water from iceberg that are towed to populated
areas and arid regions of the world was once treated as a joke more appropriate to
cartoons than real life. But now it is being considered quite seriously by many
nations, especially since scientists have
warned that the human race will outgrow its fresh water supply faster than it runs out
of food. Glaciers are a possible source of fresh water that have been overlooked
until recently. <A>
Three-quarters of the Earth's fresh water supply is still tied up in glacial ice, a
reservoir of untapped fresh water so immense that it could sustain all the rivers of the

world for 1,000 years. Floating on the oceans every year are 7,659 trillion metric tons
of ice encased in 10,000 icebergsthat break away from the polar ice caps, more than
ninety percent of them from Antarctica. <B>
Huge glaciers that stretch over the shallow continental shelf give birth to icebergs
throughout the year. Icebergs are not like sea ice, which is formed when the sea itself
freezes ; rather, they are formed entirely on land, breaking off when glaciers spread
over the sea. As they drift away from the polar region, icebergs sometimes move
mysteriously in a direction opposite to the wind, pulled by subsurface currents.
Because they melt more slowly than smaller pieces of ice, icebergs have been known
to drift as far north as 35 degrees south of the equator in the Atlantic
Ocean.
<C>
The difficulty arises in other technical matters, such as the prevention of
rapid melting in warmer climates and the funneling of fresh water to shore in great
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volume. But even if the icebergs lost half of their volume in towing, the water they
could provide would be far cheaper than that produced by desalination, or removing
salt from water. <D>
43. what is the main topic of the passage?
A. the movement of glaciers
C. icebergs as a source of fresh water
B. future water shortages
D. the future of the world’s river
44. the word “arid” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to..........
A. anhydrous
B. fruitful
C. remote
D. distant

45. the word “ it” is refer to.....................
A. an iceberg that is B. abtaining fresh
towed
water from icebergs

C. the population of
arid areas

D. real life

46. according to the author, most of the world’s fresh water is to be found in.........
A. oceans
B. rivers
C. glaciers
D. reservoirs
47. the word “ currents” is closest in meaning to...........
A. pulls
B. waves
C. weather
48. how are icebergs formed?
a. they break off from glaciers
c. rivers freeze

D. flows of water

b. sea water freezes
d. small pieces of floatig ice converge

49. with which of the following ideas would the author be likely to agree?
A. Towing icebergs to dry areas is economically possible.

B. Desalination of water is the best way to obtain drinking water.
C. Using water from icebergs is very short-term solution to water shortages.
D. Icebergs could not be towed very fat before they would melt.
50. which is the best place where the following sentence will most properly fit?
“ to corral them and steer them to parts of the world where they are needed would
not be too difficult”
A. (A)
B. (B)
C. (C)
D. (D)
51. the word “ that” in last paragraph refers to..................
A. to volume
B. the water
C. the iceberg

D. the towing

52. what are the technial matters mentioned as the difficulty arising in the process of
obtaining fresh water from the iceberg?
A. The prevetion of rapit melting iceberg.
B. The filtering water and the funneling it to shore in a large amount.
C. To purifying the fresh water and carrying it to shore.
D. The prevention of rapit melting and funneling it to shore in great volume.


Read the passage and choose the best answer.
I was raised on a farm in a remote village in the 1950s. The winter months were
endless and everything was covered in snow. I was always (53) ________ for the
warmer weather to come. When spring arrived, everything came alive- flowers would
bloom and the animals would come out of hibernation. I would follow the bear tracks

and search for them. Once, however, I (54) ________ an angry mother bear who saw
me (55) ________ a threat. (56) ________ the sight of the bear, I did what my father
had told me. I stood still until she stopped growling and walked away. The trick was
effective, but looking back now, I realized that the situation was (57) - ________
more serious than I thought at the time. By the age of twelve, I had lots of camping
(58) ________, as I used to go camping with my dog on my school holidays. We
would spend days (59) ________ the forest, catching fish for dinner, (60) ________ at
the frogs and the (61) - ________ of birds and the insects hopping up and down on the
surface of the water. Of course, this was possible only during the warm months. When
the autumn came, everything went quiet, which was quite usual in those parts. It
wasn’t long before the animals disappeared, the birds (62) ________ south and the
snow took over. The place became deserted once again.
53: A. willing
B. keen
C. eager
D. Enthusiastic
54: A. found out B. came across
C. dealt with
D. Reached
55: A. as
B. same as
C. such as
D. Like
56: A. By
B. At
C. On
D. In
57: A. very
B. quite
C. far

D. So
58: A. experience
B. skills
C. qualities
D. qualifications
59: A. investigating B. detecting
C. researching
D. Exploring
60: A. watching
B. looking
C. noticing
D. observing
61: A. sets
B. swarms
C. bunches
D. flocks
62: A. fly
B. flying
C. flew
D. Flight
VIII.
Choose the answer which is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part of
each sentence.
63. population growth rates vary among regions and even among countries within the
same region.
A. remain unstable B. fluctuate
C. restrain
D. stay unchanged
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64. there has been no huge improvement in the noise levels since lorries were banned.
A. clear
B. obvious
C. insignificant
D. thin
Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as
the sentence given before it.
1. There as a lot of noise, and I couldn’t hear her calling.
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There was so..................................................................
2. We have tested the new system several times before.
3.
4.
5.
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The new system..............................................................
“you had better keep your room tidy, Tim” said Omega.
Omega .............................................................................
It’s not worth asking the manager for a day off.
There is.........................................................................
No one plays this piece of music as beautifully as he does.
He plays..............................................................................
Write a paragraph about the importance of student’s doing homework.
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