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Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is
pronounced differently from the others
1. A. beard
B. fur
C. search
D. prefer
2. A. intermediate
B. immediate
C. medium
D. medicine
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the
position of the main stress in each of the following question
3. A. multinational
B. orientation
C. semiarid
D. undergraduate
4. A. plagiarize
B. rhinoceros
C. sophomore
D. supervisor
5. A. statistic
B. whereabouts
C. admirable
D. sawmilling
Choose the answer that best fits each blank of the following sentences
6. No matter how often I explain it to him, he doesn’t seem to _____.
A. put it through
B. take it in
C. put it on

D. come up with
7. “If only I hadn’t lent him all my money” -“_____”
A. I’m afraid you’ll have to do it.
B. Well, you did; so it’s no use crying over spilt milk.
C. Sorry, I have no idea.
D. All right, you’ll be OK.
8. His _____ of the school regulations really can’t be ignored any longer.
A. carelessness
B. inattention
C. unfamiliarity
D. disregard
9. By the time the technicians discovered the computer problems, most of the important files _____.
A. had been disappeared
B. will have disappeared
C. disappear
D. had disappeared
10. “Did you enjoy your picnic?” - “Yes, we had a great time and on the way home, we stopped _____
the sunset.”
A. to admire
B. admiring
C. to have admired
D. to be admiring
11. The patient’s heart-rate and breathing must be carefully _____ during the operation.
A. counted
B. monitored
C. observed
D. supervised
12. If you want to know which companies to invest in, George can give you some _____.
A. clues
B. hints

C. words
D. tips
13. At the end of the day, the shopkeeper walked to the bank, carrying the day’s ______ in a special bag.
A. income
B. takings
C. earnings
D. profits
14. When Mr. Spendthrift ran out of money, he _____ his mother for help.
A. fell in with
B. fell upon
C. fell behind
D. fell back on
15. The candidate still expects to be re-elected _____ the results of the latest opinion poll.
A. without
B. apart
C. nevertheless
D. notwithstanding
16. I shall do the job to the best of my _____.
A. capacity
B. ability
C. knowledge
D. talent
17. The difference between the cost and the selling price is usually the _____.
A. advantage
B. increase
C. winnings
D. profit
18. What do you usually _____ for delivering things?
A. demand
B. charge

C. cost
D. price
19. He couldn’t _____ his father that he was telling the truth.
A. admit
B. confide
C. trust
D. convince
20. The police are _____ the town for the missing vehicle.
A. seeking
B. looking
C. investigating
D. combing


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21. He cannot _____ ignorance as his excuse; he should have known what was happening in his own
department.
A. insist
B. plead
C. refer
D. defend
22. After listening to all the arguments I am now of the _____ that there should be no new road.
A. attitude
B. opinion
C. thought
D. idea
23. One condition of this job is that you must be _____ to work at weekends.
A. available
B. capable

C. acceptable
D. accessible
24. It was too late to _____ of the contract.
A. back out
B. back down
C. back up
D. back away
25. In spite of his poor education, he was a most _____ speaker.
A. articulate
B. ambiguous
C. attentive
D. authoritarian
Read the passage and choose the answer that best fits each blank space
I don’t want to alarm you. There is still enough sand left in the world to satisfy most holidaymakers
but in many parts of the world beaches are literally being (26) _____ away and have to be regularly
replaced.
First much of the sand for beaches comes from cliffs which crumble away as they are pounded by the
waves. To (27) _____ them, sea walls are often erected. With cliffs no (28) _____ crumbling, the
beaches are robbed of the material which would (29) _____ feed them.
Beaches are also supplied with sand and gravel by rivers which bring it down from the mountains and
hills. In some places rivers are being dammed and (30) _____ built to retain water. They trap more of the
sediment so the rivers take less sand and gravel to the sea. This is happening in California, for example,
and in Scotland. In Egypt the (31) ____ of the Aswan Dam has trapped the Nile silt, so much less silt is
being fed towards coastal (32) _____. That has meant the delta is now eroding instead of (33) _____ as
before.
Thirdly, to improve access to the beach many holiday resorts build a promenade along the sea front.
Like some of the fortifications of cliff (34) _____, this usually has a flat vertical surface off which the
waves (35) _____. This helps wash the sand away down the beach and most of it is lost.
26. A. thrown
B. rubbed

C. washed
D. cleaned
27. A. protect
B. prepare
C. surround
D. cover
28. A. sooner
B. longer
C. further
D. later
29. A. normally
B. often
C. sometimes
D. occasionally
30. A. canals
B. reservoirs
C. wells
D. locks
31. A. designing
B. engineering
C. building
D. forming
32. A. beaches
B. resorts
C. areas
D. parts
33. A. growing
B. shrinking
C. swelling
D. reducing

34. A. tops
B. faces
C. features
D. hangings
35. A. bounce
B. jump
C. splash
D. ripple
Mark the letter A, B, C or 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
36. With the dawn of space exploration, the notion that atmospheric conditions on Earth may be unique
in the solar system was strengthened.
A. outcome
B. continuation
C. beginning
D. expansion
37. Roget’s Thesaurus, a collection of English words and phrases, was originally arranged by the ideas
they express rather than by alphabetical order.
A. restricted
B. as well as
C. unless
D. instead of


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38. The augmentation in the population has created a fuel shortage.
A. increase
B. necessity
C. demand

D. decrease
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that is opposite in meaning to
the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
39. The International Organizations are going to be in a temporary way in the country.
A. soak
B. permanent
C. complicated
D. guess
40. The US troops are using much more sophisticated weapons in the Far East.
A. expensive
B. complicated
C. simple, easy to use D. difficult to operate
Read the following passage taken from the book DELTA KEY TO THE NEXT GENERATION
TOEFL TEST, Advanced Skills Practice for TOEFL iBT by Nancy Gallagher and mark the letter
A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the question
Canadian English is a regional variety of North America English that spans almost the entire continent.
Canadian English became a separate variety of North American English after the American Revolution,
when thousands of Loyalists settled in southern Ontario in the 1790s, and their speech became the basis
for what is called General Canadian, a definition based on the norms of urban middle-class speech.
Modern Canadian English is usually defined by the ways in which it resembles and differs from
American or British English. Canadian English has a great deal in common with the English spoken in
the United States, yet many Americans identify a Canadian accent as British. Many American visitors to
Canada think the Canada vocabulary sounds British – for example, they notice the British “tap” and
“braces” instead of the American “faucet” and “suspender”. On the other hand many British people
identify a Canadian accent as American, and British visitors think the Canadians have become
Americanized, saying “gas” and “truck” for “petrol” and “lorry”.
People who live outside North America often find it difficult to hear the differences between Canadian
and American English. There are many similarities between the two varieties, yet they are far from
identical. Canadian English is instantly recognizable to other Canadians, and one Canadian in a crowded
room will easily spot the other Canadian among the other North Americans.

There is no distinctive Canadian grammar. The differences are mainly in pronunciation, vocabulary,
and idioms. Canadian pronunciation reflects the experience of a people struggling for national
identity against two strong influences. About 75 % of Canadians use the British “zed” rather than the
American “zee” for the name of the last letter of the alphabet. On the other hand, 75 % of Canadians use
the American pronunciation of “schedule”, “tomato” and “missile”. The most obvious and distinctive
feature of Canadian speech is probably it vowel sound, the diphthong “ou”. In Canada, “out” is
pronounced like “oat” in nearby U. S accents. There are other identifying features of Canadian vowels;
for example, “cot” is pronounced the same as “caught” and “collar” the same as “caller”.
An important characteristic of the vocabulary of Canadian English is the use of many words and
phrases originating in Canada itself, such as “kerosene” and “chesterfield” (“sofa”). Several words are
borrowed from North American Indian languages, for example, “kayak”, “caribou”, “parka” and
“skookum” (strong). The name of the country itself has an Indian origin; the Iroquois word “kanata”
originally meant “village”. A number of terms for ice hockey – “face-off”, “blue-line” and “puck” –
have become part of World Standard English.
Some features of Canadian English seem to be unique and are often deliberately identified with
Canadian speakers in such contexts as dramatic and literary characterizations. Among the original
Canadian idioms, perhaps the most famous is the almost universal use of “eh?” as a tag question, as in
“That’s a good movie, eh?”. “Eh” is also used as filler during a narrative, as in “I’m walking home from
work, eh, and I’m thinking about dinner. I finally get home, eh, and the refrigerator is empty.”


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The traditional view holds that there are no dialects in Canadian English and that Canadians cannot tell
where other Canadians are from just by listening to them. The linguists of today disagree with this view.
While there is a greater degree of homogeneity in Canadian English compared with American Eglish,
several dialect areas do exist across Canada. Linguists have identified distinctive dialect for the
Maritime Provinces, Newfoundland, the Ottawa Valley, southern Ontario, the Prairie Provinces, the
Arctic North and the West.
41. According to the passage, how did Canadian English become a distinct variety of North American

English?
A. Linguists noticed that Canadians spoke a unique dialect.
B. A large group of Loyalists settled in one region at the same time.
C. Growth of the middle class led to a standard school curriculum.
D. Canadians declared their language to be different from U. S. English.
42. The word norms in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to
A. patterns
B. history
C. words
D. ideas
43. The phrase a great deal in common with in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to
A. different words for B. the same problems as C. many similarities to D. easier pronunciation than
44. In paragraph 2, what point does the author make about Canadian English?
A. Canadian English is more similar to American than to British English.
B. American and British visitors define Canadian English by their own norms.
C. Canadian English has many words that are not in other varieties of English.
D. Canadians speak English with an accent that Americans cannot understand.
45. The phrase the two varieties in paragraph 3 refers to
A. people who live outside North America
B. Canadian English and American English
C. General Canadian and North American
D. British English and Canadian English
46. Which sentence below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in
paragraph 4?
A. Canadian English has been strongly influenced by both British and American English.
B. Canada is the only nation where people can deliberately choose which pronunciation they prefer.
C. Canadians have tried to distinguish themselves as a nation, and this effort is shown in their
pronunciation.
D. Many newcomers to Canada must work hard to master the national style of pronouncing English.
47. All of the following words originated in North American Indian languages except

A. kerosene
B. parka
C. Canada
D. kayak
48. Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 5 about vocabulary?
A. Vocabulary is the most distinctive feature of Canadian English.
B. World Standard English has a very large vocabulary.
C. Canadians use more North American Indian words than Americans do.
D. Much of the vocabulary for ice hockey originated in Canada.
49. The author discusses the expression “eh” in paragraph 6 as an example of
A. an idiom that uniquely characterizes Canadian speech
B. an expression that few people outside Canada have heard
C. a style of Canadian drama and literature
D. a word that cannot be translated into other languages
50. The word homogeneity in paragraph 7 is closest in meaning to
A. accent
B. change
C. creativity
D. sameness


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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct answer to each of the question
My lawyer, Mr. Turner, is the only man I know who has seen a ghost. He is a quiet even-tempered man
whose life is spent dealing with facts. He is the last person in the world to give way to fantasy. He has a
wife and children of whom he is proud, takes a modest holiday abroad every year and spends his
Sundays gardening. He is knowledgeable about art and architecture, though he doesn’t pretend to be an
expert by any means. It is, therefore, all the more surprising that he should be so insistent about the

ghost. It happened, so he says, like this:
He was travelling from London to the North of England by train. It was a misty November evening
and the train was half empty. In fact, for the first part of the journey Mr. Turner had the carriage to
himself and sat dozing over a newspaper. However at the first stop a passenger jumped in, slamming the
door behind him. He seemed out of breath as if he had been running. He was a striking looking young
man with dark, bushy hair and bright intelligent eyes. He was dressed rather oddly in a long waisted coat
with silver buttons, tight trousers and an embroidered waistcoat. Mr. Turner did not pay much attention
to this because people wear all sorts of extravagant clothes these days and he had long grown
accustomed to them.
Presently, the two men got into conversation, as people do on long journeys. Mr. Turner was interested
to discover that the young man was very knowledgeable about Art – in particular portraits. His name, he
said, was Joseph Hart, and he was on his way to visit an exhibition. It seemed that he worked in a
famous London Art Gallery – a picture restorer, perhaps, thought Mr. Turner, for he seemed to know a
great deal about varnishes and paints, and even more about the subjects of certain portraits. When Mr.
Turner asked his opinion of the portrait of a famous judge by an artist he admired, his companion
laughed and said. “He’s only a reproduction – a good one I agree but you can’t talk to a reproduction.”
He spoke as though the person in the portrait were still living.
After a while the carriage got hot and steamy and Mr. Turner dropped off. He woke up just as the train
was drawing up at a junction with a grinding of brakes. His companion had disappeared.
A few days later, having returned to London, Mr. Turner found himself near the Art Gallery. Moved by
some impulse, he went in and enquired for Joseph Hart. The attendant directed him to a room devoted to
early nineteenth century portraits of well-known men. There was no one in the room and Mr. Turner
looked about him. Without knowing quite how he had got there, he found himself standing in front of a
full-length portrait of a dark young man in tight trousers and an embroidered waistcoast. The eyes
smiled at him with a hint of amusement. The name-plate at the foot of the picture read: Joseph Hart,
Gentleman, 1800 – 1835.
51. What kind of person was Mr. Turner?
A. imaginative
B. fantastic
C. sensible

D. insensitive
52. Although he was a lawyer, Mr. Turner
A. pretended to know a lot about Art.
B. knew something about Art.
C. pretended to take an interest in Art.
D. intended to learn more about Art.
53. When the passenger entered Mr. Turner’s compartment
A. he was painting
B. he was running
C. the train was just leaving
D. the carriage was half-empty
54. The passenger’s clothes didn’t seem strange to Mr. Turner because
A. he was used to wearing strange clothes.
B. he liked people who wore strange clothes.
C. everyone he knew wore strange clothes.
D. he had seen a lot of people in strange clothes.
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A. be an Art Dealer
B. be an Art Expert
C. renew old pictures
D. paint reproductions of old pictures
56. Why wouldn’t the passenger give an opinion on the portrait of the judge?
A. the judge wasn’t alive.
B. the judge was still alive
C. the picture was a copy.
D. he hadn’t seen it.

57. When did Mr. Turner first realize that the passenger had gone?
A. when the train started.
B. after the train had stopped.
C. just before the train stopped.
D. when the train was leaving the station.
58. Why did Mr. Turner go into the Art Gallery?
A. he was walking past there.
B. he had never been there before.
C. he had planned to do so.
D. he suddenly decided to.
59. In the part of the gallery that Mr. Turner was directed to
A. there were a lot of pictures by unknown people.
B. there were a lot of nineteenth century people.
C. no-one else was looking at the pictures.
D. he only saw one portrait.
60. When Mr. Turner looked at the portrait of Joseph Hart
A. he smiled at it.
B. he thought it smiled at him.
C. he didn’t recognize it.
D. he was amused.
Identifying one underlined part that is incorrect in each of the following sentences by circling the
corresponding letter A, B, C or D
61. The (A) printing press makes it possibly (B) to print books more cheaply (C) and more quickly than
ever before (D).
62. Almost (A) medical doctors have had (B) some training (C) in (D) psychology and psychiatry.
63. Not one (A) in one hundred children exposed to (B) the disease are likely (C) to develop symptoms
(D) of it.
64. When (A) precipitation occurs, some (B) of it evaporates, some runs off the (C) surface it strikes and
some sinking (D) into the ground.
Rewrite the sentences so that it has the same meaning

65. She has extensive knowledge of ancient Egypt. (VERY)
=> ____________________________________________________________________.
66. My passport needs renewing. (GET)
=> ____________________________________________________________________.
67. They suspended Jackson for the next 2 matches. (BANNED)
=> ____________________________________________________________________.
68. The demand was so great that they had to reprint the book immediately.
=> So _________________________________________________________________.
69. “I didn’t steal the car,” he said. “I just borrowed it.”
=> He denied _____________________but admitted __________________________ .

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1. A
2. D
3. B
4. B
5. A
6. B
7. B
8. D
9. D
10. A
11. B
12. D 13. B
14. D 15. D 16. B
17. D 18. B

19. D 20. D
21. B
22. B
23. A
24. A
25. A
26. C
27. A
28. B
29. A
30. B
31. C
32. C
33. A
34. B
35. A
36. C
37. D 38. A
39. B
40. C
41. B
42. A
43. C
44. B
45. B
46. C
47. A
48. D 49. A
50. D
51. C

52. B
53. A
54. D 55. C
56. C
57. C
58. D 59. C
60. B
61. B => possible
62. A => Most/ Almost all
63. C => is likely
64. D => sinks
65. She is very knowledgeable about ancient Egypt.
66. I have to get my passport renewed.
67. Jackson was banned from playing in the next 2 matches.
68. So great was the demand that they had to reprint the book immediately.
69. He denied stealing/ having stolen, but admitted borrowing/ having borrowed it.