TA10 HSG 6

PRACTICE TEST 6
Find the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
1. A. grammar
B. damage
C. drama
D. mammal
2. A. operate
B. personal
C. interact
D. receiver
3. A. foot
B. moon
C. food
D. pool
4. A. protection
B. education
C. exception
D. question
5. A. endanger
B. condition
C. handkerchief
D. dangerous
Find the word whose stressed pattern is different from the others in each group.
6. A. afternoon
B. tomorrow
C. banana
D. umbrella
7. A. sorrow
B. passion
C. native
D. complaint

8. A. brilliant
B. harbor
C. mature
D. difficult
9. A. government
B. disappoint
C. audience
D. talented
10. A. important
B. experience
C. different
D. continue
Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence.
11. Have you lived here ______ life?
A. your all
B. all your
C. the whole
D. all the
12. - Do you need some more paper? - No, thanks. I ______.
A. have still a piece left
B. have a piece still left
C. still have a piece left
D. have left a piece still
13. The athlete would have won the gold medal ______ not fallen over.
A. had he
B. if he
C. if not
D. unless he had
14. You’d better get someone ______ your living room.
A. redecorate

B. to redecorate
C. redecorating
D. redecorated
15. The girl ______ father is a chef at a famous restaurant can’t cook.
A. who
B. which
C. whose
D. whom
16. He’d prefer ______ to music rather than ______ to the cinema.
A. to listen/ go
B. listening/ going
C. listen/ go
D. listened/ went
17. - When can I take my holiday? - ______
A. It’s for you.
B. How you like.
C. After your wish.
D. It’s up to you.
18. Hello! Is that 39567821? Please put me ______ to the manager.
A. through
B. across
C. up
D. over
19. I shall do the job to the best of my ______
A. capacity
B. knowledge
C. talent
D. ability
20. The boy remained ______ after being scolded by his mother.
A. silence

B. silent
C. silently
D. being silent
21. I’m interested in ______ history, especially ______ history of Western Europe.
A. the/ the
B. X / the
C. X / X
D. a/ a
22. Shall I ______ you a story?
A. speak
B. talk
C. tell
D. say
23. ______ Mary, give her my love.
A. If you saw
B. Should you see
C. Do you see
D. By seeing
24. Not until he was 16 ______ English.
A. that he learned
B. when he learned
C. would he learn
D. did he learn
25. She ___till the early hours listening to pop music.
A. took me up
B. kept me up
C. caught me up
D. held me up
26. You have never been to Italy, ________?
A. have you

B. haven’t you
C. did you
D. had you
27. ________ a dentist, Mike is very concerned about having healthy teeth.
A. Because
B. He is
C. As
D. That he is
28. The brochure says that the hotel has a great ________ of the sea.
A. appearance
B. look
C. sight
D. view
29. In 1870, ________, John D. Rockefeller and others created the Standard Oil Company.
A. that oil prices fluctuated
B. despite fluctuating oil prices
C. but the oil prices fluctuated
D. oil prices were fluctuating
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30. In the ___of security, personnel must wear their identity badges at all times.
A. requirement
B. interests
C. demands
D. assistance
Supply the correct form of the verbs in the parentheses.
31. I’d like you (inform) ____________________________ other students to assemble here at 7 a.m.
32. What do you hope to do when you (leave) ____________________________ school next year?
33. The child was considered (have) ____________ no ability to study because he was mentally retarded.

34. How long ago you (buy) ____________________________ it?
35. – 36. If my brother (not miss) ________________ the train last night, he (be) __________ here now.
37. I’m so confused that I don’t know what should (do) ____________________________.
38. He has never felt so (embarrass) ____________________________ in his life.
39. – 40. A - Stop! You (not see) ____________________________ the notice?
B. - I see it but I can’t read it. What it (say) ____________________________?
31. to inform
33. having
35. hadn’t missed 37. be done
39. Don’t you see
32. leave
34. did you buy
36. would be
38. embarrassed 40. does it say
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with ONE suitable word.
For 60 years, Thomas Alva Edison was the world’s leading inventor. Few people realized (41)
________________ hard Edison worked, often 20 hours a day, and that most of his inventions were the
(42) ________________ of hundreds of experiments. He patented over a thousand inventions that
changed our way of (43) ________________, including the mimeograph machine, wax wrapping paper,
and improvements of the telegraph and telephone. He designed the central power station that (44)
________________ the model for the first public electric plant in New York City, providing electric
power for thousands of homes and businesses. Edison was (45) ________________ of the earliest
inventors of the motion picture machines. He also perfected the electric motor, which made streetcars and
electric trains possible.
41. how
42. results
43. living
44. became
45. one
Read the following passage and decide which option A, B, C or D best fits each sentence.

The money that some professional sportsmen earn shouldn’t impress anyone when you take into (46)
___ the fact that only a few of them manage to attain immortality and everlasting fame. And once they
reach their (47) ___ and display their talent at their best, they are fully conscious that their brilliant
careers won’t last forever. They live under a constant pressure of being (48) ___ and subsequently
replaced by someone who is younger, faster and more accomplished. For that reason, objectives like
retirement benefits and pensions are (49) ___ great concern to all professional athletes.
Some of the retired competitors go as far as to organize strikes and rallies to voice their protest
against any policy unresponsive to their demand (50) ___ the younger professionals seek more upgrading
solutions to the problem as more and more of them attach a proper significance to (51) ___ a solid
education, even at university level. Such an approach should help them find interesting and well-paid jobs
(52) ___ their sports career is over.
A completely new strategy has been devised by the schools priding themselves (53) ___ supporting
their own teams. Their authorities insist that the sports clubs members achieve high academic standards or
else they are debarred from partaking in certain sports events, which may lead to further disruption in
their professional careers.
By these practical and most effective (54) ___, combining education with sports activity, the (55) ___
of the professional athlete as being brainless and unintelligent may eventually be changing to the
sportsmen’s benefit.
46. A. reflection
B. attention
C. examination
D. consideration
47. A. prime
B. shape
C. best
D. capacity
48. A. outcast
B. outshone
C. outstayed
D. outgrown

49. A. with
B. in
C. at
D. of
50. A. whereby
B. whereas
C. whereupon
D. wherein
51. A. mastering
B. learning
C. receiving
D. attending
52. A. right away
B. promptly
C. barely
D. once
53. A. with
B. on
C. for
D. in
54. A. grounds
B. results
C. factors
D. means
55. A. vision
B. outlook
C. image
D. judgment
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Read the passage below and choose the best answer for the questions from 56 to 60.
In the mid – nineteenth century, the United States had tremendous natural resources that could be
exploited in order to develop heavy industry. Most of the raw materials that are valuable in the
manufacture of machinery, transportation facilities, and consumer goods lay ready to be worked into
wealth. Iron, coal, and oil – the basic ingredients of industrial growth – were plentiful and needed only the
application of technical expertise, organizational skill, and labor.
One crucial development in this movement toward industrialization was the growth of the railroads.
The railway network expanded rapidly until the railroad map of the United States looked like a spider’s
web, with the steel filaments connecting all important sources of raw materials, their places of
manufacture, and their centers of distribution. The railroads contributed to the industrial growth not only
by connecting these major centers, but also by themselves consuming enormous amounts of fuel, iron,
and coal.
Many factors influenced emerging modes of production. For example, machine tools, the tools used
to make goods, were steadily improved in the latter part of the nineteenth century – always with an eye to
speedier production and lower unit costs. The products of the factories were rapidly absorbed by the
growing cities that sheltered the workers and the distributors. The increased urban population was
nourished by the increased farm production that, in turn, was made more productive by the use of the new
farm machinery. American agricultural production kept up with the urban demand and still had surpluses
for sale to the industrial centers of Europe.
The labor that ran the factories and built the railways was recruited in part from American farm areas
where people were being displaced by farm machinery, in part from Asia, and in part from Europe.
Europe now began to send tides of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe – most of whom were
originally poor farmers but who settled in American industrial cities. The money to finance this
tremendous expansion of the American economy still came from European financiers for the most part,
but the American were approaching the day when their expansion could be financed in their own “money
market”.
56. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The history of railroads in the U.S.
B. The major U.S. industrial centers

C. Factors that affected industrialization in the U.S. D. The role of agriculture in the 19th century
57. The word “themselves” in the paragraph 2 refers to _______.
A. sources
B. centers
C. railroads
D. places
58. According to the passage, all of the following were true of railroads in the United States in the
nineteenth century EXCEPT that ___.
A. they connected important industrial cities
B. they were necessary to the industrialization process
C. they were expanded in a short time
D. they used relatively small quantities of natural resources
59. Which of the following in NOT true of United States farmers in the 19th century?
A. They lost some jobs because of mechanization.
B. They were unable to produce sufficient food for urban areas.
C. They raised their productivity by using new machinery.
D. They sold food to European countries.
60. The word “ran” in the paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _________.
A. operated
B. hurried
C. constructed
D. owned
Give the correct form of the words in brackets.
61. There is too much ____________________ in this movie.
(VIOLENT)
62. Dolphins sometimes are killed when they are ____________________ entrapped in fishing nets.
(ACCIDENT)
63. It is a good book because it is very ____________________ (INFORM)
64. Third time lucky! After two ____________________ attempts, Mark’s finally passed his driving test.
(SUCCEED)

65. He’s so nice. It’s a ____________________ working for him. (PLEASE)
66. One disadvantage of the Internet is that it takes time away from ____________________ such as
watching TV and reading.(ACT)
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67. He is behaving in a very ____________________ way. (MYSTERY)
68. My teacher is very ____________________ about the history of Vietnam. (KNOW)
69. Don’t eat that fruit. It is ____________________. (POISON)
70. Tim is one of the ____________________ on a boat trip on Lake Michigan. (PARTICIPATE)
61.VIOLENCE
63. informative
65. pleasure
67. mysterious
69. poisonous
62.accidentally
64. unsuccessful
66. activities
68.knowledgeable 70. participants
Choose the underlined word or phrase in each sentence that needs correcting
71. Those people say that it is such polluted air that they can’t breath, don’t they?
A
B
C
D
72. It is noisy enough in this room, so I would rather you stop shouting like that.
A
B
C
D

73. He isn’t driving to the convention in March, and neither we are.
A
B
C
D
74. Dr. Roberts, the first woman to be elected president of the university, is intelligent, capable and
A
B
awareness of the problem to be solved.
C
D
75. I was such nervous that I didn’t think I would pass the exam.
A
B
C
D
76. She asked me why did Peter look so embarrassed when he saw Mary.
A
B
C
D
77. It is time the government helped the unemploy to find some jobs.
A
B
C
D
78. Peter and tom play the badminton every afternoon with Mary and me.
A
B
C

D
79. Not woman held a presidential cabinet position in the United States until 1933, when Frances Perkins
A
B
C
D
became secretary of labor.
80. Not only gardens are places of beauty, but they serve scientific and educational purposes as well.
A
B
C
D
Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence
printed before it.
81. Having nothing else to do, we decided to go for a walk.
 Since we had nothing else to do, we decided to go for a walk.
82. “Nothing will persuade me to apply for that kind of job.” She said.
 She flatly refused to apply for that kind of job.
83. The school I studied at last year was better than this one.
 This school isn’t as/so good as the one ( that/which) I studied at last year.
84. He was sorry he hadn’t said goodbye to her at the airport.
 He regretted not having said goodbye to her at the airport.
85. If someone understands this book, they are cleverer than I am.
 Anyone who understands this book is cleverer than I am.
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one. Using the word(s)
given in block letters and the word(s) MUST NOT be changed in any way.
86. He forgot about the gun until he got home. (NOT UNTIL)
Not until he got home did he remember about the gun.
87. The boy is talking to the girl with long hair. (WHOM)
 The girl whom the boy is talking to has long hair.

88. “Hand your books to me when you have finished, please.” The teacher said to his students. (ASKED)
The teacher asked his students to hand their books to him when they had finished.
89. Absolute secrecy was crucial to the success of the mission. (WITHOUT)
Without absolute secrecy, this misson would not have succeeded / been successful / been a
success / would have failed.
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90. Most people regard him as being the best man for the job. (WIDELY)
 He is widely regarded as being the best man for the job.
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