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TEST 2

Choose A, B, C, or D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in
pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 1. A. fundamental
B. unhappy
C. lunar
D. mundane
Question 2. A. drought
B. group
C. fountain
D. resounding
Choose A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of
primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 3. A. tonight
B. reason
C. promise
D. furnish
Question 4. A. interpreter
B. internal
C. interior
D. infinite
Choose A, B, C, or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the
following questions.
Question 5. Card Anderson discovered two atomic particles that he identified while studied cosmic rays
A. discovered
B. that
C. studied
D. cosmic rays
Question 6. In the last two decades, Bombay and Madras are developed in the centers of the Indian film
industry.

A. last two
B. are developed C. of the
D. film
Question 7. If drivers do not observe the traffic regulations, they will stop and get fined.
A. do not
B. the traffic
C. stop
D. get fined
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 8. A few animals sometimes fool their enemies _______ to be dead.
A. have been appearing B. to be appearing C. to appear
D. by appearing
Question 9. On _______ he had won, he jumped for joy.
A. he was told
B. having told
C. being told
D. telling
Question 10. What a stupid thing to do. Can you imagine anyone _______ so stupid?
A. to be
B. who
C. being
D. that
Question 11. We bought some _______.
A. German lovely old glasses
B. German old lovely glasses
C. lovely old German glasses
D. old lovely German glasses
Question 12. One's fingerprints are _______ other person.
A. different from

B. different from any
C. differ from any
D. different from those of any
Question 13. Many Indian men said that it was unwise to _______ in their wives.
A. trust
B. hide
C. declare
D. confide
Question 14. When a fire broke out in the Louvre, at least twenty _______ paintings were destroyed,
including two by Picasso.
A. worthless
B. priceless
C. valueless
D. worthy
Question 15. Learning English isn't so difficult once you_______ .
A. get on it
B. get off it
C. get down to it
D. get down with it
Question 16. I see John’s boasting again. I’ve heard him telling everyone he’s the best tennis player in the
County. He is _______
A. holding his tongue
B. speaking too much
C. blowing his own trumpet
D. pulling my leg
Question 17. _______ your effort and talent, we wonder if you can work full time for us.
A. Regarding
B. In regard of
C. With respect to D. On behalf of
Question 18. “Do you ________ your new roommate, or do you two argue?”

A. keep in touch with
B. get along with C. on good terms with
D. get used to
Question 19. The chairman requested that _______.
A. the members studied more carefully the problem
B. the problem was more carefully studied
C. with more carefulness the problem could be studied
D. the members study the problem more carefully
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Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to
complete each of the following exchanges.
Question 20. Tom. "I'm sorry. I won't be able to come".- Mary _______
A. Great!
B. Oh, that's annoying
C. Well, never mind
D. Sounds likes fun
Question 21. Tom:” Can you make it at 3 p.m, on Friday for our meeting? ”- Tony: ”__________”
A. OK, that’s fine
B. Very well, thanks.
C. That’s not true. I met him three days ago D. You have a point there, but I don’t think so.
Choose A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in
the following questions.
Question 22. In that organization, they put emphasis on mutual aid and cooperation
A. reward

B. work
C. stress
D. pressure
Question 23. His new million-dollar luxury car is certainly an ostentatious display of his wealth.
A. showy
B. expensive
C. large
D. admirable
Choose A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in
each of the following questions.
Question 24. The spy used a fictitious name while dealing with the enemy.
A. funny
B. false
C. foreign
D. authentic
Question 25. Nothing could efface the people’s memory of their former leader’s cruelty although any
years had elapsed.
A. broaden
B. erase
C. maintain
D. prove
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in
meaning to each of the following questions.
Question 26. He has a box. He plans to put his savings in it
A. He has a box putting his savings in.
B. He has a box to put his savings in.
C. He has a box to put his savings in it.
D. He has a box planning to put his savings in.
Question 27. Do you realize that I would have been given that job if you had not been silent?
A. As you did not talk, I did not get the job.

B. Because you asked, I did not get the job.
C. Although you asked, I got the job.
D. Although you did not talk, I got the job.
Question 28. I regret not visiting Washington when I was in America.
A. I regret to say that I didn’t like to visit Washington when I was in America.
B. I now wish I had visited Washington when I was in America
C. I don’t regret visiting Washington when I was in America.
D. I visited Washington when I was in America but now I regret it
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines
each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Question 29. For fear of waking up the family, Trung tiptoed upstairs.
A. Trung tiptoed upstairs because he didn’t want to wake up the family.
B. Trung tiptoed upstairs so as not to wake up the family.
C. The family feared when Trung tiptoed upstairs.
D. Trung tiptoed upstairs lest the family should be woken up.
Question 30. The student next to me kept chewing gum. That bothered me a lot.
A. The student next to me kept chewing gum, that bothered me a lot.
B. The student next to me kept chewing gum, bothered me a lot.
C. The student next to me kept chewing gum, which bothered me a lot.
D. The student next to me kept chewing gum, bothering me a lot.
Read the following passage and choose A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that
best fits each of the following blanks.
Parents whose children show a special interest in a particular sport have a difficult decision to (31)
______ about their children’s career. Should they allow their children to train to become top sportsmen and
women? For many children it (32) ______starting very young and school work, going out with friends and
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other interests have to take second place. It’s very difficult to explain to a young child why he or she has to
trainnfor five hours a day, even at the weekend, when most of his or her friends are playing.
Another problem is of course money. In many countries money for training is (33) ______ from the
government for the very best young sportsmen and women. If this help cannot be given, it means that it is
the parents that have to find the time and the money to support their child’s development- and sports
clothes, transport to competitions, special equipment etc. can all be very expensive.
Many parents are understandably concerned that it is dangerous to start serious training in a sport
(34)____ an early age. Some doctors agree that young muscles may be damaged by training before they
are properly developed. Professional trainers, however, believe that it is only by starting young that you can
reach the top as a successful sports person. What is clear is that very (35) _______ people reach the top
and both parents and children should be prepared for failure even after many years of training.
Question 31. A. do
B. plan
C. make
D. prepare
Question 32. A. should
B. means
C. helps
D. tries
Question 33. A. enough
B. available
C. possible
D. enormous
Question 34. A. at
B. in
C. from
D. on
Question 35. A. little

B. many
C. a few
D. few
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 questions from 36 to 42.
Paul Watson is an environmental activist. He is a man who believes that he must do something, not
just talk about doing something. Paul believes in protecting endangered animals, and he protects them in
controversial ways. Some people think that Watson is a hero and admire him very much. Other people
think that he is a criminal.
On July 16th, 1979, Paul Watson and his crew were on his ship, which is called the Sea Shepherd.
Watson and the people who work on the Sea Shepherd were hunting on the Atlantic Ocean near Portugal.
However, they had a strange prey; instead of hunting for animals, their prey was a ship, the Sierra. The Sea
Shepherd found the Sierra, ran into it and sank it. As a result, the Sierra never returned to the sea. The Sea
Shepherd,on the other hand, returned to its home in Canada. Paul Watson and his workers thought that
they had been successful.
The Sierra had been a whaling ship, which had operated illegally. The captain and crew of the Sierra
did not obey any of the international laws that restrict whaling. Instead, they killed as many whales as they
could, quickly cut off the meat, and froze it. Later, they sold the whale meat in countries where it is eaten.
Paul Watson tried to persuade the international whaling commission to stop the Sierra. However, the
commission did very little, and Paul became impatient. He decided to stop the Sierra and other whaling ships
in any way that he could. He offered to pay $25,000 to anyone who sank any illegal whaling ship, and he
sank the Sierra. He acted because he believes that the whales must be protected. Still, he acted without the
approval of the government; therefore, his actions were controversial.
Paul Watson is not the only environmental activist. Other men and women are also fighting to protect
the Earth. Like Watson, they do not always have the approval of their governments, and like Watson, they
have become impatient. Yet, because of their concern for the environment, they will act to protect it.
(Adapted from “Eco fighters” by Eric Schwartz, OMNI)
Question 36: According to the reading, an environmental activist is someone who_______.
A. runs into whaling ship.
B. does something to protect the Earth.

C. talks about protecting endangered species.
D. is a hero, like Paul Watson.
Question 37: When something is “controversial”, __________.
A. everyone agrees with it.
B. everyone disagrees with it.
C. people have different ideas about it.
D. people protect it.
Question 38: The main idea of paragraph one is that __________.
A. Paul Watson is a hero to some people.
B. activists are people who do something.
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C. Paul Watson is a controversial environmental activist.D. Paul Watson does not believe in talking.
Question 39: The Sea Shepherd was hunting ______.
A. the Atlantic Ocean
B. whales
C. the Sierra
D. Portugal
Question 40: The author implies that Paul Watson lives in ______.
A. Portugal
B. a ship on the Atlantic
C. the Sierra
D. Canada
Question 41: In paragraph 3, the phrase “and froze it” refers to ______.
A. whale meat

B. the Sierra
C. whales
D. the Sierra crew
Question 42: The main idea of paragraph three is that _______.
A. the Sierra sold whale meat in some countries.
B. the people on the Sierra did not obey international laws.
C. the people on the Sierra killed as many whales as they could.
D. whaling is illegal according to international law.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to choose
the best answer for each of the question from 43- 50
The ocean bottom - a region nearly 2.5 times greater than the total land area of Earth - is a vast
frontier that even today is largely unexplored and uncharted. Until about a century ago, the deep-ocean
floor was completely inaccessible, hidden beneath waters averaging over 3,600 meters deep. Totally
without light and subjected to intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the Earth’s surface, the
deep-ocean bottom is a hostile environment to humans, in some ways as forbidding and remote as the void
of outer space.
Although researchers have taken samples of deep-ocean rocks and sediments for over a century, the
first detailed global investigation of the ocean bottom did not actually start until 1968, with the beginning
of the National Science Foundation’s Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP). Using techniques first developed for
the offshore oil and gas industry, the DSDP’s drill ship, the Glomar Challenger, was able to maintain a steady
position on the ocean’s surface and drill in very deep waters, extracting samples of sediments and rock
from the ocean floor. The Glomar Challenger completed 96 voyages in a 15-year research program that
ended in November 1983. During this time, the vessel logged 600,000 kilometers and took almost 20,000
core samples of seabed sediments and rocks at 624 drilling sites around the world. The Glomar Challenger’s
core samples have allowed geologists to reconstruct what the planet looked like hundreds of millions of
years ago and to calculate what it will probably look like millions of years in the future. Today, largely on
the strength of evidence gathered during the Glomar Challenger’s voyages, nearly all earth scientists agree
on the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift that explain many of the geological processes that
shape the Earth.
The cores of sediment drilled by the Glomar Challenger have also yielded information critical to

understanding the world’s past climates. Deep-ocean sediments provide a climatic record stretching back
hundreds of millions of years, because they are largely isolated from the mechanical erosion and the intense
chemical and biological activity that rapidly destroy much land-based evidence of past climates. This record
has already provided insights into the patterns and causes of past climatic change - information that may
be used to predict future climates.
Question 43. The author refers to the ocean bottom as a “frontier” because it _______
A. is not a popular area for scientific research
B. contains a wide variety of life forms
C. attracts courageous explorers
D. is an unknown territory
Question 44. The word “inaccessible” is closest in meaning to _______.
A. unrecognizable
B. unreachable
C. unusable
D. unsafe
Question 45. The author mentions “outer space” because _______.
A. the Earth’s climate millions of years ago was similar to conditions in outer space.
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B. it is similar to the ocean floor in being alien to the human environment.
C. rock formations in outer space are similar to those found on the ocean floor.
D. techniques used by scientists to explore outer space were similar to those used in ocean
exploration.
Question 46. Which of the following is true of the Glomar Challenger?
A. It is a type of submarine.

B. It is an ongoing project.
C. It has gone on over 100 voyages.
D. It made its first DSDP voyage in 1968.
Question 47. The Deep Sea Drilling Project was significant because it was ______.
A. an attempt to find new sources of oil and gas
B. the first extensive exploration of the ocean bottom
C. composed of geologists from all over the world
D. funded entirely by the gas and oil industry
Question 48. The word “they” refers _______.
A. years
B. climates
C. sediments
D. cores
Question 49. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as being a result of the
Deep Sea Drilling Project?
A. Geologists were able to determine the Earth’s appearance hundreds of millions of years ago.
B. Two geological theories became more widely accepted by scientists.
C. Information was revealed about the Earth’s past climatic changes.
D. Geologists observed forms of marine life never before seen.
Question 50. How long did the Glomar Challenger conduct its research?
A. 3 years
B. 5 years
C. 15 years
D. 16 years
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1.C
11.C
21.A
31.C

41.A

2.B
12.D
22.C
32.B
42.B

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3.A
13.D
23.A
33.B
43.D

4.D
14.B
24.D
34.A
44.B

5.C
15.C
25.C
35.D
45.B

6.B
16.C

26.B
36.B
46.D

7.C
17.C
27.A
37.C
47.B

8.D
18.B
28.B
38.C
48.C

9.C
19.D
29.D
39.C
49.D

10.C
20.C
30.C
40.D
50.C

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