PRACTTICE TEST 51 PART I: PHONETICS Choose the word that has the main stress different from the other three words. 1. A. disability B. individual C. personality D. security
2. A. experience B. typical C. continue D. promotion
3. A. achievement B. lasting C. rapidly D. manual
4. A. efforts B. success C. courage D. gestures
5. A. development B. significance C. interaction D. impairment
PART II: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY I. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. (10 marks) 1. .…………the regular written work, you will be required to submit a long essay.
A. Apart from B. Beside C. In addition D. Beyond
2. Hardly had he sat down……………..he was sent for again.
A. when B. than C. after D. that
3. More than two hundred police officers are ………………in the investigation.
A. absorbed B. engrossed C. specialized D. involved
4. Pauline and Helen ………………on our staying for lunch.
A. congratulated B. insisted C. concentrated D. decided
5. It was very good ……………….you to help Dave with his homework.
A. for B. to C. with D. of
6. After running up the stairs I was quite ………………………breath.
A. out of B. from C. without D. beyond
7. It’s too late to phone Jill at work, at any ……………………..
A. case B. time C. situation D. rate
8. The school authorities………….the child’s unruly behavior on his parents’ lack of discipline.
A. attribute B. accuse C. blame D. ascribe
9. If you ………………in arriving late, I shall have to report you to the Manager.
A. persist B. persevere C. insist D. prevail
10. The sun and the moon are often ……………………….in poetry.
A. personal B. personality C. personified D. person
II. There are ten mistakes in the following passage. Find and correct them. (5 marks) My friends Paul and Ellen have just return from their honeymoon in Europe. Before they had left New York, I had given them my brother’s address in Switzerland in the hope that they will visit him and his family.
When I went to call on the newly-weds last Tuesday night, they told how many they had
enjoyed traveling around Europe and that we soon would look at the color slides they had taken. They also gave me greetings from my brother and assured me that it had been a great pleasure for them meeting my relatives.
The slide show started with pictures the couple had snapped on the boat. They came view of Paris, Chartres and Loire. Since Paul had mentioned earlier in the evening that the weather had turned very murky as soon as they got to Switzerland, I hardly expected seeing any pictures of that country. How surprising and pleased I was when I saw my brother and sister-in-law appeared on the screen with their new house in the background. They certainly looked very well and didn’t seem to change at all in the two years that I haven’t seen them.
