PRACTICE TEST 1

I. PRONUNCIATION
A. Choose the word
others.
1. a. scream
2. a. traveled
3. a. chat
4. a. frightening
5. a. technology

that has the underlined (letters) pronounced differently from the

b. death
b. stared
b. panic
b. brigade
b. teaching

c. ready
c. landed
c. park
c. pilot
c. purchase

d. peasant
d. seemed
d. passenger
d. fire
d. lunch

B. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others.
1. a. tobacco
2. a. passenger
3. a. technology
4. a. repair
5. a. interested

b. contented
b. purchase
b. comfortable
b. harrow
b. serious

c. buffalo
c. district
c. activity
c. arrive
c. wonderful

d. transplanting
d. routine
d. experience
d. announce
d. immediate

II. VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSION

Choose the one word or phrase - a, b, c or d - that best completes the sentence or
substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.
1 . John isn't content with his present salary.
a. excited about
b. satisfied with
c. disappointed about d. interested in
2. We.................the seedlings into peaty soil.
a. take
b. plough
c. raise
d. transplant
3. We seldom set: each other anymore.
a. sometimes
b. occasionally
c. frequently
d. rarely
4. She purchased a number of shares in the company.
a. invested
b. sold
c. exchanged
d. bought
5. She got......................as soon as the alarm clock went
a. over/ on
b. up/ down
c. up! off
d. on/ off.
6. The plane from Dallas ................. two hours late, so I missed my connecting flight from
Frankfurt to London.
a. took on
b. took in
c. took over
d. took off
7. We had a nice chat over a cup of tea.
a. formal talk
b. informal talk
c. serious talk
d. long talk
8. It was time to................the kids ready for bed.
a. prepare
b. get
c. take
d. make
9. Houses .................as a bomb exploded in the neighborhood.
a. dipped
b. disappeared
c. dropped
d. shook
10. It was a difficult tune, but we never gave up hope.
a. stopped
b. continued
c. had
d. offered
III. GRAMMAR AND STRUCTURE
A. Choose the one word or phrase - a, b, c or d - that best completes the sentence.
1. I'll see him when he .......................here tomorrow..
a. comes
b. will come
c. has come
d. had come
2. We've given up..................... to persuade them
a. trying/ changing b. trying/ to change c. to try/ changing
d. try/ to change
3. Maria is going to stop....................dinner, so she may be late.
a. eating
b. to eat
c. for eating
d. eat
4. As soon as the light turned red, she....................the car.

a. stopped
b. has stopped
c. was stopping
d. stops
5. The baby is so big! How much...........................now?
a. is she weighing
b. she weighs
c. does she weigh
d. did she weigh
6. Harry works all the time. He.......................
a. never relaxes
b. relaxes never
c. often relaxes
d. relaxes sometimes
7. These glasses are so dirty. You need.................them.
a. wash
b. washing.
c. to washed
d. washed
The last time I ........... swimming was when we were in Spain.
a. had gone
b. went
c. has gone
d. was going.
Johnny.................the paper when I............. him.
a. read/ interrupted
b. read! was interrupting
c: has read/ interrupted
d. was reading. interrupted
We were told.................and fasten our seat belts.
a. to sit down
b. sitting down
c. sit down
d. that sit down
I ....................at six o'clock, but ......... to be up by five.
a. normally get up/ I have sometimes
b. normally get up/ sometimes I have
c. get normally up/ sometimes I have
d. get normally up/ I sometimes have
The house was very quiet when I got home. Everybody ................. to bed.
a. have gone
b. went
c. had gone
d. goes
It was the most............... experience of my life.
a. frighten
b. frightening
c. frightened
d. frightful

. Read the passage, then choose the correct completion.

Last year I went to Nepal for three months to York in a hospital. When the hospital let
me have a few days' holiday, I decided to go into the jungle and I asked a Nepalese guide,
Kamal Rai, to go with me. In the jungle there was a lot of wildlife, but we were trying to find
big cats, especially tigers. We climbed onto the elephants' backs to get better view, but it is
unusual to find tigers in the afternoon because they sleep in the heat o the day. Then, in the
distance, we saw a tiger, and Kamal told me to be very quiet. We crept nearer and found a
dead deer. still bleeding. This was the tiger's lunch! Suddenly. I started to feel very
frightened.
We heard the tiger a second before we saw it. It jumped out like a flash of lightning, five
hundred kilos plus and four. meters long. I looked into its eyes and face, and saw right down
the animal's throat. It grabbed Kamal's between its teeth, but I managed to pull Kamal away.
One of our elephants ran at the tiger and made it go back into the grass, so we quickly
escaped to let the tiger cat its lunch. That night it was impossible to sleep!
1. The writer went to Nepal ..................................
a. for holiday
b. for treatment
c. for business
d. on a visit
2. When having a few days off, he decided to go into............
a. the remote villages
b. the mountains
c. the seaside
d. the tropical forest
3. He wanted to see.....................
a. wildcats
b. tigers
c. wildlife
d. wild animals
4. He felt very frightened when...............................
a. he saw a tiger
b. he saw the tiger's lunch a. chat
c. he crept nearer
d. he found a deer

5. The tiger .................................

a. was like a flash of light
b. saw them a second before they saw it
c. jumped out very fast
d. jumped out of the grass at about four meters.
6. Kamal made his escape when ...........................
a. one of the elephants ran at the tiger
b. the tiger went back into the grass
c. the tiger ate its lunch
d. the writer pulled him away