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ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEST
Time: 45 minutes
I. LANGUAGE USE
Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the other three.
1.
A. yesterday
B. tomorrow
C. holiday
D. beautiful
2.
A. computer
B. tomato
C. October
D. exercise
3.
A. interesting
B. octopus
C. understand
D. photograph
4.
A. reception
B. personal
C. potato
D. delicious
5.
A. adjective
B. energy
C. bakery
D. fantastic
Choose the best option A, B, C or D to complete the sentence.
6. By the year 2020, people ________ all sources of energy generated from fossil fuels with wind and solar power.
A. will replace
B. will be replacing
C. will have replaced
D. will have been replacing
7. The career advisor told us ________ all the jobs in big cities because some of them may be badly paid and stressful.
A. not to idealize
B. don’t idealize
C. to not idealize
D. not idealizing
8. The government is going to cut down ________ the subsidies for state-owned education institutions to help them to become more independent.
A. in
B. from
C. with
D. on
9. The zookeeper told people ________ the animals with strange foods.
A. to not feed
B. not to feed
C. to not feeding
D. not to feeding
10. Her parents had her ________ in their footsteps to become a doctor.
A. follow
B. followed
C. following
D. follows
11. Well, next time I see you, I expect you ________ your job application.
A. completed
B. completing
C. will have completed
D. had completed
12. The ________ our laws against animal poaching are, the ________ it is for endangered animals to survive.
A. strictest/ more likely
B. stricter/ more likely
C. strictest/ most likely
D. stricter/ most likely
13. Local people have asked businesses ________ damaging the environment of the local community.
A. stop
B. to stop
C. stopping
D. stopped
14. Oh God, why am I so slow? If I were faster, I ________ the race yesterday.
A. will win
B. would win
C. would have won
D. win
15. If I hadn’t rejected the job offer, I wouldn’t ________ now.
A. have been unemployed
B. unemployed
C. am unemployed
D. be unemployed
Circle ONE option (A, B, C or D) to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
16. She’s not very sociable. She doesn’t get up well with anyone in her class.
17. If students don’t work hard, they won’t be able to keep up on their friends.
18. It is believed that in the future, people will have intelligent robots and machines to perform most of their dailyboring and repetitive routines.
19. If I had worked harder, I wouldn’t have fail the final exams.
20. If I had accepted his job offer, I wouldn’t have been unemployed now.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) SIMILAR in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
21. Bill is irresponsible. I wish he would be more mature.
A. thriving
B. childish
C. grown-up
D. aging
22. Teaching those young children is demanding but very rewarding. They are lovely and considerate.
A. boring
B. economic
C. beneficial
D. hard-working
23. Visitors to the city are overwhelmed by the hospitality of the local.
A. friendliness
B. cruelty
C. coldness
D. negligence
24. The computer goes crazy. There must have been a malfunction.
A. effectiveness
B. fault
C. strength
D. goodness
25. The problem is that I found his stories tedious. I couldn`t stand them.
A. enjoyable
B. interesting
C. imaginative
D. tiring
II. LISTENING
Task 1. Listen to a conversation between Linda and Tom about a company called Dreams Come True and choose the best answer. You can listen to the recording TWICE.
26. According to the conversation, Dreams Come True helps you ______.
A. find dream jobs
B. try
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