Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions
Choosee the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation: package, teenage, heritage, passage
Choosee the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation: increased, amazed, remained, described
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions
Choose the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress: partnership, picturesque, counterpart, customer
Choose the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress: necessary, mandatory, popular, compulsory
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions
_______ there, she will have made a big cake.
The more carefully he drives, ______ accidents he has.
He always did well at school ______ having his early education disrupted by illness.
The Covid-19's victims ______ with food and medicine.
She has just bought ______.
I haven't made up my mind about that issue; I'll have to sit on the _______.
Let's go out for a drink, _______?
_______ for twelve hours, I felt marvelous.
You shouldn't lose heart; success often comes to those who are not ______ by failures.
When you went into the office, Mr. John ______ at the front desk.
I'm not going to go ice skating! I'd only fall over and ______ a fool of myself.
The older inhabitants looked on the festival as an opportunity to bridge the _______ between the newcomers and themselves.
Children who are isolated and lonely seem to have poor language and _______.
Sometimes in a bad situation, there may still be some good things. Try not to "throw out the ____out with the bath water".
In some families, younger people seem more ______ to save money than their parents.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions
Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s): The chairman's thought-provoking question ignited a lively debate among the participants in the workshop.
Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s): I think Michael hit the nail on the head when he said that what is lacking in this company is the feeling of confidence.
Mark letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions
Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s): Mr. Robinson said the scheme could not work for every household and will only serve 15,000 homes in the most densely populated area - Skipton, Settle and South Crave.
Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s): Danny put the cat among the pigeons by suggesting that the company might have to make some redundancies.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following exchanges
Mary and Peter are friends. They are talking about a film.
- Mary: "Have you seen the movie Joker?”
- Peter: “_______.”
Tony and Steve are friends. They have just finished dinner in a restaurant.
– Tony: “The food is great. I'll get the bill.”
– Steve: “_______.”
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks
REASONS TO NOT HIT YOUR KIDS
The practice of hitting children teaches them to become hitters themselves. Extensive research data is now available to support the direct correlation ....26.... corporal punishment in childhood and violent behavior in the teenage and adult years. Virtually, all of the most dangerous criminals ....27.... regularly threatened and punished in childhood. Punishment gives the message that "might make right," that it is okay to hurt someone smaller and less powerful than you are. The child then feels it is appropriate to mistreat younger or smaller children, and when he becomes an adult, feels little ....28.... for those less fortunate or powerful than he is, and fears those who are more so. Thus it is difficult for him to find ....29.... friendships. Children learn best through parental modeling. Punishment gives the message that hitting is an appropriate way to express one's feelings and to solve problems. If the child rarely sees the parents handle anger and solve problems in a creative and positive way, he can never learn how ....30.... that himself. Thus inadequate parenting continues into the next generation.
(Adapted from "Reasons to Not Hit Your Kids" by Jan Hunt)
(26) _________
(27) _________
(28) _________
(29) _________
(30) _________
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
TEXAS
A Texas middle school is under fire after students say they have been banned from speaking Spanish in class. The students say their principal announced the rule last month over the intercom. Inside the walls of Hemptead Middle School, a language controversy is brewing. “There's one teacher that said, “If you speak Spanish in my class, I'm gonna write you up,” 8th grader Tiffani Resurez says. Four students say their principal's announcement - banning them from speaking Spanish in class - has given teachers and fellow students a hall pass to discriminate. “She was like, „No speaking Spanish.' She told me that. I was like, “That's my first language.’ She said, „Well, you can get out," fellow classmate Yedhany Gallegos says. A letter sent home by the superintendent says, "Neither the district nor any campus has any policy prohibiting the speaking of Spanish." The four students feel that the statement from the superintendent has not been made entirely clear that their school. "People don't want to speak it anymore and don't want to get caught speaking it because they're going to get into trouble," 6th grader Kiara Lozano says. Parents, like Cynthia Zamora, believe the school is not getting to the root of the problem. She wants to know why the "No Spanish" announcement was ever made in the first place. "I was very surprised that she would even go to such lengths," Zamora says. Many students at the school grew up speaking Spanish at home, and they say it often comes as second nature when they're talking to each other at school. “I'm not scared. I'm gonna keep speaking language. That's my first language, and I'm gonna keep doing it," Lozano said. The principal has been placed on paid administrative leave while the district investigates. A spokeswoman for Hempstead Inder School District has released a statement saying, in part, “The district is committed to efficiently and effectively resolving this matter with as little disruption to our students and their learning environment as possible."
(Adapted from: https://www. learning habits)
Why was the policy introduced?
In the passage, the word "root" is closest in meaning to _______.
What will the district do?
In the passage, the word "it" refers to ______.
What can we infer about the policy on no speaking Spanish?
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
A newborn baby can see, hear and feel. By the age of five, a child can talk, ride a bike and invent imaginary friends. How does this development happen? We don't understand the way language, thinking and planning develop very well. Now scientists are using new technology to ‘see’ into children's brains. And they are discovering new information about the way a baby's brain develops.
A study in 2010 showed that the experiences a child has in their first few years affect the development of the brain. It showed that children who received more attention often had higher IQs. The brain of a newborn baby has nearly a hundred billion neurons. This is the same number as an adult's brain. As they grow, a baby receives information through the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. This information creates connections between different parts of the brain. At the age of three, there are a hundred trillion connections.
One experiment looked at images of babies' brains while they were listening to different sounds. The sounds were in different sequences. For example, one sequence was mu-ba-ba. This is the pattern 'A-B-B'. Another sequence was mu-ba-ge. This is the pattern 'A-B-C'. The images showed that the part of the brain responsible for speech was more active during A-B-B' patterns. This shows that babies can tell the difference between different patterns. This experiment is interesting because sequences of words are important to grammar and meaning. Compare two sentences with the same words in a different order: John killed the bear' is very different from 'The bear killed John.' So babies are starting to learn grammatical rules from the beginning of life.
Researchers also know that babies need to hear a lot of language in order to understand grammar rules. But there is a big difference between listening to television, audio books or the internet, and interacting with people. One study compared two groups of nine-month-old American babies. One group watched videos of Mandarin Chinese sounds. In the other group, people spoke the same sounds to the babies. The test results showed that the second group could recognise different sounds, however the first group learned nothing. The scientist, Patricia Kuhl, said this result was very surprising. It suggests that social experience is essential to successful brain development in babies.
(Adapted from "Select Readings - Upper Intermediate" by Linda Lee and Erik Gundersen)
It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
According to the first paragraph _______.
Which statement is supported by the second paragraph?
What is the main conclusion from the study described in the last paragraph?
The purpose of the article is to ________
According to the article, which statement is true?
According to the second paragraph, which of the following can affect IQ?
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions
Find the mistake: Four weeks of social distancing were an important step in the fight against Covid-19.
Find the mistake: They have carried exhausting research into the effects of smart phone on schoolchildren's behavior and their academic performance.
Find the mistake: He hardly never misses an opportunity to play in the tennis tournaments.
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
It is over twenty years since I last got in touch with them.
It's possible that Joanna didn't receive my message.
She said, "John, I'll show you round my city when you're here."
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
The children are noisy. She can't concentrate on working.
She went to live in France. She realized how much she loved England.
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