II. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks.
            Whenever there is a party, most girls get really excited about it so you can imagine how much fuss is (4) _______ about a sweet sixteen party. Many girls spend most of their senior year of junior high school (5) ________ about their parties – what theme to have, where to hold it and, of course, what to wear!
            How big the party is (6) ­­________ mostly on the budget of the parents. Some parties are very formal. They take place at a hotel with a band, rich food, a photographer, flower arrangements and much more. Other kinds of sweet sixteen parties are more casual. Some girls have a barbecue or even a beach party. Others decide (7) ________ dinner and a trip to the theatre in a limousine. (8) ________ they choose to celebrate, everyone wants to remember their sweet sixteen as a very special day in their life.
(5)
A.talked
B.talking
C.talk
D.to talk

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.

A.employ                   
B.immune                   
C.powder                   
D.evoke

I couldn't believe that they were brothers. They were as different as __________.    
A.Mars from Jupiter   
B. chalk from cheese
C.salt and sugar 
D.milk from honey

__________(30)
A.solving
B.dealing
C.doing
D.making

Supply the correct form of the verbs in the brackets
Hurry up or you ( be).......... late for class.
A.would be
B.will be
C.would have been
D.are

_______(5)
A.force
B.make
C.cause
D.have

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.
To absorb a younger workforce, many companies offered retirement plans as incentives for older workers to retire and make way for the young ones who earned lower salary.
A.rewards                   
B.opportunities           
C.motives                   
D.encouragements

Choose the best answer to complete the sentences. 
A layer of greenhouse gases -  primarily water vapor, and carbon dioxide – acts as a _______ blanket for the Earth, absorbing heat and warming the surface.
A.thermal                
B.hot                     
C.heat                        
D.heating

She got a.........letter from her boss                ( person)
A.personal
B.personalize
C.personality
D.personalism

Task 1. Mark the letter A, B, C, D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation.

A.cotton                     
B.bottle                       
C.cold                                    
D.common