Choose a word that has different stress pattern:
frequently                   popular                moreover                   dominant
A. frequently                  
B.  popular                
C. moreover                   
D. dominant

Choose one sentence that has the same meaning as the root one:
Not many people attended the meeting. 
A. No people came to the meeting. 
B. A few people came to the meeting.  
C. People didn’t come to the meeting.
D.  Few people came to the meeting.

Find a mistake in the four underlined parts of the sentence and correct it:
When I bought the dress, I didn’t notice nothing wrong with it.
A. bought
B. didn’t
C. nothing
D. with

Find a mistake in the four underlined parts of the sentence and correct it:
Having achieved highest score, our team was rewarded the first prize.
A. Having achieved highest score
B. our team 
C. was rewarded 
D. the first prize

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
My friend often shows her ______________ whenever I have troubles. 
A. sympathy    
B. sympathize  
C. sympathetic 
D. sympathetically

Find a mistake in the four underlined parts of the sentence and correct it:
He didn’t have the money which were needed for his wife’s operation. 
A. didn’t
B. were
C. for
D. operation

Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank:
      Australia Day, which is a (1)__________ public holiday, is celebrated on January 26th, in the middle of the Australian summer. It commemorates the (2)________ of Sydney in 1788.
      Australia Day is a family day and many families go (3)________ for a picnic. Some people go to the beach, where they go surfing or sunbathe, but the residents of Sydney head for The Rocks, the oldest part of Sydney and the site of the first colonial settlement. The Rocks, which overlooks Sydney Harbour, is (4)_______ on this day. Parades with brass bands march through the narrow streets and hundreds of small boats take (5)____ in races in the harbour.
      Wherever people go, it is customary (6)________ a barbecue and drink beer. The (7)_______ food is "pavlova", a sweet cake made of meringue with fruit on the top and "damper", a bread made of flour, water and sugar, cooked in the fire.
     The (8)__________ in Sydney ends with a huge firework display. The yellows, blues and greens light up the night (9)________ and fall like shooting stars into the water (10)__________ .
 
1. A. national                 B. beautiful                   C. local                    D. rural2. A. victory                   B. foundation                C. discovery             D. liberation3. A. on                         B. of                              C. out                      D. along4. A. packed                  B. packing                     C. to be packed       D. to pack5. A. part                       B. space                        C. time                    D. way6. A. having                   B. to have                     C. had                     D. have7. A. old                         B. good                         C. rare                    D. traditional8. A. tradition                 B. day                           C. festival               D. holiday9. A. star                        B. sky                            C. moon                 D. sun10. A. below                   B. under                        C. beneath            D. above
 
 
A. 1. A                2. B                      3. C                        4. A                    5. A6. B                7. D                      8. C                        9. B                    10. A
B. 1. A                2. B                      3. C                        4. B                    5. B6. B                7. D                      8. D                        9. A                    10. A
C. 1. D                2. A                      3. C                        4. A                    5. A6. B                7. D                      8. D                        9. A                    10. B
D. 1. A                2. B                      3. C                        4. B                    5. B6. A                7. C                      8. D                        9. A                    10. B

Find a mistake in the four underlined parts of the sentence and correct it:
I am very interesting in problems caused by pollution.
A. am
B. interesting
C. caused
D. pollution

Find a mistake in the four underlined parts of the sentence and correct it:
Despite of the heavy traffic, we arrived on time.
A. Despite of
B. traffic
C. arrived
D. on time

Choose one sentence that has the same meaning as the root one:
We didn’t find it easy to find her house. 
A. We thought finding her house was difficult, but we were wrong.
B. We didn’t think finding her house was so easy as it.
C. We had difficulty finding her house.
D. We got difficulty to find her house.