Choose the one word or phrase - A, B, C or D - that best completes the sentence or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.
In spite of.................., we decided to go out.
A.we felt very tired
B.feeling tired
C.all of us felt tired
D.tired

Choose the one word or phrase - A, B, C or D - that best completes the sentence or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.
When we.........................the bill, we left the restaurant.
A.had paid
B.were paying
C.paid
D.had been paying.

Choose the one word or phrase - A, B, C or D - that best completes the sentence or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.
The manager made his employees ................. the computer evening class.
A.attending
B.attend
C.to attend
D.attendance

Choose the one word or phrase - A, B, C or D - that best completes the sentence or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.
Marie Curie....................a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.
A.awarded
B.was awarded
C.had awarded
D.had been awarded

Choose the one word or phrase - A, B, C or D - that best completes the sentence or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.
in Slovakia, Martina has lived in Switzerland for many years.
A.To be born
B.Born
C.Being born
D.Be born

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined sound that is pronounced differently from the other words in each of questions.
A.ghost
B.exhausted
C.humid
D.hour

Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others
A.background
B.career
C.secondary
D.private

Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others
A.scientific
B.atomic
C.impossible
D.professor

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined sound that is pronounced differently from the other words in each of questions.
A.technology
B.charisma
C.scholar
D.cheerful

Choose the one word or phrase - A, B, C or D - that best completes the sentence or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.
Let me give you a little .................................about the president of the company.
A.specialization
B.concentration
C.background
D.degree