Choose the word which has a different stress pattern from that of the others

A.stimulate         
B.sharpener           
C.festival                       
D.disaster

Read the following passage  and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each for  the questions. 
            During the late Middle Ages, oil paint took hold as the artistic medium of choice  because it was effective, flexible, and resilient relative to the wax-based, watercolor, fresco, or tempera paints prevalent at the time. Although contemporary commercially prepared paints contain a mixture of pigments and linseed oil, poppy oil paints are also available to connoisseurs. The original recipes developed in medieval European monasteries relies on fast-drying bases derived from various organic oils predominantly valued for their medicinal qualities. The pigments are insoluble, lightproof, and chemically inert powders ground in the base. Occasionally, varnish can be added to increase the paste’s ability to reflect light and to cover pictures with a protective seal. The resulting stiff, resinous compounds are often packaged in flexible metal or plastic tubes. Historically, yellow pigments have been added to the oil, and then the paste was layered over tin foil to imitate the appearance of gold leaf.
            Despite the numerous experiments to accelerate the drying process, oil paints dry comparatively slowly with little color alteration. An important advantage of color stability is that tones and undertones are easy to blend, match, transpose, and grade, and mistakes and smudges are simple to correct. Due to the creamy consistency of most mixtures, artists can exploit their viscosity in thick applications, sprays, thin trickles, and three-dimensional blobs. The purification by boiling and filtering and bleaching of oils can impart varied hues to powdered pigments, while drying time can be reduced by adding metallic oxides. Professional painters who mix their own medium usually have their own trademark methods of mixing materials that art experts recognize as a part of an artist’s creative work.
            The thickness of the paste also plays an important role in defining the stages of painting a picture. After the basic design is sketched in pencil or charcoal, the broad background or foreground areas of the canvas are covered with thin, diluted paint on top of the primer. A thicker paint, often with added varnish, is subsequently used to refine and outline the foundation. The width of the brush depends on the type of paint the artist chooses to use, and stiff bristles are usually found in narrow brushes for making sharp lines, while softer brushes of animal hair can be employed in broad strokes.
The word “viscosity” is closest in meaning to
A.stiffness         
B.elasticity        
C.stickiness       
D.eloquence

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.
The General Certificate of Secondary Education or the GCSE examinations for (31) _____ are the standard school-leaver qualifications taken by (32) _____ all UK students in the May and June following their 16th birthday. If you come to a UK (33) _____ school before you (34) _____ the age of 16, you will study towards GCSE examinations in up to 12 subjects. Some subjects are compulsory, including English arid mathematics, and you can select (35) _____, such as music, drama, geography and history from a series of options. GCSEs provide a good all-round education (36) _____ you can build on at college and eventually at university.
AS- and A-levels are taken after GCSEs. They are the UK qualifications most (37) _____ accepted for entry to university and are available in subjects from the humanities, arts, sciences and social sciences as well as in (38) _____ subjects such as engineering, and leisure and tourism. You can study up to four subjects at (39) _____ same time for two years, (40) _____ AS-level examinations at the end of your first year (called the lower-sixth) and A-level qualifications at the end of your second year (called the upper-sixth).
(37)
A.wide                B.   widely                  C.  width                     D.  widen
B.widely 
C.width 
D.widen

No one in the group is younger than Lan.
A.Lan is the youngest of the group.
B.Lan is the youngest in the group.
C.Lan is the younger in the group.
D.Lan is the most youngest in the group.

The main idea of paragraph 1 is that______
A.Paul Watson is a hero to some people
B.activists are people who do something
C.Paul Watson is a controversial environmental activist
D.Paul Watson does not believe in talking

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
___________ did the machine run? – Perfectly.
A.How
B.What
C.Which
D.When

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Harmful environmental factors can    the development of certain diseases.

A.monitor       
B.accelerate   
C.produce
D.generate

Exercise 2: Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSET in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Only during the nineteenth century did silent reading become commonplace.
A.attracting attention        
B.widely used   
C.for everybody's use      
D.most preferable

If Monique had not attended the conference, she wouldn't meet her old friend a Dan, whom she hadn't seen for years.
A.the
B.wouldn't meet
C.whom
D.hadn't seen

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.
Joey put all his money on the lottery, which was his big mistake. 
A.Joey shouldn’t have put all his money on the lottery.
B.Joey needn’t have put all his money on the lottery.
C.Joey may not have put all his money on the lottery.
D.Joey can’t have put all his money on the lottery.