Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
When I arrived at the meeting the first speaker ___________ speaking and the audience was clapping. 
A. just finishes                  
B. had just finished 
C. has just finished               
D. just finished

Choose one sentence that has the same meaning as the root one:
Last Sunday I returned to my native village. I was born there.
A. Last Sunday I returned to my native village in which I was bom.
B. Last Sunday I returned to my native village where I was bom there.
C. Last Sunday I returned to my native village at that I was bom.
D. Last Sunday I returned to my native village which I was bom in ther.

Choose a word that has different stress pattern:
appoint              caption             challenge                conquest
A. appoint              
B. caption             
C. challenge                
D. conquest

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
I am very delighted ________ the letter from you. 
A. to hear 
B.  to meet          
C. to see   
D. to receive

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
His parents were extremely ashamed _________________________ his behaviour last night.
 
A. of                          
B. on                         
C.  into
D. upon

Choose one sentence that has the same meaning as the root one:
It is ten years since any bears have been caught in the area.
A. Ten years has passed since bears have disappeared in the area.
B. There have been no bears in the area for ten years.
C. They caught more and more bears in the area ten years ago.
D. Over the last ten years no one has caught bears in the area.

Choose a word that has different stress pattern:
typical                 apartment                     newspaper                        statement
A. typical                 
B. apartment                    
C.  newspaper                        
D. statement

Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest:
deputy                 decent                depress                debate
A. deputy                 
B. decent                
C. depress                
D. debate

Choose a word that has different stress pattern:
acquaintance               embarrassing              co-operate              helicopter
A. acquaintance              
B.  embarrassing              
C. co-operate              
D. helicopter

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
Her friends suggested that Mary _____________ a buffet for her birthday party.
 
A. serve                  
B.  to serve        
C. serves                  
D. served