I. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group.
1. A. realize B. improve C. possible D. comfortable
2. A. important B. especially C. prefer D. influence
3. A. general B. opinion C. abroad D. surprise
II. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others.
4. A. seven B. level C. next D. ruler
5. A. jungle B. sunny C. bus D. surrounding
6. A. guessed B. invited C. decided D. naked
B. GRAMMAR
I. Choose the correct answer.
7. ……………… I have a look at those shoes in the window, please?
A. Must B. Would C. Should D. Could
8. We ……………… pay for the tickets as Josie won them in a competition.
A. mustn’t B. didn’t have to C. couldn’t D. hadn’t to
9. You really ……………… make such a mountain out of a molehill!
A. can’t B. won’t C. mightn’t D. shouldn’t
10. You won’t ……………… to connect to the Internet once you’ve got broadband as you’re
online twenty-four hours a day.
A. need B. must C. ought D. able
11. I hope we ……………… find the cinema easily.
A. could B. may C. might D. can
12. We couldn’t find a hotel room so we ……………… sleep in the car. It was awful!
A. must B. should C. had to D. could
13. We’d love to ……………… afford to go on a round-the-world cruise.
A. can B. be able to C. will have to D. have to
14. You’ll ……………… tell the police that your house was broken into.
A. have to B. must C. had to D. should
V. Write one word in each gap.
When I broke my arm a week ago, I guess it (42) …………………………. to have hurt. But it
didn’t! We were doing PE at school, and we were making a pyramid. We (43)
…………………………. to stand on each other’s shoulders. I was right at the top. We (44)
…………………………. have been doing it properly because suddenly the pyramid collapsed
and we all fell. I landed on my arm.
Mr. Jenkins (45) …………………………. have known immediately that I’d broken my arm
because he sent someone to call an ambulance. ‘Sit still, and don’t move your arm at all until the
ambulance comes’, he said. I (46) …………………………. still remember the feeling - my arm
was numb, and looked very strange, but there was no pain at all. I remember thinking: ‘It (47)
…………………………. be broken. If it was broken, I’d be in agony. ‘I suppose not feeling any
pain (48) …………………………. have been because I was in shock.
The plaster (49) …………………………. come off in about three weeks but it (50)
…………………………. have to stay on longer. It depends on whether the break has healed
properly or not. The next three weeks may (51) …………………………. be the best three weeks
of my life - no basketball, no playing in the playground, no swimming - but I’m counting my
blessings. It (52) …………………………. have been a lot worse!