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Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress
A.
archaeology
B.
unforgettable
C.
authenticity
D.
itinerary
18
Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress,
A.
nightlife
B.
complex
C.
intact
D.
relic
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* Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D to complete the following sentence.
The greenhouse_______ takes place when certain gases in the atmosphere trap sun"s heat.
A.
emission
B.
gas
C.
effect
D.
affect
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^ Read the following passage and choose the best answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits the blank.
British parents are always complaining that their children spend too much time glued to the TV and do not have enough time on other activities (a) ______ sports and reading. A survey recently (b) ______ on people’s viewing habits does not approve this. It shows that young people in Britain spend on average 23 hours a week in front of the television, (c) ______ works out at over three hours a day.
What is surprising, (d) ______, is the fact that the average adult watches even more: an incredible 28 hours a week. We (e) ______ to have become a nation of addicts. Just about every household in the country has a television set and over half have two or more. According to the survey, people nowadays don’t just watch television sitting in their living-rooms, they watch it in the kitchen and in bed as well.
Gap (e):
A.
seem
B.
used
C.
ought
D.
would like
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Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation,
A.
associate
B.
concern
C.
special
D.
ancient
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Read the following passage and choose the best answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to the following question.
Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time. If corrected too much, he will stop talking. He compares, a thousand times a day, the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people’s. In the same way, children learn all the other things they learn to do without being taught – to talk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle – compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes for himself, let alone correct them. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Soon he becomes dependent on the teacher. Let him do it himself. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.
If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can’t find the way to get the right answer. Let’s end all this nonsense of grades, exams, and marks. Let us throw them all out, and let the children learn what all educated persons must someday learn, how to measure their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.
Let them get on with this job in the way that seems most sensible to them, with our help as school teachers if they ask for it. The idea that there is a body of knowledge to be learnt at school and used for the rest of one’s life is nonsense in a world as complicated and rapidly changing as ours. Anxious parents and teachers say, “But suppose they fail to learn something essential, something they will need to get on in the world?” Don’t worry! If it is essential, they will go out into the world and learn it.
( Source: The Underachieving School p.20 by John Holt)
The passage suggests that learning to speak and learning to ride a bicycle are _________
A.
basically the same as learning other skills
B.
not really important skills
C.
basically different from learning adult skills
D.
more important than other skills
