Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to the position of primary stress in each of the following.

A.reduce
B.finish
C.contain
D.invite

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Mr. Pike ........... English at our school for 20 years before he retired last year.
A.is teaching
B.had been teaching
C.was teaching
D.has been teaching

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B. C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
On the fourth Thursday in November, in houses around the United States, families get together for a feast, or a large meal. Almost all families eat turkey and cranberry sauce for this meal, and have pumpkin pie for dessert. This feast is part of a very special day, the holiday of Thanksgiving. In 1620 the Pilgrims made a difficult trip across the ocean from England. They landed in what is now Massachusetts. In England the Pilgrims had not been allowed to freely practice their religion. So they went to the New World in search of religious freedom. The Pilgrims' first winter was very hard. Almost half the group died of cold, hunger and disease. But the Indians of Massachusetts taught the Pilgrims to plant corn, to hunt and to fish. When the next fall came, the Pilgrims had plenty of food. They were thankful to God and the Indians and had a feast to give thanks. They invited the Indians to join them. This was the first Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving became a national holiday many years later because of the effort of a woman named Sarah Hale. For forty years Sarah Hale wrote to each president and asked for a holiday of Thanksgiving. At last she was successful. In 1863 President Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a holiday. How much is Thanksgiving today like the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving? In many ways they are different. For example, historians think that the Pilgrims ate deer, not turkey. The idea of Thanksgiving, though, is very much the same: Thanksgiving is a day on which we celebrate and give thanks.
(Adapted from http:www.Amrican heritage.co.us)
According to the passage, Thanksgiving today is................
A.a day on which the Pilgrims eat deer
B.only celebrated in Massachusetts
C.different from the Pilgrims's Thanksgiving in many ways
D.just like the Pilgrims's Thanksgiving

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B. C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
On the fourth Thursday in November, in houses around the United States, families get together for a feast, or a large meal. Almost all families eat turkey and cranberry sauce for this meal, and have pumpkin pie for dessert. This feast is part of a very special day, the holiday of Thanksgiving. In 1620 the Pilgrims made a difficult trip across the ocean from England. They landed in what is now Massachusetts. In England the Pilgrims had not been allowed to freely practice their religion. So they went to the New World in search of religious freedom. The Pilgrims' first winter was very hard. Almost half the group died of cold, hunger and disease. But the Indians of Massachusetts taught the Pilgrims to plant corn, to hunt and to fish. When the next fall came, the Pilgrims had plenty of food. They were thankful to God and the Indians and had a feast to give thanks. They invited the Indians to join them. This was the first Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving became a national holiday many years later because of the effort of a woman named Sarah Hale. For forty years Sarah Hale wrote to each president and asked for a holiday of Thanksgiving. At last she was successful. In 1863 President Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a holiday. How much is Thanksgiving today like the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving? In many ways they are different. For example, historians think that the Pilgrims ate deer, not turkey. The idea of Thanksgiving, though, is very much the same: Thanksgiving is a day on which we celebrate and give thanks.
(Adapted from http:www.Amrican heritage.co.us)
The word “they” in line 8 refer to ...
A.families
B.the Indians
C.the Native Americans
D.the Pilgrims

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.
"Where were you last night, Mr. John?” he said.
A.He asked Mr. John Jenkins where he was last night.
B.He wanted to know where Mr. John was the night before.
C.He wanted to know where Mr. John had been last night.
D.He asked Mr. John where he had been the night before.

All right. Stop talking. I'm beginning ..................what you mean.
A.to understand
B.understanding
C.to be understood
D.being understood

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.
I whispered as I didn't want anybody to hear our conversation.
A.Since nobody wanted to hear our conversation, I whispered.
B.So as not to hear our conversation, I whispered.
C.Because I whispered, somebody heard our conversation.
D.I lowered my voice in order that our conversation couldn’t be heard.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to the position of primary stress in each of the following.

A.compulsory
B.emotional
C.scientific
D.responsible

Imagine...............with someone who never stops talking.
A.to live
B.to be living
C.living
D.to have lived.

This medicine will protect you ...........a return of the illness.
A.of
B.from
C.to
D.at