Task 2. Mark the letter A, B, C, D to indicate the word that differs from the rest in position of the main stress in each of the following questions.

A.morning                  
B.college                    
C.arrive                      
D.famous

What is the passage mainly about?
A.A new physical property of matters in nature 
B.A way of manufacturing technological products
C.An introduction to a new technology             
D.An overview of how technology will develop

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
_______ where he tried to hide his favourite jacket, Jethreo’s brother always managed to find it.
A.Much as  
B.No matter      
C.Even though      
D.However

Names of people in the book were changed to preserve anonymity.
  
A.conserve   
B.reveal 
C.presume   
D.cover

If you eat too much, you _________ the price by putting on weight.
A.will pay
B.paid                                    
C.would pay     
D.were paying

John: " ____________________ "
Smith: " Thanks , I will write to you when I come to London"
 
A.God bless you !  
B.better luck next time !
C.have a go      
D.Have a nice trip

Rewrite  the following sentences and the meaning stays the same.
When I arrived in China. I wrote a letter home.        
A.On arriving in China,  I had written a letter home
B.On arriving in China,  I was writing  a letter home
C.On arriving in China,  I wrote  a letter home
D.On arriving in China,  I write  a letter home

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks.
Rock carvings suggest that Stone Age people were hunting whales for food as early as 2,200 B.C. Such _____(41) hunting is still practised today in a number of ______(42) including the Inuit people of Greenland and North America.
Whaling became big______ (43) from the seventeenth century as the _______(44) for whale bone and whale oil rose, and the humpback and sperm whales were hunted in increasingly large numbers. ________(45) just as stocks of these species began to fall, the explosive harpoon gun was ______(46) . This weapon, together with the development of steam-powered ships, enabled the whalers to hunt the fast moving fin and blue whales.
In 1905, the whaling ______(47) moved to the waters of Antarctica. The introduction of massive factory ships enabled the whales to be processed at sea. As a result. the blue whale had ________(48) disappeared by the I95os. In 1946, the International Whaling Commission was established to maintain the declining whale populations. Quotas were set but ____(49) were often ignored and the numbers continued to fall. Hunting of many species continued until 1986 when the IWC finally responded to international________(50) and a ban on commercial whaling was introduced.
_______(50)
A.reputation
B.volume
C.shame
D.pressure

Yuri Gagarin was the first human being to journey _______ outer space on April 12, 1961.
A.to                               
B.towards                       
C.on                                
D.into

________ (50)
A.in
B.on
C.up
D.over