Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.




A.mood
B.flood
C.spoon
D.moon

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 following questions
Simply being bilingual doesn’t qualify someone to interpret. Interpreting is not only a mechanical process of converting one sentence in language A into the same sentence in language B. Rather, its a complex art in which thoughts and idioms that have no obvious counterparts from tongue to tongue _ or words that have several meanings must be quickly transformed in such a way that the message is clearly and accurately expressed to the listener.
At one international conference, an American speaker said, “You cant make a silk purse out of a sows ear”, which meant nothing to the Spanish audience. The interpretation was, “A monkey in a silk dress is still a monkey” _ an idiom the Spanish understood and that expressed the same idea.
There are 2 kinds of interpreters, simultaneous and consecutive. The former, sitting in a separated booth, usually at a large multilingual conference, speaks to listeners wearing headphones, interpreting what a foreign language speaker says _ actually a sentence behind. Consecutive interpreters are the ones most international negotiations use. They are employed for smaller meetings without sound booths and headphones. Consecutive interpretation also requires two-person teams. A foreign speaker says his piece while the interpreter, using a special shorthand, takes notes and during a pause, tells the client what was said.

The word “rather” is closest in meaning to….




A.in brief
B.on the contrary
C.in general
D.as a result

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Grace Kelly was first famous as a Hollywood actress and then _______ Prince Rainier of Monaco.




A.to be the wife of
B.she was the wife of
C.the wife of
D.as the wife of

Tom: “Which is more important? Luck or effort?”Mary: “Luck is _______effort.”




A.on the same importance
B.of the same importance as
C.the same importance as
D.as the same importance as

Most people in developing countries_________.




A.planted trees on the edge of the deserts
B.cook on wood fires
C.put oil on sandy areas
D.raise sheep and goats

You can see the details_________the computer screen.




A.in
B.on
C.at
D.by

Sunglasses come_________many different colors, shapes, and strengths.




A.with
B.from
C.by
D.in

A.dessert
B.desert
C.deserve
D.prefer

A.technological
B.punctuality
C.representative
D.characteristic

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The children ______ to bed before their parents came home from work.




A.were all going
B.had all gone
C.had all been going
D.have all gone