PRACTICE TEST 9
I- Make the correct choice :
Can I speak _____ you for a moment? There’s something I want to tell you.
a.to b.for c.with d.at
Police are searching _____ the man who escaped from prison.
a.with b.about c.for d.through
The transition from school to work is _____ the whole fairly smooth for most boys and girls.
a.in b.with c.for d.on
He is occupied _____ his new job.
a.on b.in c.with d.for
Conservation is also concerned _____ the reclaiming of land.
a.with b.in c.about d.at
Some large cities may have to ban cars _____ the city centre to wipe out smoke.
a.in b.from c.for d.alon
7. The _____ of these swamps will destroy the mosquitoes’breeding places.
a. draining b. drainage c. drainer d. drain
8. The restaurant is now under new _____.
a. manager b. managing c. management d. managed
9. The industrial area of the city is not very_____.
a. attracted b. attraction c. attractive d. attractively
10. They grow a lot of trees at riverside to reduce soil _____.
a. erosion b. eraser c. evolution d. solution
11. He worked hard to _____ good crops from poor soil.
a. product b. produce c. production d. productive
12. They are not expectantly ______ at their future work.
a. disappointed b. interested c. satisfied d. good
13. You can borrow the car ______ you promise to drive carefully.
a. while b. as long as c. so that d. for
14. “ English is easy.” – “ I ______.”
a. think it’s, too b. too think c. think so, too d. think it’s also
15. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others:
a.listen b.tea c.sent d.tend
16. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others:
a.disposal b.exhaust c.themselves d.students
17. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others:
a. needed b.afforded c.advanced d.invented
18. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others:
a.honesty b.valuable c.conceal d.engine
19. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others:
a.personal b.focus c.anxious d.destroy
20. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others:
a.success b.department c.exchange d.eager
II. Identify one underlined word or phrase that is incorrect:
1. The picture of the soldiers bring back many memories.
A B C B
2. If the duties of these officers isn’t reduced, there will not be enough time to finish the project.
A B C D
3. Either Bill nor Mary is going to the play tonight.
A B C D
4. A number of reporters was at the conference yesterday.
5. Every elementary school teacher have to take this examination.
A B C D
6. These pictures, as well as this photograph , brightens the room.
A B C D
7. What he said you seems to be of no importance.
A B C D
8. Measles are cured without much difficulty nowadays.
A B C D
9. If they had left the house early, they wouldn’t have been so late at the play.
A B C D
10. Romeo, believing that Juliet was dead, decided to kill him.
A B C D
III- Read the following passage and make the correct choice:
In the decade of the 1970s the United Nations organized (1) ______ important meetings on the human environment to study a very serious problem. We humans are (2)_____ the world around us. We are using (3)_____ all of our (4)_____ resources. We must learn to (5)_____ them, or life will be very bad (6) ______ our children and our grandchildren.
1.a. several b. a little c. any d. a lot
2.a. preventing b. producing c. destroying d. providing
3.a. down b. up c. to d. for
4. cultural b. historical c. national d. natural
5.a. conserve b. rotate c. push back d. run off
6.a. with b. at c