PRACTICE TEST 11
I. PRONUNCIATION
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others.
1. A. picture B. action C. question D. future
2. A. reading B. easy C. pleasure D. please
3. A. killed B. enjoyed C. described D. digested
Choose the word whose main stress is put differently from that of the others in the group.
4. A. swallow B. subject C. digest D. enough
5. A. imagine B. important C. example D. wonderful
II. GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY
6. Which subject is this book ________?
A. for B. on C. of D. up
7. Francis Bacon lived ________ about the same time as Shakespeare.
A. at B. for C. in D. over
8. This book is not really ________. It is a waste of money buying it.
A. inform B. information C. informative D. informatively
9. Sometimes it is ________ to find suitable books for our children.
A. difficult B. difficulty C. difficultly D. difficulties
10. As for me, I consider reading ________ important part of ________ life.
A. an / Ø B. the / a C. Ø / the D. an / a
11. _______ books are ones in which the story is told or illustrated with pictures.
A. Comic B. Thriller C. Romantic D. Science
12. Boy, stop reading. ________ the book down and go to bed.
A. Take B. Put C. Set D. Pick
13. It is a good book. I think it is interesting enough for you to ________.
A. put down B. swallow C. look up D. understand
14. If you ________ a book, you have a brief look at it without reading or studying it seriously.
A. dip into B. put away C. pick up D. put down
15. The room ________ once a day.
A. should clean B. should be cleaning C. should be cleaned D. should have cleaned
16. We found the exam ________. We needn’t have studied so hard.
A. extreme easy B. extremely easy C. extremely easily D. extremely easily
17. There is plenty of money in our account so those cheques ________ to the bank today.
A. needn`t be taken B. needn`t be taking B. needn`t take D. needn`t taking
18. The picnic will be cancelled _______ Peter has just had a traffic accident.
A. so B. but B. therfore D. because
19. Not many people find reading more ________ than watching TV.
A. interest B. interested C. interesting D. interestingly
20. To become a novelist, you need to be ________.
A. imagine B. imagination C. imaginative D. imaginarily
21. Many teenagers are not much ________ in reading books, except for what they are made to read at school
A. excited B. important C. slow D. interested
22. This book ________ to Peter. It is not mine.
A. possesses B. owns C. has D. belong
23. Have you ever read ________ "Oliver Twist", ________ interesting novel written by Charles Dickens?
A. the / the B. Ø / an C. Ø / Ø D. an / the
24. ________ please get in touch with the police?
A. Anyone who saw the accident B. Anyone who would see the accident
C. Would anyone who saw the accident D. Would who saw the accident
25. ________ he has continued to work on his thesis.
A. Although all these problems B. Even though there are problems
C. Despite all these problems D. In spite of there are problems
26. It took me weeks ________ my illness.
A. recover from B. recovering from C. to recover from D. recovered from
27. ________, this disaster would not have happened.
A. Had you have obeyed orders B. If You obeyed orders
C. Had you obeyed orders D. You had obeyed orders
28. She said ________ and asked if she could get me anything.
A. she would be going shopping B. she was going shopping
C. she will go shopping