9638.textbased Exercise
9638.textbased Exercise
9638.textbased Exercise
Exercise 1. Mark the letter A. B. C or D to indicate the word or phrase which does not contain
the same sound as the other three.
Exercise 2. Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following
questions.
11. Martin Luther King devoted his life to the ____ of voting right for black people.
12. His father used to be a ____ professor at the university. Many students worshipped him..
13. Mark Zuckerberg's enormous success has taken a lot of hardwork and ____.
14. I can't believe she didn't do anything for the company. I will ____ and be in charge.
15. During the Medieval period, people were made public ____ of being witches.
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A. complaint B. criminal C. trouble D. accusation
16. That disable boy's victory in the race set the ____ example to all students in the school.
17. A ____ once said “It is a sweet and honourable thing to die for your country.”
18. He is ____-influenced by his father and grandfather. His behaviors and decisions are exactly the
same.
19. IPhone 7 is the latest ____ in the field of smartphone design of Apple.
21. It is the underserved ____ that damaged his life and his family.
22. At the age of 50, Robby William ____ his career after spending his twenty years playing electric
guitar.
23. She has a wonderful voice but unfortunately, she never gets the ____ to sing in public.
24. Michael Hart was the ____ of Project Gutenberg, one of the longest-lasting online library
projects.
25. She is not a very nice girl. She seems to enjoy the ____ of others.
26. We ____ the kittens carefully and sold them for a good profit.
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27. The stores will inevitably end up ____ with each other to increase their market shares.
28. Bill Gates has made large donations to numerous ____ organizations.
29. Thanks to the help of the teacher, she is _____ encouraging progress in math.
30. The ____ of the soil reduced the productivity of the farm.
Exercise 3. Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
31. The speaker paused. He hesitated to answer the direct question raised by the audience.
32. Her courage not only inspired her followers but moved her rivals as well.
33. The government's plans to cut taxes really stimulated the economy.
34. Chauvet Jeans was a well-known nineteen century painter whose paintings are extraordinarily
sophisticated.
35. Some rock stars started off as rebels with strong and broad principles.
36. I used to idolize David Beckham because of his dedication and talent.
38. Ideally, I'd like to work at home but there is no way my boss agrees with that.
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A. Generally B. Luckily C. Preferably D. Fortunately
39. Morgan Freeman began to land big roles and won critical and popular acclaim after years of
small parts and limited success.
40. Recognizable smaller than most of the kids in his age group, Lionel Messi was diagnosed by
doctors as suffering from a hormone deficiency that restricted his growth.
Exercise 4. Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
41. During the Great Depression, many people suddenly found themselves jobless after a night.
42. I was relieved by the news that they had gone home safe and sound.
44. They are going to have to amputate his left leg which was badly injured in the accident.
45. Her identity will never be revealed in order to protect her children from being judged.
46. There are several interesting things emerging from the report.
47. This boy is poorly-educated and doesn't know how to behave properly.
49. It is not fair to give such a challenging task to an inexperienced staff like her.
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A. comprehensible B. difficult C. provocative D.
intriguing
50. White blood cells help defend the body against infection.
Exercise 5. Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following
questions.
51. We ____ to the hospital to visit Mike when he ____ to say that he was fine.
53. Last night, we ____ for you for ages but you never ____ up.
54. We ____ our quality time when the unexpected guess ____.
55. Since they ____ us they ____ to visit us last Sunday, we ____ forward to the day.
A. were telling - came - looked B . would tell – would visit - would look
C. told – would come - were looking D. tell - are coming - will look
56. I ____ out last night but at the last minute I ____ that I had a quiz this morning.
57. She hasn't paid as much attention to her children as she ____ since she ____ working.
59. Magellan ____ the first European who ____ through the strait.
60. The first self-sufficient village in Britain ____ the Norman's idea. They were some strange
invaders who ____ to change the country in a better way.
A. the B. a C. an D. Ø
62. The boss needs an assistant with ____ good knowledge of foreign trade.
A. a B. the C. any D. Ø
63. We are having ____ terrible weather which is quite strange. Usually ____ weather in UK is not
this bad.
64. Could you please close ____ window? I don't think it is necessary to open all the four.
A. a B. the C. some D. Ø
65. ____ Gordons is a very interesting family. They like to travel around ____ world.
66. To absorb more oil from spring rolls, we can use materials like ____ newspaper to wrap them
after frying.
A. the B. any C. Ø D. a
67. After a hard-working day, I went to ____ bed and had ____ most beautiful dream ever.
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A. the - the B. a – the C. a – a D. Ø - the
68. I have visited ____ Portugal but I have never been to ____ Netherlands.
69. Every week, his mother goes to ____ university to visit him while my mother has never come to
visit me since I went to ____ university.
70. He left on ____10 o'clock train yesterday to see his father who was taken to ____ hospital last
week when he broke ____ right leg.
Exercise 6. Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in
each of the following questions.
71. Last month, while my friend was traveling round England by the car, he crashed the car into a
tree.
A B C D
72. She was walking to the library to borrow some books when she was seeing a robbery.
A B C D
A B C D
74. Please turn off television. I also like watching TV but now I am having to study for the exam.
A B C D
75. The researchers of Harvard University reported that the tigers are one of the most dangerous
species in the
A B C
D
jungle.
76. I think a good health is important, and so is education while money, to some extent, is not.
A B C D
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77. He was reading out the data while Sara wrote it down carefully.
A B C D
78. He would live in the countryside but now he is living in a big city.
A B C D
79. Many people used to think learning English is full of the difficulties.
A B C D
80. The biggest problem with eating too much sugar is that it can cause the diabetes.
A B C D
81. The most people need healthy eating and enough exercise every day.
A B C D
82. The doctor said that she was making a relatively slow progress because she was quite old.
A B C D
83. Now J. K. Rowling is a multi-millionaire, but she was not born into the fame and fortune.
A B C D
84. Last night, suddenly my mother was deciding to ban me from using the Internet so we ended
up having a
A B C
D
huge row.
85. It was the day like any other and Martin was doing his normal round as a safeguard.
A B C D
A B C D
87. I went into the city center today because I need to get my phone repaired.
A B C D
89. The moment I was seeing him, I realized I had met him somewhere before.
A B C D
90. I was having a black cat three years ago but now it is no longer with me.
A B C D
Exercise 7. Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct response to each of the following
exchanges.
A. Thanks, I'd love to. B. Good. I'll call you. C. Just a minute. D.
Fine, I'll be ready
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97. What are you doing?
A. I see. I will tell Tom about it. B. I am seeing Tom. Do you have anything to tell
him?
A. Yes, that's the way it is. B. Oh, I know how you feel. C. No, nothing. D. Excuse me.
101. Would you like some cookies? I have just baked them.
A. Thank you. Yes, I would. B. Take it easy. C. Yes, I think so. D. Here you
are.
A. Never mind. There is always something to do. B. We'd better talk about them
both.
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Part V. READING
Exercise 8. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct
word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
Nowadays, everybody knows Apples and (106) ____ everybody knows that the company
was founded by Steve Jobs, an American inventor and entrepreneur. He is (107) ____
recognized as a pioneer in the field of microcomputer revolution. He helped design the first
Macintosh computer, (108) ____ a small computer graphics company into Pixar, the
company behind Toy Story and The Monster Inc.
His countercultural lifestyle and philosophy was a product of the time and place of his
(109) ____. Jobs was adopted and raised in San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s. In
1972, Jobs attended Reed College from which he (110) ____ in next to no time. Jobs co-
founded Apple in 1976 in order to sell Apple I personal computer. At that moment, he
might (111) ____ imagine that only a year later the company tasted impressive victory with
Apple II, one of the first highly successful (112) ____ personal computers. (113) ____, in
1985, following a long power struggle, Jobs was forced out of Apple. After leaving Apple,
Jobs took (114) ____ of its members with him to found NeXT, a computer development
company which was then bought by Apple. The purchase (115) ____ Jobs to become the
company's CEO once again.
Steve Jobs died in 2011 after battling with pancreatic cancer (116) ____ nearly a decade.
Millions first learned of Job's death on a (117) ____ which had been invented by himself.
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115. A. was allowing B. has allowed C. allowed D. had allowed
Exercise 9. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct
answer to each of the questions.
Born on June 30, 1985 in Baltimore, Maryland, to Fred and Debbie Phelps, the youngest of
three children, Michael Phelps and his sisters grew up in the neighbourhood of Rodger
Forge. His father, Fred, a former all-rounded athlete, was a state trooper and his mother
Debbie was a middle-school principal. When Phelps's parents divorced in 1994, he and his
siblings lived with their mother, with whom Michael grew very close. Even at the age of 7,
Phelps was still a little scared to put his head under water, so his instructors allowed him
to float around on his back. Not surprisingly, despite the fact that later he is very good at
butterfly swimming, the first stroke he mastered was not the easily-practised breaststroke
but the backstroke.
At the age of 15, Phelps became the youngest American male swimmer to compete at an
Olympic Games in 68 years. While he didn't win any medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics
in Sydney, Australia, he would soon become a major force in competitive swimming.
In the spring of 2001, Phelps set the world record in the 200-meter butterfly, becoming the
youngest male swimmer in history at the age of 15 years and 9 months. At the 2001 World
Championships in Japan, he then broke his own record with a time of 1:54:58, earning his
first international medal. In 2002, Phelps continued to establish several records including
the 100-meter butterfly and the 200-meter individual medley. The following year, at the
same event, he broke his own world record in the 400-meter individual medley with a time
of 4:09.09.
After the London Olympics in 2012, Phelps announced he was retiring from his sport.
However, at the 2016 Olympic Games, he came out of retirement and returned to
professional competition. This was also the event which he won one silver and five gold
medals, becoming the oldest individual gold medalist in Olympic swimming history, as well
as the first swimmer to win four consecutive golds in the same event, the 200-meter
individual medley.
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119. The first style of swimming Phelps was good at is ____.
121. At the 2001 World Championships in Japan, he broke the record of ____.
Exercise 10. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the
correct answer to each of the questions.
Theresa May, the second female Britain's prime minister following Margaret Thatcher,
revealed in 2013 that she had been given a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes, a condition that
requires daily insulin injections. Asked later how she felt about the diagnosis, she said her
approach to it was the same as toward everything in her life: “Just get on and deal with it.”
That kind of steeliness brought her to center stage in the aftermath of Britain's vote to
leave the European Union and the feuding that erupted in the Conservative Party over who
would succeed David Cameron.
Ms. May, 59 years old, is the country's longest-serving home secretary in half a century,
with a reputation for seriousness, hardwork and above all, determination. She is one of a
growing number of women in traditionally male-dominated British politics rising to the
upper position of leadership.
Born in 1956, Ms. May grew up mainly in Oxfordshire, an only child who was first drawn to
the Conservative Party at age 12. As a conscientious student, she never rebelled against her
religious upbringing and remains a regular churchgoer. Tellingly, her sports hero was
Geoffrey Boycott, a solid, stubborn cricketer who specialized in playing the long game.
Like many other Britain's prime minister including Tony Blair, Sir Robert Peel and
Margaret Thatcher, she won a place at Oxford. But while almost every other political leader
got there by way of Eton College and joined Oxford's hedonistic Bullingdon Club, she
attended a state secondary school and had a more sedate university career. After
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unsuccessful attempts to be elected to the House of Commons in 1992 and 1994, she finally
became an MP in 1997 general election.
May is known for a love of fashion and in particular distinctive shoes. She even wore
leopard-print shoes to her final Cabinet meeting as Home Secretary in early 2016.
However, she has been quite critical of the media focusing on her fashion instead of her
achievement as a politician. May also describes cooking and walking as primary hobbies,
and if someone is raising questions about why walking can be classified as a hobby, she
elaborates in a column for Balance magazine, in which she wrote of her battle with
diabetes.
123. According to the passage, who is the prime minister coming before Theresa May?
C. Conservative Party didn't have to discuss about who would be the next prime minister.
D. Theresa May's toughness was one of the reasons for the Party to choose her for the
prime minister position.
128. Her reason to consider walking as one of her main hobbies is ____.
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A. she is quite critical B. it helps her fight diabetes
Exercise 11. Mark the letter A. B. C or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to
each of the following questions.
A. I'll never take you down. B. I'll never let you down.
C. I'll never hold you down. D. I'll never make you down.
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C. It's not use asking me about it because I know nothing.
A. I have used to getting up very early. B. I have been used to getting up very
early.
C. I have put getting up very early to good use. D. I have made use of getting up very
early.
A. When I was young, my parents did not make me watch much TV.
B. When I was young, my parents did not let me watch much TV.
C. When I was young, my parents did not ask me to watch much TV.
D. When I was young, my parents did not take me to watch much TV.
Exercise 12. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair
of sentences in the following questions.
139. A car hit the fence of my garden. I was cleaning the swimming pool.
A. While a car hit the fence I was cleaning the swimming pool.
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B. A car hit the fence and I was cleaning the swimming pool.
C. I was cleaning the swimming pool when a car hit the fence.
D. I was cleaning the swimming pool then a car hit the fence.
140. My daughter asks for money every day. I am really annoyed by it.
142. I have presented about Oprah Winfrey. I hope the story would inspire you all.
A. I have presented about Oprah Winfrey to hope the story would inspire you all.
B. I have presented about Oprah Winfrey hoping the story would inspire you all.
C. I have presented about Oprah Winfrey hope for the story would inspire you all.
D. I have presented about Oprah Winfrey hoped the story would inspire you all.
143. Harry's life is rather dull. That's the reason why I don't want to talk about him.
A. The reason why I don't want to talk about Harry is that his life is quite dull.
B. Harry's life is rather dull because I don't want to talk about it.
144. She got so tired of waiting for him. She just got married to another man.
A. She got so tired of waiting for him that at the end she got married to another man.
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B. She got so tired of waiting for him while she got married to another man.
C. She got so tired of waiting for him afterwards she got married to another man.
D. She got so tired of waiting for him as a result she got married to another man.
_________THE END________
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