TEST 19

TEST 19

I- Phonetics (p)

Choose the word that has the bold part pronounced differently (p)
1- A-borough B-thorough C-brother D-borrow
2- A-sugar B-surprise C-sentence D-settle
3- A-candy B-sandy C-many D-handy
4- A-name B-natural C-native D-nation
5- A-quark B-quality C-queue D-queen

Choose the word that has different stress pattern (p)
1- A-appliance B-activity C-adventure D-average
2- A-chemical B-effective C-experience D-biology
3- A-primary B-satisfy C-variety D-remedy
4- A-compulsory B-population C-occasionally D-immediate
5- A-favorite B-government C-influence D-identify

II- Complete the sentences by filling the mising word (p)

If you take a train or a bus, you must pay a F_______________
Please R______________ your hand if you want to ask the teacher a question
The chameleon is a very strange C________________
If a bomb goes off, it E_________________
K_____________, which can be seen everywhere in Australia, have a long tails
D_____________ taking a taxi, Bill still arrived late for the concert
When you use a D_______________ to look up a word, you need to be able to understand the symbools and the abbreviations it contains
All visitors to the town F________________ in love with it
To vanish means to D_________________
Another word for “valuable” is “P________________”

III- Fill in each blank in the following passage with one suitable word (p)

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
Franklin Roberts was a commercial airline pilot with more than 21,000 hours of flying time behind him. However, in _________________ of great experience, he could not explain something _________________ happened to him in the summer of 1981. As he was flying over Lake Michigan, an object appeared in the sky which took him completely ________________ surprise. Whatever it was, it raced through the sky ahead ________________ his plane and then turned across his path, before finally disapearing ________________ the distance.
________________ is the kind of incident that fascinates Richard Haines, a psychologist ________________ works at a research institute in California, and investigates reports like these ________________ a hobby. Over the last twelve years, he ________________ collected thousands of reports on UFOs seen by plane crews. He was concentrated ________________ the stories told to him by pilots, _________________ he believes they are more likely to be accurate. Pilots are trained in observation and make reliable witnesses. They would generally know what they were looking at __________________ it were something familiar. Critics of Haines’s work say that there is, in fact, __________________ special about pilots. They claim that pilots are as capable of making mistakes as ___________________ else. However, none of this has stopped Haines, who continues to investigate UFO reports __________________ enthusiasm

IV- Circle the odd one out (p)

1- A-library B-book C-machine D-librarian
2- A-principal B-animal C-periodical D-special
3- A-corner B-reader C-rubber D-sister
4- A-happy B-simply C-lively D-lovely
5- A-chair B-shelf C-rack D-stack

V- Underline a mistake in each sentence and correct it. If the sentence is true, wirte T (true) (p)

1- I remember to meet him before. He stole a bike outside the store
2- His explaination made the teacher angry. So he was pubnished by her
3- The heavy rain made it unable for them to paint the gate of the their house
4- What I know are that the witness still needs protecting
5- Families who are enough fortunate to own a historic home may be able to get restoration funds from the government


VI- Rewrite these sentences using the words in brackets (p)

He is likely to arrive late again (probably)
_________________________________________________________________
I don’t mind if you use my mobile phone (objection)
_________________________________________________________________
Hurry up! We must leave now (high)
_________________________________________________________________
Who broke the window? (whom)
________________________________________________________________?
There is no ice-cream left in the fridge (out)
_________________________________________________________________

VII- Read the passage then do the tasks below (p)

All languages have rules for forming words and for ordering those words in meaningful snetences. In written languages, meaning is expressed through a system of characters and rules for combining those characters. In spoken languages, meaning is expressed through a system of sounds and rules for combining those sounds. Word order is more important in English than it is in some languages,