Test U9 -> U16 Eng8 with KEYS

THE SECOND SEMESTER REVISON
Date: 23 – 4 – 2011
TEST - ENGLISH 8
2010 – 2011
Time allowed: 60 minutes


I. Phonetics.
Choose the word whose underlined part in pronounced differently from the others in each question.
1. a. silver b. hill c. bill d. child
2. a. care b. stare c. are d. dare
3. a. great b. speaker c. reasonable d. easily
4. a. ear b. heart c. dear d. hear
5. a. exported b. imported c. added d. changed

Find the word with the stress pattern different from that of the others in each question.
6. a. believe b. partner c. champion d. member
7. a. immediate b. assignment c. interview d. appointment
8. a. expensive b. permission c. definite d. attention
9. a. advance b. extinct c. complete d. feature
10. a. relationship b. arrangement c. religious d. challenging

II. Vocabulary and Grammar
Find the one choice that best completes the sentence.
She won’t go out alone after dark. She is afraid of ……………
a. being attacked b. attacking c. attacked d. to attack
12. Tom came the party without ……………
a. inviting b. invited c. to invite d. being invited
13. The girl opened her eyes wide, …………… to smile.
a. try b. tried c. was trying d. trying
14. Carol and I are old friends. I …………… her since I …………… in high school.
a. have known / have been b. had known / had been
c. have know / was d. knew / was
15. Some people have nothing to do in their …………… time.
a. sports b. free c. amusement d. entertainment
16. When it started to rain he …………… his overcoat.
a. took out b. put in c. took off d. put on
17. Why don’t you asked them …………… to work?
a. if they go b. do they go c. they go d. will they go
18. People used …………… fire by …………… two sticks together.
a. make / rubbing b. to make / rubbing
c. to making / rub d. to make / to rub
19. After …………… the conditions I decide …………… for the competition.
a. hearing / not entering b. hear / not enter
c. to hear / not to enter d. hearing / not to enter
20. The old man asked me if I …………… a flying saucer.
a. have ever seen b. had ever seen
c. ever saw d. have ever been seeing
21. Can you tell me how …………… this washing machine?
a. to operate b. I could operate c. operating d. could I operate
22. Have you decided …………… to cook for dinner this evening?
a. who b. whom c. why d. what
23. The thief got into the house because I forgot …………… the window.
a. to look b. locking c. lock d. locked
24. My neighbor and I had a disagreement. I …………… him that he …………… wrong
a. said / was b. told / is c. said / is d. told / was
25. “Can you speak more slowly? I can’t understand.”, he said to me.
He asked …………… more slowly because …………… understand.
a. if I can speak / he can’t