KEY PRACTICE TEST 4

I. Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently.

1. A. sacred B. decided C. cooked D. planted
2. A. theater B. southern C. northwest D. cathedral
II. Choose one word whose stress pattern is different.
3. A. microscope B. redundant C. reluctant D. acquaintance
4. A. mausoleum B. memorial C. achievement D. development
III. Circle one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the
sentence to be correct.
5. The (A) company has just (B) bought lots of (C) equipments (D) recently.
6. As (A) part of the (B) introductory week (C) at universitywe had to do a time (D)
managed course.
7. The majority of the (A) contract negotiations were (B) handled (C) with lawyers
from a local (D) firm.
IV. Choose from the four options given one best answer or substitute to complete
each sentence.
8. We are considering buying a house in Gainesville, but we want to find out
............there first.
A. what the taxes are B. what are the taxes
C. the taxes what are D. the taxes are
9. There can be no doubt that recent statements ..............the company’s true financial
position were misleading .
A. respecting B. concerning C. dealing D. referring
10. In a hot, sunny climate, man acclimatizes by eating less, drinking more
liquids, wearing lighter clothing, and ……
A. skin changes that darken B. his skin may darken
C. experiencing a darkening of the skin D. darkens his skin
11. George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak Co., was the first to
develop a camera that could be operated by both professional ……….
A. and amateur B. and amateur photographers
C. amateur photographers D. and by amateur photographers
12. Rhododendrons would rather ……… in shady places, and so would azaleas.
A. to grow B. growing C. grown D. grow
13. She has changed ............ recognition. We couldn't recognize her.
A. of B. as C. in D. beyond
14. This man is so arrogant that he is completely………to all criticism.
A. unaware B. regardless C. unconscious D. impervious
15. Not until we ………at his house ………that he was on holiday.
A. will arrive/ will we discover B. arrived/ we discovered
C. arrive/ have we discovered D. arrived/ did we discover
16. They were fortunate .................. from the fire before the building collapsed.
A. rescuing B. to have rescued C. to rescue D. to have been rescued
17. .......... today was developed by the Swiss scientist Horace de Sassure around
1773.
A. Mountaineering as we know them B. We know mountaineering is
C. Mountaineering as we know it D. We know there is mountaineering

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 18. Jack went out all night last night so he can’t go to school today. He ………..
that.
A. shouldn’t do B. mustn’t do
C. can’t have done D. shouldn’t have done
19. Many of the jobs which have been created in this area can directly
be………to tourism.
A. supported B. attributed C. attracted D. dedicated
V. Choose the word that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in the
following questions.
20. Power plants are increasingly located outside metropolitan areas.
A. belonging to a big or capital city B. in an industrial city
C. of a busy suburb D. relating to a remote suburb
21. I cannot understand why she did that, it really doesn't add up.
A. doesn't calculate B. isn't mathematics
C. doesn't make sense D. makes the wrong addition
VI. Choose the word that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in the
following sentences.
22. Analysis showed that traces of arsenic were present in the body.
A. absent B. gift C. receiving D. past
23. People are talking about recycling, practicing it, and
discovering new ways to be sensitive to the environment.
A. responding B. logical C. caution D. unfriendly
VII. Choose the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchange.
24. Would you have some more beef? –..................
A. Not for me, thank you B. Yes, thanks
C. Lovely D. It's very kind of you
25. “Finish your breakfast quickly, ...........?”he said angrily to his son.
A. cannot you B. can’t you C. do you D. don’t you
VIII. Choose the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following
questions.
26. Societies doubted about women’s intellectual ability. Therefore, they could
not get access to education.
A. Women’s intellectual ability was doubted about due to their lack of education.
B. Not getting access to education, societies showed their uncertainty to women’s
intellectual ability.
C. The denial of education to women was caused by societies’ doubt about their
intellectual ability.
D. Failure to get access to education resulted in the doubt about women’s
intellectual ability.
27. Humans must be directly involved in saving endangered species. Or else,
they will immediately die out.
A. Endangered species are at immediate risk of extinction unless there is direct
human intervention.
B. In case humans are involved in protecting endangered species, they will
immediately die out.
C. Humans’ direct involvement will probably make it possible for endangered
animals to die out.
D. Had humans been not involved in protecting endangered species, they would
have immediately disappeared.
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IX. Choose the sentence which is closest in meaning to the original one:
28. The exercises to be corrected by the teacher on the blackboard made a lot of
important mistakes.
A. The exercises, which are corrected by the teacher on the blackboard, had a lot of
important mistakes.
B. The exercises, which were corrected by the teacher on the blackboard, had a lot
of important mistakes.
C. The exercises that are corrected by the teacher on the blackboard had a lot of
important mistakes.
D. The exercises, which the teacher corrects on the blackboard, had a lot of
important mistakes.
29. I’ve persuaded Tom to become the new secretary of the club.
A. I am considering Tom for the job of secretary.
B. Tom is wondering whether to accept the job of secretary.
C. I asked Tom to be the secretary and Tom agreed.
D. Tom has begged to become secretary of the club.
30. Because it was pouring down so intensely, I had to pull over the car and
wait for the rain to get lighter.
A. The rain intensified just as I was about to start the journey, so I decided to wait
until it got lighter.
B. I had to pull the car to the side of the road for some reason, but just then, the
rain started to get more and more intense.
C. The heavy downpour made it impossible for me to continue driving, so I had to
stop and wait until it became less intense.
D. I shouldn’t have kept driving ignoring the heavy downpour, as the vision was
poor and I very nearly drove off the road.
X. Read the passages and choose the best answer to every question.
Both the number and the percentage of people in the United States involved in
nonagricultural pursuits expanded rapidly during the half century following the Civil War,
with some of the most dramatic increases occurring in the domains of transportation,
manufacturing, and trade and distribution. The development of the railroad and telegraph
systems during the middle third of the nineteenth century led to significant improvements
in the speed, volume, and regularity of shipments and communications, making possible a
fundamental transformation in the production and distribution of goods. In agriculture,
the transformation was marked by the emergence of the grain elevators, the cotton
presses, the warehouses, and the commodity exchanges that seemed to so many of the
nation’s farmers the visible sign of a vast conspiracy against them. In manufacturing, the
transformation was marked by the emergence of a “new factory system” in which plants
became larger, more complex, and more systematically organized and managed. And in
distribution, the transformation was marked by the emergence of the jobber, the
wholesaler, and the mass retailer. These changes radically altered the nature of work
during the half century between 1870 and 1920. To be sure, there were still small
workshops, where skilled craftspeople manufactured products ranging from newspapers
to cabinets to plumbing fixtures. There were the sweatshops in city tenements, where
groups of men and women in household settings manufactured clothing or cigars on a
piecework basis. And there were factories in occupations such as metalwork where
individual contractors presided over what were essentially handicraft proprietorships that
coexisted within a single building. But as the number of wage earners in manufacturing
rose from 2.7 million in 1880 to 4.5 million in 1900 to 8.4 million in 1920, the number of
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huge plants like the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia burgeoned, as did the
size of the average plant. (The Baldwin Works had 600 employees in 1855, 3,000 in 1875,
and 8,000 in 1900). By 1920, at least in the northeastern United States where most of the
nation’s manufacturing wage earners were concentrated, three - quarters of those worked
in factories with more than 100 employees and 30 percent worked in factories with more
than 1,000 employees.
31. The word “domains” is closest in meaning to ………..
A. fields B. locations C. organizations D. occupations
32. What can be inferred from the passage about the agricultural sector of the
economy after the Civil War?
A. New technological developments had little effect on farmers.
B. The percentage of the total population working in agriculture declined.
C. Many farms destroyed in the war were rebuilt after the war.
D. Farmers achieved new prosperity because of better rural transportation.
33. The word “fundamental” is closest in meaning to ……
A. possible B. basic C. gradual D. unique
34. Which of the following was NOT mentioned as part of the “new factory
system”?
A. A change in the organization of factories.
B. A growth in the complexity of factories.
C. An increase in the size of factories.
D. An increase in the cost of manufacturing industrial products.
35. Which of the following statements about manufacturing before 1870 can be
inferred from the passage?
A. Most manufacturing activity was highly organized.
B. Most manufacturing occurred in relatively small plants.
C. The most commonly manufactured goods were cotton presses.
D. Manufacturing and agriculture each made up about half of the nation’s
economy.
36. The word “skilled” is closest in meaning to …..
A. hardworking B. expert C. well-paid D. industrial
37. The word “presided over” is closest in meaning to ……
A. managed B. led to C. worked in D. produced
38. The author mentions the Baldwin Locomotive Works because it was ……….
A. a well-known metal-works
B. the first plant of its kind in Philadelphia
C. typical of the large factories that were becoming more common
D. typical of factories that consisted of a single building
XI. Read the passages and choose the best answer to every question.
Marianne Moore (1887 - 1972) once said that her writing could be called poetry only
because there was no other name for it. Indeed her poems appear to be extremely
compressed essays that happen to be printed in jagged lines on the page. Her subjects
were varied: animals, labourers, artists, and the craft of poetry. Her poems are full of
quotations that she found striking or insightful. She included these in her poems in
quotation marks, and sometimes identified in footnotes. Of this practice, she wrote. “Why
the many quotation marks?” I am asked …When a thing has been said so well that it
could not be said better, why paraphrase it? My writing is a kind of collection of flies in
amber”. Close observation and concentration on detail are the methods of her poetry.

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 Marianne Moore grew up in Kirkwood, Missouri, near St. Louis. After graduation
from Bryn Maws College in 1909, she taught commercial subjects at the Indian School in
Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Later she became a librarian in New York City. During the 1920’s
she was editor of The Dial, an important literary magazine of the period. She lived quietly
all her life, mostly in Brooklyn, New York. She spent a lot of time at the Bronx Zoo,
fascinated by animals. Her admiration of the Brooklyn Dodgers - before the team moved
to Los Angeles - was widely known.
Her first book of poems was published in London in 1921 by a group of friends
associated with the Imagist movement. From that time on her poetry has been read with
interest by succeeding generations of poets and readers. In 1952 she was awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for her Collected Poems. She wrote that she did not write poetry for money
or fame. To earn a living is needful, but it can be done in routine ways. One writes
because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one’s happiness to
express …
39. What is the passage mainly about?
A. The influence of the Imagist on Marianne Moore
B. The use of quotations in poem
B. Essayists and poets of the 1920’s
D. Marianne Moore’s life and work
40. Which of the following can be inferred about Moore’s poems?
A. They are better known in Europe than the United States
C. They do not use traditional verse forms
B. They were all published in The Dial
D. They tend to be abstract
41. According to the passage Moore wrote about all of the following EXCEPT
……..
A. artists B. animals C. fossils D. workers
42. The author mentions all of the following as jobs held by Moore EXCEPT
……..
A. commercial artist B. teacher C. magazine editor D. librarian
43. The word “period” is closest in meaning to ……
A. movement B. school C. region D. time
44. Where did Moore spend most of her adult life?
A. In Kirkwood B. In Brooklyn C. In Los Angeles D. in Carlisle
45. The word “succeeding” is closest in meaning to ……
A. inheriting B. prospering C. diverse D. later
XII. Read the passage and then choose the best answer to fill in every gap.
Hydrogen, the lightest and simplest of the elements, has several (46) …..that make it
valuable for many industries. It releases more heat per unit of weight than any other fuel.
In rocket engines, tons of hydrogen and oxygen are burnt and hydrogen is used with
oxygen for welding (sự hàn) torches that produce temperatures as high as 4,000° F and
can be used in cutting steel. Fuel cells to generate electricity (47) …..on hydrogen and
oxygen.
Hydrogen also serves to prevent metals from tarnishing during heat treatments by
removing the oxygen from them. (48) ……it would be difficult to remove the oxygen by
itself, hydrogen readily combines with oxygen to form water, which can be heated to
steam and easily removed.
Hydrogen is also useful in the food industry for a process (49) ……as
hydrogenation. Products such as margarine and cooking oil are changed from liquids to
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semisolids by adding hydrogen to their molecules. Soap manufactures also use hydrogen
for this purpose.
Hydrogen is also one of the coolest refrigerants. It does notbecome a liquid until it
reaches temperatures of - 425° F. Pure hydrogen gas is used in large electric generators to
cool the coils. In (50) ….., in the chemical industry, hydrogen is used to produce
ammonia, gasoline, methyl alcohol, and many other important products.
46. A. things B. factors C. properties D. problems
47. A. rely B. run C. perform D. operate
48. A. Although B. However C. Therefore D. Because
49. A. named B. known C. considered D. used
50. A. act B. addition C. conclusion D. deed
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