Unit 4 : Our past : Test 3

Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others.

1. fairy
2. appear
3. cruel
4. master

Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others.

1. after
2. servant
3. grandpa
4. nearby

Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others.

1. farmer
2. village
3. escape
4. sister

Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others.

1. festival
2. excited
3. traditionnal
4. immediately

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each unfinished sentence below or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.

His wife ______ five years ago.

1. die
2. died
3. dies
4. was dying

Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others.

1. magicall
2. buffalo
3. everyone
4. equipment

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each unfinished sentence below or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.

We usually open our present_______midnight.

1. in
2. at
3. on
4. when

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each unfinished sentence below or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.

Where ______ before you moved here?

1. did you use to live
2. did you use
3. used you to live
4. used to you

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each unfinished sentence below or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.

_____ Thanksgiving Day, families come together for a special dinner.

1. In
2. At
3. On
4. When

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each unfinished sentence below or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.

She is dying______ cancer.

1. with
2. of
3. because of
4. by

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each unfinished sentence below or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.

The frog changed______ a handsome prince.

1. in
2. to
3. into
4. from

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each unfinished sentence below or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.

The committee decided ______ the offer.

1. to accept
2. for accepting
3. accepting
4. accept

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each unfinished sentence below or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.

His wife recently gave birth to a______ .

1. daughter
2. niece
3. nephew
4. children

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each unfinished sentence below or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.

You have nothing to ______ by telling the truth.

1. loose
2. lose
3. loss
4. lost

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each unfinished sentence below or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.

He’s getting very excited about his holiday.

1. eager
2. funny
3. worried
4. pleased

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each unfinished sentence below or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.

He’s getting very excited about his holiday.

1. eager
2. funny
3. worried
4. pleased

Choose the words or phrases that are not correct in Standard English.

On (A) Christmas, neighborhoods are (B) beautiful with (C) many bright Christmas lights(D).

1. a
2. b
3. c
4. d

Choose the words or phrases that are not correct in Standard English.

He wokes up (A) and finded (B) himself (C) in the hospital(D).

Choose the words or phrases that are not correct in Standard English.

When he told (A) me the (B) price, I nearly (C) died for (D) shock.

Choose the words or phrases that are not correct in Standard English.

It’s (A) a traditional (B) to sing ‘Auld Lang Syne’ on (C) New Year’s (D) Eve.

Choose the words or phrases that are not correct in Standard English.

Many (A) people wisdom (B) stayed at (C) home in the bad (D) weather.

Read the following passage and choose the item (a, b, c, or d) that best answers each of the questions about it.

Cambridge

20 February, 2050

Dear Mr. Editor,

I read the article last week which compared life in the 1990s with life today. The writer thought that family life then was better than it is now. I don’t agree. I think life today is much better than it used to be.

Life is so much easier and more convenient now. Fifty or sixty years ago, they didn’t have domestic robots, for example. My grandparents had to do all their own housework!

Today, we can order everything by using our cards, but in the last century people had to go to the shops themselves. What a waste of time! In my opinion, we’re much better off now.

Yours faithfully,

John Andrews

domestic (adj): trong nhà

According to John Andrews, life in the 1990s was ______ .

1. better than it used to be
2. better than life in the year 2050
3. so much easier and more convenient than life in the year 2050
4. less easier and convenient than life in the year 2050

Read the following passage and choose the item (a, b, c, or d) that best answers each of the questions about it.

Cambridge

20 February, 2050

Dear Mr. Editor,

I read the article last week which compared life in the 1990s with life today. The writer thought that family life then was better than it is now. I don’t agree. I think life today is much better than it used to be.

Life is so much easier and more convenient now. Fifty or sixty years ago, they didn’t have domestic robots, for example. My grandparents had to do all their own housework!

Today, we can order everything by using our cards, but in the last century people had to go to the shops themselves. What a waste of time! In my opinion, we’re much better off now.

Yours faithfully,

John Andrews

domestic (adj): trong nhà

Fifty or sixty years before the year 2050, _____ .

1. there were many domestic robots
2. people had to do all their housework by themselves
3. people bought everything by using their cards
4. people didn’t have to go to the shops themselves

Read the following passage and choose the item (a, b, c, or d) that best answers each of the questions about it.

Cambridge

20 February, 2050

Dear Mr. Editor,

I read the article last week which compared life in the 1990s with life today. The writer thought that family life then was better than it is now. I don’t agree. I think life today is much better than it used to be.

Life is so much easier and more convenient now. Fifty or sixty years ago, they didn’t have domestic robots, for example. My grandparents had to do all their own housework!

Today, we can order everything by using our cards, but in the last century people had to go to the shops themselves. What a waste of time! In my opinion, we’re much better off now.

Yours faithfully,

John Andrews

domestic (adj): trong nhà

What does the word ‘order’ in line 10 mean?

1. sell
2. buy
3. use
4. have

Read the following passage and choose the item (a, b, c, or d) that best answers each of the questions about it.

Cambridge

20 February, 2050

Dear Mr. Editor,

I read the article last week which compared life in the 1990s with life today. The writer thought that family life then was better than it is now. I don’t agree. I think life today is much better than it used to be.

Life is so much easier and more convenient now. Fifty or sixty years ago, they didn’t have domestic robots, for example. My grandparents had to do all their own housework!

Today, we can order everything by using our cards, but in the last century people had to go to the shops themselves. What a waste of time! In my opinion, we’re much better off now.

Yours faithfully,

John Andrews

domestic (adj): trong nhà

What does John think?

1. The life in 1990s wasn’t very interesting.
2. The writer of the article wasn’t right.
3. It’s a waste of time to go to the shop by himself.
4. all are correct.

Read the following passage and choose the item (a, b, c, or d) that best answers each of the questions about it.

Cambridge

20 February, 2050

Dear Mr. Editor,

I read the article last week which compared life in the 1990s with life today. The writer thought that family life then was better than it is now. I don’t agree. I think life today is much better than it used to be.

Life is so much easier and more convenient now. Fifty or sixty years ago, they didn’t have domestic robots, for example. My grandparents had to do all their own housework!

Today, we can order everything by using our cards, but in the last century people had to go to the shops themselves. What a waste of time! In my opinion, we’re much better off now.

Yours faithfully,

John Andrews

domestic (adj): trong nhà

John writes this passage in the year______ .

1. 1990
2. 2000
3. 2006
4. 2050