_________ in the Middle East, oil became known as black gold because of the large profit it brought.

A. That when discovered 

B. Discovered

C. Discovering                

D. Which was discovered

.I. Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others. (5 pts)

1. A. cool B. blood C. fool D. tool

2. A. champagne B. exchange C. chance D. reach

3. A. swing B. sweet C. sword D. swan

4. A. occupation B. occasion C. shake D. challenger

5. A. with B. thunder C. wealth D. marathon

Your answers: 1. _______ 2. _______ 3. _______ 4. _______ 5. _______

II. Choose one word whose stress pattern is different from the others. (5 pts)

1. A. education B. unhappily C. development D. community

2. A. exciting B. important C. delicious D. beautiful

3. A. calendar B. longevity C. scientist D. constancy

4. A. distribute B. intelligence C. calculate D. consumption

5. A. potential B. convenient C. available D. fertilizer

Your answers: 1. _______ 2. _______ 3. _______ 4. _______ 5. _______

III. Choose the best answer to complete the sentences. (10 pts)

1. - “Have a nice weekend!” - “______.”A. Do you have any plans? B. I’m going to take it easy.C. Thanks. You too! D. Are you going anywhere?

2. Let's go somewhere else. There's ______ noise in this room.A. too many B. too much C. enough D. too

3. The staff ______ at weekends so as not to delay the project any further. A. works B. is working C. are working D. working 4. - “Is it far to the railway station from here?” - “______.”A. Sure, no problem B. By taxi C. None at all D. Yeah, it’s pretty far

5. He is the first student ______ the scholarship this yearA. who win B. to win C. winning D. whose won

6. Tet is a wonderful opportunity for ______ off new clothes.A. showing B. wearing C. carrying D. putting

7. They have just moved into a huge ______.A. house two-storey B. house of two storey C. two-storeys house D. two-storey house

8. ______ in large quantities in the Middle East, oil became known as black gold because of the large profit it brought. A. Discovering B. which was discovered C. Discovered D. That when discovered

9. The farther a star is from us, ______ it seems to us.A. the smaller B. much small C. the smallest D. smaller

10. - "Do you like the novel that I gave you last week?”- “______ the novels that I’ve read, I enjoy this one most.”A. All of B. Of all C. For all D. From all

Your answers: 1. _______ 2. _______ 3. _______ 4. _______ 5. ________ 6. _______ 7. _______ 8. _______ 9. _______ 10. _______

Sugar tastes sweet because of thousands of receptors on the tongue which connect the substance with the brain. The taste of sweetness is universally accepted as the most pleasurable known, although it is a fructose. Abundant is the most common occurring sugar, (1)______ of which include fruit and honey. Sucrose, which supplies glucose to the body, is (2)______  from the sugar cane plant, and white sugar (pure sucrose) is used by food technologists to (3)______ sweetness in other substances. Approximately a dozen artificial sweeteners have been discovered; one of the earliest was Sorbitol from France.

Manufacturers add large amounts of sugar to foodstuffs but never more than the (4)______ required to produce the optimum pleasurable taste. Surprisingly, this amount is similar for different people and in different cultures. No one has (5)______ discovered a way to predict whether a substance will taste sweet, and it was by chance alone that all the man-made chemical sweeteners were found to be sweet.

Điền vào số 3

A. smell

B. detect

C. taste

D. measure

Sugar tastes sweet because of thousands of receptors on the tongue which connect the substance with the brain. The taste of sweetness is universally accepted as the most pleasurable known, although it is a fructose. Abundant is the most common occurring sugar, (1)______ of which include fruit and honey. Sucrose, which supplies glucose to the body, is (2)______  from the sugar cane plant, and white sugar (pure sucrose) is used by food technologists to (3)______ sweetness in other substances. Approximately a dozen artificial sweeteners have been discovered; one of the earliest was Sorbitol from France.

Manufacturers add large amounts of sugar to foodstuffs but never more than the (4)______ required to produce the optimum pleasurable taste. Surprisingly, this amount is similar for different people and in different cultures. No one has (5)______ discovered a way to predict whether a substance will taste sweet, and it was by chance alone that all the man-made chemical sweeteners were found to be sweet.

Điền vào số 5

A. just

B. yet

C. still

D. already

Sugar tastes sweet because of thousands of receptors on the tongue which connect the substance with the brain. The taste of sweetness is universally accepted as the most pleasurable known, although it is a fructose. Abundant is the most common occurring sugar, (1)______ of which include fruit and honey. Sucrose, which supplies glucose to the body, is (2)______  from the sugar cane plant, and white sugar (pure sucrose) is used by food technologists to (3)______ sweetness in other substances. Approximately a dozen artificial sweeteners have been discovered; one of the earliest was Sorbitol from France.

Manufacturers add large amounts of sugar to foodstuffs but never more than the (4)______ required to produce the optimum pleasurable taste. Surprisingly, this amount is similar for different people and in different cultures. No one has (5)______ discovered a way to predict whether a substance will taste sweet, and it was by chance alone that all the man-made chemical sweeteners were found to be sweet.

Điền vào số 2

A. drawn

B. extracted

C. cited

D. made

Sugar tastes sweet because of thousands of receptors on the tongue which connect the substance with the brain. The taste of sweetness is universally accepted as the most pleasurable known, although it is a fructose. Abundant is the most common occurring sugar, (1)______ of which include fruit and honey. Sucrose, which supplies glucose to the body, is (2)______  from the sugar cane plant, and white sugar (pure sucrose) is used by food technologists to (3)______ sweetness in other substances. Approximately a dozen artificial sweeteners have been discovered; one of the earliest was Sorbitol from France.

Manufacturers add large amounts of sugar to foodstuffs but never more than the (4)______ required to produce the optimum pleasurable taste. Surprisingly, this amount is similar for different people and in different cultures. No one has (5)______ discovered a way to predict whether a substance will taste sweet, and it was by chance alone that all the man-made chemical sweeteners were found to be sweet.

Điền vào số 1

A. roots

B. origins

C. sources

D. places

Sugar tastes sweet because of thousands of receptors on the tongue which connect the substance with the brain. The taste of sweetness is universally accepted as the most pleasurable known, although it is a fructose. Abundant is the most common occurring sugar, (1)______ of which include fruit and honey. Sucrose, which supplies glucose to the body, is (2)______  from the sugar cane plant, and white sugar (pure sucrose) is used by food technologists to (3)______ sweetness in other substances. Approximately a dozen artificial sweeteners have been discovered; one of the earliest was Sorbitol from France.

Manufacturers add large amounts of sugar to foodstuffs but never more than the (4)______ required to produce the optimum pleasurable taste. Surprisingly, this amount is similar for different people and in different cultures. No one has (5)______ discovered a way to predict whether a substance will taste sweet, and it was by chance alone that all the man-made chemical sweeteners were found to be sweet.

Điền vào số 4

A. maximum

B. excess

C. extremity

D. limit

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

California attracted people from many countries when gold was discovered in I848.

A. Discovered in 1848, gold was attractive to people in Cali font ia.

B. Discovered in California in 1848, gold attracted people from many countries there. 

C. Gold in California was discovered in 1848 after many people came here. 

D. When people are attracted to California, they discovered gold in 1848.