Unit 9 : Natural Disasters : Test 2

Question 1-2: Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions. 

1. A. illiterate                     B. determine                           C entertainment                      D. traditional

2. A. assignment                 B. downtown                          C. postman                              D. custom       

Question 3-4: Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

3. A. city                            B. cathedral                             C. central                                 D. cinema

4. A. wandered                  B. embroidered                       C. preserved                            D. embarrassed

Question 5-6: Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in topic (or part of speech). 

5. A. activity                      B. loudspeaker                                    C. barber                                 D. postman

6. A. cart                            B. dogsled                               C. rickshaw                            

D. street

vendor

Question 7-18: Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. (3,0ms)

7. If we  ______________ water carefully, more people will have fresh water.

A. will use                   B. would use                           C. using                                   D. use

8. Should we try to ______ every custom or tradition which is in danger of dying out?

       A. preserve                  B. act out                                C. entertain                             D. open

9. She used to live in an igloo: a domed house ______ from blocks of ice.

       A. to build                   B. built                                    C. building                              D. to built

10. Every nation has respect for their long-preserved ______.
       A. behaviours              B. practices                             C. traditions                            D. traditional

11. We can learn how ______ Banh Chung at Tet.

A. make                       B. to make                               C. making                                D. made

12. Men used ______ the bread winner of the family.

A. be                           B. to be                                   C. to being                              D. to

13. I’ve been to a _____ village in Hue!

       A. conical hat making     B. making conical hat         C. making conical hats       D. hat making conical

14. The cost of _________ is very high in the big city.

       A. live                         B. living                                  C. lived                                   D. life

15. A ___________ is a solid figure or object, made by carving or shaping wood, stone, clay, etc.

A. painting                  B. sculpture                             C. medal                                  D. picture

16. A ___________ is a castle on high ground in or near a city, where people could go when the city was being attacked.    

A. cathedral                B. monument                          C. centre                                  D. citadel

17. The pagoda is in a beautiful ___________, close to the sea.

A. spaces                     B. setting                                 C. tower                                  D. set

18. There is general ________ that Vietnamese students lack knowledge of the natural, or man-made, wonders of Viet Nam.  

A. accepting                B. saying                                 C. recognition                         D. undertaking