Unit 16 : Inventions : Test 2

TEST 2

I.Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.

1.a. behave                                         b. paper                                                       c. taste                                                         d. chocolate

2.a. refine                                           b. invent                                                       c. facsimile                              d. vanilla

3.a. button                                          b. crush                                                       c. pulp                                                         d. papyrus

4.a. touch                                           b. thousand                                        c. about                                              d. round

5.a. process                                       b. appliance                                        c. official                                   d. place

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

6.The rice crop______.

a. is harvesting                          b. are harvesting              c. is harvested                 d. are harvested

7.We had dinner_____did the washing - up.

a. and then                                         b. and after                                         c. and finally                              d. and lately

8.We delayed our trip due to the bad weather.

a. because                                          b. because of                                      c. therefore                                d. however

9.The______machine has a lot of rollers.

a. papermaking                         b. rnakingpaper                c. papermake                            d. papermade

10.Tell him_____.

a. wait                                                                   b. to wait                                                      c. waiting                                                d. waits

11.At one time, coffee_____as a medicine.

a. used                                                                  b. was usnd to                          c. was used                               d. uses

12._____is a machine that washes dishes.

a. Washing machine b. Dishwasher                         c. Microwave                            d. Hairdryer

13.Jack doesn’t know how_____the toaster.

a. fix                                                                     b. to fix                                                                 c. fixing                                              d. for fixing

14. This food tastes______.

a. delicious                                         b. wonder                                                    c. diliciously                    d. wonderfully

15. She reheated the soup in the _____.

a. microwave                                      b. hairdryer                                        c. microphone                 d. vonveyor belt

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

16. A sample of chocolate given after visitors have toured the factory.

                      A                     B      C                             D

17. In the morning, the Professor showed us up the university.

      A                       B                                     C    D

18. After met the movie star, I understood why she was so popular.

                A              B                                  C                 D

19. One quarter to one third of the world’s coffee are produced by Brazil.

                 A                   B                                       C                   D

20. The procedure is almost the same like it was 200 years ago.

                              A      B                    C                                 D

IV. Choose the word (a, b, c, or d) that best fits each of the blank spaces.

Sugar cane is grown in hot countries like Cuba and the West Indies, where there is a heavy rainfall. At (21) ________ time, the cane is cut as close to the ground as possible in (22)_____ to keep all the juice, or sap, in each long stalk.

Then, the cane (23)_____to a mill, where it is cut into a lot of small pieces. Next, the juice is squeezed out by heavy (24)_____. The juice is cleaned and (25)____. boiled until crystals appear. (26)_____, these brown crystals are separated from the juice. The brown crystals are raw sugar.

21. a. harvest                                               b. festival                                           c. event                                               d. occasion

22. a. ought                                        b. order                                                       c. have                                                         d. need

23. a. takes                                                  b. is taking                                         c. is taken                                 d. will take

24. a. rollers                                                 b. conveyors                                      c. buttons.                                d. molds

25. a. next                                                    b. then                                                                   c. since                                         d. after

26. a. Although                                   b. Finally                                            c. After that                     d. b&c

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

NYLON was invented in the early 1930s by an American chemist, Julian Hill. Other scientists worked with his invention and finally on 27 October 1938, Nylon was introduced to the world. It was cheap and strong and immediately became successful, especially in the making of ladies’ stocking.

Today, nylon is found in many things: carpets, ropes, seat belts, furniture, computers, and even spare parts of the human body. It has played an important part in our byes for over 50 years.

27. Julian Hill was a! an _____.

a. chemist                                                    b. Americai                                        c. inventor                                         d. all are correct

28. Nylon can be found in ____.

a. many things                                                                                    b. spare parts of the human body

c. furniture                                                                                                   d. all are correct

29. What does the word ‘introduce’ in line 3 ffiean?

a. tell somebody your name                          b. tell somebody the name of a person

c. bring in something new                             d. bring something somewhere

30. Nylon_____.

a. was invented by Julian Hill               b. was strong but expensive

c. was not very popular                                          d. all are correct

31. Which of the following is not true?

a. Nylon was used to make ladies’ stocking.

b. Today, Nylon still plays an important part in our lives.

c. At first, people didn’t want to use Nylon.

d. We can found Nylon in computers.