Language

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

1. rained 
2. followed 
3. walked 
4. imagined

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

1. change 
2. choose 
3. machine 
4. match

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

1. started 
2. posted
3. watched 
4. decided

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

1. deaf
2. leaf
3. heat
4. meat

Choose the word which has a different stress pattern from the others.

1. unaffected 
2. undrinkable 
3. uncountable 
4. unsuitable

Choose the word which has a different stress pattern from the others.

1. incident 
2. terrorist 
3. adventure
4. cultural

Choose the word which has a different stress pattern from the others.

1. charity
2. reality
3. density 
4. quality

Choose the word which has a different stress pattern from the others.

1. primary
2. animal
3. tropical
4. volcano

Choose the word which has a different stress pattern from the others.

1. impossible 
2. unnatural 
3. unrelated 
4. unbearable

Choose the best answer to complete the sentence.

People will take __________ of robots to do household chores.

1. chance 
2. condition
3. advantage 
4. success

 Facebook was built on the __________ of earlier social network sites like MySpace and Bebo.

1. succeed 
2. successful 
3. successfully 
4. success

Robots save workers from _________ dangerous tasks.

1. making  
2. having 
3. performing 
4. carrying

 It is thought that driverless cars will transform the way we move _________ cities in the future.

1. around 
2. away 
3. along 
4. ahead

Many people believe that robots have made workers jobless _________ that is not necessarily true.

1. but 
2. and 
3. so 
4. or

Mars is named _________ the Roman God of war.

1. to
2. about
3. after 
4. under

Alexander Graham Bell was a great ___________, who invented the telephone.

1. developer             
2. conservationist    
3. scientist               
4. explorer

By 2050 we _________ in smart homes. 

1. will live 
2. will be lived 
3. will have lived
4. are living 

Put the words and phrases in the right order to make meaningful sentence.

•  All
• our
• housework
• will
• be
• done
• by
• robots
• in
• 20 years’time.

Choose the correct answer to complete the sentence.

She's now in Ho Chi minh city but she (will have/ will be having/ will have had/ is having) a holiday in Da Nang at the end of this month.

Put the verb in bracket in the correct tense.

Our grandparents (come) _________ to stay with us next weekend.

If the teacher were here now, we’d ask him the difference _________ “science” and “technology”.

1. among
2. of
3. between 
4. for

Choose a suitable word to fill in each gap to complete the passage.

It is estimated that about three billion people use the Internet around the world. Most people use the Internet to (1) get information; says; that activity; the field or for entertainment. A new study, however, shows us that almost ten percent of Internet users are using it so often that it is seriously harming their lives. The study (2) says; get information; that activity; the field that these people may find it difficult to stop using the Internet because they have become addicted. Someone who is addicted finds it extremely difficult to stop doing (3) that activity; the field; addictive; get information. According to a psychologist in (4) the field; addictive; says; that activity, thirty percent of Internet users claim that they use the Internet to escape from their problems. The study also shows that having a chat, or discussion, with strangers on the Internet is one of the most (5) addictive; says; that activity; get information activities.

People who cannot hear or speak often communicate using _________.

1. pictures          
2. sounds            
3. codes                     
4. signs

Find a mistake in the four underlined parts of the sentence.

The teacher asked his students to do the exercise and not talk in class.

1. The
2. to do
3. and
4. not talk

Find a mistake in the four underlined parts of the sentence.

He regretted not say goodbye to his girlfriend at the airport.

1. not
2. say
3. to
4. at

Would you mind __________ me your home address, Mrs. Taylor?

1. send
2. sending
3. to send
4. to sending

Change this sentence into indirected speech.

"I'll phone and inform him about it tomorrrow," he said.

He promised ____________.

1. to phone and inform him about it the following day
2. phone and inform him about it the following day
3. to phone and inform him about it tomorrrow
4.  he'll phone and inform him about it the following day

The gate _________ to let the car run into the yard easily. (widen)

1. will be widened
2. will widen
3. will have widened
4. is widen

Give the correct form of the verb to complete the sentence.

Thousands of _________ are used in everyday products in our water, our food and in the air we breathe. (chemistry)

Edward asked his friend how people on Venus __________.

1. communicated
2. communicate
3. communicates
4. have communicated