Unit 11 : Books : Test 2

Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.

1. picture
2. action
3. question
4. future

Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.

1. swallow
2. below
3. slowly
4. allow

Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.

1. killed
2. enjoyed
3. described
4. digested

Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.

1. enough
2. loud
3. about
4. amount

Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.

1. reading
2. easy
3. pleasure
4. please

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

Who does the book belong ________?

1. for
2. to
3. on
4. through

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

It is important ________ students to read as many books as possible.

1. up
2. about
3. to
4. for

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

He picked ________ the book and turned page after page.

1. up
2. on
3. away
4. in

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

Read the book ________ and you can find the information you nee

1. care
2. careful
3. carefulness
4. carefully

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

Not many people find reading more ________ than watching TV.

1. interest
2. interested
3. interesting
4. interestingly

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

A ________ is a story long enough to fill a complete book, in which the characters and events are usually imaginary.

1. pleasure
2. novel
3. page
4. review

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

To become a novelist, you need to be ________.

1. imagine
2. imagination
3. imaginative
4. imaginarily

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

A ________ is the story of a person's life written by somebody else.

1. romance
2. fiction
3. biography
4. science

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

When a reader reads an interesting book slowly and carefully, he ____ it

1. reviews
2. chews and digests
3. swallows
4. dips into

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

Many teenagers are not much ________ in reading books, except for what they are made to read at school

1. excited
2. important
3. slow
4. interested

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

Since their appearance, books are a previous ________ of knowledge and pleasure.

1. source
2. pile
3. amount
4. sum

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

This book ________ to Peter. It is not mine.

1. possesses
2. owns
3. has
4. belong

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

I like ________ books better than ________ films.

1. Ø / Ø
2. the / the
3. Ø / the
4. the / Ø

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

Have you ever read ________ "Oliver Twist", ________ interesting novel written by Charles Dickens?

1. the / the
2. Ø / an
3. Ø / Ø
4. an / the

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

The situation ________ to continue.

1. cannot allow
2. cannot be allowed
3. cannot have allowed
4. cannot be allowing

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

The room is too dirty. It ________ now.

1. should clean
2. should have cleaned
3. should be cleaning
4. should be being cleaned

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

The machine ________ on by pressing this switch.

1. can turn
2. can be turned
3. must turn
4. should be turning

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

Things ________ clear to them so that they can do the work in the way that you have told them.

1. are making
2. ought to be made
3. have made
4. needn't be made

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

Everybody agrees that no more staff ________.

1. should employ
2. should not be employed
3. will not be employed
4. will he employed

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

Cigarettes ________ at a bakery.

1. most buy
2. cannot buy
3. cannot be bought
4. should not buy

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

The next meeting ________ in May.

1. will hold
2. will be held
3. will be holding
4. will have held

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

________ in simpler words?

1. Has this issue expressed
2. Can't this issue express
3. Can this issue express
4. Couldn't this issue be expressed

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

All traffic laws ________.

1. is observed
2. must be observed
3. must have observed
4. had better observe

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

Tomatoes ________ before they are completely ripe.

1. can be picked
2. can pick
3. needn't pick
4. should be picking

Choose the best clause or phrase to complete the following sentence.

The Old Man and the Sea is a novel of just over 100 pages in length by Ernest Hemingway, ________.

1. who should have written it and published it in 1952
2. it was written in Cuba in 1951 and it was published in 1952
3. which must have written and published in 1952
4. written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952