Find the word with the stress pattern different from that of the other three words in each question.

Question 1:

• a. occasion
• b. occurrence
• c.remember 

• d. occupy

Question 2:

• a. method
• b. physicist

• c. marine

• d. mercury

Question 3:

• a. advisable

• b. admirable

• c. reliable
• d. desirable

Question 4:

• a. consonant 

• b. encounter
• c. determine
• d. disaster

Question 5: 

• a. purpose

• b. protect
• c. prepare
• d. surface

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

Question 6: Those archaeologists are preparing a lot of things ____ their exploration.

• a. of
• b. in
• c. upon

• d. for

Question 7: The pharaoh was buried in the pyramid together _____ a lot of belongings.

• a. for

• b. with

• c. of
• d. to

Question 8: Many people died mysteriously when they tried to steal things ___ the pvramids.

• a. on

• b. from

• c. against
• d. to

Question 9: The building is still under ____.

• a. construct
• b. constructive

• c. construction

• d. constructor

Question 10: New legislation still does not offer adequate ______ for many historic buildings.

• a. protect

• b. protection

• c. protective
• d. protector

Question 11: We need some necessary ____ before our journey to Egypt.

• a. prepare

• b. preparation

• c. preparatory
• d. preparing

Question 12: The thieves broke into the tomb to steal the treasures.

• a. mummies
• b. bodies
• c. materials

• d. valuable objects

Question 13: People thought that those trees were carried by the flow of the river. .

• a. sent
• b. erected

• c. transported

• d. established

Question 14: Warwick Arts Centre is the second largest Arts Centre in Britain, ____ in size only by London’s Barbican.

• a. built
• b. placed

• c. surpassed

• d. blocked 

Question 15: No one approved of what he had proposed.

• a. expressed
• b. shown

• c. suggested

• d. placed 

Question 16: They proposed two theories that actively ____ ways that ancient Egyptians built the pyramids.

• a. involved

• b. constructed
• c. enclosed
• d. proceeded

Question 17: A ____ is a formal idea or set of ideas that is intended to explain something.

• a. tomb

• b. theory

• c. structure
• d. ramp

Question 18: There are several structures in Greece that archaeologists have called ___ pyramids.

• a. a
• b. an
• c. the

• d. Ø

Question 19: Pausanias, ____ Greek traveler in the second century A.D., described several of the structures aS pyramids.

• a. a

• b. an
• c. the
• d. Ø

Question 20: That skyscraper is said to have been built in 1930.

• a. They said that skyscraper was built in 1930.
• b. It was said that skyscraper was built in 1930.
• c. They are said that skyscraper is built in 1930.

• d. It is said that skyscraper was built in 1930.

Question 21: Pyramid-shaped structures ____ by many ancient civilizations.

• a. constructed

• b. were constructed

• c. was constructing
• d. constructs

Question 22: We were told to wait here.

• a. They tell us to wait here.
• b. They tell us we wait here.

• c. They told us to wait here.

• d. They told us to be waited here.

Question 23: You should take care when working on electrical equipment.

• a. Care should be taken when you are working on electrical equipment.

• b. Care should be taken when working on electrical equipment.
• c. Electrical equipment should be taken care when working on.
• d. Electrical equipment should be taken care when you are working on.

Question 24: I ___ chess when I was five years old.

• a. had been taught how to be played

• b. had been taught how to play

• c had taught to play
• d. had taught to be played

Question 25: People seem to recognize the structure the most attractive.

• a. The structure is seemed to recognize the most attractive.
• b. The structure is seemed to be recognized the most attractive.

• c. The structure seems to be recognized the most attractive.

• d. It is seemed to recognize the structure the most attractive.

Question 26: They predict that a heavy storm will come in the area.

• a. A heavy storm is predicted to have come in the area
• b. It is predicted that a heavy storm will be come in the area.

• c. A heavy storm is predicted to come in the area.

• d. A heavy storm is predicted to be come in the area.

Question 27: _____ how the ancient Egyptians carried such heavy blocks of stone.

• a. It does not know
• b. People have not been known
• c. It has not known

• d. It has not been known

Question 28: I narrowly ____ by the bus when it came round the corner.

• a. avoided being hit

• b. was avoided hitting
• c. avoided hitting
• d. was avoided being hit

Question 29: They were serving lunch when we arrived.

• a. Lunch is served
• b. It is served lunch
• c. It was served lunch

• d. Lunch was being served

Question 30: John ____ The Great Pyramid of Giza. 

• a. said to have been visited
• b. is said to have been visited

• c. is said to have visited 

• d. said fo have visited

Choose the word or phrase (a, b, c or d) that wouldn’t be correct. Then write the correct entences.

Question 31: Almost all students in the college do not seem to study hard.

• a. Almost all

• b. in the college
• c. seem 
• d. to study

Question 32: I found that the number of universities which accept foreign students have been increasing.

• a. the number of
• b. accept
• c. students 

• d. have been

Question 33: Never I have seen such an excited film.

• a. Never

• b. I have

• c. such an
• d. film

Question 34: The news are on TV soon.

• a. the news

• b. are

• c. on
• d. soon

Question 35: We arrived to harbor Gdansk two hours ago.

• a. arrived to

• b. to harbor
• c. two hours
• d. ago

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer

The Great Wall in China is also considered one of the wonders of the world. The Great Wall started as earth works was set up to protect the country from invaders. Qin Shihuangdi, First Emperor of Qin began conscripting peasants, prisoners, and any other citizens to go to work on the Wall. He sent armies to the Wall to stand guard over the workers as well as to defend the northern boundaries. The tradition lasted for centuries. Each dynasty added to the height, breadth, length, and elaborated the design mostly through forced labor.

It was during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) that the Wall took on its present form. The brick and granite work was enlarged and sophisticated designs were added. The watch towers were redesigned. 

Over the past few centuries, the Great Wall has served as a source of building materials for local farms and villages. 

Question 36: The Great Wall in China was built ____.

• a. to become the world’s wonder

• b. to protect China from being invaded

• c. before Qin dynasty
• d. after the death of Qin Shihuangdi

Question 37: Who were not forced to work in the Wall?

• a. prisoners
• b. farmers
• c. ordinary citizens

• d. royal members

Question 38: At the Great Wall, there were ____.

• a. a lot of soldiers

• b. notiamy soldiers
• c. no guards
• d. very few workers

Question 39: The Great Wall took on its present form ____.

• a. before Qin dynasty
• b. after Qin dynasty
• c. before Ming dynasty

• d. during Ming dynasty

Question 40: According to the text ___.

• a. there are sophisticated designs on the Great Wall

• b. the Great Wall was not built of brick
• c. there are no watch towers on the walis
• d. the Great Wall has no effects on Chinese people’s life

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the walls of Babylon (near present-day Al Hillah in Iraq) are (Question 41) ____ one of the original Seven Wonders of the World. They were built by Nebuchadnezzar II around 600 BC. He (Question 42) ____ to construct gardens to please his wife, Amytis of Media, who longed (Question 43) ____ the trees and beautiful plants of her homeland. The Garden was (Question 44) ____ in a plain; and the circuit of its wall was three hundred and eighty-five miles. The (Question 45) ____ of its wall was thirty-two feet; built up in tiers (Question 46) _____ it resembled a theater.

There was some controversy as to (Question 47)___ the Hanging Gardens were an actual creation or a poetic creation (Question 48) ____ the lack of documentation of them in the chronicles of Babylonian history. In ancient writings the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were first (Question 49) ____ by Berossus, a Chaldean priest who (Question 50) ___ in the late 4th century B.C. These accounts were later elaborated on by Greek historians.

Question 41:

• a. appreciated

• b. considered

• c. seen
• d. thought

Question 42:

• a. said
• b. is said

• c. was said

• d. was saying

Question 43:

• a. for

• b. of
• c. to
• d. with

Question 44:

• a. lain
• b. seated
• c. put

• d. located

Question 45:

• a. thick

• b. thickness

• c. thicken
• d. thickened

Question 46:

• a. although
• b. if
• c. as though

• d. so that

Question 47:

• a. whether

• b. not only
• c. neither
• d. unless

Question 48:

• a. because
• b. thanks to

• c. due to

• d. dealing with

Question 49:

• a. supported 

• b. described 

• c. shown
• d. watched

Question 50:

• a. living
• b. was lived
• c. is lived

• d. lived