Choose the word which is stressed differently from the rest.

Question 1:

• a. important

• b. championship 
• c. organize
• d. finalist

Question 2:

• a. body
• b. country

• c. attend 

• d. final

Question 3:

• a. spectator
• b. establish

• c. tournament

• d. severely

Question 4:

• a. women
• b. outbreak

• c. decide 

• d. equal

Question 5:

• a. increase

• b. current
• c. version
• d. foodball

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.

Question 6: Peter should have apologized _____ being late this morning, but he did not.

• a. about
• b. at

• c. for

• d. up

Question 7: There are twenty questions _____ all.

• a. of
• b. with

• c. in

• d. for

Question 8: In spite of their hard work, they have not found ____ any solution yet.

• a. out

• b. off
• c. for
• d. from

Question 9: The trainer made a public___ for the team’s poor performance.

• a. apologize
• b. apologizing

• c. apology

• d. apologist

Question 10: Universities are very ___ for the best students.

• a. compete
• b. competition
• c. competitor

• d. competitive

Question 11: Most of the students enjoyed the mental ___ of that challenging assignment.

• a. stimulate

• b. stimulation

• c. stimulus
• d. stimulative

Question 12: Mary often found her teacher’s remarks stimulating.

• a. participating 
• b. interesting
• c. enjoying

• d. encouraging

Question 13: Some English Competition are ____ to stimulate the spirit of learning English among students.

• a. explained
• b. participated
• c. competed

• d. organized

Question 14: He has only one aim in life, which is to become wealthy.

• a. purpose

• b. sponsor
• c. contest
• d. score

Question 15: Johnny will have completed his five-year course at university next month.

• a. finished

• b. found
• c. tried
• d. enjoyed

Question 16: Companies will now be able to ____ programs on ITV and Channel 4.

• a. judge

• b. sponsor

• c. recite
• d. announce

Question 17: The students are nervous because results of the final examination will be ____ next Monday morning.

• a. participated
• b. competed
• c. completed

• d. announced

Question 18: “You mustn’t get into the area,” the policemen said.

• a. The policemen stopped them from getting into the area.

• b. The policemen denied from getting into the area.
• c. The policemen wanted. them to get into the area.
• d. The policemen suggested getting into the area.

Question 19: "May I go out Mum?” — “No, I won't let you go out.”

• a. The mother:prevented her child from going out.

• b. The mother suggested going out. 
• c. The mother thanked her child for going out.
• d. The mother insisted her child on going out.

Question 20: Johnny always dreams ____ a pilot.

• a. for becoming
• b. to become

• c. of becoming

• d. of being become

Question 21: °____” the boy admitted.

• a. I would like to spoil the food
• b. I will spoil the food

• c. I am sorry. I spoilt the food

• d. I must spoil the food

Question 22: “ ____ ” Andy suggested.

• a. Are you going for a walk?

• b. How about going for a walk?

• c. Did you go for a walk?
• d. Could you go for a walk?

Question 23: Mary accused Peter of stealing her money.

• a. Mary said, “It is you that stole my money.”

• b. Mary said, “Congratulations! Well done with your stealing my money.”
• c. Mary said, “Could you please steal my money?”
• d. Mary said, “Don’t steal my money.”

Question 24: “Read these books before the exam. They are necessary for you,” said the teacher.

• a The teacher argued about reading those books before the exam.

• b. The teacher recommended reading those books before the exam.

• c. The teacher warned his students against reading those books before the exam.
• d. The teachers prevented his students reading those books before the exam.

Question 25:  “ _____ ” the secretary proposed.

• a. Excuse me! We will buy some more equipment

• b. I think we should buy some more equipment

• c. Thank you very much for some more equipment
• d. You should not have bought some more equipment

Question 26: “ _____ ” Peter insisted.

• a. Thank you for paying my share!

• b. Let me pay my share, please!

• c. How about paying my share?
• d. What about paying my share?

Question 27: “ _____ ” Henry complimented.

• a. How about the new dress?
• b. What about the new dress?
• c. Buy the new dress, will you?

• d. How pretty you are in the new dress.

Question 28: “Are you the new manager, Daisy? Congratulations!” said Billy.

• a. Billy looked forward to being the new manager.
• b. Billy dreamed of being the new manager.
• c. Billy prevented Daisy from being the new manager.

• d. Billy congratulated Daisy on being the new manager.

Question 29: Johnny admitted _____ all the wine in the bottle.

• a. to drink
• b. having drunk 

• c. to drinking

• d. of being drunk

Question 30: The group leader prevented his members _____.

• a. from going on

• b. going on
• c. to go on
• d. to going on

From the four words or phrases (a), (b), (c), or (d), choose the one that best completes the sentence.

Question 31: Of the milons who saw Halley's comet In 1986, how many people ____ long enough to see it return in the twenty-first century?

• A. wIll they live
• B. they wIll be living
• C. living

• D. wIll live

Question 32: _____ that fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise are universally reflected in facial expressions.

• A. Anthropologists discovering

• B. Anthropologists have discovered

• C. The discovery by anthropologists
• D. Discovered by anthropologists

Question 33: The greater the population there is in a locality, ____ for water, transportation, and disposal of refuse.

• A. the great need
• B. greater need
• C. is there great need

• D. the greater the need there is

Question 34: A historical novel may do more than mirror history;____ future events.

• A. even influencing
• B. may even influence

• C. it may even infuence

• D. that it may even influence

Question 35: It is widely believed that the pull of gravity on a falling raindrop changes round shape into a teardrop shape.

• A. of the drop 

• B. the drop's

• C. drop of
• D. drops their

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

The Womens World Cup was originally the brainchild of the FIFA president João Havelange. The first tournament was hosted in China in 1991, with twelve teams sent to represent their countries. The 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup was held in Sweden with twelve teams. Over 650,000 spectators attended the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup in the United States, and nearly one billion viewers from seventy countries tuned in to watch sixteen countries vie for the title. 

In the 1999 edition, one of the most famous moments of the tournament was American defender Brandi Chastain's victory celebration after scoring the Cup-winning penalty shot against China. She took off her T-shirt and waved it over her head as men frequently do, showing her muscular torso. The 1999 final in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California had an attendance of 90,185, a world record for a women's sporting event.

The 1999 and 2003 Women's World Cups were both held in the United States; in 2008 China was supposed to host it but the tournament was moved because of SARS. As compensation, China retained 1ts automatic qualifñication to the 2003 tournament as host nation and was automatically chosen to host the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. The host country for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup will be decided by vote.

Question 36: In the frst Womens World Cup, there were teama.

• a. twelve

• b. sixteen
• c. seventeen
• d. twenty

Question 37: How often does the Womens World Cup take place?

• a. twice a decade
• b. Three times a decade

• c. Every four weeks

• d. Every six years

Question 38: Up to now, how many times has the Women's World Cup been hosted in the USA?

• a. Once

• b. Twice

• c. Three times
• d. Four times

Question 39: Which sentence is NOT true?

• a. The first Women's World Cup was held in 1991.
• b. There were twelve teams took part in the 1995 Women's World Cup.
• c. The 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup was held in Sweden

• d. The 2003 Women's World Cup was hosted in China.

Question 40: The 2007 Women's World Cup will be hosted in ____.

• a. the USA
• b. Sweden
• c. German

• d. China

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

The FIFA Women's World Cup is the (Question 41) _____ important international competition In women's football. It is (Question 42) _____ by the women's national football teams of the member states of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's largest global governing (Question 43)____. Contested (Question 44)____ four years, the first Womens World Cup tournament, (Question 45)_____ the Women's World Championship, was held in 1991, sixty-one years after the men's first FIFA World Cup tournament in 1930. The current format has sixteen teams (Question 46)_____ every four years for the winner's trophy. Of the first four tournaments held, the United States has won the championship (Question 47) ____ Norway once and Germany most recently in the 2003 edition.

Since Its first (Question 48)_____, the Womens World Cup has continued to grow (Question 49)____ popularity. FIFA estimates that there are currently forty million girls and women playing football around the world, and the number of women will equal to the number of men by 2010. Planning for the 2007 Women's World Cup in China reflects the (Question 50) ____.

Question 41:

• a. more

• b. most

• c. mostly
• d. almost

Question 42:

• a. confirmed

• b. contested

• c. governed
• d. established

Question 43:

• a. head
• b. forehead
• c. hand

• d. body

Question 44:

• a. every

• b. even
• c. event
• d. none

Question 45:

• a. name
• b. naming

• c. named

• d. namely

Question 46:

• a. struggle
• b. scramble

• c. compete

• d. hosted

Question 47:

• a. twice

• b. two
• C. pair
• d. couple

Question 48:

• a. show
• b. stage

• c. round

• d. tournament

Question 49:

• a. for

• b. in

• c. with
• d. from

Question 50:

• a. grow

• b. growth

• c. grew
• d. grown