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

Question 1:

• a. book

• b. too
• c. who
• d. lose

Question 2:

• a. fewer

• b. wonderful

• c. swallow
• d. chew

Question 3:

• a. tasting
• b. subject
• c. sleep

• d. pleasure 

Question 4:

• a. source
• b. resource
• c. course

• d. colour

Question 5:

• a. advice

• b. pick

• c. might
• d. kind

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: Which subject is this book _____?

• a. for

• b. on

• c. of
• d. up

Question 7: Francis Bacon lived _____ about the same time as Shakespeare.

• a. at

• b. for
• c. in
• d. over

Question 8: People enjoy a book _____ different ways.

• a. on
• b. with
• c. upon

• d. in

Question 9: This book is not really _____ It is a waste of money buying it.

• a. inform
• b. information

• c. informative

• d. informatively

Question 10: Sometimes it is _____ to find suitable books for our children.

• a. difficult

• b. difficulty
• c. difficultly
• d. difficulties

Question 11: A book may be evaluated by a reader or professional writer to create a book ______.

• a. review

• b. reviewing
• c. reviewer
• d. reviewed

Question 12: As for me, I consider reading _____ important part of ______ life.

• a. an / Ø

• b. the / a
• c. Ø / the
• d. an / a

Question 13: Anne says that she reads about half _____ hour a day, at least.

• a. a

• b. an

• c. the
• d. Ø

Question 14: Different people like specific types of books, and some people just like ______ literature in general.

• a. a
• b. an
• c. the

• d. Ø

Question 15: ______ books are ones in which the story is told or illustrated with pictures.

• a. Comic

• b. Thriller
• c. Romantic
• d. Science

Question 16: Boy, stop reading. ______ the book down and go to bed.

• a. Take

• b. Put

• c. Set
• d. Pick

Question 17: A book may be studied by students as the ____ of a writing and analysis exercise in the form of a book report.

• a. limit
• b. time

• c. subject

• d. interest

Question 18: It is a good book. I think it is interesting enough for you to ______.

• a. put down

• b. swallow

• c. look up
• d. understand

Question 19: A ______ is a report in a newspaper or magazine in which a writer gives his opinion of a book, a film, or a play.

• a. page
• b. subject

• c. review

• d. journey

Question 20: If you _____ a book, you have a brief look at it without reading or studying it seriously.

• a. dip into

• b. put away
• c. pick up
• d. put down

Question 21: Those letters _____ now. You can do the typing later.

• a. need typing

• b. needn’t be typed

• c. need to type
• d. needn't typing

Question 22: The museum is open to everybody. It ______ between 9am and 5pm.

• a. visits
• b. visited
• c. can visit

• d. can be visited

Question 23: The train ______ by bad weather. I am not sure.

• a. might delay
• b. might be delaying
• c. might have delayed

• d. might have been delayed

Question 24: The room ______ once a day.

• a. should clean
• b. should be cleaning

• c. should be cleaned

• d. should have cleaned

Question 25: Two tablets ______ twice a day to have you recover from the illness quickly.

• a. must take

• b. must be taken

• c. must have taken
• d. must be taking

Question 26: Theresa walked past me without saying a word. She ______ me.

• a. can’t have seen

• b. can’t see
• c. can’t have been seen
• d. can be seen

Question 27: I think the match ______ . Everybody’s gone into the stadium and you can hear them cheering.

• a. was started
• b. will be started
• c. must started

• d. must have started

Question 28: We found the exam extremely easy. We_____ so hard.

• a. needn’t study
• b. needn’t be studying

• c. needn’t have studied

• d. needn’t have been studied

Question 29: There is plenty of money in our account so those cheques ______ to  the bank today.

• a. needn’t be taken

• b. needn’t be taking
• c. needn't take
• d. needn’t taking

Question 30: The picnic _____ because Peter has just had a traffic accident.

• a. will cancel
• b. will be cancelling

• c. will be cancelled

• d. will have cancelled

Error Identification.

Question 31: Too much television can has negative effects on young minds because of higher levels of television viewing correlate with lowered academic performance, especially reading scores.

• a. negative effects

• b. because of

• c. correlate with
• d. especially

Question 32:  Neil Postman, an author of some great books, pointed out that reading teaches us to think in a logically connected way, and cultivating a sustained attention span.

• a. an author
• b. pointed out
• c. teaches

• d. cultivating

Question 33: Reading cannot make your life longer, but reading really makes your life more thicker. 

• a. cannot make
• b. longer
• c. really

• d. more thicker

Question 34: It is really sad how many people have the misconception that reading is bored.

• a. really
• b. how many
• c. misconception

• d. bored

Question 35: There are many benefits that we may be gained by actually taking the time to read a book instead of sitting in front of the TV or doing some other forms of mindless entertainment.

• a. may be gained

• b. actually
• c. instead of
• d. or

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer. 

It is often said that books are always a good friends and reading is an active mental process. Unlike TV, books make you use your brain. By reading, you think more and become smarter. Reading improves concentration and focus. Reading books takes brain power. It requires you to focus on what you are reading for long periods. Unlike magazines, Internet posts or e-Mails that might contain small pieces of information. Books tell the whole story. Since you must concentrate in order to read, you will get better at concentration. Many studies show if you do not use your memory, you lose it. Reading helps you stretch your memory muscles. Reading requires remembering details, facts and figures and in literature, plot lines, themes and characters.

Reading is a good way to improve your vocabulary. Do you remember that when you were at elementary school you learned how to infer the meaning of one word by reading the context of the other words in the sentence? While reading books. especially challenging ones, you will find yourself exposed to many new words.

Reading is a fundamental skill builder. Every good course has a matching book to go with it. Why? Because books help clarify difficult subjects. Books provide information that goes deeper than just classroom discussions By reading more books, you become better informed and more of an expert on the topics you read about. This expertise translates into higher self-esteem. Since you are so well-read, people look to you for answers. Your feelings about yourself can only get better.

Books give you knowledge of other cultures and places. The more information you have got, the richer your knowledge is. Books can expand your horizons by letting you see what other cities and countries have to offer before you visit them.

Question 36: Books have great influence on_____.

• a. TV
• b. friendship

• c. brain

• d. muscles

Question 37: When you are reading a book, ______.

• a. you have to read small pieces of information

• b. you use your brain in concentration and focus

• c. you have to read during a very long time
• d. you lose your memory

Question 38: A challenging book ______.

• a. helps you to improve your vocabulary

• b. is only for primary pupils
• c. can translate all new words
• d. contains a lot of difficult vocabulary

Question 39. Books _____. 

• a. are compulsory in every course

• b. are not needed in most of course
• c. contain less information than class discussions
• d. make a sick patient feel better

Question 40. Books cannot give you _____.

• a. knowledge
• b. information
• c. self-esteem

• d. muscles

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

When a child learns to read and write, he must access the schema developed in his (Question 41) ____ As he reads, the child creates pictures in his mind and uses (Question 42) ____ and points of reference to put the story (Question 43) _____. Television images do not go through a complex symbolic transformation. The mind does not have to decode and manipulate during the television experience. Watching television and playing video games do not (Question 44) _____ a child’s skills in word recognition, decoding, vocabulary, spelling or high-level thinking. The connection between television’s effects (Question 45) _____ children’s reading abilities and the (Question 46) _____ in their writing skills is clear: there is no question in the minds of educators that a student who cannot read with the true comprehension will never learn to write well. Writing, after (Question 47) _____ , is book talk, and you only learn book talk by reading. It has been shown that reading stimulates brain activity. While reading, we imagine settings, characters and we become part of the world of the story. (Question 48) ____, it has been shown that watching television prevents brain activity. Children who watch too much television are less socially developed awe Prooems maintaining (Question 49) ____ . Reading, (Question 50) ____ , of watching television, enriches our lives, develops the imagination, and intellect, and is less brain deadening. Reading is good for us, it makes one a better person.

Question 41:

• a. brain

• b. heart
• c. forehead
• d. hand

Question 42:

• a. imagine
• b. imaginative
• c. imaginary

• d. imagination

Question 43:

• a. one another
• b. other

• c. together

• d. each other

Question 44:

• a. digest
• b. chew
• c. advance

• d. develop

Question 45:

• a. with

• b. on 

• c. for
• d. at

Question 46:

• a. decline

• b. stop
• c. harm
• d. discouragement

Question 47:

• a. that
• b. it

• c. all

• d. whole

Question 48:

• a. Conversely

• b. Successfully
• c. Totally
• d. Unhappily

Question 49:

• a. education
• b. explanation

• c. concentration

• d. exploration

Question 50:

• a. because

• b. instead

• c. consisting
• d. in spite