Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others.

Question 1:

• a. reserved
• b. invent
• c. beneath

• d. wardrobe

Question 2:

• a. orphan
• b. generous

• c. electric

• d. service

Question 3:

• a. character

• b. transmit

• c. opposite
• d. dangerous

Question 4:

• a. message
• b. humor
• c. countless

• d. include

Question 5:

• a. midday
• b. agree

• c. vegetable

• d. experiment

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each unfinished sentence below.

Question 6. ____ is a big metal box for keeping food and drink cold and fresh.

• a. Counter
• b. Sink
• c. Jar

• d. Refrigerator

Question 7. We amused ____ playing cards.

• a. ourself
• b. myself
• c. himself

• d. ourselves

Question 8. ____ I go and see that film at the Odeon?

• a. Should

• b. Ought
• c. Ought to
• d. Have to

Question 9. You ____ to eat more, you are far too thin.

• a. should

• b. ought

• c. could
• d. must

Question 10. The storm destroyed two houses ____ here.

• a. next

• b. near

• c. nearby
• d. nearly

Question 11. We found a picnic area down ____ the river.

• a. beside

• b. besides
• c. outside
• d. inside

Question 12. She is looking at the woman sitting ____.

• a. next

• b. opposite

• c. near
• d. nearly

Question 13: The repairman told me to keep the electrical socket _________ children’s reach.

• a. in

• b. out of

• c. into
• d. from

Question 14: If the machine _______, press this button.

• a. stop

• b. stops

• c. would stop
• d. stoped

Question 15: I’m not very ___________ at Math. I love English instead.

• a. free
• b. friendly

• c. clever

• d. boring

Choose the words or phrases that are not correct in Standard English.

Question 16: I painted my car myself so that I didn’t want to take it to the garage.

• a. painted
• b. myself 

• c. so that

• d. to take

Question 17: We must not go to school tomorrow because the teachers are having a meeting.

• a. must not

• b. to
• c. because
• d. are having

Question 18: It is dangerous not to cover electricity sockets. 

• a. is
• b. dangerous
• c. to

• d. electricity

Question 19: Police were there to make sure there be no violence.

• a. were
• b. to
• c. sure

• d. be

Question 20: He decided to visit a friend who lived very next to where he was at that moment.

• a. to
• b. lived

• c. next to

• d. at

Choose the word (a, b, c, or d) that best fits each of the blank spaces.

We don’t live (Question 21) ____ a house or a flat. We live on houseboat. The boat (Question 22) ____ small, but it’s quite big inside. Apart from the bathroom, it has only one room, so we (Question 23) ___ do everything there — eat, cook, sleep and watch TV. We usually keep our houseboat at Little Venice (Question 24) ___ London. We're almost in the center of the city there. That’s great for clubs, pubs, the theatre, and so on. But the (Question 25) ___ thing about a houseboat is that you can move and take you home (Question 26) ____ you.

Question 21:

• a. in

• b. at
• c. on
• d. inside

Question 22:

• a. 18
• b. was

• c. looks

• d. looked

Question 23:

• a. should

• b. have to

• c. need
• d. could

Question 24:

• a. in

• b. at
• c. on
• d. of

Question 25:

• a. best

• b. most
• c. worse
• d. fastest

Question 26:

• a. for
• b. to

• c. with

• d. of

Read the following passage and choose the item (a, b, c, or d) that best answers each of the questions about it. 

I live in a house near the sea. It’s an old house, about 100 years old, and it's very small. There are two bedrooms upstairs but no bathroom. The bathroom is downstairs next to the kitchen and there’s a living room where there is a lovely old fireplace. There’s a garden in front of the house. The garden goes down to the beach and in spring and summer there are flowers everywhere. So, I have a lot of visitors. My city friends often stay with me.

I love my house for many reasons: the garden, the flowers in summer, the fire in winter, but the best thing is the view from my bedroom window.

Question 27. Where does the author live?

• a. near the sea
• b. inthe country
• c. in the city

• d. a & b

Question 28. How many rooms are there in his/ her house?

• a. two
• b. three
• c. four

• d. five

Question 29. There’s a garden ___ the house.

• a. before

• b. behind
• c. beside
• d. beneath

Question 30. The author loves the house because of ____.

• a. the garden
• b. the flowers in summer
• c. the fire in winter 

• d. all are correct

Question 31. What does the author like best?

• a. the lovely old fireplace
• b. the garden
• c. the flowers in spring and summer 

• d. the view from his/ her bedroom window