Choose correct answer. Only one answer is correct.
One crossing of the Atlantic is very much like __1__; and people who cross it frequently do not __2__ for the __3__ of its interest. Most of us are quite happy when we feel __4__ to go to bed and pleased when the journey __5__. On the first night this time I felt especially lazy and went to bed __6__ earlier than usual. When I __7__ my cabin, I was surprised __8__ that I __9__ a companion during my trip. I had expected __10__ but there was a suitcase __11__ mine in the opposite corner. I wondered who __12__. Soon afterward he came in. He was the sort of man you might meet __13__, except that he was wearing __14__ good clothes that I made up my mind that we would not __15__, __16__, and did not say __17__.
I suppose I slept for several hours because when I woke up it was the middle of the night. I felt cold but covered __18__ __19__ and tried to __20__. Then I realized that a draught was coming from somewhere. I got up __21__ the door but found it already locked from the inside. The cold air was coming from the window opposite. I crossed the room and __22__ the moon shone through it on to the other bed. __23__ there. It took me a minute or two to __24__ the door myself. I realized that my companion __25__ through the window into the sea.
- A) other
- B) the other
- C) another
- D) one other
- A) make the travel
- B) make the voyage
- C) do the travel
- D) do the voyage
- A) reason
- B) motive
- 3. A) reason B) motive
- 3. A) reason B) motive C) cause D sake
- A) tired enough
- B) enough tired
- C) ourselves tired enough
- D) our selves enough tired
- A) is achieved
- B) finish
- C) is over
- D) is in the end
- A) quite
- B) rather
- C) fairly
- D) somehow
- A) arrived in
- B) reached to
- C) arrived to
- D) reached at
- A) for seeing
- B) that I saw
- C) at seeing
- D) to see
- A) am to have
- B) should have had
- C) would have
- D) ought to have
- A) being lonely
- B) to be lonely
- C) being alone
- D) to be alone
- A) like
- B) as
- C) similar than
- D) the same that
- A) could he be and how he would be
- B) he could be and what he would be like
- C) could he be and what would he be like
- D) he could be and he would be
- A) in each place
- B) for all parts
- C) somewhere
- D) anywhere
- A) a so
- B) so
- C) such a
- D) such
- A) treat together well
- B) pass together well
- C) get on well together
- D) go by well together
- A) whoever he was
- B) whoever was he
- C) however he was
- D) however was he
- A) him a single word
- B) him not one word
- C) a single word to him
- D) not one word to
- A) up me
- B) up myself
- C) up to myself
- D) myself up
- A) so well as I could
- B) as well as I could
- C) so well that I might
- D) as well that I might
- A) go back to sleep
- B) go back to sleeping
- C) put myself to sleep again
- D) put myself for sleeping again
- A) to shut
- B) for shutting
- C) in order that I shut
- D) so as for shutting
- A) while doing like that
- B) as I did like that
- C) as I did so
- D) at doing so
- A) It was no one
- B) There was no one
- C) It any one
- D) There was any one
- A) remind to lock
- B) remember to lock
- C) remind locking
- D) remember locking
- A) had to jump
- B) was to have jumped
- C) must have jumped
- D) could be jumped
“__26__ I ask the waiter for the bill, darling, when you __27__ your coffee?”
“Yes I think you __28__. I __29__ this film for such a long time that I __30__ any of it.”
“Waiter! The bill, please. Oh dear, I haven’t got my wallet. I __31__ it in my other jacket. I wish I __32__ it before we came out.”
“Good heaven! Now I suppose they’ll make us __33__”
- A) Shall
- B) Will
- C) Am I going
- D) Ought
- A) will finish
- B) shall finish
- C) will have finish
- D) have finished
- A) had rather
- B) would rather
- C) had better
- D) would better
- A) am looking forward to seeing
- B) am looking forward to see
- C) have been looking forward to seeing
- D) have been looking forward to see
- A) wouldn’t like that we miss
- B) wouldn’t like to miss
- C) wouldn’t miss
- D) wouldn’t like that we missed
- A) must have left
- B) had to leave
- C) should have left
- D) ought have left
- A) would check
- B) have checked
- C) would have checked
- D) had checked
- A) to wash up
- B) wash up
- C) washing up
- D) the washing up
- He ______ out of the window for a moment and then went on working.
- A) glanced
- B) viewed
- C) glimpsed
- D) regarded
- It’s the ______ in this country to go out and pick flower on the first day of spring.
- A) use
- B) custom
- C) habit
- D) normal
- He made a swift ______ from his illness.
- A) repair
- B) survival
- C) relief
- D) recovery
- It gave me a strange feeling of excitement to see my name in ______.
- A) news
- B) print
- C) publication
- D) press
- You’d better add it up. I am no good at ______.
- A) counters
- B) characters
- C) summaries
- D) figures
- Our main concern is to raise the voters’ ______ of living.
- A) standard
- B) capacity
- C) degree
- D) condition
- I’d like to take ______ of this opportunity to thank you all for your cooperation.
- A) profit
- B) benefit
- C) advantage
- D) occasion
- He ______ to hit me if I didn’t do as he said.
- A) pretended
- B) thought
- C) threatened
- D) warned
- He does not feel like playing tennis because he’s ______.
- A) out of condition
- B) off condition
- C) off fitness
- D) out of fitness
- He’s been working too hard and he’s ______. He needs a rest.
- A) broken apart
- B) broken up
- C) run down
- D) run over
- We went to the station to ______.
- A) see them out
- B) see them off
- C) goodbye them
- D) say them goodbye
- New problems are always ______ in the factory.
- A) raising
- B) going up
- C) waking up
- D) coming up
In this series of questions, three words have the same sound but one does not. Choose the one that does not.
- A) spear
- B) wear
- C) dare
- D) prayer
- A) spread
- B) tread
- C) bread
- D) bead
- A) blow
- B) allow
- C) owe
- D) sew
- A) goose
- B) prose
- C) flows
- D) knows
- A) crime
- B) limb
- C) climb
- D) rhyme
The news did not come directly to Ella herself __51__ her indirectly in hints that she had won the prize. But as she was a calm, quiet girl, she __52__ without __53__, __54__ the whole school was full of rumors and statements from students who had no right to be __55__ at all because __56__ really knew __57__ what result of this year’s art competition was.
But Ella was __58__ good artist, her lines so sure that __59__ student in the art class was expected to win. But you never __60__. Last year nobody had expected Frank Peters to win with the funny modern painting he had __61__ the city bridge. __62__, it was hard to __63__ the bridge until you looked at the picture for a long time. Still, Frank had got the prize and the President of the Board of Governors had presented __64__ at a big dinner in the Ritz Hotel.
Ella was a rather shy girl but her classmates seldom thought of her __65__ shy. She was pretty and intelligent and __66__ very well with everyone. She played games well, had taken part in the school play, and never seemed to __67__, except in pleasant ways. She liked her school. She was very fond of her art teacher, Miss Drake, __68__ was natural. __69__ wonderful about Miss Drake was that she brought out the best in her students-not __70__ but theirs. __71__ best, __72__, was not good enough to please Miss Drake. So Ella was __73__ the prize, not just for herself and her parents but because she had heard Miss Drake __74__ that it was the __75__ seen from one of her students.
- A) It reached
- B) They reached
- C) It arrived at
- D) They arrived wt
- A) went on to work
- B) went on working
- C) went back for working
- D) went back working
- A) telling nothing
- B) telling anything
- C) saying nothing
- D) saying anything
- A) in spite
- B) nevertheless
- C) although
- D) however
- A) doing advertisements
- B) making advertisement
- C) doing announcements
- D) making announcements
- A) no one
- B) some one
- C) anyone
- D) not anyone
- A) still
- B) already
- C) yet
- D) any lounger
- A) such a
- B) such
- C) a so
- D) so
- A) not another
- B) no one other
- C) no other
- D) none other
- A) might know
- B) could be sure
- C) can learn
- D) may be secure
- A) done for
- B) made about
- C) done of
- D) made on
- A) In the reality
- B) To say truth
- C) Surely
- D) In fact
- A) pick up
- B) see through
- C) take hold of
- D) make out
- A) him it
- B) it to him
- C) it him
- D) him for it
- A) as
- B) like
- C) to be
- D) for
- A) got on
- B) got by
- C) passed
- D) carried
- A) distinguish
- B) stand off
- C) stand out
- D) stand up
- A) which
- B) what
- C) where
- D) whose
- A) The thing what was
- B) What was
- C) The
- D) The which was
- A) her best herself
- B) her best self
- C) her own best
- D) her proper best
- A) Other person’s
- B) Other peoples’
- C) Anybody’s else
- D) Anybody else’s
- A) for how good it might be
- B) for how good might it be
- C) however good it was
- D) however good was it
- A) looking forward to win
- B) looking forward to winning
- C) wishing to win
- D) waiting for winning
- A) say
- B) tell
- C) to say
- D) to tell
- A) better painting she ever had
- B) best painting she ever had
- C) better painting she had ever
- D) best painting she had ever
“I have been looking for this office since I arrived at the station. It __76__ be in the main street. I __77__ me a hotel, please.”
“Certainly, sir. But you __78__ so far. If you’d turned left at the station, you __79__ it straightaway. Now, __80__ see if we can find you something suitable?”
“I only want a room for one night but I can not stand sleeping in noisy rooms.”
“All the hotels here are near the main road. You __81__ come home with me, sir. You’ll be more comfortable. In fact, when you __82__ my wife’s cooking, you’ll realize you __83__ have come to a better place.”
- A) should
- B) has to
- C) ought
- D) must have
- A) would like finding
- B) would like you to find
- C) would like that you find
- D) am wanting you to find
- A) did not need to walk
- B) needn’t have walked
- C) must not have walked
- D) were not to walk
- A) would have found
- B) had found
- C) should have found
- D) would find
- A) let’s to
- B) are we going to
- C) will we
- D) shall we
- A) had better
- B) would better
- C) had rather
- D) would rather
- A) will be tasting
- B) shall taste
- C) taste
- D) will taste
- A) can not
- B) might
- C) may not
- D) couldn’t
- She chose some very pretty ______ paper for the present.
- A) covering
- B) involving
- C) packing
- D) wrapping
- Everyone else was killed in the accident. I was the only one to ______.
- A) relive
- B) survive
- C) alive
- D) outlive
- That’s a nice dress. It ______ you perfectly.
- A) suits
- B) costumes
- C) matches
- D) goes
- The ______ stuck on the outside of the envelope said “By Air”.
- A) label
- B) ticked
- C) signal
- D) advertisement
- She died after a long ______.
- A) disease
- B) sickness
- C) illness
- D) failing
- I ______ to inform you that there’s nothing we can do to help you.
- A) sorry
- B) respect
- C) resent
- D) regret
- I’ll put the flowers in this ______ They’ll look nice there.
- A) mug
- B) vase
- C) crystal
- D) bucked
- ______ I didn’t understand the job but now I’m making progress.
- A) On the beginning
- B) At first
- C) For a start
- D) In principle
- Would you mind paying for the tickets ______?
- A) in advance
- B) forward
- C) primarily
- D) now and then
- How long did it take you to realize he was dishonest? I ______ from the start.
- A) looked him through
- B) saw through him
- C) looked forward to him
- D) saw him through
- We’re going to have our house ______. The decorators are coming next week.
- A) done up
- B) done in
- C) made over
- D) made away with
- He asked me what was ______ in the street outside.
- A) succeeding
- B) making out
- C) doing up
- D) going on
In this series of questions, three words have the same sound but one does not. Choose the one that does not.
- A) freeze
- B) ease
- C) seize
- D) lease
- A) weight
- B) great
- C) wheat
- D) freight
- A) palm
- B) calm
- C) warm
- D) harm
- A) hint
- B) mint
- C) print
- D) pint
- A) stuff
- B) cough
- C) rough
- D) enough
