Your HomeworkA. PHONETICS
I. Select the word whose bold and underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest
II. Select A, B, C or D to indicate the word whose stress position is different from the rest.
B. LEXICO-GRAMMAR
I. Choose the best option A, B, C or D to complete the following sentences
II. Complete the following sentences with a suitable preposition for each.
III. Fill the blanks with the right form of the CAPITAL words provided.
IV. Complete the sentences with the right form of the verbs given in brackets
C. READING COMPREHENSION
I. Complete the following passage by choosing A, B, C or D.
We don’t only choose clothes to make us look ___(46)___, we also use them to tell the world ___(47)___ our personality. The clothes we wear and our ___(48)___ as a whole give other people useful information about what we think and ___(49)___ we feel. If we feel cheerful, we usually wear ___(50)___ clothes and if we feel ___(51)___ we sometimes put on dark clothes. But why do teenagers wear black so ___(52)___ ? Is it because they feel miserable all ___(53)___ ? This is unlikely to be the case. It is probably just because it is ___(54)___ to wear black, and young people are real fans of ___(55)___.
II. Read the following passage and fill in the blank with one suitable word
Fire was very important to man. He needed fire to keep ___(56)___ warm at night. He used fire to ___(57)___ his food. He used fire to frighten ___(58)___ enemies and wild animals. In some parts of the world he used fire to ___(59)___ messages. Red Indians, for example, used fire to ___(60)___ smoke signals. In some other countries people lit fire to warm their friends of danger. Fire was ___(61)___ used to give light. Before the invention of the oil lamp, men used burning sticks as torches. And before man discovered gas ___(62)___ electricity, he hung small fires in wire baskets from posts to light the streets. One man even used fire to tell the time. He ___(63)___ a candle clock. He made a candle that took exactly twelve hours to burn. Then he marked this candle in twelve ___(64)___ parts. He lit the candle and could tell the time by counting the number of parts left of the burning candle. But the candle clock did not always work well. If there was a wind ___(65)___ on the candle, the flame burned too quickly.
III. Read the following passage and answer the questions by choosing A, B, C or D
The countryside is more beautiful than a town and more pleasant to live in. Many people think so, and go to the countryside for their summer holidays though they cannot live there all the year round. Some have a cottage built in a village so that they can go there whenever they can find the time.
English villages are not all alike, but in some ways they are not very different from one another. Almost every village has a church, the round or square tower of which can be seen from many miles away. Surrounding the church is the churchyard, where people are buried.
Moreover, each English village usually has its village green, which is a wide stretch of grass. There are houses or cottages built around it. Country life is now fairly comfortable and many villages have water pipes brought into each house. Most villages are so close to some small towns that people can go there to buy what they can’t find in their village shops.
D. WRITING
I. Choose the underlined part that needs correcting by circling A, B, C or D.