PRACTICE TEST ( The passive)
11/ The boy screamed while the dentist was pulling out one of his teeth.
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12/ The enemy used to attack the bay………………………………………………………………….
13/ The children are carrying the chairs into the house…………………………………………………
14/ They awarded him the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1946.
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15/ We saw him leave the office at 6 o’clock this morning…………………………………………….
16/ My parents didn’t let me go to school this morning because I was ill.
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17/ You ought to water these plants once a week……………………………………………………….
18/ People saw her driving a car near the bridge……………………………………………………...
19/ They said that he was the richest man in the town………………………………………………..
20/ Scientists began to carry out researches on AIDS in 1981.
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21/ The boy knew that they were praising him………………………………………………………..
22/ Everybody believed that he had died of lung cancer………………………………………………..
23/ They hadn’t built the bridge when we first came here……..……………………………………….
24/ People don’t learn a foreign language in a short time……………………………………………..
25/ Did anyone ask any questions about me ?..........................................................................................
26/ Henry wrote that book years ago, didn’t he ?.....................................................................................
27/ What sort of research are they doing in the laborotary ?..................................................................
28/ You should place matches out of reach of children…………………………..
29/ People say that inflation is getting out of control…………………………………………
30/ We’ll have finished all the work by the weekend………………………………………….
31/ I heard her singing very beautifully…………………………………………………….
32/ Scientists started discovering the universe thousands of years ago.
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34/ The robbers forced the bank manager to hand over the money.
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35/ They let us go…………………………………………………………………………………..
36/ The police stopped Tom on the highway and made him show his I.D card.
37/ Write your address on the back of the cheque………………………………………………..
38/ Where did your child find the keys ?...........................................................................................
39/ Some people think he is a dangerous criminal………………………………………………..
40/ They will have to sign these documents…………………….………………..
41/ The workers are going to pull down that old building………………….…….……………….
42/ No one told me the truth………………………………………………………………………
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest in each of the following questions.
1. A. nuclear B. clean C. disease D. mean
2. A. consumption B. solution C. question D. population (ʌ) ə
3. A. pedaled B. flopped C. crashed D. parked
4. A.desert B. prefer C. held D. celebrate
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
5. A. 'harvest B. pa'rade C. 'music D. 'pumpkin
6. A. 'footprint B. 'driverless C. power D. transport
7. A. re'newable B. a'vailable C. a'bundant D. 'plentiful