UNIT 1: FRIENDSHIP

PRONUNCIATION
I. Circle the word whose bold part is pronounced differently from those of the other three.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
A. show
A. closets
A. naked
A. about
A. dangerous
B. sugar
B. shows
B. knocked
B. mutual
B. village
C. sea
C. rats
C. walked
C. establish
C. passenger
D. fish
D. weeks
D. talked
D. cut
D. get

II. Circle the word whose stress is on the first syllable.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
A. consign
A. neighbor
A. declaim
A. affect
A. forbid
B. accuse
B. decide
B. theory
B. protect
B. forget
C. climate
C. defect
C. decay
C. embrace
C. candy
D. account
D. connect
D. divorce
D. sneaky
D. conceive

VOCABULARY
Choose the best answer that is suitable for each blank or the underlined word or phrase.
11. I haven’t seen you for ____________. How are things?
A. ages B. long time
C. eras D. long
12. He was a very ___________ man in the village. Nobody liked him.
A. popular B. unpopular
C. honest D. considerate
13. Your genes ________ your shape, size and so on.
A. give B. offer
C. make D. determine
14. If you want to buy a new car, you should choose an _________ car to run. It can save money.
A. economy B. economic
C. economical D. economics
15. They both have brown eyes because the brown gene is ___________.
A. dominant B. outstanding
C. determine D. deciding
16. We bought that house as an investment.
A. to live in B. to invest in this region
C. to make money D. to investigate
17. Some wild animals are in danger in this region.
A. dangerous B. likely to cause harm
C. likely to be extinct D. predators
18. The Ministry of Foreign Trade has initiated a new plan to protect domestic products.
A. planned B. introduced
C. innovated D. assessed
19. Joanna looks __________ in her new dress.
A. nicely B. nice
C. like nice D. such nice
20. The loudspeakers won’t work unless you _________ those cables.
A. connected B. connecting
C. to connect D. connect
GRAMMAR AND STRUCTURE
Choose the best word or phrase to complete each sentence.
21. Please don’t touch anything before the police _______________.
A. will come B. comes
C. come D. would come
22. By next month, I ____________ my first novel.
A. will finish B. will have finished
C. have finished D. finish
23. The doctor examined him and _________ that he ___________ his arm.
A. found / broke B. had found / broke
C. found / had broken D. would find / broke
24. It is very dangerous. We couldn’t risk __________ him alone.
A. leave B. leaving
C. to leave D. left
25. She asked me if it would rain that night.
( She said: “_________ it rain _________?”
A. Would / that night B. Will / tonight
C. Does / tonight D. Will / that night
26. Nam said to me: “I work for your sister’s company.”
( Nam told me: “__________ worked for ______________ sister’s company.”
A. he / my B. him / mine
C. his / me D. he / mine
27. Oil lamps ________ for years before electricity was discovered.