ENGLISH TEST 3 (80 mins) pot

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ENGLISH TEST 3 (80 mins)

I. PHONETICS

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that the others in each

group.

A sergeant

A fond

A myth

A eight

A wool

A lever

A please

A corner

A butcher

A beard

B servant

B off

B with

B weight

B wood

B level

B measure

B drawing

B good

B near

C service

C follow

C both

C heighten

C full

C lesson

C bees

C autumn

C flood

C beer

D servile

D honey

D tenth

D freight

D truth

D length

D roses

D operate

D food

D bear

II.VOCABULARY

1. Choose the best answer.

11. Are you a student? If so, which university do you____ ?

A attend B frequent C assist D go on

12. There is a ____ of skilled craftsmen in the industry.

A want B fault C lack D need

13. What is your ___ ?I am a Buddhist.

A confession B religion C profession D persuasion

14. We carried out a few .......... to find how good the drug was.

A experiments B tries C experiences D proofs

15.She isn't really sexist. She just says things like that from force of _____.

A custom B use C attitude D habit

16. She had changed so much that....... anyone recognised her.

A almost B hardly C not D nearly

17. How old is Janet? I haven’t the slightest ____ ?

A bet B. theory C guess D idea

18. Would you like a beer? - Not while I'm .....

A in the act B in order C on duty D under control

19. He didn't...... to help her even though she was very ill

A open an eye B lift a finger C bend his arm D shake a leg

20. Their neighbour was very____ when they complained about the noise.

A aggressive B provocative C irritable D annoying

2. Read the passage and choose the best answer.

Nick Giltard earns a living working as a stuntman on films and TV shows but his first (21)…….. of show

business was trick riding circus horses when he was just 12 years old. Four years later he got the chance to

(22)…... in his first film. "I really enjoyed working on the film." Nick remembers, "so I started asking how

I'd go about becoming a.stuntman, Nick couldn't Just (23) ….. as a stuntman straight away. First he had to

get accepted by the British Stunt Register, which represents stunt professionals in Britain. To do this he

had to reach instructor level in six sports including skiing, riding, and gymnastics Since qualifying (24) ....

the age of 19, Nick has worked on many movies and he has doubled for some of the biggest stars in

Hollywood. Safety and timing are all important for stunt professionals they plan everything down to the

(25) .…... detail, "We take the utmost (26) ....... . It's not tike being an actor where you can take the shot

again if it goes wrong, It's got to work first time." Nick has (27) ……some terrifyingly dangerous stunts.

For one film he jumped across a bridge in a speed boat, and in Alien 3 he was set on fire, without air, for

more than two minutes. Filming on location (28) ...... him all (29) …. often for months (30) ….. a time.