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I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others.

1. A. disaster B. damage C. collapse D. rage

2. A. radioactive B. pollution C. contaminate D. convey

3. A. official B. cattle C. icon D. Scottish

II. Choose the word with different stress from the others in each question.

4. A. Chinese B. coffee C. trainee D. trustee

5. A. thermal B. pressure C. damage D. discharge

6. A. disaster B. eruption C. medical D. survivor

III. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete the following sentences

7. Noise pollution can lead to________loss.

A. looking B. hearing C. listening D. reading

8. If I________a millionaire now, I________travel around the world. But in fact, I am very poor and have

no money.

A. were/ would B. am/ will C. were/ will D. am/ would

9. What is the main_______of visual pollution? - Because there are too many advertising billboards.

A. effect B. affect C. result D. cause

10. Ships spill oil in oceans and rivers. This results________the death of many aquatic animals and plants.

A. to B. in C. from D. at

11. There have been some __________ eruptions in this area for the last 10 years.

A. volcanic B. scattering C. homeless D. disastrous

12. We____________ hard at the moment to prepare for our annual cultural festival.

A. prepare B. are preparing C. have prepared D. will prepare

13. Poisonous ___________ from factories can kill a lot of wildlife animals.

A. things B. animals C. chemicals D. nations

14. Last Tuesday, we did a _____________ about English speaking countries.

A. puzzle B. question C. task D. homework

15. I usually__________to school by bike but today I ____________ to school by motorbike.

A. go – go B. go – am going C. goes – go D. goes – am going

16. If it ________ this aftermoon, I’ll stay at home to do my English homework on English speaking

countries.

A. rain B. rains C. will rain D. is raining

IV. Give the correct form of the words given to complete the sentences.

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17. Noise pollution can also lead to headaches and high blood____________. (press)

18. Big Ben is a major monument in London which__________the United Kingdom. (symbol)

19. New Zealand is famous for the___________beauty of its mountains and forests. (scene)

20. The Glastonbury Festival in England is a __________ of music and it attracts thousands of people.

(celebrate)

V. Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the passage below.

Water pollution happens (21) __________ toxic substances enter water bodies such as lakes, rivers, oceans

and so on, getting dissolved in them, lying suspended in the water or depositing on the bed. This degrades the

quality of water. Not (22) __________ does this spell disaster for aquatic ecosystems, the pollutants also seep

through and reach the groundwater, which might end up in our households as contaminated water we use in

our daily activities, including drinking.

Water pollution can be (23) __________ in a number of ways, one of the most polluting being city sewage

and industrial waste discharge. Indirect sources (24)__________ water pollution include contaminants that

enter the water supply from soils or groundwater systems and from the atmosphere via rain. Soils and

groundwater contain (25)__________ residue of human agricultural practices and also improperly disposed

of industrial wastes.

Pollutants can be of varying kinds: organic, inorganic, radioactive and so on. In fact, the list of possible water

contaminants is just too vast to be listed here.

21. A. what B. when C. why D. while

22. A. both B. only C. well D. either

23. A. cause B. caused C. causing D. causes

24. A. of B. in C. at D. for

25. A. a B. an C. the D. x

VI. Read the passage and choose the best answer to each of the following questions.

An earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale hit Nepal on April 25th, 2015. It was the most powerful

earthquake to …