I) Choose the letter (A, B, C, or D) the word that has the underlined part different from others.
1. A/ breathe
B/ underneath
C/ headgear
D/ endear
2. A/ conceited
B/ registered
C/ delivered
D/ discovered
II) Choose the letter (A, B, C, or D) the word whose stress pattern is different from the others.
3. A/ fractional
B/ commercial
C/ special
D/ crucial
4. A/ ambition
B/
C/ assurance
D/ attraction
III) Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined words in each of the following
sentences.
5. Valentina had decided to stay here as a student, but now she has been offered a scholarship at
Harvard, so she has off to the US.
A/ academic study
B/ erudition
C/ schooling
D/ qualification
VI) Read the following passage and choose the best-given answer (A, B, C, or D) to fill in the gaps.
My forays into the sleep-industrial complex genuinely (1) __________ after the birth of my son. Being
a new parent turns you (2) __________ a sleep obsessive. My harried peers and I would swap tips on
getting our infants to shut their eyes and stay that way for longer than an hour. And then came the
products: white noise machines, swaddling blankets, aromatherapy oils. When the dratted soft toy that
is meant to recreate the noises in the womb failed me, I scoured online forums (3) __________ for the
good stuff.
I became so fixated on sleep that by the time my son stopped (4) __________ every two hours at
night, I had developed insomnia. Again, I turned to the internet to find a cure. Sleep consultants, pills,
apps, and meditation mantras all promised a solution – at a cost. Sleep is big business, (5) __________
as mobile phones further distract and stimulate our minds. According to Euromonitor, the market
research company, sleep aids are one of the (6) __________ categories in consumer health, worth about
$2.2 billion globally in 2016. I tried three products to see if any of them frankly worked for me.
(Adapted from a newspaper article: "Can’t Sleep? There’s an app for that")
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
A. took on
A. after
A. searching
A. to walk
A. particular
A. fastest-growing
B. took off
B. against
B. hunting
B. waking
B. particularize
B. fast-growing
C. took away
C. into
C. looking
C. being walked
C. particularity
C. fasted growing
D. took up
D. about
D. seeking
D. walked
D. particularly
D. most fast growing
VI) Read the following passage and choose the best-given answer (A, B, C, or D) to fill in the gaps.
My forays into the sleep-industrial complex genuinely (26) __________ after the birth of my son.
Being a new parent turns you (27) __________ a sleep obsessive. My harried peers and I would swap
tips on getting our infants to shut their eyes and stay that way for longer than an hour. And then came
the products: white noise machines, swaddling blankets, aromatherapy oils. When the dratted soft toy
that is meant to recreate the noises in the womb failed me, I scoured online forums (28) __________
for the good stuff.
I became so fixated on sleep that by the time my son stopped (29) __________ every two hours at
night, I had developed insomnia. Once more, I turned to the internet to find a cure. Sleep consultants,
pills, apps, and meditation mantras all promised a solution – at a cost. Sleep is big business, particularly
as mobile phones further distract and stimulate our minds. According to Euromonitor, the market
research company, sleep aids are one of the (30) __________ categories in consumer health, worth
about $2.2 billion globally in 2016. I tried three products to see if any of them frankly worked for me.
(Adapted from a newspaper article: "Can’t Sleep? There’s an app for that")
26,
27,
28,
29,
30,
A. took on
A. after
A. searching
A. to walk
A. fastest-growing
B. took off
B. against
B. hunting
B. waking
B. fast-growing
C. took away
C. into
C. looking
C. being walked
C. fasted growing
D. took up
D. about
D. seeking
D. walked
D. most fast growing