CULTURAL DEVERSITV

TEST 1

Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently

from the rest.

1.

a. naked

b. looked

c. booked

d. hooked

2.

a. concerned

b. raised

c. developed

d. maintained

3.

a. appeared

b. agreed

c. coughed

d. loved

4.

a. sacrificed

b. trusted

c. recorded

d. acted

5.

a. laughed

b. weighed

c. helped

d. missed

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence,

substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original

one.

6.

London is home to people of many _______ cultures.

a. diverse

b. diversity

c. diversify

d. diversification

7.

John cannot make a _______ to get married to Mary or stay single until

he can afford a house and a car.

a. decide

b. decision

c. decisive

d. decisively

8.

My mother used to be a woman of great _______, but now she gets old

and looks pale.

a. beauty

b. beautiful

c. beautifully

d. beautify

9.

My father phoned me to say that he would come _______ home late.

a. a

b. an

c. the

d.

Ø

10.

At last they divorced after ten years of _______ marriage.

a. a

b. an

c. the

d.

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11.

A curriculum that ignores ethnic tensions, racial antagonisms, cultural

_______ and religious differences is pot relevant.

a. diversity

b. contacts

c. barriers

d. levels

12.

Some researchers have just _______ a survey of young people's points

of view on contractual marriage.

a. sent

b. directed

c. managed

d. conducted

13.

It is not easy to …………..our beauty when we get older and. older.

a. develop

b. maintain

c. gain

d. collect

14.

Many young people have objected to _______ marriage, which is

decided by the parents of the bride and groom.

a. agreed

b. shared

c. contractual

d. sacrificed

15.

All parents are _______ to at least try to behave in ways that will give

their own children an important protection

a. decided

b. supposed

c. followed

d. rejected

16.

It is thought that traditional marriage _______ are important basis of

limiting divorce rates.

a. appearances

b. records

c. responses

d. values

17.

Affected by the Western cultures, Vietnamese young people's attitudes

_______ love and marriage have dramatically changed.

a. for

b. with

c. through

d. towards

18.

Sometimes she does not agree _______ her husband about child rearing

but they soon find the solutions.

a. for

b. on

c. with

d. of

19.

The young are _______ more concerned with physical attractiveness

than elderly people.

a. much

b. as

c. many

d. as much as

20.

It will take more or less a month to prepare for the wedding.

a. approximately

b. generally

c. frankly

d. simply

21.

The number of the participants in the survey _______ 250 students for

Oxford University.

a. are

b. was

c. were

d. have been

22.

The grass was yellow because it _______ all summer.

a. does not rain b. has not rained c. had not rained d. would not rain

23.

Many people even wonder these days _______.

a. what marriage is

b. what is marriage

c. what marriage was

d. what was marriage

24.

The lights _______ out because we _______ the electricity bill.

a. have gone / did not pay

b. will go / did not paid

c. go / would not pay

d. went / had not paid

25.

_______ Tom Cruise's last movie? Yes, I _______ it three days ago

a. Have you ever seen / saw

b. Did you ever see / have seen

c. Had you ever seen / would see

d. Will you ever see / saw

26.

In the past, people _______ to the beach more often.

a. have gone

b. used to go

c. were going

d. had gone

27.

Soon, people _______ most of the time at home.

a. will work

b. are working

c. have worked

d. work

28.

I _______ a terrible accident while I _______ on the beach.

a. see / am walking

b. saw / was walking

c. was seeing / walked

d. have seen / were walking

29.

After all, she _______ him since her childhood.

a. knows

b. knew

c. was knowing

d. had known

30.

We _______ touch since we _______ school three years ago.

a. lost / have left

b. have lost / leave

c. have lost / left

d. were losing / had left

Error identification.

31.

While preparing for your wedding, keeping in mind that this is just the

A B C

first step in your future lives of love together.

D

32.

Marriage

is a life-long journey together, which is not simply a boat you

A B C

get on together and getting off when it does not work out.

D

33.

It is important

to note that such a happy marriage does not come about

A

by accident, but it had taken years of dedicated work to bring this kind

B C

of relationship into existence.

D

34.

There are dangerous times in a marriage, especially when the wife can

A B

come to feel such overburdened that she decides to end the

relationship. C D