UNIT 9 NATURAL DISASTERS
TEST 1
I. Choose the word in each group that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.
1. A. funnel B. funny C. funeral D. tunnel
2. A. treat B. heat C. beat D. sweater
3. A. carry B. start C. smart D. card
4. A. eruption B. question C. tradition D. addition
5. A. dig B. agency C. charge D. exchange
II. Choose the word in each line that has different stress pattern from those of the others.
1. A. comment B. command C. compound D. machine
2. A. towel B. revive C. promise D. victim
3. A. sterile B. damage C. contact D. inject
4. A. permanent B. elevate C. advisable D. influence
5. A. entertainment B. identify C. emergency D. continuous
III. Make a cross on the correct answer A, B, C or D in the following sentences :
1. According to the weather ______ it will rain, tonight.
A. forecast B. forecaster C. forecasted D. forecasting
2. The tsunami ______ in December 2004 in South East-A killed more than 160,000 people.
A. disaster B. disastrous C. disastrously D. disastering
3. We must find a shelter now, because of the ______ storm.
A. forecasted B. forecast C. forecaster D. forecasting
4. The roof ______ under the weight of snow last night.
A. collapsed B. collapsing C. collapses D. collapse
5. He warned me of the ______ in the forest.
A. dangers B. dangerousness C. dangerously D. dangerous
6. Pompeii was completely ______ in AD 79 by an eruption Mount Vesuvius.
A. destroyed B. destroy C. to destroy D. destroying
7. Many people become ______ because of the natural disasters every year,
A. homeless B. homesick C. homeland D. homework
8. Mount Pinatubo, ______ is a volcano erupted in 1991.
A. which B. who C. whom D. that
9. Tornadoes and funnel-shaped storms can suck ______ is in their path.
A. that B. whom C. who D. whose
10. We ______ since we left school.
A. haven`t met B. didn`t meet C. won`t meet D. don`t meet
11. I`ll bring some raincoats just in case. I hope my friends ______ laugh at me.
A. won`t B. didn`t C. don`t D. haven`t
12. In 1995 a huge earthquake ______ the city of Kobe in Jape
A. struck B. striking C. striked D. strike
13. Tidal waves _____ the result of an abrupt shift in the underwater movement of the Earth.
A. are B. were C. is D. was
14. I can`t hear what you are saying. Can you ______ the radio?
A. turn down B. turn on C. turn up D. turn off
15. Neil. Armstrong, ______ walked on the moon, lived in the U S A.
A. who B. whom C. which D. whose
16. Marie Curie, ______ is one of the greatest women discovered radium.
A. who B. whose C. whom D. which
17. According to the weather _________ , it will be raining tonight.
A. prediction B. information C. announcement D. forecast
18. You shouldn’t laugh ________ old people .
A. at B. on C. with D. for
19. Turn the radio ________It’s too loud.
A. down B. up C. on D. off
20. Please turn _______ the volume on TV . I want to listen to the news.
A