I. Choose the word in each group that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest 1. a. language b. package c. background d. bench 2. a. catch b. match c. hence d. land 3. a. mass b. threaten c. seldom d. melting 4. a. champion b. ambitious c. campus d. tennis 5. a. harbour b. scramble c. heart d. cast II. Choose the one word or phrase - a, b, c or d - that best completes the sentence or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase. 6. The doctor ___________ the patient thoroughly before he prescribed the medication. a. examined c. had examined b. has examined d. was examining 7. Computer models help to determine whether a particular area is likely to flood. a. make up c. find out b. take away d. put up 8. She harboured her hope of being a teacher. a. gave up her hope of being a teacher b. had her hope of being a teacher c. kept her hope of being a teacher in her mind d. built her hope of being a teacher 9. Marie Curie ___________ a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911. a. award c. was awarding b. was awarded d. had been awarded 10. In 1903, Marie became the first woman __________ a Doctor of Science degree. a. to receive c. receiving b. receives d. had received III. Choose the one option - a, b, c or d - that best fits each of the num¬bered blank. Maria Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, Poland, on 7th November 1867. Her (11) ___________ was not happy.Her older sister died when she was nine and her mother died (12) ______ she was eleven. (13) _____ years after the death of her mother, she left school. That was a difficult time, too.She couldn’t go to university (14) _________ universities in Poland were not open to women, so she taught herself. In 1891 Maria went to Paris to study Physics.She did very well and (15) ______ her degree in 1893. A year (16) _______ she got her Physics degree she got a math degree, too.This was only a few weeks before she (17) _______ a clever young man called Pierre Curie.They got married in 1895 and Maria became Marie Curie.The Curies had two daughters: Irene, born in 1897, and Eve, born in 1904.Before the birth of Irene, Marie started (18) _________ with Pierre. Together they discovered radium in 1898.In 1903 Marie and Pierre won the Nobel Prize for Physics and they became (19) _______ famous. Then, three years (20) _______, Pierre died and Marie’s world changed forever. 11. a. children b. childhood c. dream d. wish 12. a. when b. which c. that d. despite 13. a. Before b. Many c. By d. For 14. a. because b. but c. while d. where 15. a. made b. got c. awarded d. found 16. a. after b. then c. afterward d. back 17. a. saw b. witnessed c. met d. encountered 18. a. to be working b. to have worked c. working d. being worked 19. a. extremely b. excessively c. very d. widely 20. a. later b. ago c. behind d. back