Choose words that the underlined vowels are the same.

A、ox

B、come

C、umbrella

D、colour

A、office

B、thin

C、fine

D、assistant

A、hard

B、calm

C、staff

D、catch

I. Choose and underline the words that begin with a sound as required. 1 bilabial consonant mad sad bad cad pad had lad 2 velar consonant nod god cod pod rod 3abiodental consonant rat fat sat mat chat vat pat 4 alveolar consonant nick lick sick tick kick quick 5 palato-alveolar consonant sip ship tip chip lip zip 6 dental consonant lie buy thigh thy tie rye II. Choose and underline the words that end with a sound as required. 7 fricative pay horse tough rice breath push sing hang cave 8 nasal train bang leaf limb message 9 stop drill pipe fit crab fog ride laugh rack through tip 10 affricate rack such ridge booze

Identify the words that do not belong to the same semantic field as the others in the set.

A、in other words.

B、which means.

C、that is to say.

D、put it in another way.

?Read the following letter.

?Choose the best word to fill each gap.

?For each question (19 -33), mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet.

?One answer has been given as an example.

Most managers make decisions under conditions of risk. and the managers at Super Drinks are no exception. With 10 percent of the domestic soft-drink market under its (19) the company has now (20) its horizons and moved into the wine industry.

Having (21) ＄110 million buying the Taste Wine corporation. Super Drinks are currently in the process of (22) to the wine business the same tools that have made coke a popular soft drink in the world -- money, muscle and marketing. The firm is trying to (23) its newly acquired wine business to the soft-drink mold that has proved (24) .

Can Super Drinks make this (25) pay off? The company is optimistic. For example. while Taste grossed only ＄65 million the year it was (26) , Super Drinks' executives believe it will gross over ＄1 billion by the end of the 2010s. nearly 15 times Taste's current (27) . On the other hand. there are several things that Taste has going for. One is the Super Drinks' money and management expertise that are available for this wine (28) The other is that while Taste, in the past, (29) only the New York table wine business and produced sweeter wines that (30) less than 10 percent of the domestic market, the Taste wine brand was the most commonly (31) of all. Building on these (32) , the management hopes to. via effective decision making, make Taste wine almost as (33) as Super Drinks.

(19)

A．guidance

B．direction

C．control

D．management

Replace the underlined words with the correctform of the words below. exaggerate historical identify instinct objective poverty similarly unexpected 1 The president was extremely popular, so his assassination was quite extraordinary . 2. As a writer, he took the facts and then made them more dramatic to make a better story. 3 In the past , the US was a colony of the UK, and today the two countries still enjoy a close relationship. 4 She tries hard to write factually but cannot stop herself from revealing her opinions. 5 The state of being poor is defined as the inability to pay for your basic needs. 6. They say bad news travels fast. In the same way , we hear extremely quickly about major news stories. 7. When there’s breaking news, I automatically check several news media sources. 8. She was in New York on 9/11, so she sympathizes with ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events.

The teacher creates a situation and askes the students to speak out the words that can be used in that situation. What vocabulary learning strategy does the activity help to train?

A. Association.

B. Contextualization.

C. Collocation.

D. Cohesiveness.