Unit 4: For a better community

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part
has different pronunciation from that of the others in the same group.
1. A. services B. center C. member D. teacher
2. A. area B. various C. care D. anything
3. A. record B. afford C. shortly D. collector
4. A. orphanage B. percentage C. garage D. message
5. A. types B. skills C. teenagers D. meals

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose main stress differs
from that of the others in the same group.
6. A. volunteer B. employee C. engineer D. chimpanzee
7. A. community B. application C. successful D. development
8. A. advertisement B. generous C. charity D. opportunities
9. A. orphanage B. essential C. improvement D. experience
10. A. deadline B. forward C. welcoming D. available

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs
correcting.
11. In the end of each month, we take the donations to the community centre.
A. In B. each C. donations D. community
12. When I understood my parents’ hardships, I felt thankful to what they had done.
A. understood B. hardships C. to D. had done
13. A local charity was set up to rise enough money to save the orphanage.
A. local B. set up C. rise D. to save
14. Appreciating the good things in life is one of the most important lesson I have learned.
A. Appreciating B. things C. lesson D. have learned
15. The organisation particularly focuses in improving education in poor countries.
A. particularly B. in C. improving D. poor

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that best fits
each of the following questions.
16. One of our most popular activities is selling _____ items.
A. handy B. handful C. handmade D. handout
17. Volunteering has helped me find my sense of _____ in life.
A. goal B. purpose C. aim D. objective
18. There are _____ opportunities for teenagers to volunteer these days.
A. endless B. neverending C. ending D. dead-end
19. Creating a neighborhood newsletter fosters communication and keeps residents _____ about local events.
A. informative B. informational C. informed D. informing
20. Creating a community garden not only ______ the area but also provides fresh produce for those in need.
A. beautiful B. beauty C. beautifies D. beautifully
21. Our community organized a charity run, raising _____ for a local school's educational programs.
A. funds B. bonds C. debts D. savings
22. Through a _____ effort, we organized a street-cleaning campaign, emphasizing the importance of a clean
environment.
A. collect B. collectible C. collective D. collection
23. The children seem to be _____ of working quietly by themselves.
A. ready B. incapable C. competent D. able
24. May I sit here ? - _____
A. Yes, I’ve been waiting for long B. Oh, I’ve just arrived
C. Yes, I’m lonely D. I’m sorry, the chair is taken
25. It _____ the whole evening but Ann still went out for a run.
A. was raining B. would rain C. has rained D. rains
26. She just had time to put up her umbrella before _____.
A. the rain came down in torrents B. the rain had come down in torrents
C. the rain coming down in torrents D. the rain comes down in torrents
27. While he _____ the car, he _____ a big case in the boot.
A. is washing / discovered B. was washing / discovered
C. washed/ discovered D. washed / was discovering
28. One major _____ of this area is lack of public transport.
A. advantage B. disadvantaged C. disadvantage D. advantaged
29. The company _____ to donate fifty trucks to help the flooded area.
A. volunteered B. sponsored C. forced D. told
30. When I got to the hospital, she _____ in the waiting room.
A. sat B. has been sitting C. was sitting D. had sat
31. I was born in Scotland but I _____ in Northern Ireland.
A. grew up B. grow up C. was growing up D. had grown up
32. It’s time we _____ this old car and bought a new one
A. will sell B. had sold C. have sold D. sold
33. They’ve done an _____ job in making sure that all the supplies got through.
A. admirable B. admiring C. admirous D. admireful
34. She had a _____ look on her face when I asked her where she was going.
A. surprised B. puzzled C. puzzling D. surprising
35. Jane doesn’t enjoy her job. She’s bored _____ doing the same things every day
A. about B. of C. at D. in
36. Did you enjoy your visit to the art museum ? - _____
A. Really not B. No really C. Not really D. Of course I do
37. Certain groups of people are not given work _____ their race or religion
A. in spite of B. because C. although D. because of
38. _____ of the world is growing at an alarming rate.
A. The population B. Population C. A population D. Populations
39. The old people in our village find _____ today a rather confusing business.
A. the life B. lives C. life D. our lives
40. We are determined to _____ racism from our sport.
A. leave B. destroy C. eradicate D. disappear
41. He was really _____ at the thought of going into the office.
A. depressed B. depressing C. depressive D. depressful
42. It is not _____ to stay up late the day before the test
A. advise B. advice C. advisable D. advisability
43. Your job is likely include welcoming guests and receiving _____ for our Charity Center
A. donate B. donations C. donors D. donated
44. This figure became interested in politics and _____ to leave his first university for protesting
A.force B. forced C. was forcing D. was forced
45. He spent his childhood in _____ parts of Italy.
A. various B. vary C. variously D. variety

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
46. I got the teaching job in the Happy Child Charity Centre just by chance.
A. accidentally B. purposefully C. easily D. immediately
47. Every month, the volunteer group go to remote and mountainous areas to help those in need.
A. empty B. faraway C. crowded D. poor
48. Mother Teresa devoted herself to caring for the sick and the poor.
A. spent B. contributed C. gave up D. dedicated
49. Our top priority is to clean and protect the environment in our neighbourhood.
A. hobby B. job C. preference D. idea
50. Young people are now getting more and more concerned about environmental problems.
A. worried B. nervous C. hopeless D. uneasy
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
51. Many people who do volunteer work think they are more fortunate than others.
A. lucky B. blessed C. unlucky D. uncomfortable
52. Public service announcement is a special advertisement for the community, normally about health or
safety matters.
A. Open B. Private C. Secret D. Popular
53. Economically disadvantaged students often drop out of school, choosing a low- paying job to earn money.
A. leave B. attend C. accept D. reject
54. We are looking for camp helpers who are hard-working, energetic, and able to organise activities for
young children.
A. active B. dynamic C. passive D. reluctant
55. Volunteering also means getting to meet people with a similar passion.
A. alike B. identical C. common D. distinct

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct word or phrase that best fits each of the blanks in the passage.

From ants to anteaters, bees to beekeepers, community is a fundamental part of our life on the planet. We thrive
when we are immersed in it, suffer when deprived (56) _____ it, and wherever humans go we create it. We
define ourselves by our communities: tribe, family, work, clubs, schools, churches and temples, these are who we
are. We are born into community, and if we’re lucky we’ll end our days (57) _____ by it.

It’s (58) _____ surprise that as soon as humans began to go online, communities formed, but as easy and
natural as group formation is for us in real life, we can (59) _____ it frustrating online. Many of the cues that
grease the wheels of human interaction in person are missing online. Gone is the grin that can soften a criticism,
the pat on the (60) _____ that can heal a rift. How can you “hug it out” when your antagonist is a continent
away and you know no more about him than his handle and a few lines of signature? Online groups can breed
the most vicious of rivalries.
(Adapted from The Art of Community by Jono Bacon)
56. A. of B. on C. to D. in
57. A. surround B. surrounding C. surrounded D. surrounds
58. A. not B. none C. no D. nothing
59. A. find B. discover C. search D. look
60. A. head B. hand C. ear D. head

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct answer to each of the questions that follow.

Hotels were among the earliest facilities that bound the United States together. They were both creatures and
creators of communities, as well as symptoms of the frenetic quest for community. Even in the first part of the
nineteenth century, Americans were already forming the habit of gathering from all corners of the nation for
both public and private, business and pleasure purposes. Conventions were the new occasions, and hotels were
distinctively American facilities making conventions possible. The first national convention of a major party to
choose a candidate for President (that of the National Republican party, which met on December 12, 1831,
and nominated Henry Clay for President) was held in Baltimore, at a hotel that was then reputed to be the best
in the country. The presence in Baltimore of Barnum's City Hotel, a six-story building with two hundred
apartments, helps explain why many other early national political conventions were held there.

In the longer run, too, American hotels made other national conventions not only possible but pleasant and
convivial. The growing custom of regularly assembling from afar the representatives of all kinds of groups ―
not only for political conventions, but also for commercial, professional, learned, and avocational ones ― in
turn supported the multiplying hotels. By mid-twentieth century, conventions accounted for over a third of the
yearly room occupancy of all hotels in the nation; about eighteen thousand different conventions were held
annually with a total attendance of about ten million persons.
Nineteenth-century American hotelkeepers, who were no longer the genial, deferential “hosts” of the eighteenth-
century European inn, became leading citizens. Holding a large stake in the community, they exercised power to
make it prosper. As owners or managers of the local “palace of the public,” they were makers and shapers of a
principal community attraction. Travelers from abroad were mildly shocked by this high social position.

61. What is the main topic of the passage?

A. The size of early American hotels B. The importance of hotels in American culture
C. How American hotels differed from European hotels D. Why conventions are held at hotels

62. The word “bound” is closest in meaning to

A. led B. protected C. tied D. strengthened

63. The National Republican party is mentioned as an example of a group

A. from Baltimore B. of learned people C. owning a hotel D. holding a convention

64. The word “assembling ”in line 14 is closest in meaning to

A. announcing B. motivating C. gathering D. contracting

65. The word “ones” in line 16 refers to

A. hotels B. conventions C. kinds D. representatives

66. The word “it” in the last paragraph refers to

A. European inn B. host C. community D. public

67. It can be inferred form the passage that early hotelkeepers in the United States were
A. active politicians B. European immigrants C. professional builders D. influential citizen

68. Which of the following statements about early American hotels is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A. Travelers from abroad did not enjoy staying in them. B. Conventions were held in them.
C. People used them for both business and pleasure. D. They were important to the community.