My friend, _____father is a teacher, is very good at English.

Choose one word (A, B, C or D) whose stress pattern is different from the others .

Read the following passage, then choose the correct answer to questions

I went to Australia on a student program last year and I like to (28)_______you about it. I was very (29)_______when I knew I was going to Australia because I had never been there before. I didn’t think about the problems of speaking English (30)_______I met my host family. At first I couldn’t communicate with them because my English was so bad. All the five years I had been learning English wasn’t much used at all (31)_______we didn’t have real practice at school. Even though my grammar was good, my pronunciation wasn’t. My problem is (32)_______ “l” and  “r”. For example, Australian people often asked “What do you eat in Vietnam?” I wanted to tell them that we eat rice, but they didn’t understand when I said “We eat lice”…

Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that indicate the word/phrase which is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part.

Don’t you ever mention that matter again. I will not hear anything of it.