diff --git a/tests/python/unittest/test_contrib_text.py b/tests/python/unittest/test_contrib_text.py
index 0778e5ace1f7..44d4422c7819 100644
--- a/tests/python/unittest/test_contrib_text.py
+++ b/tests/python/unittest/test_contrib_text.py
@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@
 
 # coding: utf-8
 
-from __future__ import absolute_import
-from __future__ import print_function
-
 from collections import Counter
 
 from common import assertRaises
@@ -27,6 +24,8 @@
 from mxnet.test_utils import *
 from mxnet.contrib import text
 
+import pytest
+
 
 def _get_test_str_of_tokens(token_delim, seq_delim):
     seq1 = token_delim + token_delim.join(['Life', 'is', 'great', '!']) + token_delim + seq_delim
@@ -518,6 +517,7 @@ def test_custom_embedding_with_vocabulary():
                         )
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason='https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/18282')
 def test_composite_embedding_with_one_embedding():
     embed_root = 'embeddings'
     embed_name = 'my_embed'