Read the following passage and choose the best answer: Mercury is the smallest member of the sun's family.. People sometimes call mercury the morning star or evening star.. Mercury is ha
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NĂM HỌC 2013-2014 M«n : TIẾNG ANH
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I Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others.
II Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others.
1 The clerk said she was tired … hearing complaints day after day
2 You and I are busy right now, … …?
3 Lan: “What are you doing?”
Hoa: “I …… the flowers.”
4 If the weather……… worse, we won’t go to the beach
5 He looked forward to his first pay packet
6 I wish I all about this matter
7 Joan asked
8 I want to have my suit …… I’m going to a wedding on Saturday
9 The book ………is on the table belongs to my brother
10 My sister is very………of spiders
III Choose the words or phrases that needs correcting.
1 Despite of the rain, the stadium was full of spectators
A B C D
2 Did your mother used to cook dinner for your family?
A B C D
3 Thank you very much for your letter who arrived a few days ago
A B C D
4 I have so much money that I don't know what do with it
A B C D
5 Mary asked me how did I went to school everyday
A B C D
IV Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the words in capital letters
Trang 21 The _ are scheduled to take off at 15: 00 and 15: 30 (FLY)
2 The Internet has _ developed and become part of our every day life ( INCREASE )
3 Fuel can be cut down by having fewer cars on the roads (CONSUME)
4 Tet is a time for families to clean and their homes (DECORATION)
V Read the following passage and choose A, B, C, or D to fill in the gaps:
No writer in American literature is (1) or more loved than Samuel Longhorn Clements Born in Missouri in 1835, he grew (2) on the bank of the Mississippi river and later adopted the (3) Mark Twain The river environment inspired the two novels (4) made him famous.: "Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn" ":Life on the Mississippi", told of his adventures on the river (5) of that period
Mark Twain's life as a writer started during the Civil War At that time he (6)
as a newspaper man in Nevada and California (7) short story "The celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was an immediate (8) and his new career began
1 A more fame B famous C more famous D fame
6 A works B worked C is working D was working
VI Read the following passage and choose the best answer:
Mercury is the smallest member of the sun's family It is only 3.100 miles across It is also the sun's swiftest planet Its yearly journey round the sun is only 85 days Mercury always keeps one side towards the sun On this side it is always day,
on the other side always night We only see the lighted side
Mercury appears to us like a yellowish orange star The nearest planet to the sun, it is always seen near the sun, either just before sunrise or soon after sunset People sometimes call mercury the morning star or evening star
Mercury is half the size of the earth Because it is much lighter, it has much less gravity If you can visit Mercury in a spaceship, you will find it a strange world Its low gravity makes you feel very light If your weight on earth is 100 pounds, your weight on Mercury is only 27 pounds
Looking at the sun from Mercury, you can see that it's much more brilliant than it is seen from the earth And the yellow centre of the sun appears three times bigger from Mercury On its lighted side, Mercury's temperature is about 300 degrees centigrate But the dark side is extremely cold, but 150 degrees below zero
so mercury is probably the coldest as well as the hottest of the planets
1 A Mercury is
2 We cannot see the dark side of Mercury because
A it moves very fast
B it always appears just before sunrise or soon after sunset
Trang 3C it always keeps one side towards the sun.
D it is too far for us to see
3 When can we see Mercury? - We can see it
4 Why do we weigh much on the earth than on Mercury? - Because
A Mercury is nearer to the sun
B Mercury has got less gravity than the earth
C Mercury is much hotter
D none are correct
5 Why does the sun look bigger when it is seen from Mercury? - Because
A Mercury is the smallest planet of the sun
B Mercury is nearer to the sun
C Mercury is a light planet
D It only takes Mercury 88 days to move round the sun
VII Rewrite the sentences so that it means the same as the first one, beginning with the given words (1 pt)
1 My father started to give up smoking last year
-> My father has……… ……
2 They have just bought a new car
-> A new car
3 She doesn’t have a bicycle, so she can’t go on a camping trip with you
-> If ……… , ………
4 Unless he takes these pills, he won’t be better
-> If
5 He was annoyed because his secretary came late to work
-> He objected
đáp án
Trang 4I 1 đ (0,2đ/câu)
II 2 đ (0,2đ/câu)
III 1 đ (0,2đ/câu)
IV 1 đ (0,25đ/câu)
1 flights
2 increasingly
3 consumption
4 decorate
V 2 đ (0,25đ/câu)
VI 1 đ (0,2đ/câu)
VII 2 đ (0,4đ/câu)
1 given up smoking sice last year
2 has just been bought
3 she had a bicycle, she could go on a camping trip with you
4 he doesn’t take these pills, he won’t be better
5 to his secretary (‘s) coming late to work