ĐỀ THI KIỂM TRA CHẤT LƯỢNG ANH VĂN KHỐI 12 - ĐỀ 8 I. Find and correct the mistakes in the following sentences : (2ms) 1. How many times did you see him ? - Many times. 2. If I had had enough time tonight, I would write a letter to my cousin . 3. His English is improving. It is getting gooder and gooder. 4. It used to take one hour he drive the car sixty kilometres from home to his office. 5. That house should buy immediately. II. Reading the passage : Nearly all the sports practised nowadays are competitive. You play to win, and the game has little meaning unless you do your utmost to win. On the village green, where you pick up sides and no feeling of local patriotism is involved, it is possible to play simple for the fun and exercise: but as soon as the question of pretige arises, as soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instincts are aroused. Anyone who has played even in a school football match know this. At the international level sport is frankly mimic warfare. But the significant thing is not the behavour of the players but the spectators, of the nations who work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, and seriously believe - at any rate for short periods - that running, jumping and kicking a ball are tests of national virtue. * Answer the questions : (2ms) 1. When are the most savage combative instincts of players aroused ? 2. Why does the writer say that “football contests are tests of national virtue ? III. Find and correct the errors in the following sentences : (1m) 1. Her throat was such a sore that she hardly speak. 2. Many people are said that are homeless after the floods. 3. Because the shops will be shut, tomorrow is a holiday. 4. She’s a twenty-year-old woman. 5. The road in front of your house is preparing. IV. Use the following sets of words and phrases to write complete sentences : (1ms) 1. Peter / take a bath / before / he / have / breakfast. 2. John / be / not / tall / Tom. 3. He / wait for / his mother / since / six o’clock. 4. The teacher / tell / them / read / the / text / carefully. 5. Streets / crowded / there are / not / traffic jams. 6. She / watch / a mother bird / feed / her babies. 7. They / talked / the lion-tamers / they / admired. 8. He / wish / he / be / beach / last week. 9. If / I / be / you / I / give / her / some flowers. 10. The house / painted white / be / the corner. V. Rewrite the following sentences, beginning each sentence with the cues: (0,5m) 1. Alice saw the new-born calf. She looked happy. Seeing 2. She waited long. She became impatient. The longer 3. It was an excellent show. We all enjoyed it It was such an 4. He could not drive fast. The traffic was heavy. As 5. Mai’s family was glad to go to Britain. The trip was expensive. Although VI. Write a letter to one of your friends or one of your relatives : (about 150 words) : (2ms) VII. Rewrite the following sentences as directed in the parentheses : (1m) 1. The man is friendly. The man’s son is my friend (relative pronoun). 2. Mai will have someone make her blouse (Turn into passive voice) 3. Buses are cheap. They have a lot of passengers. (double comparative) 4. Susan is so young that she can’t go to the pictures. (“too” or “enough”) 5. The clown is very funny. He attracts a lot of children. (“so that” or “such that”) 6. Did you send her a present yesterday ? (Turn into passive voice) 7. The music is very soft. We can’t hear it. (“too” or “enough”) 8. The girl doesn’t look happy. Today is her birthday. (though) VIII. Fill in the blanks with the suitable verbs given below: (0,5m) Look up, pick out, put aside, turn off. 1. Which book did you to send to Helen ? 2. I want to money for my vacation trip. 3. She couldn’t the switch. 4. He the new word in a dictionary. . ĐỀ THI KIỂM TRA CHẤT LƯỢNG ANH VĂN KHỐI 12 - ĐỀ 8 I. Find and correct the mistakes in the following sentences : (2ms) 1. How many times did you see him ? - Many times. . Streets / crowded / there are / not / traffic jams. 6. She / watch / a mother bird / feed / her babies. 7. They / talked / the lion-tamers / they / admired. 8. He / wish / he / be / beach /. work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, and seriously believe - at any rate for short periods - that running, jumping and kicking a ball are tests of national virtue. * Answer