ĐỀ THI THỬ ANH VĂN - TEST 9 I. Use the correct tense or form of the verbs in parentheses : 1. The movie about our scientific workers (show) ____________ on television last night (be) ____________ very interesting. 2. Twenty five dollars (be) ____________ too much to pay for this book. 3. Until last year, the government (not concern) ____________ itself with the problem of unemployment. 4. I can’t stand (listen) ____________ to his complaints any longer. 5. Jane was interested in (hear) _______ all sorts of people (speak)________there. 6. The teacher ordered us (keep) ____________ silent. 7. I will tell him the news as soon as I (see) ____________ him. 8. If yesterday (be) ____________ Sunday, we (go) ____________to the beach. 9. Mary is a writer. She (write) ____________ several novels and (win) _________ several awards for her books. A few years ago, she (win) ____________ the prize for the most promising author of the year. At the moment she (write) ____________ a dectective story. 10. Jong (speak) ____________ Chinese. Chinese (be) ____________ his native language; but right now he (speak) ____________ English. 11. Jack (break) ____________ his leg five days ago. He’s in hospital. He (be) ____________ in hospital since he (break) ____________ his leg. II. Supply the correct word form. 1. I should choose this in ______________ to any other. (prefer) 2. He is unhappy because of his _____________ (deaf) 3. The government want to ____________ this training center. (military) 4. The advantage is that it leaves healthy cells ___________ (harm) 5. A laser __________ the bone without touching any of the surrounding tissue. (vapor) 6. She was used to __________ on a picnic at weekends. (go) 7. Carbon dioxide occurs in the air in __________ form. (nature) 8. He is always ready to give assistance to his friends. He is ________ to them. (help) 9. This company offered a lot of __________ jobs. (attract) 10. The result of the test was _____________ (satisfy) III. Give the correct preposition. 1. Preserving natural resources is ________ great importance. 2. I’ll have some tickets available ________ you. 3. Why are you working so late? Are you aware ______ the time? 4. The boy is afraid ______ the dark. 5. Is she serious _______ learning to be a pilot? 6. Smoking is harmful ______ your health. 7. The child is very quick _____ arithmetic. 8. The weather seems perfect ______ a picnic. 9. Attending all the lectures is important ______ us. 10. What he said was contrary _______ his thought. IV. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentences : 1. We can’t work. We don’t use a good dictionary. - Without ________________________________________________________________ 2. He must practise it everyday. That is the only way for him to be successful. - Only by ________________________________________________________________ 3. He is going to retire at the end of the term. It was decided. - The fact that_____________________________________________________________ 4. His father didn’t want to watch TV. His wife didn’t want to watch TV. - Neither_________________________________________________________________ 5. He was ill. He went to school. - In spite of_______________________________________________________________ 6. Think carefully. Answer my question. - Before _________________________________________________________________ 7. I can’t cook as well as my mother does. - My mother _____________________________________________________________ 8. Unless it stops raining,we won’t go out. - If _____________________________________________________________________ 9. She cooked better than you did. - You ___________________________________________________________________ 10. Unless someone has a key,we can’t get into the house. - We can only ____________________________________________________________ 11. Because of her carefulness, she didn’t make any mistakes in her answers. - Because _______________________________________________________________ 12. She said, ‘I spent my holiday in Italy last year.” - She said _______________________________________________________________ 13. She didn’t buy it because the price was too high. - Because of _____________________________________________________________ 14. We didn’t go on holiday because we didn’t have enough money. - If _____________________________________________________________________ 15. The question was so difficult that we can’t answer it. - The question was too______________________________________________________ V. Read the passage and do the exercises that follow : Edison’s first great interest was chemistry and he read all he could find about it. He was only ten when he began to grow and sell vegetables so that he could have money to buy chemicals for making experiments. When he was fifteen, he got a job selling magazines and fruit on a train and began printing a weekly newspaper on the printing press set up in the luggage van. But one day, one of his bottles of chemicals broke and set fire to the van.He was put off the train and lost the job. *Make up questions and answer them. 1/ What / Edison / greatly interested ? -________________________________________________? -________________________________________________. 2/ How / he / earn money? -________________________________________________? -________________________________________________. 3/ Why / he / need money? -________________________________________________? -________________________________________________. 4/ What / he / do / a train / fifteen. -________________________________________________? -________________________________________________. 5/ Why / he / lose / job ? -________________________________________________? -________________________________________________. A Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush Thà rằng được sẻ trên tay Còn hơn được hứa trên mây bạc vàng . ĐỀ THI THỬ ANH VĂN - TEST 9 I. Use the correct tense or form of the verbs in parentheses : 1. The movie. to his friends. He is ________ to them. (help) 9. This company offered a lot of __________ jobs. (attract) 10. The result of the test was _____________ (satisfy) III. Give the correct. 5. He was ill. He went to school. - In spite of_______________________________________________________________ 6. Think carefully. Answer my question. - Before _________________________________________________________________