Name: 2 nd Term-1 st Test Class A I. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer. By the year 2025, the Earth could lose as many as one fifth of all species known to …(1)… today. In recent centuries, hundreds of species have… (2)………almost always as a result of human activities. Today, ….(3)…… require such efforts more urgently than ever. An essential task that falls to present- day conservationists is to determine which species are most……(4)… , so that conservation resources can be applied where action is needed most. Species are categorized by the degree to which their …… (5)………. in the wild is threatened. World ………(6)…… Fund (WWF) offers a sampling of animals and plants that fall mainly within the two most serious categories of- threat: critically endangered and endangered. What threatens these species' existence? Some of the top threats are habitat destruction by unsustainable logging and ever- encroaching human settlement; pollution of water, soil, and air by toxic …… (7)……; unnatural climate changes due to fossil fuel use; unmanaged fishing that exhausts fish stocks; and illegal hunting to supply the demand for skins, hides, traditional medicines, food, and tourist souvenirs. 1. A. live B. exist C. be D. understand 2. A. appeared B. lived C. survived D. disappeared 3. A. species B. animals C. plants D. human 4. A. dangerous B. beautiful C. endangered D. precious 5. A. survival B. life C. home D. nature 6. A. World B. Workers C. Winning D. Wildlife 7. A. sources B. chemicals C. fields D. industries II Choose the best answer for each sentence below: 8. We’ve got plenty of time. We……… leave yet. A. need B. may C. needn’t D. might 9. You could fly via Vienna;……………,it isn’t the only way. A .but B. however C. therefore D. so 10. I’m very bored………… what he said. His lecture wasn’t interesting. A. at B. in C. from D. with 11 Almost half of turtles and tortoises are known to be threatened with ____. A. extinction B. extinct C. extinctive D. extinctly 12. Don’t make too much noise. You ………. wake my parents up. A. need B. must C. may D. should 13. Everyone is ready for the discussion, ________ him. A. however B. but C. so D. therefore 14. She has worked as a secretary ………….she graduated from college. A. until B. while C. since D. before 15. When I came to see her yesterday, she …………… film with her boyfriend. A. watches B. is watching C. has watched D. was watching 16. The children haven’t met their mother before they left London A B C D 17. She………… her grandmother last week A. visited B. visits C. will visit D. is visiting 18. Last week, We all took part ……….the competition held by the teacher. A. on B. at C. in D. of 19. My father often ………… exercise at nights with his neighbors A. do B. does C. did D. has done 20. “………………?-“I’m 18 years old” A. How far is it B. How tall are you C. How are you D. How old are you 21. After I had done exercises last night, I ……………… TV until 11 p.m A. watched B. is watching C. have watched D. will watch 22. Music on TV was too noisy. Please turn…………it and prepare for the new lessons tomorrow. A. on B. off C. of D. at 23. If you………….out much, you won’t have a cold like that. A. don’t go B. didn’t go C. haven’t gone D. hadn’t gone 24. Bad habits can harm our health. A. Our health cannot be harmed by bad habits. B. Our health cannot be harm by bad habits. C. Our health can be harmed by bad habits. D. Our health cannot is harmed by bad habits. 25. You must look after the book carefully. A. The book must be looked carefully B. The book carefully must be looked after C. The book mustn’t be looked after carefully D. The book must be looked after carefully 26. What do you do? ……………………………… A. I’m doing homework B. nothing C. I’m a student D. May I help you 27. “Where have you come from?”, she asked me A. She asked me where I have come from B. She asked me where I had been come from C. She asked me where I had come from D. She asked me where I come from 28. The house was very dirty. I couldn’t clean it A. The house was too dirty for me that I clean it B. The house was so dirty that I couldn’t clean it C. The house was enough dirty for me to clean D. It was such dirty house that I could clean it 29. She is going to make a trip next summer. A. A trip is being made next summer B. A trip next summer is made C. A trip is going to make next summer D. A trip is going to be made next summer. 30. If a bull…………….blocking the road, we would have arrived on time A. has been B. weren’t C. hadn’t been D. was 31. The room ______________________ once a day. A. should clean B. should be cleaning C. should be cleaned D. should have cleaned 32. I wish I ……… her tomorrow. A. will meet B. met C. had met D. would meet 33. She was very rich. She could hire a plane. A. She was so rich that she could hire a plane B. She was too rich for me to hire a plane. C. She wasn’t poor enough to hire a plane D. She was such a plane that she could hire 34. Her son was too weak. He couldn’t stand alone A. Her son was enough weak to stand alone B. Her son was too weak to stand alone C. Her son was so weak that he could stand alone D. It was such a son that he couldn’t stand alone 35. Phong Nha-Ke Bang is the largest …………… park in Vietnam. A. national B. nationwide C. international D. nationally III. Which one is pronounced differently: 36. A. controlled B. hoped C. played D. repaired 37 A. candies B. churches C. pages D. misses 38. A. desert B. dessert C. eliminate D. exist v 39 . A. vulnerable B. culture C. putting D. understand 40. A. different B. watched C. liked D. waited