ĐỀ KIỂM TRA CHẤT LƯỢNG HKI – ĐỀ SỐ 15 Exercise 1. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer. April the 3 rd was the day we attemped to reach Mount Everest. The morning saw us all up and rushing about the bungalow at daybreak. We bumped down the nine miles of dusty track, each clutching a camera or one of the more delicate instruments to our chests in an endeavour to make our bodies absorb as many of the shocks from the bumpy track as possible. The ground staff were already busy on our arrival. The sheds where the aircraff were kept had been opened and the great machines were being manhandled out onto the tarmac. The bottles of oxygen were carefully placed in their clips and connected to the system. The vertical cameras were fitted and tested, air frames and engines were inspected and tested in every detail Notes : bungalow (n) : nhµ gç endeavour (n) : nç lùc manhandle(v) : khiªng tarmac: ®êng b¨ng 1. The author and his colleagues held their instruments close to their bodies because : a. there were so many people in the car. c. the surface of the track was very uneven b. The dust might have obscured their cameras. d. they wanted to protect themselves from bumps 2. When the members of the expedition arrived at the aerodrome, the ground staff were : a. manoeuvring the aircraff into position on the runway. c.attaching the clips to the bottles of oxygen. b. waiting to remove the machines from the sheds. d. making final adjustment to the vertical cameras. Exercise 2. Fill in the blank with suitable word. Environment pollution is a term that (1) ______ to all the ways by which man contaminates his surroundings. Man (2) ____ the air he (3) ____ with harmful gases and smoke, (4) ______ the water with chemicals and other substances and damages the soil with fertilizers and pesticides. Man also pollutes his surroundings (5) _____ various other ways. (6)____, he operates machines and motor vehicles that fill the air (7) ____ disturbing noise. The pollution is (8) ______ of the most serious problems facing mankind today. Everyone wants to lessen pollution. But the pollution (9) __ is as complicated as it is serious. It is complicated (10) ______ as much pollution is caused by things that benifit people . (11) ______ from automobiles causes a large percentage of all air pollution. The automobile (12) _____ transportation for millions of people. Factories discharge much of material that contaminates air and water but factories (13) _____ employment to a large number of people. Thus, to end (14) ___ reduce pollution immediately, people would have to stop using many things that (15) __ them. Most of people do not want to do that, of course. But pollution can be (15) ___ reduced in several ways. Exercise 3. Rewrite the sentences without changing their meaning. 1. The noise next door did not stop until after midnight. It was not __________________________________ 2. The car was so rusty that it couldn’t be repaired. The car was too _____________________________ 3. “ Don’t move or I will shoot!” the bank robber said to the clerk. The bank robber _____________________________ 4. The drama critic of the “ Daily News” regards the new play as a major breakthrough. According __________________________________ 5. Galiles is considered to be the father of modern astronomy. Galiles is regarded ____________________________ 6. Industrial smoke stacks throw out sulphur and nitrogen dioxides. Sulphur and nitrogen dioxides ____________________ 7. That factory is producing more and more pollution. More and more ________________________________ 8. You can’t say anything that would persuade me to live overseas. Nothing ______________________________________ 9. They said he had left Paris secretly in his private car. He __________________________________________ 10. We enjoy writing letters. We enjoy ____________________________________. Exercise 4. Fill in the blank with suitable preposition. The growth (1) _____ population has its problems as we shall see. As there are more and more mouths to be fed, there comes a great strain (2) ___ the resources (3) ____ a country: this is real (4) ____ the case (5) _____ developing countries (6) ____ the result they are unable to push (7) _____ economically. As food is not sufficient there is chronic malnutrition (8) ____ these countries especially (9) ____ women and children, resulting (10) ____ weaker population who would only economically be drain (11) ____ the country as their productive years will be short. As health and education are the State’s affair, they effect the country’s finance. So (12) _____ developing countries, health and illiteracy continue to be the problem. The unwieldy growth (13) _____ population leads (14) ____ the problem (15) ____ housing and sanitation. In many countries the slums are a sore (16) _____ the eyes. Slums grow round big cities and are found (17) ____ all the drawbacks. These are the areas (18) _______ diseases, filth and crime. Exercise 5. Fill in the blank with suitable noun to make idiomatic expressions. 1. He sat taking _______ of everything that was said. 2. The enemy set ______ to the whole village before making a retreat. 3. Don’t take any _______ of what he says. 4. The government is determined to put an _______ to terrorism. 5. Make full ______ of every chance you have to speak English. 6. Can you make ______ on that shelf for more books ? 7. Are wages keeping _______ with inflation ? 8. Give _______ to traffic coming from the right. 9. We must not give _______ to their demands. 10. He caught _________ of her through the window. 11. He watched her until he lost ________ of her. 12. The police lost every sight _______ of the thief. 13. We have lost _______ with him since 1975. 14. She often takes ______ of the house and her children when her husband goes away. 15. You must make ______ for him because he has been ill. 16. Please pay _______ to what I’m saying. 17. When judging his performance, don’t take _______ of his age. 18. She often takes ________ of my generosity. 19. He had a _______ in his back. 20. We keep in _______ with them although we are a long way far from their place. 21. We kept an ________ on a stranger. 22. His parents take ________ in their son’s talents. 23. Our neighbours take no _______ in politics at all. 24. What a talkative lady ! She often makes a ________ over trifles. 25. I hate people laughing at me. I hate being made _______ of. 26. I must pay a _______ for parking my car at a wrong place. 27. He takes a great _______ in teasing her. 28. It’s unwise to put _______ in unreliable people. 29. Try to keep _______ with your friend about that matter. 30. He lost ______ of his car and crashed into the lamp post. 31. Good health makes a great ________ to this athlete’s success. 32. The customers make no ________ about the new product. Exercise 6. Give the correct form of word in bracket. NASA (1 – office ) _____ have expressed a great deal of (2 – concern ) ______ recently over the descent of Skylab, a satellite which is (3 – slow ) _____ making its way back to earth and expected to ( 4 – enter ) ______ our atmosphere within the next two weeks. The aluminum Skylab is not expected to ( 5 – integrate ) ______ on re – entry. In fact, it is ( 6 – fear ) ______ that some 400 to 500 pieces, some weighing up to 1000 pounds, could ( 7 – survival ) _____ re – entry. These pieces would not all land in one area, but would be ( 8 – spread ) _____ over hundreds of miles ( 9 – cause ) ______ a great deal of damage to property and ( 10 – danger ) ____ human lives. At this point, we just don’t know where or when it will come down or how much ( 11 – damage ) ______ it might cause. Exercise 7. Put in the correct forms of the infinitive or V - ing. This way ! That way In a split second, when no one was paying attention, the two prisoners escaped from the back of a police van. They were handcuffed to each other. It was minutes before a policeman saw them ( 1 – run ) _____ down the street. “ We’ll follow”, two policemen said, “ Have the driver ( 2 – bring ) ______ the van to the end of the road. Tell him ( 3 – not let ) _______ them ( 4 – go ) ______ away. If we’re not careful, we’ll have the whole neighbourhood ( 5 – complain ) ______ that we’ve been careless”. The prisoners were still running side by side. The policemen saw them ( 6 – race ) _____ up the hill and ( 7 – disappear ) ______ round a corner. “ We’ll never catch them now! One of the policemen said, “ I told you ( 8 – not leave ) ______ them unattended” . The prisoners were running up at top speed. Suddenly they saw a lamp post in front of them. “ Go left! Go right!”, they shouted at the same time. They ran on either side of the lamp post. It just took time for police ( 9 – find ) _____ them, flying on the pavement, unhurt, dazed, and with silly grins on their faces. . ĐỀ KIỂM TRA CHẤT LƯỢNG HKI – ĐỀ SỐ 15 Exercise 1. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer. April. expected to ( 4 – enter ) ______ our atmosphere within the next two weeks. The aluminum Skylab is not expected to ( 5 – integrate ) ______ on re – entry. In fact, it is ( 6 – fear ) ______. to 1000 pounds, could ( 7 – survival ) _____ re – entry. These pieces would not all land in one area, but would be ( 8 – spread ) _____ over hundreds of miles ( 9 – cause ) ______ a great deal