Choose the word or phrase A, B ,C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage 1.5pts One of the main sources for the spreading of news and events throughout the worl
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Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits the blank space in each sentence (2.5 pts)
1 We haven’t seen each other _ last January
2 I wrote her lots of letters but she has never my letters
A answered about B replied with C responded to D read of
3 The boy test should be done more carefully got a good grade.
A agreed B accepted C nominated D recognized
5 The _ tell us what is happening in our city ,in our country , and around our world
A communication B advertisements C media D forecasts
6 _ your present, I can wake up on time
A Thanks to B Thanks for C Thanks of D Thanking on
7 There you are! I _ for you for two hours
A am waiting B wait C waited D have been waiting
8 _ “ ” - “ That’s a good idea ! Let’s do that ”
A How can we recycle bottles and cans ? B Would you mind recycling bottles and cans ?
C Why don’t we recycle bottles and cans ? D I think only the factory can recycle bottles and cans
9 _ Mr Nam was a vegetarian, he avoided eating meat
10 _ - It’s not for sale
A How much do you want for that chair? B What is your price of that chair?
C What is the cost for that chair? D How much is its price?
Answers : 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 _, 5 _
6 , 7 , 8 , 9 _, 10 _
Choose the underlined word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that needs correcting (0.5pt)
11 Thousands of people take part in the parades in Ba Đình Square in Independence Day
A B C D
12 If you work hard , you would be successful in anything that you do
A B C D
Answers : 11 , 12
Use the correct form of the word given in each sentence (1.0pts):
13 Hoa wishes she ( speak ) English more fluently, but she can’t
14 Mr Minh said that he ( come ) _ back from Hue the following week
15 There ( be ) interesting news about a new game show on TV last night
16 “Don’t go outside at present, Lan ! It ( rain) so heavily.” said her mother
Answers : 13 14
15 _ 16
Trang 2Choose the word or phrase ( A, B ,C or D ) that best fits the blank space in the following passage (1.5pts)
One of the main sources for the spreading of news and events throughout the world is the newspaper The (17) _of newspapers is to inform the public of political, social, economic and entertainment happenings among other things Generally, there are three types of newspaper: daily newspapers, weekly newspapers (18) _ special-interest newspapers Daily newspapers publish (19) least one edition every week Most dailies also have a weekend edition Daily newspapers often have sections for news, sports, arts and entertainment, business, and classified (20) Weekly newspapers print once a week and cover news of interest to readers in a (21) _ area than that
of a daily paper They focus on local happenings rather than national or international events Special-interest newspapers may be published daily, weekly, monthly, or even less frequently They generally disseminate news of interest to a particular group of readers or feature news about a specific topic.
Thanks to the development of the Internet, we can now get (22) _ to electronic newspapers.
To some extent, e-newspapers are cheap, up-to-date, and convenient for most readers in the world.
Answers : 17 _ 18 _ 19 20 ,21 _ 22 _
Use the correct form of the word given in each sentence (1.5pts):
23 Nowadays , the Internet is _ used We can see many products advertised on it ( commerce )
24 Nam always feels _ before the coming examination ( worry )
25 In order to keep our environment _ , we shouldn’t drop litter in public places ( pollute )
26 often take a lot of photos from this ancient town when visiting ( Sight)
27 It’s certain that human will use energy in the near future (sun )
28 Christmas is one of the most popular _ in the world (celebrate)
Read the passage and then decide whether the statements that follow are True or False.
Today, when English is one of the major languages in the world, it requires an effort of the imagination to realize that this is a relatively recent thing – that in Shakespeare’s time, for example, only a few million people spoke, and the language was not thought to be very important by the other nations of Europe, and was unknown to the rest of the world.
English has become a world language because of its establishment as a mother tongue outside England, in all the continents of the world This exporting of English began in the seventeenth century, with the first settlements in the United States, assisted by massive immigration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, that has given the English language its present standing in the world
30 It is considered as a mother language outside England.
32 Most of the immigration in the USA do not speak English.
Answers : 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 _
Rewrite the sentences so that they are nearest in meaning to the sentence printed before them:
33 They can’t go on working because they are very tired
If _
34 The trip was not interesting enough for me to remember
The trip was so
35 “Do you like using Internet for searching information?” The examiner asked me
The examiner asked _
36 There is a difference between the two books
This book is _
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