Test 2 english 9 practice

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TEST 2

I Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced different from the other (1pt)

II Choose the best answer (2pts)

1 The center has many _ and native English teacher

A good-qualify B well-qualifying C well-qualified D good-qualified

2 When she the top of the stairs, her heart was pounding

3 Students will a two-hour examination at the end of the year

4 The perfume has been in all the women’s magazines

5 There is a big old banyan tree …… the entrance …… the village

A from / to B at / in C at / to D at / from

6 Long ago French in Viet Nam

A is spoken B was spoken C spoke D has spoken

7 My village is about 200 kilometers _ the South of Ho Chi Minh city

8 All dancers and musicians wore costume

A comfortable B convenient C different D traditional

9 The sea many of artist’s later paintings

10 My brother is a university student, but he works as a waiter in the evenings

A all the time B full-time C part-time D sometime

III Put the words in the brackets into correct forms (1pt)

1 English spelling presents special for foreign learners

(DIFFICULT)

2 We gather our things and ran to the bus stop (HURRY)

3 Students will take an (examine) at the end of the year

(EXAMINE)

4 The show brought to millions of viewers (ENJOY)

5 The Internet is a very useful means of (COMMUNICATE)

IV Each sentence has a mistake Find and correct it (1pt)

1 I’m usually right about the weather, amnot I?

2 The Tuoi Tre is a daily newspaper that is wide read by both teenagers and adults

3 Could I change seats with you? I’d like sitting next to my friends

4 The dentist said to brush three times a day and don’t eat candy

5 I know you are too busy to stay, but I look forward to see you again

V Choose the word from the box to fill each gap (2pts)

addition events making means designed explore entertainment viewers faraway pictures

Television is one of man’s most important 1 communication It brings 2 and sounds from around the world into millions of homes A person with a television set can sit in his house and watch the President 3 a speech or visit a foreign country Through television, home 4 can see and learn about people, places, and things in 5 lands TV even takes its viewers out of this world It brings them coverage of American’s astronauts as the astroauts 6 outer space

In 7 to all these things, television brings its viewers a steady stream of programs that are 8 to entertain In fact, TV provides many more 9 programs than any other kind The programs include action-packed dramas, light comedies, sporting 10 and motion pictures

VI Read the following passage and answer the questions below (1pt)

About half of 16-and 17-year-olds in the UK have got jobs, and three quarters of this age group also go to school They do part-time jobs before or after school and at weekends The most common jobs are babysitting (very popular with girls) and paper rounds (popular with boys) Cleaning and working in a shop are also popular jobs

In the UK, school students are not allowed to work more than two hours on a school day, or more than twelve hours in total during a school week They are not allowed

to work before 7 a.m or after 7 p.m, (but babysitters can work later) They must have

at least two weeks’ holiday from school each year when they don’t work at all

Teenagers do part-time jobs because they want to earn some money However, they don’t usually earn very much In the UK, there is a minimum wage for adults: 5.52 pounds an hour For 16-and 17-year-olds, it is 3.40 pounds an hour For children under 16, there is no minimum wage, so many teenagers work for 2 or 3 pounds an hour

Questions:

1 What is the most common job for teenager girls?

………

2 What is the most common job for teenager boys?

………

3 Can baby sitter work after 7 p.m?

………

4 Why do teenagers get part time job?

………

5 What is the minimum wage for a 16-year-old adult?

………

VII Rewrite the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence (2pts)

1 “He will be a teacher next month” Tom said

Tom said he

2 “What do you do in your free time?” Ha asked me

Ha asked me what

3 You had better put your money in the bank , Jack

I advised

4 Do you like learning a foreign language?

Are you ?

5 The last time we saw him was on Monday

We

6 Jack London didn’t write the novel “The Adventures of Tom Saywer”

The novel

7 "Why don't you repair the electric fan, Ba?"

She suggested………

8 I'll call the police if you don't stop cutting tress

Unless………

VIII Choose the correct verb form

1 I’d like to borrow this book _it yet?

A Did you read

B Had you read

C Have you read

D Do you read

2 We _in this town for a long time We _here sixteen years ago

A Had been/come

B Have been/came

C Were/came

D Are/came

3 No breakfast for Mark, thanks He breakfast

A Hasn’t eaten

B Didn’t eat

C Isn’t eating

D Doesn’t eat

4 The news came as no surprise to me I _for some time that the factory was likely to close

A Knew

B Had known

C Have known

D Know

5 Fish were among the earliest forms of life Fish on earth for ages and ages

A Existed

B Are existing

C Have existed

D Exist

6 Glenda extremely hard when she was a student

A Worked

B Has worked

C Was working

D Had been worked

7 The World War II in 1939 and _in 1945

A Begins/ends

B Had begun/ended

C Has begun/had ended

D Began/ended

8 I _at the checkout when I a

strange-looking man

A Waited/noticed

B Was waiting/noticed

C Waited/was noticing

D Was waiting/had noticed

9 According to the research reports, people usually _in their sleep 25 to 30 times each night

A Turn

B Are turning

C Have turned

D turned

10 Homestead High School’s football team a

championship until last season

A Has never won

B Had never been winning

C Is never winning

D Had never won