Put the verbs in brackets in the right form.. Write your answers in the spaces provided.. Complete the following sentences with the right form of the words in brackets.. Write your answ
Trang 1ENGLISH 12 YEAR 2008- 2009
ENGLISH WRITTEN TEST
(Time allowed: 45 minutes)
Full name: ……… Test date: ………
PHONETICS (1 POINT)
Questions 1-4 Circle the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others.
3 A personally B swallow C terrorist D sure
VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (3 POINTS)
Questions 5-12 Put the verbs in brackets in the right form Write your answers in the spaces
provided.
5 Yesterday they _ (penalize) for showing up late for class
6 John was the last man _ (reach) the top of the mountain
7 If I _ (realize) that Greg wanted to get up early, I would have woken him up
8 When I came to see her yesterday, she _ (read) a magazine
9 When my father was young, he used (get) up early to do the gardening
10 The television should _ (repair) It’s not working now
11 What _ (you often/ do) in the evening?
12 If the company offers me the job, I think I _ (take) it
Questions 13-16 Complete the following sentences with the right form of the words in brackets Write your answers in the spaces provided.
13 Water polo is played in a pool that is 1.8 metres in _ DEEP
14 Books in the home are a wonderful source of _ and pleasure KNOW
15 Television brings you all the _ and stories with colour,
16 Gases from factories are extremely _ HARM
READING (1.25 POINT)
Questions 17-21 Read and circle the correct answer to best complete the following passage.
It is difficult to know how many elephants once lived in the continent, but there (17) _ at least 3-5 million elephants in Africa in the early part of the twentieth century People have always hunted elephants for meat, hides and ivory As the human population grew and weapons became more advanced, elephants were under greater (18) _ In the late 1970s and early 1980s there was a huge decline in the number
of elephants (19) _ the increase in poaching It is estimated that there are now about 500,000
elephants and they are living in a small number of countries A ban (20) _ on all international trade
in ivory in 1989, and many governments started to give poachers severe punishments Thanks to such timely actions, some elephant populations, especially those in southern Africa, have recovered over the last decade (21) _, numerous threats remain for Africa’s elephants
17 A may be B might be C may have been D must be
18 A threat B threaten C threatened D threatening
20 A has been given B give C was given D gave
WRITING (2.25 POINTS)
Questions 22-25 In these sentences, each one has an error Circle and correct it.
22 President Ho Chi Minh is famous for a great leader _
Trang 223 That must be Jenny’s father, isn’t it? _
24 It’s surprised to hear the competition results _
25 Gold, as well as silver, has been risen in price _
Questions 26-30 Rewrite the sentences in such a way that they have the same meaning as the original ones.
26 The coat is too small for him to wear
→ The coat isn’t _
27 It was such a boring film that she fell asleep
→ The film was _
28 Today American women often earn their own money
→ Today American women are used _
29 Uruguay defeated Argentina by 4 to 2 in the first World Cup
→ Argentina
30 Lee is more polite to people than Ben
→ Ben is not
LANGUAGE FOCUS (2.5 POINTS)
Questions 31-40 Choose the option that best completes the sentence.
31 The movie itself was not very good, _ I like the music
32 Who was Tom with when you saw him?
- Nobody He was _ his own
33 Are you _ in soccer?
34 It is too noisy here Can we go somewhere _?
A more quietly B quietly C quieter D quite
35 It was _ weather that we spent the whole day at the beach
A such nice a B such nice C so nice a D so nice
36 Work hard _ you will not get enough money for the family
37 Florida, _ the sunshine State, attracts many tourists every year
A that is known as B that is C known as D is
38 The grass is wet It _ last night
A used to rain B rains C would rain D must have rained
39 Tomatoes can be used _ as a salad green or as a cooking vegetable
40 Did you read _ book I lent you _ last week?
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