Find out ONE mistake in each sentence by circling the letter A, B, C, or D below the underlined words 1.. Identify your answer by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D.. Identi
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-I Find out ONE mistake in each sentence by circling the letter A, B, C, or D below the underlined words
1 Although (A) the weather was not perfect, a bunch of (B) people turned (C) out for the annual (D) parade
2 After (A) the rain had let out, (B) the Mitchealls continued (C) their hike (D) up the mountain
3 I do not know where could he have (A) gone (B) so early (C) in the (D) morning
4 When (A) the Second World War, almost (B) a third of (C) a million people were killed (D)
5 The ozone layer must be protected (A) because it (B) shields the earth from (C) excessive ultraviolet radiate (D)
II Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently Identify your answer by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D.
1 A football B good C school D book
2 A headache B heavy C weather D each
3 A start B father C family D ask
5 A later B traveling C language D traffic
III Choose one word whose stress pattern is different Identify your answer by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D
1 A Vietnamese B capital C attitude D interesting
2 A appearance B memory C behaviour D consider
3 A entertainment B applicable C conversation D information
4 A following B rearrange C suitable D difficult
5 A expect B enjoy C because D visit
IV Read the following passage and decide which word ( marked A, B, C, and D) best fits each of the blanks by circling its corresponding letter A, B, C, and D:
Tonight I am going to stay in and watch television There is a film on that I want to see It is (1) a policeman trying to find the man who killed his brother I saw it last year _(2) _ the cinema It was on late at night and I fell asleep (3) the end so I can’t remember (4) _ happened
I don’t (5) _ watch much TV There are too (6) _stupid quiz shows and boring programs about politics I sometimes watch the News (7) I don’t enjoy it There is never (8) _ god news - just wars and disasters I don’t think that there are (9) comedy programs They should put on more They cheer me (10) _and make me laugh And, of course, I’d like to see more exciting movies!
Trang 21 A less B any C all D some
3 A possibly B really C probably D usually
4 A about B around C amuse D along
5 A below B behind C after D before
8 A in B on C off D up
9 A enough B few C extra D fewer
V Choose from the alternatives given (marked A, B, C, and D) one best to complete each sentence Identify your answers by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D.
1 “The reservation weren’t made on time” - “Sorry, the computers were down It ”
A couldn’t be helped B didn’t help C couldn’t help D wasn’t helped
2 William Bonny, _ Billy the Kid, was a famous Wild West gunman
3 Our plan to start our own business seem to failure
4 No one can visit her because she has a very disease
A intoxicating B contagious C corporal D exasperating
5 In the last two decades, space exploration great contributions to weather forecasting
6 He wrapped all his possessions up in a sheet and carried the on his back
7 That popular magazine has many
A readership B prescription C subscribers D spectators
8 We found the dance performed by the small children really _
9 I hate formal examinations I find it so difficult to organize my thoughts in a limited time
10 John tried to eat a large piece of meat too fast and began to _ on
11 You haven’t eaten anything since yesterday afternoon You _ be really hungry!
12 The Pyramids are perhaps the most famous of the seven _ of the ancient world
A structures B spectacles C wonders D constructions
13 Jenny is _ of the mistakes of others
14 The word processor _ of a keyboard, a monitor and a printer
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16 He received a silver for winning the contest
17 The medicine made me feel dizzy I felt as though the room around and around
A were spinning B will spin C spins D would be spinning
18 The company fell deeper into the and then went bankrupt
19 Inflation has risen years
20 _ the regular written work, you will be required to submit a long essay
VI Complete the letter below using the words and phrases given
1 Mary rang hours and hours ago
It is hours………
2 You may get hungry on the train, so take some sandwiches
In case………
3 They understand more than we do
We don’t……….
4 The Prime Minister is going to open the enquiry
The enquiry……….
5 You had better go there immediately
She advised………
6 I’m grateful that you looked after my mother so well
Thank you………
7 This holiday is so expensive, I don’t think I can go
It is such………
8 The garden is too small to play football in
The garden isn’t……….
9 When did you start working here?
How long……… ……….
10 I tried to eat the cake, but it was too sweet
The cake……….
Trang 4VI Read the following passage then complete sentences that follow
According to the census of 1800, the United States contained 5,308,832 persons In the same year the British Islands contained upwards of fifteen million; the French Republic, more than twenty-seven million Nearly one-fifth of American people were black slaves; the true political population consisted of four and a half million free white, or less than one million able-bodied males, on whose shoulders fell the burden of a continent Even after two centuries of struggle the land was still untamed; forest covered every portion, except here and there a stripe of cultivated soil; the materials lay undisturbed in their rocky beds, and more than two-thirds of the people clung to the seaboard within fifty miles of tidewater, where alone the wants of civilized life could be supplied
1 The struggle to tame the American continent had been going
A a little more than a century B about fifty years
2 Two-thirds of the American people
A lived where the wants of civilized life could not be supplied B lived on the seaboard
C lived in Washington D lived within fifteen miles of tidewater
3 This description of the US in 1800 suggests that
A most of the new nation was undeveloped
B the people of the new nation had succeeded in taming the continent
C strips of cultivated land were everywhere
D settlers were beginning to mine the valuable minerals of the new continent
4 In the US in 1800 _
A two out of every three Americans was a black slave
B one out of every twenty-five Americans was a black slave
C one out of every four was a black slave
D one out of every five was a black slave
5 Free white men in America numbered
C about four-fifths of the population D about four and one half million