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(1)Full name:……… The English test for grade 11 – N1 Class:……… Time allowed: 45 ms
I.Pronunciation: Choose one word who underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest.
1.A.Children B church C cheese D chemistry
2.A Honest B history C humour D helpful
3.A Peace B repeat C mean D dear
4.A Learned B retarded C unemployed D injured
II.Vocabulary and Grammar: Choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each of the following sentence.
1 Whenever we meet, Jack avoided at me
A to look B looking C to looking D look
2 Most people enjoy _ to different parts of the world
A to travel B travelling C travelled D to travelling Maria needs another job Her present company is going out of business
A to find B found C to finding D finding
4 May I change The TV channel, or you want _ more of this programme?
A to watch B watching C watched D watch
5 When I arrived, they………out
A have gone B went C had gone D gone
6 I must…… the phone bill by tomorrow
A paid B to pay C paying D pay
7 I hope _ my autobiography before I die Do you think anyone would read it?
A to write B writing C write D to writing
8 Joyce thanked us for _ them to dinner and said that they wanted to have us over for dinner next week
A.to inviting B to invite C invite D inviting If you delay _ your bill, you will only incur more and more interest charges
A to pay B to paying C pay D paying
10 My lawyer advised me not _ anything further about the accident
A said B to say C saying D say
11 When I came, He …………a letter
A is writing B write C was writing D were writing 12 By the time I …… in to town they………
A got/ had gone B get/ had gone C got/ went D get/have gone III Reading: Read the passage carefully, then choose the correct answers
Last year I went to Nepal for three months to work in a hospital I think it's important to see as much of a country as you can, but it is difficult to travel around Nepal The hospital let me have a few days’ holiday, so I decided to go into the tropical forest and I asked a Nepalese guide, Kamal Rai, to go with me
We started preparing for the trip at six in the morning, and left camp with two
(2)Then, in the distance, we saw a tiger, and Kamal told me to be very quiet We crept nearer and found a dead deer, still bleeding This was the tiger's lunch! Suddenly I started to feel very frightened
We heard the tiger a second before we saw it It jumped out like a flash of lightning, five hundred kilos plus and four meters long I looked into its eyes and face, and saw right down the animal's throat It grabbed Kamal's leg between its teeth, but I managed to pull Kamal away One of our elephants ran at the tiger and made it go back into the grass, so we quickly escaped to let the tiger eat its lunch That night it was impossible to sleep! The writer went to Nepal
a for holiday b for treatment c for business d on tour When having a few days off, he decided to go into
a the remote villages b the mountains
c the seaside d the tropical forest
3 It's difficult to find tigers in the afternoon because
a they usually sleep at this time of day
b it's so hot at this time
c the elephants' back wasn't high enough to get view d tigers hardly hunt in the heat of the day
4 The writer started to feel frightened when
a he saw a tiger b he saw the tiger's lunch
c he scrept nearer d he found a deer
5 The tiger
a was like a flash of light b saw them a second before they saw it c jumped out very fast d jumped out of the grass at about four meters IV.Writing: Rewrite the sentences, beginning with the words given:
E.g They arrived home late He saw them arrive home late. The teacher allowed me to stay at home to finish the assignment
The teacher let……… The boy run away from the house
She noticed……….……… They got out of the car
The police watched ……… They painted this picture months ago
This picture was……… 5.They went to the theatre yesterday
I saw them………