Choose the words or phrases that are not correct in Standard English. (tìm lỗi sai)

1. He is going to get to work earlier in order impress the boss. 

2. They are planting trees by the roadside so that reduce the traffic noise. 

3. It’s a secret between us and I promise I don’t tell anybody. 

4. You don’t have to keep medicines where children can get them. 

5. The room got quietly when the professor came. 

6. David sang so badly that I had to look away not so as to laugh at him.

7. If you look carefully, you are finding writing scratched on the glass. 

8. Matt was trying to calm the baby out by singing to her.

9. I was very tired and I tried keeping my eyes open but I couldn’t. 

10. They pulled the boy out of the river and tried reviving him.

11. I carried the knife carefully to not cut myself. 

12. I put a mat under the hot cup for stopping it damaging the table. 

13. I think you are enjoying the party tomorrow. 

14. Why don’t you come across this evening and we’ll talk about it then? 

15. Try to giving as much detail as possible in your answer. 

16. This wall is to keeping people out of the garden. 

17. He took the job in order not to earn more money, but to live closer to his sister. 

18. I covered the floor by newspaper before I started painting.  

19. I’m very tired but I’m sure a cup of coffee will revival me.

20. Could you give me your answer today, if possibly? 

II. Choose the word or phrase that best completes each unfinished sentence below or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.

6. Mrs Miles sometimes takes a pill______ to sleep.

a. go b. going c. to go d. for going

7. He is working very hard______get poor grades.

a. in order to b. in order not to c. to d. not to

8. If you move to your left, you_____the church.

a. will see b. are seeing c. has seen d. see

9. ______quiet? I’m trying to learn.

a. Are you please be b. Will you please be

c. Are you please being d. Has you please been

10. The book fell_____the table.

a. of b. off c. up d. in

11. Why don’t you come _____ for dinner?

a. across b. over c. at d. down

12. Please try_____ quiet when you come home. Everyone will be asleep.

a. be b. to be c. being d. to being

13. Leave the victim_____flat and don’t let him ___chilled.

a. lying/ to become b. to lie/ become

c. lying/ become d. to lie/ to become

14. _____ is a long thin piece of cloth or paper used for tying round and protecting a wound.

a. Water packs b. Bandage c. Handkerchief d. Blanket

15. _____ the patient’s feet, or lower his/her head below the level of the heart.

a. Elevate b. Cool c. Cover d. Overheat

III. Choose the words or phrases that are not correct in Standard English.

16. David sang so badly that I had to look away not so as to laugh at him.

A B C D

17. If you look carefully, you are finding writing scratched on the glass.

A B C D

18. Matt was trying to calm the baby out by singing to her.

I. Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.

1. A. calm B. badly C. flat D. handkerchief

2. A. bite B. revive C. promise D. minimize

3. A. crutch B. hurt C. hurry D. cup

4. A. happened B. helped C. burned D. bored

5. A. invite B. faint C. patient  D. victim

II. Choose the word or phrase that best completes each unfinished sentence below or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.

6. Mrs Miles sometimes takes a pill______ to sleep.

A. go B. going C. to go D. to going

7. He is working very hard______get poor grades.

A. in order to B. in order not to C to D. not to

8. If you move to your left, you_____the church.

A. will see B. are seeing C. has seen D. see

9. ______quiet? I’m trying to learn.

A. Are you please be B. Will you please be C. Are you please being D. Has you please been

10. The book fell_____the table.

A. of B. off C. up D. in

11. Why don’t you come _____ for dinner?

A. across B. over C. at D. down

12. Please try_____ quiet when you come home. Everyone will be asleep.

A. be B. to be C. being D. to being

13. Leave the victim_____flat and don’t let him ___chilled.

A. lying/ to become B. to lie/ become C. lying/ become D. to lie/ to become

14. _____ is a long thin piece of cloth or paper used for tying round and protecting a wound.

A. Water packs B. Bandage C. Handkerchief D. Blanket

15. _____ the patient’s feet, or lower his/her head below the level of the heart.

A. Elevate B. Coo1 C. Cover D. Overheat

III. Choose the words or phrases that are not correct in Standard English.

16. David sang so badly that I had to look away not so as to laugh at him.

17. If you look carefully, you are finding writing scratched on the glass.

18. Matt was trying to calm the baby out by singing to her.

19. I was very tired and I tried keeping my eyes open but I couldn’t.

20. They pulled the boy out of the river and tried reviving him.

Read the following passage on transport, and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 1 to 8.

(1) It was the first photograph that I had ever seen, and it fascinated me. I can remember holding it at every angle in order to catch the flickering light from the oil lamp on the dresser. The man in the photograph was unsmiling, but his eyes were kind. I had never met him, but I felt that I knew him. One evening when I was looking at the photograph, as I always did before I went to sleep, I noticed a shadow across the man’s thin face. I moved the photograph so that the shadow lay perfectly around his hollow cheecks. How different he looked!

(2) That night I could not sleep, thinking about the letter that I would write. First, I would tell him that I was eleven years old, and that if he had a little girl my age, she could write to me instead of him. I knew that he was a very busy man. Then I would explain to him the real purpose of my letter. I would tell him how wonderful he looked with the shadow that I had seen across his photograph, and I would most carefully suggest that he grow whiskers.

(3) Four months later when I met him at the train station near my home in Westfield, New York, he was wearing a full beard. He was so much taller than I had imagined from my tiny photograph.

(4) “Ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “I have no speech to make and no time to make it in. I appear before you that I may see you and that you may see me.” Then he picked me right up and kissed me on both cheeks. The whiskers scratched. “Do you think I look better, my little friend?” he asked me.

(5) My name is Grace Bedell, and the man in the photograph was Abraham Lincoln.

The little girl could not sleep because she was

A. sick

B. excited

C. lonely

D. sad

Read the following passage on transport, and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.

1) It was the first photograph that I had ever seen, and it fascinated me. I can remember holding it at every angle in order to catch the flickering light from the oil lamp on the dresser. The man in the photograph was unsmiling, but his eyes were kind. I had never met him, but I felt that I knew him. One evening when I was looking at the photograph, as I always did before I went to sleep, I noticed a shadow across the man’s thin face. I moved the photograph so that the shadow lay perfectly around his hollow cheecks. How different he looked!

(2) That night I could not sleep, thinking about the letter that I would write. First, I would tell him that I was eleven years old, and that if he had a little girl my age, she could write to me instead of him. I knew that he was a very busy man. Then I would explain to him the real purpose of my letter. I would tell him how wonderful he looked with the shadow that I had seen across his photograph, and I would most carefully suggest that he grow whiskers.

(3) Four months later when I met him at the train station near my home in Westfield, New York, he was wearing a full beard. He was so much taller than I had imagined from my tiny photograph.

(4) “Ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “I have no speech to make and no time to make it in. I appear before you that I may see you and that you may see me.” Then he picked me right up and kissed me on both cheeks. The whiskers scratched. “Do you think I look better, my little friend?” he asked me.

(5) My name is Grace Bedell, and the man in the photograph was Abraham Lincoln. 

The little girl could not sleep because she was

A. Sick

B. excited

C. lonely

D. sad

Read the following passage on transport, and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 1 to 8.

(1) It was the first photograph that I had ever seen, and it fascinated me. I can remember holding it at every angle in order to catch the flickering light from the oil lamp on the dresser. The man in the photograph was unsmiling, but his eyes were kind. I had never met him, but I felt that I knew him. One evening when I was looking at the photograph, as I always did before I went to sleep, I noticed a shadow across the man’s thin face. I moved the photograph so that the shadow lay perfectly around his hollow cheecks. How different he looked!

(2) That night I could not sleep, thinking about the letter that I would write. First, I would tell him that I was eleven years old, and that if he had a little girl my age, she could write to me instead of him. I knew that he was a very busy man. Then I would explain to him the real purpose of my letter. I would tell him how wonderful he looked with the shadow that I had seen across his photograph, and I would most carefully suggest that he grow whiskers.

(3) Four months later when I met him at the train station near my home in Westfield, New York, he was wearing a full beard. He was so much taller than I had imagined from my tiny photograph.

(4) “Ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “I have no speech to make and no time to make it in. I appear before you that I may see you and that you may see me.” Then he picked me right up and kissed me on both cheeks. The whiskers scratched. “Do you think I look better, my little friend?” he asked me.

(5) My name is Grace Bedell, and the man in the photograph was Abraham Lincoln.

The word “fascinated” in paragraph 1 could best be replaced by

A. interested

B. frightened

C. confused

D. disgusted

Read the following passage on transport, and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 1 to 8.

(1) It was the first photograph that I had ever seen, and it fascinated me. I can remember holding it at every angle in order to catch the flickering light from the oil lamp on the dresser. The man in the photograph was unsmiling, but his eyes were kind. I had never met him, but I felt that I knew him. One evening when I was looking at the photograph, as I always did before I went to sleep, I noticed a shadow across the man’s thin face. I moved the photograph so that the shadow lay perfectly around his hollow cheecks. How different he looked!

(2) That night I could not sleep, thinking about the letter that I would write. First, I would tell him that I was eleven years old, and that if he had a little girl my age, she could write to me instead of him. I knew that he was a very busy man. Then I would explain to him the real purpose of my letter. I would tell him how wonderful he looked with the shadow that I had seen across his photograph, and I would most carefully suggest that he grow whiskers.

(3) Four months later when I met him at the train station near my home in Westfield, New York, he was wearing a full beard. He was so much taller than I had imagined from my tiny photograph.

(4) “Ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “I have no speech to make and no time to make it in. I appear before you that I may see you and that you may see me.” Then he picked me right up and kissed me on both cheeks. The whiskers scratched. “Do you think I look better, my little friend?” he asked me.

(5) My name is Grace Bedell, and the man in the photograph was Abraham Lincoln.

Why did the author wait until the last line to reveal the identity of the man in the photograph?

A. The author did not know it.

B. The author wanted to make the reader fell foolish.

C. The author wanted to build the interest and curiosity of the reader.

D. The author was just a little girl.

Read the following passage on transport, and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 1 to 8.

(1) It was the first photograph that I had ever seen, and it fascinated me. I can remember holding it at every angle in order to catch the flickering light from the oil lamp on the dresser. The man in the photograph was unsmiling, but his eyes were kind. I had never met him, but I felt that I knew him. One evening when I was looking at the photograph, as I always did before I went to sleep, I noticed a shadow across the man’s thin face. I moved the photograph so that the shadow lay perfectly around his hollow cheecks. How different he looked!

(2) That night I could not sleep, thinking about the letter that I would write. First, I would tell him that I was eleven years old, and that if he had a little girl my age, she could write to me instead of him. I knew that he was a very busy man. Then I would explain to him the real purpose of my letter. I would tell him how wonderful he looked with the shadow that I had seen across his photograph, and I would most carefully suggest that he grow whiskers.

(3) Four months later when I met him at the train station near my home in Westfield, New York, he was wearing a full beard. He was so much taller than I had imagined from my tiny photograph.

(4) “Ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “I have no speech to make and no time to make it in. I appear before you that I may see you and that you may see me.” Then he picked me right up and kissed me on both cheeks. The whiskers scratched. “Do you think I look better, my little friend?” he asked me.

(5) My name is Grace Bedell, and the man in the photograph was Abraham Lincoln.

The word “it” in paragraph 4 refers to

A. Time

B. Speech

C. Photograph

D. Station