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. _______, it is obvious that the whole thing was a waste of time and effort.
A. None of us wanted to go in the first place
B. Staff meetings are often boring and have no apparent point to them
C. Since the results were far more satisfactory than anyone had expected
D. Seeing that we couldn’t solve anything in the end.
III – Fill in each blank with up, on, for, to, from or with . (1m)
At the end of the street all could see a manger and some hay, the place where the trip must end. The star they had followed shone down upon the manger and lit (1)_______ strange light. Because it was only a small place, and because there were so many (2)________ the party of the Kings, the shepherds stepped (3)________ one side. They wanted the King and the gifts to go first. The oldest of the wise men saw this and said “Come. Do not make yourselves small before us. Join us and come to see the child. It doesn’t matter if we come from far or near, or if we are poor or rich, we come (4)________ for the same reason. We should enter together. IV – There are four mistakes in the following paragraph. Identify the mistakes and correct. (2ms)He went into the house. His hands and feet were as cool as the snow outside. He put his arms around his wife and kissed her. He had done a decision. He said, “Ida, tonight, we are really going to eat and drink, no more saving. I want plenty of good. I’m going to open that bottle of wine we’ve been keeping”. Ida’s eyes brightened. Adam said, “There are people who has less than we do. Let us be happy with what we have. 1.____________ 2._________ 3.___________ 4._____________
In this section you will find after the passage a number of questions about the passage. You must choose the one which you think fits best . Write your answers in the spaces below (1.0pt)
I know that it is my job to make sure that everything goes well for the tourists and I feel I work hard for the company. I cannot be blamed for last week. I met the group at the airport and took them to the coach. The coach driver was a bit annoyed because the flight was late. But it wasn’t far to the hotel and everyone was looking forward to their dinner. We hadn’t used the Hotel Riviera before but our normal one had a conference in it so it was fully booked. When I announced our arrival at the reception desk, they said they were full. I had booked rooms for the group but the manager said they were cancelled by phone a few days before. He insisted that he recognised my voice and that I had made the phone call. We had a bit of an argument but they obviously didn’t have enough rooms. In the end, the manager phoned hotels in the town and found rooms for everyone. but in four different hotels. By this time, the coach had gone, so we had to get taxis and some of the tourists started to get very angry with me. I still don’t know who made that phone call but it definitely wasn’t me ...
1.What is the writer trying to do?
A. argue B. explain C. apologise D complain
2.Who was the text written to?
A. one of the tourists B. the writer’s employer
C. the hotel manager D. the coach company
3.Why weren’t any rooms available at the Hotel Riviera?
A. A conference was taking place there. B. There were more people in the group than expected.
C. Someone had forgotten to book them. D. Someone had said they were not needed.
4.What happened in the end?
A. The tourists got angry with the hotel manager. B. The tourists couldn’t stay together.
C. The writer found other hotels with rooms. D. The writer called the coach driver back.
5. Which of the following diaries was written by one of the tourists?
A.. The hotel we were taken to wasn’t good enough so we asked to change to a different one.
B. We got to the airport and had to wait for the coach. So it was really late when we got to the hotel.
C. The coach driver took us to the wrong hotel and they know nothing about us.
D. Someone had made a mistake with our hotel booking and the hotel had given our rooms to other people.
TEST 3
Question 1: Supply the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.
It is crucial that Dido (stop) using Quang Ha. I will ring the bell one more. if he (not answer),I think he must(go) out I am sorry about the noise last night. We (have) a party. The man who (rescue) had been in the sea for ten hours. A great deal of time (be) spent for his exercise. We want (pay) better wages. People always (blame) their circumstances for what they are. You (stop) by a policeman if you (try) to cross the road now.Question 2: Use the correct form of the words in brackets to complete the following passage.
The families in our streets are slowly being driven mad by the..............(1- refuse) of the inhabitants of No.13 to have any form of............(2-communicate) with them. The trouble started over what is known as noise..............(3 - pollute). Every evening, the...........(4- think) neighbours used to turn up the volume on the TV so loud that no one in the (5 - neighbour) was able to hear anything else. Not knowing what............(6 - act) to take, local residents held a meeting to see if anyone had any............(7 - suggest) as to how to deal with the problem. A decision was made to send a number of people to talk to the family in No. 13 and ask them.............(8- polite) to turn their music down after six in the evening. Unfortunately, the visit did not turn out to be............(9 - succeed), as the inhabitants of No.13 refused to talk to them. So on the..............(10 - advise) of local police, the matter is now in the hands of the court.
Question 3: Fill in each numbered blank with a suitable word
When you hear the word "bank", what do you think of ? A.........(1) to put money? The land on the edge of a river? To depend on something or someone ? If you choose any of.................(2) things, you're right. Why ? because words often have.............(3) than one meaning. The tricky part is figuring out...........(4) meaning is appropriate.
Choosing the correct meaning of a word depends on.............(5) things. First, it depends on the words and............(6) surrounding your particular word. The other words and sentences give you context clues..................(7), the meaning depends on how the word is............(8) in the sentence. Is it a noun, a verb,................(9) adjective or part of a phrase? Knowing the word's part of speech will..............(10) you discover the word's precise meaning.
Question 4: Read the text then choose the correct answer
Computing is now at the same stage as printing was when the first printing presses were used. Before printing presses were invented, only rich people like kings and dukes could afford to buy books. Often these people were unable to read and hadn't enough time to learn. In any case, the books were so big that it was difficult for anyone to relax with a book as we do today. They wanted books because they were expensive and there was something magical about them. Only a few people were able to write, and it took an extremely long time to write a book. Monks and other people who could write said ordinary people could not learn to read.
The position with computers in very similar today. A few years ago, computers were very large and expensive. Business managers and rich people ordered them but they didn’t know how to use them. In many countries, however, the situation has now completely changed. Lots of people not only own microcomputers but also know how to use them.
1. What happened before printing presses were invented ?
a. Books were so big that people didn’t want to buy them.
b. Only intelligent and rich people could read books.
c. Only kings and dukes had enough money to buy books.
d. All rich people bought books.
2. Why were books wanted before printing presses were invented ?
a. to show that the people who owned the books were rich and intelligent.
b. to show that the people who owned the books could write.
c. Because books were dear and magical.
d. Because books showed that the person who owned them were magical people.
3. What is the common feature of a book and a computer?
a. They were only for intelligent people.
b. They were too expensive to buy.
c. They were large and expensive at first.
d. Only people who could use them buy them.
4. What situation has thoroughly changed nowadays?
a. A lot of people are eager to buy computers
b. A lot of computers are sold
c. Even children can use a computer
d. A person who buys a computer knows how to use it.
Question 5:
a. Each line in the following passage has a spare word; Underline that word and write it in the blanks given.
BICYCLES
The bicycle is a cheap and clean way to for travel. The first 0/.......for...........
Bicycle was made __ about one hundred and fifty years ago. At 1/.......................
First, bicycles were __ expensive. Only rich people could 2/.......................
buy one. These early __ bicycles looked very different from 3/.......................
the ones we have __ today. Later, when bicycles became 4/.......................
cheaper, many __ people bought one. People started riding 5/.......................
bicycles to work and in their __ free time. Today, people use 6/.......................
cars more than bicycles; cars are much __ faster and you 7/.......................
don’t get wet when it __ rains! But some people still prefer to 8/.......................
cycle to work. They say that there __ been too many cars in 9/.......................
town centers and you can't ___ find anywhere to park! 10/.....................
b. Fill in the blanks with a suitable prepositions.
1. George fell.............the bladder while he was painting the ceiling.
2. We stopped everyone.................leaving the building.
3. Admission.................university depends.....................examination results.
4. Don’t use that dictionary. It is.............date. Find one that is...................date.
Question 6: Do as directed
1. My friend had excellent ideas. He did a good job, too.
(join into one sentence, using not only.....but...as well)
2. His explanation is not clear. The examples he gives are not clear.
(join into one sentence, using: neither...............nor)
3. People say that the price of gold is going up. (change into passive voice.)
4. He asked me: "When will you give this book back to me?"(change into Reported speech)
5. Seldom did people travel far from home years ago.(Use the ordinary word order)
6. He was given a gift. So were you.(Join into one sentence, using "as well")
7. You may be intelligent, but you should be careful about this (start with "No matter........"
8. He made a great discovery. He was very proud of it.(Combine into one sentence)
9. Lan found it difficult to accept the situation. (rewrite with: difficulty)
10. The farmers had applied new technology in their fields. The output of rice was raised.
(Combine with: Thanks to...........which............)
31. Since both teams __________ exceptionally well recently, no one knew what _________ from the match.
a. are playing/to be expecting b. have played/ having expected
c. play/ to have expected d. had been playing/to expect
32. When ________ house, we asked the owner of the car in front of the building _________ his vehicle so
that the van carrying our possessions could park there.
a. moving/to move b. having moved/ moving
c. to be moving/ move d. to move/having moved
33. It took me so long ___________ home that some of the flowers I had bought earlier in the day had
dropped so much that even _________ them in water couldn’t revive them.
a. getting/to have put b. to be getting/ to put
c. to get/ putting d. to have got/ having put
34. _________twice, he didn’t want to try again.
a. Fail b. Failing c. Having failed d. To fail
35. While Tom __________ , Amely____________a documentary on TV.
a. was reading / was watching b. read/watches
c. read/watched d. reads/watching
36. Marvin __________ home, ____________on the computer and __________his emails.
a. come/ switching/ check b. came / switched / checked
c. coming/switch/checking d. coming/ switched/ checked
37. The thief _____________into the house, _________ the jewels and ___________ without a trace.
a. sneaked /stole / left b. sneaking/stolen/ leave
c. sneaks/ stole/leave d. have sneaked/stolen/ left
38. Nobody ____________while the teacher ______________the tenses.
a. listen/explain b. listening/is explaining
c. listened / was explaining d. listens/was explaining
39. While we __________a sight-seeing tour, our friends _____________ on the beach.
a. doing/ lie b. have done/lied c. were doing – were lying d. do/ lying
40. He __________in the country for ten years when he first __________to London.
a. has lived/ come b. had lived /came c. lived/ came d. lives/ came
(23-28) Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage:
Books are written to provide knowledge and good books enrich the mind. By putting ourselves under the (23)___________ of superior mind, we improve our mental powers. Throughgood books we learn that people everywhere are the same, in all ages and (24) ________ all classes. This knowledge improves our love of others and helps us to live in (25) ___________ with them. We also understand that the world was made not only for man alone but for every creature that can (26) ________ hunger and thirst, warmth and cold. Though it may be possible for us to travel throughout the world and see things ( 27) _________ today,it is not possible for us to see things that happened in the past. But good books help us to see not (28) __________ into the remote regions of the world today but also the world in which our ancestors live.
23/ A. feeling B. understading C. influence D. development
24/ A. for B. in C. at D. with
25/ A. peace B. peaceful C. quiet D. quietly
26/ A. have B. be C. become D. feel
27/ A. coming B. arriving C. getting D. happening
28/ A. only B. just C. same D. as
(29-32) Read the dialogue and then decide whether the statements that follow are true or false. Write True or False in your answersheet:
Radio stories have become a thing of the past because people prefer both to watch and to hear. Radio is now a medium that is used more often in a car than a home. Because music and news are the easiest types of programs tolisten to in a car, They are the most common. Radio, in fact, has become the music medium. It provides music forall tastes, from country, western to classic
____ 29/ Most people listen to radio programs in their cars.
____ 30/ Most radio programming consists of news and music.
____ 31/ Radio is now used more often in a home.
____ 32/ Radio used to be the music me dium.
(33-36) Rewrite the sentences so that they are nearest in meaning to the sentence printed before them.
33/ In spite of taking a taxi, Thuy still arrived late for the meeting.
Though ____________________________________________________________
34/ Because of the high cost of visiting Ha Long Bay, There are fewer tourists here this year.
Because ____________________________________________________________
35/ I haven’t heard from her for ages.
I lost _____________________________________________________________
36/ Those outdoor activities are suitable for young children.
Young children should take _____________________________________________
Read the following passage and do the tasks below:
Day after day we hear about how anthropogenic development is causing global warming. According to an increasingly vocal minority, however, we should be asking ourselves how much of this is media hype and how much is based on real evidence. It seems, as so often is the case that it depends on which expert you listen to, or which statistics you study.
Yes, it is true that there is a mass of evidence to indicate that the world is getting warmer, with one of the world's leading weather predictors stating that air temperatures have shown an increase of just under half a degree Celsius since the beginning of the twentieth century. And while this may not sound like anything worth losing sleep over, the international press would have us believe that the consequences could be devastating. Other experts, however, are of the opinion that what we are seeing is just part of a natural upward and downward swing that has always been part of the cycle of global weather. An analysis of the views of major meteorologists in the United States showed that less than 20% of them believed that any change in temperature over the last hundred years was our own fault - the rest attributed it to natural cyclical changes.
There is, of course, no denying that we are still at a very early stage in understanding weather. The effects of such variables as rainfall, cloud formation, the seas and oceans gases such as methane and ozone, or even solar energy are still not really understood, and therefore the predictions that we make using them cannot always be relied on. Dr. James Hansen, in 1988, was predicting that the likely effects of global warming would be a rising of world temperature which would have disastrous consequences for mankind: “a strong cause and effect relationship between the current climate and human alteration of the atmosphere ". He has now gone on record as stating that using artificial models of climate as a way of predicting change is all but impossible. In fact, he now believes that, rather than getting hotter, our planet is getting greener as a result of the carbon dioxide increase, with the prospect of increasing vegetation in areas which in recent history have been frozen wastelands.
In fact, there is some evidence to suggest that as our computer-based weather models have become more sophisticated, the predicted rises in temperature have been cut back. In addition, if we look at the much reported rise in global temperature over the last century, a close analysis reveals that the lion's share of that increase, almost three quarters in total, occurred before man began to "poison" his world with industrial processes and the accompanying greenhouse gas emissions in the second half of the twentieth century.
So should we pay any attention to those stories that scream out at us from billboards and television news headlines, claiming that man, with his inexhaustible dependence on oil-based machinery and ever more sophisticated forms of transport is creating a nightmare level of greenhouse gas emissions, poisoning his environment and ripping open the ozone layer? Doubters point to scientific evidence, which can prove that, of all the greenhouse gases, only two percent come from man-made sources, the rest resulting from natural emissions. Who, then, to believe: the environmentalist exhorting us to leave the car at home, to buy re-usable products packaged in recycled paper and to plant trees in our back yard? Or the skeptics, including, of course, a lot of big businesses who have most to lose, when they tell us that we are making a mountain out of a molehill? And my own opinion? The jury's still out as far as I am concerned!
Question 1-6: Choose the appropriate letters (A, B, C or D), based on the information from the passage.
1. The author ........
A believes that man is causing global warming
B believes that global warming is a natural process
C is sure what the causes of global warming are
D does not say what he believes the causes of global warming are
2. As to the cause of global warming, the author believes that ........
A occasionally the facts depend on who you are talking to
B the facts always depend on who you are talking to
C often the facts depend on which expert you listen to
D you should not speak to experts
3. More than 80% of the top meteorologists in the United States are of the opinion that .........
A global warming should make us lose sleep
B global warming is not the result of natural cyclical changes, but man-made
C the consequences of global warming will be devastating
D global warming is not man-made, but the result of natural cyclical changes
4. Our understanding of weather ...........
A leads to reliable predictions
B is variable
C cannot be denied
D is not very developed yet
5. Currently, Dr. James Hansen's beliefs include the fact that .......
A it is nearly impossible to predict weather change using artificial models
B the consequences of global warming would be disastrous for mankind
C there is a significant link between the climate now, and man's changing of the atmosphere
D Earth is getting colder
6. Which of these is the best title for this text?
A Global Warming is for real
B Global warming - media hype or genuine threat?
C Weather changes over the last 100 years
D Global Warming - the greatest threat to mankind
I. Choose the best answer to complete the sentence.
1. Nowadays, Vietnamese women often wear ao dai special occasions.
b. at a. in c. on d. by
2. Don't forget to brush your teethyou go to bed
a. before b. after c. until d.up to
3. We all wish him_ when he decided to enter the contest.
a. congratulation b. good luck c. a happy day d. enjoy himself 84
4. She is_______young to go on her own b. much c. enoughh d. too a. very 5. He's still working,_______ ? b. isn't he a. is not he c. wasn't he d. hasn't he 6.______love soccer when you were younger? a. Did you used to b. Didn't you used to c. Did you use to b. didn't you used to 7. The examination is coming,_____we are very busy. b. so d. but a. because c. though 8. This______can provide us with all the definitions we need to know. d. magazine a. newspaper b. textbook c. dictionary 9. I haven't done the homework and John hasn't d. either a. too b. so c. neither 10. "What time shall we leave?" ." _______" a. Earlier than we axpected c. Eight o'clock will be OK d. Well, I don't mind the time b. Let's start tomorrow II. Gire correct form of the word. 11. Schooling is______for all English children from the age 6 to 16. (compel) 12. English is_______spoken by people all over the world. (wide) 13. The______of jeans seem unlikely to decline. (popular) 14. Our teaching staff are all highly______(qualify) III. Give correct form or tonse of the verb. 15. My family (move) ___to HCM City twenty years ago. 16. I have three days off next week. I (visit)______my grandmother. 17. It's no use (ask)_______him to help you; with your homework. 18. Valerie decided (grow)_____a garden this year. 19. This is the first time Mary (drive)____to New York herself. IV. Choose the underlined word or phrase that needs çorrecting. 20. The teacher writed the answers on the.blackboard gso everyone could see them. 21. I think I have more work to do tonight than you have: 22. Leroy amiled cheerful when the teacher gave him his grade 23. Everyone say that you grow beautiful roses. V. Choose option that best completes the passage. sales, found, culturally, fashion, stronger, relensed, popalanity, style, The blue denim trousers known as jeans are (24)____all over the world in a variety of cuts and styles. Jeans have been in demand since the mid 1800s, when they were first (25)____onto the market. Their (26)_____ exploded in 1873, when rivets were introduced to jeans, making them much (27)_____Hundreds of companies today make jeans ranging in (28)____ and price, and the (29)_____ of jeans seems unlikely to decrease, although various styles may fall in and out of (30) _____This is probably because jeans are sturdy, and (31)_____symbolic. VI. Read the passage carefully, then decide whether the following statement are true (T) or false (F). Reading in English is lilce reading in your native language. This means that it is not always necessary to read and understand each and every word in English. Remember that reading skills in your native language and English are basically the same. skcills used in every language. Here is a quick overview of the four types of reading -Skimming is used to quiclkly gather the most important information or 'gis -Scanning is used to find a particular piece of information. -Extensive reading is used to a general understanding of a subject and includes reading longer texts for pleasure. -Intensive reading is used on shorter texts in order to extract specific information. 32. It's always necessary to read every word in every document in your native language. 33. Reading skills in your native language and English are similar. 34. Skimming is used to understand the gist. 35. Intensive reading is used to get a general idea. 36. Use extensive reading skill when reading a novel in your free time.
