1.   Minh last wrote to his pen pal five months ago.

Minh hasn’t __________________________________________________________.

2.   The last time we visited Kuala Lumpur was two years ago.

It’s _________________________________________________________________.

3.   Peter must do this homework before ten.

This homework _______________________________________________________.

4.   Mary cleans the floor every day.

     The floor ___________________________________________________________.

5.   Nobody has seen him for ages.

He ________________________________________________________________.

6.   I told my friend, Jane, not to come here again.

My friend, Jane, _____________________________________________________.

1.      They are training to be _______________. (sail)

2.      Our _______________ situation is getting better and better. (economy)

3.      _______________, ao dai was worn by both men and women. (tradition)

4.      She was very _______________ in the interview. (impress)

5.      The Miss World contest was ________________ organized. ( impress)

6.      He made an _______________ visit to Tokyo in March. (office)

7.      The library will be _officially______________ opened by the local MP. (office)

8.      The country’s _official______________ language is Spanish. ( office)

9.      There are three _______________ in Malay. (religion)

10.  Art and music are _____________ subjects. ( opt)

11.  He is old enough to live ________________. ( depend)

12.  He is too young, so he is still ________________ on his parents. ( depend)

13.  Students should aim to become more _______________ of their teachers. (depend)

14.  There are many fashion _______________ at present. (design)

15.  She looks very beautiful in her ______________ costumes. ( tradition)

16.  The editor welcomes ________________ from readers on any subjects. ( correspond)

1.    They were impressed by the _____________ of the local people. (friend)

2. This building / purpose / is used / religious  / for / .

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1.    They were impressed by the _____________ of the local people. (friend)

2. This building / purpose / is used / religious  / for / .

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7. / dependants / is / my aim / provide for / my / to /

1.    She is too young, and so is _____________ on her parents. (depend)

2.I’ve been ___________ invited to the wedding. (office)                     

I.       Write the word/ phrase that best fits the space in each sentence (2.5 pt)

1.      I was very __________ by the efficiency of the staff. (impressed – corresponded – comprised – interested)

2.      I rarely eat ice cream now but I _______ it when I was a child. (eat – used to eat – am eating – have eaten)

3.      We must learn English at school. It’s a(n) ______ subject. (primary – compulsory – national – optional)

4.      He _______ Chinese for 3 years, but he doesn’t study it now. (studied – studies – has studied – is studying)

5.      Can everybody listen carefully to my _______, please? (instructing – instructive – instructions – instruct)

6.      Mathematics and Literature are _____________ for children in this country.

(religious – option – adding – compulsory)

7.      What is the _______ of your country? – 75000000 people. (introduction – population – separation – addition)

8.      We can tell you that we often have a friendly _____ in our class. (atmosphere – air – matter – impression)

9.      Can you tell me how many chapters this book _______? (consists of – consists – comprises of – includes)

10.  Don’t forget to add sugar to the mixture. This _______ is important. (addition – additional – adder – added)

11.  He _____________ to be late for class but he often comes late nowadays.

(doesn’t use – didn’t use – doesn’t used – didn’t used)

12.  My mother wishes she _____________ beautiful and young forever. (can – can be – could – could be)

13.  She doesn’t usually _____________ up early. (get – gets – getting – to get)

14.  She _____________ to buy a book yesterday. (doesn’t want – didn’t want – don’t want – hasn’t wanted)

15.  _____________ durian when you lived in Malaysia?

(Do you ever eat – Did you ever eat – Have you ever eaten – Are you ever eating)

16.  He _____________ hard when he was a boy. (doesn’t study – don’t study – hasn’t studied – didn’t study)

17.  It _____________ hard when I _____________ the office at 5 o’clock yesterday.

(was raining / left – rained / was leaving – rained / left – was raining / was leaving)

18.  I _____________ to be a policeman when I was a boy. (want – wants – wanted – was wanting)

19.  We _____________ to the radio when it suddenly _____________ working. (were listening / stopped – listened / was stopped – were listening / was stopped – listen / stops)

20.  I _____________ the accident while I _____________ for you.

(have seen / was waiting – saw / was waiting – seeing / waited – saw / waited)

II.    Write the word that best fits the blank in the following passage: (2.0 pt)

Malaysia is a country in South – East Asia. It is a member of the Association of South East Asian Nations. It consists (21) _______________ the Malay Peninsula and Sarawak and Sabah on the island Borneo. It is (22) _______________ into two regions, known as West Malaysia and East Malaysia. It has a (23) _______________ of about 17886000. It has a tropical (24) _______________. It is the world’s biggest producer of palm oil, and it (25) _______________ rubber, tin and gas. Apart from Islam, the country’s official (26) ____________, there are Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity. Malaysian people speak Bahasa Malaysia as a mother tongue. It’s the language of (27) ____________ in all secondary schools. English, Chinese, and Tamil are also (28) _______________ spoken in this country.

21.  A. in                                             B. on                                       C. of                            D. at

22.  A. divide                                     B. dividing                              C. divided                   D. division

23.  A. population                               B. people                                 C. persons                   D. number

24.  A. weather                                   B. climate                                C. temperature             D. rainfall

25.  A. buys                                        B. sales                                    C. exports                    D. imports

26.  A. religions                                  B. religion                               C. religious                  D. religiously

27.  A. instruct                                    B. instruction                          C. instructional            D. instructor

28.  A. wide                                        B. widely                                C. widen                     D. width

III. Use the correct form of the word given in each sentence: (1.0 pt.)

29.  She is too young, and so is _____________ on her parents. (depend)

30.  Hanoi is a very _____________ city. (interest)

31.  Most _____________ are written in English. (instruct)

32.  I’ve been _____________ invited to the wedding. (office)

33.  English is the _____________ language in Singapore. (office)

34.  They go to church every Sunday. They are very _____________. (religion)

35.  Pasta’s basic ingredients are flour and water, sometimes with the _____________ of eggs and oil. (add)

36.  Always read the _____________ before you start. (instruct)

37.  There are no _____________ on students to attend classes. (compel)

38.  Fashion designers have _____________ the ao dai by printing lines of poetry. (modern)

39.  My brother is taking part in a _____________ course in HCMC. (correspond)

40.  The editor welcomes _____________ from readers on any subjects. (correspond)

IV. Rewrite each of the following sentences in another way so that it means almost the same as the sentence printed before it. (2.0 pt.)

41.  This problem seems difficult for me.

I wish __________________________________________________________________________.

42.  I don’t like being so short.

If only _________________________________________________________________________.

43.  I’d like to get access to the Internet, but I don’t have a computer.

I wish _________________________________________________________________________.

44.  When did you start learning English?

How long ______________________________________________________________________?

45.  It’s time for you to go to school.

It’s time you _____________________________________________________________________.

46.  Please keep silent in the classroom.

I’d rather you ____________________________________________________________________.

47.  What a pity! I can’t come here.

I wish __________________________________________________________________________.

V.    Rearrange the words/ phrases to make complete sentences. (0.5 pt)

48.   / driving / difficult / My French friend / on the left / finds /

_____________________________________________________________________________

49.  / a new car / driving / to get used to / when you buy / you need some time / it /

_____________________________________________________________________________

50.  / were /  our / only / prayer / answered / if /

_____________________________________________________________________________

51.  / the house  / modernized  / has  / much / been / of /

_____________________________________________________________________________

52.  / dependants / is / my aim / provide for / my / to /

_____________________________________________________________________________

1.      You are always running about.

I wish you ______________________________________________________.

2.      You are singing a boring song.

I wish the song _______________________________________________.

3.      Mary painted the bicycle green.

The bicycle __________________________________________________.

4.      Students should wear uniforms when they are at school.

Uniforms ____________________________________________________.

5.      You must do this exercise.

This exercise _________________________________________________.

6.      I gave him three thousand dong change.

He _________________________________________________________.

UNIT 1: A VISIT FROM A PEN PAL I. From each number, pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others. 1. A. continent B. depend C. send D. pretend 2. A. says B. prays C. plays D. days 3. A. climate B. pride C. quit D. primary 4. A. may B. can C. stay D. say 5. A. boxes B. washes C. watches D. goes II. From each number, pick out one word which has the stress on the first syllable. 1. A. scientist B. alive C. industrial D. advice 2. A. individual B. reputation C. experience D. scientific 3. A. television B. decoration C. introduction D. expectation 4. A. achievement B. pesticide C. minimize D. dynamite 5. A. prevent B. protect C. pollute D. purpose III. Choose the word or the phrase or sentence that best completes each unfinished sentence below or that best keeps the meaning of the original sentence if it is substituted for the underlined word or phrase. 1. There used to ________ a movie theatre here, but it closed a long time ago. A. be B. to be C. being D. been 2. The children are playing ________in the schoolyard. A. happy B. happiness C. happier D. happily 3. I wish they ________here tomorrow. A. will come B. would come C. came D. to come 4. John ________write the letter to me last year. A. is used to B. was used to C. used to D. used 5. It is difficult ________English in some weeks. A. to speak B. speaking C. speaks D. speak 6. The capital of Malaysia is ________. A. Hanoi B. Paris C. Kuala Lumpur D. Seoul 7. What is the traditional dress of Vietnamese women? It's ________ . A. the suit B. the shirt C. the Ao dai D. the blouse 8. Rice is ________in tropical countries. A. to grow B. grown C. grow D. grew 9. Two department stores ________.by them this year A. have been built B. have built C. has been built D. has built 10. Nga is ________English for her work. A. to study B. studied C. studying D. study 11. He arrived in England ________Monday evening. A. in B. at C. of D. on 12. An wishes that he ________his parents. A. would visited B. can visit C. could visiting D. could visit 13. Let's ________ to the cinema. A. going B. to go C. go D. goes 14. I look forward to ________you. A. see B. to see C. seeing D. saw 15. Millions of Christmas cards ________last month. A. were sent B. sent C. send D. are sent 16. I ________English here since I graduated from Qui Nhon University. A. teach B. taught C. have taught D. am teaching 17. He ______with his friends in an apartment in Ho Chi Minh City since last week. A. living B. has lived C. lived D. live 18. We come to USA ________English. A. study B. learning C. to learn D. studying 19. She ________try to learn English for her job. A is B. has C. must D. was 20. I wish you ________us someday. A. visit B. will visit C. visited D. would visit 21. I wish you ________me with my work last Monday. A. help B. will help C. had helped D. would help 22. I remember ________her somewhere. A. see B. seeing C. saw D. to see 23. Excuse me. Can I ________in this a area? A. smoke B. smoking C. smoked D. to smoke 24. Can you turn ________the light? It is too dark. A. on B. off C. down D. up 25. We have lived in Ha Noi________ 4 years. A. since B. for C. on D. till 26. We will go________a picnic next week. A. in B. at C. on D. to 27. Are you a stamp ________? A. collecting B. collector C. collect D. collection 28. I want everybody to listen ________. A. care B. careful C. careless D. carefully 29. Ann's birthday is ________February 14th. A. in B. on C. for D. at 30. This isn't my first visit to London ________here before. A. I'm B. I'm going to C. I've been D. I was 31. It's very crowded here. I wish ________. A. there were a few people B. there weren't so many people C. there is no one D. there was somebody here 32. I've known him ________I left school. A. when B. before C. until D. since 33. Maria's English is excellent. She speaks English ________. A. very perfect B. perfective C. perfectively D. perfectly 34. Is he an actor________a singer? An actor. A. and B. or C. but D. so 35. Dickens is my ________English novelist A. preferable B. favorable C. favorite D. likeable 36. I'm looking ________to hearing from you. A. at B. after C. over D. forward 37. Please let Tim ________ with you. A. go B. going C. to go D. goes 38. ________air is one of many problems we have to solve. A. pure B. polluted C. dust D. pleasant 39. He ________to find a job but he had no luck. A. hardly tried B. tried hardly C. hard tried D. tried hard 40. Ba________ go to Dalat in summer when he was young. A. use to B. used to C. is used to D. is used 41. He wishes he________ a pilot. A. were B. is C. will be D. can be 42. He________ English for 4 years. A. learns B. learnt C. has learnt D. will learn 43. Young people are fond of ________ Jeans. A. to wear B. wearing C. wore D. worn 44. She sings very________ A. beauty B. beautiful C. beautify D. beautifully 45. She asked me where I ________ from. A. come B. came C. to come D. coming 46. Could you please stop________ so much noise? A. make B. making C. made D. to make 47. Be________! He is looking at you. A. care B. careful C. carefully D. carelessly 48. Remember to turn ________ the lights before going to bed. A. of B. off C. on D. up 49.Maryam and Lan are pen pals, they ________ two times a week. A. correspond B. write letter C. meet D. phone each other 50. Ha Noi is a ________ city. A. Beauty B. beautiful C. beautifully D. friendly IV. Each line has a mistake find and correct it 1.How about go for a walk on Sunday? 2.We are having a birthday party on Saturday evening next weekend. 3.She would like going out with her Mom. 4.Let's me help you do home work. – No, thanks. I can manage. 5.Bell started experimented with rays of transmitting speech. 6. Everybody in my neighborhood are happy about new changes 7. This test is more easy than that one. 8. We've learnt to play the piano for 2005. 9. I used to working for this company when I graduated. 10. We have the same idea with your Dad in the discussion. V. Read the following passage and choose the best answers. Tet is a national and .................... (1) festival in Vietnam . It is occasion for every Vietnamese to be reunited to think .................(2) their past activities and hope for good luck in the new year. Before Tet all houses .................. (3) whitewashed and ...................... (4) with colourful lights . Everybody is looking ......................... (5) to a better life. In the new year's eve, children are smartly dressed . ......................... (6) are hoping to receive money put in small red envelopes as they are wishing longevity to ................... (7) grandparents and parents. Wrong doings should ...................... (8) avoided on these days . 1. A. traditional B. modern C. compulsory D. convenient. 2. A. about B. with C. after D. for 3. A. was B. were C. are D. is 4. A. decorate B. decorating C. to decorate D. decorated 5. A. for B. forward C. after D. at 6. A. them B. who C. these D. they 7. A. his B. her C. my D. their 8. A. take B. not C. we D. be VI. Give the correct form of word. 1- To Huu is a famous______________ (poetry). 2- His ________________ are interesting.(poet) 3- The internet has ________________ (surprise) developed in Vietnam. 4- I like watching the news best because it is very ________________ (inform) . 5- They have________________ the Ao dai by printing lines of poetry on it. (modern) 6- Liz likes the________________ and the beauty of Ba's village. (peaceful) 7- You must be __________ when you open that door . (care) 8- We can see many __________ on TV everyday . (advertise) 9- I watch the news everyday because it very __________ . (inform) 10- He didn't feel happy because he worked __________ . (success) 11- Our school has a lot of __________ teacher (qualify) 12- She received a lot of __________ from her mother . (encourage) 13- He was very __________ of the work he had done . (pride) 14- Do you have a __________ costume in your country . (nation) 15- The children are more __________ in cartoons . (interest) 16- Every student was very __________ about the holiday . (excite) VII. Give the correct form of the verbs in brackets Maryam and Lan (1. be) __________ pen pals for over two years. Last week they (2. have) __________the first meeting. Lan (3. take) __________ Maryam to Hoan Kiem Lake. They (4. visit) __________ Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum, the History Museum and Van Mieu, as well as many other beautiful parks and lakes in Hanoi. Lan (5. remember) __________ there (6. be) __________ a mosque on Hang Luoc Street because she (7. use to) __________ walk past it on her way to primary school. Lan (8. accompany) __________ Maryam to the mosque. She (9. enjoy) __________ the peaceful atmosphere while her pen pal (10. pray) __________. VII. Finish the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, beginning with the given words or phrases 1. Mary always went swimming after school last year Mary used to _________________________________ 2. Maryam was impressed by Hanoi people Hanoi people made ____________________________ 3. Bahasa Malaysia is widely spoken in Malaysia Malaysian people ______________________________