II.  Choose the words whose main stress pattern is not the same as that of the others.

1. A. managerial B. determination C. unbelievable D. inability

2. A. equality B. difficulty C. discovery D. simplicity

3. A. plentiful B. adequate C. sociable D. commercial

4. A. citizenship B. category C. benefit D. priority

5. A. temperature B. thunderstorm C. mysterious D. ultimately  

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

1. A. respond B. novel C. work D. cotton

2. A. wicked B. naked C. needed D. worked

3. A. viable B. dynamite C. priority D. responsible

4. A. ache B. chemist C. chalk D. character

5. A. father B. healthy C. weather D. clothing

IX.  Finish the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first.

Part 1

1. Thinking of making toys from used paper was his interesting idea.

It’s interesting that.................................................................................

2. He hasn’t come back to his home village for over 20 years now.

It’s...................................................................................................................

3. That’s the strangest film I’ve ever seen.

I have never..................................................................................................

4. The last time we met each other was ten years ago.

We haven’t...........................................................................................................

5. Mai said “It is raining heavily outside .”

Mai said………………………………………………………………………………

6. Have you ever played a computer game before?0

Is this.....................................................................................................................

7. France presented the Statue of Liberty to the United States in 1876.

The Statue ..............................................................................................................

8. The water was so cold that the children couldn’t swim in it.

The water wasn’t..................................................................................................

9. People should stop experiments on animals.

Experiments.............................................................................................

10. Ann said to me “ will you do English test tomorrow?.”

Ann asked me…………………………………………………………

VI. Word form

1. There wasn’t any _electricity_ in our village 15 years old. (electric)

2. Our life is much better with the help of modern _equipment_ (equip)

3. “The lost shoe” is one of the _traditional_ stories.             (tradition)

4. ________________, the step mother was very cruel to Little Pea. (fortunate)

5. Everyone was very ___________ at the soccer match. (excite)

6. A fairy appeared and ____________ changed her rag (magic)

7. The tiger wanted to see the farmer’s _________ (wise)

8. In that story, the prince got ___________ to a poor girl. (marry)

9. Her father soon died of a _broken_ heart.             (break)

10 He was ___________ to say that.                (pool)

VIII. Fill in the blank.

        In the first year of lower secondary (1)__school__ I had some different in learning English. My (2) ____ of English words was really bad and my English grammar was worse. I did not know to (3) ____ them. One afternoon (4) ____ the lesson, my teacher of English told me to wait for her outside the classroom. She (5) ____ me to the school library and showed me cassettes of pronunciation drills kept in a glass (6) ____ . She also told me how to use an English- English (7) ____ to improve my English grammar. “ Now I think you know what you (8) ____ do,” said she. I did not know that only one (9) ____ later I would win the first prize in the English Speaking Contest (10) ____ for secondary school students in my hometown.

V. Supply the correct form of the verbs in brackets

1. Hoa (see) (go) to work every morning.

2. Where is your mother ? – Maybe she (cook) in the kitchen.

3. She can’t answer the phone because she (take)is taking a bath.

4. How long it (take) you (get) to work yesterday morning?

5. She (remember) (give) you back the book you (land) her.

6. Lan (not have) many new friends in her new school.

8. Nam (come) from Vinh but he (stay) with his relatives in HCM city at the moment.

9. We (not drive) to work every day. We (go) by bus.

10. The girls (skip) over there (be) my friends.

11. You (like) your new school, Mai ? – Yes. But I’m unhappy because I (not have) many friends.

12. Let’s (play) the game now.