exam practice

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I. A. Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced fifferently from the rest
1. a. small b. supply c. sure d. species
2. a. swimmer b. sword c. swallow d. swam
3. a. forest b. exist c. busy d. establish
4. a. suggest b. disappear c. scientist d. raise
B. Choose the word which is stressed differently from the rest
5. a. endanger b. disappear c. prohibit d. destruction
6. a. extinct b. human c. species d. planet
7. a. condition b. pollutant c. however d. influence
8. a. action b. habit c. danger d. survive
II. MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. To fit together the thousands of fragments of the broken vase was a long and …………task.
a. minute b. careful c. painstaking d. minuscule
2. Has it ever occurred ………….you that those twins are quite different from each other in many ways ?
a. to b. with c. at d. on
3. The plane was ………..by two hours because of bad weather.
a. postponed b. put off c. delayed d. rearranged
4. There has been some …….in the relations between those two countries recently.
a. decomposition b. deterioration c. destitution d. depreciation
5. You must have …......the examination before Friday, so bring your money to the office as soon as possible.
a. passed b. entered for c. sat for d. enrolled for
6. He …………out of the window for a moment and then went on working.
a. glimpsed b. glanced c. regarded d. stared
7. I have bought the dress because its colour ………….that of the shoes
a. fits b. suites c. matches d. blended
8. My mother opened the letter without ……………to read the address on the envelop.
a. caring b. worrying c. concerning d. bothering
9. If anyone has any ………..concerning the road plan , please contact the Plan Office.
a. requests b. investigations c. queries d. demands
10. Mum, Dad has just bought you a ………….of flowers.
a. bush b. bunch c. bucket d. board
11. The government ……….a large group of illegal workers last night.
a. expelled b. deported c. displaced d. exported
12. The village is nothing out of …………….. , it’s just an average one.
a. typical b. ordinary c. usual d. average
13. I do not have to pay for taxi myself because I put it on my company’s ……….account.
a. cost b. value c. expense d. usage
14. The teacher was very annoyed that her student did not meet her deadlines and she warned him that his
laziness and ………..could result in his bad mark.
a. zeal b. fortitude c. procrastination d. carelessness
15. Which police officer is ……..this week ?
a. on emergency b. on call c. on situation d. on condition
16. I had been completely exhausted but I felt ………..after watching a funny movie.
a. renovated b. refreshed c, renewed d. returned
17. Tom always feels jealous ………his brother because he is handsome and tall.
a. in b. on c. at d. of
18. The Prime Minister signed the contract………… of the country.
a. on account of b. on behalf of c. for reason d. by means of
19. Tim was forced to leave his job but he got a generous golden ……….
a. compensation b. handshake c. parachute d. capital
20. Nghia has lost a lot of money these last years in the casino. He is a ………….gambler.
a. impulsive b. compelled c. impelled d. compulsive
21. Can you ................ the BBC World Service on the new radio ? .
a. put on b. take in c. get at d. pick up
23. The old lady's savings were considerable as she had ........... a little money each week.
a. put by b. put in c. put apart d. put down
23. Please ......... and see us somtimesYou're always welcome.
a. come to b. come about c. come round d. come away
24. She went .......... a bad cold just before Christmas
a. in for b. down with c. over d. through
25. As we waited on the pavement , a black Mercedes........... beside us.
a. pulled off b. pulled down c. pulled through d. pulled up
26. As children wer were very poor . When my father finally became rich , he told us that he wanted to .......... all the
hardships we had suffered
a. Make off with b. make over to c. make out with d. make up for
27. The meeting had to be put ........... until a later date.
a. away b. on c. off d. up
28. I was ............. by the beautiful music.
a. carried away b. carried out c. carried up d. carried on
29. I got impatient waiting for my turn to .......
a. go out b. set out c. come out d. work out
30. The Second World War was so terrible ......... time a large number of families were separated.
a. during the b. dring which c, at the d. on which
31. They turned down the proposal ............. that it didn't fulfill their requirement.
a. by reason b. on the grounds c. as a cause d. allowing
32. We are prepare to overlook ( bỏ qua , coi nhẹ ) the error on this occasion ...........your previous good work
a. in the light of b. thanks to c. with the view to d. with regard to
33.__ " I bought you some flowers " __" They are beautiful , but you ............. "
a. needn't b. shouldn't have c. mustn't have d. didn't have
34. She insisted that the reporter .......... her as his source of information.
a. not to mention b. not mention c. don't mention d. not mentioning
35. ........... that took Ammerican art out of the romanticism of the mid – 1600' and carried it to the most powerful
heights of realism.
a. .Winslowhomers' Paintings b. It was Winslowhomers' Paintings
c. When Winslowhomers' Paintings d. Paintings of Winslowhomers
36. I had to get through a lot of ........... tape , but I finally got the documents I needed.
a. red b. blue c. link d. yellow
36. The hospital staff pulled out all the ,,,,,,,,, to make sure the children had a wonderful day.
a. roadblocks b. barricade c. plugs d. stops
. 37. Neither side is prepared to ........... an inch in the negotiations
a. stir b. budge c. push d. bend
38. Congressman Saunders fired the opening ............ during a heated debate on capital punishment.
a. salvo b. barrage c. cannonade d. burst
39. I like the way popel here always queue up. Back home we just push and and shove,( chen lan ) and the
devil take the ...............
a. outermost b. foremost c. hindmost d. ut most
40 The manager attached himself to the lunchon club and became a .............. fixture there.
a. perennial b. enduring c. stable d. permanent

III. ERROR CORRECTION

There are 11 mistakes in the passage. The firts mistake has been underlined as an example . Underline
an correct the other ten mistakes

1 If parents bring up a child on the sole aim of turning the child into a genuis
they will cause disasters. Accdording to several leading education
psychologists , this one of the biggest mistakes parents do. Generally ,
the child will be only too aware of what his parents expect. and will fail.
5. Unrealistic parental expectations can cause great damaging to children.
However , if parents are not too unrealistic about that they expect their
children to do but are ambitious on a sensible way , the child may succeed
in doing very well - especially if parents are very supporting of their child
Michael Collins is very lucky, He is crazy with music , and his parents help
10 him a lot in taking him to concerts and arranging private piano and violin
lessons for him. They even drive him 50 kilometers twice a week for violin
lessons. Michael's mother knows very few about music, but his father plays
the trumpet in a large ochestra. Therefore , he never makes Micheal enter
music competitions if he is unwiilling.
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Example : on -> with

1................ 2................... 3........................ 4......................

5................ 6................... 7........................ 8......................

9................ 10...................
IV. Put the verbs in bracket into the correct form
I come from a very large family , and recently my parents 1.( decide ) ...................................that they 2.(
spend ) .............................................long enough living in an overcrowded house in Birmingham.
" We 3( move ) ............................. to the country", my father 4 ( announce ) .................................one evening.
" I 5 ( sell ) ....................................... this house and we 6. ( live ).................................. on a farm "
So last week we 7( load ) ...................................all our possessions into two hired vans and for the last few day
we 8.( try ) .........................................to organize ourselves in our new home. Yesterday, for example my
brother and I 9.( start ) ....................................painting the downstairs rooms. Unfortunately while I 10.( mix
) ...............................................the paint one of my sisters 11. ( open ) .....................................the door . Nobody
12( tell )........................................... her that we 13( be )........................ in the room you see. so instead of
painting the walls we 14.( spend )................................... all morning cleaning the paint off the floor. But worse
things 15. ( happen ).................................. since then.
This morning when I 16. ( wake up ) ..................................., water 17.( drip ) .....................................through the
ceiling next to my bed. We 18( spend ) .........................................all day so far repairing the roof. It's not all bad
news, though . The school in the village nearby 19.( close down )....................................... two years ago , and
my parents 20.( not find )....................................... another school for us yet

V. WORD FORM A. Supply the correct form of the words in the capital
QUARREL 1 I've never known such a .............................. . person.
ADMIT 2. The cost of ............................. . to the show is quite reasonable.
SLEEP 3. This morning I ............................ and was late for school.
FOREST 4. ............................ is destroying large areas of tropical rain forest.
DISPENSE 5 A good dictionary is . ............................... for learniing a foreign language
DEPEND 6. The world is becoming . increasingly ..............................
ENTHUSIASM 7. They all cheered ............................. as their team came out.
CONVINCE 8. Her case was .............................. argued
PRODUCE 9. This is not an original but it's a good .........................................
ADD 10. Are all those ............................ they put in food really necessary ?

B. Complete the following passage with the correct forms of the words given .

complex surprise artificiality speak success consider appeal facility suppose nature

Although there has always been a need for a lingua franca to (1)............................... communication between
people of diferent parts of the world , (2) ................................. .... language have been singularly
(3)................................. at fulfilling this role At first this might seem (4). ............................... ... because a
language such as Esperanto , which is (5 ) .................................. .. very easy to learn would seem to have
(6) ................................ .. advantages over languages such as English , French , or Spanish. Esperanto is not
burdened with a host of irregular verbs and its grammar
has an innate simplicity that makes it very straightforward. The vocabulary has none of the
(7) ............................... and ambiguities of a natural language, so why has Esperanto not thrived ?
There are many reasons why people prefer to learn (8)................................. .. languages. , and these range
from the practical to the psychological . Esperanto speakers are still comparatively little , so there is little reason
to study it in preference to a widely (9)............................... . modern language such as English. In addition, real
languages come with cultures and literary traditions, making them far more (10) ................................ to the
majority of learners.

VI. Read the passage and choose the best answer

Gold is a measure of wealth which is recognized all over the world For centuries it was the foundation of the
international monetary system and __(1)__ today, it remains one of the most important components of a
country's foreign currency reserves. What __(2)__ gold attractive is that it has a value of its own for both
industrial and ornamental purposes , unlike paper bank notes, which are worthless __(3)__ themselves. As a
result gold is bought as an __(4)__ in times of financial uncertainty.
Until the 1930s , several European currencies were based on the Gold Standard, which meant that the value of
a __(5)__ of currency was fixed in terms of a stated quantity of gold. People could freely __(6)__ any bank
notes they had for gold. In 1931, world-wide financial problems caused the Gold Standard to be dropped. Then
in 1935, the USA, France and the UK __(7)__ the price of gold at $35 an ounce., which remained the price until
1971. Because the demand for gold __(8)__so fast , however the price of gold for ornamental and industrial
purposes was allowed to rise. Today one ounce of gold costs $390 in London. Gold for jewellery is mixed
__( 9)__ a metal alloy and the purity of the gold is measured in carats. Most gold sold to the public has 40 % of
gold and is called nine-carat gold. Good investors can buy pure gold from dealers in the __(10)__ of gold bars
or gold coins.

1. a yet b. just c. now d even

2. a. makes b. turns c gives d. forms
3. a. on b. for c to d. in
4. a. expense b. allowance c. investmen d. interest
5. a. unit b. piece c. bit d. part
6. a convert b. exchange c. alter d. refund
7. a. fixed b. attached c. laid d. stood
8. a. grew b. raised c. heightened d. gained
9. a. down b. by c. up d. with
10. a. sort b. fashion c. form d. type

VII. Read the passage and fill the blank with a suitable word.

SPORTS IN OUR LIFE

" Do you like sports ? " This question can __(1)__ __ heard very often. Many people answer " Yes " , and they
think about watching a game on football at a stadium or on TV __(2)__ sitting in a comfortable arm-chair. But
watching sports events and going in for sports are two different things. Let's hope that you prefer the second.
Sport __(3)__ an important role in our life. When you listen to the radio __4 )__ in the morning , you can always
hear the sports news. When you open a newspaper, you will always find information about some game or other
or an article about your favourite kind of sport. Especially interesting are stories about famous men or women in
the world of sports., __(5)__ they became champions and about their plans for the future. Television programs
about sports are also very popular. and you can watch __(6) __ interesting practically every day...
Sports help people to keep in good health. At the same time those __(7)__ go in for sports try to get good
results and to win victories in sports competitions. National kinds of physical exercise , national games and
sports competitions have always __(8)__ popular on the territory of our country. Physical culture and sports are
part of our cultural and public life. The government play great __(9)__ to human development. There is great
enthusiasm for sport of every kind in our country, and any boy or girl who shows good results at sports clubs or
at athletics competitions for school children, is __(10)__ every help to become a champion.

1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10

VIII. READING
Read the following passage and choose the correct answer for each question
Most people would agree that although our age exceeds all previous ages in knowledge there has been no
corresponding increase in wisdom. But agreement ceases as soon as we attempt to define “ wisdom” and
consider means of promoting it.
There are several factors that contribute to wisdom . Of there I should put first a sense of proportion . the
capacity to take account of all the important factors in a problem and to attach to each its due weight. This has
become more difficult than it used to be owing to the extent and complexity of the special knowledge required of
various kind of technicians. Suppose, for example , that you are engaged in research in scientific medicine.
The work is difficult and is likely to absorb the whole of your mind. You have no time to consider the effect which
your discoveries or inventions may have outside the field of medicine. You succeed( let us say ) as modern
medicine has succeeded in enormously lowering the infant death - rate. not only in Europe and America, but
also in Asia and Africa. . This has the entirely unintended result of making the food supply inadequate and
lowering the standard of life in the parts of the world, that have the greatest populations. To take even more
dramatic example , which is in everybody’s mind at the present time , you study the makeup of the atom from a
disinterested desire for knowledge , and by chance place in the hands of a powerful mad man the means of
destroying human race.
Therefore with every increase of knowledge and skill wisdom become more necessary for every such increase
augment our capacity for realizing our purposes and therefore augments our capacity for evil , if your purposes
are unwise.
1. Disagreement arises when people try to decide ..........................
a. how much more wisdom we have now than before b. What wisdom is and how to develop it
c. if there is a great wisdom in our age d. Whether wisdom can be developed or not

2. According to the author, "wisdom" is the ability to ......................

a. carefully consider the bad effects on any kinds of research work
b. give each important problem some careful consideration
c. acquire a great deal of complex and special knowledge.
d. give suitable consideration to all the possible elements in a problem

3. Lowering the infant death-rate may......................

a. prove to be helpful everywhere in the world. b. give rise to an increase in population in Europe.
c. cause food shortages in Asia and Africa. D. raise the living standard of the people in Africa.
4 The author uses the examples in the passage to illustrate his point that ......................
a. it's extremely difficult to consider all the important elements in problem
b. success in medical research has its negative effects
c. scientists may unknowingly cause destruction to the human race.
d. it's unwise to be totally absorbed in research in scientific medicine.
5 What's the main idea of the passage ?
a. It's unwise to place the results of scientific research in the hands of a powerful mad man.
b. The more knowledge one has , the wiser one becomes.
c. any increase of knowledge could lead to disastrous results without the guidance of wisdom.
d. Wisdom increase in proportion
Notes :
1. exceed (V) vượt trội 7. complexity sự phức tạp
2. wisdom (n) sự thông thái khôn ngoan 8. infant death-rate tỷ lệ tử vong cuả trẻ em
3. cease (v) thôi /dừng lại 9. make up (v) chế tao phát minh
4. a sense of proportion khả năng hiểu biết về sự tương xứng 10. disinterested(adj) vô tư
5. take account of smth tính đến cái gì 11. augment gia tố / sự làm tăng lên

IX. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION

Rewrite each sentence similar in meaning to the one given, using the word in brackets. Do not alter this
word
1. Telephone has brought convenience to people all over the world convenient
...............................................................................................................
2. A man with high ambition will never find leisured time in his life ambitious
...............................................................................................................
3. He is becoming quite famous as an interviewer NAME
...............................................................................................................
4. David played the main role when the proposal was drafted instrumental
...............................................................................................................
5. The house shouldn’t be left unlocked for any reason account
...............................................................................................................
6. The guided book doesn’t recommend staying in that hotel advisable
It is .........................................................................................
7. I must arrange to have the kitchen painted . see
...............................................................................................................
8. Alan prides himself on his punctuality.
Alan takes ..............................................................................................

9. We only guessed at the real truth. MAKE)

...............................................................................................................
10. It was not until five years had elapsed that the whole truth about the murder came out
Not for another ...................................................................
11. Don't tell the boss anything about this BREATHE
.................................................................................
12. He has an obsession about the dishonesty of lawyers BEE
He ...................................................................... dishonesty of lawyers.
13. He was exasperated with being crticized in public all the time. TEETH

He was fed ...............................................................

14. You have said exactly the right thing NAIL

You ................................................................
15. It seemed the young man was feeling bitter about his family background SHOULDER

The young man appeared ..............................