TEST 1
I. PRONUNCIATION: Pick out the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.
a. finished b. cooked c. stopped d. raised
a. machine b. chemistry c. architect d. Christmas
a. underline b. unite c. understand d. unknown
a. attend b. weekend c. tendency d. dentist
a. vegetables b. books c. stamps d. months
II. VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSION: Choose the word, 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.
Newton laid the ______ for many other discoveries in mathematics and physics.
a. basements b. foundations c. inventions d. achievements
The pull of the earth is called ______
a. dynamo b. generation c. gravity d. appliance
Geometry is the study of ______
a. letters and signs b. numbers c. forms d. computations
Language is not necessarily the ______ property of those who use it.
a. private b. common c. public d. personal
We are from Vietnam. Vietnamese is our mother tongue.
a. foreign language b. first language c. second language d. official language
The geneticists have discovered the laws of ______
a. generation b. inhabitance c. language d. inheritance
Laser beams have been used for cancer ______
a. entertainment b. achievement c. treatment d. movement
We find it ______ to do housework.
a. bore b. bored c. boring d. bores
Most miners suffer ______ from tunnel collapse and from flooding.
a. die b. death c. dead d. dying
In poor areas, nature ______ is low on the list of pri )rities compared with employment and health.
a. conserve b. conservation c. conservational d. conserving
All areas of the world are ______ to be affected by global climate change.
a. like b. alike c. likely d. unlike
Children take ______ in playing computer games in their free time.
a. please b. pleasant c. pleasing d. pleasure
Certain kinds of shark population have decreased by ______ 75% in the last 30 years.
a. out of b. up to c. up with d. along with
I am fed ______ daily housework.
a. up with b. out of c. onto d. into
Mary is one of ______ best students that got the scholarship.
a. a b. an c. the d. no article
III. GRAMMAR AND STRUCTURE:
A. Choose the best word, phrase, or sentence.
They don`t allow ______ at gas stations.
a. smoke b. to smoke c. smoking d. smoked
Sport at school encourages children to work together ______ helps them to keep fit.
a. as b. as well as c. because d. so that
Children are quick ______ whether they like or dislike a book.
a. to decide b. for decision c. when decide d. on decision
Many of these plants are ______
a. good for eating b. good to eat c. good with eaten d. good at eating
We are trying to save the animals ______ are in danger of extinction.
a. who b. whom c. those d. which
My teacher said to me, "Don`t give up hope."
a. My teacher told me that don`t give up hope.
b. My teacher told me don`t give up hope.
c. My teacher told me whether not give up hope.
d. My teacher told me not to give up hope.
The bag was heavy, so we could not take it with us.
a. The bag was too heavy enough for us to take it with us.
b. The bag was very heavy enough for us to take it.
c. The bag was too heavy for us to take it with us.
d. The bag was too heavy for us to take with us.
It was impossible for them to speak English fluently.
a. They found impossible to speak English fluently.
b. They found it impossible to speak English fluently.
c. They found it to speak English fluently is impossible.
d. They found it is speaking English fluently impossible.
Peter ______ from Paris. He ______ there three weeks ago with his friends.
a. will just return / flies b. has just returned / flew
c. had just returned / flew d. is just returning / was flying
She wondered why the train ______ yet.
a. did not arrived b. has not arrived c. had not arrived d. would not arrive
B.