Question

[Nguyễn Bảo Lan]

Part 1. Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others (0,5 pt).

Part 2. Choose one word whose stress pattern is different from the others (0,5 point).

SECTION C: GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY

Part 1: Choose the answer A, B, C or D which best fits the space in each of the following sentences.2pts

1. _________ saying was so important that I asked everyone to stop talking and listening.

A. What the woman was           B. That the woman was

C. The woman was                      D. When was the woman

2. -“Do you mind if I take a seat?” – “________.”

A. Yes, I don’t mind              B. No, do as you please

C. No I mind                          D. Yes, do as you please

3. As the two teams left the football ground, the 100,000 ________ gave them a standing ovation.

A. bystanders         B. spectators                 C. viewers              D. audiences

4. My parents lent me the money. ________, I couldn’t have afforded the trip.

A. However        B. Therefore               C. Only if                        D. Otherwise

5. It is interesting to take ________ a new hobby such as collecting stamps or going fishing.

A. over                 B. on                      C. in                    D. up

6. Jack made me ________ him next week.

A. promise calling                       B. to promise calling

C. to promise to call                    D. promise to call

6. “I passed the TOEFL test, Mom.” – “________.”

A. All right                B. Thank you                C. Well done                 D. Good luck

7. The bad weather caused serious damage to the crop. If only it ________ warmer.

A. was               B. were                  C. has been                   D. had been

8. – “Eric is really upset about losing his job.” – “ Well, ________ once myself, I can understand.”

A. Having been fired           B. Fired          C. Having fired            D. Being fired

9. ________ you, I’d think twice about that decision. I could be a bad move.

A. Were I           B. Should I be                C. If I am                        D. If I had been

10. The teacher asked a difficult question, but finally Ted ________ a good answer.

A. put up with       B. keep pace with       C. made way for       D. came up with

11. Not only ________ to speak to him, but she also vowed never to see him again.

A. she refused               B. did she refuse

C. she did refuse           D. when she refused

12. The judge ________ the pedestrian for the accident.

A. accused          B. charged           C. caught       D. blamed

13. She had to borrow her sister’s car because hers was ________.

A. out of work       B. out of order            C. on duty            D. off work

14. We should participate in the movement ________ to conserve the natural environment.

A. to organize        B. organizing      C. which organized       D. organized

15. His brother refuses to even listen to anyone else’s point of view. He is very ________.

A. open-minded    B. kind-hearted     C. narrow-minded       D. absent-minded

16. There is ________ in my bedroom.

A. a square wooden old table              B. an old square wooden table

C. a wooden old square table               D. an old wooden square table

17. “I am sorry. I broke the vase”. – “________.”

A. OK. Go ahead                                 B. Yes, certainly

C. Don’t worry. Things break          D. I’d rather not.

18. One’s fingerprints are ________ other person.

A. different from          B. different from any

C. differ from any         D. different from those of any

19. He is very happy because he passed his exam with ________ colors.

A. flying            B. failing                C. imagining                 D. changing

 Part 2. Give the correct tense or form of the verbs in the blanks (1 pt):

1. I couldn’t resist (laugh) ……………………….… at the way he answered my question.

2. He refused (join) ……………………..… us on the trip to the mountains.

3. It is raining. We can’t do anything until it (stop) ……………………………

4. He’s used to (ask) …………………………… what to do at home.

5. Everyone (hope) ………………………..… that I will pass the entrance exam to Doan Hung gifted secondary school.

6. You’d better have your hair (cut) ……………………………

7. Much progress (make) ………………………..… in study in this class this term.

8. I think your garden needs (weed) ……………………………, and you had better (have) ………………………….… it done tomorrow.

9. Nigel felt sick from (eat) ………………………..… too many cakes.

Part 3. Fill in each space in the following sentences with the most suitable prepositions. 1pt

1. I’m afraid Tom’s ……………………..… work. But Jack’s in. Would you like to speak to him?

2. These fields have been……………………..… the plough for centuries.

3. At first I found the work very tiring, but ……………………..… a few weeks I got used to it.

4. When I get home from work I like to relax……………………..… the newspaper.

5. I saw Tom at the bus stop this morning but couldn’t speak to him because we were standing ……………………..… a queue.

6. He is always in a hurry. He drives ……………………..… a tremendous speed.

7. Write ……………………..… ink and put your name on the top of the page.

8. Some styles never go……………………..… fashion.

9. He sits at his desk all day with his head in his hands. It gets ……………………..… my nerves.

10. The children hastily changed ……………………..… bathing things and jumped into the river with shouts of delight.

 Part 4. Each of the following sentences has a mistake. Underline and correct it (2 pt):

	Correct
1. My teacher makes me to do all these exercises.
2. I teach English here since I graduated from university.
3. They are so naughty children that their mother can’t stand them.
4. Jim said that he was playing the piano in the hall now.
5. My mother is cooking something in the kitchen now. It smells very well.
6. I met Lan, one of my classmates at high school on the street yesterday, so we stopped talking
7. I’m not used to drive in the left though I have been living in London for 10 years ago
8. He spoke a few English, so we were able to communicate with him.
9. I look forward to have the resolution to the problem I have mentioned.
10. They are going to get their house to redecorate for the Christmas.

Part 5 : Give the correct form of the word in capital letters given to complete the sentences (1 pt):

1. They are going to ……………………………….… the town with more trees and parks.	BEAUTIFUL
2. My colleagues are very pleasant, but my boss is very ……………………………….…	FRIEND
3. He would get very angry if you ……………………………….… with his ideas.	AGREE
4. She often makes a ……………………………….… between English and French.	COMPARE
5. The bad result makes his parents ……………………………….…	BORE
6. They tried to win but their efforts are ……………………………….…	SUCCESS
7. Everyone admires her ……………………………….… to help the poor	READY
8. We must get rid of the ……………………………….… which slows our development	POOR
9 . He cycles ……………………………….… and had an acccident	CARE
10. The country is very ……………………………….… so travelling by road is difficult.	MOUNTAIN

SECTION D: READING.

Part 1. Read the passage then choose the correct word to fill in the blank. (1 pt)

            For good or bad, computers are now part of our daily life. Experts predict that before long all schools and busineses and most families in the rich part of the world will (1) ________ a computer of some kind. Among the general public, computer arouse strong feelings – people either love them (2) ________hate them. The computer lovers talk about how useful computers can be in business, in education and (3) ________the home. Apart (4) ________all the games, you can do accounts on them, learn languages from them, write letters on them, and in some places even (5) ________your shopping with them. Computers they say, bring leisure, as many, as many (6) ________jobs are taken over by computerized robots. The haters, on the other hand, argue that computers bring not leisure but (7) ________They worry, too, that people (8) ________spend all the time talking to computers may forget (9) ________to talk to each other. Their biggest fear is that computers may eventually take (10) ________

from human beings altogether.

Part 2: Read the text below and fill in each space with ONE suitable word. 2pt

THE OLD WOMAN

There once was an old woman (1) ………………………….lived in a shoe. This must have been very cramped and difficult (2) ………………………….living in a shoe is not very comfortable, I expect. One day, she went out and there (3) ………………………….some children playing in the street nearby where she lived. (4) ………………………….began shouting at her. “You silly old woman, why do you live in a shoe?”, they shouted, and other things like that. They were very insulting (5) ………………………….the old woman. I don’t know why the old woman had to live in a shoe, but she (6) …………………………. have been very poor, and it was not nice to (7)……………………….. fun of the poor woman because she was so hard up that she had nowhere (8)………………………… to live. But children can be very cruel sometimes (9) ………………………….this case wasn’t an exception. However, on this occasion the old woman didn’t just think their insults meekly, but became very angry and shouting “I will teach you a (10) ………………………….“, she chased them with a cane.

Part 3. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow. (1pt)

Steve grew up in a children’s home in Scotland. Every week, the staff took a proportion of the children’s pocket money to pay for holidays. Little Steve developed a daring strategy to hang on to what little money he had. He laughs about it now. “I used to swallow all my coins. That got

them really furious, so they’d put me in a room on my own as a punishment. After a few minutes

in there, I’d hit myself on the chest and cough the money back up.”

Since then, Steve has turned into Steve Starr, a professional regurgitator who does up to four shows a day, and can demand fees of$500-$2,000 a show. Everything Steve swallows comes back dry, except for the goldfish. They swim about in his stomach in the water that he swallows for them first. After ten minutes they resume their normal lives in a goldfish bowl. “They never die”, says Steve.

Medical experts might have a few worries about Steve. The sight and sound of him swallowing and bringing back a snooker ball sometimes causes even normally calm people to panic. He also smokes a cigarette, retains the smoke in his stomach, then swallows some butane gas and mixes the two. Next he swallows some Wl:lShing-up liquid, blows a huge bubble, brings up

the smoke and gas inside the bubble, cuts the bubble off, gets someone to set light to it, and bang!

Physically, Steve doesn’t believe he is any different from the rest of the human race, who use their stomachs simply to digest food. “It’s all done by muscle control”, he says. “I imagine a little pair of hands in there doing everything, controlled by my brain. I’m sure I could teach anyone to do what I do”.

1.Why was Steve punished in the children’s home?

………………………………………………………………………………………………………

2. What does the sentence “Steve grew up in a children’s home~ tell you about Steve’s early

childhood?

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………

3. What does the sentence “They’d put me in a room on my own as a punishment” tell you

about the children’s home?

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

4. Why does the bubble go bang when someone sets light to it?

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…..

5. What, according to Steve, is the secret of his skill?

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

SECTION E: WRITING

Part 1. Finish the second sentence in such a way that it has the same meaning as the original one. Use the words or phrases given (2 pts):

1. My mother bought me a present on my birthday.

@ It’s my mother………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

2. There was such a frightening atmosphere in that house that we had to leave immediately.

@ The atmosphere…………………………………………………………………………………………..

3. He snatched up the fire extinguisher after he read the instruction.

@ Having ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

4. I did not realize what he had meant until I left home.

@ Not until……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

5. My parents never make me work hard.

@ I’m…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

6. It was her lack of confidence that surprised me.

@ What I found…………………………………………………………………………………………………………

7. He is too inexperienced to undertake this demanding job.

@ He is not……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

8. Mrs Mai is very proud of her son’s intelligence.

@ Mrs Mai takes…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

9. You can try to get Hung to lend you his car but you won’t succeed.

@ There’s no point ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

10. It is the first time we have listened to this kind of music.

@ Never ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..