23-28) Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage:
(23)___________ I was young, I (24) ________ dreamed of a famous scientist. When I was at school, I decided (25) ___________ engineering, and then became a millionaire by inventing a wonderful new product (26) ________ would make the world a better place. Unfortunately, I wasn’t very good ( 27) _________ technical subjects. Any time I operate any kind of equipment, (28) __________ terrible happens.
23/ A. while B. When C. As D. Although
24/ A. rarely B. seldom C. hardly D. atways
25/ A. to study B. study C. studying D. studied
26/ A. who B. which C. whom D. what
27/ A. in B. at C. on D. about
28/ A. something B. nothing C. thing D. many things
(29-32) Read the dialogue and then decide whether the statements that follow are true or false. Write True or False in your answersheet:
Marie was born in Poland in 1876. She learnt to read when she was 4 years old. She was intelligent and had an excellent memory. She finished high school when she was only 15 years old. When she grew up, Marie went to Paris to study Mathematics and chemistry at the university. She won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903 and 8 years later she received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Marie Curie died in 1934
____ 29/ She finished high school in 1891
____ 30/ She studied Mathematics and chemistry at the university in Paris.
____ 31/ She won the Nobel Prize for physics when she was 28.
____ 32/ Marie Curie died in 1943
(33-36) Rewrite the sentences so that they are nearest in meaning to the sentence printed before them.
33/ Mary’s sister doesn’t cook as well as her mother.
Mary’smother is better__________________________________________________
34/ Singapore has reputation for its cleanliness.
Singapore is _________________________________________________________
35/ Do you take pride in being a student of Hoang Van Thu High School?
Are you ____________________________________________________________
36/ The new toy is exciting to the baby.
The baby is ___________________________________________________________
I. Choose A, B, C or D to complete the following sentences:
1. ________ clothes do you prefer, T-shirt or pullover?
A. What B. How C. Which D. Where
2. My uncle was a ________ . He had a large collection of musical instruments.
A. music B. musical C. musically D. musician
3. Vietnamese women prefer to wear morden clothing ________work.
A. at B. in C. to D. with
4. Peter got ________ quickly and went to school.
A. dress B. dressed C. dressing D. dresses
5. It’s ________ to call anyone at night.
A. convernience B. inconvernience C. convernient D. inconvernient
6. The Ao Dai is the ________ dress of Vietnamese women.
A. beautiful B. traditional C. casual D. baggy
7. ________ have fashion designers done to mordernize the Ao dai?
A. How B. What C. Why D. Where
8. The word Jeans comes ________ a kind of material that was made in Europe.
A. in B. at C. from D. on
9. The national dress of Japanese women is ________
A. Kinomo B. Ao dai C. Sari D. Jeans
10. Nguyen Du is considered a famous Vietnamese ________
A. poetry B. poem C. poet D. poetic
11. Mary ________ write to me last year.
A. uses to B. used to C. is used to D. was used to.
12. She describes hershelf ________ a fashion designer.
A. by B. as C. in D. from
13. He ________ with friends in an apartment in HCM City since last week.
A. living B. has lived C. lived D. live
14. I wish you ________ here tomorrow.
A. come B. came C. will come D. would come
15. I ________ English here since I graduated from university.
A. teach B. taught C. have taught D. am teaching
16. Wearing uniform helps students ________ equal in many ways.
A. fall B. feel C. fell D. felt
17. It’s dangerous ________ in this river.
A. swim B. to swim C. swimming D. swam
18. Millions of Christmas cards ________ last month.
A. were sent B. sent C. send D. are sent
19. Marie Curie ________ the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.
A. award B. awarded C. was awarded D. has awarded
20. He hates being ________ at.
A. look B. looking C. to look D. looked
VI. Rewrite so that the second sentence means nearly exactly the same as the first one.
1. We have learnt English for 4 years.
We started
2. My father started to give up smoking last year.
My father has
3. They have worked in that factory since 2001.
They started
4. Lan hasn’t written to Maryam for a month.
Lan didn’t
5. Ha has lived in Hanoi since he was 12.
He started
6. I haven’t seen her for a long time.
I didn’t
7. How long have you learnt French?
How long ago
8. When did you start to listen to classical music?
How long
9. I last saw her 10 years ago.
I haven’t
10. How long have you bought this car?
When did
Rewrite: The board awarded the first prize to the author (Rewrite in the passive)
=>The author ..........
write a passage about Marie Curie. Make any changes if necessary:
1. Marie Curie/ born/ Poland/ 1876
2. Mother/ die early/ and/ father/ try hard/ bring up four children.
3. She/ learn/ read/ write/ at/ age/ four
4. School/ she/ very good/ natural sciences
5. Sixteen/ leave school/ and/ go/ France/ study
6. France/ after lectures/ spend hours/ university library/ lab
7. She/ work very hard/ become/ famous/ chemist/ physicist
8. 1903/ she/ with/ husband Pierre Cutie/ win/ Nobel prize/ physics
9. Eight years/ later/ she/ receive/ Nobel/ prize/ chemistry
10. She/ die/ 1934/ age/ 67.
câu 1 : rewrite these sentences , remember to put commas in their right place : 1 smallpox hasdisappeared . it once killed thousands of people every year 2 this is felicity . you met her sister last week 3 he swam across the english channel. it is hard to believe that 4 borges was a wonderful writer . he never won the nobel prize 5 charlie chaplin died in 1977 . his films amused millions 6 Dr Oley is our family’s dentist . he is a popular dentist in the city 7 his sisters are identical twins . i saw them last 8 the river is the sai gon river. it flows through hcm city 9 the girls are performing the play . they rehearsed it yesterday 10 their parents are anxious about their children . the children come back late
cau1 : mrewrite these sentences , remember to put commas in their right place 1 smallpox has disappeared . it once killed thousands of people every year 2 this is felicity . you met her sister last week 3 he swam across the english channel . it is hard to believe that 4 borges was wonderful writer . he never won the nobel prize 5 charlie chaplin died in 1977 . his films amused millions 6 his sister are identical twins . i saw them last 7 dr oley is our family’s dentist . he is a popular dentist in the city 8 the river is the sai gon river . it flows through ho chi minh city 9 the girls are performing the play . they rehearsed it yesterday 10 their parents are anxinous about their children . the children come back late
1/ Mrs Reed (turn) _________ on the radio in her car while she (drive) _________ home yesterday. She (listen) ___________ to some music when she suddenly (hear) ___________ a siren. She (look) ____________ in her mirror and (see) _________ an ambulance behind her. She immediately (pull) ________ her car to the side of the road and (wait) _________ for the ambulance (pass) _________.
2/ My mother (call) ___________ me around 5 o’clock. My husband (come) _________ home a little after that. When he (come) __________ home, I (talk) ___________ to my mother on the phone.
3/ Next month I (have) _________ a week’s vacation. I (plan) _________ to take a trip. First I (go) _________ to Madison, Wisconsin to visit my brother. After I (leave) ________ Madion, I (go) _________ Chicago to see a friend who (study) _________ at a university there. She (live) _________ in Chicago for three years, so she (know) _________ her way around the city. She (promise) _________ to take me to many interesting places. I (never, be) _________ in Chicago, so I (look) _________ forward to going there.
4/ Yesterday John (eat) _____________ breakfast at 8:00. He (already, eat) _________ breakfast when he (leave) ____________ for class at 8:45. He (always, eat) _________ breakfast before he (go) _____________ to class. I (usually, not eat) _________ breakfast before I (go) _________ to class. But I (usually, get) _________ hungry about midmorning. Tomorrow before I (go) _____________ to class, I (eat) _________ breakfast.
5/ Last year, I (go) __________ mountain climbing for the first time. It was exciting and terrifying at the same time. We (move) ___________slowly and carefully, and it (take) ___________ three days to get to the top. When we climbed onto the summit, we (find) ___________ another group of climbers. They (arrive) ___________ several hours ahead of us. They (have) ___________ dinner and listening to Beethoven. We (laugh) __________ and they (invite) ___________ us to join them. The climb (be) ___________, to say the least, an unforgettable experience.
6/ The weather (be) ___________ terrible lately. It (rain) ___________ off and on for two days, and the temperature (drop) ___________ at least twenty degrees. It (be) ___________ in the low 40s right now. Just three days ago, the sun (shine) ___________ and the weather was pleasant. The weather certainly (change) ___________ quickly here. I never know what to expect. Who knows ? When I (wake) ___________ up tomorrow morning, maybe it (snow) ___________.
7/ A taxi driver (drive) ____________ along a street when he suddenly (black out) ___________ and lost control of his vehicle. The taxi (plunge) _________ into a nearby river. A hawker, who (see) ______________ the accident, rushed from his coffee stall and (dive) ___________ into the water. He (have) ___________ to swim twenty five metres before he could get to the taxi. The taxi driver (try) ______________ to wind down the window. The hawker reached into the taxi for the safety-belt. After he (release) __________ the safety-belt, he pulled the driver out through the partially open window. At the hospital, the driver (say) ____________ that the black out might (cause) ______________ by his high blood pressure condition.
8/ Marie Curie, the Polish-born chemist, was a courageous and determined woman. She (leave) ___________ her home for Paris to pursue her interest in science. Living in poverty, she still (manage) ___________ to graduate at the top of her class. She (meet) ___________ Pierre Curie shortly after graduation and (marry) ___________ him a year later.
Together, Pierre and Marie (form) ___________ the most famous husband-and-wife partnership in science history. They (discover) ___________ the radioactive elements, Polonium and Radium. They (award) ___________ the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.
Write relative pronouns to complete these sentences.
1. We visited the school ___________ my father taught.
2. I met her last month, ___________ she came to our house.
3. We all looked at the place ___________ the fire had started.
4. Did they tell you the reason ___________ they were late?
5. The cat sat on the wall ___________ it had a good view of the birds.
6. They arrived in the evening, at a time ___________ we were all out.
7. I couldn’t understand the reason ___________ they were so rude.
8. I met him in the cafeù ___________ he was working as a waiter.
9. I listen to music late at night, ___________ the children have gone to bed.
10. I bought them in August, ___________ I was in France.
11. Let me see all the letters _______ you have written.
12. Is there any one ________ can help me do this?
13. Mr. Brown, _________ is only 34, is the director of this company.
14. I know a place __________ roses grow in abundance.
15. It was the nurse ________ told me to come in.
16. The teacher with ________, we studied last year no longer teaches in our school.
17. They showed me the hospital ________ buildings had been destroyed by US bombings.
18. We saw many soldiers and tanks ______ were moving to the front.
19. Dr. Fleming, _______ discovered penicillin, was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1945.
20. He joined the political party _______ was in power.
21. Love, ________ is a wonderful feeling, comes to everyone at some time in his life.
22. Freedom is something for _______ millions have given their lives.
23. It is easy to find faults in people ________ we dislike.
24. The really happy people are those _______ enjoy their daily work.
25. We must find a time _______ we can meet and a place _______ we can talk.
1 marry ............. write to me last year a uses to b used to c is used to d was used to 2 she describes herself ....................... a fashion designer a by b as c in d from 3 he ..................... with friends in an apartment in HCM city since last week a living b has lived c lived d live 4 i wish you ................ here tomorrow a come b came c will come d would come 5 wearing uniform helps students ....................... equal in many ways a fall b feel c fell d felt 6 it is dangerous .................... in this river a swim b to swim c swimming d swam 7 millions of christmas cards ............................ last month a were sent b sent c send d are sent 8 he hates being ..................... at a look b looking c to look d looked
I. Circle the words which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest. (1m)
1. a. mall b. safe c. makes d. cele
ates
2. a. fourteen b. volunteer c. seems d. free
3. a. overhead b. teammate c. speaker d. bean
4. a. looked b. watched c. stopped d. ca
ied
II. Choose the right answer for following sentences. (2ms)
1. I've known Ly ____________ some months.
a. since b. for c. during d. when
2. London is ____________ capital city in Europe.
a. large b. the largest c. large d. most large
3. They ____________ in this town since 1987.
a. lives b. has lived c. have lived d. is living
4. Airmail is more expensive than ____________
a. post-office b. surface mail c. resident d. century
5. Hoa did her homework ____________
a. themselves b. herself c. himself d. ourselves
6. She isn't tall ____________ to be a good basketball player.
a. too b. very c. so d. enough
7. We ____________ our friend, Lan this week.
a. are going to visit b. visited c. visits d. has visited
8. Let's ____________ outside the museum.
a. meeting b. meet c. to meet d. meeting
III. Read the following passage then answer the questions. (2ms)
Alfred Bernard Nobel (1833-1896), a Swedish scientist, was invented dynamite. He allowed his invention to be used in peace. However, he saw it being used in war to destroy things, he was very unhappy. On his death he left all his money to be spent upon a prize every year. The Nobel Prize is now one of the greatest prizes that a person can ever receive. It is given every year for the best work in one of the following subjects: physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace.
* Write true (T) or false (F) for each sentence. (1m)
1. Alfred Bernard Nobel was born in 1896. ...................
2. The Nobel Prize is now one of the biggest prizes. ...................
* Answer the following questions. (2ms)
1. What did Alfred Bernard Nobel invent?
....................................................................................
1
2. Did he leave all his money for the Nobel Prize after his death?
...................................................................................
3. Why was he very unhappy?
....................................................................................
4. What subjects are the Nobel Prize given?
....................................................................................
IV. A
ange the following words to make complete sentences. (1m)
1. how /you / have / learnt / long / English?
....................................................................................
2. her / bag / mine / different / is / from.
....................................................................................
3. Ha's house / our house / than / is / bigger.
....................................................................................
4. concerned / the new mall / for / about / They've / a few months.
....................................................................................
V. Rewrite the sentences with the same meaning. (2ms)
1. The last time I wrote to him was two months ago.
I haven't............................................................................
2. She said to her students “Do your homework carefully.”
She asked her students................................................................
3. “You shouldn't ride your bike too fast,” I said to Ba.
I advised............................................................................
4. He is too young to go to school alone.
He is ...............................................................................
VI. Use given words to rewrite type second sentence so that the meaning does not change. (2ms)
1. Peter is too young to see the ho
or film.
Peter is .............................................................................
2. That girl is very intelligent!
What ...............................................................................
3. I intend to come over to pick you up.
I'm.................................................................................
4. Alexander G. Bell invented the telephone.
Alexander G. Bell .....................................................................
5. How about going to the movie tonight?
Let's...............................................................................
6. I lived on a farm, but I don't any more.
I used..............................................................................
7. It isn't necessary for you to set off so early.
You don't.......................................................................
8. Sao Mai theater is near. Hoa's house.
Sao Mai theater is not .................................................................