Đề bài

I. Choose the best answer (A, B, C or D).

1. I prefer reading stories with happy endings ..................... ones with sad endings.

A. than              B. to                 C. from             D. rather

2. I was glad when the .................. step – mother had to live a miserable life until death.

A. merciful        B. gentle            C. cunning        D. helpless

3. I remember that I first ..................... that story when I .................. 6 years old.

A. reads – am        B. read – was          C. readed – was       D. read – were

4. In his last week‘s business trip, my Dad .................. a collection of folk tales for me.

A. bought              B. was buying         C. buys                     D. had bought

5. When our elder brother ............... us a frightening story, suddenly there .................. a big knock on the door.

A. was telling – was                      B. were telling – was

C. told – was                                D. tells – is

6. Choose the odd one out.

A. brave             B. heroic               C. timid                D. courageous

7. Find the word which has a different sound in the underlined part.

A. guilty             B. biscuit              C. building            D. suitable

II. Put the verb with the correct tense or form.

8. Trung’s father (teach)………….. him how (ride) a bicycle when he (be) ………….twelve years old.

9. At this time yesterday, my mother (cook) .................. in the kitchen, and my father (water) ..................... some plants in the garden.

10. Yesterday Hoang spent two hours (repair)……………….. his computer set.