Đề bài

Choose the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

1. A. circulate            B. create                  C. indicate                D. appropriate

2. A. musical             B. community           C. discussion             D. uniform

3. A. confident          B. obvious                C. introduce              D. popular

4. A. accident            B. prevent                C. attachment           D. encouragement

5. A. request             B. protest                 C. nest                      D. harvest

Choose the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.

6. A. advantage        B. minority               C. cooperate               D. education

7. A. effective          B. difficult                 C. mountainous           D. organize

8. A. announcement    B. disadvantaged    C. entertainment        D. contribution

9. A. composer        B. employment          C. excited                  D. fortunate

10. A. household     B. inspire                   C. compound             D. ailment

Choose the best answer to complete the sentence.

11. She agreed ______ to the circus with Ann.

A. went              B. to go                  C. going                  D. goes

12. It's no use ______ his opinion.

A. asking           B. to ask                 C. ask                     D. asks

13. If you decide _____ your car, let me ______.

A. sell/ know        B. selling/ to know     C. to sell/ to know   D. to sell/ know

14. I promised ______ Tim go out but I don't feel like ______ now.

A. take/going       B. to take/to go          C. to take/going      D. take/go

15. Hoa: "You look beautiful in this skirt." - Lan:" ______ "

A. Thank you. It's nice of you to say so.                              

B. Poor you!

C. Not at all.                                                                         

D. I'm OK.

16. Students stopped ______ noise when the teacher came in.

A. make            B. to make              C. making            D. made

17. My grandfather is used to ______ up early in the morning.

A. getting         B. to get                  C. get                  D. got

18. He'll try _______ the same mistake again.

A. not make      B. to not make        C. not making       D. not to make

19. Tomorrow I _______ my relatives with my parents.

A. am going to visit                B. will have visited               

C. have visited                       D. visit

20. Would you like _______ to the cinema with us tomorrow evening?

A. to come            B. come               C. coming            D. came

21. Mai: "What a beautiful dress you have!" - Hoa: " _______. "

A. Thanks a lot                       B. You're welcome                

C. Yes, I'd love to                   D. Sure

22. The exercise is very difficult, ______ none of us can do it.

A. and                B. but                C. so                   D. because

23. The police searched the house carefully _______ they found nothing.

A. but                B. so                  C. nor                  D. or

24. My younger brother was lazy, ______ he failed the final exams last year.

A. so                 B. and                 C. but                 D. or

25. Most people consider it women's _______ to take care of children and do housework.

A. limit              B. responsibility    C. relationship     D. respect

Complete the following sentences with an appropriate preposition.

26. He left his job to take care ______ his sick daughter.

27. They will have the opportunity to participate actively ______ the process.

28. The government plans to set ________ a regional library system.

29. They carried _______ a successful attack last night.

30. Her parents are disappointed _______ her.

Read the following passage and choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbers blanks.

Plants provide food, clothing, and shelter for people. Many of our most useful medicines are also (31) _____ from plants. Besides, plants add beauty and pleasure (32) _____ our lives. Most people enjoy the smell of flowers, the sight field of waving grain, and the quiet of a forest. Not all plants are helpful to man. Some species grow in fields and gardens as weeds that choke off useful plants. Tiny hits of pollen from certain plants cause such (33) _____ as asthma and hay fever. Some plants are (34) ______ if we eat them. (35) _______ irritate the skin.

31. A. made          B. done                  C. learnt                   D. gained

32. A. for              B. to                       C. in                        D. from

33. A. matter         B. allergies             C. difficulties             D. illnesses

34. A. poison         B. harm                  C. poisonous             D. harmless

35. A. Others         B. Other                 C. Another                D. The other

Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the original sentence.

36. Does your sister clean the house every day?

=> Is the house ________________________________________________

37. There are two generations in a nuclear family.

=> A nuclear family consists ______________________________________

38. His parents would prefer him to pay more attention to his school work.

=> His parents would rather _______________________________________

Combine these pairs of sentences, using and, but or so.

39. They had sold out all the tickets. We couldn't attend the concert.

=>  _______________________________________________________________________________

40. I wanted to do volunteer work in mountainous areas. My mother thought it would be dangerous.

=>  _______________________________________________________________________________