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 ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
71. John ________ his parents in France at the moment. He ________ in New York, but ________ his parents for the past few weeks.
A. was visiting / live / had visited
B. has visited / lived / is visiting
C. is visiting / lives / has been visiting
D. has been visiting / had live / has been visiting
72. -________ to come over for dinner tonight?
- Oh, I’m sorry, I can’t. I _______ to a movie tonight with some friends.
A. Have you wanted / will go B. Did you want / went
C. Do you want / am going D. Are you wanting / go
73. He _______ a good day until a thief ________ into his apartment, _______ all his money, and _______ him up.
A. has been having / comes / takes / tied B. had been having / came / took / tied
C. was having / had came / took / tied D. is having / is coming / has take / ties
74. - Where ________ on holiday?
- I don’t know. We ________ yet.
A. will you go / are not going to decide B. are you going / have not decided
C. have you gone / do not decide D. did you go / had not decided
75. When I ________ the street I ________ somebody call my name.
A. have crossed / hear B. had crossed / would hear
C. am crossing / will hear D. was crossing / heard
76. The train ________ at 8.58, so we ________ in Scotland by lunchtime.
A. leaves / will be B. left / have been C. has left / were D. left / had been
77. I think by the time we ________ there, Jim ________
A. get / will have left B. got / has left
C. will get / will leave D. had got / left
78. I ________ the time when I ________ as a teacher.
A. have never forgot / have first worked B. am never forgetting / first work
C. will never forget / first worked D. had never forgot / was first working
79. Women ________ in presidential elections since 1921.
A. vote B. have voted C. had voted D. are voting
80. By the time the boss ________ at 9.00, his employees ________ for two hours.
A. will arrive / are working B. arrives / will have been working
C. arrived / have been working D. has arrived / were working
81. - I am hungry. I ________ lunch yet.
- Don’t worry. I ________ you a sandwich.
A. have not had / will get B. do not have / am going to get
C. will not have / have got D. am not having / get
82. Do you think everything ________ when we ________ from the store?
A. will be finished / get back B. is finished / will get back
C. is going to finish / are getting back D. has been finished / will have got back
83. Look! Mary ________ a beautiful new dress. She ________ so pretty in the dress.
A. was wearing / looked B. wears / has looked
C. has been wearing / is looking D. is wearing / looks
84. I am sick of rain and bad weather! Hopefully, when we ________ up tomorrow morning, the sun ________.
A. will wake / will shine B. are waking / shines
C. are going to wake / is shining D. wake / will be shining
85. When the president ________ off the plane, the crowd ________ for him for half an hour.
A. gets / will wait B. got / had been waiting
C. had got / was waiting D. has got / will be waiting
86. Jane ________ at my house when you ________
A. is / will arrive B. will be / will arrive
C. will be / arrive D. is / are going to arrive
87. They ________ here for three years before you ________ last week.
A. have worked / came B. have been working / come
C. was working / had come D. had been working / came
88. These students ________ hard since the beginning of the school year because they ________ their graduation exam next May.
A. studied / are going to take B. are studying / will be taking
C. study / will have taken D. have been studying / will take
89. The students ________ chapter 5 next week, so they ________ to prepare for It now.
A. have studied / will read B. are studying / have read
C. will study / read D. will be studying / are reading
90. By the time John ________ to help, we ________ the work.
A. comes / finished B. comes / will have finished
C. will come / will have D. came / have finished
91. Mary sometimes ________ to turn off the computer before she ________ home.
A. forgot / had gone B. has forgot / is going
C. is forgetting / has gone D. forgets / goes
92. They ________ good preparations before they ________ their final examination yesterday.
A. made / had taken B. had made / took
C. have made / take D. will have made / have taken
93. He ________ a birthday party tomorrow for his daughter who ________ three.
A. is having / turns B. will have had / will turn
C. is going to have / has turned D. has had / is going to turn
94. When Susan ________ yesterday, Peter ________ dinner. He ________ cooking very much and often ________ the meals himself.
A. phoned / was cooking / likes / prepares
B. had phoned / cooked / liked / prepared
C. was phoning / was cooking / has liked / is preparing
D. has phoned / is cooking / is liking / preparing
95. They ________ to finish their work because they ________ Los Angeles next Sunday.
A. are needing / visit B. need / are going to visit
C. have needed / are visiting D. needed / have visited
96. At present Mary ________ her clothes. She ________ the clothes on Sundays.
A. is washing / often washes B. was washing / has often washed
C. has washed / is often washing D. washes / often washed
97. I ________ that movie before last night.
A. did not see B. has not seen C. had not seen D. will see
98. I ________ Lisa at the museum when I ________ to restaurant but she ________ me.
A. was seeing / was going / had not seen
B. had seen / went / was not seeing
C. have seen / have gone / does not see
D. saw / was going / did not see
99. Ever since human beings ________ the Earth, they ________ use of various form of communication.
A. have inhabited / have made B. inhabited / are making
C. had inhabited / had made D. inhabit / make
100. By the time John ________ the destination, he ________ for about three hours.
A. will get / has walked B. gets / will have been walking
C. has got / walks D. is getting / is walking