Forty-five-minute test English 12 Number: 101 ppt

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Class:………
Forty-five-minute test
English 12 Number: 101
I) Phonetics.
- Choose the word with the different pronunciation of the underlined part.
1. A. education B. engineer C. acceptable D. department
2. A. hear B. dear C. teacher D. appear
3. A. travel B. across C. company D. assistant
- Choose the word with the different stress pattern.
4. A. focus B. prepare C. travel D. mention
5. A. helpful B. discuss C. lawyer D. singer
II) Vocabulary and grammar.
- Choose the best answer A,B,C or D to complete the sentences.
6. There is no place like……………… .
A. house B. home C. home base D. household
7. They have responsibility……… ensuring that the rules are enforced.
A. on B. for C. in D. with
8. My mother did all the housework………….her own.
A. by B. on C. for D. with
9. Finally, thanks to their parents’ help, they found the………to that problem.
A. way B. decision C. condition D. solution
10. A dictionary helps you……….the meaning of words.
A. fetch B. determine C. look up D. look up to.
11. We are……….a survey about how people spend their free time.
A. carrying B. working C. conducting D. performing
12. He was………to leave school because he couldn’t afford the fees.
A. obliged B. willing C. able D. make

13. You owe him a(n)…………for what you said.
A. signal B. apology C. discussion D. compliment
14. Some people think it is………….to ask someone’s age.
A. impolite B. impatient C. impossible D. impractical
15. Please be……… to all people at the party.
A. polite B. honest C. pleased D. confident
16. ……… he spoke slowly, I found it difficult at times to follow his argument.
A. Although B. Despite C. Because D. In spite of
17. By half past ten tomorrow morning, I ………… along the motorway.
A. drive B. am driving C. will drive D. will be driving
18. I’ve known him …………….I left high school.
A. when B. since C. until D. during
19. I would have told you if I……….seen the book.
A. have B. had C. would have D. should have
20. We wanted to thank them for what they…………… .
A. do B. did C. are doing D. had done
21. He is a voluntary Australian teacher. He………English in five different countries.
A. teaches B. taught C. has taught D. had taught
22. They asked us……… any noise during the performance.
A. to make B. not to make C. don’t make D. didn’t make
23. Mike is on business in London but he………back on Saturday for your party.
A. fly B. is flying C. will fly D. will come
24. Angie warned me not……… anyone what she had told me.
A. tell B. telling C. to tell D. to telling
25. Anna…… drinks coffee, but this morning she is having one.
A. often B. rarely C. sometimes D. occasionally
26. I haven’t seen her……………she was a little girl.
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A. as B. when C. since D. while
27. He asked me……….I had been waiting for him.
A. when B. since when C. how far D. how long
28. When I was a child, I always wanted to………to play the guitar.
A. do B. made C. learn D. like
29. If he had told us about her problem, we……….her immediately.
A. helped B. will help C. would help D. would have helped
30. You can’t drive a car……… you are eighteen.
A. after B. until C. when D. as soon as
III) Writing.
- Choose the underlined word or phrase in each sentence that needs correcting then correct it.
31. You are taking part in some voluntary work, don’t you?
A B C D ……………………
32. Neil Armstrong was the first man walking on the moon.
A B C D ……………………
33. It believed that “ Men build the house and women make it home”.
A B C D ……………………
34. Nowadays, grandparents can live happy with their children and grandchildren.
A B C D ……………………
35. My whole family decided to come to live in this town for twenty years ago.
A B C D ………………………
IV) Reading
- Read the passage and choose the best answer.
In the United States and Canada, it is very important to look a person directly in the eyes when you are
having a conversation with him or her. If you look down or to the side when the other person is talking, that
person will think that you are not interested in what he or she is saying. This, of course, is not polite. If you look
down or to the side when you are talking, you may appear to be hiding something; that is, it might seem that you
are not honest.
However, people who are speaking will sometimes look away for a few seconds when they thinking or trying
to find the right word. But they always turn immediately back to look the listener directly in the eyes. These social

“ rules”are the same for two men, two women, a man and a woman or an adult and a child.
36. In the United States and Canada, when you are having a conversation with someone,
A. do not look directly in the eyes.
B. it is impolite to look at the eyes of the speaker or hearer.
C. you should look him or her directly in the eyes.
D. you should look away.
37. If you look down or to the side when the other person is talking,
A. you will be thought to be not interested in the conversation.
B. you are very interested in what is being said.
C. you are very polite.
D. you are interested in the person.
38. If you look down or to the side when you are talking,
A. the Americans are interested in you.
B. you are thought to be dishonest.
C. you are very polite.
D. you are interested in the conversation.
39. The speakers will sometimes look away because 40. These social “rules” are
A. they want to end the conversation. A. for men only.
B. they think that the hearers are not honest. B. for women only.
C. the hearers are interested in what is being said. C. for children only.
D. they are thinking or finding the right word. D. the same for everybody.
- Rewrite each sentence, begining as shown, so that the meaning stays the same.
41. People know that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
=> It is ____________________________________________________________________________________.
42. Their teacher is making them study hard these days.
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=> They are ________________________________________________________________________________.
43. They will build a new hospital near my house.

=> A new hospital ___________________________________________________________________________.
44. People say that Peter is 100 years old. => Peter is ________________________________________________
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