KIỂM TRA ANH VĂN - TEST 4 pdf

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TEST 4

Part 1: Phonetics:
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest in each group
1. A. pretty B. get C. send D. well
2. A. Valentine B. imagine C. discipline D. magazine
3. A. chorus B. cherish C. chaos D. scholar
4. A. house B. hour C. heat D. hand
5. A. feat B. great C. seat D. beat

Choose the word whose syllable is stressed differently from the rest in each group
6. A. recycled B. polluted C. fertilized D. preserved
7. A. element B. erosion C. elephant D. quantity
8. A. focus B. attain C. emit D. discard
9. A. capture B. apparent C. horrible D. tolerant
10. A. especially B. comfortably C. carefully D. possibly

Part 2: Vocabulary - grammar and structures
Choose the best answer among A, B, C or D
11. If you want to learn something, you had better pay_______ in class.
A. care B. respect C. attention D. notice
12. Your voice reminds me of somebody, but I can't remember_______.
A. it is B. who is C. who he is D. who
13. Although he loved his country_______ most of his life abroad.
A. but spent B. but he spent C. he spent D. so he spent
14. _______ the weather forecast, it will rain heavily later this morning
A. On account of B. According to C. Because of D. Due to
15. I don't _______ locking the door.
A. remember B. forget C. remind D. A & B are correct

16. I love this painting of an old man. He has such a beautiful, _______ smile
A. childhood B. childish C. childless D. childlike
17. I think you'd rather_______ to the mountains for your holiday.
A. to go B. going C. go D. have gone
18. I shall do the job to the best of my_______.
A. capacity B. ability C. knowledge D. talent
19. If it's raining tomorrow, we shall have to put_______ the match till Sunday.
A. off B. away C. in D. on
20. It's obvious that neither the works_______ to fight the new rules.
A. nor the manager intend B. intend nor the manager
C. nor the manager intends D. intend nor the manager intends
21. She stopped him_______ home by hiding the car key.
A. not drive B. not to drive C. to drive D. from driving
22. When he_______ all the letters, he took them to the post office.
A. has written B. had written C. wrote D. had been writing
23. The flat_______ of three rooms, with a kitchen and a bathroom.
A. composes B. contains C. includes D. consists
24. After Mary_______ her degree, she intends to work in her father's company.
A. will finish B. is finishing C. finishes D. will have finished
25. _______ the rise in unemployment, people still seem to be spending more.
A. Meanwhile B. Nevertheless C. Although D. Despite

Which sentence expresses the same idea as the given one?
26. The think fog made it impossible for the plane to land
A. The plane couldn't land
B. We couldn't control the plane because the fog was thick
C. We couldn't control the plane because of the thick fog.
D. The thick fog prevented the plane from landing
27. I never want to see another film about space travel
A. I haven't seen a film about space travel

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B. I have enjoyed all the film I have seen about space travel
C. I am anxious not to miss the next film about space travel
D. I am tired of seeing films about space travel
28. Whenever she went to Paris she bought a new dress.
A. She never went to Paris to buy a new dress.
B. She never went to Paris without buying a new dress.
C. She never bought a new dress without going to Paris.
D. She never bought a new dress when she went to Paris.
29. Despite feeling cold, we kept walking
A. In spite of we felt cold, we kept walking B. Although we felt cold, we kept walking
C. However cold we felt, but we kept walking D. However we felt cold, we kept walking
30. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't open the door.
A. Try as hard as I might I couldn't open the door. B. Although I try, I couldn't open the door.
C. It is difficult for me to open the door. D. I could open the door with difficulty.

Choose a word or phrase in each sentence that needs correcting
31. She found it (A) hard to (B) concentrating on her book (C) because of the (D) the noise.
32. Have you met (A) Bill's sisters? - I've met (B) one. I didn't know he (C) had (D) other sister.
33. Customs are (A) different from (B) one region (C) of the country (D) to another.
34. The (A) job as a (B) booksell helps her (C) to support (D) her family.
35. It (A) is possible (B) determining that French explorers reached the juncture (C) of the Kansas and Missouri
rivers (D) in the seventeenth century.

Part 3: Reading
Read the passages below and choose the correct answer among A, B, C or D.
Laurel or Hardy?
He was a music-hall comedian in England before he went to America in 1910. In those days he often
(36)_______ Chaplin. He made his first short film in 1918 but did not (37)_______ to establish himself in the

competitive (38)_______ of the screen comedy. The first film he made with his famous fat (39)_______ was called
Putting pants on Philip in 1927. Many critics (40)_______ that he was the more creative (41)_______ of the
partnership. The humorist Leo McCarey (42)_______ him a rare comic who was intelligent (43)_______ to make
up his own gaps. (44)_______, he was remarkably talented, while his partner was (45)_______ and this was the key
to understanding their relationship. As a (46)_______, throughout their career together he (47)_______ on being
paid twice as much as his friend because he believed he was (48)_______ twice as much. While he wrote the films
and (49)_______ part in their creation, his partner was incapable of creating anything at all - it was amazing how he
managed to find his (50)_______ to the studio.

36. A. copied B. followed C. resembled D. liked
37. A. succeed B. reach C. fail D. managed
38. A. job B. field C. position D. place
39. A. pair B. Colleague C. partner D. match
40. A. persist B. claim C. refuse D. review
41. A. person B. member C. actor D. piece
42. A. considered B. said C. described D. saw
43. A. even B. quite C. enough D. also
44. A. Although B. Moreover C. However D. So
45. A. less B. least C. little D. hardly
46. A. fact B. conclusion C. matter D. result
47. A. persisted B. insisted C. kept D. demanded
48. A. valued B. making C. worth D. acting
49. A. took B. made C. was D. had
50. A. car B. road C. route D. review
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1. a 2. a 3. b 4. b 5. b 6. c 7. b 8. b 9. b 10. a
11. c 12. d 13. c 14. b 15. d 16. d 17. c 18. b 19. a 20. c
21. d 22. b 23. d 24. c 25. d 26. d 27. d 28. b 29. b 30. a

31. b 32. c 33. c 34. b 35. b 36. a 37. d 38. b 39. c 40. b
41. b 42. a 43. c 44. b 45. a 46. d 47. b 48. c 49. a 50. d