THE FIRST MID- SEMESTER TEST 3 doc

NAME: THE FIRST MID-
SEMESTER TEST
CLASS: 12/ Time: 45 minutes


I. PHONETICS: (1.5pt)
* Which word has the different stress from the rest?
1. A. polite B. walking C. keenness D. signal
2. A. carefully B. physical C. September D. general
3. A. application B. mathematics C. university D. secondary
* Which word has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest?
4. A. amazing B. vacancy C. state D. campus
5. A. divide B. primary C. service D. science
6. A. student B. education C. curriculum D. tutor
III. READING (1.25pt) Choose the word - A, B, C or D - that best fits each blank in
the following passage.
The secret of a good interview is preparing for it. What you wear is always
important as it creates the first impression. So (7) ___________ neatly, but comfortably.
Make (8) ______________ that you can deal with anything you are (9)
_______________ . Prepare for questions that are certain to come up, (10)
____________ example: Why do you want to become a nurse? What is the most
important (11) _______________ a good nurse should have? Apart from nursing, what
others careers have you considered? What are your interests and hobbies?
7. A. dress B. wear C. put on D. have on
8. A. evident B. sure C. definite D. clear
9. A. requested B. questioned C. enquired D. asked
10. A. with B. at C. for D. from
11. A. behavior B. quality C. nature D. point
III. GRAMMAR - VOCABULARY: (4pts)
Choose the best answer among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence
12. There have been a lot of improvements in the state _______________ system in

Vietnam recently.
A. educate B. education C. educational D. educator
13. If I _______________ you, I would stop smoking.
A. were B. am C. would be D. had been
14. The academic year in Vietnam ______________ into two terms.
A. has divided B. will be divided C. is divided D. divides
15. This is the school ________________ my father used to teach.
A. why B. when C. which D. where
16. During the _______________, you should speak slowly and clearly.
A. interview B. interviewer C. interviewee D. interviewed
17. Some people think that "Pericles" _________________ by Shakespeare.
A. wrote B. was written C. has written D. had been
written
18. ______________ you study harder, you will fail the final examination.
A. Unless B. If C. When D. As
19. People _________________ can speak English can be understood in many countries.
A. whose B. whom C. who D. which
20. The national _____________ is a programme of study in all the main subjects that
children aged five to sixteen in state school must follow.
A. syllabus B. course C. plan D. curriculum
21. She applied ______________ the new post of training officer.
A. for B. in C. on D. with
22. My form teacher is the person _____________ advice I always ask for.
A. who B. whom C. whose D. that
23. If I had gone to the party last night, I _______________ tired now.
A. am B. were C. would have been D. would be
24. In Britain it is ____________ for children to attend school between the ages of five
and sixteen.
A. enforced B. compulsory C. obliged D. made

25. A new primary school ________________ in my village recently.
A. have been built B. has been building C. has been built D. have been
building
26. If Tuan ________________ to Australia, he will have a good opportunity to improve
his English.
A. comes B. came C. come D. had come
27. Job _______________ are advertised in Situation Vacant.
A. places B. vacancies C. seats D. positions

IV. WRITING (2pts)
* Find an error in each sentence that needs correcting.
28. My close friend, that has just got Sacombank's scholarship, is an excellent student.
A B C D
29. I don't know the reason which he refused such a good job.
A B C D
30. If he works more slowly, he wouldn't make so many mistakes.
A B C D
31. Computers are using in many fields such as business, medicine and education.
A B C D
* Choose the correct sentence among A, B, C or D which has the same meaning as the
given one.
32. He didn't hurry, so he missed the train.
A. If he hurried, he wouldn't miss the train. B. If he had hurried, he might
catch the train.
C. If he had hurried, he could have caught the train. D. He didn't miss the train if
he hurried.
33. People spend a lot of money on advertising every year.
A. A lot of money is spent on advertising every year B. A lot of money is spend
on advertising every year.
C. A lot of money on advertising is spent every year. D. Money is spent a lot on

advertising every year.
34. This is the bank. We borrowed the money from it.
A. This is the bank from where we borrowed the money B. This is the bank which we
borrowed the money
C. This is the bank where we borrowed the money from D. This is the bank from
which we borrowed the money
35. Daisy's marriage has been arranged by her family. She is marrying a man
_______________.
A. she hardly knows him B. whom she hardly know C. she hardly knows
D. that she hardly know

V. READING (1.25pt) Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer.
"Where is the university?" is a question many visitors to Cambridge ask, but no
one can give them a clear answer, for there is no wall to be found around the university.
The university is the city. You can find the classroom buildings, libraries, museums and
offices of the university all over the city. And most of its members are the students and
teachers or professors of the thirty-one colleges.
Cambridge was an already developing town long before the first students and
teachers arrived 800 years ago. It grew up by the river Granta, as the Cam was once
called. A bridge was built over the river as early as 875.
In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries more and more land was used for college
buildings. The town grew much faster in the nineteenth century after the opening of the
railway in 1845. Cambridge became a city in 1951 and now it has the population of over
100,000. Many young students want to study at Cambridge . Thousands of people from
all over the world come to visit the university town. It has become a famous place all
around the world.
36. Most visitors come to Cambridge ________________.
A. to see the university B. to study in the colleges in
Cambridge
C. to find the classroom buildings D. to use the libraries of the

universities
37. The university began to appear around in the ________________ century.
A. 8th B. 9th C. 13th D. 15th
38. People named Cambridge the "city of Cambridge " because _______________.
A. the river was very well-known B. there is a bridge over the Cam
C. it was a developing town D. there is a river named Granta
39. The town really began to develop after _____________.
A. 800 B. 875 C. 1951 D. 1845
40. From what we read we know that now Cambridge is _______________.
A. visited by international tourists B. a city without wall
C. a city of growing population D. a city that may have a wall around
it