UNIT 1: A VISIT FROM A PEN PAL
I. From each number, pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced
differently from the others.
1. A. news
B. depend
C. send
D. pretend
2. A. says
B. prays
C. plays
D. days
3. A. climate
B. pride
C. quit
D. primary
4. A. may
B. can
C. stay
D. say
5. A. boxes
B. washes
C. watches
D. goes
II. From each number, pick out one word which has the stress on the first syllable.
2. A. official
B. correspond
C. depend
D. advice
3. A. population
B. reputation
C. impressed
D. scientific
4. A. modern
B. peaceful
C. tropical
D. friendliness
5. A. compulsory
B. internation
C. dependent
D. divide
6. A. currency
B. protect
C. pollute
D. religion
III. Choose the word or the phrase or sentence that best completes each unfinished
sentence below or that best keeps the meaning of the original sentence if it is
substituted for the underlined word or phrase.
1. The children are playing ________in the schoolyard.
A. happy
B. happiness
C. happier
D. happily
C. came
D. to come
3. I wish they ________here now.
A. will come
B. would come
4. John ________write the letter to me last year.
A. is used to
B. was used to
C. used to
D. used
5. It is difficult ________English in some weeks.
A. to speak
B. speaking
C. speaks
D. speak
6. The capital of Malaysia is ________.
A. Hanoi
B. Paris
C. Kuala Lumpur
D. Seoul
7. What is the traditional dress of Vietnamese women? It’s ________ .
A. the suit
B. the shirt
C. the Ao dai
D. the blouse
8. Rice is ________in tropical countries.
A. to grow
B. grown
C. grow
D. grew
9. Two department stores ________.by them this year
A. have been built
B. have built
C. has been built D. has built
10. Nga is ________English for her work.
A. to study
B. studied
C. studying
D. study
11. He arrived in England ________Monday evening.
A. in
B. at
C. of
D. on
12. An wishes that he ________his parents.
A. would visited B. can visit
C. could visiting D. could visit
13. Let’s ________ to the cinema.
A. going
B. to go
C. go
D. goes
C. seeing
D. saw
14. I look forward to ________you.
A. see
B. to see
15. Millions of Christmas cards ________last month.
A. were sent
B. sent
C. send
D. are sent
16. I ________English here since I graduated from Qui Nhon University.
A, teach
B. taught
C. have taught
D. am teaching
17. He ______with his friends in an apartment in Ho Chi Minh City since last week.
A. living
B. has lived
C. lived
D. live
18. We come to USA ________English.
A. study
B. learning
C. to learn
D. studying
19. She ________try to learn English for her job.
A is
B. has
20. I wish you ________us someday.
C. must
D. was
A. visit
B. will visit
C. visited
D. would
visit
21. I wish you ________me with my work last Monday.
A. help
B. will help
C. had helped
D. would help
22. I remember ________her somewhere.
A. see
B. seeing
C. saw
D. to see
23. Excuse me. Can I ________in this a area?
A. smoke
B. smoking
C. smoked
D. to smoke
24. Can you turn ________the light? It is too dark.
A. on
B. off
C. down
D. up
25. We have lived in Ha Noi________ 4 years.
A. since
B. for
C. on
D. till
26. We will go________a picnic next week.
A. in
B. at
C. on
D. to
27. Are you a stamp ________?
A. collecting
B. collector
C. collect
D. collection
28. I want everybody to listen ________.
A. care
B. careful
C. careless
D. carefully
29. Ann’s birthday is ________February 14th.
A. in
B. on
C. for
D. at
30. This isn’t my first visit to London ________here before.
A. I’m
B. I’m going to
C. I’ve been
D. I was
31. It’s very crowded here. I wish ________.
A. there were a few people
B. there weren’t so many people
C. there is no one
D. there was somebody here
32. I’ve known him ________I left school.
A. when
B. before
C. until
33. Maria’s English is excellent. She speaks English ________.
D. since
A. very perfect
B. perfective
C. perfectively
D. perfectly
34. Is he an actor________a singer? An actor.
A, and
B. or
C. but
D. so
35. Dickens is my ________English novelist
A. preferable
B. favorable
C. favorite
D. likeable
36. I’m looking ________to hearing from you.
A. at
B. after
C. over
D. forward
C. to go
D. goes
37. Please let Tim ________ with you.
A. go
B. going
38. ________air is one of many problems we have to solve.
A. pure
B. polluted
C. dust
D. pleasant
39. He ________to find a job but he had no luck.
A. hardly tried
B. tried hardly
C. hard tried
D. tried hard
40. Ba________ go to Dalat in summer when he was young.
A. use to
B. used to
C. is used to
D. is used
41. He wishes he________ a pilot.
A. were
B. is
C. will be
D. can be
42. He________ English for 4 years.
A. learns
B. learnt
C. has learnt
D. will learn
43. Young people are fond of ________ Jeans.
A. to wear
B. wearing
C. wore
D. worn
44. She sings very________
A. beauty
B. beautiful
C. beautify
D. beautifully
45. She asked me where I ________ from.
A. come
B. came
C. to come
D. coming
46. Could you please stop________ so much noise?
A. make
B. making
C. made
D. to make
47. Be________! He is looking at you.
A. care
B. careful
C. carefully
D. carelessly
48. Remember to turn ________ the lights before going to bed.
A. of
B. off
C. on
D. up
49.Maryam and Lan are pen pals, they ________ two times a week.
A. correspond
B. write letter
C. meet
D. phone each
other
50. Ha Noi is a ________ city.
A. beauty
B. beautiful
C. beautifully
D. friendly
IV: Each line has a mistake find and correct it
1.How about go for a walk on Sunday?
2.We are having a birthday party on Saturday evening next weekend.
3.She would like going out with her Mom.
4.Let's me help you do home work. – No, thanks. I can manage.
5.Bell started experimented with rays of transmitting speech.
6. Everybody in my neighborhood are happy about new changes
7. This test is more easy than that one.
8. We've learnt to play the piano for 2005.
9. I used to working for this company when I graduated.
10. We have the same idea with your Dad in the discussion.
V. Read the following passage and choose the best answers.
Tet is a national and .................... (1) festival in Vietnam . It is occasion for every
Vietnamese to be reunited to think .................(2) their past activities and hope for good
luck in the new year.
Before Tet all houses .................. (3) whitewashed and ...................... (4) with
colourful lights . Everybody is looking ......................... ( 5 ) to a better life. In the new
year’s eve, children are smartly dressed . ......................... (6) are hoping to receive money
put in small red envelopes as they are wishing longevity to ................... (7) grandparents
and parents. Wrong doings should ...................... (8) avoided on these days .
1. A. traditional
B. modern
C. compulsory
D. convenient.
2. A. about
3. A. was
B. with
B. were
4. A. decorate
B. decorating
5. A. for
B. forward
6. A. them
B. who
7. A. his
8. A. take
C. after
D. for
C. are
D. is
C. to decorate
D. decorated
C. after
C. these
B. her
B. not
D. at
D. they
C. my
D. their
C. we
D. be
VI
1. I want to live________ (depend). I’m very stressed when I lived with my parents.
2. All thing depend on your_________ (divide)
3. Ha is my _____. Our________is very close (friendly)
4. I love the___________ of the beautiful villages in Vietnam (peace)
5. Your song is________ upload to Youtube (office)
6. Islam is the Malaysia’s official__________ (religious)
7. English, Chinese and Tamil are also _____spoken in Malaysia (wide)
8. Air pollution is now becoming ___________problems (nation)
9. Vietnam has a ______climate (tropic)
10. The children always live_______ on their parents. (depend)