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ĐỀ CƯƠNG ANH VĂN 12 (BAN CƠ BẢN)
UNIT 1: HOME LIFE
A. Phonetics
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others
1. A. soups B. friends C. has D. Mary’s
2. A. comes B. hopes C. takes D. likes
3. A. leaves B. dishes C. hurries D. prepares
4. A. brothers B. magazines C. clothes D. makes
5. A. washes B. kisses C. oranges D. dates
II. Choose the word whose main stress is different from that of the others:
6. A. support B. although C. pressure D. responsible
7. A. security B. project C. attempt D. hospitable
8. A. household B. confidence C. left-overs D. expenditure
9. A. solver B. parental C. nephew D. secrect
10. A. biological B. result C. familial D. together
B. Vocabulary and Structures
I .Choose the best answers
11. How much do men share household and take ................. of their children?
A. attention B. care C. belief D. notice
12. Even where parents no longer live together, they each continue to be ................. for their children.
A. available B. perfect C. good D. responsible
13. Susan’s family and friends have given her a lot of help in her hard life.
A. responsibility B. effort C. support D. sympathy
14. When moving to a big city how can you enjoy the pressures of city life?
A. stresses B. difficulties C. problems D. influences
15. Both my father and my mother are office – workers in the post office. They have good jobs and secure
incomes.
A. high B. low C. reasonable D. certain
16. Parents should get their children to ................. in the housework.
A. share B. do C. involve D. join
17. Everyone in the society has to act in ................. to the law.

A. agreement B. equality C. obedience D. support
18. Our teacher wants us to feel ................. about asking questions when we don’t understand any lesson.
A. confident B. confidence C. confidential D. confidently
19. Michael felt very disappointed because his mother decided to ................. from his hather after 20 years of
living together.
A. escape B. divide C. share D. separate
20. Although the children are rather mischievous, they always get good marks in their subjects at school.
A. enjoy being rude to the others B. enjoy playing tricks and annoying people.
C. enjoy meeting and helping the others. D. dislike playing games annoying people
21. I ................. in the cafe having in drink when the police arrived.
A. sat B. was sat C. was sitting D. have sat
22. “How long ................. him?” – “We ................. in 1996, but we ................. each other since last autumn.”
A. do you know / met / have not seen B. have you known / met / did not see
C. have you known / have met / have not seen D. have you known / met / have not seen
23. When I was a boy , I ................. tea to coffee.
A. prefer B. preferred C. was preferring D. have preferred
24. She came into the room while they ................. television.
A. watched B. have watched C. are watching D. were watchig
25. I can’t go with you because I ................. my lessons yet.
A. did not finish B. am not finishing C. have not finished D. am not finished
26. I used to swim in this river when I ................. young.
A. am B. was C. wil be D. have been
27. While I ................. TV last night, a mouse ................. across the floor.
A. watched / ran B. watched / was running
C. was watching / ran D. was watching / was running
28. I’ve been in this city for a long time. I ................. here sixteen years ago.
A. have come B. was comingC. came D. had come
29. She last came to visit me three years ago.
A. She last came to visit me for three years. B. She hasn’t come to visit me for three years.
C. She didn’t come to visit me three years ago. D. She hasn’t come to visit me since three years.

30. We built the house in 10 months.
A. It takes us 10 months to build the house. B. It took us 10 months to built the house.
C. It took us 10 months to build the house. D. It took us 10 months build the house.
II. Choose the underlined part that needs correcting:
31. You and your sister went to the cinema last night, weren’t you?
A B C D
32. Up to now Michael wrote five novels and over sixteen short stories.
A B C D
33. Mark took many trips to Asia since he started his own import-export business.
A B C D
34. Did you and your family at Jane’s birthday party yesterday evening?
A B C D
35. Last Sunday while Sandy cleaned out the attic, she found her mother’s wedding dress
A B C D
III. Put the verb into the correct tense:
36. When I (phone) ................... Helen last night she (wash) ................... her hair.
37. Nobody (watch) ................... , so the little boy (take) ................... the packet of sweets from the shelf and
(put) ................... it in his pocket.
38. Her husband (have) ................... agood position in that copany since last year.
39. Since when her mother (be) ................ a doctot? She (be) ................ a doctor since 1990.
40. last Fridaywas a holiday. It (be) ................... Independence Day, so I (not, have) ................... to go to class. I
(sleep) ................... a little later than usual. Around ten, my friend Tim (come) ................... over to my
apartment. We (pack) ................... a picnic basket and then (take) ................... the bus to Forest Park. We
(spend) ................... most of the day there.
41. They (start)................ building that school in 2004 but they (not, finish) .................. it yet.
42. They (not, meet) ................... each other since they (say) ................... goodbye.
43. So far, you (make) ................... no mistakes on this exercise.
44. While Bill (eat) ................... dinner, Alicia (come) ................... through the door.
45. She (go) ................... into the room, (take) ................... off the hat , and (lie) ................... down on the bed.
46. Woody left his house at 8:00 a.m and began to walk to class. While he (walk) ................... to class, he

(see) ................... Mrs. Smith.
47. Mary and John are neighbours. They (know) ................... each other for several years. Mary
(move) ................... into her house in 1985, and John (live) ................... next door since he
(come) ................... to the area in 1980.
48. Hai (come) ................... tomy house yesterday and (turn) ................... the TV loudly. My son
(sleep) ................... then, so I (tell) ................... him to turn it off.
49. They (not, phone) ................... me when they were on holidays because they (not, have) ................... my
address.
50. A few years ago I (learn) ................... that someone plans to knock down the White Horse Inn. This pub
(be) ................... the centre of village life for centuries. It (stand) ................... at our crossroads for 500
years. It (be) ................... famous in the old days, and Shakespeare once (stay) ................... there, they say. I
(live) ................... in Brickfield all my life. The villagers (know) ...................about the plans for less than a
week and already there’s a “Save Our Pup” campaign. Last week we (be) ................... happy, but this week
we’re angry. We will stop them, you’ll see.
UNIT 2: CULTURAL DIVERSITY
A. Phonetics
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others
1. A. kissed B. helped C. forced D. wanted
2. A. ticked B. checked C. booked D. naked
3. A. started B. looked C. decided D. coincided
4. A. agreed B. missed C. liked D. watched
5. A. imagined B. released C. rained D. followed
II. Choose the word whose main stress is different from that of the others:
6. A. contract B. confide C. conduct D. contain
7. A. diversity B. maintain C. majority D. record
8. A. reject B. conical C. precede D. obliged
9. A. attitude B. survey C. symbol D. determine
10. A. ceremony B. banquet C. idea D. sacrifice
B. Vocabulary and Structures
I .Choose the best answers

11. Michael felt disappointed because he was ................. by all the universities he applied to.
A. neglected B. criticized C. rejected D. blamed
12. Our parents are going to celebrate their silver wedding at the end of this month.
A. the 20
th
anniversary of the wedding B. the 25
th
anniversary of the wedding
C. the 2
nd
marriage D. the day they first met
13. John and Mary were attracted to each other the first time they met.
A. first loved each other romantically B. were first forced to get marriage
C. loved each other at the first sight D. loved each other for the first time in their lives
14. A ring that man gives to a womwn when they agree to get married is called a(n) ................. ring.
A. love B. engaging C. married D. important
15. My family have lived happilyin this house for .................
A. stages B. times C. periods D. generations
16. Are children taught to respect different ................. at school?
A. fields B. laws C. cultures D. aspects
17. Julia and William broke with tradition and got married quietly.
A. did things differently B. argued with their parents.
C. opposed their parents D. kept their marriage secret
18. It is the ................. in that country for women to marry young.
A. habit B. rule C. requirement D. custom
19. In spite of their parents’ strong opposition , they lived together as husband and wife.
A. as if they were engaged B. as if they were married
C. as if they were parents D. as if they were getting married
20. Do you think our parents ................. everything for our future?
A. exchange B. sacrifice C. lose D. refuse

21. It ................. statistically that the unemployment rates .................
A. has proved – will increase B. has been proved – are increasing
C. had been proved – increased D. is proved – are going to increase
22. The workers ................. on strike because they ................. their wages ................. low.
A. are striking – ahve thought – have been B. were striking – thought – are
C. went – thought – were D. will strike – thought – are
23. The project ................. any success just because most members ................. no determination of doing it well.
A hasn’t made – showed B. won’t make – are showing
C. didn’t make – haven’t showed D. hadn’t made – showed
24. Many people ................. smoking because they ................. afraid that it ................. bad for their health.
A. have stopped – are – may be B. stopped – thought – might be
C. are going to stop – will be – may be D. will stop – will be – will be
25. I ................. over and see you but there’s something wrong with the car.
A. was going to drive B. will be driving C. will have driven D. have been driving
26. On arriving at the airport, I ............... very worried to find that no one ................. for me.
A. was – had been waiting B. am – have been waiting
C. was – was waiting D. will be – is waiting
27. This chess game is going to last ages. They ................. it until midnight.
A. won’t finifh B. won’t have finished C. haven’t finishe D. are not going to finish
28. I ................. a cheque when I ................. that I ................. nothing in the bank.
A. am writing – remember – have B. was writing – remembered – had
C. wrote – remembered – had had D. had written – remembered – had
29. When I ............ the lecture .............. and the professor ........... on the overhead projector.
A. arrived – already started – wrote B. arrive – will start – will be writing
C. arrive – have started – wrote D. arrived – had already started – was writing
30. Tom ................. to study yet. He ................. all his lesson by 11 tonight.
A. hasn’t begun – won’t have learned B. isn’t going to begin – won’t learn
C. hadn’t begun – wouldn’t learn D. won’t begin – won’t have learned
II. Choose the underlined part that needs correcting:
31. Since the world began , nations have had difficulty to keep peace with their neighbours.

A B C D
32. That’s my sister over there . She stands near the window.
A B C D
33. The marathon runner has been running for almost two hours when he collapsed to the pavement
A B C D
34. In a few years’ time we shall all live in houses heated by solar enegy.
A B C D
35. By the time he left the office, he have attended three meetings .
A B C D
III. Put the verb into the correct tense:
36. The walkers finally (arrive) ................. at their destination. They (walk) ................. all day and they certainly
(need) ................. a rest. They (walk) ................. thirty miles.
37. That man (admit) ................. that he (hit) ................. the other car but (say) ................. that he (not,
damage) ................. it.
38. I (do) ................. my homework when my mother (send) ................. me to the chemist’s with the prescription
she (give) ................. by the door.
39. It (be) ................. three o’clock. Susan (be) ................. suddenly thoroughly awake. She (sit) ................. up
in bed and (circle) ................. her knees with her arms.
40. That house (be)................. empty for a year. But they just (take) .................down the “For Sale” sign, so I
suppose someone (buy) ................. it.
41. I (just, receive) ................. a letter from my brother, Tim. He (be) ................. in Astralia now. He
(be) ................. there for six months. Tim (be) ................. an engineer. He (work) ................. for a big firm
for 10 years and he (already , visit) ................. a great number of different places in Astralia.
42. I (have) ................. a letter from my sister yesterday. She (live) ................. in Nigenia. In her letter , she
(say) ................. that she (come) ................. to England next year. If she (come) ................. , she will get a
surprise. We now (live) ................. in a beautiful house in the country. She (not, see) ................. us since
she (move) ................. to Nigeria.
43. In Britain many people (be) ................. out of work today. Ann is 18, and she (leave) ................. school a
year agobut she (not, be) ................. able to find a job yet. She will leave for London as soon as she
(find) ................. a suitable job there. She (not, see) us since she (move) ................. to Nigeria.

44. I never (get)................. up early on Sundays. I sometimes (stay) ................. in bed until lunch time. Last
Sunday, I (get) ................. up very late. I (look) ................. out of the window, it (rain) ................. heavily.
Just then the telephone (ring) ................. . It was my aunt, Lucy.
45. Rob Fellow (come) ................. from England. He (come) ................. to Paris six months ago to learn French.
He (start) ................. learning French at school in London when he was eleven, so he (learn) ................. it
for nearly ten years. He (just, take) ................. an exam. If he passes , he (move) ................. into the next
class. He (be) ................. excited today because his parents (come) ................. tomorrow to stay with him
for a few days.
46. I (come) ................. in very late last night and unfortuately the dog (wake) ................. up and
(start) ................. to bark. This (wake) ................. my mother who (come) ................. to the top of the stairs
and (say) ................. , “Who is there?”. I (say) ................. “It’s me,” but she (not hear) ................. me
because the dog (bark) ................. so loudly, so she (go)................. back to her room and
(telephone) ................. the police.
47. I think he (answer) ................. the letter by this time.
48. By the end of the week he (finish) ................. the translation.
49. By May 2003 my mother (work)................. in a hospital for 15 years.
50 Mai (live) ................. with her grandmother for 2 years before she (move) ............... here.
UNIT 3: WAYS OF SOCIALISING
A. Phonetics
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others
1. A. chemist B. chicken C. church D. chore
2. A. how B. town C. power D. slow
3. A. heat B. great C. beat D. beak
4. A. university B. unique C. unit D. undo
5. A. mouse B. could C. would D. put
II. Choose the word whose main stress is different from that of the others:
6. A. perfect B. discard C. reserve D. distinct
7. A. accept B. forget C. mistake D. object
8. A. whistle B. contrast C. signal D. handsome
9. A. noisy B. formal C. approach D. desert

10. A. indeed B. often C. sometimes D. later
B. Vocabulary and Structures
I .Choose the best answers
11. Mr. Johnson enjoys socializing with young people in the neighbourhood.
A. meeting B. talking C. playing D. mixing
12. The requirement is that the applicant must have good .................... skills.
A. verbal B. verbalized C. non-verbal D. verbally