PRACTICE TEST OF UNIT 11

Teacher :Quynh Nhu
Practice test
Combine the following sentences by changing the second sentence into a relative clause
1. I remember the day. I was afraid to use my new computer then.
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2. I work in an office. In my office, the software changes frequently.
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3. The secretary can give you the information. She sits at the first desk on the right.
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4. The Southam Chess Club meets weekly on Friday evenings. It has more than 50 members.
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5. Professor Johnson is to visit the university next week. I have long admired him.
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6. The playground wasn't used by those children. It was built for those children.
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7. People often suffer from backache. Their work involves standing for most of the day.
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8. They climbed up to the top of a large rock. They got a good view from there.
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9. A doctor has had to retire through ill health. We know him.
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10. Jane has sold the old car. She was given it by her father.
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11. Thanksgiving is a time. Everyone eats turkey in America then.
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12. The island's two million inhabitants have been badly affected by the drought. Most of the island's inhabitants are peasant farmers.
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13. Dr Rowan has had to do all his own typing. His secretary resigned two weeks ago.
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14. I would like to thank to my tutor. I would never have finished the work without her.
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15. She has now moved back to the house on Long Island. She was born there.
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16. Scotland have won their last five international matches. One of these matches was against England.
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PRACTICE TEST 1
Choose the word which is stressed differently from the rest.
1. a. endanger b. disappear c. prohibit d. destruction
2. a extinct b. human c. species d. planet
3. a. respect b. effort c. exist d. supply
4. a. condition b. pollutant c. however d. influence
5. a. action b. habit c. danger d. survive
Choose the correct answer
6. Many organizations have been set up and funds have been raised.
a. established b. collapsed c. delayed d. decreased
7. The number of rare animals is decreasing rapidly.
a. dangerously b. quickly c. mostly d. gradually
8. A species of animal or plant that is _______ no longer has any living members, either in the world or in a particular place.
a. extinct b. rare c. survival d. productive
9. Those who concern are very worried about the _____ of many species.
a. disappearance b. establishment c. supply d. provision
10. Because of people's ______ with the environment, many kinds of plants and animals are becoming rare.
a. supply b. survival c. influence d. interference
11. Tropical forests have supplied us with many sorts of plants for food, medicine, and industry.
a. affected b. influenced c. changed d. provided
12. It is estimated that only 1,000 pandas remain in ______ wild.
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a. a b. an c. the d. Ø
13.

England was one of the first countries to _________.
a. industry b. industrial c. industrialize d. industrialization
14. Their _______ is rejected due to some problems of pollution.
a. suggest b. suggestion c. suggestive d. suggestible
15. We all regard pollution as a _______ matter to human beings.
a. serious b. seriously c. seriousness d. seriousful
16. Human beings are adding more and more pollutants ________ the environment.
a. from b. for c. on d. to
17. You should make sure __________ what you have just told us.
a. in b. on c. over d. of
18. Forest destruction results _________ floods and air pollution.
a. from b. about c. in d. into
19. It is automobile industry _____ contributes the most greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.
a. where b. in which c. that d. whom
20. ________many species of animals have become extinct. a. There are many reasons for which
b. Many reasons for which

c. The reasons for that d. For which reasons
21. We should do something to save those animals ____ hunted for their fur or for other valuable parts of their bodies.
a. those are b. which are c. which is d. that is
22.______________________________________ Farmers use more and more them to grow better crops but harm
the environment.
a. powerful chemicals who help b. which powerful chemicals help
c. powerful chemicals which help d. powerful chemicals help
23.__________________________________________________ Water is one of the most precious resources for our
life.
a. we depend on which b. which we depend c. on which we depend d. on that we depend
24. ___ are very dense, warm, and wet, are havens for millions of plants and animals.
a. Rain forests b. Rain forests, that
c

. Rain forest, where d. Rain forests, which
25._____________________________________ The farmers and their cattle had been trapped in the storm were fortunately
rescued.
a. who b. whom c. which d. that
26. Nowadays, city dwellers, ______ enjoy a lot from the modern material life, have to suffer from pollution the most.
a. who b. whom c. that d. which
27.______________________________________________
Do you know that environmentalist
?
a. with whom I

used to work b. with that I used to work

c. with I used to work d. with who I used to work
28.___________________________________________________ Rain forests influence the Greenhouse effect,
_________________________________________________________ traps heat inside the Earth's atmosphere.
a. that b. which c. where d. whose
29._________________________ The local authority banned us from going near the forest there is a serious fire.
a. for which b. in that c. that d. where
30. ________once roamed the jungles in vast numbers, were estimated to become extinct by the year 2025.
a. Bengal tigers b. Bengal tigers, which c. Bengal tigers, that d. Bengal tigers which
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31. Nowadays people are more aware of the fact that wildlife all over the
world which is in danger.
32. Any country that has to cope with overpopulation, hunger, and poverty, also that suffers from pollution.
33. Despite their short time on Earth, human beings have brought about enormous changes to the surface of the planet, where
they are surviving and destroy.
34. There is a threat of global warming, that comes from the results of Greenhouse effect.
35.Our polluted environment which is the results of the overusing of resources and destroying the wild.
Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.

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Motor vehicles are a major cause of air pollution. They (36) ____ a lot of exhaust fumes. In big cities this pollution has
reached levels (37) ____ pose a threat to the health of the city dwellers. Some cities have already (38) ____ their residents to
wear gas masks when they venture onto the streets. The only way to reduce this pollution is (39) ____ to reduce the number of
vehicles on the roads. This is easier said (40) ____done for every few people would want to sacrifice the convenience of having
their own transport.
Factories and industrial plants are largely (41) ____ for pollution of air, water and land. The wastes they discharge into
the rivers and land destroy both. The smoke they emit pollute the air. (42) ____ they must do is to find ways to reduce their
wastes. Also, they have to treat their wastes so that they are less harmful. All these things are required if we are to see any (43)
____ of pollution. At the rate things are going, however, we see an increase in pollution instead.
36.a.send b.emit c.give d.need
37.a.where b.whose c.that d.this
38.a.made b.threatened c.let d.advised
39.a.obviously b.obvious c.necessary d.unlikely
40.a.and b.than c.by d.or
41.a.useful b.necessary c.responsible d.good
42.a.What b.However c.How d.Although
43.a.production b.destruction c.construction d.reduction
We can develop alternative sources of power, and (44) _____ we try we'll never succeed. Instead of burning fossil fuels
we should be concentrating (45) _____more economic uses of electricity, because electricity can be (46) _____ from any source
of energy. If we didn't waste so (47) _____ energy, our resources would last longer. Unless we do research on (48) _____
energy, wind power, wave power, tidal power, hydroelectric schemes etc, our fossil fuels will run (49) _____, and we'll all freeze
or starve to death. Other countries are spending much more than us on research, and don't forget (50) _____ energy from the
sun, the waves and the wind lasts for ever. We really won't survive unless we (51) _____ working on cleaner, safer sources of
energy.
44.a. if b. although c. unless d. because
45.a. on b. about c. with d. of
46.a. done b. produced c. taken d. prevented

47.a. many b. a lot of c. a great deal of d. much
48.a. sunny b. earthly c. solar d. worldly
49.a. out b. up c. off d. down
50.a. an b. which c. what d. that
51.a. manage b. start c. want d. seem
PRACTICE TEST 2
Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.
1. a. small b. supply c. sure d. species
2. a. swimmer b. sword c. swallow d. swam
3. a. parks b. animals c. planets d. surroundings
4. a. forest b. exist c. busy d. establish
5. a. suggest b. disappear c. scientist d. raise
Choose the best answer.
6. Laws have been introduced to prohibit the killing of endangered animals.
a. advised b. decreased c. ban d. encouraged
7.______________________________________________________ Hunting for meat and burning forests for soils
wildlife.
a. protect b. conserve c. destroy d. survive
8. National Parks are established to create the environment for rare animals to survive and _____offspring.
a. produce b. supply c. increase d. offer
9. The World Wild Funds is working to protect and save the forests that are in _____.
a. danger b. interest c. encouragement d. consequence
10. Scientists think it unlikely that the species will actually become extinct as a ______of the oil spill.
a. respect b. consequence c. protection d. production
11. Human beings can’t exist without water and air.
a. result b. live c. kill d. change
12.____________________________ Do you know exactly number of Siberian tigers in China?
a. a b. an c. the d. Ø
13._______________________________________________ Garbage is considered to be some kind of _____
a. pollute b. pollutants c. pollution d. polluting

14. Because of forest destruction some rare animals cannot survive, let alone ______
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a. produce b. production c. productive d productivity
15._______________________________________________ The people in our village are leading a life.
a. peace b. peaceful c. peacefully d. peacefulness
16._________________________________________ Human beings are changing the environment
all respects.
a. at b. for c. in d. upon
17. Air pollution interferes ______ our body's ability to process oxygen.
a. with b. on c. to d. over
18. We should do something immediately to save many kinds of rare animals ______ extinction.
a. away b. from c. in d. with
19._____________________________________________________ I personally think that it is easy to understand
time is relative.
a. the reason b. the reason for that c. for which reason d. the reason why
20. __________concerns about wildlife never keeps a wild animal as pest.
a. Anyone that b. Anyone which c. Anyone for whom d. Anyone those
21.___________________________________________________________________ Did you listen to the lecture on
the environment by Dr. Pike, __________________________________________________
a. whom I have ever told you about b. about that I have ever told you
c. I have ever told you d. that I have ever told you
22. _______ want to use rain forests are cutting them down without any hesitation.
a. People who b. People which c. People whom d. Who
23. The man showed us the cage _____ he kept a fierce lion.
a. which b. that c. in which d. in that
24. Those villagers __________near the forest chop down hardwoods to sell for high prices.
a. live b. who live c. whom live d. for whom to live
25._________________________________________________________ We have just had an exploration through that

forest _______.
a. which some pandas survive b. where there are some pandas surviving
c. in which there are some pandas survive d. that some pandas survive
26. By cutting down the trees, people destroy the ecosystem of the rain forest ____ .
a. on which they depend b. where they depend on c. which they depend d. where they depend
27. _________comes from thousands of factories has caused enormous increases in air pollution levels.
a. Smoke b. Smoke for which c. Smoke that d. Smoke whose
28.__________________ The areas are destroyed suffer a lot from soil erosion.
a. which trees b. whose trees c. that trees d. trees which
29._________________________________ I will never forget the time I first visit Cat Tien National Park.
a. when b. why c. where d. on that
30. Those scientists are doing research on the period ____ the Earth formed.
a. where b. on that c. when d. why
Choose the best sentence that can be made from the cues given.
31. how / take / do / homework? a. How much time does it take you doing your homework?
b. How long do you take for doing your homework?
c. How much time does it take you to do your homework?
d. How is your homework done when you take it?
32. if / you / stay / late / tired / tomorrow.
a. If you are staying late, you can feel tired tomorrow. b. If you are stay late, you will feel tired tomorrow.
c. If you stay is booked late, you will be tired tomorrow. d. If you had stayed late, you would feel tired tomorrow.
33.The book was so good that I couldn’t put it down. a. They had so good book that I couldn’t put it down.b. It
was such good book that I couldn’t put it down.
c. So good was the book that I couldn’t put it down. d. Such a book was good that I couldn’t put it down.
34. He’s fat because he doesn’t take any exercise.
a. If he didn’t take any exercise, he would be fat. b. If he took some exercise, he wouldn’t get fat.
c. If he had taken any exercise, he wouldn’t get fat. d. If he took some exercise, he wouldn’t fat.
35. I / finish / read / long novel/ Arthur Hailey. a. I finished to read a long novel of Arthur Hailey.
b. I’ve finished reading a long novel written by Arthur Hailey.
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c. I’ve finished reading the long Arthur Hailey’s novel. d. I finished the reading long novel with Arthur Hailey.
Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.
Conservation is the protection and wise management of the environment. People practise conservation (36)
_____ the environment can preserve their needs and the needs of all other living things. (37) _____ conservation, all
the resources necessary for life would be damaged, wasted, or destroyed.
Conservation also (38) _____ a concern for the quality of the environment, so that people can enjoy living. It
means (39) _____ the environment comfortable and safe to live in. A healthy (40) _____ includes clean streets and
highways with open spaces in cities for parks and playgrounds.
36.a. when b. so that c. because d. in case
37.a. Without b. Despite c. But d. Because of
38.a. makes up b. goes over c. involves d. lacks
39.a. causing b. doing c. providing d. keeping
40.a. environment b. population c. pollution d. preservation
Read the passage carefully and, choose the correct answer.
Conservation is the wise use of our natural resources. You know that plants are valuable natural resources. Coal, oil,
and metal ores are examples of other natural resources. Natural resources are the materials found in or on the earth that are
useful to man. Why should we carefully use our natural resources then?
Every year we mine millions of tons of coal, use millions of barrels of oil, and cut down thousands of acres of forests.
But the earth produces only a limited amount of these natural resources.
Coal and oil were formed thousands of years ago, and the supply is gradually running out. That is why we must use
our natural resources as carefully and wisely as we can. We must make them last as long as possible.
41. What is conservation ?
a. the overuse of our natural resources b. the waste of our natural resources
c. the wise management of our natural resources d. the prevention of enriching our natural resources
42. Which of the following IS NOT an example of natural resources?
a. coal b. oil c. metal ores d. barrels
43. We must use our natural resources carefully and wisely because _____.
a. the supply is gradually running out b. we use millions of barrels of oil

c. we cut down thousands of acres of forests d. we mine millions of tons of coal
44. Which of the following is NOT TRUE?
a. forests are not natural resources
b. the earth produces only a limited amount of these natural resources
c. coal and oil were formed thousands of years ago
d. we must make them last as long as possible
PRACTICE TEST 3
Rewrite the following sentences, using a present participal phrase.
1.The man who spoke to John is my brother.
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2. The boy who is playing the piano is Ben.
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3. Do you know the woman who is coming toward us?
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4. The people who are waiting for the bus in the rain are getting wet.
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5. The scientists who are researching the causes of cancer are making progress.
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6. The fence which surrounds our house is made of wood.
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7. We have an apartment which overlooks the park.
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Rewrite the following sentences, using a past participial phrase.
1.The Sport Games which were held in India in 1951 were the first Asian Games.
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2. The ideas which are presented in that book are interesting.
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3. I come from a city that is located in the southern part of the country.
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4. They live in a house that was built in 1890.

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5. The photographs which were published in the newspaper were extraordinary.
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6. The experiment which was conducted at the University of Chicago was successful.
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