M.C 10 - MLH 10

RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS IN SCIENCE
TEST 1
I. Choose the word which is pronounced differently from the others
1. a. entire b. time c. life d. logic
2. a. conception b. discover c. genetitist d. inherit
3. a. century b. infectious c. structure d. question
4. a. come b. wonder c. golden d. discover
5. a. science b. accomplish c. particular d.
electricity
II. Choose the right word or phrase that best completes the sentence
6. ‘Renaissance’ is a _____ of time.
a. name b. conception c. span d. length
7. Quang Ninh coalmine is one of the _____ in Viet Nam.
a. mines b. fields c. natural resources d. places
8. The roal on which we _____ _____ built in 1980.
a. are driving / was b. drive / is c. are driving / is d. are
driven / was
9. This year is _____ the year of Horse.
a. no longer b. not any more c. not any longer d. any
more
10. In Viet Nam, 2003 _____ ‘The Year of Tourism’.
a. is called b. calls c. call d. called
11. Microsoft has provided us _____ many softwares.
a. to b. with c. for d. in
12. Our school has a well-stocked library at our _____.
a. use b. hand c. disposal d. school
13. The number of people who _____ good marks since the beginning of this semester
_____ appalling.
a. got / were b. got / was c. have got / are d. have
got / is
14. Henry will pass the exame _____ any means. He has studied well.

a. by b. on c. with d. in
UNIT 12
UNIT 12
15. Chemists have provided synthetics _____us.
a. with b. to c. for d. at
III. Find the one choice that best completes the sentence
16. Our homes _____ electrified and our lives _____ made far easier.
a. was / were b. are / is c. have been / have been d.
was / was
17. The public has insisted _____.
a. on the problem of air polluted b. on the problem of air pollution
c. of the problem on air pollution d. of the problem of polluted air
18. _____ war on the world.
a. There will be no longer b. There no longer is
c. There was not longer d. There are not longer
19. I love my teacher _____ .
a. I have great confidence in her b. in her I have great confidence
c. at whom I have great confidence d. in whom I have great confidence
20. At school, Jack was _____ anyone else in his class.
a. clever as b. as clever as c. cleverest d. as
clever than
21. He said his car was _____.
a. for my use b. for me to use c. at my use d. at my
disposal
22. She is the top scientist _____ on our space project.
a. working b. works c. who word d. whose
work
23. I think her performance was _____.
a. beautiful b. spectacular c. beauty d.
spectacle

24. Geneticists _____ the laws of inheritance.
a. discovered b. have discovered c. discover d. has
discovered
25. Historians called _____ the golden age of pure research.
a. this century b. the 21
st
century
c. the 20
th
century d. this conception of time
IV. Choose the words or phrases that not correct in standard English
26. In kindergartens, children are generally unrestrited in expressing their ideas by talk.
a b c d
27. The Saler Mill, built in 1793, was one of the first successful mills in the United
States.
a b c
d
28. Christopher Columbus has sailed from Europe in 1492 and discovered a new land
he thought to be India.
a b c d
29. Neither the stockholders nor the president were convinced as to the proposed
course of action.
a b c d
30. Even though he had been trained by experts, the techniciandidn’t perform good on
the job.
a b c d
31. It is very good for a wealthy organize with large profits to get large tax credits.
a b c d
32. All writing was done with hand until the invention of the printing press.
a b c d

33. The student made her homework quickly so that she could attend the meeting in
the afternoon.
a b c d
34. Oil painting are most commonly made on a canvas surface surface supperted a
frame.
a b c d
35. Records indicate that the skill of writing is at less five thousand years old.
a b c d
V. Choose the word (a, b, c or d) that best fits each of the blank spaces
Pocket (36) _____ are as cheap to buy as a pair of shoes and as (37) _____ to
thousands of school children as a pencil and rubber. Schools have tried to limit their (38)
_____, by allowing them in science lessons to (39) _____ time but not allowing them in
maths classes. (40) _____ when children do their homework, a (41) _____ calculator is
a must.
But nowdays in Britain calculators can be used (42) _____ in school examinations
(43). _____ in many schools the first sound (44) _____ during a mathematics
examination is the (45) _____ of children tapping out their answers.
36. a. calculations b. calculating c. calculators d.
calculates
37. a. essential b. essentially c. essent d. essence
38. a. usage b. use c. using d. uses
39. a. keep b. earn c. make d. save
40. a. But b. Although c. Moreover d. Though
41. a. small b. tiny c. personal d. pocket
42. a. freedom b. freely c. in free d. free
43. a. Or b. But c. And d. So
44. a. to be heard b. to hear c. heard d. was
heard
45. a. actions b. tone c. sound d. voice
VI. Read the following passage and choose the item (a, b, c or d) that best

answers each of the questions about it
THE SINKING OF THE COLOSSUS
Few people now remember the sinking of the great passenger ship Colossus
exactly fifty years ago. The number of people who were actually saved from her was
small, and some of those have died in the years since, so those who are still alive today
can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Then you will easily understand why I have
been asked to write about that sad day in 1912. The Colossus, then the largest ship in
the world, was thought by people at that time to be unsinkable. Yet, when she hit an
iceberg in thick fog in the North Atlantic Ocean, she actually disappeared in less than
twenty minutes, taking nearly fifteen hundred people with her. My own life was saved by
my youth. Being only a boy of fourteen, I was one of those lucky women and children
who, according to custom, were allowed to get away first from the sinking ship. The
selfless crew packed some sixty of us into a small boat and lowered it into the angry sea.
But during the ship’s last minutes more and more passengers, in their last hope of
escaping death, threw themselves widely into the sea and tried to scramble aboard our
boat, with the result that it finally turned over and we all found ourselves struggling for
our lives in the water. But I was strong enough to swim for three hour in the icy water
before a passing steamer picked me up.
46. “at that time” in line 7 of the passage means _____.
a. sad day b. in 1912 c. today d. within
twenty minutes
47. People at that time thought _____.
a. nothing could sink the Colossus
b. only an iceberg could sink her
c. nothing could sink her, but she might disappeared
d. it would take longer than twenty minutes to sink her
48. The writer was asked to write the story because he _____.
a. was one of the few survivors alive now
b. was only a boy of fourteen when the ship sank
c. had been on the ship when it hit the iceberg

d. had felt sad when the ship sank
49. ‘We all’ in line 16 of the passage means _____.
a. fifteen hundred people b. the selfless crew
c. those who are alive today d. those in the small boat
50. When was the passage written ?
a. fifty years ago b. in 1912 c. in 1962 d. in 1953
TEST 2
I. Choose the word which is pronounced differently from the others
1. a. chemistry b. riches c. require d. achieve
2. a. problem b. progress c. pneumonia d. golden
3. a. disease b. instant c. easy d. miles
4. a. age b. any c. decade d. fate
5. a. law b. call c. span d. appall
II. Choose the right word or phrase that best completes the sentence
6. The ITC fire has _____ an appalling toll.
a. caused b. had c. taken d.
damaged
7. Computers are _____ in our time.
a. products b. achievements c. machines d.
calculators
8. A supersonic airplane can fly faster than th speed of _____.
a. light b. cars c. helicopters d. sound
9. We no longer worry about our coat and oil stocks petering _____.
a. up b. out c. on d. upon
10. The music to _____ we are listening is interesting.
a. that b. which c. what d. it
11. There is a No Parking sign of _____ I do not take notice.
a. that b. which c. where d. that
12. Women don’t spend much time doing housework _____.
a. any longer b. more c. longer d. no

longer
13. Babylon Tower _____ one of the world’s _____.
a. was / wonders b. was / attractions c. are / beauty d. is /
wonder
14. The television has little attraction _____ me.
a. to b. for c. with on
15. I can’t make up my mind whether to go or not. “To make up one’s mind” means
_____.
a. to think b. to decide c. to say d. to tell
III. Find the one choice that best completes the sentence
16. In a short time, automobiles and supersonic airplanes _____.
a. have been invented b. are inventted
c. were invented d. have invented
17. The bicycle _____ is very modern.
a. I told you about which b. which about I told you
c. about I told you which b. about which I told you
18. The man _____ is the principal of our school.
a. who was televised last night b. whom was televised last night
c. was televised last night c. televising last night
19. Teenagers _____ to school by motorbikes.
a. have no longer gone b. no longer have gone
c. not any longer have gone d. haven’t longer gone
20. The _____ will make him a rich man.
a. inherit b. inheritance c. heritage d. inheritor
21. You must be quicker because the time is _____.
a. petering b. ending out c. run out of d. petering
out
22. I like Nha Trang _____.
a. where my grandmother is living b. which my grandmother is living
c. my grandmother is living d. my grandmother ie living there

23. The WTC is _____.
a. longer seen in the sky of New York b. no seen in the sky of New York
longer
c. no longer seen in the sky of New York d. longer in the sky of New York
24. Our life depends on _____.
a. complex molecules b. laws of inheritance
c. structure of crystals d. new forms of logic
25. _____ have developed rockets that can lift up satellites into outer space.
a. Pure research b. Applied scientists c. Mechanics d.
Engineers
IV. Choose the words or phrases that not correct in standard English
26. Professor Hopkins visited India last year. He saw the Taj Mahal and drove on an
elephant.
a b c d
27. My cassette player, which is small and movable, is black.
a b c
d
28. The police told the panicing crowd to calm down.
a b c d
29. We surprised the enemies with attacking from the back.
a b c d
30. One of the uniquer parks in the United States is the Petrified Forest National Park
of Arizona.
a b c d
31. Key West, Florida, is the furtherest south than any point in the continental U.S.
a b c d
32. Be as clear as possible in order to there is no misunderstanding.
a b c d
33. Ho Chi Minh City, which has celebrated its 300
th

anniversary recently, is a young
city compares
a b c d
to Ha Noi.