Tuyển tập bộ đề trắc nghiệm tiếng Anh lớp 11

LỚP 11
ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC
A. MULTIPLE CHOICE (40PTS)
I. PHONOLOGY (5PTS)
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the
others.
1. A. bristle

B. jostle

C. mistletoe

D. mantle

2. A. Christianity

B. chivalry

C. choreograph

D. chiromancy

3. A. inadequate

B. necessitate

C. ameliorate

D. commiserate

4. A. external

B. expurgate

C. extenuate

D. expunge

5. A. etiquette:

B. critique

C. picturesque

D. querulously

Choose the word which is stressed differently from the other three.
6. A. manatee

B. apogee

C. bumblebee

D. harambee

7. A. pedant

B. abscond

C. lupine

D. cognate

8. A. downtrodden B. downhearted

C. upheaval

D. upholster

9. A. demonstrative B. extravagant

C. chandelier

D. legitimate

10. A. rhetoric

C. religious

D. consensus

B. rheumatic

II. WORD CHOICE (5 PTS):
Choose the best options to complete the following sentences.
11. Laura was really laying it on _____ about her accident at work.
A. fine

B. broad

C. thick

D. thin

12. It’s a long time since you saw her, but this photo may _____ your memory.
A. jog

B. juggle

C. jostle

D. jam

13. After a(n) _____ administrative career, the old principal was awarded the Public
Service Star by the Prime Minister.
A. illustrious

B. imposing

C. mundane

D. infamous

14. Because of an unfortunate _____ your order was not dispatched by the date
requested.


A. hindrance

B. oversight

C. negligence

D. transgression

15. James didn’t take _____ to your suggestion that she was mean with money.
A. pleasantly

B. cheerfully

C. agreeably

D. kindly

16. The taxi driver found the business of selling street food a _____ one which
makes him rich quickly.
A. lethargic

B. satisfactory

C. lucrative

D. lethal

17. We had to pay for our food but not for the drinks. They are on the _____.
A. house

B. cafe

C. compliment

D. consumption

18. The tour guide had a brightly-colored company badge pinned to the _____ of
her jacket.
A. border

B. lapel

C. hem

D. edge

19. All the others were experts and I was out of my _____ in the conversation.
A. level

B. depth

C. limit

D. range

20. His enthusiasm at starting his own company has been _____ somewhat by the
amount of red tape he had to deal with.
A. dampened

B. doused

C. moistened

D. sprinkled

III. GRAMMAR AND STRUCTURES (5PTS):
Choose the best options to complete the following sentences.
21. I’d rather you _____ a noise last night; I couldn’t get to sleep.
A. wouldn’t make B. hadn’t made

C. didn’t make

D. haven’t made

22. Since they aren’t answering their telephone, they _____.
A. need have left

B. can have left

C. must have left

D. should have left

23. _____ passenger pigeon, one of several species of extinct birds, was hunted to
extinction over _____ few decades.
A. The / 

B.  / the

C. The / a

D. A / The

24. I haven’t got the time to do my own work, _____ help you with yours.

A. not counting

B. let alone

C. apart from

D. leaving aside


25. My brother is _____ I am.
A. nowhere like so ambitious as

B. nowhere near as ambitious as

C. nothing as ambitious as

D. nothing near as ambitious as

26. _____ further rioting to occur, the government would be forced to use its
emergency powers.
A. Should

B. Did

C. Were

D. Had

27. I’ll be kind to her _____ she decide to leave me.
A. in case

B. whereas

C. so as not to

D. lest

28. Remember not to cough or sneeze at the table. _____, excuse yourself.
A. For necessary

B. As necessary

C. With all need

D. If need be

29. A: When do you want this report by?
B: I’d like _____ finished by 4 o’clock.
A. to have the work

B. have the work been

C. the work to have

D. having the work

30. He agreed to accept the position _____ that he would be given a share of the
company’s profits.
A. in the agreement

B. on the understanding

C. with the purpose

D. with the aim

IV. PHRASAL VERBS AND PREPOSITIONS (5 PTS)
31. All building work must be carried out _____ compliance with safety
regulations.
A. under

B.

C. in

D. on

32. The latest novel by Grant is hilarious. It had me _____ stitches.
A. in

B. at

C. on

D. with

33. Our grandfather can _____ his war experiences all day round. Sometimes we all
get truly bored with it.
A. leaf through

B. size up

C. split up

D. harp on

34. She never says anything good about me. She’s forever running me _____.


A. over

B. down

C. out

D. off

35. It was a good idea but I’m afraid it didn’t quite _____.
A. break up

B. follow up

C. drop off

D. come off

36. Beaches were _____ as the police searched for canisters of toxic waste from the
damaged ship.
A. cut off

B. washed away

C. kept out

D. sealed off

37. Mr. Brown next door had a very serious operation. Apparently, it’s a miracle he
_____.
A. blacked out

B. pulled through

C. passed on

D. cottoned on

38. If you have a grievance _____ the company, please lodge a formal written
complaint.
A. from

B. with

C. in

D. about

39. He was suffering from stress by _____ overwork.
A. brought about

B. brought up

C. brought on

D. brought in

40. The government’s record will _____ close scrutiny in the weeks before the
election.
A. soldier on

B. come under

C. go over

D. phase out

V. GUIDED CLOZE (10 PTS):
Read the texts below and decide which answer best fits each space.
PASSAGE 1
THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
Levels of illiteracy and innumeracyremain startling high in the developing
world, and will continue to be so until the West provides or sponsors new education
initiatives, preferably also getting directly. A better education is a prerequisite
should the impoverished masses of Africa ever wish to hold any (41) _____ hope of
gaining their emancipation from the metaphorical (42) _____ of poverty. Education
initiatives for young people as well as life-long learning programmes will also help
to breach the gulf that separates the working classes from their ruling elite, a


privileged few who enjoy the trappings of Western wealth and the lifestyle that
goes with it, while those in their, minds are completely preoccupied (43) _____ the

daily struggle for survival. (44) _____, we must promote a culture of tolerance of
corruption and help to create a new generation for whom education rather than an
unscrupulous nature will (45) _____ the true rewards. Education will also help to
bridge another gap; that of the cultural one which separates the West from its
brethren in the developing world. The impoverished slums and shanty towns are a
hotbed of religious and political extremism, but hopefully education will serve to
create a better sense of understanding between all the peoples of the world, (46)
_____ background. And this will, especially be the case if the education
programmes themselves are administered by Western professionals, who, in much
the same way as they can teach a thing or two to their counterparts in the
developing world, have also, (47) _____, much to learn from them in the process as
well. Cooperation between people from the different cultures of the West and the
developing world will also, hopefully, help to reduce levels of prejudice, bigotry,
xenophobia and racial tensions. And, last but not by any means least, educating
women will (48) _____ them to claim their rightful place in the social (49) _____
in up-to-now male-dominated cultures. Their aspirations can shift realistically
higher, and young female students can hope to go on to become tomorrow’s
politicians, diplomats and political leaders, or (50)

_____ they choose.

41. A. requisite

B. sheer

C. extreme

D. genuine

42. A. shackles

B. plights

C. situations

D. sets

43. A. in

B. with

C. for

D. on

44. A. By contrast B. On the contrary C. In addition

D. As a result

45. A. yield

B. reap

C. provide

D. relinquish

46. A. rather than

B. let alone

C. other than

D. irrespective of

47. A. undoubtedly B. supposedly

C. favourably

D. presumably

48. A. intensify

C. empower

D. accredit

B. initiate


49. A. rank

B. position

50. A. nonetheless B. whatsoever

C. hierarchy

D. tribute

C. whereabouts

D. thereafter

PASSAGE 2:
At first, January 14th 1938 was no difference from any other winter day in the
seaside town of Aberystwyth. The grey sea (51) _____ to the horizon, where it met
the gray winter sky. But towards evening the wind (52) _____ and every wave (53)
_____ onto the beach with greater force than the last.
As the night (54) _____, the wind increased, howling around the houses which
faced the sea. (55) _____ agree that the storm reached its height at five o’clock in
the morning, when winds were (56) _____ to be 150 kilometers an hour. The wind
broke windows and smashed front doors, allowing the sea water to (57) _____ in.
An even greater (58) _____ was taking place in a lonely cottage further down
the coast. As the storm grew worse, the three women who lived there decided to
abandon their home. No sooner had they picked up their coats than an enormous
wave burst (59) _____ the front door. The next wave brought the roof down,
trapping them in the house. Fortunately, the driver of a passing train raised the (60)
_____ and the women were rescued from the wreckage.
51. A. stretched

B. spread

C. extended

D. flowed

52. A. toughened

B. strengthened

C. enforced

D. accumulated

53. A. dashed

B. hit

C. crashed

D. knocked

54. A. pulled out

B. came up

C. wore on

D. grew up

55. A. Witnesses

B. Viewers

C. Audiences

D. Watchers

56. A. previewed

B. guessed

C. prophesised

D. estimated

57. A. spill

B. drip

C. pour

D. rain

58. A. drama.

B. script

C. scenario

D. blueprint

59. A. out

B. through

C. off

D. up

60. A. alarm

B. siren

C. blow

D. horn

VI. READING COMPREHENSION (10 PTS):


Read the texts below and choose the best answer to each question.
PASSAGE 1:
THE CREATORS OF GRAMMAR
No student of a foreign language needs to be told that grammar is complex.
By changing word sequences and by adding a range of auxiliary verbs and suffixes,
we are able to communicate tiny variations in meaning. We can turn a statement
into a question, state whether an action has taken place or is soon to take place, and
perform many other word tricks to convey subtle differences in meaning. Nor is
this complexity inherent to the English language. All languages, even those of socalled ‘primitive’ tribes have clever grammatical components. The Cherokee
pronoun system, for example, can distinguish between ‘you and I’, ‘several other
people and I’ and ‘you, another person and I’. In English, all these meanings are
summed up in the one, crude pronoun ‘we’. Grammar is universal and plays a
part in every language, no matter how widespread it is. So the question which
has baffled many linguists is - who created grammar?
At first, it would appear that this question is impossible to answer. To find
out how grammar is created, someone needs to be present at the time of a
language’s creation, documenting its emergence. Many historical linguists are able
to trace modern complex languages back to earlier languages, but in order to

answer the question of how complex languages are actually formed, the researcher
needs to observe how languages are started from scratch. Amazingly, however,
this is possible.
Some of the most recent languages evolved due to the Atlantic slave trade. At
that time, slaves from a number of different ethnicities were forced to work
together under colonizer’s rule. Since they had no opportunity to learn each other’s
languages, they developed a make-shift language called a pidgin. Pidgins are
strings of words copied from the language of the landowner. They have little in the
way of grammar, and in many cases it is difficult for a listener to deduce when an


event happened, and who did what to whom. [A] Speakers need to use
circumlocution in order to make their meaning understood. [B] Interestingly,
however, all it takes for a pidgin to become a complex language is for a group of
children to be exposed to it at the time when they learn their mother tongue. [C]
Slave children did not simply copy the strings of words uttered by their elders, they
adapted their words to create a new, expressive language. [D] Complex grammar
systems which emerge from pidgins are termed creoles, and they are invented by
children.
Further evidence of this can be seen in studying sign languages for the deaf.
Sign languages are not simply a series of gestures; they utilise the same
grammatical machinery that is found in spoken languages. Moreover, there are
many different languages used worldwide. The creation of one such language was
documented quite recently in Nicaragua. Previously, all deaf people were isolated
from each other, but in 1979 a new government introduced schools for the deaf.
Although children were taught speech and lip reading in the classroom, in the
playgrounds they began to invent their own sign system, using the gestures that
they used at home. It was basically a pidgin. Each child used the signs differently,
and there was no consistent grammar. However, children who joined the school
later, when this inventive sign system was already around, developed a quite

different sign language. Although it was based on the signs of the older children,
the younger children’s language was more fluid and compact, and it utilised a large
range of grammatical devices to clarify meaning. What is more, all the children
used the signs in the same way. A new creole was born.
Some linguists believe that many of the world’s most established languages
were creoles at first. The English past tense -ed ending may have evolved from the
verb ‘do’. ‘It ended’ may once have been ‘It end-did’. Therefore it would appear
that even the most widespread languages were partly created by children. Children
appear to have innate grammatical machinery in their brains, which springs to life


when they are first trying to make sense of the world around them. Their minds can
serve to create logical, complex structures, even when there is no grammar present
for them to copy.
61. In paragraph 1, why does the writer include information about the Cherokee
language?
A. To show how simple, traditional cultures can have complicated grammar
structures.
B. To show how English grammar differs from Cherokee grammar.
C. To prove that complex grammar structures were invented by the Cherokees,
D. To demonstrate how difficult it is to learn the Cherokee language.
62. What can be inferred about the slaves’ pidgin language?
A. It contained complex grammar.
B. It was based on many different languages.
C. It was difficult to understand, even among slaves.
D. It was created by the land-owners.
63. All the following sentences about Nicaraguan sign language are true EXCEPT
A. The language has been created since 1979.
B. The language is based on speech and lip reading.
C. The language incorporates signs which children used at home.

D. The language was perfected by younger children.
64. In paragraph 3, where can the following sentence be placed? “It included
standardised word orders and grammatical markers that existed in neither the
pidgin language, nor the language of the colonizers.”
A. A

B. B

C. C

D. D

65. ‘From scratch’ in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _____.
A. from the very beginning

B. in simple cultures

C. by copying something else

D. by using written information

66. ‘Make-shift’ in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _____.


A. complicated and expressive

B. simple and temporary

C. extensive and diverse

D. private and personal

67. Which sentence is closest in meaning to the sentence in bold?
“Grammar is universal and plays a part in every language, no matter how
widespread it is.”
A. All languages, whether they are spoken by a few people or a lot of people,
contain grammar.
B. Some languages include a lot of grammar, whereas other languages contain a
little.
C. Languages which contain a lot of grammar are more common that languages
that contain a little.
D. The grammar of all languages is the same, no matter where the languages
evolved.
68. What is true about the new Nicaraguan sign language?
A. Those who used the same sign system were isolated from the others.
B. It was not invented until a new government introduced schools for the deaf.
C. This language system was developed in a completely different way from pidgin
language.
D. All children used the same gestures to show meaning.
69. Which idea is presented in the final paragraph?
A. Many established languages became creoles later.
B. Children themselves are prone to create nonsense notions about the world
around them.
C. English was probably once a creole.
D. Linguists have proven that English was created by children.
70. What does the word ‘consistent’ in paragraph 4 probably mean?
A. uniform
PASSAGE 2:

B. well-prepared

C. predictable

D. meaningful


IMAGE AND THE CITY
In the city, we are barraged with images of the people we might become.
Identity is presented as plastic, a matter of possessions and appearance; and a very
large proportion of the urban landscape is taken up by slogans, advertisements,
flatly photographed images of folk heroes - the man who turned into a sophisticated
dandy overnight by drinking a particular brand of drink, the girl who transformed
herself into a femme fatale with a squirt of cheap scent. The tone of the wording of
these advertisements is usually pert arid facetious, comically drowning in its own
hyperbole. But the pictures are brutally exact: they reproduce every detail of a style
of life, down to the brand of cigarette-lighter, the stone in the ring, and the
economic row of books on the shelf.
Even in the business of the mass-production of images of identity, this shift
from the general to the diverse and particular is quite recent. Consider another line
of stills: the back-lit, soft-focus portraits of the first and second generations of great
movie stars. There is a degree of romantic unparticularity in the face of each one, as
if they were communal dream-projections of society at large. Only in the
specialized genres of westerns, farces and gangster movies were stars allowed to
have odd, knobby cadaverous faces. The hero as loner belonged to history or the
underworld: he spoke from the perimeter of society, reminding us of its dangerous
edges.
The stars of the last decade have looked quite different. Soft-focus
photography has gone, to be replaced by a style which searches out warts and
bumps, and emphasizes the uniqueness not the generality of the face. Voices, too,
are strenuously idiosyncratic; whines, stammers and low rumbles are exploited as

features of “star quality”. Instead of romantic heroes and heroines, we have a
brutalist, hard-edged style in which isolation and egotism are assumed as natural
social conditions.


In the movies, as in the city, the sense of stable hierarchy has become
increasingly exhausted; we no longer live in a world where we can all share the
same values, and the same heroes. (It is doubtful whether this world, so beloved of
nostalgia moralists, ever existed; but lip-service was paid to it, the pretence, at last,
was kept up.) The isolate and the eccentric push towards the centre of the stage;
their fashions and mannerisms are presented as having as good a claim to the
limelight and the future as those of anyone else. In the crowd on the underground
platform, one may observe a honeycomb of fully-worked-out worlds, each private,
exclusive, bearing little comparison with its nearest neighbour. What is prized in
one is despised in another. There are no clear rules about how one is supposed to
manage one’s body, dress, talk, or think. Though there are elaborate protocols and
etiquettes among particular cults and groups within the city, they subscribe to no
common standard.
For the new arrival, this disordered abundance is the city’s most evident and
alarming quality. He feels as if he has parachuted into a funfair of contradictory
imperatives. There are so many people he might become, and a suit of clothes, a
make of car, and a brand of cigarettes, will go some way towards turning him into a
personage even before he has discovered who that personage is. Personal identity
has always been deeply rooted in property, but hitherto the relationship has been a
simple one - a question of buying what you could afford, and leaving your wealth
to announce your status. In the modern city, there are so many things to buy, such a
quantity of different kinds of status, that the choice and its attendant anxieties have
created a new pornography of state.
The leisure pages of the Sunday newspapers, fashion magazines, TV plays,
popular novels, cookbooks, window displays all nag at the nerve of our uncertainty

and snobbery. Should we like American cars, hard-rock hamburger joints, Bauhaus
chairs...? Literature and art are promoted as personal accessories, the paintings of
Mondrian or the novels of Samuel Beckett “go” with certain styles like matching


handbags. There is in the city a creeping imperialism of taste, in which more and
more commodities are made over to being mere expressions of personal identity.
The piece of furniture, the pair of shoes, the book, the film, are important not so
much in themselves but for what they communicate about their owners; and
ownership is stretched to include what one likes or believes in as well as what one
can buy.
71. What does the writer say about advertisements in the first paragraph?
A. They often depict people that most other people would not care to be like.
B. The pictures in them accurately reflect the way that some people really live.
C. Certain kinds are considered more effective in cities than others.
D. The way in which some of them are worded is cleverer than it might appear.
72. What does a “dandy” in paragraph 1 refer to?
A. A man who becomes famous overnight.
B. A gorgeous man who realizes most women’s dream.
C. A rich man who spends his time enjoying himself.
D. A man who cares a lot about his clothes and appearance.
73. The word “despised” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _____.
A. reflected

B. disapproved

C. honoured

D. neglected

74. The writer says that if you look at a line of advertisements on a tube train, it is
clear that _____.
A. city dwellers have very diverse ideas about what image they would like to have
B. some images in advertisements have a general appeal that others lack
C. city dwellers are more influenced by images on advertisements than other people
are
D. some images are intended to be representative of everyone’s aspirations
75. What does the writer imply about portraits of old movie stars?
A. They reflected an era in which people felt basically safe.
B. They made people feel that their own faces were rather unattractive.


C. They tried to disguise the less attractive features of their subjects.
D. Most people did hot think they were accurate representations of the stars in
them.
76. What does the writer suggest about the stars of the last decade?
A. Most people accept that they are not typical of society as a whole.
B. They make an effort to speak in a way that may not be pleasant on the ear.
C. Some of them may be uncomfortable about the way they come across.
D. They make people wonder whether they should become more selfish.
77. The writer uses the crowd on an underground platform to exemplify his belief
that _____.
A. no one in a city has strict attitudes towards the behavior of others
B. no single attitude to life is more common than another in a city
C. people in cities would like to have more in common with each other
D. views of what society was like in the past are often accurate
78. The writer implies that new arrivals in a city may _____.
A. acquire a certain image without understanding what that involves
B. underestimate the importance of wealth
C. decide that status is of little importance

D. change the image they wish to have too frequently
79. The novels of Samuel Beckett is an example of _____.
A. classic literature works that make their owners feel superior to other people
B. literature works of high artistic value
C. possessions that show owners’ identity
D. what is wanted by the majority in the society
80. What point does the writer make about city dwellers in the final paragraph?
A. They are unsure as to why certain things are popular with others.
B. They are keen to be the first to appreciate new styles.
C. They want to acquire more and more possessions.


D. They are aware that judgments are made about them according to what they buy.
B. WRITTEN TEST (70 PTS)
I. CLOZE TESTS (20 PTS):
Read the texts below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only
ONE WORD for each space.
PASSAGE 1
Many species of animals and plants have disappeared (1) _____ the earth.
They have died out, or become extinct. But sometimes animals or plant (2) _____
can be found buried in rocks. These are called fossils. Imprints in rocks (paw prints,
for example) are also called fossils.
(3) _____ every creature survives as a fossil. Many simply rot (4) _____
completely and leave no trace of their, existence. Because many creatures and
plants have disappeared without leaving any fossils, we will never know anything
about them.
The study of fossils, or paleontology, to (5) _____ it its scientific name
became established at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Before this research
began, people did not believe that fossils had once been alive. Large fossil teeth
were seen as evidence of a race of giants in the past, (6) _____ ammonites, a very

common type of fossil which you might easily find yourself on a beach or among
rocks, were called snakestones because of their snake-like shape. People believed
that snakes had been (7) _____ to stone by a miracle.
The most famous fossils of all are the dinosaurs. There are, of course, no
dinosaurs on (8) _____ in zoos. They were not hunted to extinction by humans as
some animals have been, but became extinct millions of years before our own
species developed. The reason why the dinosaurs became extinct is still a mystery.
Many theories have connected the disappearance of dinosaurs with major (9) _____
change. One possibility is that a gigantic meteorite crashed (10) _____ the earth
putting so much dust into the atmosphere that the amount of sunlight was reduced.


The temperature would have fallen and, as a consequence, many types of plants and
animals would have become extinct.
PASSAGE 2:
HISTORY OF THE CHICKENPOX VACCINE
Chickenpox is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by the Varicella
zoster virus; sufferers develop a fleeting itchy (11) _____ that can spread
throughout the body. The disease can last for up to 14 days and can occur in both
children and adults, though the young are particularly (12) _____. Individuals
infected with chickenpox can expect to experience a high but tolerable level of
discomfort and a fever as the disease (13) _____ its way through the system. The
ailment was once considered to be a “rite of passage” by parents in the U.S. and
thought to provide children with greater and improved immunity to other forms of
sickness later in life. This view, (14) _____, was altered after additional research by
scientists demonstrated unexpected dangers associated with the virus. Over time,
the fruits of this I research have transformed attitudes toward the disease and the
utility of seeking preemptive measures against it.
A vaccine against chickenpox was (15) _____ invented by Michiaki
Takahashi, a Japanese doctor and research scientist, in the mid-1960s. Dr.

Takahashi began his work to isolate and grow the virus in 1965 and in 1972 began
clinical (16) _____ with a live but weakened form of the virus that caused the
human body to create (17) _____

. Japan and several other countries began

widespread chickenpox vaccination programs in 1974. However, it took over 20
years for the chickenpox vaccine to be approved by the U.S. Food & Drug
Administration (FDA), finally earning the U.S. government’s seal of approval (18)
_____ widespread use in 1995. Yet even though the chickenpox vaccine was
available and recommended by the FDA, parents did not immediately choose to
vaccinate their children against this disease. Mothers and fathers typically cited the


notion that chickenpox did not constitute a serious (19) _____ disease against
which a person needed to be (20) _____.
II. WORD FORMATION: (20PTS)
FART 1: Complete each sentence, using the correct form of the word in
parentheses.
1. The lake near to where I live is one of the deepest and most ________ in the
world. (VOLUME)
2. Efforts have been made to recover disaster-stricken and ________ areas of the
country, hope fading day by day. (WAR)
3. Our competitive company confirmed that they were not involved in any
________ activities. (ACT)
4. Cantankerous, ________ and dyslexic Billy Childish, an all-round English artist,
has been namechecked by everyone from Kurt Cobain to Kylie Minogue.
(OPINION)
5. That the child behaved ________ made the couple happy. (DEAR)
6. James, a ________ correspondent, immediately headed for the scene to give

extensive coverage of the Belgium blast. (GLOBE)
7. I was glad that the bad guy got his ________ at the end of the movie. (COME)
8. The landlady considered complaining about the noise but she didn’t want to
________ a new tenant and jeopardize a 30-day advance. (AGONY)
9. He is a wealthy businessman who can easily afford ________ suits. (SPEAK)
10. It is predicted that all countries will establish a territory on the Internet and try
to defend their ________. (SOVEREIGN)
PART 2: Complete the passage with appropriate forms from the words given in
the box.
produce

local

imply

root

history

language

company

reach

fold

importance

Bringing up one’s child (11) ________ is not a decision to be taken lightly.
Both parents must consider long and hard the (12) ________ involved in raising a
child in a two-language home. This decision is one of those all-important choices
which will affect not only the parents’ lives but also the life of the child. Raising a
child bilingually has a (13) ________ effect. Firstly, of course, the child learns the
two languages of the parents. Secondly, the parents’ decision will influence factors
which will have a (14) ________ effect on the child’s life. Some of these factors
include: style and place of education; diameter of social circle; employment
potential and preference; and, most (15) ________, the way in which the child
views himself and his global environment.
One of the more advantageous (16) ________ of being a member of a
bilingual family is the inherent awareness of two different cultures. This bicultural
child inherits a wealth of knowledge brought about by an exposure to: (17)
________ backgrounds; traditional songs and folklore; rituals of marriage; models
of social interaction; and therefore, two varying interpretations of the world. The
monolingual child seems to be at a disadvantage in comparison to the bilingual
child, who has a set of languages and an (18) ________ set of abstract cultural
ideas. Practically speaking, when a child comes from a two-language family, he
must be taught both languages in order to communicate with the extended family
members. When, for example, the grandparents speak a language which differs
from that of the child’s (19) ________, a monolingual child would be deprived of
the interaction which occurs between grandparents and grandchildren. On the other
hand, a bilingual child will not only be able to speak to grandparents, but will also
comprehend where these people have ‘come from’. There will be a shared cultural
empathy within the family. Because all family members can communicate, on both
a verbal and cultural level, no one will feel excluded and the child will develop a
sense of (20) ________.
III. ERROR CORRECTION: (10PTS)

The following passage contains 10 errors. Identify and correct them.
Business was bad. Sales were non-existent, I was overdrawn at the bank, I’d
come up huge debts and the man who sold me the shop was threatening to sue me
because I hadn’t paid him. I had expected teething trouble when I took over the
shop - all new businesses have problems in the beginning - but in the eleven
months I had been open I had never had a customer. I’d tried everything to drum
over, business - ads in the local newspaper, mid-season sales, sponsor the local
football team - but nothing I’d tried had worked. I was at my wits’ back. A friend
suggested I seek for professional advice. He reassured me that, his friend, Mr. Stott,
would help me tackle the problem of disappointing sales. Notwithstanding there I
was in the city, sitting across from Mr. Stott, a management consultant. “Now you
live here in Willonga, a deserted town, and you bought the local bakery, but you
didn’t keep it on like a bakery,” he said. “No, I saw a gap in the market and
changed the focus of the business.” I replied. “And things aren’t going as well as
they could be,” he continued, sitting back in his chair. “Don’t worry, Mr. Redston,
it’s not usual to run into difficulties on first setting up a business. I’m sure we’ll be
able to sort everything out.” He put on his glasses. “So what is it where you sell?”
he asked. “Sand,” I replied. “I sell sand.”
IV. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION: (20 PTS)
Rewrite the following sentences using the words given.
1. The president is the statesman I admire most of all.
There is no ..................................................................................................................
2. It was more of a business arrangement than a marriage.
It was not ....................................................................................................................
3. He was about to give away my secret, but I caught his attention just in time.
(EYE)
Had I .....................................................................................................out my secret.
4. Having three children to look after every day had taken its toll on Elke.

(GRIND)
Elke was worn .................................................................................of three children.
5. Mary is unlikely to get the job that she has applied for. (PROSPECT)
There......................................................................................................... the job that
she has applied for.
6. Don’t say anything negative about her singing because she’s very sensitive and
might be offended by your remarks. (OFFENCE)
.....................................................................................................................................
7. It looks nice, but it doesn’t taste as good. (EARTH)
Nice .............................................................................................................................
8. I hope his story will help us to understand what happened. (SHED)
Hopefully when he tells us his story, it will ...............................................................
what happened.
9. She finally admitted that she had stolen the money. (OWNED)
She ..............................................................................................................................
10. The children who are underage are not allowed to go into the Horace Club.
(BOUNDS)
The Horace Club .........................................................................................................
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TRƯỜNG THPT NGUYỄN TRÁI - NINH THUẬN
A. MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
I. PHONOLOGY (5PTS)
1. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of
the others in each group.
1. A. naked

B. crooked

C. wicked

D. looked

2. A. radar

B. radiate

C. radiant

D. radical


3. A. meadow

B. meagre

C. beaver

D. feature

4. A. adventure

B. admiral

C. advent

D. advocate

2. Choose the word whose main stressed syllable is placed differently from that of
the others in the list.
6. A. hygiene

B. malignant

C. democracy

D. neglect

7. A. deteriorate

B. proverbial

C. conscientious

D. conspiracy

8. A. eminent

B. elaborate

C. eloquent

D. element

9. A. temperament B. temporary

C. tempestuous

D. temperature

10. A. descendant B. controversy

C. delivery

D. orname

II. WORD CHOICE (5 pts)
Choose the best option to complete the following sentences.
1. Poor ______ led to the pilot’s decision to request a landing at an alternative
airport.
A. visibility

B. clarity

C. sight

D. vision

2. The deer in the National Park are so accustomed to being fed by visitors that they
are quite ______.
A. trained

B. passive

C. domestic

D. tame

3. In order to ______ stocks of fish to their previous levels, some governments
have imposed fishing quotas.
A. save

B. restore

C. regain

D. preserve

4. William never works rapidly. He always ______ in everything that he does.
A. takes his time

B. gets on with

C. makes a difference

D. makes a big difference

5. It’s important for all the players on a soccer team to stay ______.
A. in their hands

B. out of touch

C. on their toes

D. at heart

6. More needs to be done to protect endangered species from ______ who illeagally
hunt them.


A. trespassers

B. intruders

C. poachers

D. invaders

7. Shortly after receiving her gold medal, the Olympic champion answered
questions at a press ______.
A. conference

B. assembly

C. discussion

D. seminar

8. It appears that the hostages were not ______ to any unnecessary suffering.
A. subjugated

B. subverted

C. subsumed

D. subjected

9. If Harold ______ with his piano playing, he could eventually reach concert
standard.
A. sustains

B. perseveres

C. maintains

D. survives

10. We talked to each other all night and resolved some of our problems. It’s good
to have a proper ______ sometimes.
A. head-to-head

B. heart-to-head

C. head-to-heart

D. heart-to-heart

III. GRAMMAR AND STRUCTURES (5 pts)
Choose the best option to complete the following sentences.
1. Much of the precipitation that falls on the earth ______ by plants.
A. are absorbed

B. is absorbed

C. which is absorbed

D. absorbed

2. “What would you do in my place?
“Were ______ treated like that, I’d compain to the manager.
A. To I be

B. I to had been

C. I have been

D. I to be

3. “I overslept and was late for work again!”
“You’d ______ that clock fixed; it hasn’t worked over a week now”
A. Better have

B. better to have

C. rather have

D. rather had

4. “Why is Ron so upset?”
“He ______ broken into.”
A. Gets a house

B. hasn’t got a house

C. Didn’t get a house

D. has had his house


5. “I feel sorry for Patricis and John” - “______ they have a rough time”.
A. can’t

B. aren’t

C. wouldn’t

D. didn’t

6. Jane is really conscientious, isn’t she?
Absolutely. ______, she is very efficient.
A. So

B. All the same

C. What is more

D. still

7. The dawn redwood appears ______ some 100 millions years ago in northern
forest around the world.
A. was nourished

B. having to flourish

C. to have flourished

D. have flourished

8. I know you didn’t want to upset me but I’d sooner you ______ the whole truth
yesterday.
A. could have told B. told

B. have told

D. had told

9. It was ______ a victory that even Smith’s fans couldn’t believe it.
A. such surprising B. so surprising

C. too surprising

D. surprising

10. I’m ______ my brother is.
A. nowhere like so ambitious

B. nothing as ambitious than

C. nothing near as ambitious as

D. nowhere near as ambitious as

IV. PHRASAL VERBS AND PREPOSITIONS (5 pts)
Choose the best option to complete the following sentences.
1. The factory owner is not in the habit of fraternizing ______ his workers.
A. from

B. with

G. in

D. about

2. All the animals in the forest fled ______ the fire.
A. on

B. against

C. from

D. upon

3. If you have a grievance ______ the company, please lodge a formal written
complaint.
A. from

B. with

C. in

D. about

4. My car is guaranteed ______ rust for eight years.
A. against

B. with

C. in

D. about

5. The teacher told me to stop fidgeting ______ and to sit still and concentrate.
A. in

B. about

C. upon

D. into

6. The computer has ______ a long way over the last thirty years.
A. taken on

B. come on

C. broken down

D. put in

7. I heard that they are ______ a new software company in town.
A. putting in

B. getting through C. taking back

D. setting up

8. I don’t want to go out tonight because I’m ______ for my holidays.
A. saving up

B. keeping up

C. getting by

D. making out

9. I ______ quite a lot of money when my father died.
A. came into

B. looked into

C. took off

D. let down

10. Did you manage to ______ to Dennis on the phone yesterday?
A. put in

B. get through

C. take back

D. check in

V. GUIDED CLOZE TESTS
Read the texts below and decide which answer best fits each space.
TEST 1 (5 pts)
The elephant has some distant relatives called mammoths, which lived in the
Stone Age. More than 15,000 years ago people painted pictures of them on cave
walls. Then, astonishingly, in 1799, a man walking along the banks of the River
Lena in Siberia (1) ______ a starting discovery. Peering into a wall of ice, he could

just see the shape of a massive, hairy mammoth, apparently (2) ______. He
immediately ran away in terror, but several days later he (3) ______ the courage to
return and cut the mammoth’s tusks - its two enormous teeth - out of the ice to sell
them. Mammoth tusks are the biggest teeth of any known creature, some (4)
______ a length of five meters. These tusks were (5) ______ to good use,
protecting the mammoths’ young from other animals, and brushing away snow.
To most of us, mammoths are probably the most (6) ______ of the elephant’s
extinct relatives, but thousands of years earlier, in the woodlands of eastern North
America, lived another of the elephant’s relatives called the mastodon. Like


mammoths, mastodon may also have had a hairy coat, but while mammoths mainly
ate grass on the plains, mastodons (7) ______ to eat twigs and leaves.
We do not know why mastodons became extinct. However,
computer studies of the decrease in mammoth (8) ______ suggest that it was a
particular (9) ______ of over-hunting by humans, and changes in the climate at that
time which (10) ______ to their disappearance.
1. A. made

B. took

C. did

D. had

2. A. watching out B. watching over

C. looking after

D. looking out

3. A. grew

B. felt

C. found

D. experienced

4. A. increasing

B. reaching

C. expanding

D. completing

5. A. put

B. held

C. set

D. kept

6. A. usual

B. frequent

C. regular

D. familiar

7. A. preferred

B. enjoyed

C. desired

D. selected

8. A. quantities

B. amounts

C. totals

D. numbers

9. A. combination B. addition

C. attachment

D. connection

10. A. guided

C. led

D. influenced

B. caused

TEST 2 (5 pts)
Originally commissioned 14 years ago, the new British Library was
supposed to open in 1990. However, the project has been (1) ________ by political
infighting, poor planning and financial problems. The most recent (2) ________
came in June when inspectors discovered that 60 miles of new metal shelving had
started to (3) ________ and needs to be replaced. That would (4) ________ the
opening of the project’s first phase for another two years. “Things has gone from
bad to worse.” Said Brian Lake, secretary of the Regular Readers, an association of
writers and scholars who are not happy with plans for the new library. “It is a grand
national project that has become a great national scandal.”
It sounded like a splendid idea when the government (5) ________ its $164
million project in 1978. Sophisticated electronic equipment would help and keep