Test 23.doc

english test 23
Thêi gian: 150 phót ( kh«ng kÓ thêi gian giao ®Ò.)
Question 1: Supply the correct form of the verb in brackets.
1. It …… (be) my birthday tomorrow.
2. I …… (not play) football since I …… (break) my leg.
3. I …… (telephone) Bill as soon as I …… (get) home this evening.
4. It was eleven o’clock and we ….. (just go) to bed when the telephone ..…(ring).
5. I….(think) your father’s health…..(improve) so much since I….(see) him last.
Question 2: Fill each blank with the correct form of the word given in capital letters
1. ACT
a. We must take …………. before things get worse.
b. Don’t worry about the volcano. It’s been ………… for years.
c. She said she wanted to be a television ………………. .
2. BASE
a. My grandfather only had a very …………….. education.
b. The organization is run on a voluntary ………………..
3. CONTINUE
a. His latest book is a ………….. of his previous one.
b. The train service was …………. because it wasn’t used by many people.
c. Peter couldn’t get much work done as he was ………… being interrupted by people
telephoning him.
4. Compare
a. I’m just a beginner in …….. with her.
b. What happened two years ago is not really ……. in the situation now.
Question 3: Fill each of the numbered blank spaces with the most suitable
preposition.
1. There has been a university in Oxford ..…… more than eight hundred years.
2. They have been married ………2001.
3. From 1992 …… last year we had a flat in the center of town.
4. Can you wait for a few minutes ….….. I’m ready ?
5. I haven’t spoken to Bill ….….. we were at school.

Question 4
:
Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage. Use only
ONE word in each space.
A good memory is a great (1) …… in learning a language. Everybody learns his
own language by …….2……. what he hears when he is a small child, and some children
like boys and girls who live ……3…… with their ……4……. seem to learn …….5…….
languages almost as easily as ……..6…… . In school, it’s not so …….7…… to learn a
second language because the pupils have so little ……8…… for it, and they are busy ……
9….. other ……10…… as well.
The best ……11…… for most of us to remember things is to join them in our mind
with something ……12…… we know already, or which we easily remember because we
have a picture of it in our ……13…… . That is why it is ……14…….. to learn words in
sentences, not by ……15…… , or to see, or to do, or to feel what a word means when we
first use it…
Question 5:
a Choose the word or phrase that best completes each unfinished sentence below.
1 Each birthday is an occasion for various members of the family and friends …..
(together / to gather / to show )
2 The essay …( reminds/ remembers / makes ) him of his family members and friends.
3 … (Rush-hours / Traffic-lights / Traffic-jams) usually happen in the busiest areas of the
city.
4 We heard the birds … (sang / singing / to sing ) a beautiful song.
5 He tries to avoid … (took / take / taking ) his lesson.
b Correct the mistake in the following sentences.
1. Here she comes the new employee.
2. She isn’t thought she is a nine year old girl.
3. Can you remember when did he left ?
4. We bought a new furniture for the living-room.
5. We saw several kinds birds at the wildlife preserve.

Question 6:
Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly
the same as the sentence printed before it.
1. Nobody has heard of John since he went to live in America.
John ………………………………………………………..
2. It was dark when we arrived because the journey took a very long time.
……… so ……… that ………..
3. “You’ve passed your driving test, Ron! Well done !” said Carol.
Carol congratulated ……………………………………………….
4. He felt ill to get up.
He did not …………………………………..
5. I was sitting next to a boy in the exam. He told me the answers.
The boy I ……………………………………………………….
6. The days get colder and colder.
Each day …………………………
7. I thought that learning to drive would be difficult, but it isn’t.
Learning to drive is ………………………………………….
8. If I take the job I’ll have to move to London.
Taking the job will ………………………………………………
9. A week ago today we were in China.
This …………………………………..
10. Mary hasn’t finished her work yet.
Mary is ……………………………….