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<span class='text_page_counter'>(1)</span>Full name:…………………………. Test(180 minutes) Class:……………………………… I. Circle the letter A, B, C or D before the word in each group that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest. 1. A. promised B. hopped C. booked D. burned 2. A. though B. ought C. thought D. bought 3. A. hard B. carry C. card D. yard 4. A. try B. why C. heavy D. dry 5. A. cool B. food C. look D. flood II.Choose the best answer: 1.Lien, my neighbor wasn’t …………………………in my class. A. enough to be old B. old enough to be C. enough be old D. old to be enough 2. Before going to school, Lan often looks at………………..in the mirror. A. her B. she C. hers D. herself 3. You make sure not let children…………….. in the kitchen. A. play B. playing C. to play D. played 4. Her grandma ………………….. in the village. A. use to live B. used live C be used to live D. used to live 5. The ……………one is the Lost Shoe. A. better B. good C. best D. well 6. He got good grade for Math this semester because he studied……………….. A. better B. hard C. hardly D. good. 7. She neither listens……………..looks. I feel sorry for her. A. either B. or C. nor D.too 8. My mother is……………tired to cook to night. A. very B. much C. so D.too 9. Our school opens ………………6.15. If you arrive ………………6.15 it still closes A. at/ before B. at/ after C.on / before D. on/at 10. They asked me ………………………here. A. stop/ smoking B.stopped/ smoke C. to stop/ smoking D. stopping/ smoke 11. My uncle doesn’t like………………sports. A. playing B. to play C. play D. played 12. He makes a list and puts …………..it the meanings of new words………….his mother tongue. A. with/ on B. with/in C. into/in D.into/by 13. There ……………………any schools here. Now, there is a new one. A. did not to be B. used not to be C. used to be D. use to be 14. They ……………………..to Hanoi since last week. A. went B. go C. have been D. has gone 15.It is…………………to put the medicines in the locked cupboard. A. safe B.dangerous C. important D.easy III Complete the folowing senteces with the correct form, tense of the verbs in brackets 1. They…………………( not, leave) here for 10 years. 2. She has a wedding invitation . Next week she …(go) to Hanoi to attend this party. 3. What ……………he ……….( do )since he ………… ( come) here? 4. Be careful! A big tree ……………….down. ( fall) 5. My Mom………(be) happy when she ………. ( receive) a letter from my father last night. 6. We advised them…………….(stop)………….(play) soccer in the street, but they tried ……( play) to the end of the match. IV Read the text below and fill in the gaps: “In the first year of the lower secondary school , I had some difficulties ………….(1) learning English . My pronunciation …………(2) English words was really bad ……………(3) my English grammar was worse . I did not know ……………(4) to improve them . One afternoon after the lesson , my tearcher of English told me ………..(5) wait for her outside the classroom . She took me to …………..(6)school library and showed me some cassettes of pronunciation drills kept ……………..(7) the glass bookcase . She also told me how to use an English – English …………..(8) to improve my English grammar. “Now I think you know what you should do” ,said she ..

<span class='text_page_counter'>(2)</span> I made …………..(9) progress and only one year later I won the first ………….(10) in the English speaking contest held for the secondary students in my home town.” V Read the passage. Choose the best word to complete it. Alexander Graham Bell was born in1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father was an expert in phonetics. (1)…………a boy, Alexander Graham Bell became interested in sounds and speech. In 1870, the Bells decided to ……………………(2) to America. They lived in Boston,(3)……….Alexander taught in a school for the deaf. There he began experimenting with a machine(4)……………...help the deaf hear. While experimenting with the machine, Bell had an idea, “ Why do not use electricity to (5)………………….the human voice from one place to another?” He began to work on a new (6)…………………. For years, Bell and his assistant, Thomas Watson, worked day(7)……………….night. They rented rooms in a boarding house. Bell was on one floor, and Watson was on(8)……………… They tried to send(9)……………through a wire. Finally, on March,19,1876, Watson heard these words very clearly: “ Mr Watson, come here. I want you.” Watson rushed upstairs, ran (10)……………..Bell’s room, and shouted, “ I heard you!” 1. A. Despite B. During C. Be D. As 2. A. leave B. take C. move D. return 3. A. which B. why C. when D. where 4. A. for B. in order C. to D. so that 5. A. go B. get C. change D. send 6. A. invention B. inventor C. inventive D.invent 7. A. by B. after C. and D. or 8. A. others B. the others C . another D. other 9. A. speaking B. letters C. speech D. telegram 10. A. onto B. into C. in D. to VI.Fill in each gap in each sentence with the correct form of the word in capital letters. 1. I know all the people who live in my ................................. NEIGHBOR 2. During his ......................... the family lived in Cornwall CHILD 3. Mr. Minh has made an ……………………to see us at 3 o’clock. ARRANGE 4. Bell…………………….. demonstrated his invention. SUCCESS 5. …………..…….., dark clouds appeared and it began to rain. FORTUNATE 6. Every day, there are two ……… from Da Nang to Ho Chi Minh city. FLY 7.I like the city life because there are many kinds of ………………… ENTERTAIN 8.My uncle often spends his free time doing volunteer work at a local…………….. ORPHAN 9.Relax for some minutes and you’ll feel more………………………… COMFORT 10.She is one of the greatest……………………… to appear in this theater. PERFORM VII Rewrite the sentences without changing their original meaning. Begin with the words given: 1. My uncle lived in Hanoi once, but he doesn’t any more. He used…………………………………………………….. 2. They have worked in this hospital for ten years. They…………………………………………………………ago. 3. It’ four years since I last met him. I haven’t…………………………………………………….. 4. I can’t study as well as my sister does. My sister studies……………………………………………. 1. This is the most interesting film I have ever seen. I have………………………………………………………... 7. It’s a long time since we became close friends. We…………………………………..for a long time. 8. He isn’t strong enough to move this table. He is………………………………………………………( too) 9.Noone is more intelligent than him in our class. He is………………………………………………….. 10. “ Don’t bring along your mobile phone during the exam” Our teacher advised us…………………………………………...

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