ĐỀ ôn CHUYÊN 18

ĐỀ ÔN 18
I. Choose the word in each group that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.
1.
A.punctual
B.situation
C.fortunate
D.essential
2.
A. seaside
B. combine
C. life
D. police
3.
A. this
B. thick
C. thank
D. thin
4.
A. faced
B. wicked
C. fixed
D. wrapped
5.
A. cheap
B. character
C. children
D. church
II. Choose the words that has a different stress pattern from the others.
1.
A. republic
B. receive

C. collection
D. uniform
2.
A. relationship
B. activity
C. occasional
D. invitation
3
A. modern
B. novel
C. musician
D. lovely
4
A. religion
B. violent
C. logical
D. scenery
5
A. violent
B. encourage
C. occasion
D. material
III. Choose the best answer from A, B. C or D to complete each of the following sentences:
1. Our roof is leaking, we must get it___________
A. to fix
B. fixing
C. fixed
D. be fixed
2. My teacher can write a beautiful poem in___________
A. little than half an hour.

C. less than half an hour
B. a little than half an hour
D. least than half an hour.
3. Mr Smith forgot___________he was supposed to go to.
A. which the room
B. which room
C. which was the room
D. what room was
4. I’m afraid there are no seats left. Every seat is ___________
A. full
B. reserved
C. served
D. free
5. My uncle is sixty years of age, but he keeps on working ___________ever.
A. hard
B. harder
C. as hard as
D. harder than
6. Who was the first person___________the South pole?
A. reaching
B. who reaches
C. to reach
D. reached
7. He was unwilling to explain the reason___________his absence.
A. for
B. at
C. of
D. about
8. She had changed so much that ___________anyone recognised her.
A. almost

B. not
C. hardly
D. nearly
9. No one helped him; he did it ___________
A. himself all
B. all by himself
C. by all himself
D. by himself all
10 ___________it is getting dark, we will not wait for him any longer.
A. Unless
B. Since
C. While
D. Although
11 .The thief was wearing glasses to avoid _____________by the police.
A. recognizing B. recognize
C. being recognized
D. to be recognized
12 .We ___________ten books this morning.
A. have read
B. have been reading C. had read
D. both A&B
13 .Everyone has heard the news from him, ___________?
A. hasn’t it
B haven’t they C. haven’t them
D. hasn’t everyone
14 . Could you remember the girl ________ to Cathy in the café last night?
A. was speaking
B. had spoken C. speaking
D. spoke
15 ._____ Titanic, a Bristish steamer, sank in _____ North Atlantic after hitting ____ iceberg.

A. the /∅ / a
B. the / the / an C. ∅/ a / a
D. the / a / the
16. She invited many people to the party but only a few ______ .
A. showed up B. turned up
C. stayed up
D. both A&B
17. Could you keep _________ on my dog when I’m away?
A. a hand
B. an eye
C. an ear
D. a nose
18. __________ the storm, I would have been home before eight.
A. Instead of
B. Because of C. During
D. But for
19. He _________ on the bed staring at the ceiling wondering what to do next.
A. lay
B. lied
C. laid
D. lain
20. They didn’t have enough ____ in their suitcase for all the things they had bought on holiday.
A. area
B. room
C. size
D. place
21. I think that spring is the nicest ________ of the year.
A. term
B. reason
C. season

D. period
22. Don't buy that dress________ you really like it.
A. unless
B. if
C. provided that
D. so long as
23. We listened to the weather________to find out if it was going to rain.
A. foreteller
B. prediction
C. warning
D. forecast
24. When the wheat is ripe, the farmers will ________ it.
A. reap
B. gather
C. harvester
D. pick
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25. She is ________a kind girl that everybody loves her.
A. so
B. such
C. very
D. too
26. Maria Roberts left her home in Leeds last week and nobody________her since then.
A. see
B. have seen
C. has seen

D. saw
27. You will see him when he ________here tomorrow.
A. to come
B. has come
C. will come
D. comes
28. His telephone doesn't work and mine doesn't ________.
A. neither
B. either
C. so
D. too
29. These clothes are _________cleaner than the others.
A. much
B. many
C. so
D. very
30. The fire ________out when they were having dinner
A. breaks
B. was breaking
C. has broken
D. broke
31. My brother is very _______of music.
A. fond
B. enjoyed
C. like
D. interested
32. William is big _____ his age.
A. by
B. for
C. with

D. through
33. Why are you _____ such a hurry?
A. with
B. by
C. on
D. in
34. We spent a ……………….trip at Nha Trang beach last summer.
A. four-days
B. four-day
C. fourth-day
D. fourth-days
35. My mother often spends two hours a day ……………….. the housework.
A. to do
B. does
C. doing
D. to be doing
36. This is Mrs Lan …………………son is our new English teacher.
A. who
B. whom
C. that
D. whose
37. When we arrived at the station, my friends…………………………..
A. had left
B. have left
C. having left
D. left
38. Would you mind …………………..me about your story?
A. to tell
B. telling
C. told

D. to be telling
39. I used to ………………….. football with my friends after school when we were boys.
A. played
B. play
C. playing
D. be played
40. She is not very beautiful…………………she is intelligent.
A. but
B. so
C. and
D. therefore
41. This food tastes very ………………………..
A. well
B. better
C. good
D. badly
42. She told me that she _______ my sister the week before.
A. had seen
B. would meet
C. saw
D. has seen
43. He preferred__________ television to _________ to the cinema.
A. watching/ go
B. to watch/ go
C. to watch/ going
D. watching/ going
44. She was told____________ the office phone for personal calls.
A. don’t use
B. not to use
C. not using

D. not use
45. I have three brothers, ____________ are businessmen.
A. who they all
B. that all of them
C. all of whom
D. who all of them
46. I wish I ___________ there yesterday afternoon!
A. was
B. had been
C. were
D. would have been
47. Either John or his brothers ___________ the key to the car.
A. have taking
B. has taken
C. have taken
D. has been taken
48. The job offer was too good for him to turn _______________.
A. down
B. out
C. off
D. away
49. This house needs____________.
A. to repaint
B. repainted
C. to be repainting
D. repainting
50. Thanks to the development of the internet, we can now get access to __________ newspapers.
A. electrical
B. electronic
C. electric

D. electricity
51. I bumped into Janet quite _________ chance when I was shopping in London.
A. by
B. at
C. on
D. with
52. If you heat an ice-cream, it _______ into water.
A. turns
B. would turn
C. turned
D. turning
53. Mary scarcely goes out at night, _____________?
A. doesn’t she
B. does she
C. did she
D. didn’t she
54. Let’s go swimming this afternoon, ____________?
A. do you
B. will we
C. do we
D. shall we
55. ................. beautiful your mother is!
A. What
B. How
C. How much
D. How many
56. It’s no use………English if you don’t try to speak it too.
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A. to learn
B. learned
C. learning
D. learn
57. Nam has ....................... money that he can’t afford to buy food.
A. so few
B. so many
C. so little
D. so much
58. A good friend will stand ............... you when you are having trouble.
A. by
B. out
C. against
D. in
59. Dickens’ ........ were full of colour in life.
A. actors
B. film stars
C. characters
D. persons
60. He says he has got ......... in his stomach.
A. pains
B. aches
C. hurt
D. suffering
III. Fill in each gap in each sentence with the correct form of the word in capital letters.
1. He looked very _______ because the messenger came to invite him to the laboratory.
EXCITE
2. Motor – racing is an extremely ______________sports.

RISK
3. It ___________me to see you so upset.
SAD
4. We had an interesting ___________about football.
DISCUSS
5. Vietnam declared its ___________ in 1945.
DEPEND
6. The large dog is perfectly ___________and has never been known to attack anyone
HARM
7. The president of the club is going to make a ___________
SPEAK
8 I’d love to see you next week, but ___________it won’t be possible.
FORTUNATE
9. Thousands of people have been made ___________ by the war
HOME
10. These shoes look quite smart but they are ___________uncomfortable.
TERRIBLE
SECTION B: GRAMMAR
IV. There is one mistake in each sentence. Find it and correct it .
1. Tommy asked five dollars to buy some history books .
2. Let’s open the packages tonight . Tomorrow is very long to wait .
3. The Martins were the last arriving at the party .
4. Betty said him the tall lady was her aunt .
5. After George had returned to his house , he was reading book .
6. What were you good at school ?
7. It spent a long time to travel to the skiing resort but in the end we got there.
8. I had not to work yesterday because it was my day off, so I was going to see my friend instead.
9. Stuart stopped writing his letter because he had to leave to the hospital.
10. A friend of him got married at the age of sixteen .
your answers:

Mistake
Correction
Mistake
Correction
1
1
6
6
2
2
7
7
3
3
8
8
4
4
9
9
5
5
10
10
V . Fill in each blank with the correct tense or form of the verb in brackets.
Marie Curie, the Polish born chemist, was a courageous and determined woman. She
( 1- leave ) ........ her home for Paris (2- pursue) ..... her interest in science. ( 3-Live) ....... in poverty, she still ( 4manage ) ( 5- graduate ) ....... at the top of her class . She ( 6- meet ) ........ Pierre Curie shortly after graduation
and (7- marry ) ........ him a year later. Together, Pierre and Marie( 8- form ) the most husband –and –wife
partnership in science history . They ( 9- discover ) ...... the radioactive elements , Polonium and Radium . They
( 10- award ) ........ the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

your answers:
1 ........................ 2. ....................... 3 .............................4 ..........................5 .........................
6.......................... 7 .......................... 8 .........................9 ..........................10........................
SECTION C: READING
VI. Read the following passage and choose the best answer.
THE BEST AGE TO BE
Childhood is the time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has good parents,
he is fed, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is improbable he will ever gain in his life given so much
without having to do anything in turn. In addition, life is always presenting new things to the child – things that
have lost their interest for older people because they are too well- known. A child finds pleasure playing in the
rain, or in the snow. His first visit to the seaside is a marvelous adventure. But a child has pain: he is not so free to
do as he wishes as he thinks older people are; he is continually told not to do things, or being punished for what he
has done wrong. His life is therefore not perfectly happy.
When a young man starts to earn his own living, he becomes free from the discipline of school or parents,
but at the same time he is forced to accept responsibilities. He can no longer expect others to pay for his food, his
clothes and his room, but he has to work if he wants to live comfortably. If he spends most time playing about in
the way he used to as a child, he will go hungry. And if he breaks the laws of the society as he used to break the
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laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, however, he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health, he
can have the greatest happiness of seeing himself make steady progress in his job and of building up for himself
his own position in society.
Old age has always been thought of as the worst age to be, but it is not necessary for the old to be unhappy.
With old age come wisdom and the ability to help others with advice wisely given. The old can have the joy of
seeing their children making progress in life, they can watch their children growing up around them, and perhaps
best of all, they can, if their life has been a useful one, feel the happiness of having come through the battle of life
safely and of having reached a time when they can lie back and rest, leaving others to continue the fight.

1. It is stated in the passage that
A. a young man accepts a lot of responsibilities.B. childhood is the best age to be.
C. a person can be happy at any age.
D. old age is the worst age.
2. What makes life difficult according to the author?
A. laws of society
B. responsibilities
C. discipline
D. all are correct
3. Old people are not interested in new things presented to children because:
A. These are too familiar
C. Children are imaginative
B. They are impossible
D These things are famous
4. A child’s life is not perfectly happy because
A. he is not free to do as he wishes.
B. he is continually being told not to do things.
C. he is punished for what he has done. D. All are correct.
5. According to the author a young man
A. is happier than a child because he is free from discipline of school and parents
B. is happier than a child because he starts to earn his own living.
C. is happier than a child because he can spend most of his time playing about.
D. A and B are correct.
1. C.
2. D.
3. A.
4. D.
5. D.
VII. Fill in each blank with one suitable word .
Sailors have a special place in English history , and many are remembered as national ( 1 ............) .If you

visit London , you will probably see a large square in central London ( 2..............) Trafalgar Square . Here stands a
large ( 3..........) of Lord Nelson , an English sailor who was killed in a battle with the French navy at Trafalgar .
( 4............) he was killed in this battle , the British navy proved stronger than the French , and so ( 5.............. )
sure that the great French army of Napoleon Bonaparte could not invade England . So still today the statue of
Nelson , one of England’s greatest sailors , stands at the heart of London’s most famous and popular square .
It is not ( 6........... ) that the first Englishman to visit Japan was also a sailor . His name was Will Adams ,
and he was the pilot navigator of a Dutch trading ship which was wrecked on the coast of Japan in the year 1598.
Adams in fact remained in Japan for the (7)......................of his life, and became a successful businessman. He was
employed (8).................the Shogun Ieyasu as an adviser on shipbuilding and foreign affairs, and was known by the
title ‘‘Anjin-san’’. He was buried in Hemi, (9)................his home town of Gilling ham, England.
your answers:
1 ........................... 2. .................... 3 .............................4 ..........................5 .........................
6 ..........................7 ...................... .8 ............................. 9 ..................... 10. ....................
VIII. Fill in each blank with one suitable word from the box to complete the paragraph
Officials — pools — courts — stadium — field events— rings — pitches —
Scoreboard — spectators — track events — rinks — athletes
There’s a big new sports center near my house. There are football (1)...... .....................,tennis and basketball
(2).................................,swimming (3)............................., a sports hall with two boxing (4)...... .........................and
even a skating (5).............................. .There is also a separate athletes (6)............. ....................,where 20,000
(7)........ ....................can watch the (8)...... ..........................on the track and the (9)................................., such as
jumping and throwing, in the grass center. The (10)...................................get ready in modern changing rooms and
the official time and measure the events with modern equipment. A huge electronic scoreboard shows the results.
SECTION D: WRITING
IX. Finish the second sentence in such a way that it means exactly the same as the first one:
1. He can’t afford to buy the car.
 The car..................................... .....................................................
……………….......
2. Shirley didn’t begin to read until she was eight.
 It wasn’t..................................... .................................................................................
3. Mrs. Taylor regretted buying the second –hand washing-machine.

 Mrs. Taylor wished................... .....................................................
......... …..………..
4. Nobody can deny that she has a beautiful voice.
 It....................................................... ..................................................... ………….....
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5. Jane is the tallest girl in her class .
 Nobody................................................. ......................................................................
6. They couldn’t find the manager anywhere .
 The manager was........................... ..........................................................................
7. Their teacher is making them study hard .
 They ................................................ ..................................................... …………….
8. As I get older , I want to travel less.
 The older ....................................... .........................................................................
9. I have never been to Liverpool in my life .
 Never ..................................................... ...............................................................
10. My father speaks very little French .
 My father speaks hardly ............................... .........................................................
.
XI. Use the following sets of words or phrases to write complete sentences.
1. Last summer / friend / Charles / invite / me/ stay / him .
..............................................................................................................................................
2. Since / wife / die / 1978 / Charles / live / alone .
..............................................................................................................................................
3. He / live / country / large / house / big / garden .
..............................................................................................................................................
4. When / I / arrive / I / expect / find / beautiful / garden .

..............................................................................................................................................
5. But / that / be / not / case
..............................................................................................................................................
6. Garden / look / wild / and / it / be / overgrow / weeds .
..............................................................................................................................................
7. I / tell / Charles / how / surprise / I / be /
..............................................................................................................................................
8. He / say /his / be / gardener / because / he / always / hate / job .
..............................................................................................................................................
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your answers:
1
2
pitches
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3
pools

4
rings

5
rink

6
stadium

7
spectators

8
track
events

9
field
events

10
athletes

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