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Name: ……………….

READING TESTS: (90 phút) (Lần 1)
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1). Fill in the blank with a suitable word. (10pts)
The country is (1)…………beautiful than a town and more pleasant to live in. Many people think so, and go
to the country (2)…………..the summer holiday though they can’t live (3)…………all the year round. Some have
cottage built in a village (4)…………..that they can go there whenever they (5)…………find the time.
English villages are not all alike, but (6)………….some ways they are not very different from (7)…………other.
Almost every village (8)……………..a church, the round or square tower of which can (9)………….seen from
miles around. Surrounding the church is the church yard, (10)……………..people are buried.
2). Choose the best one to fill in each blank. (10pts)
The tourist industry is considered to be the world’s largest industry. Before 1950 about one million people
(1)……….abroad each year (2)………….by the 1990s the figure had (3)……….to over 400 million every year.
…..(4)………large numbers of tourist, however, are beginning to cause problems. For example, in the Alps the
skiers are destroying the mountains (5)…………..came to enjoy. Even parts of Mount Everest in the Himalayas are
reported to be covered (6)………….old tins, tents and food that have been (7)………….away.
But at a time when we have greater freedom to travel (8)………….ever before, more and more people are
asking how they can enjoy their holiday (9)……………causing problems by spoiling the countryside.
Now there is a new holiday guide called Holidays That Don’t Cost the Earth. It (10)…………you how you can
help the tourist industry by asking your travel agent or your tour operator the right questions before you go on
holiday.
1. A. traveled
2. A. as
3. A. gone
4. A. Such
5. which
6. A. for
7. A. put

8. A. than
9. A. outside
10. A. says

B. came
B. because
B. flown
B. More
B. you
B. on
B. thrown
B. when
B. instead
B. offers

C. sailed
C. but
C. risen
C. Few
C. who
C. with
C. given
C. then
C. beside
C. tells

D. were
D. when
D. raised
D. So

D. they
D. below
D. tidied
D. while
D. without
D. gives

3).Fill in the blank with a suitable word. (10pts)
First- aid is very important. An ordinary person can (1)………..a first aid course and learn what to do until
the patien receives professional help. This might (2)………….helping some one until an ambulance comes. Then
professionals can use (3)……………..equipment to take charge of the patien. Or it might mean giving first-aid and
(4)…………..taking a patien to a doctor. First- aid can keep a person alive (5)…………..he or she reaches a
hospital. Electric shock is a situation where first-aid can be used. If enough electricity enters the body, the person
(6)…………immediately. First-aid can bring him or her back to consciousness. Another situation is drowning, or
dying in (7)…………….., which happens most often in the summer when many people (8)………….swimming.
Children can also drown when they are left (9)……………..near a swimming pool . A person trained in first-aid
can help a person start to breathe (10)…………..clearing the water out of the airway.
4).Fill in the blank with a suitable word .(10pts)
Recycling saves. It saves money, enery, and natural resources. Aluminum cans (1)………very easy to
recycle. But, every three months, we throw away (2)……………aluminum to rebuild all the commercial airplanes
in the country. So please think (3)………….the next time you throw away a soda can. And we throw away enough
iron and steel to supply all of our car makers. If we recycled more metal, our car makers (4)……………never need


any new iron and steel. Every week, more than five hundred thousand trees ared used to make newspapers, and
two-third of those newspapers are (5)…………away. This year, we’ll throw away enough office and writing paper
to (6)…………….a wall three and a half meters high. And that wall would be so (7)…………….it would go from
Los Angeles to New York. Every year, we throw away enough glass bottles to fill (8)……………two tallest
buildings in New York every two weeks. Those bottles can (9)…………..recycled. We throw away two and a half
million plastic bottles every hour. Very (10)…………….plastic bottles are ever recycled. This message is from the

Environmental Concern Fund. If you are not recycling, you’re throwing it away.
5).Fill in the blank with a suitable word. (10pts)
Nha Trang is a nice seaside resort and (1)……………ideal center for relaxation. Nha Trang has many beautiful
mountains and lakes, Cham towers, hot springs and architectural works. However. (2)…………speaking of nha
Trang, people always mention its beaches in the first place. Nha Trang’s beauty (3)…………first of all from the
blue sea and picturesque nature of its islands. This coastal city (4)…………….a ten- kilometer beach and 19
islands. The main beach runs from Tran Phu road and it (5)…………….planted with pine trees and other
evergreen trees. Nha Trang is a coastal city but it’s not far (6)…………….forests. In the west of the town, (7)
………..is a long range of hills where visitors can walk pleasantly. Nha Trang has many ancient cultural buildings.
The town still preserves a (8)………………..of old towers and pagodas. Nha Trang is sunny almost all the year (9)
…………….It doesn’t have winter, but in summer it isn’t (10)…………….hot as in the North.The cool winds
from the sea gives the town an eternal fall.
6). Choose the best one to fill in each blank. (10pts)
An increasing number of people are now going on holiday to Egypt. Last year, for example, about one and a
half million (1)……………visited Egypt. The (2)………..of Egypt is about fifty million and the (3)……………is
El Qahira, a busy city of just under nine million people. Although the (4)……………is hot and dry and most of the
country is desert, the average(5)…………..from October to March is not too high. The most(6)…………….sights
are the pyramids at Giza. However, it is also pleasant to (7)……………..Alexandria, Port said and several other
places do as much (8)…………as possible in the time available. A (9)…………..to Luxor is an unforgettable
experience, and there are frequent (10)…………….there from Cairo.
1. A. explorers
2. A. people
3. A. principle
4. A. temperature
5. A. weather
6. A. famous
7. A. search
8. A. viewing
9. A. picnic
10. A. flights

B. voyagers
B. citizenship
B. head
B. climate
B. measurement
B. known
B. inspect
B. inspecting
B. trip
B. travels

C. tourists
C. nation
C. state
C. condition
C. climate
C. visited
C. examine
C. sightseeing
C. guide
C. journeys

D. passengers
D. population
D. capital
D. position
D. temperature
D. requested
D. visit

D. looking
D. entertainment
D. voyages

7). Fill in the blank with a suitable word .(10pts)
Mother’s Day in Britain falls on the last Monday of March. On Mother’s Day sons and daughters visit
(1)………mothers and bring them flowers and little presents. The eldest son must (2)……….his mother a good
cake. If sons or (3)………… cannot be with their mother on that day, they usually (4)………….her presents.
Mother’s Day must be a day of rest (5)…………the mother of the family, so the daughters cook the dinner on
that day and lay the (6)…………..and the sons help to wash the plates and dishes (7)………..dinner.
In the United Stated and Canada, Mother’s Day is (8)……………second Sunday in May. They (9)
………….a very beautiful stamp for Mother’s Day in the United Stated. It shows the portrait of the mother of
James Whistler, (10)………..of the greatest Americain painters.


Trường THCS Nghĩa Đạo
Name: ……………….

READING TESTS: (90 phút) (Lần 2)
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1). Fill in the blank with a suitable word .(10pts)
Most Bristish people go abroad on holiday, to visit family, or (1)…on………..short business trips. People are
advised to find out (2)……how………to get urgent treatment before (3)…leaving…………the UK. They have to
get a form which explains what they (4)……will………do if they fall ill or have an accident, and what
arrangements exist in each country (5)…for………….medical treatment. The regulations are fairly simple but (6)
……If………..people donot have this information, they may (7)…find………….that private medical care is
extremely expensive. It (8)…is………….not unusual for people to discover that they donot have enough money
with (9)……them………to pay the total costs in such circumstances (10)…an………..already difficult situation
becomes even more complicated.

2). Fill in the blank with a suitable word .(10pts)
In Canada and the United States, (1)………one………of the most popular days in the year in Halloween.
Halloween is on October 31 st. It’s a day (2)……when………….some people dress up in strange or unusual
costumes. For example, they may dress up to look (3)……like……an animal, a person from a book or movie or a
famous person from history. In some places, children go to school in (4)……their……..Halloween costumes.
After dark, many young children (5)…put………on their costumes and visit their neighbors. They knock on the
(6)………door……..and shout “Trick or treat” Then the neighbors (7)…gives…….them some candies, and the
children go on to the (8)…next…….house. Adults also enjoy dressing up for Halloween. .(9)……there…….are
usually Halloween parties in the evening and usually there is a prize for the best or (10)……worst…….unusual
costume.
3). Fill in the blank with a suitable word .(10pts)
The world’s (1)…most……..famous clock is Big Ben standing (2)…next……to the house of Parliament in
Lon don.
Big Ben is the (3)……tower……of the bell which chimes every hour. The bell (4)……is…….named after Sir
Benjamin Hall, the man (5)……who…….was given the task of hauling the bell up the clock tower.
The clock (6)……has…….four faces and keeps accurate time. It can (7)………be……adjusted by the removal or
addition of coins (8)……into……..a stray attached to the clock’s pendulum.
One interesting thing about the clock is (9)………that………the light shines above the belfry at night, it (10)…
said……that the House of Common is still in session.
4). Choose the best one to fill in each blank. (10pts)
Have you ever followed instructions for knitting something or have you read a piece of music? If you have,
you have behaved in a similar way to a computer. A computer obeys a program to carry out a particular tast. Just
(1)…as …….a knitting pattern is expressed in numbers and a piece of music in lines and dots, so a computer
program is (2)… . expressed
in the form of programming language. Like the English language (or any other
language), there are (3)……rules………of grammar, and a program must be correct in every way.
There are hundreds of programming language, but only (4)…… a few ………are well known and widely
used. The most popular language which is used in offices (5) is called Cobol. This language is used for printing
payrolls and keeping records of goods.
Engineers and scientists use Fortran (6)…in order to………carry out calculations. (7) . However., neither

of these two programs is very popular with people working on home computers. Basic is the most popular
language for home computers, chiefly (8) because ………..it is easy to learn and use.
(9) Although ..these languages are useful for many purposes, it is time that a new simple program was devised.
Such a program (10)… ought to be not only easy to use but also completely reliable.
1. A. like

B. by

C. too

D. as


2. A. expressive
3. A. rules
4. A. a little
5. A. called
6. A. so as for
7. A. In addition
8. A. because
9. A. Even
10. A. ought

B. expresses
B. laws
B. a few
B. calling
B. in order that
B. Therefore
B. if

B. Despite
B. should

C. expressed
C. regulations
C. much
C. is called
C. so as that
C. Consequently
C. because of
C. Although
C. would

D. expressing
D. principles
D. a lot of
D. is calling
D. in order to
D. However
D. unless
D. In spite
D. might

5). Fill in the blank with a suitable word .(10pts)
Nowadays, a lot of important inventions (1)…are…… carried out by scientists (2)…working……....for
large industrial firms. (3)…However….., there are still opportunities (4)……for……. other people to invent
various things. In Britain, (5)…There…. is a weekly TV program which attempts to show (6)…all………. the
various devices which people have invented(7)… recently ………. The people organizing the program receive (8)
……information…………. about 700 inventions per year. New ideas can still be developed (9)…by…….. private
inventors. However, it is important to consider these (10)…questions.. … : Will it work? Will it be wanted ? Is it

new?
6). Fill in the blank with a suitable word .(10pts)
Most people agree that computers are the most important…(1) invention……….of the 20th century. The first
business computers…..(2)…was…….introduced just about thirty years ago, and now they are being…
(3)used……. In a wide variety of fields, from banking to space travel. (4)However……., until just a few years
ago, computers were very large, expensive machines owned by large corporation and governments. (5)almost…..
everyone knew that computers existed, very few people had ever seen one and even…(6) They……..had used one.
Then in the 1970s the silicon chip was invented. Because this electronic device …(7)…in….store a large amount
of information in a very small space, computers could be much smaller and less expensive …(8)..than......the huge
mainframe computers used……(9)…in……...corporations. Some computers manufacturers believed that people
might like to have computers in…(10)…every….homes, offices, and school, so the personal computer was born.
7). Choose the best one to fill in each blank. (10pts)
Most people think of computers are very modern inventions, products of our new technological age. But
actually the idea for a computer (1)……was……..worked out over two centuries ago by a man (2)…called……
Charles Babbage.
Babbage was born (3)…in…….1791 and grew up to be a brilliant mathematician. He drew up plans for
several calculating machines (4)……which…..he called “engines”. But despite the fact that he (5)……
started…….building some of these he never finished any of them. Over the years people have argued (6)………
whether….his machines would ever work. Recently, however, the Science Museum in London has finished
building (7)…an………engine based on one of Babbage’s designs. (8)………It……has taken six years to
complete and more (9)……than………four thousand parts have been special made. Whether it works or not, the
machine will be on show at a special exhibition in the Science Museum (10)……to…….remind people of
Babbage’s work.
1. A. has
B. was
C. had
D. is
2. A. known
B. recognized
C. written

D. called
3. A. on
B. in
C. by
D. for
4. A. whose
B. who
C. these
D. which
5. A. wanted
B. made
C. started
D. missed
6. A. until
B. whether
C. while
D. though
7. A. some
B. the
C. an
D. that
8. A. One
B. He
C. They
D. It
9. A. than
B. therefore
C. when
D. then
10. A. to

B. as
C. for
D. so